O'Neill stares at him a moment longer. John's felt more comfortable being looked at by hungry Wraith queens.
"It's not without precedence," General O'Neill says at last.
John isn't sure what he means--that there's precedence for keeping galactic strays (there is), or that there's precedence for going against orders and doing what's right (no shit there is, and in the General's own record). Not being sure, John says nothing.
She knows what this means if she says it, if she does it. Cowan doesn't scare her. The IOA doesn't scare her. Death doesn't scare her, but the preventable deaths of others? She cannot let that pass.
She opens the file and begins to alter it. Cpl. Hays may be the perfect Marine, but what is perfect to the Marines is unacceptable to her.
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"It's not without precedence," General O'Neill says at last.
John isn't sure what he means--that there's precedence for keeping galactic strays (there is), or that there's precedence for going against orders and doing what's right (no shit there is, and in the General's own record). Not being sure, John says nothing.
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She opens the file and begins to alter it. Cpl. Hays may be the perfect Marine, but what is perfect to the Marines is unacceptable to her.
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