Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy, nor Stargate. I do wish I would own some of Stargate's characters…sigh…Starts to stare into space with a dreamy look on face…

A/N; I had the intention to write a Buffy/Cam story, but normally I was going to put that in my fic "The Road Unknown". I was going to let her date Oliver for a long time, and when she was a bit older, have their relationship end, let Buffy move to Colorado and meet up there with Hottie Cameron Mitchell.

But I couldn't wait, so tada! New fic.

Enjoy!

New Job

Buffy awoke to chirping birds. Stretching in her qeen sized bed she contemplated on wether to say in bed for ten more minutes or not. She was still in a 'not completely awake but not asleep either' fase, so she could put of getting up for a while. Having made her decision she closed her eyes and started to slumber. Of course, just when she was almost fully asleep, her cell phone rang.

Just ignore it. Sleep. Ignore and sleep…

The theme of Ghostbusters sounded louder every few seconds. Keep ignoring it, keep ignoring it. Finally the ringing stopped. Buffy just snuggled deeper into the covers and went into a slumber. Predictably, the cell rang again after a minute or so.

A now cranky slayer threw of the covers and stalked towards her cell.Looking at the screen she saw Giles/Council appear on the screen.

"What?!"

"Buffy, dear, are you all right?", asked Giles who had already been awake for a few hours over the phone, wondering why she sounded a bit snappy.

"Yeah, sorry, I just woke up.", she answered.

"But you're in Rome. It's a timedifference of one hour. Which means it's later there than it is here in London."

"Yeah, and…?"

Giles only polished his glasses in response to that, "Never mind dear. We, and by that I mean Willow and I, were wondering if you could come to London. There's a discussion we would like to have with you about a situation in America. After it you might have to go there, if you have no problems with that."

"I'll come. I needed a change of scenery anyway.", she said.

"Excellent. We thought you would be perfect for the job we had in mind seeing as how you told us earlier that you were getting bored there. Your flight leaves at 7 o'clock this evening. Your ticket will be waiting for you at the airport. We'll see you this evening then. Until then."

"Alright, till then. Bye Giles.", Buffy hang up.

After doing the normal morning routines, like brushing your teeth, washing, changing clothes, and so on, Buffy packed her bags. When everything was ready to go she called Hayley. Hayley was a slayer who had fought in Sunnydale, now a bit more than two years ago. She had moved to Italy after Buffy and Dawn had already went there. Together, she and Buffy had started a self-defense center with a bit of the council's fundings. After the closing-hour for the public, it served as a slayer training centrum. While Buffy was working, Dawn was continueing her education. After the slayer's sister graduated she went to work as a watcher. That was what she was still doing now until she'd get bored of it and do something different with that diploma of hers.

"Hey, Hayley, sorry to call you this early."

"It's not early, I've been awake for some time now. What's up?"

What, am I the only one who likes to sleep in late once in while? "Nothing big, Giles says he has a job for me so I'm leaving for London this evening. I have no idea how long I'll be gone, but it might be a long time before I can come back. I'll let you know something as soon as I know more. Can you handle everything on your own, or do I need to send another experienced slayer?", Buffy asked.

"I'll be fine. I'll talk to you later then. Go have fun wherever you're going to get sent. It's just too bad you're leaving me here, with a whole city of younger slayers to impress and a bunch of Italian guys around.", Hayley teased.

Buffy just grinned, knowing that Hayley was going to do fine on her own. "Alright then, just don't scare the guys with that crazy starved look you call a flirting stare. If I come back I'll have to be seen with you you know.", Buffy teased back.

"Ha ha, very funny. I'll have you know that that stare is a normal one that has worked well for me in the past. Anyhoo, I got to go. Have a nice flight!"

"I will. Ciao."

"Adios."

Rolling her eyes at Hayley's usual antics she hang up the phone. The 24 year old slayer spent the rest of the day visiting her favourite locations in Rome and just sight seeing. Before she knew it, the time had come to leave Rome.

It all went pretty fast. Buffy went to the airport, picked up the ticket, went in the airplane, read a bit and voila, she was now in London. She took a cab to the London Watchers' council headquarters. Once there she went to where she knew Willow and Giles were.

She found them in a room with comfortable couches yet not comfortable enough to fall asleep in if you had to sit in them for a long period of time.

"Hey guys."

"Buffy dear, it's good to see you." Giles greeted before he went to give her a hug. After the Giles-hug came the Willow-hug. "Hey Buffy, how are you doing? And how's Dawn?"

"I'm fine. And Dawn is still in Germany with her slayer. So what's up?", Buffy asked.

"Please, take a seat.", Giles said."

Buffy went to her favourite couch while Giles took a seat on the couch across from her. Willow went to sit next to Buffy.

Giles began to explain the situation, "You know we have slayers almost everywhere. The ones that we keep in contact with more than the rest are thos within the military. As you and they know is that we won't get in the way of what they want but that they should be extra careful and act within the limits of normal military personel."

"Did someone use too much strength in front of the military?" Buffy asked worriedly.

"Oh no, it's nothing like that. I just told you that to remind you that there are slayers in the army. The thing we wanted to discuss is what one of our military-slayers as we shall call them found out. She was recently recruited for something called the Stargate program. It's a program operated from inside a base in Colorado. As you know we have some powerful connections in the US, so we asked around."

Willow picked up where Giles left, "We found out that the Stargate program is a secret military project in which troops or teams are sent trough this big ring, namely the Chappa'ai which translates into stargate.", Willow got excited, "It creates a sort of wormhole, which is really amazing, since wormholes are actually thought to be only hypothetical theories right now. And now a big ring can actually create a stable wormhole. It's amazing that they can create a wormhole but it's even more amazing that they can keep it stable. And get this, they can turn it on and shut it of whenever they want! I wonder if there's maybe magic involved? And I'm babling again aren't I?"

Giles cut in before Willow could get any further, "yes, so they travel from planet to planet, making allies and gathering new technologie. Apparently the consider themselves to be explorers. Which they are I suppose. But as you can imagine, they also make enemies out there."

Buffy finally spoke, "So aliens huh? Cool. I always did wonder if that demon from the moon was the only alien out there. So what do you want me to do exactly?"

Giles answered her, "We want you to go there and check things out. We want to know if they are acting resposible and also how big this space threat is and who and what their enemies are exactly. Our contacts assure us that they aren't abusing their power, and so did this military slayer say, but to be honest, we can't really be sure that they are being objective. Plus you have seen and experienced the Initiative. You have something to compare with. We need to make sure we're not dealing with a second Initiative or an operation that is taking unnecessary risks and putting the entire planet at risk."

"And what if they are doing just that?" Buffy asked.

"Then we'll have to find a way to put a stop to them.", Willow responded.

"I'll do it. Euhm, but how do I do this?"

"There's actually quite an easy way to this. You've still got a military clearance from your brief time with the Initiative.", Giles explained.

Buffy was shocked, "So you mean I can just walk in? No sneakage, no spying, no Buffy stealthage or double-oh-sevening?"

"Yes, we were quite surprised too when we learned of your clearance. And even more so when it seemed that your clearance went up a notch after the fall of the Initiative."

If possible Buffy's eyes went even wider, "Huh… Sweet! So when do I leave?"

"I've gotten a flight for tomorrow morning. The bedroom that you usually use is still free, so you can sleep there. If you run into some trouble in Colorado, and you need someone with experience, Faith and Robin are only a state away. And of course, you can call the council at any moment. Good luck to you, Buffy.", Giles said to her before giving her a hug, "Goodnight."

"Thanks Giles. And sleep well.", Buffy responded before he went to bed. That left Willow and Buffy on the couch.

"So, Buffy, tell me…. How are those Italians?" And the rest of the evening before they went to bed was spent gossiping.

The morning saw Buffy getting up and gathering her stuff before she went to the airport to catch her flight. She had said her goodbyes to all her friends at the council the night before.

"Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, here I come."

To be continued