Disclaimer: See Prologue.

Additional disclaimer: I don't feel like making up a fictional incumbent to the Presidency, so I'm using GW. I happen to like him. I didn't vote for him last time, but I intend to this time. Just remember that this is not with his permission as he has much more important things to be doing than reading my stuff. If he wants to have a cow over it, I'll let him, but I doubt he'd want to bother with poor little ole me.

A/N: I want to thank all of my reviewers for their wonderful comments. You guys are really great! Since everyone keeps asking, I plan on working on the MacGyver crossover later, but this story is going hard and fast for me, and I'd like to keep going with it until it ends. I actually know where I'm going with it (a rarity, I assure you) and aside from some research problems, it's come along with surprising ease. Don't quit reminding me, though. I can be scatterbrained at times. (To the muse: I hear you laughing, you evil Slytherin!) (Like she could avoid it with said Slytherin in the next room.)

One more quickie: Someone told me that the runaway thing after "Becoming, P2" was to LA, not Cleveland. I believe you, but I already said Cleveland and I'm gonna have to keep it. So :p.

Enjoy!

UPDATE: fixed the name thing. It's Kinsey instead of Kelly now. Blame the X-men.

CHAPTER 5

There was a resounding crack as Tac'an's fist connected with Anise's jaw. "How dare you!? You've known for years where my husband was and you said nothing!"

Anise's eyes flashed in a very Goa'uld way. "You forget your place, human!"

"No I don't. My place is beside Teal'c kicking Goa'uld ass all over the galaxy! It is not being your guinea pig! It is not being your puppet! And I don't care who the hell you think you are, keeping me from my husband is the biggest mistake you'll ever make! You don't want me for an enemy, Wormy!"

Hammond shouted, "Enough! Tac'an, your anger is completely justified, but please don't get violent in this room again. Anise, Martouf, I suggest you start explaining yourselves." Anise sullenly kept quiet. Martouf didn't seem to know what was going on. "Very well, I suggest you leave. Until you feel you can explain this matter, I doubt that we will be able to trust you to be acting in everyone's best interests. This meeting is over."

Teal'c said, "Is there anything that you will need to retrieve from the Tok'ra base, Tac'an?"

"Nothing I can't replace."

Anise growled. "You will regret this, human." Then she stalked out of the room.

Martouf said, "I'm sorry. I had no idea. When I learn something, I will contact you." He turned to Sam. "Do you have a message for your father?"

"Just send my love. I'll talk to him the next time he stops by."

Martouf nodded. "Very well. I hope we will meet again soon." And he turned to go back into the Gate room.

Jack turned to Teal'c and Tac'an. "So, buddy, who's the lovely lady? Nice right cross by the way."

Tac'an grinned. "Thanks."

"She is my wife, Tac'an."

The blonde sighed. "You know, I think I should clarify a few things. I am Tac'an, but my Mom named me Buffy Anne Summers."

They had gotten a lot of things brought into the conference room, like sandwiches and coffee. Tac'an had pocketed the Hershey bar and intended to eat it later where she wouldn't be embarrassed by the look of ecstasy that she knew would be on her face. Coffee and chocolate were the two things she had missed the most from Earth, other than friends and family, and everyone understood that.

Fed and watered, Tac'an sat down next to her husband and began to tell her entire story to the people Teal'c told her that he trusted with his life. "I was born Buffy Anne Summers in Los Angeles on January 30, 1981." Sam looked like she was going to ask a question. "Please, wait 'till I'm finished. It's a long story. I was a pretty normal valley girl 'till I turned fifteen and I met this creepy guy called Merik. See in that universe, vampires and demons aren't just the stuff that parents and Catholics use to scare little kids with. It was real, and somewhere in the past someone came up with a partial solution to the problem. The saying goes like this: 'In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.' When the current slayer dies, the next one is called. Well, the life expectancy of these girls isn't all that much, maybe four years, so you can guess that I wasn't too thrilled when I was called. I wanted my normal life. Eventually I figured that if I didn't fight, no one else would, so I started taking it seriously. I fought so that someone could have a normal life, even if it wasn't me.

"Cut to, it was my graduation from Sunnydale High, and there it's May, 1999. The Mayor was trying to become a pure demon, which is like dinosaur-sized and much more powerful than any normal demon, but once he actually pulled it off, we knew that he'd be vulnerable again. So we had a plan. He had managed to get everything scheduled so that the graduation ceremony took place just before his transformation was going to start. He had an army of vamps there to keep anyone from escaping his little all-you-can-eat buffet. So I and my friends armed the students with everything from bows and axes to flame throwers. Then I took on the task of dealing with the giant demon snake.

"I taunted him with something I knew he'd get extra 'kill Buffy' over, so he started chasing me. I led him into the library, which is where the local Hellmouth opened up. That was where we had put the bomb. Then things just went wrong. I tripped over a stack of books. I have no idea how they got there, but when the bomb blew, I was in the path along with Mayor Snake. Only, instead of getting dead, I wake up in the desert outside the First city on Chulak with no idea where I was or how I got there."

Tac'an paused in her recitation. Sam took the opportunity to sneak in a question. "How long ago was that?"

"Eighty-five years ago." She took a sip of her coffee, well aware that everyone but Teal'c was giving her weird looks. She ignored them and continued on with her story. "After a while, Bra'tac spotted me while flying sweeps, and he took me back with him to his training camp. I told him and Teal'c my story and they told me how they served this great guy, Apophis. I could tell that Bra'tac didn't buy his own swill about that, but Teal'c was just eighteen and he was all 'Duty and Honor', so we waited 'till he'd gone home for the night, and Bra'tac recruited me into the rebellion. He called me a weapon without a wielder. I needed a purpose. He gave me one.

"It wasn't until two years later that Bra'tac adopted me, but I'm legally his daughter."

Daniel broke in. "That's when you got your name changed, right?"

"Yep. One year later, Dar'teal, Teal'c's father, was murdered right in front of him. And that's when Teal'c joined the rebellion." She shrugged. "You fight, you get close. A couple years later we got married, five years to the day from when I woke up in the sand."

"Wow. So you two have been married for eighty years? "Funny, you don't look a hundred and three."

Daniel groaned. "Way to state the obvious, Jack."

Tac'an grinned. "That's all right. The truth is, I have no idea how come. I haven't aged since I got here. I don't know if it's because of all the mystical shit that was going on around that bomb or if it's a Slayer thing since the age record for Slayers is six years after being called. I'm the exception to so many rules it's not funny."

Sam sat back, thinking. "So do you think that this is a time travel situation or a parallel universe?"

Tac'an said, "Definitely parallel.. If it was just time travel, then there would be real demons on this planet, real vampires. Vamps are common enough that I'd have already sensed at least one. There's no way you can be that isolated here. The planet is clean of demons."

"Can you sense the Goa'uld?"

To a point, but not really enough to be useful. I can't pinpoint their location. I tell you, trying to work with the Tok'ra over the last sixteen years has been a headache, literally. And now I wish I'd just followed my first instinct and beat the shit out of that woman!"

Hammond asked the next question. "How did that happen, anyway? And what was Anise doing with you?"

"Sixteen years ago, Teal'c and I got separated during a fight on Ramak. Someone had ratted on us, because Heru'ur was waiting for us, ready to capture our team. We headed for the Gate, of course, but it was a fight the whole way, and we had to take out as many of the Horus as we could on the way, 'cause that meant fewer to trash on the other side. I love that iris of yours, by the way. Must be satisfying to hear 'em thump on it every once in a while." She stopped, realizing that she was starting to babble a bit. "Anyway, Teal'c was closer to the Gate, so I told him to get out. Once he had got through, I tried to hold off as many as I could from getting through, but one of them managed to get a shot off with a Zat and I went down.

"When I woke up, it was in a little cage. I can't even call it a cell. Heru'ur tried for about six months to get information out of me, but I've got a pretty high tolerance for pain thanks to the Slayer thing. After a while, I think he got bored and just left me in the hole. Things kind of ran together there for a while, no way to tell day from night." she stopped when she heard Teal'c start growling. "Hey. I'm okay." He looked into her eyes, making sure for himself that she was uninjured. Finally, he just nodded. She kissed his cheek tenderly, which helped to calm him, as it always had.

Wanting to move on and give Teal'c time to compose himself, Jack said, "What happened next?"

"Anise ran a tech raid on Heru'ur. She's always raiding the better-equipped System Lords for new toys. She figures they have better resources than any of the Tok'ra, so she uses their own equipment to fight against them. Kind of poetic in one way, but she's kind of showing her snakey roots doing that, too. Not that I actually said that. Her people nursed me back to health, then offered to make me a host to one of the Tok'ra when one of them needed a new body. I just politely declined the offer. I know they didn't mean anything bad about it, but I'm kind of prejudiced against anything trying to share my house like that. I never told them the whole story. I just never could trust them enough. I'm glad I didn't. I think Anise has a bad case of 'Mad Science'ism. She always promised to help me find Teal'c, but she kept putting me off. To be honest, finding myself here today, even before I knew Teal'c was here, I was going to ask you, General, if I could stay. It's at least one kind of home to me." She laughed. "Now I'm staying even if I have to get down on my knees and beg. I don't want to loose Teal'c again." Feeling needy, she burrowed into the strong arms that surrounded her.

Hammond nodded. "I understand. I'll have to call the President, but it shouldn't be a problem."

"Who is that these days?"

"Right now, it's George W. Bush, the first President Bush's son. But it's an election year. The Democratic candidate most likely to get the nomination is Senator Kinsey, and he'll either shut us down or try and turn any advance we find against our more terrestrial enemies."

Tac'an snorted. "What, the guys in the flying pyramids aren't a big enough problem? I take it this is a top secret thing with the Stargate?"

Hammond nodded. "Yes it is. Is that going to be a problem?"

She shook her head. "No. I doubt your average couch potato American is ready to know that their lives hang in the balance like that. Hell, just the public declaration that aliens are real would probably cause all kinds of problems. When my Mom found out I was the Slayer, she freaked out. She tried everything she could think of to get me to stay home that night, including telling me that if I left the house I couldn't come back. But a vampire named Angelus was literally trying to end the world. I couldn't afford to try and stay behind to explain things to her. I left, did what I had to, and caught a bus to Cleveland once it was done. Kind of had a break down. So you really don't have to worry about me spilling to the press."

"Damn. Did you ever catch a break in your life?" Jack hated to think of such a young woman dealing with the things that Buffy Summers had. And he knew she hadn't told them everything. Not that he thought she had to.

But she smiled. "Yeah. Meeting Teal'c and Bra'tac has always been the best thing that ever happened to me. And don't feel too sorry for Buffy. I'm not that little girl any more. And now things are as perfect as they get for me. I was beginning to think I'd never find Teal'c again. And now I'm sitting here in a comfy chair with coffee and chocolate and my wonderful husband. Life is good!"

All the Earth people laughed at that. Teal'c just hugged her tighter, and she could tell that he needed to get her alone and fall apart a little bit. Or a lot.

Hammond could see the desperate look that Teal'c was trying to suppress, so he said, "All right, I think that's enough for now. Colonel, you give me your report in one hour. Other than that, SG-1 is on leave for the next week. Tac'an, it's been good to meet you. Whenever you and Teal'c are ready, you can go to Chulak and visit with Bra'tac. I'm sure he's missed you. SG-1, you're dismissed."

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