New Fic - Maybe You Can Hire - Your Family
Here is the end since it was too big for one post.
Enjoy
Part One
From his seat in the car they’d ‘borrowed’ once reaching New York Daniel watched with a smile as Face, portraying a General at this moment, talked their way into the storage facility where the Gate was being held. As they were allowed in BA instantly locked the doors so that no one could get inside and disturb them then they got to work.
Daniel and Murdock set up the first generator while Hannibal and Face set up the other one. BA made the connections to the Gate as Daniel had instructed and soon they were ready to dial.
“Okay,” Daniel said, “BA, you need to manually dial the gate. When it opens don’t be in the way. I’ll activate the device then I’ll go through and hopefully be back home.”
“Then we say goodbye now,” Hannibal said softly glancing at Murdock whose eyes dropped sadly.
Daniel moved first to BA who silently hugged the younger man before looking him in the eyes and nodding making Daniel smile slightly. He moved next to Face who clapped his shoulder.
“We’re proud of you,” Face told him, “Just don’t lose your edge running around the galaxy. Scam when you can.”
Daniel laughed, “I pretty much do anyway. They all think I’m a helpless civilian who can’t really look after himself. They have no idea what you guys taught me.”
“Make sure they never do,” Face hugged him.
Daniel nodded before turning to Hannibal, “Thank you, for believing me and for helping me get home.”
“Are you happy?”
At Hannibal’s question Daniel looked a little bemused before he sighed, “I will be once I get Sha’re back. You guys would love her. She’s smart, mischievous and loves embarrassing me.”
“I hope we get to meet her,” Hannibal replied, “You made us proud, Kid. Just remember don’t become too proficient with the military too fast.”
Daniel nodded, “I’ve got a system.”
Hannibal clapped his shoulder and moved to help as BA began to dial the Stargate. Finally Murdock sidled up to his nephew.
“I understand now,” Daniel said as his uncle hugged him, “I know how you feel sometimes when you see and hear things that aren’t there. It was only for a few days but…”
Murdock reached out and rested his hand on Daniel’s cheek, “But you’re okay now?”
Daniel nodded, “It was a device that accidentally got into me. It’s gone now but I spent several days in a hospital.”
Murdock hugged his nephew, “Good.”
They turned as the Stargate activated and Murdock let out a soft gasp.
“Amazing, isn’t it?” Daniel grinned.
Before anyone could answer someone began to bang on the doors behind them.
“Daniel, time to go,” Hannibal snapped.
Daniel pulled out the device and quickly set the controls before he started towards the event horizon. He could hear the doors start to creak and turned to where his ‘uncles’ were preparing themselves to fight their way out.
“Daniel,” Hannibal snapped, “Go.”
Taking one last look at the four men he would never see again, Daniel ran through the event horizon.
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The alarm sounded as the Gate began to dial; Jack jogged into the control room and watched as the guards took up position in the Gateroom.
“Any signal?” he asked as the Gate opened behind the shield.
“Not yet,” Walter said before a second later the computer beeped, “Hold on. It’s an SG1 signal.”
“Daniel,” Jack sighed in relief before moving into the Gateroom to greet his friend and demand to know where he’d been.
Jack stood waiting for his missing friend to walk down the ramp smiling as the event horizon finally rippled and Daniel appeared.
“Where the hell have you been?” Jack demanded.
Daniel shook his head, “You wouldn’t believe…”
Before he could finish a gunshot flew out the Gate and into the wall behind Jack, the two men ducked as more gunshots fired before a body slammed onto the ramp and rolled down it.
“No,” Daniel cried as he scrambled to the man laying unconscious at the bottom of the ramp.
“Close the shield,” Jack called.
“Don’t,” Daniel snapped, “Not yet. Jack, you’ll kill them if you close it.”
Confused Jack nodded at Walter and they stayed down waiting, he could hear Daniel murmur to the man as he pressed his hand to a gunshot wound. Suddenly three more men stumbled through onto the ramp and Daniel looked up at Walter.
“Close it now,” he yelled.
The shield shut and the three men spun as though realising they were trapped.
x
Daniel was trying to process the fact that his uncle was lying unconscious on the ramp bleeding but the fact the other three were now standing just in front of the Gate looking ready to fight their way out made things worse.
“It’s okay,” Daniel called, “Put your guns down.”
He frowned as neither the A-Team nor the men surrounding the Gate made any movement.
“Murdock needs help, so put your guns down and trust me,” he said through gritted teeth.
Daniel watched as Hannibal slowly nodded to the team and they lowered their weapons allowing Jack and the guards to take them. Janet and her team arrived and moved quickly to the unconscious man lying next to Daniel as they took him away Jack turned to his friend.
“What’s going on?”
Daniel shook his head, “I’ll explain once I know he’s okay,” Daniel replied sharply before turning to Hammond, “Is that acceptable?”
Hammond nodded, “Colonel O’Neill will escort our other guests to the brig.”
Daniel wanted to argue but when Hannibal nodded softly he followed Janet and her team as they took Murdock to the infirmary.
x
“What happened?” Daniel demanded of the three conscious members of the A-team when he joined them in the brig after making sure that Murdock was resting comfortably.
“We had no way out,” Hannibal told him, “We were trying to get out when Murdock was hit and fell through your Stargate.”
“So you came to get him,” Daniel sighed.
“You know the rule.”
“I do,” Daniel rubbed his eyes before he started to laugh slightly, “I can’t believe I’m the reason you four disappeared. I always wondered what happened.”
“What do you mean?” Face demanded a little bemused.
Daniel let out another sigh before shrugging, “I guess it doesn’t matter now. I came back from Egypt a few months after my 22nd birthday and went to see Murdock. The nurse told me he’d disappeared several months ago. I didn’t believe that he wouldn’t come back because when I went into his room everything was there. So I called the van and got no answer, I used every way to contact you I possibly could, I even went to see BA’s Mom but nothing. After a year when there were no sightings, no mysterious messages and no strange presents I had to accept the fact you were gone.”
Face wrapped his arm around Daniel’s shoulders, “We’re here now, Kid.”
“And you have no way back,” Daniel replied, he held out the device showing the hole through the centre.
x
“Daniel, how in hell’s name do you know the A-team?” Jack demanded as they sat in the conference room, “And how have we never known this before?”
Janet had organised a quick medical check for Daniel while she worked on Murdock before allowing him to debrief Hammond. Now Daniel was sitting facing his friend with Hammond at the head of the table both watching him intently.
“The man in surgery,” Daniel started his voice soft but firm, “Is H.M. Murdock.”
“Their pilot,” Hammond noted from his position at the head of the table.
“He’s my father’s half-brother,” Daniel continued very aware of the guards positioned around the room and not happy about it, “Han…Colonel Smith, Lieutenant Peck and Sergeant Baracas basically treated me like family. I grew up knowing if I needed anything I could go to them.”
“General?” Jack turned to his commanding officer obviously completely stunned that they hadn’t found any of this in Daniel’s background check.
“Probably because Captain Murdock was never known as a member of the A-team and by the time Dr Jackson came to work with us they had disappeared while he was out of the country,” Hammond mused answering the unasked question, “I’m wondering why he never mentioned his connection.”
“No offence, General,” Daniel replied, “But there was no way I was going to let you know I had a connection to them. You might have stopped me working here and I need to be here.”
“And now?” General Hammond asked pointedly.
Daniel let out a soft laugh, “General, the A-team received a Presidential Pardon last year.”
“What?” the two men demanded in astonishment.
Daniel turned to them, “I was asked what I wanted after we saved the world - again and I asked for that.”
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Murdock smiled in relief as his nephew walked over to his bed. He didn’t like being stuck in a bed especially when he didn’t know where he was or what had happened to the rest of his team.
“Daniel,” Murdock reached out motioning him over, “You still look too old.”
Daniel sat beside him and rested his hand on his uncle’s shoulder, “I am. You’re in my time now. You’re sort of stuck here now.”
“The others?”
“They’re in the brig,” Daniel told him softly.
“Need to get out of here,” Murdock sighed.
Daniel squeezed Murdock’s hand, “No, they don’t. Trust me you guys are safe here, I promise.”
“Daniel,” Janet’s voice interrupted them, “My patient needs his rest.”
“Aren’t the nurses in VA getting prettier?” Murdock cried with as grand a wave as he could manage.
“I keep trying to explain to him he’s not in the VA,” Janet frowned, “And I’m not a nurse unfortunately he’s not believing me.”
Daniel chuckled, “He’s teasing you. Get some rest, Murdock.”
“Danny,” Murdock gripped his hand, “The others?”
“They’ll be here to see you soon,” Daniel promised, “There are just some things to be worked out.”
x
“Hannibal, we need to get out of here,” Face stated as the Colonel paced the small room they were being kept in.
“We have to trust Daniel,” BA rumbled from the other side of the room.
Hannibal stopped and frowned, “And we can’t leave Murdock here.”
“So what do we do?” Face demanded.
The door opening cut off the conversation and all three moved to the bars separating them from Daniel who was smiling at them as he walked in.
“Daniel, if you’re here to help us escape then no,” Hannibal told him sharply, “We are not letting you ruin your chances of finding your wife.”
Daniel smiled softly, “General Hammond wants to speak to you. Follow me.”
As Daniel led them through the corridors the team took in everything quickly mapping out what they would need to know if they had to escape. Finally they reached the conference room where the leader of the base was waiting with the man who’d taken them to the brig.
“Colonel Smith, Lieutenant Peck and Sergeant Baracus, I’m General George Hammond,” the General introduced himself, “Please take a seat.”
Hannibal nodded to the other two when they looked at him for confirmation before they each took their seat. Daniel slid into the one on the other side of Hammond and facing Hannibal while Jack took the seat at Daniel’s side.
“So,” Hammond started, “I’ve spoken with the President regarding this situation and your sudden arrival.”
The three members of the team stiffened slightly.
“Due to the pardon Dr Jackson procured for you…”
“What?” Face cut him off as they looked at Daniel.
Daniel shrugged, “Saved the world, got asked what I wanted. What else would I ask for?”
“Then we’re no longer wanted fugitives?” Face continued to push not believing this.
Daniel chuckled, “That is what it means.”
“Anyway,” Hammond continued, “You have your pardon however this is a completely different world to the one you knew and questions will be raised about the fact you haven’t aged. I have been authorised to offer you all a position here in the SGC.”
“What?” Daniel gasped but his excitement was soon tempered as he looked at Hannibal’s face.
“General, I need to discuss this with my team before I can give you a definite decision,” Hannibal stated slowly.
Hammond nodded, “I’ve assigned you all rooms here as I assumed you wouldn’t want to leave while Captain Murdock is in the infirmary. Dr Jackson will escort you once he’s taken you to see your team-mate.”
x
Hannibal sat in the room he’d been assigned going over in his mind everything that had happened. He knew the others would look to him to confirm what they should do. He just wished he knew.
“Come in,” he called when someone knocked softly on the door.
He smiled as Daniel walked in; dressed all in blue although older than he should be he still looked impossibly young as he pulled the seat over to the side of the bed.
“Murdock is doing fine,” Hannibal started hoping to stall the conversation he knew he was about to have.
“I know,” Daniel stated softly, “I’ve been to see him a couple of times.”
“Danny…”
“Daniel, I stopped being Danny a long time ago.”
“Fine,” Hannibal replied, “Daniel, you have to give us some time to think about this.”
Daniel shook his head and started to pace, “What is there to think about? Hannibal, you guys have been thought dead for ten years. The world has changed completely and you could do some good here.”
“And there are a lot of new things we might want to see,” Hannibal reminded him, “What exactly is there to keep us here in a mountain?”
“Other than what’s beyond the Stargate?” Daniel said before he dropped his eyes, “There’s me.”
Hannibal stood and moved to Daniel, resting his hand on the younger man’s shoulder.
“You guys disappeared on me,” Daniel continued not looking up, “I know now it was my fault but then…” he trailed off for a second before continuing, “I’ve lost everyone who was ever important to me and I spend my life searching for my wife who I don’t even know I’ll be able to help if I do find her…” he trailed off again, “Sorry.”
“Listen to me, Kid,” Hannibal said softly, “Let me talk to the other three about our options but no matter what we will not disappear on you again. I promise.”
Daniel nodded stepping back, “I have work to do. I’ll come see you later.”
Hannibal sighed as Daniel ran away; he looked around the small room and decided to gather his team. They had some decisions to make.
x
Murdock sat itching to get out of the bed and find out what was going on. Thankfully the other three appeared each pulling a chair to sit at his side.
“If you aggravate my patient you will be out,” the doctor told Hannibal sharply.
As she walked away Hannibal drew the curtain around the bed and taking his seat.
Face let out a long breath, “She is scary.”
“Okay,” Hannibal stopped the conversation before it started, “We need to talk about what we’re going to do.”
Face laughed incredulously, “Whatever we want. Hannibal, we’re free. Personally I’m heading for Hawaii.”
“You could,” Hannibal nodded, “But what then? Face, you’d never be happy spending all your time there.”
“Then I can go somewhere else,” Face replied, “Anywhere else. No more scamming, no more running, no more fighting.”
“You’d be bored within two weeks,” BA chortled.
“The bottom line is we’ve been offered a place here,” Hannibal interrupted, “Daniel wants us to stay and from the looks of things my film career is probably over.”
“I’m staying,” Murdock said, “Danny says he kept Billy for me.”
BA rolled his eyes but for once didn’t rise to the bait, “We can do some good.”
All three turned to Face who groaned and leaned back in his chair, “Hannibal,” he whined.
Hannibal stared directly at his second-in-command not saying anything, just waiting and finally Face sighed and nodded.
“Until we find Danny’s wife,” he stated, “I’m in but only till then.”
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Daniel stood at the bottom of the ramp waiting for the Stargate to dial smiling as the newest team, SG15 aka the A-team joined SG1 for their first off world mission. The past few weeks had been quite strange but having his family back in his life had been wonderful for Daniel. Jack was still a little annoyed that Daniel had never mentioned the connection to the team, especially as it had become apparent very quickly that Daniel had been playing the civilian and wasn’t as clueless about the military as he seemed to be.
The team had spent some time catching up with the past decade, they’d been found some apartments with the exception of Murdock who was staying with Daniel for the moment and now Hammond had decided they were ready to be put into the rotation.
Jack had volunteered SG1 to show them the ropes and it was a standard recon to a new address scheduled for today.
“So,” Murdock said as he moved to stand next to Daniel, “What’s it like out there?”
Daniel watched the Gate open and smiled slightly, “Incredible.”
Murdock grinned and clapped his nephew’s shoulder, “Let’s go. Billy’s getting restless.”
With a chuckle Daniel started up the ramp with Murdock and together they followed the others through.
Enjoy
Part One
From his seat in the car they’d ‘borrowed’ once reaching New York Daniel watched with a smile as Face, portraying a General at this moment, talked their way into the storage facility where the Gate was being held. As they were allowed in BA instantly locked the doors so that no one could get inside and disturb them then they got to work.
Daniel and Murdock set up the first generator while Hannibal and Face set up the other one. BA made the connections to the Gate as Daniel had instructed and soon they were ready to dial.
“Okay,” Daniel said, “BA, you need to manually dial the gate. When it opens don’t be in the way. I’ll activate the device then I’ll go through and hopefully be back home.”
“Then we say goodbye now,” Hannibal said softly glancing at Murdock whose eyes dropped sadly.
Daniel moved first to BA who silently hugged the younger man before looking him in the eyes and nodding making Daniel smile slightly. He moved next to Face who clapped his shoulder.
“We’re proud of you,” Face told him, “Just don’t lose your edge running around the galaxy. Scam when you can.”
Daniel laughed, “I pretty much do anyway. They all think I’m a helpless civilian who can’t really look after himself. They have no idea what you guys taught me.”
“Make sure they never do,” Face hugged him.
Daniel nodded before turning to Hannibal, “Thank you, for believing me and for helping me get home.”
“Are you happy?”
At Hannibal’s question Daniel looked a little bemused before he sighed, “I will be once I get Sha’re back. You guys would love her. She’s smart, mischievous and loves embarrassing me.”
“I hope we get to meet her,” Hannibal replied, “You made us proud, Kid. Just remember don’t become too proficient with the military too fast.”
Daniel nodded, “I’ve got a system.”
Hannibal clapped his shoulder and moved to help as BA began to dial the Stargate. Finally Murdock sidled up to his nephew.
“I understand now,” Daniel said as his uncle hugged him, “I know how you feel sometimes when you see and hear things that aren’t there. It was only for a few days but…”
Murdock reached out and rested his hand on Daniel’s cheek, “But you’re okay now?”
Daniel nodded, “It was a device that accidentally got into me. It’s gone now but I spent several days in a hospital.”
Murdock hugged his nephew, “Good.”
They turned as the Stargate activated and Murdock let out a soft gasp.
“Amazing, isn’t it?” Daniel grinned.
Before anyone could answer someone began to bang on the doors behind them.
“Daniel, time to go,” Hannibal snapped.
Daniel pulled out the device and quickly set the controls before he started towards the event horizon. He could hear the doors start to creak and turned to where his ‘uncles’ were preparing themselves to fight their way out.
“Daniel,” Hannibal snapped, “Go.”
Taking one last look at the four men he would never see again, Daniel ran through the event horizon.
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The alarm sounded as the Gate began to dial; Jack jogged into the control room and watched as the guards took up position in the Gateroom.
“Any signal?” he asked as the Gate opened behind the shield.
“Not yet,” Walter said before a second later the computer beeped, “Hold on. It’s an SG1 signal.”
“Daniel,” Jack sighed in relief before moving into the Gateroom to greet his friend and demand to know where he’d been.
Jack stood waiting for his missing friend to walk down the ramp smiling as the event horizon finally rippled and Daniel appeared.
“Where the hell have you been?” Jack demanded.
Daniel shook his head, “You wouldn’t believe…”
Before he could finish a gunshot flew out the Gate and into the wall behind Jack, the two men ducked as more gunshots fired before a body slammed onto the ramp and rolled down it.
“No,” Daniel cried as he scrambled to the man laying unconscious at the bottom of the ramp.
“Close the shield,” Jack called.
“Don’t,” Daniel snapped, “Not yet. Jack, you’ll kill them if you close it.”
Confused Jack nodded at Walter and they stayed down waiting, he could hear Daniel murmur to the man as he pressed his hand to a gunshot wound. Suddenly three more men stumbled through onto the ramp and Daniel looked up at Walter.
“Close it now,” he yelled.
The shield shut and the three men spun as though realising they were trapped.
x
Daniel was trying to process the fact that his uncle was lying unconscious on the ramp bleeding but the fact the other three were now standing just in front of the Gate looking ready to fight their way out made things worse.
“It’s okay,” Daniel called, “Put your guns down.”
He frowned as neither the A-Team nor the men surrounding the Gate made any movement.
“Murdock needs help, so put your guns down and trust me,” he said through gritted teeth.
Daniel watched as Hannibal slowly nodded to the team and they lowered their weapons allowing Jack and the guards to take them. Janet and her team arrived and moved quickly to the unconscious man lying next to Daniel as they took him away Jack turned to his friend.
“What’s going on?”
Daniel shook his head, “I’ll explain once I know he’s okay,” Daniel replied sharply before turning to Hammond, “Is that acceptable?”
Hammond nodded, “Colonel O’Neill will escort our other guests to the brig.”
Daniel wanted to argue but when Hannibal nodded softly he followed Janet and her team as they took Murdock to the infirmary.
x
“What happened?” Daniel demanded of the three conscious members of the A-team when he joined them in the brig after making sure that Murdock was resting comfortably.
“We had no way out,” Hannibal told him, “We were trying to get out when Murdock was hit and fell through your Stargate.”
“So you came to get him,” Daniel sighed.
“You know the rule.”
“I do,” Daniel rubbed his eyes before he started to laugh slightly, “I can’t believe I’m the reason you four disappeared. I always wondered what happened.”
“What do you mean?” Face demanded a little bemused.
Daniel let out another sigh before shrugging, “I guess it doesn’t matter now. I came back from Egypt a few months after my 22nd birthday and went to see Murdock. The nurse told me he’d disappeared several months ago. I didn’t believe that he wouldn’t come back because when I went into his room everything was there. So I called the van and got no answer, I used every way to contact you I possibly could, I even went to see BA’s Mom but nothing. After a year when there were no sightings, no mysterious messages and no strange presents I had to accept the fact you were gone.”
Face wrapped his arm around Daniel’s shoulders, “We’re here now, Kid.”
“And you have no way back,” Daniel replied, he held out the device showing the hole through the centre.
x
“Daniel, how in hell’s name do you know the A-team?” Jack demanded as they sat in the conference room, “And how have we never known this before?”
Janet had organised a quick medical check for Daniel while she worked on Murdock before allowing him to debrief Hammond. Now Daniel was sitting facing his friend with Hammond at the head of the table both watching him intently.
“The man in surgery,” Daniel started his voice soft but firm, “Is H.M. Murdock.”
“Their pilot,” Hammond noted from his position at the head of the table.
“He’s my father’s half-brother,” Daniel continued very aware of the guards positioned around the room and not happy about it, “Han…Colonel Smith, Lieutenant Peck and Sergeant Baracas basically treated me like family. I grew up knowing if I needed anything I could go to them.”
“General?” Jack turned to his commanding officer obviously completely stunned that they hadn’t found any of this in Daniel’s background check.
“Probably because Captain Murdock was never known as a member of the A-team and by the time Dr Jackson came to work with us they had disappeared while he was out of the country,” Hammond mused answering the unasked question, “I’m wondering why he never mentioned his connection.”
“No offence, General,” Daniel replied, “But there was no way I was going to let you know I had a connection to them. You might have stopped me working here and I need to be here.”
“And now?” General Hammond asked pointedly.
Daniel let out a soft laugh, “General, the A-team received a Presidential Pardon last year.”
“What?” the two men demanded in astonishment.
Daniel turned to them, “I was asked what I wanted after we saved the world - again and I asked for that.”
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Murdock smiled in relief as his nephew walked over to his bed. He didn’t like being stuck in a bed especially when he didn’t know where he was or what had happened to the rest of his team.
“Daniel,” Murdock reached out motioning him over, “You still look too old.”
Daniel sat beside him and rested his hand on his uncle’s shoulder, “I am. You’re in my time now. You’re sort of stuck here now.”
“The others?”
“They’re in the brig,” Daniel told him softly.
“Need to get out of here,” Murdock sighed.
Daniel squeezed Murdock’s hand, “No, they don’t. Trust me you guys are safe here, I promise.”
“Daniel,” Janet’s voice interrupted them, “My patient needs his rest.”
“Aren’t the nurses in VA getting prettier?” Murdock cried with as grand a wave as he could manage.
“I keep trying to explain to him he’s not in the VA,” Janet frowned, “And I’m not a nurse unfortunately he’s not believing me.”
Daniel chuckled, “He’s teasing you. Get some rest, Murdock.”
“Danny,” Murdock gripped his hand, “The others?”
“They’ll be here to see you soon,” Daniel promised, “There are just some things to be worked out.”
x
“Hannibal, we need to get out of here,” Face stated as the Colonel paced the small room they were being kept in.
“We have to trust Daniel,” BA rumbled from the other side of the room.
Hannibal stopped and frowned, “And we can’t leave Murdock here.”
“So what do we do?” Face demanded.
The door opening cut off the conversation and all three moved to the bars separating them from Daniel who was smiling at them as he walked in.
“Daniel, if you’re here to help us escape then no,” Hannibal told him sharply, “We are not letting you ruin your chances of finding your wife.”
Daniel smiled softly, “General Hammond wants to speak to you. Follow me.”
As Daniel led them through the corridors the team took in everything quickly mapping out what they would need to know if they had to escape. Finally they reached the conference room where the leader of the base was waiting with the man who’d taken them to the brig.
“Colonel Smith, Lieutenant Peck and Sergeant Baracus, I’m General George Hammond,” the General introduced himself, “Please take a seat.”
Hannibal nodded to the other two when they looked at him for confirmation before they each took their seat. Daniel slid into the one on the other side of Hammond and facing Hannibal while Jack took the seat at Daniel’s side.
“So,” Hammond started, “I’ve spoken with the President regarding this situation and your sudden arrival.”
The three members of the team stiffened slightly.
“Due to the pardon Dr Jackson procured for you…”
“What?” Face cut him off as they looked at Daniel.
Daniel shrugged, “Saved the world, got asked what I wanted. What else would I ask for?”
“Then we’re no longer wanted fugitives?” Face continued to push not believing this.
Daniel chuckled, “That is what it means.”
“Anyway,” Hammond continued, “You have your pardon however this is a completely different world to the one you knew and questions will be raised about the fact you haven’t aged. I have been authorised to offer you all a position here in the SGC.”
“What?” Daniel gasped but his excitement was soon tempered as he looked at Hannibal’s face.
“General, I need to discuss this with my team before I can give you a definite decision,” Hannibal stated slowly.
Hammond nodded, “I’ve assigned you all rooms here as I assumed you wouldn’t want to leave while Captain Murdock is in the infirmary. Dr Jackson will escort you once he’s taken you to see your team-mate.”
x
Hannibal sat in the room he’d been assigned going over in his mind everything that had happened. He knew the others would look to him to confirm what they should do. He just wished he knew.
“Come in,” he called when someone knocked softly on the door.
He smiled as Daniel walked in; dressed all in blue although older than he should be he still looked impossibly young as he pulled the seat over to the side of the bed.
“Murdock is doing fine,” Hannibal started hoping to stall the conversation he knew he was about to have.
“I know,” Daniel stated softly, “I’ve been to see him a couple of times.”
“Danny…”
“Daniel, I stopped being Danny a long time ago.”
“Fine,” Hannibal replied, “Daniel, you have to give us some time to think about this.”
Daniel shook his head and started to pace, “What is there to think about? Hannibal, you guys have been thought dead for ten years. The world has changed completely and you could do some good here.”
“And there are a lot of new things we might want to see,” Hannibal reminded him, “What exactly is there to keep us here in a mountain?”
“Other than what’s beyond the Stargate?” Daniel said before he dropped his eyes, “There’s me.”
Hannibal stood and moved to Daniel, resting his hand on the younger man’s shoulder.
“You guys disappeared on me,” Daniel continued not looking up, “I know now it was my fault but then…” he trailed off for a second before continuing, “I’ve lost everyone who was ever important to me and I spend my life searching for my wife who I don’t even know I’ll be able to help if I do find her…” he trailed off again, “Sorry.”
“Listen to me, Kid,” Hannibal said softly, “Let me talk to the other three about our options but no matter what we will not disappear on you again. I promise.”
Daniel nodded stepping back, “I have work to do. I’ll come see you later.”
Hannibal sighed as Daniel ran away; he looked around the small room and decided to gather his team. They had some decisions to make.
x
Murdock sat itching to get out of the bed and find out what was going on. Thankfully the other three appeared each pulling a chair to sit at his side.
“If you aggravate my patient you will be out,” the doctor told Hannibal sharply.
As she walked away Hannibal drew the curtain around the bed and taking his seat.
Face let out a long breath, “She is scary.”
“Okay,” Hannibal stopped the conversation before it started, “We need to talk about what we’re going to do.”
Face laughed incredulously, “Whatever we want. Hannibal, we’re free. Personally I’m heading for Hawaii.”
“You could,” Hannibal nodded, “But what then? Face, you’d never be happy spending all your time there.”
“Then I can go somewhere else,” Face replied, “Anywhere else. No more scamming, no more running, no more fighting.”
“You’d be bored within two weeks,” BA chortled.
“The bottom line is we’ve been offered a place here,” Hannibal interrupted, “Daniel wants us to stay and from the looks of things my film career is probably over.”
“I’m staying,” Murdock said, “Danny says he kept Billy for me.”
BA rolled his eyes but for once didn’t rise to the bait, “We can do some good.”
All three turned to Face who groaned and leaned back in his chair, “Hannibal,” he whined.
Hannibal stared directly at his second-in-command not saying anything, just waiting and finally Face sighed and nodded.
“Until we find Danny’s wife,” he stated, “I’m in but only till then.”
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Daniel stood at the bottom of the ramp waiting for the Stargate to dial smiling as the newest team, SG15 aka the A-team joined SG1 for their first off world mission. The past few weeks had been quite strange but having his family back in his life had been wonderful for Daniel. Jack was still a little annoyed that Daniel had never mentioned the connection to the team, especially as it had become apparent very quickly that Daniel had been playing the civilian and wasn’t as clueless about the military as he seemed to be.
The team had spent some time catching up with the past decade, they’d been found some apartments with the exception of Murdock who was staying with Daniel for the moment and now Hammond had decided they were ready to be put into the rotation.
Jack had volunteered SG1 to show them the ropes and it was a standard recon to a new address scheduled for today.
“So,” Murdock said as he moved to stand next to Daniel, “What’s it like out there?”
Daniel watched the Gate open and smiled slightly, “Incredible.”
Murdock grinned and clapped his nephew’s shoulder, “Let’s go. Billy’s getting restless.”
With a chuckle Daniel started up the ramp with Murdock and together they followed the others through.