I can't believe I forgot this first chapter. Considering where V left off, honestly, humans don't have a prayer. After the first season of V, I got into Stargate SG-1, and throughout the second season wondered how to bring SG-1 into the action. And since there is no cross between them, I decided to write one myself. Hopefully I won't offend any fans of either series.

General disclaimer on my profile.

After being questioned again, and the answers checking out with the Witness Protection Program, Erica was not a happy woman. In fact when Joe came home she asked him to watch May for a couple hours while she got to the bottom of things. Needless to say a lot of people were terrified by the time she was done ripping them.

After that was a trip to both the original house where May lived, then the safe house. The first house was fine, cleaned out and had since been bought. The second was a disaster. What had once been a proud, if average, house, was now a smoking pile of debris. Nothing but charred wood and twisted metal survived.

Erica was close to tears when something small caught her eye. Lying on the ground close to the sidewalk was a simple silver ring with a blue stone. After picking it up and the whole team taking a look at it, they agreed it could have been thrown out the window. Erica pocketed it.

Something rubbed against her leg. Startled, the blonde jumped and looked down, noticing a smoky grey cat standing next to her. May hadn't mentioned having any pets, but maybe she forgot to mention it.

She picked up the cat and looked it over. He was fine if the purring was any indication.

"I don't know where he came from, he just showed up." One of the firemen said, giving the cat a curious look. "He just walked out of the woods, saw us, and started purring."

Interesting. Erica decided to get back home before all hell could break loose. She put the cat on the floor in the back of the car and drove home. May was still asleep when she got there, curled under a blanket on the couch. The grey cat joined her immediately, purring like a motor.

The little girl woke up, put both arms around it, and went back to sleep, cat still purring.

"Did she wake up at all?"

"She did once, just to go to the bathroom. Came right back down and fell asleep again. Should we wake her up?" Joe asked, throwing a concerned glance at the little girl and . . . the cat?

"Where'd the cat come from?"

"According to the Fire Department, he just showed up. Walked out of the forest and started purring once he saw them."

"And you think it's her cat?"

"She might have forgotten about it. It's got a collar on, so it must belong to somebody."

"Uh-uh. I don't want a cat in the house."

As for the cat, he just listened from the couch. May on the other hand, now fully awake, stared at the cat in confusion. It wasn't her cat. Did it belong to the nice lady who let her stay here and get cleaned up?

The silver tag hanging from the blue collar read Wuji in elegant script. On the reverse side was an address.

"It's just for the night, in the morning we can find out where it lives and take it there."

"Then he's not yours?" May asked, Wuji just hanging limp in her arms.

The two adults looked at her.

"No. I thought he was yours."

"Nope. He's a pretty kitty. I hope somebody misses him, it's not fair to be alone."

Erica gave Joe a smug look, thinking she'd won.

"You're explaining the dragon shirt." Joe said, and the smugness slid off Erica's face.

"I guess I'll go get a can of cat food." He continued, grabbing the keys to the van. Wuji continued to purr, paws dangling off the ground. As soon as the van was out of sight, May put the cat down. Wuji didn't wander far, preferring to stick to her, rubbing against her legs.

"His collar says Wuji, and there's an address on the back."

"He certainly is friendly." Erica commented, getting a small plastic container out of a cabinet. She could hear the bus coming down the street. Praying there wouldn't be a fight about this, she quickly explained to May that Tyler might not be thrilled with someone wearing his favorite shirt, but since May was a guest, he'd just have to live with it.

The boy in question tore into the house, stopping dead when he saw the gray cat and May wearing his dragon shirt.

"That's my shirt! Give it back!" Tyler demanded. When May shook her head, Tyler ran upstairs.

It's not over yet. Erica thought, head in her hands. Sure enough, Tyler came thundering downstairs with a red dragon. He called it a statue; Erica said it was a figurine.

He ran up to May, shoved the dragon in her face and snapped, "Give me my shirt back or face my red dragon!"

May's eyes narrowed. She pushed the dragon back and spat with just as much venom, "Should I be scared?"

Tyler looked stunned; I thought girls were afraid of dragons!

Erica was impressed, she'd never met a girl who honestly liked dragons. Well, maybe she just wasn't scared of them, and by extension Tyler, who was acting like one. She turned her attention back to May in time to watch her draw herself up to her full height (about the same as Tyler's) and intone, "This shirt is mine by right of conquest red dragon. If you don't want to be banished to the Abyss, leave this place, and perhaps the gods will show you mercy."

Right of conquest?

Tyler half bowed, tilting the dragon's head forward as well, and said quietly, "Yes priestess." Then he went back upstairs.

Priestess?

"What was that?"

"The Abyss is where evil things go. I think they die there."

Lovely. Erica thought. At the mention of something dying, May's eyes started watering. Erica hugged her, Wuji just rubbed against them both and purred.

Dinner was quiet until Tyler just had to ask, "You like dragons?"

May glanced up at him, thinking hard. "Yeah I like dragons! Dragons are awesome!"

This didn't bother Erica, since she'd seen May get Tyler to back down. What did surprise her was the fact May had a little bit of everything on her plate. If she liked it, she asked for more. If she didn't, she ate what she had and said nothing.

Joe on the other hand was a little surprised.

Tyler's eyes were huge. "What's your favorite dragon?" Inside he was thinking a good dragon, because girls never seemed to get in trouble.

"The black one."

Tyler's jaw dropped. Black dragons are evil! The most evil of all dragons!

"Close your mouth sweetheart." Erica said, rolling her eyes. Joe chuckled.

May just smirked, almost as scary as the toothy grin of the black dragon. Tyler shuddered.

Later that night, after the kids had gone to bed, Wuji paced the floor and observed the two humans still sitting at the table.

"What now?"

"In the morning I'll see who the cat belongs to, and I'll take May with me."

"How long will May be staying?"

"You're okay with this?"

Joe nodded, "I think Tyler would benefit from having a sibling, even if it's only temporary."

"Good. I think she'll be here for a while anyway, at least until we get some things worked out. Besides, where else can she go?" Erica replied, reaching into her pocket, "That, and I found something at the safe house, well what was left of it, and I think this is hers." She placed the ring on the table.

Wuji stopped licking his paw and stared at the ring with glowing amber eyes. His gazed flicked toward the stairs before returning to the object on the table.

Joe looked at it then back up at Erica, "And it's not evidence why?"

"It doesn't appear to have been damaged at all, and could have been tossed out a window. There is nothing salvageable from that house Joe. To the rest of the world, everyone in that house died last night, and May will need a new identity. Again. At least until we can find a suitable person to look after her."

After a little more discussion, where she would sleep, when to go shopping, would she go to school with Tyler, among other things, the two adults went to bed, leaving Wuji alone downstairs. He jumped onto the table, looking for the ring. When he didn't find it, he paced upstairs and into the guest room, curling up at the foot of the bed.

"Here kitty, kitty." May whispered, draping an arm over the grey cat when he walked over and lay down next to her. Within a few minutes both were asleep, the human dreaming of betrayal and fallen kingdoms.