Title: Of Gates and Mouths 6/?
Author: David A. Knapton
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Archive: If anyone wishes to go ahead, but it would be polite to at least drop me a line.
Rating: U/G this part
Pairings: Willow/Tara Buffy/Faith Amanda/Andrew Janet/Sam
Crossover: BtVS/Angel and Stargate.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters in any of the shows. If I did, boy would I have some fun?
Spoilers: See part 1.
Notes: See part 1.
Summery: See part 1.
After graduating from High school Dawn was accepted to PennState, where she meets her new roommate Cassandra.
A/N: The names of the nightclub and bars etc are all real places, I have included them to add an air of authenticity to the background not to offend anyone I am sure those few places I have demons hanging out at are very nice places to socialise with friends without the likelihood of being eaten.
Thanks to the following people who helped me with this story: irishwavefan, Electronis Zappa. I have been trying to contact my beta Hilary for six months now (I hope she is okay!) so I am posting this story un-betad. Please note I am English, so is my spelling. Live with it.
Thanks again Kim for stepping in and betaing for me.
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The three cars pulled up in front of Kennedy's family townhouse and everyone but Angel and Spike entered, they looked expectantly at Buffy and Manda, Manda raised an eyebrow in question to the senior slayer who nodded, "It's your home only you can invite them in," she explained.
"Come in Angel, come in Spike," said the younger slayer.
Daniel looked over at Giles, "What was that all about?"
"Angel and Spike cannot enter a dwelling without being invited in by someone that lives there, we'll explain everything inside," said Giles gesturing towards the living room.
Everyone found a seat, Sam, still feeling like she had been run over by a tank, rested her head against Janet's shoulder, receiving a raised eyebrow from Jack; she returned his stare daring him to make a comment.
Giles stood by the fireplace looking around, "Well first of all I think some introductions are in order. My name is Rupert Giles," he then moved around the room, "These are the slayers, Buffy, Faith and Manda..."
"Slayers of what?" interrupted Jack suspiciously.
"Vampires and demons," answered Giles seriously.
"Oh come on vampires don't exist," snapped Jack.
"Wanna bet on that mate!" smirked Spike his face morphing into his vampire, Teal'c pulled out his zat, "That won't hurt me, already dead," said Spike returning his face to human.
"I wouldn't be so sure Spike, he shot me with it earlier and it hurt," said Buffy.
"It should have knocked you unconscious," said Janet, still not entirely convinced that the group that had attacked them were human.
"Moving on," said Giles trying to get everyone back on track, "Next to the slayers are Willow Rosenberg and Tara Maclay her girlfriend, they are both Witches..."
"Oh that so explains why the President is so frightened of her," said Jack sarcastically looking at the redhead.
"Why is it so hard for you to except the concept of Witches but not aliens?" asked Willow somewhat angrily, her eyes suddenly changed to black orbs, "Would you like a little demonstration of exactly why the President is so frightened of me."
Jack went pale, he had faced down many dangerous people and some system lords that did not scare him like the young woman who had taken a step towards him, gulping he shook his head, "That won't be necessary," he told her.
Willow released the magick slowly, returning her eyes to normal, smiling back at her girlfriend as the blonde placed a worried hand on her back, "It's okay baby, I wouldn't have hurt him... much anyway," she said.
"As Spike just demonstrated, Angel and he are both vampires, which leaves Cordelia, she is a seer, it was a vision she received that sent us rushing here..."
"This is incredible," exclaimed O'Neill, "All of you are in desperate need of therapy."
"What do you find so hard to believe?" asked Giles, "You have been to numerous other worlds; you have fought creatures the rest of the world would find hard to believe even exist. Yet you find the existence of vampires and demon hard to believe in? Tell me Colonel, honestly if you will, if you were unaware of the Stargate program, if someone you had never met came up to you and told you he or she had travelled to other worlds and met aliens, would you believe them?"
Colonel O'Neill wanted to say yes so he could continue to argue against what this 'Englishman' was saying, but at that moment he sounded too much like Daniel when he was arguing a point.
"He does have a point Jack," put in Daniel as if reading his friend's mind, "Everyone said I was crazy to suggest the pyramids were alien landing sights..."
"Woo, the pyramids are alien landing sights," Cordelia exclaimed looking at Daniel.
"Ah yeah, you see wh..."
"Daniel," growled O'Neill not wanting to listen to two long-winded explanations. He turned back to Giles who had an amused look on his face, "When he gets started he doesn't know when to stop," the Colonel explained. He sighed, "Okay I get your point, no I wouldn't believe them, but I find it hard to believe all you're telling us, you could all be some off- worlders trying to trick us into something."
"Colonel, I assure you we are not from another planet, but be that as it may, we all want the same thing, to find three young women that have been taken by someone. We need to find them before these people make a terrible mistake that will destroy this world," pointed out Giles.
"Alright we will work with you," said O'Neill, then the rest of what Giles had just said registered, "What do you mean destroy the world? How?"
"I had a vision," said Cordelia before Giles could explain. "I saw Dawn and another girl, I guess this Cassie, having their blood siphoned off and used to make a bomb that was then fired at a huge spaceship above the Earth, only the energy didn't stop at the spaceship it continued to expand consuming the world," she explained a look of pain crossing her face.
"Are you alright Cordy?" asked Angel seeing the look.
"No, have you any idea how painful it is to feel as well as see millions of people die," she snapped angrily. "Sorry Angel," she apologised.
"It's ok Cordy; I'd take the pain for you if I could."
"So not a good idea, you forget I've seen a world where you have the visions, they drove you insane," pointed out Cordelia.
"We seem to be getting off track again, we need to find my daughter," snapped Janet angrily.
"Yes you're right," agreed Giles, "So what is in your daughter's blood that when combined with Dawn's produces such a situation as Cordelia's vision foretells?" he asked looking at the five from the SGC.
"I notice you don't query the use of Dawn's blood," said Daniel.
Giles looked over at Buffy then sighed, "We can't tell you that, for everyone's safety, if any government found out it would mean a situation like this over and over, it would be even worse if terrorists found out," he said.
"Our government does not work with terrorists," retorted O'Neill.
"Oh right, of course one government's terrorists is another's freedom fighters, Colonel get real all governments aid terrorists of one kind or another," retorted Willow.
"Colonel we cannot allow any government to use Dawn, the consequences are to terrible to contemplate and a wise man once said, 'Government is the only ship that leaks from the bridge'," added Giles.
"What if we were to give you our word that whatever you tell us, will not leave this room, and anyway the secret is already in the hands of the worst people possible, the NID," said Daniel.
Giles looked at Buffy again.
"I think we can trust them Buffy," put in Willow, "And anyway the President is already scared of me, he knows what would happen if I got cranky," she said mischief crossing her face, "Five more added to the list won't be a problem."
"Was that a threat?" snapped Jack.
"No, a promise," said Willow, "Dawn is family to everyone in this room, Tara and I had to help raise her after her mother died. We both have powers you could not imagine at our disposal and would not hesitate to use them if it would save her."
Of all the creatures that Jack had ever been threatened by, Willow was the only one he believed, "Alright anything you tell us regarding Dawn will remain out of any reports both verbal and written."
"Do you speak for everyone?" asked Buffy looking at the five SGC members.
"I'm their CO if I tell them not to say anything they won't," snapped Jack.
"No need to get cranky Jack," smirked Buffy.
"Buffy that will do," said Giles.
"Sorry Giles," Buffy apologised, "So you know who we are, are you going to return the favour, we already know you, Daniel and Janet... oh and that Teal'c isn't human."
"I'm Major Samantha Carter," said the blonde lifting her head off Janet's shoulder, "You may also know me as Jolinar," she said.
"You're the one that offered me the job," smiled Willow, "Sorry about crashing your system, but I had no real choice, I told you a little fib about SecurNet 2.1, it was closing in on me," she explained.
"How exactly did you do that so selectively?" asked Sam her curiosity peaking.
"Carter," growled O'Neill, "Later, right now we need to find Cassie."
"Sorry sir," Carter blushed, "We need to talk later," she said looking at Willow.
"Sure," smiled the redhead.
"Right, well Dawn's blood possesses the ability to destroy the barriers between all the dimensions, effectively merging them into one and causing utter chaos," explained Giles, receiving sceptical looks from everyone but Daniel.
"She's the Key," he exclaimed.
"How do you know that?" asked Buffy taking a threatening step towards Daniel.
"I use to be what we have come to refer to as an Ascended one, basically I died about 18 months ago, I was given the chance to become a higher being," he explained.
Buffy nodded at him before looking at Cordelia, "You think you ever met him," she asked.
"I don't remember but I still got a lot of gaps so maybe!" said Cordelia shrugging.
"Wait you ascended?" exclaimed O'Neill.
"Yeah, but when I came back I was suffering from amnesia," she explained.
"It was the same with me, I didn't remember anything! Not even my name," Daniel said casting a sympathetic look at the young seer, he turned back to Buffy, "I get the occasional flash, for some reason when Mr Giles mentioned the barriers it triggered a memory, and I seem to remember reading about it somewhere!"
"Where?" asked Giles getting excited.
"Giles, later okay," interrupted Buffy.
"Right, sorry," Giles apologised, "Yes, Dawn is the Key, her blood can be used to destroy the barriers between dimensions, it is said that the Ancients used it to create an artefact to traverse the barriers..."
"That would have been the quantum mirror," surmised Daniel, "We found it a few years ago, General Hammond ordered it destroyed, feeling that it was to dangerous," he told the elder scholar.
"Right, so back to my original question, what has Cassandra Fraiser have in her blood that would combine with Dawn's key energy?" asked Giles.
"Naquadah," said Sam quietly giving her lover a worried look.
"Sorry?" asked Giles.
"Naquadah is an alien substance that has many different properties one of which is that it can be used as an explosive far more powerful than nuclear weapons," explained Sam.
"How did Cassandra get it in her blood," asked Willow.
"A system lord called Nirrti placed it in her as a sort of Trojan horse, then wiped out her entire civilization, knowing that we would bring her to Earth, where the bomb would destroy our Stargate," Sam told them.
"Cassandra is an alien?" exclaimed Willow.
"She is completely human, over the centuries many people were taken from Earth to serve the Goa'uld System Lords, Cassie's people were one such group," explained Daniel.
"I have tried twice to remove the Naquadah from her system, but each time she starts to slip into a coma," said Janet getting back to the point, "Other than being unable to be near the Stargate it has no adverse effects on her life."
"Right so it seems the NID think, and I use the term loosely, that they can use the combined blood to destroy the Goa'uld," Daniel summed up.
"We hafta stop them," said Faith speaking for the first time.
"They could be anywhere?" cried Janet in despair.
Sam still conscious of her CO's presence nevertheless drew Janet into a hug, her own eyes misting up, "We'll find Cassie," she said quietly.
Giles took off his glasses and cleaning them, "Did you get any clue from your vision?" replacing them he looked at Cordelia, "Or anyone that stood out?"
"I don't know. It's not as if people walk around with labels?"
"Ah actually the military usually do and you mentioned people in lab coats they could have nametags," pointed out Daniel.
"Maybe but the visions don't exactly give me a slow walk through it's more like watching a video in fast-forward," Cordelia explained.
"If you are willing I could do a spell, like I did with Buffy once and enter your memories and try to find something we can use?" suggested Willow.
"What would it do to me," asked Cordelia apprehension in her voice.
"Well nothing really, unlike when I did it with Buffy, you would be conscious and aware of everything, in fact we can make it like the two of us walking through the images," Willow said trying to reassure the other woman.
"What is involved?" asked Angel.
"I got most of the ingredients with me, the rest should be in the kitchen, the only other thing is a quiet room where we will not be disturbed," Willow told them. "And because Cordy will be willing there is zero danger to either of us."
"There is the study at the back of the house," Manda said.
"Right Manda, show Willow and Cordy where it is," said Giles.
"How long is it likely to take?" asked Daniel.
"That's hard to say, maybe a couple of hours, we may have to go through the vision several times before we find anything," explained Willow before following the others out the door.
As the three left something occurred to Buffy, "How did you know Dawn and Cassandra had been kidnapped?" she asked looking at Jack.
"I received a call from my dad's godson, telling me that Cassie and Dawn had been kidnapped, he gave us a phone number to contact him, we traced it to an office here listed as a detective agency," Sam told them.
"Do you trust him?" asked Faith.
"Yes, it seems he is working directly for the President and the Joint Chiefs and he is involved with the NID in someway, our best guess is that he is trying to gather enough information on them that the President can use to move against them," said Sam.
Giles looked around the room, "I suggest someone go to this office and see if they can find out anything," he suggested.
Buffy nodded, "Faith, you and Angel check it out."
"You got it B," smiled Faith.
"Teal'c and I'll come too," O'Neill said getting up.
Faith glanced at Buffy who nodded, "Let's go then," she said leading the three men out the door.
"I don't know about the rest of you but I need something to eat," said Buffy her stomach growling quietly.
Tara smiled at her friend, "I'll see what's in the kitchen," she said also leaving.
Giles looked over at Daniel, "So you finally got to prove that absurd pyramid theory of yours?" he said.
"You know about that?"
"Yes Daniel, I was at your last lecture. I must admit I did not think it stood up to scrutiny, my colleagues and I suspected that it was more likely that the pyramids were demonic in origin," Giles explained.
"Well I did come to a similar conclusion but dismissed it leaving only one conclusion in my mind, however farfetched it was," Daniel told him, "Although the builders could well be viewed as demonic..."
Buffy drowned out the rest of the conversation, walking over to where Sam sat with Janet, sitting down next to the other blonde, "Sorry I hit you so hard," she apologised pointing at the nasty bruise on Sam's right cheek, "If you want, when Tara gets back I can get her to fix it."
"No that's alright," said Sam, "You're extremely strong for someone so small."
"All part of the whole slayer package, strength, reflexes, senses and faster healing," Buffy explained.
"Are there many slayers?" asked Janet, "I'd really love to get into your DNA," she said trying to keep her mind off Cassandra's predicament.
"There are more slayers now than a few years ago," Buffy edged, "As for my DNA, sorry I've seen what happens when the military get mixed up with my world, and anyways Willow checked it out a few years ago and found nothing."
At that moment, there was an insistent knock at the door. Manda called that she would answer it, she entered the living room a minute later with two young men in tow, "These are Dawn and Cassandra's boyfriends, they were with them when the vamps attacked on Monday," said Manda.
At the word 'boyfriends' both Buffy and Janet sat up looking at the two boys.
"Vampire attack," asked Sam.
Buffy looked away from her scrutiny of Dawn's boyfriend, whichever one it was, to look at Sam, "Ah yeah Kennedy reported that there was an attack on Monday night, nothing to serious, they never got close to hurting them," she assured Janet and Sam. She looked back at the boys, "Though she didn't mention 'boyfriends'," her eyes narrowed.
"Dawn asked Kennedy not to say anything about them," explained Manda.
Buffy rose and walked over to the three, although Frank and Jimmy were well over a foot taller than she was, they felt intimidated, the fact that Buffy was a slayer not withstanding they had the sudden wish that the ground would swallow them. "So which one of you is going out with 'my' sister?" she asked her face hard.
"M-me m-ma'am," said Jimmy his voice squeaking slightly.
"Name," barked Buffy, beginning to enjoy herself.
"Ji-Jimmy W-Williams m-ma'am."
"I'll say this only once, if you ever even think about hurting my sister I'll rip you a new one," growled Buffy.
"I-I would-wouldn't do any-thing t-to hurt Dawn," said Jimmy nodding like an idiot.
"Good," smirked Buffy.
"You still like frightening little boys don't you slayer," laughed Spike, who had sat watching the exchange.
"You a little boy," Buffy asked coyly getting a laugh from the vampire.
Sam and Janet got up and looked over the other boy, "So that must make you Cassie's 'friend'," said Sam looking him up and down, "You look familiar what's your name?"
"Frank Kawalsky, ma'am," smiled Frank a little nervous about meeting Cassandra's mother but glad he was not dating Dawn just now.
"Kawalsky! Any relation of Major Charles Kawalsky?" asked Janet.
"Ah yeah he was my dad, did you know him?" asked Frank.
"Yes, I was one of the doctors that tried to save his life. He was a good man, my condolences," said Janet gently.
"Thanks," said Frank quietly.
"What are you two doing here?" asked Buffy.
"We came to tell Kennedy that Cassie and Dawn's neighbour phoned us to say Cassie and Dawn were missing, we went over to see for ourselves and found their dorm room a mess, we were worried that something bad had happened to them," explained Frank.
"We ran into each other at Dawn's dorm," said Buffy nodding towards Sam and Janet, "We had a little misunderstanding. But it turns out we are all here for the same reason, Dawn and Cassie are missing, kidnapped by a secret government organisation," Buffy told the two boys.
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A NID Base West Virginia
Colonel Maybourne entered the control room; to his left was a large variety of laboratory equipment with several technicians carrying out various tests. To his right were monitoring screens showing the three holding cells the subjects had been in since arriving at the base. All three were strapped to gurneys with numerous devises attached to their bodies.
Doctor Hoven sat at a console going over the various test results as well as the continual readouts of the devises attached to the young women.
"Doctor Hoven, have you found out what the substance in Ms Summers' blood is?" asked Maybourne.
"No not as yet," said Hoven in his strong German accent, "No Earth-based technology can even detect it, without the scanning devise you obtained from P5A783 it would have never come to light," he explained. "All we know is it vibrates just outside of normal human vision and as far as we can tell is self replicating, if we could find out how to harness this energy we would have an inexhaustible energy supply," he said with enthusiasm.
"Yes Doctor very interesting, but will your original idea work?" asked Maybourne.
"Yes and no Colonel," said Hoven, "I had originally thought that we could extract the substance from Ms Summers' blood or failing that discover a way to replicate it in the lab. We now know that both are impossible with our present technology, also over time the substance seems to dissipate from the blood taken, we have been unable to find a way to stop it. I'm afraid that for our work to continue we will need to keep Ms. Summers' here indefinitely."
"I see no immediate problem with that," nodded Colonel Maybourne, "What about the Fraiser girl," he said glancing at the screen showing the still unconscious girl.
"It seems that if we extract the Naquadah from her blood she starts to slip into a coma, as I told you earlier, my initial tests show that only Naquadah within Ms Fraiser's blood will interact with the substance in Ms Summers' blood. Again if you intend to have us produce numerous explosive devices, Ms Fraiser will also need to stay here."
"Very well Doctor," agreed Maybourne. He glanced at the monitor showing the last young woman, who was struggling with the straps on the gurney she was on, "And the slayer?" he asked.
"A very interesting young woman, other than a slightly higher bone and muscle density we can find nothing that distinguishes her from any other female her age," explained Hoven.
"Really," asked Maybourne a little surprised.
"Yes," nodded Hoven, "We cannot find any reason why she has increased strength and healing, she has had four times as much sedative as the other two and they are expected to be out for at least another six hours, absolutely fascinating," mused Hoven.
"Will Professor Walsh's behavioural techniques work on her?" asked Maybourne, "I need something to take to the board if we fail in utilising Summers' and Fraiser's blood."
"Yes, we have made several refinements over the last couple of years, we can start later today after the final test results are in," Doctor Hoven said.
"Very well Doctor, inform me of any developments," said Maybourne heading for the door.
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State College Empty office building downtown
All was in darkness as Faith and the three men approached the office building, they entered the lobby looking for any clue that would tell them exactly which office to take, "You an' T go that way," said Faith to Jack pointing to the left corridor, "Me an' Angel will go this way," beginning to go right.
"Ok, but if you find the office call us," said Jack leading Teal'c to the left.
"You got it J," called Faith over her shoulder.
As both teams investigated the doors they found them open but empty of any furnishings. As Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c exited the last room they heard Faith calling, "Yo T, J, we found it."
"The name's Jack not J, or in your case Colonel O'Neill," growled Jack looking angrily at Faith as he and Teal'c found the slayer and vampire waiting outside the last door.
"Right Jack got it," smirked Faith, "So J you wanna go first," the Colonel scowled again, but realised that to say anymore would only encourage the young woman, as he went to grab the handle she smirked at him again, "It's locked." He scowled again stepping back he put his boot to the door, putting all his frustration at the slayer into it, the door flew open violently.
The four entered looking around, the only thing in the room was a desk with a phone on top, Teal'c and Angel headed for the door opposite the entrance, while Faith and Jack headed for the desk.
O'Neill picked up the phone seeing the answer machine empty, "This is O'Neill, any calls come in or out of this number since the call to Major Carter?" he asked into the receiver without bothering to dial out.
Faith raised an eyebrow as she heard someone at the other end say 'No'. Not bothering to acknowledge them he replaced the receiver he looked at the returning Teal'c and Angel, "No calls in or out since the call to Carter 9 hours ago."
"This drawer is locked?" Faith said trying the bottom of the three drawers; she smirked at O'Neill before giving it a little jerk she wrenched it out completely, she frowned, "Why would someone lock an empty drawer?" she asked no one in particular.
"They wouldn't," smiled O'Neill taking it from her and turning it over, on the bottom was taped a small envelope, wrote on the front was one word 'Sam'. He ripped it open and pulled the paper out, it was just a long list of one, two and three digit numbers, he stuffed it back into the envelope, "Well I hope Carter understands what the numbers mean otherwise we're screwed," he said getting up. "If this Graham Miller is as good as Sam thinks he is! He's not going to have left anything that could be traced to him!"
"So back to Kennedy's then," said Faith.
"Yeah," said Jack.
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Cordelia sat cross-legged in the middle of the study floor while Willow slowly circled her sprinkling the mixture of herbs, spices, and some things the brunette really did not want to know about, "Well at least it smells nice," she smiled.
"Shush," said Willow.
"Sorry," whispered Cordelia.
Willow smiled down at her high school nemesis, amazed at the changes in her, she now regarded Cordelia as a friend, "Its okay it's just that any talking can distract either you or me and the spell won't work," she explained sitting down just outside the circle in front of the brunette. "Okay all you need to do is think about the vision and relax, I'll do the rest," she said reassuring the other woman.
"Now stare into my eyes," said Willow.
Cordelia found herself stood next to Willow, holding her hand, "Don't let go of my hand," advised the redhead.
They were in a white room, Dawn and the other girl were strapped to gurneys but this time she could see more, both young women had a gag in her mouth and both were crying in obvious discomfort as two 'nurses' removed full blood bags and replaced them with empty ones.
"Oh god Willow we need to help them," cried Cordelia.
"That's why we are doing this, just remember none of this has happened yet," pointed out Willow her face showing her own concern for Dawn and her roommate. "Let's see if we can find anything to help us!"
They found that the nurses both wore nametags, "We're not going to get anywhere trying to trace a Emma Jones or Mavis Walking!" mused Willow, they went on to look at the machines but all of them seemed standard hospital equipment so that was no help! "This is no good, let's move to the next part of your vision," Willow said.
There was a momentary flash of light then they stood in a laboratory of some kind, "This could be more promising," said Cordelia looking at all the scientists moving around.
They looked at a table on which sat equipment that Willow recognised, it was being used to mix two different lots of blood, one drop at a time, which was sent through some kind of electronic device before being frozen with dry ice. The frozen blood was then taken to the work area where the die size cubes were carefully placed around a core of nuclear material, if Willow was reading the monitoring devices correctly.
They had more luck with some of the nametags here noting several uncommon surnames in the hope that a computer search would give them a clue as to where the two college students were being held.
The next useful piece of information came from the missile launch control room, two people stood out from the others, one wearing a lab coat with a nametag reading Hoven and an air force officer who was suddenly addressed as Maybourne.
Cordelia frowned, all the previous parts of the vision as well as everything in this one had been without sound, at first she had thought she was deaf, "That has to mean something, my visions don't come with sound unless it is something I need to hear," she smiled.
"You're right, when I was in Buffy's mind there was sound!" said Willow smiling back. "Right let's tell the others."
There was no concept of waking, one beat they were in the vision the next both were sitting on the floor looking into each other's eyes. Cordelia giggled as she rose, "That was great, although a little disconcerting," she told the redhead, "Do you think you could maybe teach Wesley that spell, it could help if I have a very confusing vision."
"I don't know, would you really want a man looking around your mind?" giggled Willow, as they headed for the living room.
"Hmm good point," laughed Cordelia, "What about Fred!"
"If you want but she will need some training first," pointed out Willow entering the room to find Faith and the others had not returned but two young men were sitting quietly in the corner. Willow walked over to the writing desk and began scribbling something, she looked up at the expectant faces, "Just writing down the names we got while they're fresh," she explained.
Cordelia walked over to Spike, "Who are the two in the corner?" she asked.
"Nibblet and her friend's main squeezes," he told her, "So did you get anything we can use?"
"Just some names, we may be able to use to search the net," Cordelia explained quietly.
"Can we see them," asked Janet.
"Sure," nodded Willow walking over to her and handing the piece of paper to her.
Janet with Sam looking over the list growled, "That bastard, I'll kill him."
"What is it Janet," asked Daniel from where he sat talking to Giles.
"Maybourne, Colonel Maybourne is behind this," said Janet her anger rising, "We should have guessed, he always wanted to have Cassie to experiment on," she said, they could all see the murder in her eyes.
"We'll get her back and see that Colonel Maybourne pays," said Sam drawing her lover back into her arms.
Just then there was a knock on the door, moments later Faith and the others walked in, feeling the tension in the room Faith looked at Buffy, "What happened B?"
"Will got some names from Cordy's vision, Sam and Janet know one of them, apparently this guy has wanted to do experiments on her daughter before," she explained quietly.
"Who is it Carter?" asked O'Neill, but he had a feeling he already knew.
"Colonel Maybourne," said Sam looking up sadly from the couch where she still held Janet.
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Author: David A. Knapton
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Archive: If anyone wishes to go ahead, but it would be polite to at least drop me a line.
Rating: U/G this part
Pairings: Willow/Tara Buffy/Faith Amanda/Andrew Janet/Sam
Crossover: BtVS/Angel and Stargate.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters in any of the shows. If I did, boy would I have some fun?
Spoilers: See part 1.
Notes: See part 1.
Summery: See part 1.
After graduating from High school Dawn was accepted to PennState, where she meets her new roommate Cassandra.
A/N: The names of the nightclub and bars etc are all real places, I have included them to add an air of authenticity to the background not to offend anyone I am sure those few places I have demons hanging out at are very nice places to socialise with friends without the likelihood of being eaten.
Thanks to the following people who helped me with this story: irishwavefan, Electronis Zappa. I have been trying to contact my beta Hilary for six months now (I hope she is okay!) so I am posting this story un-betad. Please note I am English, so is my spelling. Live with it.
Thanks again Kim for stepping in and betaing for me.
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The three cars pulled up in front of Kennedy's family townhouse and everyone but Angel and Spike entered, they looked expectantly at Buffy and Manda, Manda raised an eyebrow in question to the senior slayer who nodded, "It's your home only you can invite them in," she explained.
"Come in Angel, come in Spike," said the younger slayer.
Daniel looked over at Giles, "What was that all about?"
"Angel and Spike cannot enter a dwelling without being invited in by someone that lives there, we'll explain everything inside," said Giles gesturing towards the living room.
Everyone found a seat, Sam, still feeling like she had been run over by a tank, rested her head against Janet's shoulder, receiving a raised eyebrow from Jack; she returned his stare daring him to make a comment.
Giles stood by the fireplace looking around, "Well first of all I think some introductions are in order. My name is Rupert Giles," he then moved around the room, "These are the slayers, Buffy, Faith and Manda..."
"Slayers of what?" interrupted Jack suspiciously.
"Vampires and demons," answered Giles seriously.
"Oh come on vampires don't exist," snapped Jack.
"Wanna bet on that mate!" smirked Spike his face morphing into his vampire, Teal'c pulled out his zat, "That won't hurt me, already dead," said Spike returning his face to human.
"I wouldn't be so sure Spike, he shot me with it earlier and it hurt," said Buffy.
"It should have knocked you unconscious," said Janet, still not entirely convinced that the group that had attacked them were human.
"Moving on," said Giles trying to get everyone back on track, "Next to the slayers are Willow Rosenberg and Tara Maclay her girlfriend, they are both Witches..."
"Oh that so explains why the President is so frightened of her," said Jack sarcastically looking at the redhead.
"Why is it so hard for you to except the concept of Witches but not aliens?" asked Willow somewhat angrily, her eyes suddenly changed to black orbs, "Would you like a little demonstration of exactly why the President is so frightened of me."
Jack went pale, he had faced down many dangerous people and some system lords that did not scare him like the young woman who had taken a step towards him, gulping he shook his head, "That won't be necessary," he told her.
Willow released the magick slowly, returning her eyes to normal, smiling back at her girlfriend as the blonde placed a worried hand on her back, "It's okay baby, I wouldn't have hurt him... much anyway," she said.
"As Spike just demonstrated, Angel and he are both vampires, which leaves Cordelia, she is a seer, it was a vision she received that sent us rushing here..."
"This is incredible," exclaimed O'Neill, "All of you are in desperate need of therapy."
"What do you find so hard to believe?" asked Giles, "You have been to numerous other worlds; you have fought creatures the rest of the world would find hard to believe even exist. Yet you find the existence of vampires and demon hard to believe in? Tell me Colonel, honestly if you will, if you were unaware of the Stargate program, if someone you had never met came up to you and told you he or she had travelled to other worlds and met aliens, would you believe them?"
Colonel O'Neill wanted to say yes so he could continue to argue against what this 'Englishman' was saying, but at that moment he sounded too much like Daniel when he was arguing a point.
"He does have a point Jack," put in Daniel as if reading his friend's mind, "Everyone said I was crazy to suggest the pyramids were alien landing sights..."
"Woo, the pyramids are alien landing sights," Cordelia exclaimed looking at Daniel.
"Ah yeah, you see wh..."
"Daniel," growled O'Neill not wanting to listen to two long-winded explanations. He turned back to Giles who had an amused look on his face, "When he gets started he doesn't know when to stop," the Colonel explained. He sighed, "Okay I get your point, no I wouldn't believe them, but I find it hard to believe all you're telling us, you could all be some off- worlders trying to trick us into something."
"Colonel, I assure you we are not from another planet, but be that as it may, we all want the same thing, to find three young women that have been taken by someone. We need to find them before these people make a terrible mistake that will destroy this world," pointed out Giles.
"Alright we will work with you," said O'Neill, then the rest of what Giles had just said registered, "What do you mean destroy the world? How?"
"I had a vision," said Cordelia before Giles could explain. "I saw Dawn and another girl, I guess this Cassie, having their blood siphoned off and used to make a bomb that was then fired at a huge spaceship above the Earth, only the energy didn't stop at the spaceship it continued to expand consuming the world," she explained a look of pain crossing her face.
"Are you alright Cordy?" asked Angel seeing the look.
"No, have you any idea how painful it is to feel as well as see millions of people die," she snapped angrily. "Sorry Angel," she apologised.
"It's ok Cordy; I'd take the pain for you if I could."
"So not a good idea, you forget I've seen a world where you have the visions, they drove you insane," pointed out Cordelia.
"We seem to be getting off track again, we need to find my daughter," snapped Janet angrily.
"Yes you're right," agreed Giles, "So what is in your daughter's blood that when combined with Dawn's produces such a situation as Cordelia's vision foretells?" he asked looking at the five from the SGC.
"I notice you don't query the use of Dawn's blood," said Daniel.
Giles looked over at Buffy then sighed, "We can't tell you that, for everyone's safety, if any government found out it would mean a situation like this over and over, it would be even worse if terrorists found out," he said.
"Our government does not work with terrorists," retorted O'Neill.
"Oh right, of course one government's terrorists is another's freedom fighters, Colonel get real all governments aid terrorists of one kind or another," retorted Willow.
"Colonel we cannot allow any government to use Dawn, the consequences are to terrible to contemplate and a wise man once said, 'Government is the only ship that leaks from the bridge'," added Giles.
"What if we were to give you our word that whatever you tell us, will not leave this room, and anyway the secret is already in the hands of the worst people possible, the NID," said Daniel.
Giles looked at Buffy again.
"I think we can trust them Buffy," put in Willow, "And anyway the President is already scared of me, he knows what would happen if I got cranky," she said mischief crossing her face, "Five more added to the list won't be a problem."
"Was that a threat?" snapped Jack.
"No, a promise," said Willow, "Dawn is family to everyone in this room, Tara and I had to help raise her after her mother died. We both have powers you could not imagine at our disposal and would not hesitate to use them if it would save her."
Of all the creatures that Jack had ever been threatened by, Willow was the only one he believed, "Alright anything you tell us regarding Dawn will remain out of any reports both verbal and written."
"Do you speak for everyone?" asked Buffy looking at the five SGC members.
"I'm their CO if I tell them not to say anything they won't," snapped Jack.
"No need to get cranky Jack," smirked Buffy.
"Buffy that will do," said Giles.
"Sorry Giles," Buffy apologised, "So you know who we are, are you going to return the favour, we already know you, Daniel and Janet... oh and that Teal'c isn't human."
"I'm Major Samantha Carter," said the blonde lifting her head off Janet's shoulder, "You may also know me as Jolinar," she said.
"You're the one that offered me the job," smiled Willow, "Sorry about crashing your system, but I had no real choice, I told you a little fib about SecurNet 2.1, it was closing in on me," she explained.
"How exactly did you do that so selectively?" asked Sam her curiosity peaking.
"Carter," growled O'Neill, "Later, right now we need to find Cassie."
"Sorry sir," Carter blushed, "We need to talk later," she said looking at Willow.
"Sure," smiled the redhead.
"Right, well Dawn's blood possesses the ability to destroy the barriers between all the dimensions, effectively merging them into one and causing utter chaos," explained Giles, receiving sceptical looks from everyone but Daniel.
"She's the Key," he exclaimed.
"How do you know that?" asked Buffy taking a threatening step towards Daniel.
"I use to be what we have come to refer to as an Ascended one, basically I died about 18 months ago, I was given the chance to become a higher being," he explained.
Buffy nodded at him before looking at Cordelia, "You think you ever met him," she asked.
"I don't remember but I still got a lot of gaps so maybe!" said Cordelia shrugging.
"Wait you ascended?" exclaimed O'Neill.
"Yeah, but when I came back I was suffering from amnesia," she explained.
"It was the same with me, I didn't remember anything! Not even my name," Daniel said casting a sympathetic look at the young seer, he turned back to Buffy, "I get the occasional flash, for some reason when Mr Giles mentioned the barriers it triggered a memory, and I seem to remember reading about it somewhere!"
"Where?" asked Giles getting excited.
"Giles, later okay," interrupted Buffy.
"Right, sorry," Giles apologised, "Yes, Dawn is the Key, her blood can be used to destroy the barriers between dimensions, it is said that the Ancients used it to create an artefact to traverse the barriers..."
"That would have been the quantum mirror," surmised Daniel, "We found it a few years ago, General Hammond ordered it destroyed, feeling that it was to dangerous," he told the elder scholar.
"Right, so back to my original question, what has Cassandra Fraiser have in her blood that would combine with Dawn's key energy?" asked Giles.
"Naquadah," said Sam quietly giving her lover a worried look.
"Sorry?" asked Giles.
"Naquadah is an alien substance that has many different properties one of which is that it can be used as an explosive far more powerful than nuclear weapons," explained Sam.
"How did Cassandra get it in her blood," asked Willow.
"A system lord called Nirrti placed it in her as a sort of Trojan horse, then wiped out her entire civilization, knowing that we would bring her to Earth, where the bomb would destroy our Stargate," Sam told them.
"Cassandra is an alien?" exclaimed Willow.
"She is completely human, over the centuries many people were taken from Earth to serve the Goa'uld System Lords, Cassie's people were one such group," explained Daniel.
"I have tried twice to remove the Naquadah from her system, but each time she starts to slip into a coma," said Janet getting back to the point, "Other than being unable to be near the Stargate it has no adverse effects on her life."
"Right so it seems the NID think, and I use the term loosely, that they can use the combined blood to destroy the Goa'uld," Daniel summed up.
"We hafta stop them," said Faith speaking for the first time.
"They could be anywhere?" cried Janet in despair.
Sam still conscious of her CO's presence nevertheless drew Janet into a hug, her own eyes misting up, "We'll find Cassie," she said quietly.
Giles took off his glasses and cleaning them, "Did you get any clue from your vision?" replacing them he looked at Cordelia, "Or anyone that stood out?"
"I don't know. It's not as if people walk around with labels?"
"Ah actually the military usually do and you mentioned people in lab coats they could have nametags," pointed out Daniel.
"Maybe but the visions don't exactly give me a slow walk through it's more like watching a video in fast-forward," Cordelia explained.
"If you are willing I could do a spell, like I did with Buffy once and enter your memories and try to find something we can use?" suggested Willow.
"What would it do to me," asked Cordelia apprehension in her voice.
"Well nothing really, unlike when I did it with Buffy, you would be conscious and aware of everything, in fact we can make it like the two of us walking through the images," Willow said trying to reassure the other woman.
"What is involved?" asked Angel.
"I got most of the ingredients with me, the rest should be in the kitchen, the only other thing is a quiet room where we will not be disturbed," Willow told them. "And because Cordy will be willing there is zero danger to either of us."
"There is the study at the back of the house," Manda said.
"Right Manda, show Willow and Cordy where it is," said Giles.
"How long is it likely to take?" asked Daniel.
"That's hard to say, maybe a couple of hours, we may have to go through the vision several times before we find anything," explained Willow before following the others out the door.
As the three left something occurred to Buffy, "How did you know Dawn and Cassandra had been kidnapped?" she asked looking at Jack.
"I received a call from my dad's godson, telling me that Cassie and Dawn had been kidnapped, he gave us a phone number to contact him, we traced it to an office here listed as a detective agency," Sam told them.
"Do you trust him?" asked Faith.
"Yes, it seems he is working directly for the President and the Joint Chiefs and he is involved with the NID in someway, our best guess is that he is trying to gather enough information on them that the President can use to move against them," said Sam.
Giles looked around the room, "I suggest someone go to this office and see if they can find out anything," he suggested.
Buffy nodded, "Faith, you and Angel check it out."
"You got it B," smiled Faith.
"Teal'c and I'll come too," O'Neill said getting up.
Faith glanced at Buffy who nodded, "Let's go then," she said leading the three men out the door.
"I don't know about the rest of you but I need something to eat," said Buffy her stomach growling quietly.
Tara smiled at her friend, "I'll see what's in the kitchen," she said also leaving.
Giles looked over at Daniel, "So you finally got to prove that absurd pyramid theory of yours?" he said.
"You know about that?"
"Yes Daniel, I was at your last lecture. I must admit I did not think it stood up to scrutiny, my colleagues and I suspected that it was more likely that the pyramids were demonic in origin," Giles explained.
"Well I did come to a similar conclusion but dismissed it leaving only one conclusion in my mind, however farfetched it was," Daniel told him, "Although the builders could well be viewed as demonic..."
Buffy drowned out the rest of the conversation, walking over to where Sam sat with Janet, sitting down next to the other blonde, "Sorry I hit you so hard," she apologised pointing at the nasty bruise on Sam's right cheek, "If you want, when Tara gets back I can get her to fix it."
"No that's alright," said Sam, "You're extremely strong for someone so small."
"All part of the whole slayer package, strength, reflexes, senses and faster healing," Buffy explained.
"Are there many slayers?" asked Janet, "I'd really love to get into your DNA," she said trying to keep her mind off Cassandra's predicament.
"There are more slayers now than a few years ago," Buffy edged, "As for my DNA, sorry I've seen what happens when the military get mixed up with my world, and anyways Willow checked it out a few years ago and found nothing."
At that moment, there was an insistent knock at the door. Manda called that she would answer it, she entered the living room a minute later with two young men in tow, "These are Dawn and Cassandra's boyfriends, they were with them when the vamps attacked on Monday," said Manda.
At the word 'boyfriends' both Buffy and Janet sat up looking at the two boys.
"Vampire attack," asked Sam.
Buffy looked away from her scrutiny of Dawn's boyfriend, whichever one it was, to look at Sam, "Ah yeah Kennedy reported that there was an attack on Monday night, nothing to serious, they never got close to hurting them," she assured Janet and Sam. She looked back at the boys, "Though she didn't mention 'boyfriends'," her eyes narrowed.
"Dawn asked Kennedy not to say anything about them," explained Manda.
Buffy rose and walked over to the three, although Frank and Jimmy were well over a foot taller than she was, they felt intimidated, the fact that Buffy was a slayer not withstanding they had the sudden wish that the ground would swallow them. "So which one of you is going out with 'my' sister?" she asked her face hard.
"M-me m-ma'am," said Jimmy his voice squeaking slightly.
"Name," barked Buffy, beginning to enjoy herself.
"Ji-Jimmy W-Williams m-ma'am."
"I'll say this only once, if you ever even think about hurting my sister I'll rip you a new one," growled Buffy.
"I-I would-wouldn't do any-thing t-to hurt Dawn," said Jimmy nodding like an idiot.
"Good," smirked Buffy.
"You still like frightening little boys don't you slayer," laughed Spike, who had sat watching the exchange.
"You a little boy," Buffy asked coyly getting a laugh from the vampire.
Sam and Janet got up and looked over the other boy, "So that must make you Cassie's 'friend'," said Sam looking him up and down, "You look familiar what's your name?"
"Frank Kawalsky, ma'am," smiled Frank a little nervous about meeting Cassandra's mother but glad he was not dating Dawn just now.
"Kawalsky! Any relation of Major Charles Kawalsky?" asked Janet.
"Ah yeah he was my dad, did you know him?" asked Frank.
"Yes, I was one of the doctors that tried to save his life. He was a good man, my condolences," said Janet gently.
"Thanks," said Frank quietly.
"What are you two doing here?" asked Buffy.
"We came to tell Kennedy that Cassie and Dawn's neighbour phoned us to say Cassie and Dawn were missing, we went over to see for ourselves and found their dorm room a mess, we were worried that something bad had happened to them," explained Frank.
"We ran into each other at Dawn's dorm," said Buffy nodding towards Sam and Janet, "We had a little misunderstanding. But it turns out we are all here for the same reason, Dawn and Cassie are missing, kidnapped by a secret government organisation," Buffy told the two boys.
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A NID Base West Virginia
Colonel Maybourne entered the control room; to his left was a large variety of laboratory equipment with several technicians carrying out various tests. To his right were monitoring screens showing the three holding cells the subjects had been in since arriving at the base. All three were strapped to gurneys with numerous devises attached to their bodies.
Doctor Hoven sat at a console going over the various test results as well as the continual readouts of the devises attached to the young women.
"Doctor Hoven, have you found out what the substance in Ms Summers' blood is?" asked Maybourne.
"No not as yet," said Hoven in his strong German accent, "No Earth-based technology can even detect it, without the scanning devise you obtained from P5A783 it would have never come to light," he explained. "All we know is it vibrates just outside of normal human vision and as far as we can tell is self replicating, if we could find out how to harness this energy we would have an inexhaustible energy supply," he said with enthusiasm.
"Yes Doctor very interesting, but will your original idea work?" asked Maybourne.
"Yes and no Colonel," said Hoven, "I had originally thought that we could extract the substance from Ms Summers' blood or failing that discover a way to replicate it in the lab. We now know that both are impossible with our present technology, also over time the substance seems to dissipate from the blood taken, we have been unable to find a way to stop it. I'm afraid that for our work to continue we will need to keep Ms. Summers' here indefinitely."
"I see no immediate problem with that," nodded Colonel Maybourne, "What about the Fraiser girl," he said glancing at the screen showing the still unconscious girl.
"It seems that if we extract the Naquadah from her blood she starts to slip into a coma, as I told you earlier, my initial tests show that only Naquadah within Ms Fraiser's blood will interact with the substance in Ms Summers' blood. Again if you intend to have us produce numerous explosive devices, Ms Fraiser will also need to stay here."
"Very well Doctor," agreed Maybourne. He glanced at the monitor showing the last young woman, who was struggling with the straps on the gurney she was on, "And the slayer?" he asked.
"A very interesting young woman, other than a slightly higher bone and muscle density we can find nothing that distinguishes her from any other female her age," explained Hoven.
"Really," asked Maybourne a little surprised.
"Yes," nodded Hoven, "We cannot find any reason why she has increased strength and healing, she has had four times as much sedative as the other two and they are expected to be out for at least another six hours, absolutely fascinating," mused Hoven.
"Will Professor Walsh's behavioural techniques work on her?" asked Maybourne, "I need something to take to the board if we fail in utilising Summers' and Fraiser's blood."
"Yes, we have made several refinements over the last couple of years, we can start later today after the final test results are in," Doctor Hoven said.
"Very well Doctor, inform me of any developments," said Maybourne heading for the door.
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State College Empty office building downtown
All was in darkness as Faith and the three men approached the office building, they entered the lobby looking for any clue that would tell them exactly which office to take, "You an' T go that way," said Faith to Jack pointing to the left corridor, "Me an' Angel will go this way," beginning to go right.
"Ok, but if you find the office call us," said Jack leading Teal'c to the left.
"You got it J," called Faith over her shoulder.
As both teams investigated the doors they found them open but empty of any furnishings. As Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c exited the last room they heard Faith calling, "Yo T, J, we found it."
"The name's Jack not J, or in your case Colonel O'Neill," growled Jack looking angrily at Faith as he and Teal'c found the slayer and vampire waiting outside the last door.
"Right Jack got it," smirked Faith, "So J you wanna go first," the Colonel scowled again, but realised that to say anymore would only encourage the young woman, as he went to grab the handle she smirked at him again, "It's locked." He scowled again stepping back he put his boot to the door, putting all his frustration at the slayer into it, the door flew open violently.
The four entered looking around, the only thing in the room was a desk with a phone on top, Teal'c and Angel headed for the door opposite the entrance, while Faith and Jack headed for the desk.
O'Neill picked up the phone seeing the answer machine empty, "This is O'Neill, any calls come in or out of this number since the call to Major Carter?" he asked into the receiver without bothering to dial out.
Faith raised an eyebrow as she heard someone at the other end say 'No'. Not bothering to acknowledge them he replaced the receiver he looked at the returning Teal'c and Angel, "No calls in or out since the call to Carter 9 hours ago."
"This drawer is locked?" Faith said trying the bottom of the three drawers; she smirked at O'Neill before giving it a little jerk she wrenched it out completely, she frowned, "Why would someone lock an empty drawer?" she asked no one in particular.
"They wouldn't," smiled O'Neill taking it from her and turning it over, on the bottom was taped a small envelope, wrote on the front was one word 'Sam'. He ripped it open and pulled the paper out, it was just a long list of one, two and three digit numbers, he stuffed it back into the envelope, "Well I hope Carter understands what the numbers mean otherwise we're screwed," he said getting up. "If this Graham Miller is as good as Sam thinks he is! He's not going to have left anything that could be traced to him!"
"So back to Kennedy's then," said Faith.
"Yeah," said Jack.
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Cordelia sat cross-legged in the middle of the study floor while Willow slowly circled her sprinkling the mixture of herbs, spices, and some things the brunette really did not want to know about, "Well at least it smells nice," she smiled.
"Shush," said Willow.
"Sorry," whispered Cordelia.
Willow smiled down at her high school nemesis, amazed at the changes in her, she now regarded Cordelia as a friend, "Its okay it's just that any talking can distract either you or me and the spell won't work," she explained sitting down just outside the circle in front of the brunette. "Okay all you need to do is think about the vision and relax, I'll do the rest," she said reassuring the other woman.
"Now stare into my eyes," said Willow.
Cordelia found herself stood next to Willow, holding her hand, "Don't let go of my hand," advised the redhead.
They were in a white room, Dawn and the other girl were strapped to gurneys but this time she could see more, both young women had a gag in her mouth and both were crying in obvious discomfort as two 'nurses' removed full blood bags and replaced them with empty ones.
"Oh god Willow we need to help them," cried Cordelia.
"That's why we are doing this, just remember none of this has happened yet," pointed out Willow her face showing her own concern for Dawn and her roommate. "Let's see if we can find anything to help us!"
They found that the nurses both wore nametags, "We're not going to get anywhere trying to trace a Emma Jones or Mavis Walking!" mused Willow, they went on to look at the machines but all of them seemed standard hospital equipment so that was no help! "This is no good, let's move to the next part of your vision," Willow said.
There was a momentary flash of light then they stood in a laboratory of some kind, "This could be more promising," said Cordelia looking at all the scientists moving around.
They looked at a table on which sat equipment that Willow recognised, it was being used to mix two different lots of blood, one drop at a time, which was sent through some kind of electronic device before being frozen with dry ice. The frozen blood was then taken to the work area where the die size cubes were carefully placed around a core of nuclear material, if Willow was reading the monitoring devices correctly.
They had more luck with some of the nametags here noting several uncommon surnames in the hope that a computer search would give them a clue as to where the two college students were being held.
The next useful piece of information came from the missile launch control room, two people stood out from the others, one wearing a lab coat with a nametag reading Hoven and an air force officer who was suddenly addressed as Maybourne.
Cordelia frowned, all the previous parts of the vision as well as everything in this one had been without sound, at first she had thought she was deaf, "That has to mean something, my visions don't come with sound unless it is something I need to hear," she smiled.
"You're right, when I was in Buffy's mind there was sound!" said Willow smiling back. "Right let's tell the others."
There was no concept of waking, one beat they were in the vision the next both were sitting on the floor looking into each other's eyes. Cordelia giggled as she rose, "That was great, although a little disconcerting," she told the redhead, "Do you think you could maybe teach Wesley that spell, it could help if I have a very confusing vision."
"I don't know, would you really want a man looking around your mind?" giggled Willow, as they headed for the living room.
"Hmm good point," laughed Cordelia, "What about Fred!"
"If you want but she will need some training first," pointed out Willow entering the room to find Faith and the others had not returned but two young men were sitting quietly in the corner. Willow walked over to the writing desk and began scribbling something, she looked up at the expectant faces, "Just writing down the names we got while they're fresh," she explained.
Cordelia walked over to Spike, "Who are the two in the corner?" she asked.
"Nibblet and her friend's main squeezes," he told her, "So did you get anything we can use?"
"Just some names, we may be able to use to search the net," Cordelia explained quietly.
"Can we see them," asked Janet.
"Sure," nodded Willow walking over to her and handing the piece of paper to her.
Janet with Sam looking over the list growled, "That bastard, I'll kill him."
"What is it Janet," asked Daniel from where he sat talking to Giles.
"Maybourne, Colonel Maybourne is behind this," said Janet her anger rising, "We should have guessed, he always wanted to have Cassie to experiment on," she said, they could all see the murder in her eyes.
"We'll get her back and see that Colonel Maybourne pays," said Sam drawing her lover back into her arms.
Just then there was a knock on the door, moments later Faith and the others walked in, feeling the tension in the room Faith looked at Buffy, "What happened B?"
"Will got some names from Cordy's vision, Sam and Janet know one of them, apparently this guy has wanted to do experiments on her daughter before," she explained quietly.
"Who is it Carter?" asked O'Neill, but he had a feeling he already knew.
"Colonel Maybourne," said Sam looking up sadly from the couch where she still held Janet.
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