Author: gothfeary (a.k.a. Kat)

Title: Rule # 22

Series: This is why we have Rules

Rating: T for some swearing and explosions.

Summery: Rule 22) Pets are not to be acquired off-world. 400 words.

Spoilers: None

Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate, but I do own the stupid situations I put these poor characters into! Oh, and SG-3. I own them, but I'll share with you guys!

A/N: Yes, I stole a Buffy character name! I couldn't think up anything that sounded "military" enough!

-italics- for emphasis or internal thoughts.

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"Sir, you better come see this!" Lt. Jennifer Hailey's voice rang out from across the camp. Major Lyle stood up, set down his MRE (macaroni, which tasted like chicken for some reason) and wove his way through the tents of SG-11 to the edge of the camp. Sitting calmly in Lt. Hailey's lap sat a small, fluffy, brown fur ball, which looked suspiciously like a rabbit. After a closer inspection, his jaw dropped.

"He just hopped over and made himself comfortable before I could move!"

"Are those antlers?"

"Yes sir." Her blond pony tail bobbed along with her head, "and just look at what he did to this!" She held up a metal bar, the teeth marks at one end for all to see.

"Did that thing gnaw through a steel bar?"

"Umm… yes?"

"Huh." Major Carl Lyle shook his head and walked back to his meal. The things you see while in the SGC, he mused to himself as he left the petite blond behind, stroking the now purring ball of fur and antlers.

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"Sorry Floppy, you have to stay here," Lt. Hailey sadly told the small Jakalope that sat beside her at the gate. "The General probably won't let you live with us on Earth." With a quick pat on the head from Major Lyle, Lt. Hailey, Dr. Mykle Simms and Captain Riley Finn, SG-11 walk through the gate. They were all gonna miss Floppy. No one noticed a streak of brown darting forward.

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"Catch it!" screamed Airmen Roy to one of the other officers in the Gate Room. Some one fired a zatt blast, only to be rewarded with a ball of fluffy tearing a chunk out of the back of his thigh. Bullet ricochet and airmen dived, all the while Lt. Hailey was yelling out over and over, "don't hurt him"

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"Alright SG-11, you can keep it." General O'Neill was getting two stitches over his left eye after clipping the edge of the Gate ramp while diving for "Floppy". Lt. Hailey looked over at Major Lyle and grinned.

"Thank you General, sir!" She hopped off her hospital bed with Floppy in her arms and headed for the door.

"Oh, Jennifer," he called tiredly after her, "SG-11 is responsible for it."

With a nod to him and the other seven patients, she hurried off to find Mykle and Riley. This was so cool!

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