Chapter 33: The Briefing
Once they had showered and gotten something to eat it was time for the briefing. This was going to be the moment of truth for Jack and Sam and everyone who knew was nervous about the outcome of this meeting.
When they got to the briefing room it was empty General Hammond was in his office talking to Janet. So they took their seats and just waited in silence. It didn't take long for the General to notice they were their and join them at the table. Janet followed with folders in her hands. Once everyone was seated the briefing started.
"Well we just got the test results back so Doctor if you can tell us what you found." General said indicating to Janet to speak.
"Yes well everyone seems healthy except for a cut on the Colonels head and a few bruises nothing is wrong, blood work came back clean as did the CAT scans and x-rays. So no worries there." She reported every so often looking up from the folder in front of her.
"Ok then that's good news, now I'd like to hear what happened to you two on P5T-087 once Dr Jackson and Teal'c came back through the gate."
Sam and Jack looked at each other then Sam nodded for Jack to explain. "Well sir we woke up in hospital after the building holding the gate collapsed we had no memories of who we were or where we were from."
"Once we got treated we met up with a man that explained that we had come through the gate with two others who were crushed to death when the building came down both of us were found in the rubble." Sam continued. "They set us up with a place to live, gave us money to live off till we found jobs and gave us a chauffeur to keep an eye on us. We still had no memory but were told it should return."
"Which it did. The major got a memory first which gave us hope." Jack interrupted.
"What was the memory about? If you don't mind me asking." The general asked.
"No I don't mind. It was a memory of the day my mum died. It unnerved us both for a while as we both realised that there might be things that we didn't want to remember." Sam answered at this point she looked back at Jack and he understood the look perfectly.
"We decided that we should make some new memories instead of dwelling on the past. That's when…" he looked at Sam again then continued. "That's when we started dating."
"You what?" the general spluttered he looked at them in disbelieve.
"And that's not all of it." Jack said.
"There's more?" he said.
"Yea Sam found out she was pregnant and…"
"Oh god do either of you know what this means for your careers?" the general interrupted. Janet had herself braced in her seat in case of a medical emergency. Daniel was silently praying for it all to turn out alright. Teal'c was…well Teal'c was being Teal'c and Jack and Sam where now holding hands under the table for comfort.
"Sir at the time we had no memories we didn't know it was wrong it was only after he proposed that we remembered but at that point we didn't care." Sam continued.
"Please don't tell me…"
"We're married George." Jack finished. "and happily married at that."
"You do realise you could be court marshalled and sent to prison Jack, and Sam you could lose your job." The general said as if they were mad to think they could get out of a disciplinary action.
"Not sir, if I hand in my resignation I could work here as a civilian scientist and if I'm not in the military or under the colonels direct command they can't do anything." Sam said ignoring Jack who kept telling her she was not resigning.
"But you're already married." Daniel injected.
"Not legally, well not on this planet, I can hand in my resignation and we get married afterwards." Sam stated.
"What about the baby you can't sneak your way out of that fact?" Janet said.
"You both had no knowledge of rules, regulations or ranks at the time of conception so nothing can be done." Hammond said realising nothing could be changed now all he could do was find away of keeping them out of trouble.
"Wow we are really going to use every loop-hole going at this rate." Jack said smiled everything was going to be ok and he could still be with his wife.
"Well I'm going to dismiss you but before I do I need to say that I need that resignation on my desk before the end of the day so I can send it off before anyone outside this room hears about this otherwise you will both be in trouble is that understood."
"Yes sir." Said Sam.
"Thanks General." Jack smiled.
"I just don't want my best people in prison. Now get out of here. Dismissed."