The Reason
Lieutenant Jennifer Hailey nodded to Sgt. Davis as he made his way down the corridor, passing her with a quick "ma'am."
Distracted, she bumped in to Siler, almost knocking him over. "Oh, god, I'm sorry!"Siler shook his head, "not a problem, ma'am.""Yes Siler, it is a problem. I almost knocked you over. I should really watch where I'm going. I'm so sorry," she apologised. He frowned and then smiled, not expecting Jennifer Hailey to be stood here apologising repeatedly. He knew her fairly well now, though. She'd changed a lot. Her reputation, sadly, hadn't. Most of the officers still thought she had an attitude. "I've gotta run, bad day...later!"She jogged off to the lab to find it was completely empty. Empty, except for the huge stack of paperwork lying in her In Tray. She growled. This really was going to be a bad day."Better make a start on it," she told herself, sitting down and taking a pen from the pot. She put it down on the desk and quickly checked her e- mails instead. "Memo, memo, meeting, memo, science geeks meetup, check-up, memo."She read through the subject lines and deleted a few, and then clicked in to the rest. Once she had finished, she found another memo had come in. "I wonder if Colonel O'Neill really does have a Memo Faerie like he claims – to steal his memos," she pondered, "I wonder if I could get one..."Smiling at the thought of that argument between Daniel and O'Neill – she was sure Jack had come up with the whole Faerie thing to annoy him – she closed down the inbox and returned to her work."Paperwork," she said, picking up her pen and taking the first file from the tray.Suddenly, the alarm sounded. The Stargate was activating. Someone was coming through. She paused, wondering who it was this time. "Paperwork," she repeated.A few minutes later, the phone rang. She sighed, stood up and answered it. "Hailey," She announced. "Oh, hi, Doctor." Her face turned white as she listened. "Oh. My. God."To Be Continued...