Gate of the demon

………-- vision

...….-- host to symbiote

Sunlight was pouring through the window when Daniel woke up. Eyes squinting against the brightness, the archaeologist became aware that Amy was not in bed. Stumbling out of the room, he found her watching a documentary of the Great Wall of China. He entered his kitchen and quickly made himself a cup of coffee. Setting the mug down after taking a sip, he was tickled from behind. Whirling around, he saw no one. A giggle made him smile, the grin widening when he was Amy peek around the corner and giggle again.

"You have abilities just like me," Daniel deduced. A sudden feeling stopped him cold. Tackling Amy, he put her in a closet and told her to stay put. He had run back to the kitchen when a hand wrapped their long fingers around his throat. "You're dead." He croaked.

"I made a deal at a crossroads," Benny Jones said, his other hand tearing through Daniel and ripping Ker'wa out. He threw the symbiote in the sink, which was thankfully filled with water. The bloodied hand wrapped around Daniel's mouth and nose, smothering him.

Amy, having grabbed Daniel's cell phone when she was hurriedly placed in the closet, scrolled down the directory until instincts made her stop and press speed dial on one Jack O'Neill.

"Hello?" General Jack O'Neill's voice came over the line. "Is any one there?"

Silently, Amy slid the phone closer towards the door, knowing that the man would be able to hear Benny's words.

Jack turned pale as he listened to the threats that the man was saying, punctuated by harsh muffled groans of pain. What made him gasp was the name that the guy used. Daniel. "Listen, whoever's there, I'm coming down," Jack said, stiffening as he heard a child's voice thank him.

When Jack pulled up at Daniel's apartment, trailed by a couple of teams from the SGC, he fished the key to Daniel's apartment out of his pants' pocket. As he was entering through the front door of the building, a black, late sixties Chevy Impala pulled up sharp. Two young men clambered out of the car, shotguns held in their hands. A stern look from the eldest one shut Jack up before he even said anything. Daniel had a lot of explaining to do.

They kicked the door open, revealing Benny Jones doing one hell of a number on Daniel. Sam and Dean fired the rock salt at him, making him disappear.

Sam, pausing by the closet door, opened it and found Amy there, silently crying in fear.

"He wanted to know where I was, but Daniel wouldn't tell him," Amy sobbed, stealing a glance at Daniel's limp form. "Is he going to die?"

"I hope not," Sam replied.

Meanwhile, Jack was arguing with Dean about what had just happened.

"It was rock salt, not real bullets, see?" Dean showed the General the gun, revealing no bullets, only pellets of rock salt.

"Fine. Okay. But how the hell did he disappear?" Jack demanded.

"Benny dealt with a crossroads demon. He was killed about a week ago after hurting Daniel then. He must have wished that if he died, he could finish up his business with the living, whether if it was doing bad or good," Sam replied in Dean's place, carrying Amy.

"Sir, there's a symbiote in the kitchen sink," a member of SG-8 reported.

"Is it Ker'wa?" Jack asked.

"I believe so."

"Get him in a pitcher. Well take him and Daniel back to the SGC," Jack ordered.

Dr. Carolyn Lam finished helping Daniel as well as she could in surgery. Now it was up to him and Ker'wa. She came out of the operating room and was immediately face-to-face with Daniel's two brothers, the little girl that he had adopted, his teammates and the two Generals. "We've done everything that we can for him. He was nearly asphyxiated four times. He sustained a few broken ribs and some of them have hairline fractures," Carolyn told all eight. "In a couple of days from now, we'll reintroduce Ker'wa and so how it goes from there."

"Can I go and see him now?" Amy asked in a scared, small voice.

"Sure you can, sweetie. I'll come with you, okay? I want to see how he's doing, too," Sam said, getting down on one knee and pulling the girl to him. "Us special people have to stay together, right?"

Nodding, Amy rested her head on Sam's shoulder and wrapped her arms around his neck.

Dr. Lam led them all to Daniel's isolation room, watching from the door as the siblings and Amy walked straight up to the bed. "Sibling love," she murmured.

"Too true," Landry said.

"It figures. A father would be able to spot that king of love miles away," Carolyn told her father.

Smiling, Landry watched as Amy snuggled up to Daniel, placing her hand on his, softly singing a part of a song about hope and love in an angelic voice. Sam and Dean smiled sadly, fully impacted by the words of the song and her voice, both for very different reasons. One for the parents that he never had and the other for the parents, both foster and real, that they had.

There you go people. I worked my ass for this one to get it out ASAP. I hope that you like it.

Next time, Daniel waked up and the reetou come for a not-so-friendly visit.

Hey, do any of you know a daredevil/Buffy the vampire slayer crossover where Xander is blinded and lives that life? If you do, can you please tell me the name of the fic and the name of the author?