Sam couldn't believe her eyes. Jack O'Neill was standing right in front of her eyes. Her mind reeled with this new information. Her normally organized thought process was nowhere to be found as her mind spat out her many thoughts and feelings at once.

'He's alive! Good God, Jack's alive! How could he have done this to me? How much did Daniel and Teal'c know? Does this mean I can actually have my dream at last? That son of a bitch lied to me! All those nights spent crying, praying that it was all a bad dream. They finally came true! I've wasted a year of my life! JACK'S ALIVE!'

Jack just stood in the doorway staring at Sam. Everyone else in the room seemed to disappear except for the two of them. He could tell the woman was in a deep state of emotional shock and confusion. Not exactly sure what to do, he stood there in the doorway, waiting for some type of instruction. General Hammond finally came to the rescue and broke the tense silence.

"Jack, have a seat." He said as he cleared his throat.

Jack slowly moved to a chair across from Sam, his eyes never leaving hers. Sam just sat there with her mouth still open and eyes wide from the shock. As Jack sat down she felt her heart beat wildly in her chest. He was right there in front of her again, just like she had always hoped and dreamed for. General Hammond's voice shook her from her reverie.

"Colonel, I'd like for you to start this briefing with the events that led up to the planned raid on August 12, 2005."

"Yes, sir. We had gathered Intel on the spies in the SGC and knew the identity of five of them. Four were placed on SG teams while one was stationed in security. We found that the NID had almost perfected their communication skills during the time since my last covert mission against the agency, but they slipped up enough here and there to arouse the suspicions of the leader of SG-15, Colonel Smithson. He came to me with his concerns and we began close observation on all SG teams, including SG-1."

"During this investigation, we found that there were NID agents on teams SG-15, SG-10, and SG-9, the last of which contained two members. It was then we also found the surveillance on Major Carter and myself. We watched as more information passed hands between the agents and were able to intercept some messages that told of the plot to eliminate the Major and myself. We needed more time to gather evidence on the agencies activities but we were running out of time due to that fact that Major Carter's abduction had already been set into motion. SG-1 as you recall were scheduled to depart in a week for P3X-274, and due to the NID threat, security had been quietly strengthened. Our gear and equipment were constantly checked without the knowledge of anyone other then myself and a hand full of SF's. When I checked the MALP a week before we left, I noticed something out of place on the structure. It was an extra device added underneath the machine. When the MALP went through, the device was meant to cause the established wormhole to jump track as it were to another predesignated destination."

Daniel's mouth hung slack as he listened to Jack talk about such complicated things as if he did it everyday of his life. Sam wasn't quite as shocked as Daniel since she now knew about his degrees, but it still surprised Sam to see Jack using technical jargon casually and even more unbelievably, correctly.

"The device had a miniature DHD device attached to it. We had never seen anything like it, so we assumed they had stolen it from an alien planet. Anyways, the DHD activated as soon as it was in the center most point of the wormhole. It shifted the wormhole to a separate designation for a split second, the split second in which Major Carter normally entered the wormhole after the MALP. We quickly followed the MALP through to the destination and found it to be an uninhabitable planet. This was going to be the beginning of the Gate hopping plan the NID were going to use to kidnap Carter."

"When we returned, I knew we needed to buy more time and find a way to keep Carter on Earth without her knowing about the threat. The original plan was for me to go missing on a training mission, but that idea was rejected due to the Major's past efforts to get me home before. I knew she wouldn't just sit around while I was missing. So, we rigged the attack on SG-12 and made sure we brought SG-9 through with us for backup since there were two NID agents on that team. We figured it would be more believable if there were two people who saw the same thing."

Jack paused in his story to take a drink of coffee that had been placed in front of him. Sam's mind was still doing cartwheels around the knew information. She couldn't seem to stop her anger from controlling her thoughts and feelings. Jack continued,

"After I "died", and Major Carter was evacuated, I met with the Tok'ra to disguise myself and start my Intel gathering. I traveled around as a traveling merchant and traded goods at a sort of intergalactic market place. I found out about the agencies whereabouts, their new plans and about a month ago, I discovered their off world base's gate address. We launched an attack just short of a week ago. We had originally thought that there was just the one team left, but they had gathered more members from the rebel groups to help with the plan. We apprehended all twenty three of the agents off world and came home and arrested the five agents in the SGC. They are currently in route to the Alpha site where they are going to stand trial in the military court set up there."

"Why are they being tried off world? Why not in a regular court marshal on Earth?" questioned Daniel.

"Because they didn't know who they could trust on Earth, or how high up the conspiracy goes." Carter replied quietly, maintaining eye contact with the table only.

"Carter, you need to know tha-" Jack started.

"No, I need to have some other questions answered now, by all of you. How much surveillance was done on me?"

"Extensive. We found cameras as well as bugs in all of your phones and web cam."

"Are they still in place?" She asked calmly.

"We had to leave them where they were. We didn't want them to know that we were onto them."

"So, I've had strangers watching me not only then, the past year of my life has also been under surveillance?" Sam asked, her voice raising slightly.

"Yes." Jack answered with out flinching. "But no one has seen any knew footage of you since we first started the mission."

"Did you two know anything about this?" She asked Daniel and Teal'c. Daniel had never seen that look in Sam's eyes before and was unable to answer.

"We were aware of it, Samantha." Teal'c answered. If Sam hadn't been so blaringly angry she would have smiled at the use of her first name.

"How much did you know?" Carter asked with venom lacing her words as she tried to control herself.

"Sam we-"

"HOW MUCH, DANIEL?" She repeated with a loud voice. Her eyes drilled holes into Daniel's head. He was suddenly struck by how dark her eyes had become with anger. Just like Jack's did when he found out about the situation. It took all Daniel and Teal'c had to stop Jack from running to SG-9 and killing the two men. Daniel slowly met Sam's threatening stare.

"We knew about everything. We were informed so we wouldn't help you try to find Jack and to make sure you never suspected anything at first. Then we were shipped off as well for our security." He answered and watched Sam's reaction.

"All those nights we spent together, mourning for the Colonel, packing up his things, reading his

will, his FUNERAL FOR GODS SAKE! It was all just one big hoax!" Sam exploded.

General Hammond, who had been silent up until know saw the pain in Carter's eyes.

"Sam, calm down. We had no-"

"Calm down?! I just wasted a year of my life trying to recover from having a friend die in my arms, and your telling me to calm down?!"

All three men watched in shock as Carter's temper showed itself to the world. O'Neill tried to placate the woman but soon realized this was one woman you don't coddle.

"Sam, listen to me. We had to do this. We had no choice. It was for your own good. If there was a way to take it all back I would but I can't, so just please sit down and let us finish explaining."

"I think you've explained enough. After all of these years, you still think I can't handle myself in a crisis. I thought you knew me better then this, but you all obviously don't." With that she turned ans started towards the door.

"Major Carter! Sit down and control yourself!" Ordered an angry Hammond.

"With all due respect, sir, No. I'm not in the military anymore, remember? I left this life behind a year ago because of this. So excuse me if I don't obey this order." And with that she stormed out of the room.

The four men just sat in the room dumbstruck. They knew she would be hurt, but they never expected this. Slowly, Hammond raised his head and looked at Jack. He answered the unspoken question.

"Go bring her home, Jack."

With that Jack took off at a full sprint out the door.