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Fire

By: Fire

Inheriting Family

Part 30 Dealing

Giles was ready to deal with the situation. He listened to Buffy and then he gave her a look that clearly said enough fussing. She returned it but followed his lead and took a seat at his side.

Her posture was defensive and no one would even begin to think she was relaxed.

President Hayes looked around the room and knew he had a lot of ground to make up with everyone here. It was now clear that compartmentalizing had been a very bad policy. "I know that this situation got slightly out of hand."

"Understatement much?" Dawn said. She got a hard look from both her sister and Giles but she knew both were thinking the same thing.

"This situation can be laid at my door. I know you are all upset with this." Hayes continued ignoring Dawn's remark even as he knew it was true. "The issue is where do we go from this moment on. This situation has escalated but, I honestly believe that everyone here has young Cassie and Earth's best interests at heart. Can we at least agree on these two important points."

Buffy was about to say since when? Giles however spoke before she could insult the president further. Not that he really disagreed given the provocation they were under.

The problem was they could not afford to have this situation go even further down the tubes. They could not allow a full conflict to occur no matter how much he might want to allow it. "Buffy please let Henry speak."

"Fine." She said folding her arms and almost pouting. "Talk fast."

Henry Hayes nodded with relief. "General Hammond the people with me are my guests. I do not appreciate the greeting we received. I do understand your people's concerns however they were ordered to stand down." Henry gave a hard look at Jack. "If it were not for Ambassador Giles people control you all would be dead."
"They threatened to kill us all."

Carter said no longer willing to sit quietly.

Jack was fuming but he held his tongue as ordered. "Colonel O'Neill simply reacted to a threat to Cassie. She is very important to us all."

"We did not threaten anyone. I merely stated that if the SGC was evil we would deal with it. Your Colonel of course acted as expected. He attacked proving that perhaps my slayers intuition was once more correct." Giles said looking back at the blonde with a hard stare. "It was simply a warning."

Daniel spoke up calmly trying to understand the situation. "Do you always use such warnings? I mean from our point of view it was a threat to our lives."

"So, your point?" Xander asked. "I mean a vague disclaimer is no one's friend really."

"Huh?" Daniel said. For all his skill in communication this attitude stumped him. He looked at the General for help.

Hammond decided that this had to be dealt with so he questioned. "Vague disclaimers?"

"Yeah, you know like it may be dangerous if you... do this or that." Dawn said. "If you think that threat was bad you should hear what they tell my boyfriends."

Makepeace grinned and said. "I am surprised you have not resigned yourself to a convent."

Dawn glared. "Sometimes I think it it might have been easier."

The others laughed. The president tried not to. However he could clearly see why some might be intimidated when it came to dating the youngest Summer's girl.

Hammond and SG-1 had no idea why there was such annoyance in the young teen's voice.

"Anyway my dating or not is not the point. The point is we were just giving you all fair warning. It might have saved problems in Sunnydale if we did that more often."

"I hate to agree but Dawn has a point." Buffy said. "I should have just warned Walsh off. The point is we were simply being honest. There was no reason to shoot Giles. He has every right to come pick up his ward. Cassie is his ward legally and she needs her family at a time like this."

Jack lost his patience and said. "We are her family. Where the hell were you? How come we never knew about you. I find it awfully convenient that we never heard or meet any of you before now."

"Our work is classified Colonel." Giles said with dark glare. "It is very dangerous to our families as well. If I kept my distance at all it was to protect both Janet and Cassandra. They would become targets. Until now I had no way to keep them safe and secure. We had elements that would have used Janet and Cassie against us."

"What's changed?" Hayes asked. He noted that Giles seemed ready to tear into O'Neill.

Xander smirked and said. "Oh nothing much Mr. President. Giles is simply now the new head of the Council. Well he and Buffy share the post. So you know informing the council about the Goa'uld would have been a good idea."

Hayes paled as he suddenly realized that the threats made to leave were not just Buffy bluffing. He recovered quickly. "I see. I suppose hindsight is always 20/20. I would like to formally ask the council for assistance now. Please understand Rupert I had a new oath to uphold."

Giles nodded. He did not agree but, he knew Henry was an honorable man. "As you say hindsight makes things clearer. However given your training I am surprised you did not at least inform me of the situation. I can understand your concerns about the old council. However as the watcher of the active slayer I should have been informed."

"Why is that. Mr. Giles?" Hammond asked. He noted the president blushed clearly feeling chastised. "Please help us understand. This situation is highly unprecedented."

Giles smirked and the Scooby gang all smiled.
Wait for it. Xander sent to his friends. 5 bucks says their jaws hit the floor.

No bet boy toy. It's a no brainer. Faith sent back.

Yeah, I mean really they are so arrogant thinking they can beat the Goa'uld . Buffy agreed. She smirked to. Go on Giles tell them. The suspense is killing them.

Giles smiled and said. "I should have been informed because it was the Slayer who kicked Ra and his Goa'uld of Earth all those years ago. I am rather certain Buffy would have made short work of this worm. That was of course before we had more slayers to help. Now it would hardly be a work out. After all Buffy and her friends defeated Glory a real god. So a pretender like Ra would be an easy enough task. Even without the slayer we have records of the occupation and the resources which could help defeat the Goa'uld. "

The room fell to silence. Daniel looked at Giles in shock. "You have records of the occupation?"

"Of course, we have records of most human activities and cultures."
Daniel's jaw hit the floor and he glared at President Hayes. How many times had he been scrambling to find information on this Goauld or that Goauld and Hayes knew people that had records?

"That's impossible. How could we not know?" Sam questioned. "Surely your people would have shared information with us?"

"Like you did about opening the Chappie thing? What the hell were your morons thinking? " Buffy said. "You risked the whole world with that portal and did not even tell us about it. If that shit storm over the poles had not happened we could be hip deep in snakes before you know it and no one would be ready to fight them. Hell even the demons would be willing to help with that fight. They don't want the snakes back either. It would mess up the food chain. Sorry why should we share when you have been keeping secrets. More importantly what gave you the right to risk the whole freaking world?"

"We defend the world and keep it safe." Sam shot back. "How dare you say we don't care."

"Yeah, you do such a great job too. You got Janet killed." Dawn shot back." It's the reason we are here in the first place. Because you all fucked up."

Sam looked sucker punched. Jack glared and said. "That was not our fault. She was saving a life."

"Why was she in the field? Were you too lazy to bring the wounded back?" Buffy said coldly. "The point is this US in the form SGC has made a mess. We will have to clean it up."

"We don't need your help little girl. We are handling the problem of the Goa'uld well enough."

"Yeah, I can see how good you are at fighting." Buffy shot back. "Shut up colonel you are already on my last nerve. "

"Buffy please that will not help." Giles chided. "However, Buffy is correct we are not happy with this situation at all. I had only intended on coming and picking up Cassandra. However, it appears that this situation must be looked into."
Hayes paled. "It is under control Rupert. There is no need for your slayer to be here. I am sure there are other situations she could be dealing with."

"I may have believed that until I was shot. However it is clear that there is very little oversight or control here."

O'Neill was about to snap when a hard look from his commanding officer stopped him. "This facility is under control Ambassador."

This time it was Willow who spoke. "I do not think so General. You have had several attempts at breeches in the last year alone. According to the records I have read you have almost triggered the self destruct at least 5 times. Now, given that would result in a major nuclear blast I have to wonder at your definition of control. We have people stationed in this state not to mention the civilians who would be affected. You seem to be running a private war on several fronts and are losing. It may not all bad, but the projections I ran show that in the end your SG teams will now be strong enough to defend earth. At least not unless you find some significantly advanced allies. It is one of the reasons I am certain you funded the mission to Atlantis and the reason you have finally accepted help from your allies. Of course you all pretend it is just mutual cooperation. "

Hammond could not respond to that. Because deep down he knew the girl was right it was simply a matter of time. They might win some battles but the foes they faced had superior numbers and technology. The Asgard were the only check to the Goauld and that was wearing thing as they lost the war with their replicators.

"So you plan to what come in and take over?" Sam asked. "What right have you to do that? Besides you are just kids."

Rupert Giles gave her a hard look. "These children as you call them have defended this planet from a multitude of extinction level events since 1994. Buffy Summers has been dealing with it for a year more. They have battled a true god and won. Buffy has died four times to save this world. She was pulled from heaven to serve again and entered hell itself leading an army of children to save your worthless hides. As to what right that is covered under the World Protection Accords signed in 1000 AD. They have been signed by every government on this planet since then and renewed every 7 years by the world's leaders. These accords give the council the power to step in and take over any institution or military that has endangered the world. Each of your congresses and president renew them when they take the oath of office. That was a safe guard set up by Ben Franklin with your George Washington. So Major that what right we have."

Sam was stunned she looked at the General who looked at the president and blinked. "Is this true sir."

"Yes, it is in our constitution under international agreements. It was first signed by George Washington. Each president signs off as they take office. It allows the slayers to work safely in our country." Henry said. " At least is supposed to."

Buffy snorted. "Someone should have clued Walsh in."

"An oversight, as I have told Rupert. Now, can we get back on track here. I know you are upset but, this can be worked out. Imagine how you might have reacted if someone had come to claim Dawn."

Buffy scowled and said. "I would not have shot an unarmed man. But, your point is well made. What now?"

"We try to fix it. Unless of course you want a shot at the System Lords?" Henry said almost hopeful.

Buffy rolled her eyes he was not all that subtle. "Willow's briefed us. I guess that means you want some teams? What do you say Giles feel like a vacation?"

Giles laughed hard at that. Only Buffy would consider taking on the system lords as a vacation. "It might be relaxing." He resigned himself. They would have to let the others know what was going on and to watch the supernatural front for a bit.

"Carter why do I feel like we just been insulted by that remark?"

"Because we have sir." She said. What did these people do that taking on system lords was a vacation? "I mean Colonel who thinks fighting the likes of Ra is a vacation?"

She looked at Hammond who seemed ready to reach for a super sized bottle of Tums.

"You would help?" Hayes said with a grin. He looked like a kid who had won the lotto. "Atlantis could use some back up. The Wraith are a real issue."

"Space vampires could be fun." Xander said. "What it beats the normal kind. I mean one vamp 1000 boring ya know."

"Yeah, Xan has a point the vamps are lame of late." Faith agreed. "So space vamps might be a challenge."

"It be cool. Can we go hunt them? I mean maybe we could find some cool allies like Wookies." Andrew said. "Can I name a ship the Millennium Falcon? We could use blasters and sabers. You have blasters right?"

His teammates rolled their eyes.

"Sure Andrew as soon as we get some light sabers." Faith said. "Ah, you don't have any of those do you?" Her voice was hopeful. "I mean steel is cool and all but it be nice not to get guts all over."

Buffy shook her head as if to say spare me the geeks. She had to agree with Faith's point though.
Xander grinned and said. "I think Faith would look cool with one in each hand. A wickedly cool double blade what color?"

"Don't know. Hey Red could ya make us some?"

Willow considered it and looked at Oz. He nodded and said. "Maybe we could."

"Sure we can. Maybe mojo some up."
"Well can I have a pink one?" Buffy quipped. Of course she never expected to get one.

That was until Willow grinned. "Maybe not pick but blue, green, purple and red could work. Those crystals are strong. If Oz can make the handles me and Tara can make the crystals tie in."

Teal'c leaned over to O'Neill and said. "So they expect to find light sabers?"

"Yeah, I think they do. Oh well they are kids." SG-1 listened as the Scooby gang bickered over Star Wars weapons. The threat level went from high to not at all as the group they were sitting with began to debate movie weapons and ships. Of course they were not about to admit they had space ships well at least not until they had to. Of course they thought the kids were kidding.

Giles just leaned back and resigned himself to it. Sometimes they just had to get it out of their system. He smiled as he wondered what the soldiers of the SGC would think when his group came in carrying light sabers. He knew they thought it was all game with the council yanking their chains.

He smiled and considered the surprise they were in for. He also considered it could have been worse. They could be debating Star Trek.

TBC...