Consequences by Fabrisse         
Jack/Daniel, Action, Drama, Friendship, Pre-Slash . Season 4 through Beneath the Surface. Tag for Scorched Earth.   No spoilers.
Rating: R
Warnings: Contemplation of death, dark situation
Notes:  My beta readers were: Gileswench -- who read it repeatedly at many points and maintained a constant cheering section, and Biblio who helped me outline the entire plot and pointed out my weaknesses with tact. 
SG-1 deals with the repercussions of the Enkaran/Gadmeer situation.

Consequences by Fabrisse

Senator Kinsey was pleased.  It had taken a few favours called in and some political capital spent, but he'd gotten his way.  The NID analysts had been permitted to go over every piece of paper that crossed Hammond's desk.

  No one but Hammond was supposed to read the preliminary reports.  Occasionally, when there had been an exciting or puzzling find, Dr. Jackson or Major Carter got called in to hear a debriefing or were asked to read the earliest versions of another team's reports.  Most of the time, preliminary reports didn't have much revision before the final.  A little tweak to the language -- the General usually asked Colonel O'Neill to leave out the profanity in his reports of dealings with the Tok'Ra -- or a clarification of the order of events was the way it worked.

  This particular week had been normal: people went to other planets and reported on their findings.  The only big-ticket item was resolving the Enkaran/Gadmeer crisis which meant those preliminary reports ended up in Hammond's in-box.

  One paragraph in Teal'c's report made it clear he accepted Daniel Jackson's assessment: the Gadmeer were fully sentient beings and destroying their ship would destroy all hope their civilization and all their lifeforms had. 

  A pet Marine colonel affiliated with the NID had the charges brought -- at the Senator's behind-the-scenes behest.  Colonel Dwight considered it the perfect payback for the betrayal of Colonel Makepeace. 

  There was nothing General Hammond could do, but order an impartial military investigation.  Kinsey was gleeful.

  The Article 32 hearing came back with indictments for both military officers on SG-1, and, when SG-1 got back from P3R-118, Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter were confined to separate holding cells to await their courts martial.

  No one who might be called upon to testify was allowed to see either of them.  Daniel Jackson argued for -- and got -- the prisoners their fresh air privileges, an hour a day in the gym, and both library and limited internet privileges.  After talking with each of their JAG attorneys, he spoke to General Hammond and received permission to talk to every ally they had.

  It took a couple of weeks to find enough officers with the right type of security clearances to make up the full trial panel.  Three of them were from NORAD, three were from the Air Force Academy, three were Pentagon functionaries, one was a White House fellow, and the other two had been pulled out of retirement.  General Hammond made certain they were given the full tour of the Stargate facilities.

  It was Teal'c who suggested that people who had never taken the risk of the Stargate might not understand the difference in Stargate style missions from those undertaken in regular military situations.  General Hammond agreed and offered the panel a chance to step through the 'gate to Abydos. 

  Only three of them accepted, but SG-9 escorted them through.  When they came back four hours later, they had been well fed by Kusuf and his village.  Daniel had briefed his good father and brother-in-law so they knew not to prejudice the case by mentioning Jack, Sam, Teal'c, Daniel, or Sha're. 

  Surprisingly, the Abydonians requested that, as Earth's first ally, they be allowed to send a representative to observe the trial.  The request was granted, and Skaara came back through the gate with them.

  The conference room that had once held the treaty negotiations of the Asgard and the System Lords was reconfigured to allow the trial to take place.  The out of town officers were ensconced in the VIP suites.  Major Davis was there as the representative of the Air Force chief of staff.  He let General Hammond know he'd been ordered to report daily and send courtesy copies to Senator Kinsey.

  The SGC's first courts martial were ready to begin.  Colonel O'Neill was charged with genocide, the attempted murder of Daniel Jackson, misappropriation of government property for the naquada reactor, and issuing an illegal order.  Major Carter was charged with accepting an illegal or immoral order, misappropriation of government property and, as an accessory, to Colonel O'Neill's genocide and attempted murder charges.

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