Sam rubbed her temples as she sat back after finishing writing up her recommendation for the Sheppard-Dex bridge system. She had been taking her time in finishing it up to package with the proposal and requisition form, not because she was trying to delay the bridges being built, but because she was trying to delay actually having to update the SGC about what was going on.
She knew that when she did, she would have to tell Landry what had happened to Cait. And he would have to tell the IOA. Of course, it wasn't like they could force Cait back to Earth since the light there would kill her, but she still worried about what Woosley and the others in the IOA might try to do when they found out.
So she had been delaying. Although she knew she couldn't for much longer. It wasn't fair to Lis, Alex and Max. And she knew they were going to find out sometime.
So she was going to have to bite the bullet. They had scheduled a check-in for later that afternoon.
As she finished getting everything together, she looked up when Cait walked in, asking to talk. Nodding, she waved her in before standing up and circling around from behind her desk.
"Of course," she told her. "Do you...do you want to sit down? Or would you like to go for a walk? I've been in here all morning, so I wouldn't mind getting out of here for a bit."