A/N As one reviewer pointed out, technically speaking demons could be considered aliens. And Dr. Walsh's known experiments included drugging the soldiers to make them stronger and enhance them. No, the Initiative is not a currently functioning organization in this reality, but in the past, that's something else.

Okay, this chapter's a bit technical and information on DNA, the Human Genome Project and gene editing, including the dates mentioned can be found on the internet. I'm not going anywhere near in depth on this, it's way out of my range of understanding, I'm just using it as a plausible scientific explanation for the project Faith's gotten added to. After this chapter we won't be talking much about the science anymore, but the Initiative was a government project that began in WWII, so the government is aware of the supernatural and that should extend to at least some people also being familiar with Magic. When Ethan Rayne was arrested by the Initiative for instance, he was shipped off to another division. And if Magic can bridge the gap in technology, why not other sciences?

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"The President's been busy kicking over beehives since I called him this morning." General Hammond reported to SG 1. "And what he's found hasn't made him happy, I'm afraid."

"And that would be?" O'Neill asked, his hair was still wet from a hasty shower, he'd spent hours in the gym with Teal'c working out his...issues. Even Teal'c had trouble keeping up.

"He's Classified it for now, but since he's given us permission to go to Sunnydale and investigate your potential daughter and the situation there, he believes you'll find it out eventually anyway. All he would tell me is that the supposed incident in Roswell isn't the only possible evidence of aliens and that particular project involved modifying genetics by adding in sequences of alien DNA." Huh uh, that was a bomb he just launched into the conference room. Good thing it was sound proofed in here.

"My daughter might be part alien?!" O'Neill's voice could have sliced steel, it was that hard and cold.

"I honestly don't know." Hammond admitted. "The science is way beyond me, supposedly the plan involved removing some sequences from human DNA and replacing them with alien sequences. Unfortunately, something like 95 percent of the implanted embryos didn't survive, the DNA wasn't compatible."

"I don't see how we had the technology to do that in the early eighties." Carter shook her head. "I don't think we have the technology now. The Human Genome Project, the project that's mapping our DNA, didn't even begin until 1990. Sure the first time we began to understand something that we eventually labeled DNA existed was in the mid to late 1800's and James Watson and Francis Crick discovered its double helix structure in the 1950's but using DNA testing for crimes didn't even begin until the early eighties. I don't see how they could have removed or replaced any sequences."

"According to Dr. Fraser, gene editing got it's start in the late 1970's testing on animals, we're only now at the beginning of 2000, reaching a point were we can begin doing it with human DNA. She agrees, she doesn't understand how they could have managed it two decades ago."

"What was the purpose of this experiment, General Hammond?" Teal'c asked.

"Probably not that different from the Goa'uld's genetic modification of your ancestors, Teal'c." He answered. "Make humans that have... advantages, I guess."

"But it was a near total failure." Carter pointed out. "Either the sequences weren't compatible, as they're suggesting or the technique was severely flawed. Or both."

"But there were some apparent successes, Faith being one of them." O'Neill commented. "Please tell me, they're not watching her or testing her without her knowledge or wanting to pick up where they left off and try to figure out why she's a success and the others weren't."

"The President has ordered every scrap of information from the project destroyed, he sees no benefit to it whatsoever and is hopeful no one gets this type of bright idea again. As for Faith, he will only agree to Dr. Fraser testing anything and only if Faith agrees. Said testing to be limited to determining if she is indeed your daughter and if she's healthy, nothing else."

"So we have permission to go to Sunnydale and meet her? See if she wants know for sure if we're related?" O'Neill asked.

"We?" Hammond asked, with a slight smirk.

"SG 1 goes on missions together, Sir." Carter answered.

"Rupert Giles sounds like someone I'd like to meet." Daniel informed the general. "The background Sam put together on him says he used to work for the British Museum."

"I wish to meet O'Neill's daughter." Was all Teal'c had to say. "She has faced much hardship and turmoil in her young life and she has fought it valiantly. Her strength and courage can not be denied."

"I thought you'd say that." General Hammond's smirk widened, where one SG 1 teammate went, the others went as well and they could claim their reasons were anything under the sun but he knew the truth was that they'd never let one of their own face something like this alone. "You have one week to meet your daughter and investigate Sunnydale, if you need more time, let me know."

"She might not be my daughter."

"Whether she's your biological daughter or not, you already care about her welfare. You'll do everything you can to make sure she stays safe."

Well, there really wasn't anything in that statement any of them could refute, now was there?