In The VIP Quarters
15 Minutes Later SGC
The three agents sat in the room they had been placed for safekeeping discussing the offer that had been dropped into their laps. "Well sir, are you going to take the offer?" Mulder finally asked pointblank after a full fifteen minutes of silence between the three. "I don't know. I think this will be a great opportunity to continue working and continue living free. After all this, it doesn't matter what the OPR or the Congressional Hearings find, my name is ruined and I won't be able to get a job working at the Wacky Hut." Mulder nodded and reached across to grab Scully's hand. "Scull, the last thing in life that I want to do is to leave you again but no matter what happens I fear we will be forever separated. If I go back I will be put in prison for the rest of my life or sentenced to death. Both of those options leave us apart and if I were to work here I could not in good conscious ask you to come. I used trickery to get you back out of retirement because I could not leave well enough alone and live in obscurity and am now paying for that mistake." "Mulder I wouldn't have come back if I did not want to come back. Finding you in the office was just a bonus. When you left that morning I knew you were hiding something of importance and I found out. I will not let you sacrifice yourself for actions that were not your own. How many times have we been in this very situation where we were in trouble and there was no physical evidence to prove innocence. If you stay I stay, it's as simple as that. All three of us have been a team for a long time. There is no reason to break up this team now and maybe in the future some President will have the kindness of heart to grant us all a pardon and let us rejoin the land of the living."
Skinner watched the couple that he had been watching grow together since the first day they were thrust together by Section Chief Blevins all those years ago and all he could think about was the failed marriage that culminated with him being suspected of murdering a call girl. It was during that case he started to realize Mulder still had a world class investigative mind and not just a spooky reverence for the supernatural. "So we're all in agreement. We accept the proposal and hope that we will be able to regain our lives as some point. I guess we should let someone know." At that moment though, there was an announcement over the base intercom, *GENERAL O'NEILL TO THE HOLDING ROOMS. GENERAL O'NEILL TO THE HOLDING ROOMS.* The agents looked at each other and as one they muttered, "Uh oh. This sounds ominous."
Jack had just hung up with the President and had assured him that he knew what he was doing regarding his plan for the three Agents when the call came in. He muttered under his breath "doh" and left his office. In the hall Carter was waiting for him and as always he was pulled short by her very presence. "Carter do you know what the hell is going on?" he asked to cover his brief pause. "From what I can gather there was someone trying to gain access to the base. He had F.B.I. credentials and LTCol Reeves positively identified him as a former Marine under his command in '79, name of John Doggett." "Ok so what's the problem other than the fact that he shouldn't need to be here at all." "Well sir other than that there is no problem except for the fact that he was demanding to go through the Stargate." She let that statement hang for a minute. "Sir I think that was just found Hotep." O'Neill responded sarcastically "You think." Carter blushed at the rebuke to her blatantly obvious statement. She found herself making more of those around him because he made her so nervous. "Sir I was thinking, should we contact the Tok'ra to get them here. In case this is the real deal I mean." "Yeah go ahead see how fast they can get here. Hopefully they can get him out by breakfast." Carter turned around and Jack made the rest of the walk alone. He made it just as Dr. Jackson came around the opposite bend. "Jack, I thought that you might need my help if the talk is correct and Hotep is here." Jack smirked and just had the Airman open the door. All three men entered the holding room where Hotep/Doggett was seated handcuffed to the table looking as if he hadn't a care in the world. Jack made the first comment. "Good evening, Special Agent Doggett. Did I get that correct?" The man in front of them smiled but the voice the left his mouth was not even remotely human. "I am not Special Agent Doggett. Nothing of the host survives. If you have gone through the Stargate then you know that already." Jack looked at Daniel with a meaningful look that said he's all yours. "Umm yeah about that. We know that the host survives. We know because the first host you took, Special Agent Mulder, is still alive and mentally intact. Another reason is we are friends with the Tollan, the Nox, and the Tok'ra, all of them have been instrumental in the saving of a Goa'uld's host body during the extraction process." "YOU LIE, WHERE IS RA. I WILL FIND HIM AND EXACT MY REVENGE ON HIM. WHAT IS HIS SHALL SOON BE ALL MINE." Jack took this one. "Yeah, Ra's no longer with us. I blew his ass out of the sky nine years ago. A lot of your other buddies are dead too, such as; Seth, Hathor, Apophis, Anubis is gone but maybe not forgotten, Nirrti was killed by some of her own followers, Osiris was desnaked, so you see a bunch of you have been taken down a notch. I suggest you sit back, relax and wait while your cousins the Tok'ra come to evict you from this good man's body. Dr. Jackson I think we have a phone call to place." With that they both turned and left the room and Hotep wondering how and when humans had become so insolent.
*UNSCHEDULED OFFWORLD ACTIVATION* blared through the massive PSA system while lights and Klaxons activated all over the underground base. "Daniel why don't you go get our guests and bring them back to Medical while I go and greet our visitors." Daniel walked away toward the VIP quarters to collect the three newest members in the SGC. Upon arrival he was prepared to be bombarded with questions so the moment he opened up the door he held up his hand and bid them to follow him. "Would you all follow me. I know you must have some questions but those will be answered in due time, there are some people you should meet if you are going to be working with us. We explained who the Tok'ra were when you arrived, well there are a group of them here, right now, who just arrived." Scully spoke up as they were nearing the briefing room, "Why are they here. Is there a problem?" "Not a new one no. They came to help with our current one. Our 'friend' actually walked right up to the front door so to speak. That has only happened once and so we're all a little surprised but this time we have friends to help us so we do not have to kill the host." As they were approaching the briefing room Jackson stopped them in their tracks. "I don't want to spring this on you guys.. You know the host and most likely are friends with him. They all just looked at him. "Well I tried to warn you, come along." He opened the door expecting to see Hotep secured on the table but he was not there. Instead Carter, Teal'c, and the Tok'ras Anise and Jacob Carter, formally a Major General in the United States Air Force but was still on the active rolls, and Samantha Carter's father. Daniel walked over and shook Jacob's hand. "Jacob, I'd like to introduce you and Selmak and Anise and Freya to three new friends and hopefully the first members of the SGC's new investigation branch, FBI Director Skinner, and Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. They ran into a bit of trouble while investigating some remains from the battle with Anubis," "And now their lives are forever changed and possible ruined," Jacob finished. The agents just watched this exchange bemusedly.
Jack spoke up as he came into the medical bay quieting everyone up, "Sorry to bust up the party folks but I think we are missing one person and you," motioning to Anise and Jacob, "have a prisoner to take charge of. Agents, you will be pleased to hear President Bartlett has signed off on the SIB. As soon as the paperwork has been processed we will get you folks into the training class to get you up to speed. Airman, would you please go collect the prisoner and bring him here." The Airman in the hall acknowledged the order and left briskly. "Um Jack why SIB," Jackson had to ask. "Well it's the Stargate Investigation Bureau," he paused and then continued, "we can rename it later." Turning Jack and Jacob went to the corner to converse while Anise walked over to pull Skinner off by himself. Mulder and Scully walked over to the medical equipment where Scully was amazed at the normalcy of it all. "Well Mulder after all these years of fighting and trying to expose the massive global conspiracy, we are going to be the ones hiding the truth and working hard to keep things quiet. Are you sure you can handle that?" "All those years were spent trying to stop the visitors from colonization and trying to find my sister. I now know that she is dead and in a better place. I can accept that finally and I do believe colonization can still be fought working here. Good work can still be accomplished with this group. Besides I do believe Skinner is going to like working here." He smirked as they both glanced over at Anise and Skinner and they were talking as if they were long lost friends and not perfect strangers meeting for the first time. Mulder had a thought, "Scully will you be able to leave your family behind? Your mom and brother won't know what happened to you." "I'm sure I'll be able to keep in contact, even if we can't visit them."
Carter walked over to her dad after reviewing some figures in a file. "Dad, you brought the equipment with you right. We would like to keep Agent Doggett with us so we have ample opportunity to debrief him." She took a momentary glance at Jack when she said we. A moment was all that it took though. Jacob smiled slightly as he recognized the look of wanting and respect combined. "Of course we did. The council is still wary of allowing the Tau'ri to visit the Tok'ra main base. Both Anise and myself are risking our reputations just by coming and aiding you in this endeavor." At that moment Hotep entered flanked by two guards. When he saw Jacob his eyes flashed in anger. "WHO ARE YOU" Jacob's eyes flashed yellow as Selmak took control, "I AM SELMAK OF THE TOK'RA AND YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE EXPELLED FROM THIS BODY YOU STOLE." Hotep looked at Jack, "HE IS A TRAITOR. HE BETRAYED ME AND GOT ME CAPTURED WHICH IS HOW I WAS IMPRISONED ON THAT SHIP. MY ESCAPE WAS A GLORIOUS DAY AND NOW YOU TURN ME OVER TO MY BETRAYOR. I WAS HELPING TRY TO OVERTHROW RA AND HIS FORCES. THIS SHOL VA INFORMED ON ME." "YOU WERE NEVER WORKING WITH US AND WE WOULD NEVER ACCEPT HELP FROM YOU AS YOU JUST WERE TRYING TO BREAK INTO THE RANKS OF SYSTEM LORD. WE WOULD NEVER HAVE ALLOWED THAT." Jack separated them, "OK that's enough of that. Let's get this over with before he does any more harm." Anise set the equipment up as Dr. Lewis from medical injected Hotep with a sedative to keep him from killing the host before the extraction process could be complete. Anise turned to the group, "This should not take long but if everyone will step out of the room we can complete the procedure faster." The group left the room and the blast door was shut behind them.
An hour later the group was sitting back in the conference room with Capt. Gill explaining all of the new legal forms and authorizing their bump in pay grades and Security Clearances. No one was really paying attention though as they kept wanting the phone to ring to say the procedure was complete. They all felt like the stereotypical fathers waiting for their babies to be born. When the phone rang they all jumped and Jack answered it. "Yeah, ok be right down." He hung up the phone. "Well folks lets go see your friend." They all stood and head back to the medical bay. When they arrived there was a symbiote in a travel case and John Doggett strapped to the examination table. "Good morning Agent Doggett. How are you feeling, Jack asked the groggy man. "Even in the Marines I was never treated by a General so I gotta ask what happened to me." He then caught sight of Mulder Scully, and Director Skinner. "What are you doing here?" Jack stopped any more questions with a raise of his hand. "Agent Doggett all questions will be answered but this is the time where you get to make a choice." "What?" The agents all looked at each other and mentally came to the same conclusion, 'Life just got a lot more interesting.'