Disclaimer: Still not mine

A/N: I know what cliffies are like so I thought I'd be kind and also to make up for the month of no updates that I'd post the next chapter aswell

"Well I am, you can test my charter mark if you want, I know I would like to test yours before my friends and I go anywhere" He nodded, she reached out with two fingers and touched his forehead, a mark appeared and it momentarily flashed with golden fire which seemed to be a good thing though the rest of SG-1 weren't sure why. Then the man reached out with two fingers like Vala had and touched her forehead where a mark similar to his appeared that oddly enough none of the team had noticed before but hers burned even brighter and for longer. Since SG-1 walked through the door ahead of their team mate they didn't notice the man bowing to her as she passed.

Inside they were led up a grand stair case very much like the ones they would've found in stately homes back on Earth they soon reached a sort of study with a large dark wooden desk in the corner, most of SG-1 were thoroughly confused, especially since Vala seemed to know exactly what was going on which never usually turned out well for any of them. She sat down at the desk and began writing with the quill and ink that were already there. When Daniel leaned over her shoulder he saw she was writing a telegram.

"What are you doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing Daniel?"

"Ok what was that all about back there?"

"I can't explain right now. I promise I will but not here, it's not safe so once I've sent this message to certain people we'll be taking a car to the Wall stopping at Wyverly College on the Way, then we'll ride to the house and then fly by paperwing to Belisaere.

"What?"

"Just trust me Daniel" He roughly grabbed her by the shoulders and spun her round so that she was facing him

"Vala, what is going on!" she was almost in tears by this point and he realised that this whole thing must be pretty hard for her too but he had to get some answers

"All I can say is that we need to get out of this country as fast as we can, it's not safe here. Now I'm not saying that the place we're going is any safer but at least there are people there that will help us and I'll know and hopefully be able to defeat whatever we come up against but right now there are people in this country that will not hesitate to kill me just because I come from the Old Kingdom and am, well I have some powerful friends there. Which is why as soon as I've finished this telegram we're going to take a car to Wyverly College and then to the Wall." Daniel nodded and let her finish her telegram, when she had she called for the stern man

"Right, this is the message you're to give to a message hawk. You know who to send it to?" He nodded

"Good, is the car ready?"

"It is waiting for you on the street"

"Thank-you" SG-1 filed out after Vala, still dumbstruck at their situation until Sam spoke up

"Why don't we just go back through the gate?"

"Because as far as I know this planet, not even my country, which is full of rather odd things, has a gate, so I don't even know how we got here especially since the Goa'ould never discovered us"

"Then how did you become a host?"

"I was experimenting with something I shouldn't have been and it went kind of wrong"

"How long is this journey going to take?"

"Which part?"

"All of it"

"Well Cameron, I should think that the journey to Wyverly and then to the Wall should only be a few hours, the ride as much as 4 days depending on what we encounter and the flight maybe a day or slightly longer if we have to go to the glacier first"

"Of what glacier do you speak Vala Mal Doran?"

"Well Belisaere is the capital but everyone who needs to meet us there may not be there when the message arrives and I can't guarantee that they will have their own transport so we might need to pick them up on the way, it's not that far away from Belisaere, at least not by Paperwing" Before any of them could ask what a Paperwing was their friend had already got in the car that was waiting for them.

Within a few uneventful hours they had reached Wyverly College, it was then that Daniel realised what had been bugging him

"Why exactly are we doing here? Why aren't we going straight to this house?"

"Because Daniel this should be where certain items are and without these items we will have almost no chance of survival in the Borderlands. The items should be here because this is where they were when I disappeared."

"Then wouldn't they have sent your things back to your friends or family?"

"No because I had and still do have habit a vanishing so they soon realised that the chances were that if I disappeared I had just got into a bit of trouble so when I came back I would go to the last place I had been to look for these items and it soon became normal for them to leave the items wherever I left them which in this case is here. Oh by the way you might as well leave the guns in the car, the wind's blowing from the north and we're only about forty miles away so they won't work but we'll pick up some more useful weapons at the perimeter crossing point from the border scouts." Cam tried to fire his P-90 to see if it was some kind of joke but the gun jammed, Sam, Cam, Teal'c and Daniel couldn't believe it, their state of the art fully automatic sub-machine guns were useless. They chucked the guns in back in to the car then had to run to catch up with Vala as she was already at the large metal and wire gates pushing them to see if they were open. She found that they weren't and began form the marks for unlocking and opening in her head letting them flow from her mind in to the gate but she didn't notice the others approaching as she was forming the marks. However they did notice the golden symbols that flowed from her hand to the gate which suddenly unlocked itself and swung inwards.

"What was that?"

"What was what Sam?"

"Those golden symbols that went in to the gates from your hand"

"Nothing, probably just a trick of the light, you can never tell this close to the Wall" she laughed nervously before striding on towards the doors of what seemed to be a castle of sorts or a manor. They soon reached the door which looked like it belonged to a medieval castle.

This time Vala didn't mysteriously open the doors she knocked instead, though Daniel was quite shocked to learn that she did actually know how to knock on doors. The door was answered by an elderly woman with wispy white hair pulled back into a bun who was wearing something that appeared to be half way between a dress, a tunic and robes like a priest's. The woman looked shocked to say the least as she drew Vala into a large hug.

"Magistrix Grayel it's so good to see you again"

"It is equally good to see you but I hope you haven't been experimenting with mixing Charter magic with free magic again"

"Nope, I've decided to leave that sort of thing to Sameth, he's much better at it than I am but then he is a Wallmaker"

"And you're the Abhorsen-in–waiting so don't put yourself down"

"Okay ,I won't. Are my things still here?"

"Yes they have been stored in the library"

"Thank-you, I hope to see you again soon"

"I hope you will" Vala smiled and nodded at the woman and then walked past her letting SG-1 catch up as she hurried off down a corridor. There were an awful lot of doors they went through the 5th door on the right and emerged into a large room that was stacked up to the ceiling with book shelves that were all packed to bursting point. The team, though bewildered, followed their friend, bearing in mind that if they didn't they would most likely not find their way out again with the number of turns they were taking until they reached a small alcove and were shocked at the sight that greeted them. In the small alcove was a longsword that had symbols gliding across it. Next to it hanging off a nail was a bandoleer that contained seven bells varying in size; the smallest was about the size of a pill box and the largest about the size of a clenched fist, behind that there was a bow and a quiver full of arrows. Also there were four books, one seemed to be bound in green leather and bound with silver clasps, another was smaller and bound in a blue leather and also had silver clasps then there was a small book that appeared to be a sort of diary that was bound in brown leather and the last seemed to be covered in some sort of fur or hide. Lastly was a set of armour that consisted of a cuirass that looked like it was made of hundreds of tiny overlapping scales possibly made out of a type of ceramic, thick boots, trousers and a surcoat in dark blue dusted with embroidered silver keys.

"Is this what we came here for?" asked Daniel incredulously "A sword, some old armour, a few books and some bells?"

"If we encounter certain creatures in my country then these bells will be the things that save your lives"

Thank you to acer-sigma who's already reviewed the first chapter and it's only been up like 5 minutes

A/N :All reviews amd flames welcome : )