Some Hailey stuff here. I'll get to SG-1 after one more chapter. Thank you to all who reviewed, and I'm glad to see I made it on so many story alert lists. Enjoy, and please review. I'll probably post again on Monday.
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Chapter 1
Lieutenant Jennifer Hailey stepped out of the Stargate and swept the area with her P-90.
"Clear!" she called, and heard the other three members of SG-23 do the same.
"So where are we headed?" asked major Nabb.
"MALP picked up signs of some kind of technology about eight clicks north, sir," answered Hailey promptly.
"Fine. We'll head over there, and set up camp for the night while we look around. Taylor, you and I take point. Hailey and Jalen, watch our six." The other three acknowledged his command and spread out.
As they walked, Hailey threw a sidelong glance at Jalen, the team's linguist, and a Tok'ra. Since joining SG-23 less than a week ago, she hadn't had a chance to really get to know the Tok'ra, or her CO for that matter. The only member of the team who had made an effort to get to know her was Lieutenant Nicholas Taylor. The two of them had eaten breakfast together that morning and he had told her how Captain Evans had died in a firefight against a party of Jaffa two weeks previously. She understood how hard it was to accept a new team member after a loss. She had gone through it once with her last team. Being the only female didn't help much either, but she had expected that. On the bright side, at least they hadn't refused to accept a fourth member. After all, as had been pointed out by Colonel Carter, there was no rule that said SG teams had to have four members. It was just the way things had always worked. The only three-man team was SG-1, and Hailey had a sneaking suspicion that it was more the fact that General O'Neill really didn't trust anyone with his old team, than any refusal on their part to accept a new member. But the truth was that no one could ever come close to them in terms of field experience. Colonel Carter had more experience than any other military personnel on the base apart from General O'Neill. Dr. Jackson had been going through the 'gate for at least as long, and had also spent almost two years living on Abydos. As for Teal'c, well he'd been using the 'gate network for years before he'd joined SG-1 on the first Chulak mission.
Hailey jerked herself out of her train of thought, smiling slightly. Sometimes she was taken as one of the worshippers of SG-1, since she new almost every detail of their seven years as a team, but the truth was, their mission reports had been the only thing that had kept her from going insane from boredom during her final year at the Academy. It had been tedious, but Colonel Carter had been right – as usual. With the Stargate program to look forward to, she had been able to keep her sarcastic comments to herself, and fly through at the top of all her classes. Also, seeing SG-1 in action, seeing how they worked and trusted each other had made a huge impression on her. It had given her a unique perspective on what the SGC was looking for in its officers. And she had made it.