SGC

O'Neill sat behind his desk just staring around the office. Anyone who knew Jack well enough knew that he was going stir crazy not having anything to do until he heard from Col. Carter. Daniel and T'ealc had just returned from the newest Tok'ra base and Jack was waiting for their debrief. He looked up towards the briefing room where Daniel and T'ealc just entered. Jack stood up; glanced at the pile of rubber bands he had shot at the glass star map in his boredom, and walked into the briefing room.

"So what's the good word campers?"

T'ealc glanced at the base commander. "The Tok'ra have agreed to allow us to borrow their extraction device."

Daniel took it up from there. "We can borrow it but there is a condition attached."

"Surprise, surprise. Ok so what's the other shoe?"

It took a few moments then Daniel let it out. "They will only allow us to borrow it if a delegation is allowed to come and we are not to be alone with the machine." Teal'c added in his monotonous voice "It seems they still do not wish to be total allies even though we are winning the war against the false gods."

O'Neill glanced at his two friends and teammates "Yeah well even when you're winning you lose friends." At this point the phone next to him rang. "O'Neill. Yeah. Ok, I'll contact Andrews and get SGC cleared personnel to guard a hanger. We'll need to take a couple F-302s. Did they ever get the cloak to work properly? Ok Carter see you in a few minutes." He hung up the phone. "Well gentlemen let's suit up. Since we have to wait for the F-302s to get here, Daniel take this," he tosses a credit card to Jackson, "and go get T'ealc and yourself a new suit. It's a fair assumption that we will be giving a briefing to the President and his staff before this is finished and we want to look our best." At these words he picked up the phone signaling the meeting to be over and Jackson and T'ealc took their leave."

J. Edgar Hoover Building

Washington D.C.

The elevator doors opened on the eighth floor. The floor was swarming with agents and paramedics. "Excuse me what business does the Air Force have here?" The question came from a tall agent in a navy blue suit and a military crew cut. Josh looked him in the eye, "We were coming to see Dir. Skinner. This is Lt. Col. Carter and I'm White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman. As for what business the Air Force has her, an investigation the Air Force was running overlapped with one of his and we wanted to see if he would work with them, and you are?" The agent looking thoroughly spanked introduced himself, "I'm Special Agent John Doggett and you just missed the Dir. The paramedics just wheeled him away."

Carter swore, "Damn. Is there anyone around who can tell us first hand what happened?" Doggett looked at her as if she were nuts but shrugged as if to say he'd seen nuttier. "Yeah sure. Agent Scully was in there giving her final report with Agent Mulder. There she is now." Scully exited the Directors office with another agent. Disregarding everyone else in the hall Carter walked right up to her interrupting her in mid sentence. "So they took him to Queens Medical?"

"Excuse me, Agent Scully. I'd like you to come with me, right now." The tone of Carters voice made it perfectly clear that even though they were in Scully's domain Carter was in charge. Surprised she agreed. "Ok, don't I know you?" recognizing Carter now. Carter remained silent but Josh just reiterated "Col. Carter and I have to talk to you now." Carter started to lead her to the elevator. She looked at him, "Josh lets go."

The elevator door opened allowing them access. The three entered and took the elevator to the garage level