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.
"Something's wrong."
JT dropped the telephone receiver as he and Xander both lunged towards the swaying Buffy. The two men steadied her for a moment. JT then swung her gently into his arms and moved towards Daniel who was already standing on the floor.
"Carter, we have a medical emergency in here." JT called out as he placed Buffy on the recently vacated gurney. "Xander, Daniel move that barricade now!"
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General Hammond heard the clatter of the telephone receiver hitting a wall. He listened in dismay as he realized that the woman might be miscarrying. If JT was Jack's clone, the situation had just gotten exponentially worse. He hung up as there was nothing he could with JT off the line. He placed a call to an aide, "This General Hammond, have Dr. MacKenzie report to my office ASAP. I'll also need security to route a feed from the infirmary and the isolation ward to the briefing room."
A minute later a call came in from Lt. Zale. "General Hammond, the cameras in the isolation ward have been covered. The best that I can do is give you cameras in corridors."
"That will have to do." Hammond hung up the telephone as Major Davis reentered the briefing room. "Davis, get in touch with your source. I need information on Miss Summers now, and not just the edited stuff that you've gotten so far. And find out who the hell Willow is and why we should be even more worried about her."
Davis was staring at the monitor behind the general. He watched Dr. Warner and a nurse enter the ward. "Sir, can you tell me what is happening?"
"Miss Summers may be suffering a miscarriage from the zat blast and/or the sedatives she was given."
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"What's happening? Is she losing the baby?"
"I won't know until I can do a thorough exam but she might be miscarrying. According to Teal'c, it is not uncommon for this to happen when a zat is used on a pregnant woman. Now, please, move back so we can see what the situation."
Xander stepped towards JT and gently pulled him back from the gurney. "JT, Buffy's strong, you know that. The doc said its not uncommon not inevitable so it doesn't mean that she will lose the baby. Hell, she's recovered from injuries in less than a day that would have anyone else hospitalized for a week or more. Let the doctor work."
"If anything happens to Buffy or our child, I'll help Willow take this place apart."
"And I'll help."
Carter and Teal'c watched from outside of the ward, joined by Daniel.
"We've really screwed up this time."
"Daniel?"
"JT is Jack's clone."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Do you think Jack would react any differently if that were his wife possibly miscarrying? Or if one of us had been injured in similar ambush? Hell, he trusted us and we betrayed him."
"We didn't betray him, we had no idea the general would order an ambush."
"MajorCarter is correct. We had no knowledge of what GeneralHammond planned."
"We should have Teal'c. We knew that Buffy had an interesting past and then we found out about the slayers. Why should we have assumed that Davis wouldn't turn up additional information about her?"
"He won't forgive us for this will he Daniel?" Carter asked softly.
"Not if the baby dies. And if it does, I don't think Jack will either."
"If you are all through feeling sorry for yourselves, would get out of the way?" An irate Dr. Warner and his nurse moved the gurney towards the door. "NOW."
SG-1 moved out of the way for the doctor. JT and Xander followed. The one S.F. foolish enough to try to stop them was ordered by Carter to stand down.
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"Willow, thank God. I've been trying to get in contact with you for hours."
"Sorry, Giles. I didn't realize that battery on the cell died." Willow curled up on her bed. "Vi said that something major had come up but you wouldn't tell her what."
"Buffy and Xander were heading to a military in base in Colorado and I haven't been able to contact them for over seven hours."
"I thought they were supposed to be contacting Dr. Langford and Dr. Jackson?"
"They did. Dr. Jackson's ties to the military were a bit stronger than we thought. And it gets worse. Buffy has a new boyfriend."
"Vampire? Demon?"
"No, he's human but he is the reason that she and Xander may be in trouble. He claims to be the clone of an Air Force colonel stationed at the base where Jackson works. They were heading there for a DNA test to prove it."
"Do you know which base?"
"No but the closest one to their location is NORAD. How quickly can you get there?"
"Conventional or otherwise?"
"Conventional. I think that you should take some backup. This will be a little more difficult to breech than the Initiative was."
"You mean without just turning the place into a crater don't you? I'll take the first flight out with Faith."
"Not Kennedy?"
"We need sometime apart. Besides, making her play den mother to the mini-Slayers might knock some sense into her."
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Sam woke to the sound of telephone ringing. Rolling over she answered it. "Hello."
"Agent Samantha Finn?"
"Yes."
"This is Agent Barrett, NID. I need to speak with your husband."
She looked at the clock on the table next to the bed. "It's 4 a.m."
"It's urgent."
"We're on stand down."
"Not anymore."
"Sam, who is it?"
"An Agent Barrett, NID, and its for you." Sam passed the telephone to Riley and pulled a pillow over her head.
"Riley Finn here"
"Someone has been leaking information about the Initiative and Buffy Summers. I take it you know her."
"Yes."
"Well, Miss Summers, an Alexander Harris, and a Jonathan Thorrson are currently being held at a military base in Colorado."
"Did they break in?"
"No. Why do you ask?"
"If you don't know, you don't have clearance. Why are they being held?"
"Yesterday Miss Summers made contact with a civilian employee at the base. When he realized that she had access to potentially classified material, he notified the base and they started a background check on her. Some of the supposedly non-existant files of the Initiative were transferred to the base and Miss Summers was judged to be a possible threat. When she and her companions were brought to the base they were taken into custody."
"And?"
"And what?"
"We wouldn't be having this conversation if there wasn't something else. So, let me guess. Something went spectacularly wrong didn't it?"
"Err, yes. Miss Summers was injured while being taken into custody. I'm not sure exactly what happened but Mr. Thorrson has told the officer in charge of the base that if they were not released immediately, that he should ask his contact about Willow."
"And you know about this because?"
"The Pentagon liason at the base contacted me. His source had disappeared when he attempted to get more information about Miss Summers and Willow."
"I still don't know why you are calling me."
"Most of the records concerning the Initiative really were destroyed and most of those involved with the project are dead. I'm hoping that you can fill in the blanks."
"Sorry, I can't do that. But I will give you a piece of advice to pass on, tell them to release Miss Summers and her companions. They also better pray that Buffy's injuries aren't serious."
"Her injuries aren't life-threatening but she is pregnant and may lose the child. We need to know what kind of threat Willow may pose. We don't know anything about Willow other than there was a Willow Rosenberg who was a student in Sunnydale, California."
"The only person who has been able to talk Willow down is on that base. If you can't get them all out at once, get Xander out first unless you want to build a new base."
"Agent Finn, I realize that I can't order you to go Colorado but I can set things into motion so that you do get those orders. There's a plane at Dulles fueled and waiting."
"And you have a car waiting." Riley sighed. "We'll be in the lobby in ten minutes."
He hung up the telephone and pulled the pillow off his wife's face.
"Up and at 'em Sam. We're heading to Colorado."
"So much for our vacation huh?"