He knew something was bad was going to happen.

He had this feeling for over a week now. Every phone call, every unauthorized off-world activation....would make him nervously jump to his feet. He felt like something was watching him, waiting for the opportunity to snatch at him. He just didn´t know what and when it would happen, and that was making him crazy.

No one could help him, no one could understood his mood or his actions, not even himself.

The same scenario repeated every day. He would go to his office, grunting to himself, he would do some paperwork, make a few calls, read some reports, do some more paperwork, and go to get some sleep. After few restless hours he would go back to his office and finish the paperwork. Something kept him from going home, from leaving the gloomy underground base. The uncertainity would follow him everywhere, and he didn´t want to bring it outside and infect the rest of the world. No, he was not going to do that. Not while he was still at least a bit sane.

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The gate suddenly started to spin and soon a wormhole activated.

"Unauthorized off-world activation!"

Jack got up from his comfortable chair and hesitantly walked up the stairs to the control room.

"It´s SG-1 and SG-5, Sir." Siler reported and leant forward to the speaker to request a medical team. „They sent a distress code, Sir," explained Siler Jack´s surprised look.

"Open the Iris."

The teams started to emerge from the wormhole. Teal´c walked out as the last one with Sam carried unconscious in his arms. Jack´s heart sank when he saw her head bandaged, and her jacket sopping in blood. He forced his feet to move and walked down to the gate, but he couldn´t manage to say anything. Daniel, kneeling there and panting, started to explain.

"We were in the middle of exploring when the rest got attacked....We started to move out and went to their help but Sam....she...it was a weird, tower-like room....she slipped and she fell to the ground....it must have been at least 25 feet .... and she hit her head on the altair...," they both watched her being put on stretcher and hastily carried away.

"Debriefing in one hour," Jack said blankly, not even looking at the rest of group and left the gate room.

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"I was waiting for so long..."

"...I almost lost my hope...."

"...but then you came...."

"....and now I can...."

"....finally...."

"...get my -"

"- revenge," Sam muttered. The nurse, who was checking her medical record, turned abruptly and blinked. Sam lay in her motionless, still in narcosis. Nurse eyed her life signs, and shrug, resuming her reading.

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"Well, we didn´t exactly see what attacked us...," admitted Major Rivers in the conference room and mood was grim and tense. The two SG teams were now in the sole mercy of the General.

"...Let me recapitulate it. You heard a woman screaming from the secured area and then you were attacked by an unseen enemy who was sopposed to throw rocks at you."

"The rocks couldn´t just pick themselves and fly on their own!" Thurman hissed, folding his arms annoyed.

"Watch the tone, Colonel," Jack snapped at him. No one dared to speak, no one wanted to be buried under the pile of unanswered questions and mistakes. No one wanted, and no one could answer them. And Jack was getting more and more impatient.

"Can anyone of you here explain what on Earth were you thinking? You know, there are regs we need to obey, and they are here for a god-damn reason! You don´t run across an unfamiliar land like a fairy just because there is some old statue!" Jack growled at Daniel, who tried to defend himself, but was stopped.

"The same for you two! I could - should - relieve you from duty! You violated at least five basic rules of mission tactics," he threw angry look at Thurman and Rivers.

Merrith finally plucked up the nerve and dare to spoke. "Sir, with all due respect, this temple is like something we have never encountered before. The world, the civilization is completely unknown, we had to take the risk and to take advantage of it! Who knows what could it hide! Maybe it´s a door to a completey new technology, culture, part of galaxy - "

"So what?" Jack interupted him. „That doesn´t mean we have to act like suicidal maniacs when we enter an uknown situation! That´s what regluations are for! Regulations! To help us act properly in an unknown situations for God´s sake!"

"If something you can´t even see attacks us, aren´t we allowed defend ourselves?" Thurman snapped back.

"Your reckless attitude brought the whole mission into jeopardy and almost cost a life of one of our men!"

"Men?" Thurman whispered, snickering. "No offense, Sir, but if I remember correctly, Colonel Carter slipped.

"Sam slipped because she hurried to help you!" Daniel shouted at Thurman. He just shrugged and leaned back in the chair.

"I do not remember Colonel Thruman making regular radio contact after we separated," Teal´c spoke for the first time, looking at Thurman with his ice-cold stare.

"I tried! But the radio didn´t work," Thruman answered back annoyed. Rivers uncomfortably squirmed uncomfortably.

"I´ve had enough of this. Full reports till tomorrow. Dismissed," Jack stood up, gathered documents and stormed out of the room.