Chapter 8

A moment or two after Jack left General Hammond came walking down the hall.

-How's Brady doing?

-He's doing ok considering. General, I'd like your permission to take him off the base.

-Why?

Sam smiled.

-He's a little boy, General. A little boy who has been cooped up 28 floors inside a mountain for the last 7 hours. He needs fresh air, a place to run and play, a...

-Ok, ok. But, why do you want to do it? Where's Colonel O'Neill?

-He just went home, sir. And besides, I really don't think he wants anything to do with Brady right now.

-Very well. Have him back in a couple of hours.

-Yes, sir.

She went back into her lab to get Brady.