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August 6, 2010

By: Fire Wolfe

Beta: Genuka Who saves my sorry ass from stupid mistakes. Thanks for the save on the name of Anya's old boss.

Inheriting Family

Part 13The Road to hell is paved...

They drove to the base in Sam's SUV. It was the only vehicle large enough to carry them all in comfort. As Jack drove he was forced to slow down. There was a tree blocking the road to the base. "Ok campers, this does not look good."

"I agree O'Neill. The tree should not be in the road."

Cassie rolled her eyes and her senses flared outward. She was never going to be caught by the NID again. She had training now and they would not get away with this. Because deep down she knew they were waiting in ambush.

Jack unbuckled his seat belt and looked over at Carter who was riding shotgun. "You armed Carter?"

"Always Jack." was the reply. It was not the formal one he was used too but it would do.

He looked at Daniel who took a deep breath. "We need to move the tree."

"Yeah, we do. Why does this feel oh so cliché? I mean really would it be too much to ask the NID to be original?"

This caused Cassie to giggle even as the side doors opened and Teal'c and Daniel got out, to move the tree; and walk into the ambush.

Even as they went to move the tree NID agents came out from hiding. "Drop them Colonel and maybe you and your team will live. We only want the girl. The rest of you do not need to be heroes."

"Makepeace, I thought they buried you in a deep dark hole." Jack quipped knowing they were surrounded and he couldn't risk Cassie.

"Oh they did attempt that Colonel, only funny thing is I am damned good at escape. Jones grab girl we do not want to hang about." A soldier came over to try to take Cassie. Teal'c moved to protect her and was shot with a stun weapon. "Not wise Jaffa."

"What the hell." Jack O'Neill said that was not a zat but it knocked Teal'c down like one. What kind of weapon was that?

"Oh, this just a toy from some friends, Look O'Neill, I would love to take this creature and the rest of you with me. The thing is all of you together are dangerous. So, this time SG-1 gets a free pass. Tie them up." Makepeace ordered. "If you try to follow me I will kill the girl." He moved to grab Cassie who was trying to stay silent and not distract the others. She was reaching out with her mind to gather information like Giles had taught her.

"No, I'm not going with you." Cassie said.

Makepeace smiled coldly. "Look kid I owe your mom so I will try to make this as painless as possible. Only I have orders, so if I have to I will shoot or stun you and carry you with me."

"Yeah, you and what army Makepeace I mean there are only six of you here."

Makepeace froze. Yes, his men had come out of hiding but there was no way the kid should know how many he had. "Shut up, we have to go. Jones ties her up." The former Colonel motioned his men to tie the others as well. SG-1 was too dangerous to leave free.

"I am not going with you. I have a meeting with my Uncle Rupert and the President." Cassie said. "Back off Makepeace and maybe you won't rot in prison forever and a day."

The colonel laughed and moved to tie Sam. Cassie sighed and decided talking time was over. "Ok, I tried to warn you I really did."

Jones moved to tie her hands and before he could secure her left hand it shot out hitting him squarely in the jaw. His head snapped back and he stumbled tripping over the fallen Teal'c who was now awake and snapped his leg with powerful arms. The airman cried out as he fell, his leg broken below the knee. Cassie turned to see Sam slug Makepeace in the gut. Her Uncle Daniel was being held by two men as another hit him. He cursed in Somali and kicked him hard. Cassie smiled as she attacked the airman nearest to her.

A shot rang out. "Ok enough. Colonel you ok sir."

"Yeah Captain I am." Makepeace said rising up and spitting some blood. "I am going to kill you for that one Jack. I don't need you."

O'Neill smirked and said. "Yeah, well better men have-" he was slugged in the gut. Makepeace pulled a gun and put it to his head.

Cassie cursed and cried out."No, Uncle Jack don't you dare hurt him." Her eyes flashed and she shouted. "Let him go you bastard." She deliberately dropped her voice an octave or two and made her eyes flash like a Goa'uld. As expected it shocked the NID Colonel.

"What the fu—k how can you do that?" he shouted."You are a damned Goa'uld!" He spun around and pointed the weapon at Cassie who now smirked.

"You wish. I'm so not a Goa'uld you bastard. They might be merciful and kill you fast. Me, I am going to take my time! A friend of mine showed me this trick Inciderio." She called. The guard holding her cried out in pain as his hands caught on fire. He flayed them against his sides and dropped to the ground trying to put out the flames.

Cassie glared at Makepeace her eyes now darkening. "I am so sick of the NID. Do you idiots never think? My family has saved the world a lot and you keep fucking it up."

"Cassie, language, just because they are NID is no reason to use such words." Sam warned. That got her a dark look and Sam froze as she saw Cassie's eyes had switched color.

"You tried to hurt my mom. I know you had agents on the teams with her and the others. They left that airman to die. Did ya really think mom would leave him there? It was a set up. It took me a while to get it but it was. You killed her you bastards."

Makepeace suddenly felt uneasy no make that afraid this was no helpless teenager he was facing. He froze as one of his men pointed a weapon at the kid. A shot to the leg should stop her. Cassie however sensed it and spun around her hand rose and she whispered something softly. The guard suddenly flew backwards his weapon came straight to Cassie's out stretched hand and she spun back and pointed it at Makepeace.

Jack and the rest of SG-1 was stunned they had been told Cassandra's powers were gone. Now it seemed they were back...unless it had all been a lie. Jack looked at Carter who clearly thought as he did. Janet had lied to them all.

"You set my mom and the others up. Oh don't deny it. I hacked your computers. See, I am not some dumb kid colonel. I could kill you and your crony's right here and now and no one would say boo about it. I have connections colonel Makepeace and a debt I could call in. It would at the very least get me a pardon. But, then again you are under a death sentence for treason so I might not need it."

"Look kid, we are fighting a war. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made." Makepeace argued.

Cassie's face turned dark once more. "Yeah, sacrifices, like my world Colonel. You and the NID knew. You could have helped. You were there a year before SG-12. No, you just wanted power and technology you left us open for the Goa'uld. I remember it all now. Sacrifices, I get that maybe we should ...I mean I get it. Demons have to look out for their own first. So what kind are you. I need to know so I can tell my Uncle Giles and his girl Buffy. Sacrifice and all that, after all demons are of the bad. Maybe we should deal with the things you wanted to protect so there can be no more sacrifices. I am can play by your rules if you push me."

Makepeace paled at this. "Giles,...as in Rupert Giles and Buffy Summers?"

Cassie grinned at his sudden fear. "Yeah, he and my mom were cousins. They grew up in England. Bath and London you know around the palace, Mom said their fathers were big on diplomacy watching the world and stuff like that."

Makepeace froze. "Janet was a Giles and related to Ripper?" was his now clearly panicked reply.

Cassie laughed at this as she replied. "Yep, and he is good friends with Buffy, you know who she is right. The queen, of the line Uncle Rupert is her consort. Mom said that they were soul mates. Then there is her court. You know she has a really interesting one. Xander Harris her White Knight, Faith Lehane her Dark Knight or as some call her the Dark Slayer, Buffy hates being called the queen but she the top of the line. Faith may be the heir but Buffy, she's the Omega of it."

With each world O'Neill watched as Makepeace paled more his face began to show terror. Whoever these people were the NID agent was terrified of them. What scared Jack was he knew the names from General Hammond's briefing. These were the people who wanted to take Cassandra.

"Then there are the grey knights of Jonathan and Andrew. They are geeks and Andy would probably prefer to be called a Jedi knight but he's still a padawan. Damn, Jon's wearing off on me. I forgot about the White witch Tara and the Red witch Willow Rosenberg."

"Look kid I didn't know. Please let me go... I mean I would never have...Orders Cassie I was under orders they the NID has my/our families. Mercy they are innocents. We had no choice. I am Bracken Cassie and a neutral I swear it. I only ever wanted to protect this world. We did not know about Neriti I swear it."

Cassie stopped and looked at Makepeace. She noted his true fear and it was not for himself. "Ok spill." Just like that her rant ended and the NID agents dropped their weapons and surrendered. It was clear they all had been forced.

"I had orders. There was a program in Sunnydale. It went south but Kinsey he wanted it to keep going. He had me and some others cold. The treason thing was bad enough but we only ever worked for the NID because of the program in Sunnydale. They caught my kid brother Kevin. They traced him back to me. Buffy and Giles they think the program was only there about two years. Well it was capture and kill long before the army came in. Small teams of six, they were hunting even before the frat house."

O'Neill watched confused clearly not knowing what was going on. "Makepeace what are you talking about? I want to know what you know. Who the hell is this Giles guy and why the hell does some Girl named Buffy scare you and your men to death I mean despite everything you were a damned fine marine."

"Classified Jack, believe me you do not want to know. I did not want to know only it caught my family. Kinsey he has them all, do you really think I did what I did for money? I had not choice the bastard has my whole clan. Jones and the others are all part of it. My da is the leader he didn't want us to help but, I saw what they were doing to our kind. No way, I wanted them to work on our families. We had to join the NID and offer them something more enticing then our kin. Kinsey said he'd keep them safe if we followed orders. I did what I did to keep my family safe."

"Ok, say I believe you. What then? It's not like we can let you go."

Makepeace nodded clearly understanding. He made a snap decision. "Everyone lower your weapons. I know you have no reason to help us or even care. The thing is the Slayer is known to help neutrals. Just introduce us and let me plead our case. I will then surrender and not fight you all. Hell she can execute me then and there as long as she tries to save our families. Please Cassie most are just kids. I'm no innocent but they are. I tried to do right even if it was wrong. We all did what we had to, to fit in and to survive. You know my kind really not all that powerful. We just heal fast and are quicker than the normal humans. We pass when we can. We don't hurt your kind and many of my people have helped protect this nation and world."

Cassandra Frasier looked away and then back. The world was not black and white. Sometimes good people did bad things for what they believed was the right reason. "Agreed, Colonel but only because mom was all about saving lives. Consider this her last gift. I can't make promises but, Giles will probably convince Buffy to help."

"Fair enough, I surrender and I swear on my clan and honor I will accept the Slayer's judgment."

Before Jack could say anything the six men surrendered. He was shocked at the quick obedience and their bowed heads.

TBC...