Back at the SGC
"Unscheduled offworld activation!"
"Report!" Jack inquired.
"Sir, its SG1's IDC."
"What? They haven't even been gone a half an hour. Open the iris."
The iris barely had enough time to completely retract before a figured tumbled onto the ramp in an unrecognizable heap of SGC uniform.
"Medical team to the gate room!" came over the loudspeaker before Jack could leave the control room. He had to confirm the heap. He had a feeling and his heart sank. As he enter the gate room he knew the heap on the ramp was too small to be any else but Sam Carter.
"Stand down!" he yelled as he ran to Sam now laying on the ramp unconscious. He knelt beside her feeling for a pulse. He was relieved to find the soft steady thumping of her heart and her breath against his hand.
Looking up at the Stargate he wondered aloud, "where the hell are Daniel and Mitchell?"
As if called by Jack's pondering Daniel and Cam walked through the gate. He was stunned by the blood covering Cam's blouse. His features were paler than normal presumable from blood loss caused by an obviously broke nose.
The medics quickly entered the gate room assessing where there attention would be needed first. The first two were drawn to the still unconscious Sam. A third went to the bleeding Cam while a fourth went to an uninjured, for a change, Daniel.
"What happened? You were gone a half an hour."
Daniel started, "I don't know, Jack. The wormhole barely had time to disengage. We didn't even make it past the DHD before Sam lost it. She was trying to dial the gate manually."
Cam briefly escaped the medics to confront a concerned General overlooking the mess before him, "I had to pull her off the gate so we could dial home. She broke my nose trying to get to the gate before Daniel could even enter the IDC. It's probably good she didn't dial out because my guess is she wasn't thinking clear enough to send the IDC."
The attention of both Cam and Daniel was caught by the medics picking Sam off the ramp. They moved to her as she was placed gently on the gurney.
"Is she all right?" Cam asked.
"She was unconscious when she hit the ramp", Jack told them clamly. Getting a good look at the two men standing in front him he said, "go get yourselves checked out by the good doctor. That nose looks broken Mitchell."
"Oh it is most definitely broken, Sir. Carter has a hard head", Cam confirmed but declining the ride on the gurney. He was determined to walk to the infirmary under his own power.