**note: The name of the planet is just sort of came up with off the top of my head. So I apologize if that code was already used in the TV series. Hope you enjoy it!**

* 10 days later *

SG1 sat around the briefing table as General Hammond walked in. "I'm sorry to call you all in like this, but before SG1 can return to active duty, the situation on planet PX30579 has to go before a formal committee."

Daniel raised his eyebrows in curiosity. "Why?"

"We need to determine the threat of these hidden warriors that ambushed you."

Sam's eyes flickered over to Jack, and she could tell that he too had an uneasy feeling about the debriefing. As if reading their minds, General Hammond continued. "The debriefing will be based solely on the mission. I'll see you tomorrow at oh-eight –hundred. Dismissed."

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The next day, the team again sat in the briefing room. Sam's stomach was in knots and she kept fidgeting with her uniform.

Jack could see that Sam was nervous, "it's just a debriefing Carter. We've done thousands of them before."

Sam looked up at him. "In dress blues sir?"

Jack shrugged. "Ok so this one's a little more formal."

Just then General Hammond entered with a bunch of black suits and dress blues from the pentagon. "Take you seats," he said, nodding to SG1 and the others. "Jack why don't you take us through the events of the mission."

"Well sir……and other sirs, it was just a routine mission. We were just checking out the area for SG5. We encountered nothing strange or out of the ordinary for the eight hours that we were there. As we were heading back to the stargate, I sent Carter ahead to dial home. It was right afterwards that Teal'c heard the warriors in the forest around us and yelled ambush. We took cover behind a boulder when –"

"-sorry I'm late." SG1's heads shot up and everyone turned in their seats to see Senator Kinsey walking into the room. "General Hammond, I apologize for my tardiness, but the report of the incident only just crossed my desk this morning."

General Hammond frowned. "I wasn't aware that the incident as you so eloquently put it, fell under your jurisdiction."

Senator Kinsey feigned shock, placing his hand over his heart. "The safety and well being of SG1 and the SGC are my job and top priority," he said smiling.

SG1 looked at each other. Jack rolled his eyes and coughed. Kinsey looked at him and then smiled sweetly. "Oh please Colonel, don't stop on my behalf. Please, continue."

Jack glared at him and looked to General Hammond who nodded at him to proceed. "Okay….so as I said before, when Teal'c yelled ambush, the warriors began firing. We took cover-"

"-we as in....." interrupted Kinsey.

"We as in Daniel, Teal'c and myself. It was then that I realized that Carter wasn't there."

"Where was Major Carter?" asked Kinsley, looking over at Sam.

"I was taking cover behind the DHD. Colonel O'Neill had sent me ahead to dial home."

"Why didn't you use your radios?"

"I tried. But Carter had been hit and was unconscious. So I told Daniel and Teal'c to cover me, and I went to get her."

"Why you?"

Jack shook his head, not understanding. "What?"

"Why didn't you send someone else, such as Teal'c. He's much stronger than you, and has much faster healing than you. Surely he would have been better off getting Major Carter. Or for that matter, why not all go together?"

"Daniel Jackson and myself were laying ground cover," said Teal'c.

"Hmmmmmm," said Kinsey, not convinced.

General Hammond glanced at him with a frown, then looked back at Jack. "Continue Colonel."

Jack nodded. "When I found Carter, she was unconscious. I managed to wake her up and we made a run back for the gate, when she got hit. I picked her up and made my way back, when I also got hit."

"Major Carter did you not state in the preliminary report that you told Colonel O'Neill to go back without you?" asked Kinsey.

Sam nodded, "yes."

"Why?"

Sam looked at Jack and then back at Kinsley. "We were surrounded by warriors, who were closing in. And there were more coming behind them. I didn't think that we would both make it."

Kinsey leaned back in his chair, hands clasped in his lap. "Major, from a leadership perspective, was it logical for Colonel O'Neill to go back for you?"

She looked at Jack and then down at her hands. "No,"

"General," said Jack looking at General Hammond. "Sir that was my call to make."

But as General Hammond opened his mouth to speak, Senator Kinsey interrupted again. "Now at this point, you sent Dr. Jackson and Teal'c back, is that correct?"

"That is correct," said Teal'c.

"So Colonel O'Neill sent you and Dr. Jackson back, but wouldn't save himself?"

"Sam is a member of our team," said Daniel.

Jack gritted his teeth. "I don't leave a member of my team behind."

Kinsey opened up the folder in front of him. "What about Abydos? You and your first team left Dr. Jackson behind for years."

"Uhhh I wanted to stay behind," pointed out Daniel.

"And what about when Teal'c was captured by Apophis?"

"We thought he was dead!!" said Jack.

"Colonel, I'm afraid that there are multiple records of you leaving a member of your team behind."

Jack glared at Kinsley, saying nothing. "I believe, Senator, that you're getting sidetracked. We're hear to discuss the threat of the planet's warriors," said General Hammond.

Kinsey smiled and turned to Sam. "Major Carter, please continue."

Sam breathed in deeply. "Colonel O'Neill came back and picked me up. I was unable to walk because of my leg injury. When we got to the steps of the gate, we were fired upon again, and Colonel O'Neill was hit, and fell. He was unconscious and bleeding profusely. I tried to lift him but I couldn't. However I was able to drag him up the steps and get him through the wormhole."

"Major, if it was illogical for Colonel O'Neill to save you, then surely it was completely reckless for you to go back and save him."

"Sir we were so close to the gate –"

"-Major, you were both injured; you had an open leg wound, and Colonel O'Neill was severely injured and as you say, bleeding badly, with a visible head wound and a concussion. It was far more reasonable for you to save yourself. In face it was almost selfish of you to attempt to rescue Colonel O'Neill, risking both of your lives. Especially when your knowledge of the gate technology, Major, is irreplaceable. You not only risked your life, but risked serious consequences to the SGC, if you had been killed."

Keeping her anger in check from being publicly reprimanded, and trying not to let Kinsley see the redness that was creeping up her neck, Sam glared at Kinsey. "How's this helping the debriefing," she said, her voice ice.

General Hammond had had enough. He stood up from his seat, slamming his fists on the table. "Senator enough! I agree Major, these questions are irrelevant to the purpose of this debriefing. This conversation and meeting is over. Dismissed."

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