Chapter 3 - Meeting Daddy
Colorado, Colorado springs,
Breathing deeply in and out Buffy recomposed herself as she started the walk back to the Hotel she, Andrew and a few other slayers were staying at until the new Council's building was ready.
Her thoughts were confused, 'how exactly had I and John ended up in a kiss? Should I be kissing someone so soon after losing so much? Was I just kissing him to make herself feel better or was it because he was attractive and nice? It's good I stopped it before it went any farther. I'm not ready, and maybe I'm not supposed to be. A slayers life is supposed to be a solitary one. Sure I have friends who helped me and it is because of them I am still alive. But maybe that's all I am allowed to have…friends. "You are full of love." That's what the First Slayer told me. That and that death is my gift. Even if my friends returned that gift for me and dragged me back from Heaven to this hell. The more I live in this world the more confusing it gets. And now I'm supposed to meet my biological father who is somehow connected to alien parasites who pass themselves off as Gods. I wonder how my father Jack will react to me. What if he's like Hank and doesn't want anything to do with me…but Hank doesn't know about the slayer, besides Hank doesn't deal with alien parasites on a daily bases. Still…'
Buffy pulled herself from her thought as she realized she had reached her room. She unlocked the door and went inside and was about to close the door behind her when someone called her name.
"Buffy?" A slayer called Monica called causing Buffy pause and opened the door to look at Monica holding some papers.
"What is it Monica?" Buffy asked as she allowed the young slayer to enter her room.
"Giles faxed these papers over for you." Monica told her "They are confidentiality papers for A General Hammond, Colonel O'Neill, Major Carter, Dr. Jackson, Teal'C and Dr. Frasier to sign." Monica told her, "Also he told Andrew who told me to tell you that your pass will be ready for you tomorrow at the gate."
"Thank you Monica" Buffy said taking the papers from her. "Is Andrew taking the others out slaying?" She then asked.
"Yes." Monica answered and Buffy noted the disappointed look in her eyes.
"Ok, there was a small nest of vamps I meant to inform Andrew about tonight but since he's not here…what do you say you and me go take care of them." Buffy suggested and smiled as the girls eyes lit up.
"Really, just you and me?" at Buffy's nod the girl sped up to get some weapons and change into a more comfortable outfit for slaying.
Buffy sighed, she was actually pretty tired but hoped that slaying would help her put her mind at ease.
Turns out it did make her feel better and by the time she and Monica got home she was able to sleep almost immediately, leaving Monica to deal with informing Andrew.
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The next day, Cheyenne mountain,
Buffy took a deep breath and let it out as she drove up to the gate.
"Excuse me miss but this is a restricted area." One of the gate guards told her.
"I know and I have believe you have my pass to enter it. I am Buffy Summers." She told the guard.
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Secret facility under Cheyenne mountain,
"Who is this Buffy Summers, sir?" Colonel Jack O'Neill asked.
"The president wouldn't tell me, Jack." General Hammond told him.
"Why is the president allowing a civilian to enter a top security area and why isn't he telling us who she is?" O'Neill asked.
"The president want the knowledge of Miss Summers restricted to him and a few others." General Hammond replied then looked at the security monitor at the gate noticing a car with the blond young woman inside. He watched the guard study the picture provided and comparing it to the woman in the car. Then the guard asked a few questions only this "Buffy" person would know the answer too. He then allowed the car to pass.
"Well it looks like we're about to find out who this woman is who has such favor with the president." He told O'Neill as he stood up and made his way to the elevator to greet the young woman.
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Secret facility under Cheyenne Mountain,
After Buffy had parked the car she was escorted to the elevator.
Once she was all the way down she saw two people standing there waiting for her. One she recognized from picture. Willow had run a background check on Jack O'Neill and send the information along with a picture to Buffy. The other one must be the person in charge here.
"Welcome to SGC miss Summers, I'm General Hammond and this is-"
"Colonel Jack O'Neill, I know." Buffy cut in and added "Please call me Buffy."
Jack and General Hammond studied her as her main focus was on her father, then before they said anything else she said "If you would be so kind to get a…" she checked a piece of paper and read "Dr. Jackson, Major Carter, Teal'C and Dr. Frasier to join us in a more private room."
"Alright, we'll convene in the briefing room." General Hammond said as he nodded to Jack to do so but Buffy interrupted "If you could get them please, I need a private word with Colonel O'Neill."
General Hammond looked at her suspiciously but then nodded, he had been ordered by the president to try and get everything she wanted, unless it threatened national security.
As General Hammond left Colonel O'Neill and Buffy Summers were left alone in an uncomfortable silence.
Finally Jack broke it and asked "What was it you wanted to talk to me about mi- Buffy."
Buffy looked at him taking a deep breath and letting it out "Let's walk to this briefing room while we talk." She told him.
As they started walking, "This is really uncomfortable for me." She admitted to him.
"Ok, why? And just who are you?" Jack asked.
"Apparently your daughter." Buffy told him, 'there I told him, it's out.'
Jack stopped and Buffy turned to him ask he asked "Excuse me?"
"24 years and about 9 months ago you met a woman named Joyce in a bar. I'm Joyce's daughter, and apparently yours as well." Buffy told him, then added "I didn't find out about this until 4 days ago. So I know this is a shock." She informed him.
"You're my…daughter." Jack said.
"I am." Buffy told him as strong feelings cursed through her, fear of rejection, fear of not being believed, hope of having family, a real father. She realized they were starring at each other and smiled and said before things went uncomfortable again "I'll explain why I am here other then to see you…dad." It felt weird calling him that but that's what he was, the least she could do is give him a chance at being a father to her. Hank certainly wasn't interested, things with Giles weren't what they were since his betrayal of attempting to kill Spike and abandoning her.
Jack was in well shock was the best way to describe it. This short blond, this young woman was his daughter. He vaguely remembered the night he spend with Joyce all those years ago. It had been he married Sara, and had ended the morning he woke up to find her gone. But besides that he felt Buffy was telling the truth he couldn't dismiss the possibility that this could be some sort of scheme. Nevertheless he walked with her in silence to the briefing room as he listened to Buffy.
"Both my mother and father knew I was yours but it didn't matter to them at the time. It did later when mom and Hank got a divorce. After mom and I moved Hank and I started to drift apart. He came around less and less, until he stopped coming at all. He didn't even show up or contacted us when mom died." Buffy told him softly then realized they were at the briefing room. Giving him a small smile she hardened herself before entering the room where the rest of SG-1, General Hammond and Dr. Frasier were all seated, waiting for them.
Jack felt anger towards the man who claimed to be Buffy's father but didn't even bother to contact her when she needed him the most. But he refrained from saying anything because they were now in the briefing room and he took a seat.
Buffy passed the confidentiality papers in front of each person seated then took a seat on the opposite end of the table.
"If you'll sign these confidentiality papers I can explain some thing about me and why I am here." Buffy told them.
"We already signed confidentiality agreements." A man Buffy guessed was Dr. Jackson told her.
"Yes I know, they concern the Startgate program, these concern me and a lot of other people. I do not want this information in the hands of the NID." Buffy stated.
After everyone signed the papers General Hammond said "Now that we've signed could you tell us what is going on Miss Summers."
"I told you, it's Buffy. Now I'm not usually explain girl that's more my watchers area of expertise but he is dealing with the president concerning our situation." Buffy told them then took a deep breath and started "Our planet, millions of yeas ago, was ruled by demons. Evil, soulless creatures that lived for nothing more than personal gratification and total domination of the world. Kind of like politicians. For centuries they ruled, unopposed, until finally they were forced out of our dimension. But they didn't leave entirely, the last demon mixed with a human and created a race called vampires."
"Vampires?" Carter asked in a disbelieving tone.
"Yes vampires, nor more crazy then aliens, now where was I…vampires, and an assortment of other demons, remained on Earth to prey on the human population. Around this time, the Slayer was created." Buffy stopped and looked at every one before continuing.
"Into each generation a Slayer is born, one girl in all the world, blah, blah, a Chosen One, blah, blah. One born with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness." Buffy paused before saying "I was the current Chosen One. Well actually it's Faith." Buffy said thinking.
"I thought there could be only one?" Dr. Jackson asked, causing Buffy to sigh.
"There was this whole deal where I died for a minute. A friend preformed CPR, another girl named Kendra was called, she died, Faith was called." Buffy explained.
"Anyways" Buffy continued "I lived in LA when I was called as a slayer and moved to Sunnydale when my parents divorced each other. There I met my second watcher since my first watcher was killed by a master vampire. A watcher is someone in a large organization who help prepare the slayer for her destiny, the council. The Council have guided slayers since they existed and their main headquarters was in London."
"Was?" General Hammond asked.
" They were blown up about 2 years ago, I'll get into that later." Buffy explained.
"Wasn't Sunnydale the town that sunk in a sinkhole?" Jack asked.
"Yes last year me and my friends destroyed the Hellmouth." Buffy explained then jumped on to the topic of a Hellmouth "The Hellmouth is a mystical convergence of energy, in Sunnydale it center was Sunnydale High, under the library. If the Hellmouth were to open Hell would be unleashed on Earth. It's also the reason why bad stuff tended to happen there. Anyways my and my friends Willow and Xander together with my watcher Giles stopped that from happening a lot of times. It wasn't easy but we got it done."
"Let's just say you're right, how come none of the locals noticed anything." Carter asked.
"They rationalized everything away. Vampires were gangs on PCP, even that dragon was one time rationalized away as zeppelin with steering flaps." Buffy told them.
"Dragon?" Dr. Jackson asked.
"Zeppelin with steering flaps?" Carter asked.
"Yes, it's easier to deal with a normal thing then believe it's supernatural. When a person survived a vampire attack they had fallen on a barbeque fork to explain the bite marks." Buffy told them. "Even when the mayor ascended into a giant full demon snake people managed to rationalize it away." Buffy added.
"Wait the Mayor ascended into a giant demon snake? Are you sure that's the right term cause I've been ascended and I'm pretty sure it wasn't in a giant demon snake." Dr. Jackson told her.
"That was what was used but I know people can also ascent to a higher plane. My sort of friend Cordelia being proof of that. She's dead now, though." Buffy told them.
"How did you kill it?" Jack asked.
"Well you have to remember that all demons here on Earth are half blood demons. The Mayer ascended into a full demon. The only record on defeating one previously was by an active volcano. So we were creative and on Graduation day, the day of his ascension, me, my friends and a lot of other high school students fought. I lured the Snake demon into the school, which we had wired with C4 and then once the mayor was practically next to the C4 we blew up the school." Buffy told them.
"With how old were you back then?" Jack asked.
"18, why?" Buffy asked.
Jack cursed and the others looked with either disbelief or sympathy.
"How old were you when you were called as a slayer?" Dr. Jackson asked.
"I was 15 when I was called." Buffy told them.
"15!" Jack yelled "Who the hell thought of children fighting these things!"
"A bunch of Shadowmen chained up a girl and fused her essence with the essence of a demon, thus creating the slayer." Buffy told them.
"How horrible!" Carter said.
"Yes, and when the First slayer finally died, the magic from the Shadowmen passed the essence of the demon on one of the Potential slayers." Buffy told them then added "These Shadowmen were the start of the Watchers Council and have since then sought out potential slayers and prepared them for possible becoming the slayer. These potentials were given by the families to the Watcher Council. I was one of the lucky ones not to be found as potential when I was called as slayer. When I died briefly and activated Kendra as slayer I found out that the Council doesn't allow the slayer to have friends and any contact with family. She didn't even know that using her emotions its was give a slayer added strength. She was just a weapon for the Council to use. I met her twice before she was killed by a vampire named Drusilla. A year later my boyfriend was dying from a disease and the council refused to help him o I quit the council. My watcher Giles was fired a few months before for helping me pass a test the slayer had to pass. It's a test where the slayer is stripped of her strength, speed and is basically a normal girl again. I was to be locked in a room with a vampire and kill him or be killed. But of course the vampire the Council had caught managed to escape and went after my mother." Buffy paused anger flying briefly passed her eyes before she pushed it back down. "Giles filled me in on what was going on and I managed to kill the vampire and save my mother. But because Giles told about the test he was fired. My new watcher Wesley only lasted briefly before both he and I quit the Council." Buffy looked around and rested her eyes on her father seeing the rage in his eyes at what she had been through.
"Maybe we should take a break, so you can let this sink in before I continue. Meanwhile I get this may be hard to believe for all of you so if your best man here would spar with me you will see I am telling the truth." Her eyes rested on Teal'C "I'm guessing that is you, you're not entirely human, right?"
"I am Jaffa" Teal'C answered.
"I assume everyone knows there is something else inside him, something evil." Buffy asked. Then added "Also that Major Carter feels slightly off."
"Teal'C has a larva of a Goa'uld inside him. And I was a host to one." Major Carter explained as she looked curiously at Buffy "And Teal'C is the best hand to hand fighter on base. He has added strength and speed. I don't think it's wise to fight him, even if you are this slayer." Carter added.
"But it will help show you what I am capable off and hopefully relieve some of your doubts about what I'm telling here." Buffy told her. Then asked "Is there a gym or something nearby where Teal'C can spar, if he's up to it."
"I would be honored to spar with you Buffy Summers." Teal'C told her.
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Cheyenne mountain, gym,
Buffy stood relaxed in front of Teal'C and nodded for him to begin. Teal'C somewhat reluctant to hit her but knew this was her choice and threw a fist at her. Buffy easily blocked it and the fight began.
Jack watched as the girl who was apparently his daughter and Teal'C fought each other. Punches, kicks and combo's went almost as a blur in front of them and he was glad they had sent everyone else out before allowing this match to take place because this would raise unwanted questions about Buffy.
"You are holding back" Teal'C said suddenly.
"If I weren't I'd hurt you, I don't want to do that." Buffy said.
"Do not worry about me. Stop holding back." Teal'C told her.
Buffy shrugged then suddenly her movements went as a blur and Teal'C could only block or avoid a few before Buffy suddenly hit him with a roundhouse kick and sent him flying backwards hard against the wall where he remained seated dazzled only to look up and see Buffy boot in front of his face. He quickly tapped his hand on the ground as sign for surrender.
Buffy dropped her foot then looked at him concerned "Are you ok, I didn't hurt you too badly did I?" she offered a hand and he took it as she helped him up.
"I will be fine, you are a most skilled warrior Buffy Summers." He told her.
"Part of the slayer package, along with years of training." She told him.
"Indeed." Teal'C agreed.
"That was…wow." Dr. Jackson said offering her a bottle of water.
"Thanks Dr. Jackson." She said taking the water and drinking a bit before handing it to Teal'C.
"Call me Daniel." Daniel told her.
"You're not even sweating" Major Carter told her.
"Nope, he is a good fighter but it takes a lot to make a slayer sweat." Buffy replied smiling at the astonished faces. Now that they knew what she was capable of it will help them accepting what she was telling them.
"Alright Buffy, Perhaps it is better if we continue your…story tomorrow? This is a lot to take in." General Hammond suggested.
Buffy shrugged and said "Ok, but I'd like to ask Dr. Frasier to run a blood test to assure you all that I don't have an alien parasite inside me." 'And to prove to Jack that I am his daughter.' Buffy thought to herself as the general nodded and she followed Dr. Frasier.
After the test Buffy went back to the hotel, agreeing to return to base tomorrow at 9 am.
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