"I understand your concern, doctor," I tell Dr Fraiser when she comes to chew me out.
"No sir, I don't think you do," she replies, her words clipped by a temper.
"I'm just as concerned for Teal'c as anyone else here," I answer.
"Then why are you letting Brae'tak kill Teal'c? You know as well as I do what will happen to Teal'c without his symbiote."
I nod. Yes, I do know.
But how to impart what else I know?
Dr Jackson once said that several ancient cultures held a scale somewhere in their mythos, usually regarding justice or death.
SG-1 apparently learned how to tip the scales. Death and her children seems to not hold any sway over them anymore.
Major Carter's been diffused into a computer, Doctor Jackson's been declared legally insane, Teal'c's been dead, and Colonel O'Neill's. . .
For SG1, it seems, it isn't that death is no longer an option. Now it has become no longer a possibility. And that is why I'm not worried that Teal'c might die on the table.
He's a part of SG1, after all.
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