OF THEIR PAST

                   CHAPTER THREE

Disclaimer- Think about it, if I owned Buffy, Angel and Stargate do you think I would be spending all my time writing these stories? Of course not, so obviously they're not mine.

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AT THE SAME TIME

Sam, Teal'c and Jack went wandering through Sunnydale. Daniel had gone to his friend's house, wanting to explain the situation before bombarding him with other people. To them it seemed as if Sunnydale was too quiet, it was certainly strange here. No one even walked by themselves; they were always in groups of two's or three's. A flash of activity out of the corner of Sam's eye caught her attention.

 She tugged on Jack's arm. "Sir, there's someone being attacked in the cemetery."

Jack grumbled. "Which one? They have thirteen here, what do they need so many for anyway?"

 The trio crept forward, trying to survey the situation. They were shocked to see a tall man in black leather fighting off three men by himself, and he was winning. Sam let out a gasp as two of the men just seemed to disintegrate. The man then started to tie the remaining one up, however once he had finished he clasped his head as if in pain.

Sam went to step forward when Jack held her back. "No Carter you don't know what's wrong with that guy."

 The man shook it off and got to his feet. Walking over to the man who was tied up he pulled out a wooden stake and shoved it directly into his heart. The leather man stiffened and started to look around. The trio ducked, praying he hadn't seen them. He then shrugged and walked away. They stood and looked at each other. Jack exhaled. "That was weird."

Sam's phone rang; it was Daniel asking them to meet him at his friend's house. Getting the directions they slowly made their way, still thinking about the odd occurrence they had just witnessed.

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Xander burst into Giles's apartment. "Giles we have a problem, I've called Willow and Buffy and their coming over for research."

Xander fell speechless as he saw whom Giles was with. "Daniel?"

Daniel stood shocked to see Xander. "Al what are you doing here?"

Giles looked between the two men. His eyebrow quirked. "Al?" He asked, smirking at Xander.

 Xander stared at him and shrugged. "What when I started I was undercover. Didn't want to use Xander in case Riley had used it in his reports."

Giles nodded. "That's a good idea."

 Daniel cleared his throat. Xander and Giles turned to face him. Daniel swallowed. "Undercover?"

A couple of loud voices faltered all conversation. Willow ran into a shocked Buffy. Peering around the immobile slayer she let out a wolf whistle and giggled. She slipped around Buffy and wrapped her arms around Xander's middle. Peering up at him from underneath her lashes she let out another giggle and pulled him down into a passionate kiss.

Buffy exhaled. "No wonder Will was smiling at the thought of you in leather pants.  You were right, by the way. You do have a great ass."

Xander burst out laughing as Willow growled at the slayer.

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"- You do have a great ass."

Sam, Jack and Teal'c came to a stop outside. They shook their heads, whatever it was they didn't want to know. The trio came to a halt in the doorway. Daniel was in the middle of the room, surrounded by a middle age man, a blonde girl and a couple that were convulsing in laughter. Sam gasped; the man of the couple was the guy they saw in the cemetery. Teal'c jumped forward to grab him from behind; at the same time Jack launched himself at the middle-aged man standing by Daniel. The small blonde jumped forward to stop Jack's attack, then bounced over to Teal'c. But the leather man had anticipated the ambush and flipped him onto the floor.  Sensing another presence he turned towards the door and stopped suddenly.

His face went white with shock. "Major Carter!" He managed to choke out. All the eyes in the room where on him.

Jack got up and stood beside Sam, glaring at Giles.  Sam's eyes widened. "Al, what are you doing here?"

Buffy's eyes narrowed. Xander seemed to know these people, but they had people attack them that they had known before. All eyes focused on Xander.

His eyes went hard. "I'm on leave. I think the question is what are you here?" He turned to Jack. "And what problem you have with Giles?"

The SG team were shocked they had never known Al to be so in control, or talk so much. He was usually so silent, speaking only when he deemed necessary. 

Daniel stepped forward. "I was doing the translation on that plate that we found. The language, well I've never seen it before. I remembered that my friend from the British Museum had an amazing memory for languages so I contacted Rupert and here we are."

Buffy turned to Jack. "So what's your problem, you and Giles have been glaring daggers at each other." Jack's anger boiled to the surface. Buffy placed a restraining hand against his chest. "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

"Jack and I knew each other when I was at Oxford. He was stationed over there, only a private then. He and his friends used to come to the bar were my band played, I was going out with a girl, Beth. Beth broke it off in favour for him. The one night after the gig ended I found her in the alley with her throat torn out. Jack found me standing over her body. He's blamed me for her death ever since."

 Jack growled and tried to lunge at Giles, only to be stopped by Buffy. "She wouldn't have died if you hadn't lured her there. Like it or not Ripper it is your fault."

Teal'c looked at Buffy. "How is it that a girl of your size can restrain Col. O'Neal?"

 Buffy shrugged and looked at her friends uncomfortably then stared at him. "Adrenaline, I guess."

Teal'c cocked his head. It was clear that they didn't believe her but they weren't going to ask any more questions.

The door to Giles's apartment crashed open and an irate brown haired male stood in the doorway. A dark haired girl was slumped weakly against him. Gently he helped her to the sofa and set her down.

He turned and faced Giles. "We need your help."