Title: Rebuilding

Disclaimer: I still don't own Buffy or Stargate. All characters will be returned the their proper owners when I finish playing with them.

Rating: PG-13

Xander and Carter went back into the house. The others had moved into the dining room. Buffy and Teal'c were sitting at the table, arm wrestling. As Carter entered the room, Buffy forced Teal'c's arm down.

"Showing off again? asked Xander.

"Just trying to convince Dr. Jackson," she replied.

"Shouldn't you be wrestling him then?"

"She already did but he still wasn't convinced," JT chipped in.

Dr. Langford looked on in confusion. "She does exhibit a Slayer's strength and speed, but I am not convinced either. She's too undisciplined to be the Slayer."

"She's not a typical Slayer," Xander explained. "The Potentials identified by the Council are trained to the Council's ideal of what a Slayer is. The Council had a pretty good track record of finding potential Slayers so most Slayers were Council trained. Buffy's successor, Kendra was a Council Slayer. She was given to the Council by her family. Her life was spent researching and training, there was no chance for anything else, family, friends, anything resembling a normal life. 'Free range' Slayers like Buffy were rare and very different."

"By 'free range' you mean that Buffy wasn't identified as Potential don't you?" asked Dr. Langford.

"I was Called before the Council found me," Buffy confirmed. "Merrick, my first watcher, contacted me when I was in high school. I thought he was a creepy old guy who like to lure girls into cemeteries. I started to believe when he told me about the dreams I had started having about previous slayers. He also pulled the 'knife trick.' As he pointed out, I did catch it and only the Slayer could have done that. Unfortunately, Lothos, a master vampire, found me before Merrick could fully train me. He killed Merrick and his minions started building a vampire army using my classmates. I dusted Lothos and his minions at a school dance. The damage to the school was enough to get me expelled. My mom and I then moved to Sunnydale, which sat on an active hellmouth. Looking back, I think that the Council was involved somehow because my new Watcher was already in position as the school librarian. He figured out that the usual Council methods weren't going to work."

Xander picked up the story. "I was in library when Giles tried to pull the Watcher routine. Buffy walked out on him. I thought they were both crazy until vampires tried to attack my best friends Willow and Jesse. Buffy saved Willow but the vamps got Jesse. After that, Willow and I started to hang out with Buffy and tried to help. For the first year or so we weren't too successful but we got better. We even did our own patrols when Buffy was unavailable."

"Patrols?"

"Cemetery duty. Most vamps take a while to rise so hanging out in cemeteries is a good way to catch the fledglings. By the time senior year started, our kill rate was about sixty percent."

"You said that Kendra was Buffy's successor?"

"After losing a round to another master vampire, I was bitten and lost consciousness. I was thrown face down in a pool of water where I drowned. Xander and Angel found me and Xander used CPR to revive me. We later found out that I really had died and the next Slayer, Kendra, was called."

"And Angel? Another classmate?"

"A vampire cursed with a soul. He pissed off a tribe of gypsies that had turned vengeance into an art form. Not a very bright group though. They put in clause so that if he ever experienced even a moment of pure happiness, the curse would end and he would lose his soul again."

"And you found this out how?" asked Dr. Jackson.

"When he lost his soul and turned back into Angelus."

"The Scourge of Europe?"

Buffy was silent so Xander continued. "Yeah, the Scourge of Sunnydale too. Went on a campaign to terrorize Buffy to soften her up before the kill. One of his 'finer' moments was killing one our teachers who was dating Buffy's watcher. Miss Calendar had been trying to find a way to restore his soul. Angelus set up a romantic scene complete with roses and candles. Giles found her corpse in his bed. Angel then moved on to trying to send the whole world to hell. His minions killed Kendra, sent Willow and her boyfriend to the hospital, and abducted Giles. Buffy teamed up with another vampire and stopped him."

"I ran him through with a sword and sent him to the hell dimension that he tried to open."

"Okay, say that we are convinced that you are the Slayer and vampires do exist. How do you explain JT? Jack's clone only sixteen. JT is at least in his late twenties."

"Time doesn't necessarily run at the same speed in different dimensions. Angel found his way back out of hell a few months later our time. For him, it was centuries later."

Dr. Langford interrupted. "I thought he was Angelus."

"Just before I sent him to hell, he got his soul back." Buffy looked straight at Xander. "I didn't know that Willow was going to try again to reinstate the curse. It was too late though. Angelus had already opened the portal, the only way to close it was to send him through it. It didn't matter to the portal if it was Angel or Angelus."

Major Carter pulled the discussion back to time. "So are you trying to say that JT ended up in a hell dimension?"

"Not that hell dimension but a similar one. I left Sunnydale after sending Angel to hell. I found out about dimensional travel while in LA. A group of demons had been abducting homeless people and sending through a portal hidden in shelter. They used them as slaves and when they could no longer work, they returned them to the street. Because of the difference in time, not even the other street people realized that anyone was missing until it was too late. Someone I knew from Sunnydale was abducted the day after her boyfriend went missing. She had asked me to help find him. What I found was an old man with the exact same tattoo as her boyfriend. I found her just as she went through the portal. I followed her and was able to get her and a few others out. The demon in charge claimed that for every day in our dimension a hundred years passed in his. I didn't realize that there were probably other portals to that dimension until today. I went for a run after my meeting with Dr. Jackson. When I saw a 'Family Home' shelter I was suspicious and went to investigate. Things didn't work out too well and I ended up as a prisoner. JT rescued me."

JT picked up the story. "When I got up this morning I was pretty depressed and went for walk. My prospects for summer employment were pretty bad so when I saw the shelter I thought they might know of some job opportunities. The next thing I know I'm slave in some sort of factory. Most of the others became drones pretty quickly, some held out a bit longer but they all ended up the same. After a couple of months I was able to escape. I didn't know how I had gotten there, or even were 'there' was, so I had no idea how to leave. I spent the next twelve years or so in the hills. I'd come in periodically for supplies, occasionally doing some a little sabotage. I saw Buffy during one of those raids. Some of the demons were beating the hell out of her while another one lectured the slaves. I could tell that she hadn't lost her sense of self yet. I was eventually able to free her and we headed back into the hills. This time, though, we were actively chased and Buffy was in pretty bad shape. Because we were on the run, Buffy wasn't able to rest and heal as quickly as she normally would. Once she was better, I resumed raiding for supplies and conducting sabotage. Buffy used the distraction that I provided to look for the portal. It was heavily guarded and it took a while to figure out how take out the guards and get out."

"That's an interesting story but some proof would be nice."

"Well Carter, you could have Jack talk to me. I think that I could convince him that I'm him, me, whatever."

"Col. O'Neill has been in a coma for several months."

"Shit. What happened?"

"That's classified."

"He's me."

"So you say."

"Fine. Let's have Janet bring her needles and do the DNA thing."

"DoctorFraiser was died several months ago."

"I know Jack and I said that we wouldn't be in touch but no one else could be bothered to tell me that Janet died? What happened?"

"I'm sorry JT," Daniel said. "She was KIA."

"I'll see if General Hammond will agree to bring you in for DNA testing."

"Major Carter, where JT goes, I go."