Thursday, August 7, 2008

Under a Dark Star

Disclaimer- I do not own any of these characters from either Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Star Gate SG 1. They of course belong to their creators and their corporations. They just wanted to come out for a while so I agreed. No copyright infringement is intended and I deeply respect their creators and hope I brought them to life in a way they enjoy. Oh yes this work is definitely AU in nature for both series.

A/N- What if Faith was wrong about her family? What if she really was wanted and circumstances were not as she thought? What would her real family do to protect her and help her? What happens when fate decides to give the dark slayer a protector of her own who knows about the council and has a place to keep her safe away from those who harm her?

Spoilers- Season 1 Star Gate SG1 and the movie along with Any and all seasons with Faith in it for Buffy the Vampire slayer. Mostly after the series ended.

A/N: As Always Spell and Grammar checked but not betaed. Read at your own risk. Please remember I am dyslexic and it does sometime pop up in my works. So please be patient with me on this fact.

Part 13 Positive things PG

Jack leaned back. With these entire confessions one thing was for certain. Telling the group about the Star Gate would be a lot easier. For once it was not the weirdest piece of information out there. That caused Jack to pause. Oh this could not be good he thought.

Vala suddenly straighten up and blurted out, "What is a vampire? That is code right. Code for Gould or System Lord?"

"What is a Gould?" Willow asked. "False gods or gods we get but a Gould?"

"You get false Gods?" Cameron said with a confused look. "How come you get that?"

"Vampires and Slayers. Wait a minute. Slayer as in vampire slayer?" Abbey said suddenly coming out of her reserved state. "Vampires are real?" The Goth girl's eyes lighted up with delight.

Buffy sighed and looked at Faith who nodded. "Yes, I am a vampire slayer and so is Faith. Giles you are up." She said with a wary smirk. "Abbey Vampires are evil and they kill people."

Giles sighed and pulled out his glasses. He began to polish them intently. "I suppose I shall have to explain."

Faith giggled and leaned back taking a long drink of soda. "This should be good. But yah know Giles it is not exactly the same old same old."

"Yes, Giles I am rather interested in how my great-grand daughter became a slayer. The one girl in the entire world or not?" Catherine said firmly looking from Faith to Buffy who had the grace to blush.

"Hey so not my fault. Moreover, it is not just Faith and me anymore. Really we are a lot safer now."

"What!" Catherine almost shouted. "Giles what did you do!"

"We ah… Willow, Xander, Buffy and I activated all the potentials. Then you know that don't you Catherine." He gave her a deeply speculative look that made her squirm like a young woman.

At this Faith spun around to face her great-grandmother who blushed deeply. "Well what was I supposed to say No? I wanted more time… time to know Faith. Slayers have a real advantage you know. Superior strength and healing and stamina."

"Holy shit!" Faith said. "Nana is a slayer!"

Catherine blushed deeply at this outburst "Language Faith. Giles if you please I can see we are confusing the others."

"Ah yes, well the world as we know it is much older then you know. Contrary to popular belief it did not begin as a paradise…"

So, on he went and Jack and the Gibbs listened incredulously. Gibbs looked over and noted that Ziva did not seem very surprised about the revelations. He wondered how she knew these things. Once more, he wondered about his Mosaasd agent. How much did she know that she had never shared with him and the team? Just what training did she really have?

"So you are saying that the supernatural is real?" Sam asked. She looked stunned and would have argued if not for the fact that it was more then clear that both Daniel and Dr. Langford were not surprised or shocked. It was clear both had intimate knowledge of these realms. She noted Paul Davis seemed to shift uncomfortably as well. It was one thing to know he was the liaison to the SGC and quite an other to realize he was far more. Sam had thought perhaps that this council had been the British version of the SGC dealing with alien incursions. It was disquieting to note they were not. She looked over and noted that the NCIS agent Ziva David was taking this all in stride. Then again maybe it was because she was from Israel and they likely had many old legends.

"Now tell us about these Gould." Buffy said. "Are they a big bad?"

Daniel snorted at this. He sighed as Jack said.

"Daniel your turn."

"Why me?"

"Cause you do tell it so well. Besides its Geeks show and tell."

Daniel glared at his friend and then looked at Catherine. "I don't know Jack I was not there at the beginning. I think this once I will let Catherine explain it all. Yes Buffy the Gould are one of our big bads."

Catherine sighed as all eyes fell on her. "As you wish Daniel. I will start it out. But I shall tell the tale only until Abydos. We are not Geeks General." She glared at O'Neill who smirked.

"Agreed, he said with a sad smile."

"The Pyramids of Egypt are far older then man kind knows…."

Twenty minutes latter and two pots of coffee gone Gibbs was amazed to hear Abbey and McGee asking many questions. What was there to know? They now had aliens and demons to fight along with terrorist and other bad guys. He should have stayed retired.

McGee asked the most obvious question. "Ok so how is it you all know each other?"

Catherine once more spoke up. "I was a potential. It is the reason I lost my daughter. The council did not want families to interfere in their slayers training even if we never became slayers. Then when I was never called, I followed my father in to the field of archeology. It was where we found the Star Gate. I meet Daniel on a Dig and he latter helped translate the capstone."

"Ok so how do you know Daniel Ziva?" Tony asked.

"Daniel saved my life in Israel when I was a teenager. He kept so very bad PLO officers away from me by saying I was er…." Ziva blushed.

"I said she was there as my date." Daniel said diplomatically. It was no big deal. I mean I got to kiss her so fair trade I think. It did my reputations worlds of good. I mean everyone thought I was a Geek until Ziva."

Ziva look told him she still thought it was important. Daniel grinned. It had been the first time he played hero. He had a crush on Ziva back then. Now he could see she was a stunning woman.

"Well it seems we all are connected by you Dr. Langford." Jennifer Sheppard said. "The president has made it clear we are to help you and Faith. Therefore, we do our jobs. I think maybe it was good to clear the air. At least we have an idea of what we are up against." She looked at Ziva who looked down. Jennifer Sheppard was no ones fool. She knew Ziva too had gotten a boost from the Spell the Scooby has had done as had Colonel Carter if she was correct. If she was not mistaken she to had gotten a boost. She recalled the vivid dreams and shuttered.

"Well at least we are not all crazy." Cameron said with a smirk. "I mean usually the people who learn about the Star Gate want to have us locked up as loonys."

"And who said I don't want to do that." Gibbs shot back. "As if our lives were not insane enough? " He sighed. "Well on the positive side we are all used to saving the world."

Mitchell's face fell. That was all to true.

"So how do we keep Faith Safe then?" Ducky asked. "If she has these gifts and is connected to both Dr. Langford and the General there will be a lot of people out there that will want her. She would be invaluable to them on so many levels. A slayer and a carrier of the ancient gene would be a researchers dream. It stands to reason that the NID and Kinsey will be a problem."

Now there is an understatement if ever I heard one. Jack thought.