What if Carter never promised to tell Pete everything and Pete was taken to the academy hospital instead of the SGC at the end of Chimera.

Note: Contains spoilers for all of Season 7, a few deviations though...

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Note: I have decided to repost this into smaller segments for ease of reading, I'm also planning on adding more to the ending.


"Sir, I think we have to tell Pete about the SGC, especially after what he saw outside of Daniel's house."

General Hammond looked up from his notes, "I don't think that's a wise idea."

"Sir-"

She was interrupted though by her team leader, Jack O'Neill. "Carter, we can't. The guys got a questionable record."

Sam stared at her CO shocked but waiting for him to explain what he meant. Jack looked down at General Hammond who nodded at him to reveal what they had learned. "He's a loose cannon. He apparently has a knack for letting his emotions get in the way of his work, he's been reprimanded several times for trying to assault suspects in his custody. He's never been charged because his buddies were all able to hold him back. Internal affairs thinks that he sold out an informant once because the guy sent him on a wild goose chase once, the guy ended up dead…"

Sam listened to her CO and couldn't believe what he was hearing, on a certain level she didn't want to believe it. She took her eyes off her CO when General Hammond spoke, "Major, we can't afford to tell Mr. Shanahan anything about the SGC. I'm sorry."

Sam absently nodded her head, she knew they were right. They couldn't let anyone find out about the work they did, and telling someone who was prone to lashing out on the job could be a liability. "What do we tell him then about what happened?"

General Hammond continued, "We've come up with a cover story. We're going to tell him that your work isn't in Deep Space Radar Telemetry, that you are working on developing new weapons, but that your work is still classified. We tell him that Ms. Gardner was working on the same project but that she was being manipulated by someone else to steal some of the weapons, including a directed EMP weapon which is what was used to blow up the van and you were using an advanced stun gun."

"I'm pretty sure that he saw her eyes glow sir," Sam reminded him.

Jack took his turn, "Did you see her eyes glow?" Jack asked her in a conspiratorial manner.

Sam looked over at Colonel O'Neill as she understood what he was implying. She slowly nodded her head, "No sir." She hated that she was going to have to keep lying to Pete, but there was nothing she could do about it.

"I'm sorry to put you in this position Major, but we can't take any risks that knowledge of the Stargate get out."

"I understand sir," she told them as she straightened up and acted like the Air Force officer she was.

"Thank you Major, Colonel, that'll be all," General Hammond told them as he dismissed them and returned to the mess of paperwork he had on his desk concerning the mission that SG-1 had just completed here on Earth.

Sam went on auto-pilot as she headed to her office, she was oblivious to the fact that O'Neill was following her. She noticed his presence as she stepped into the elevator and pressed the floor for her lab and saw the Colonel get on behind her and not press a button. "Sir, is there something you need?"

Jack pulled himself away from his thoughts, "What?"

Sam furrowed her eyebrows, "Sir, is there something you need from me?" she asked him as she pointed at the lighted call button, which wasn't the same as for his office or any other place he frequented.

Jack followed her hand and saw that he had been found out, there was no time like the present to discuss his reservations about Pete. "Oh, yeah… I wanted to talk to you about Pete."

Sam cut him off, "It's okay sir. I understand and I agree, we can't tell him about the SGC."

"No, that's not what I wanted to talk to you about… I'm aah…" he stumbled over his words, not knowing how to ask her what he wanted to ask her without offending her.

"Sir?"

Jack took a deep breath before continuing, besides he was a Colonel in the United States Air Force and he was just looking out after someone under his command. "What do you know about him? I mean, do you trust him?" he quickly ushered out of his mouth.

Sam looked over at her CO, not knowing how to answer the question and whether or not she should be offended by his questions. "I know he's a cop from Denver and we have a nice time together. And, yeah I trust him," she told him. 'Okay, this is a weird conversation to be having with him,' she mentally told herself.

"Look, the guy's bad news Carter-"

She was shocked, where did he get off thinking he knew anything about Pete. "Excuse me?"

"Don't you think it's odd that he followed you to a stakeout! And he also had one of his buddies in the FBI do a background check on you," he told her. Carter didn't deserve a guy who didn't trust her, which obviously Pete didn't.

"What?" she asked him confused by his last statement. Why would Pete do a background check on her? She had thought about his following her to the stakeout, but he was a cop. He did stuff like that. "He's a cop sir," she told him. 'What kind of an excuse is that?' she asked herself.

"Yeah, but you're not a suspect! I thought you two were dating," he told her snidely. 'Oops, wrong tone.'

Carter glared at him, "we are sir… If you'll excuse me sir," she told him as she exited the elevator and left Jack in the elevator.

"You're an idiot Jack," he told himself as the elevator doors closed.

TBC