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Chapter 10

Jack pulled his car into his driveway. He was pretending to be calm, but he and Sam were both worried. They didn't know why Mayborn was concerned about Cordelia's old classmates, and the more they didn't know the more concerned they were. More and more unanswered questions were popping up and they needed some of the answered before they'd be comfortable with Teal'c spending time with her.

He sighed as he and Sam exited his car and started heading over to Cordelia's house. He missed the days when he didn't have to be suspicious over new people. As they approached the door they heard soft sounds from the backyard. Sounds they recognized as fighting. Jack and Sam raced to the side gate to the back yard, drawing their weapons and appeared a moment later at the backyard to see Teal'c take down Cordelia in unarmed combat.

"I believe I have… put you down," Teal'c said with an eyebrow arched up ever so slightly.

Cordelia broke into giggles before stuttering out between the hardest ones, "Indeed."

Cordelia reached out her arms and grabbed one of Teal'c's arms and allowed him to pull her back up to her feet. Jack and Sam both hurriedly concealed their guns back into their hiding places. As Cordelia dusted herself off she looked up and saw them by the edge of her yard. She smiled and waved.

"Hello. So… What are you doing here, in my backyard, unexpectedly?"

"Oh. Uh- We heard something in the backyard and we came here right away, worried," Jack said, quickly trying to save themselves.

"Oh! My own knights hurrying to my rescue! It's just like high school, only, not actually in danger. Murray asked me if I knew anything about fighting after I showed him what I know of Tai Chi."

"Cordelia has potential," Teal'c said simply. He had seen the two of them appear with guns in hand even if Cordelia hadn't. He was actually disappointed in them. Why did they doubt her when she had done nothing bad to their knowledge and they had trusted him even though they must have suspected some of his past. The double standard of the Tau'ri confused him. Would she have to prove her loyalty before they would allow her to be herself without them trying to find something suspicious in every action?

"I still lost every time."

"You lasted longer than most I've seen him practice with. I've watched him from time to time for a few years now," Daniel said from inside the house. He had been reading the books for awhile, they were fascinating if useless in relation to any aliens he'd heard of, when he'd heard the noises change in the backyard. He had been curious and had been watching from the screen door for the past 10 minutes or so. He hadn't seen Jack or Sam arrive though, the view of that blocked by the house. He watched now as they came into view.

Daniel turned to face Cordelia, "I think you need to understand that T-Murray is the best fighter on base. No one there has defeated him and I seriously think you've come closer than anyone else in such a short period of time. There are some who can hold their own longer than that, but they've practiced against him to get to that amount of time."

"Oh, wow!" Cordelia let a large smile appear on her face at that. All that demon fighting might actually have increased her stamina a great deal. Cordelia's thoughts wandered off a bit wondering if maybe her next audition should be for an action film. Though she was realistic, it would have to wait until Cindy could figure out someway for her to not get those beeping headaches.

Jack and Sam exchanged looks, yet another thing about Cordelia wasn't adding up. Being a P.I.'s secretary shouldn't develop that kind of ability. Teal'c, seeing the look, decided that they were here for reason. Jack turned away from Sam and turned to Teal'c.

"Actually I came over because I really need to talk to Murray about something," Jack said deciding it was best to just get this conversation over with.

Murray nodded and followed Jack a little away from the house as not to be overheard.

"Mayborn called and warned us away from Cordelia and her friends. Said pretty much everyone is afraid of them," Jack said coming straight to the point. He really didn't need to tell anymore than that, this was suspicious enough on its own.

"For what reason?" asked Teal'c.

"I don't know yet. Don't know how to find that out either."

"That's simple," Teal'c replied before turning to the others and approaching Cordelia. "Cordelia, what do you know about the NID?"

"Huh?"

"Buddy, what are you doing?" asked Jack quickly, grabbing onto Teal'c's arm as if that could somehow restrain him.

"I trust Cordelia, she might know why Mayborn warned you away from her."

"What?" was said by Daniel with his eyes wide.

Cordelia watched confused, not following the conversation, which is kind of amazing in of itself considering her experience of following dimwits *cough* Harmony *cough* as well as eggheads *cough* Wesley *cough*. Admittedly she had never been able to follow Willow babble that well, it was an ability learned with much more time than she was willing to spend in her presence. Though she could follow other people babble really well from what she did experience.

"Fine," Jack all but yelled as he turned from Teal'c to Cordelia. "What DO you know about the NID?"

"Well… That depends," Cordelia said puzzled.

"On?" Jack demanded standing up straighter at her non-answer.

"What the NID is."

"What do you mean?" asked Sam as she came to stand between Daniel and Cordelia, just in case.

"I don't know what the NID is, I might know something, but I don't know what it is until someone tells me what the NID is…"

"The NID," Daniel tried to explain, "it's a, well, I guess what it comes down to is a government thing that's kind of corrupt. Mayborn used to work with them."

"That tells me so much," Cordelia said rolling her eyes. "And this Mayburn guy told you that I was dangerous or something?"

"Mayborn," Daniel corrected automatically to another eye roll from Cordelia.

"Well, no," Jack said. "It was more about someone girl you knew in High School. Summers…"

"Buffy?" asked Cordelia.

"Yes."

"Then it's probably about last year."

"What about it…?"

"Okay… I'm not supposed to know this, and I'm pretty sure neither are you. This is like so top secret it didn't exist when it was happening, and most definitely not now that it got messed up."

"We have high security clearance."

"In Deep Space Telemetry?"

"Um. Yeah."

"Sure… They were doing some research out at UC Sunnydale last year. The chick in charge was trying to create super soldiers. She was drugging her men with 'vitamins' that were actually steroids. They worked for a while before making their hearts explode. I had to hear so much about that from my boss, well not the hearts exploding part, I found that out later. You see he used to date Buffy and she was seeing one of the soldiers and he so wasn't over her. God! He can brood and brood and brood," Cordelia paused for a moment to sigh.

"She had no respect for life, any life. The doctor chick, not Buffy. Anyway, the doctor was trying to create a cyborg, half machine half… organic. It reprogrammed itself, killed her, and went around dissecting people before deciding that it needed to make more of its kind. Buffy, her soldier boyfriend, and her friends managed to stop it, but it had killed a lot of people before that happened. Mostly people involved in the project."

"Oh." Jack really couldn't think of anything else to say at the moment as he and the others processed this.

"Which brings up a question of my own."

"What…?"

"Why would someone, who used to work for the NID, call and tell you to stay away from Buffy Summers?"

End – Chapter 10

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Daniel slipped and almost called Teal'c by name.

So… Cordelia's summary about the Initiative, what do you think?

Ohhh. Cordelia caught them!!! And it brings us to a cliffhanger! I think that's the first one in this story.

I was going to work on finishing my other fic but I had to write some more of this because someone was totally awesome and nominated this for best unfinished Stargate crossover. I'm so totally honored. This story has also been nominated for best challenge response! TWO nominations! I didn't even know this was qualified for the latter, but unfinished fics can be nominated in that category. And all I can think is wow. Thank you to whoever nominated me. Wow.