Here's part one sorry it's kinda short. I'll try to make following chapters a little longer.
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PART ONE
U.N.I.T. HQ, five years later.
"I thought you went home." Colonel Nathaniel Kaine stood in the doorway of UNIT's chief scientific adviser's office.
"I thought you went home too?" Doctor Josephine Grant said smiling at him from behind a very cluttered desk.
"I was reviewing some of the SGC mission reports that were sent over."
"Same here."
"Its very interesting reading."
"I'm sure they're saying the same about our reports. I've noticed that both organizations have a tendency to take things right to the wire. And this Colonel Jack O'Neill does remind of someone…" They both laughed at the comparison. "Are you and the team ready to go?"
"Yeah." He answered as he sat down in a chair. "We're up with the dawn patrol tomorrow. I wish you were coming with us."
"Not just yet there are few things I need to finish up here first."
"Are you sure that's it?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean is you haven't been… you haven't exactly been yourself since Command dropped this little bomb on us. What's goin' on Jo? We get handed information that something as important as the Stargate Program has been kept from us for the better part of seven years and you're just accepting it."
"Maybe I realize there's no point in getting upset about it. Governments always have secrets Nathan that way things are and need I remind you that we have a pretty big secret of our own."
"I guess. It's just that this Stargate is just the kind of thing that UNIT was created for and to keep us out of it…"
"What's done is done Nathan. Now we have to move on and this trip to Stargate Command is the first step to bringing UNIT in as a full partner."
"I suppose…" Nathan shrugged. "I still wish you were coming along I'm gonna be so lost when they start talking about wormholes and stuff like that."
Jo laughed. "You don't need me besides you have someone far more qualified than I to help you understand the Stargate. How did Alyia take the news?"
"Alyia took it fine." Nathan grinned. "Lareen was pissed off. She calmed down after Alyia made her realize that we couldn't lie about having something we didn't even know existed."
"Has she said anything about returning home? To the Tok'ra I mean?"
"Not to me she hasn't, but it's got to be on her mind. The only reason she stayed with UNIT after we woke her up was because she had nowhere else to go."
Jo sat back in her chair. "It'd be a shame to lose her. It's no exaggeration to say that you and I wouldn't be sitting here if it weren't for her."
"Yeah and half the world would've been converted into Cyber-drones by now too if weren't for her. If she decides to go we'll just have to deal with it." Nathan got up from his chair. "I'm gonna head home and get some sleep. You should too."
"I will soon there's something I want to finish."
"I'll see you tomorrow then." He reached the door and turned around again. "Are you sure you're all right?"
"Nathan I'm fine really. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Okay. Good night Jo."
"Good night Nathan."
After Colonel Kaine left Jo opened her desk drawer and took out a half empty bottle of scotch and poured herself a glass. As she drank it she picked the photograph that she was looking at just before Nathan came into her office.
Jo slowly sipped her drink and stared at the photograph. It was a photo of the sarcophagus that held Alyia.
more to come…