Door to the Galaxy

by Freline

Four years after Mulder and Scully went into hiding, they accidentally meet Doggett and Reyes, who are back to work on the X-Files, in Colorado Springs. While they are sitting in a restaurant together, talking about old times, they notice a man who is behaving very irrationally. When they follow him, they are drawn into something none of them had expected, not even Mulder

1. Chapter 1

Dana Scully opened the door and got out of the car. After eight hours of endless driving it felt really good to stretch her legs. She walked around to the other side, waiting for Mulder, who was eating the last of the sunflower seeds he had left, to join her. When he had finally finished and gotten out of the car as well, they walked down the busy street, holding hands like a normal couple, which they had never been and never could be.

They spent half of the day sightseeing and shopping and then, when the evening approached, Dana spotted John and Monica coming their way. She poked Mulder, who seemed like he was a million miles away, in the side and pointed their old friends out to him. Monica was the first to notice them after she had almost ran into Dana, as her whole attention was on something John was telling her and what seemed to be really funny. When she finally realized who was standing in front of her, she hugged Dana so tight, that it felt like her ribs would break any second. It felt like forever, but eventually Monica let go of her. Then she and Mulder were pulled into the nearest restaurant, where John immediately ordered a bottle of wine for the sake of the old times.

After they had finished the wine and several courses of food they were ready to head back into their hotels, when a man came in. He looked very disoriented and screamed: "Get it out of me! Get it out! Then he stormed out again. While John hastily paid the bill, the other three followed the man to a nearby bridge, where they could barely stop him from jumping. While they struggled to hold the man, who was incredibly strong and almost slipped out of their grips several times, he continued to scream: "Get it out!

Daniel Jackson blocked the road off the bridge with his car, so that no one could slip past Teal´c, who would be waiting in case Jack, who had become a host during their last trip through the Stargate, which had ended with them imprisoned at Apophis´ palace, got away from him. After he had heard the go ahead from Sam and Janet, who would do the same from the other side, he carefully walked on the bridge, his finger on the trigger of the tranquilizer gun.

He was halfway over when he noticed the three people, two women and one man, who were trying to hold the screaming and thrashing Jack, who had apparently almost lost the fight against the Goa´uld. Daniel slowly aimed the gun at his best friend and fired, causing Jack to go down immediately.

The three strangers looked at him perplexed and Daniel felt bad as he pointed the gun on them as well. They did not know that it was not a real gun, so he had no problems to keep them away, while he checked if Jack was really down and not just playing.

When he was sure it was safe, he called Sam on her mobile and told her it was over. Then he pulled Jack up and dragged him back, while he forced the strangers to come with him. He could not risk to let them go, not after what they had just seen. To them it had to look like he had just killed someone and then let the body disappear and he could not allow them to go to the police, not until they had found a possible story to cover up the incident. During the drive back to Cheyenne Mountain Daniel ignored the questions from his unwilling passengers, although it was not easy for him. When he had reached the parking lot of the SGC, he got a call from Sam that she had captured another man, who had also seen Jack and was bringing him here as well.