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Malaskor, Yes the Sunnydale gang did stay behind and I may write a bit about what's happened to them later on.

Artemis, Spike will come but I'm not sure where he is on the cosmic scale yet.

Chapter 3

Willow felt extremely uncomfortable in the SGC uniform, green combat trousers, a green jacket, a black vest over that and a black tee-shirt. It felt bulky on her small frame and she nearly couldn't move after Colonel O'Neill clipped her pack on. She stumbled into the gate room with as much dignity as she could muster coming to rest next to Teal'c who regarded her with a raised eyebrow. Fortunately Jonas had met her that morning and advised against a helmet effectively saving her from further humiliation. He entered looking much more balanced and came to stand on her right side.

"Dialing up." came a magnified voice just as the massive stone circle in front of her began to whirr and spin. Jack regarded her with amusement, gauging her reaction and letting out a small chuckle when he saw the look of shock on her face. "Chevron 7 locked." She felt hands come to rest on her back and was glad that Jonas and Teal'c had hold of her because she jumped backwards with a frightened squeak when a huge explosion of blue frothed forwards from the Stargate. Jack seemed to find it amusing, as did the leader of SG7 who was joining them for a joint mission to PJR 15T

"Let's move it out kids!" shouted Jack following SG7 through the gate, the blue slurped and lapped up their forms. Teal'c and Jonas left her side whilst Sam, perhaps recognising a fellow scientist came to rest just by the event horizon with Willow as she studied the rippling surface.

"I...I can't go through there...what if..." She began to panic and babble, much to Sam's amusement. She stuck out a hand into the Stargate and pulled it back through.

"See, you'll be fine. Just remember to exhale..." Sam stuck her hand back through and grabbed onto Willow's. Then, without warning, Sam received a sharp tug and went tumbling through the 'gate. Willow's head span as thousands of stars and planets whipped past until they blurred and became one solid light. 'Is it still my head' she pondered, after all, she had been turned into thousands of particles and was in the process of being delivered halfway across the galaxy. All of a sudden there was solid ground beneath her feet and a pair of arms hooked beneath hers to prevent her from falling down the marble steps that led to the 'Gate.

"That was, some trip." She shivered, teeth chattering and hair coated with frost. She didn't notice the atmosphere at first, she was too busy trying to stand without wobbling around like she was drunk. When she did finally manage to get her balance, so strong was the feeling that she fell back down again.

"Rosenburg! You OK?"

"Y...yessir." The feeling was not unknown to her, having lived in Sunnydale all her life she knew when vampires were around. Vampires were definitely around. She had naively thought that she would be safe on a different planet. That was not the only thing that worried her, a fragrance floated on the air. It was slight, something only she could smell but it was there all the same. Magick.

"Right, let's set up camp, looks like it's going dark." Willow scrabbled around in her pockets, cursing the fact there were so many, eventually coming across a small mirror. In the dimming light she could see that her eyes were taking on a dark colour - going from emerald to a muddy green, the colour of her fatigues, her hair had gone a deeper red. It was something that had not happened since her confrontation with Glory, it was nothing noticeable but it did mean she would have to be very careful in controlling herself.

"I think we should leave." She whispered. She just had to say it out loud, even if nobody heard her, she had to clear it with herself first. The air of magick was bad, like the smell of rotten eggs or a decaying corpse, it was something she knew couldn't be good.

"Pardon?" Jonas, who had been standing nearby looked in her direction.

"Nothing."

"You said something...what was it?" He asked in a friendly manner. Willow launched to her feet and stormed past him.

"I didn't say anything!" She felt guilty and ashamed, she hadn't meant to snap at poor Jonas who had been nothing but kind since her arrival. She looked back and saw him talking to Teal'c, a hurt look on his face. She didn't seem able to go for more than 5 minutes without hurting someone, she reflected sadly. She lugged a tent and a sleeping bag to a clearing not far off that Jack had deemed suitable for their purposes.

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Willow surveyed her work with pride. Living in Sunnydale it had never been safe to go out camping so the only time that she had ever set up a tent was as under a table with Xander as a child. The others had finished five minutes before her and were now seated round a fire that Sam had got going. She joined them, choosing to sit next to Jonas. Even after the short incident earlier he greeted her with a smile and offered her a piece of chocolate from a bar that he had managed to sneak into his pack.

"Jonas...I'm really, really sorry about earlier."

"Ah, it's no problem...first trips are always stressful." He gave another token grin.

"Oh, it is...it's not stress...it's me..." She stopped babbling when he chuckled softly, she raised an eyebrow in question.

"It's nothing, honestly." He pulled a banana out of his pack and peeled it with a look of child-like glee on his face. He bit into it, oblivious to the rest of the world, Willow however was on edge and concentrating on the sounds around her. Her head snapped up at the same moment as Colonel O'Neill's and their eyes connected over the fire.

"Did you hear that?" He hissed cautioning them to stop talking.

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Janet closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair as she listened to the teenage girl on the end of the line. She adjusted the smooth, black handset to a more comfortable position under her chin while she reached out for a notepad and began copying notes out of a medical text book.

"So, what do you think...mom?"

"Huh?" Janet had the grace to look ashamed even if Cassie couldn't see her. She had been too busy trying to identify trends in an alien virus that were present in an earth version. She tried to muffle the indignant noises that Cassie was making as one of the teams that had recently returned walked in for their check up. "Cassie, I have to go…"

"Mom, I was asking if Dawn could come stay over…she's new and I thought…"

"That's fine Cass, we'll order pizza when I get in but if you get hungry…"

"I know, I know – pop tarts bottom left hand cupboard, frozen snacks in the freezer." Janet couldn't help but smile as she put the phone down.

OK, now you've read it I'd like to know what you think.

Coffee Bean

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