The First and Only DCIS/Eureka crossover.

From: Josette Grover

Note from Voracity:  Josette came up with this wonderful out take to my DCIS story and since it's so good, I'm putting it up on the DCIS index for her.  So any thanks for this one go to her.

Note from Josette:  Here's the first 8 pages, I think it's probably going to be around 20 pages total. You can post the first part this update, and I'll work on the rest.

AN: This takes place post season two of Torchwood, sometime before season four of Doctor Who.

Sheriff Carter looks up as loudspeakers start blaring music somewhere outside.  He looks at Jo and they both walk outside, hearing the music get louder.

"Is that. . .? "

"Flight of the Valkyries." Henry says, coming over. " They stand where they are as a convoy of vehicles come into view, a man standing in the front of a jeep with his arm outstretched until somebody in the back yanks him back down into his seat.

A car peels off from the others and parks in front of the sheriff's office, both doors opening.

"Fargo." Henry, Carter, and Jo say in unison as a familiar figure gets out of the driver's seat.  They take turns hugging him.

"Daniel, this is Sheriff Carter, Deputy Lupo, and Dr. Deacon, our town mechanic and jack of all trades.  Everybody, this is Dr. Daniel Jackson, my new boss."

"Glad to meet you Dr. Jackson, what is your specialty?" Henry asks, shaking his hand.

"I'm a linguist among other things."

"What brings you to Eureka?" Carter asks.

"The DoD has had enough and put Eureka and Global Dynamics under DCIS's umbrella. I'm here to brief you while the others head onto Global Dynamics to officially receive control from the DoD." Daniel ducks his head and rubs the back of his head. "Though there's bets on how long it takes your Ms. Thorne to hit on Xander since she's obviously  evil."  Fargo chokes as he looks at Daniel.  "The younger slayers looked up her records. That's why we have so many slayers with Xander, to keep her away from Xander and to keep Dawnie from killing her."

"Are you equipped to handle Global Dynamics?" Henry asks.

Daniel nods.  "We have Area 51 and NID under us, we fired and jailed about 90 percent of the sick bastards who worked there.  Rodney, Radek, and Abby are in charge of going over the records.  Some of the people from a classified project we also have under us are there to help lift and move."

"Who's going to be in charge?"

"Definitely not Ms. Thorne, she's going to be arrested and taken to our jail until we can finalize charges.  Fargo told me a little of what she had been doing."

"She had me and another person working for her. You can debrief us if it's needed." Henry says.

"Thank you Dr. Deacon, our judge would appreciate that." Daniel nods.  His phone rings and he answers. "That was Xander, he and Tony have officially taken over control of Global Dynamics for us. Is there a way to have the news spread through town so we don't cause problems?"

All four Eureka citizens snicker.  "Tell Vincent over at Cafe Diem and tell him to keep it under his hat, it will be all over town in fifteen minutes," Carter chuckles. "Do you need me right now?" Carter asks.

"No Sheriff, Fargo figured it was best to brief you and your Deputy first so you knew what was going on."

"Thank you Fargo." Carter claps him on the shoulder and heads outside, meeting Vincent halfway there.

Fargo opens his briefcase and hands over a packet of pictures to Jo.  "This is our Armory." She smiles and sits at her desk, glaring at him over one picture. "If it's the one I think, it's new, still in the experimental stages.  Xander could be your younger brother, he's as gun nuts as you are." Fargo drops into a chair and has a lapful of squealing Zoe Carter.  "Good to see you Zoe." he says.

"Fargo, we missed you. Are you back to stay? You didn't get fired, did you? Thorne is on a rip to have to arrested for leaving."

"I missed you too Zoe, phone calls and e-mails aren't the same.  No, I'm here for a visit, we're not sure how long. The agency I work for now has taken over GD from the DoD, so Thorne can go spin in the wind as John might say."

"Twist in the wind, Fargo." Carter says absently, answering his phone.  He glares over at Fargo. "You had to make an entrance?"

"Xander demanded." Daniel says absently as the door opens and Zane comes into the room.  "Sheriff, is there a quiet room we can use?"

"Down the hall." Carter points. "Table and a couple of chairs, it's supposed to be an interrogation room, but we never bother." Daniel, Zane, and Henry head that way.

"Call GD?" Jo asks Carter while Zoe and Fargo talk.

Carter nods, getting on the phone. He hangs ten minutes later and nods. "It's all on the up and up.  Fargo?" Fargo looks up from whatever Zoe is showing him. "You and Dr. Jackson have the takeover plans for us to go over?" Fargo nods and digs into his briefcase, handing Jo and Carter two folders.

"Sheriff, is Beverly's guest house still empty?" Jo nods.  "Good, we can use it as a base of operations if somebody has the keys." Getting on the phone, he texts that to somebody.  Jo squeaks, though she'll deny it if anybody says anything, as a portal appears in the corner of the room and Dawn walks through.

"Hello Dawn." Fargo smiles.

"Hey Fargo, Xan sent me here to help you get the guest house ready," she says.  "You're supposed to stop and get food and anything else we might need?"

"You'll have to turn on the electricity, open some windows to air it out, and take sheets off the furniture." Jo says. "I'll call and have groceries sent to the house."

"You look familiar." Carter says, staring at the young woman who had appeared from nowhere.  "Have we met?"

"I don't think so, Dawn Summers." She holds out a hand for him to shake.

"Summers, as in that show you always went on about?"  Jo looks over at Fargo who smirks.

"Actually, Buffy is real, Dawn's her younger sister." Jo stares at Dawn who smirks and waggles her fingers. "Yup, we didn't know about the show until Fargo said something. Seems one of the Sunnydale kids who survived graduation came up with it.  He was connected with one of the old watcher families so most of it is true, but things changed when the Bringers appeared.  The Agency that DCIS became had rescued a lot of older potentials from the bringers, bringing them to Sunnydale while they took away a lot of the younger girls and those who couldn't fight.  Me, Xander, and the other girls went to a base while they took down the First Evil.  Willow's spell activated the ones who weren't there too, so we had three girls under the age of ten who were Slayers." Carter and Fargo moan. Dawn nods her head.

"Yeah, so Xander went to LA after the battle and took some of the Slayers there who were injured, ohh and Tara's cat, and brought them back to the base.  Unfortunately, some of the flaming assholes of Watchers who were left decided that they had to go back to one slayer, one watcher by killing the girls at the base and setting off a bomb at the hotel.  Xander managed to get most of us out and headed to safety while he rescued the remaining girls but some of the agents there were killed. Since the base had only been temporary while the new one was refurbished, we set up shop there with my sister, Giles, and the other Slayers who were in magically induced comas from the explosion."

"What happened?" Carter asks as Dawn drops into a chair.

"Faith and Wesley weren't caught in the explosion so they took over Cleveland while Xander rebuilt the council. The President hired Tony to handle DCIS until Danny took over.  We found Dean and Sam and hired them to help train the girls, their Dad joined us after an apocalypse in LA."

"I remember seeing that on television." Carter says. Jo looks at him.  "It was just before we arrived in Eureka."

"I don't remember seeing it."

Dawn holds up one hand and the portal appears again, walking through and reappearing with a computer.  She puts it in front of Jo and brings up footage from the LA fight.  Jo pushes her chair back, staring at the screen as it runs the first time before running the footage again.  "Please tell me that's fake?"

"Nope sorry." Dawn shrugs. "That was our first big battle with the newly called Slayers. It was a good fight, we didn't lose anybody that time." Fargo puts his hand on Dawn's arm. "Thanks Fargo," she pats his hand before shutting down the computer, walking through the portal again, and handing it back off to Tony. "Thanks Tony, Fargo's buddy Jo hadn't seen the footage."

"That's strange, even the Space Station saw the fight," Horatio says, looking over his sunglasses at her.

"A lot of geeks here, they probably don't pay attention to the outside world unless it directly affects them." Faith shrugs. Dawn nods. "The Sheriff had seen it, but that's
because it happened just before he moved to Eureka."

"That does tend to happen here." Allison says. She's sitting on the couch in the office that used to her hers and before that Nathan's. "One of our employees didn't know that the old Sheriff had retired and we had a new one for six months."

Faith shakes her head. "Damn and I thought Tweedy was bad about not getting out of the library."

Employees start milling around the front entrance, looking towards the office where they see Dr. Blake sitting on the couch and people they don't know going through paperwork.

"I should say something to let everybody know what's going on." Allison says, levering herself to her feet.

"Let me." Faith says with a smirk. She opens the door and sticks her head out.  "YO! SHUT IT." She bellows. Everybody stops and stares at the girl in the doorway of the office. Faith shuts the door behind her. "The DoD has had enough of GD and Thorne, they turned control of you over to us, you're now under the control of  DCIS along with NID and Area 51."  You could hear a pin drop, the building got so quiet. Faith smirks. "Unless  you have something that's going to explode if you're not there, git. We're going to be going  over everything and we don't need you getting in the way. We'll call you when it's time to come back to work." She turns to go back inside, then stops and turns around, smirking. "Oh, and there will be guards escorting you back to labs so you can gather your belongings or keep from  blowing us up so you can't quickly run and cook the books."

"Xander, I doubt this is what Daniel had in mind when he asked us to bring a few of the older slayers along to make the turnover easier." Jack says, turning to look at Xander.

"Nothing better than a set of Slayer lungs to get the message across loud and clear," Xander snickers.

"Don't you think one of the others would have been a better choice?" Tony asks.  "Or at least more diplomatic?"

"Faith is the second Senior Slayer, only Buffy has more authority," Xander says. "And Buffy has PMS." All the men in the room moan.

Allison looks down at her stomach, rubbing it gently as the baby kicks. "Thankfully, I haven't had to worry about that for a while."

"Fargo told us about Dr. Stark, I'm sorry for your loss," Xander says, looking over at her. "At least you'll be able to tell the baby about their daddy when they get old enough to start asking questions."

"I hope this turnover is less 'eventful' than the last one." Allison mutters as Faith comes back into the room, shutting the door behind her and smirking at Xander.

"What happened? I thought that the DoD has been over Global Dynamics since the beginning?" Tony asks.  "That's what Fargo said when he talked about where he used to work."

"Nathan used to be the Head of Global Dynamics, he was removed after a lab accident," Allison says. "The DoD picked me as the new head, and we had to shut down the computer systems for 24 hours to change.  We have a large area for test models that don't work or are too dangerous to fall into the wrong hands.  Unfortunately, one of our former employers had been stealing them for spare parts, a check of the inventory when the computer systems came back on line would have shown that, so he slipped a force field device in Fargo's pocket when he was in the bathroom.  Fargo turned it on, unfortunately, there wasn't an off switch."

Xander shakes his head.  "No wonder Fargo didn't tell us that story.   What happened?"

"The field kept expanding, eventually it would have grown as big as Global Dynamics.  We worked to find a way to shut it down, the force field started draining Fargo for power when the battery ran down. We ended up stopping Fargo's heart with a sonic weapon to shut off the force field."

"No wonder Fargo never told us that story." Tony shakes his head. "I thought catching the plague was bad."

"You caught the plague?" Jack turns to stare at Tony. Allison does the same.

"Yeah, some woman sent it to the office, she was dying and didn't like the fact her daughter's rape case was never solved. I was just the unlucky guy who opened the envelope."

"What happened to her daughter's case?" Allison asks softly.

Tony turns sad eyes on her.  "There was never any rape, she couldn't tell her mother she liked rough sex.  She and her boyfriend had had sex, he left her tied up to the bed, and went across the street to buy something.  Unfortunately, he got hit by a car and died, he didn't have any id, they found her in the room two days later, she was hysterical by then and since there was signs of sex and she was tied up, it was handled as a rape."

"And I thought falling into an old burial chamber when I worked construction and catching extinct forms of smallpox and syphilis was bad."  Xander shakes his head. Everybody except Faith turns to stare at him.  "You what. . .???" they say hoarsely.

"Caught strains of syphilis and smallpox that have been extinct for nearly a hundred years," Xander says calmly, looking up from the paperwork he'd been going over.

"You mean the two of you are as bad as Danny?" Jack moans, looking over at them.

Xander looks over at him.  "It took you how long to figure out Jack?"  He makes a tsk-tsk sound.  "I would have thought you'd be smarter than that?"

"Tony, will you swat him for me please?" Jack sighs.  Faith snickers when Xander yelps. "Serves you right, kid."

"Not that." Xander manages to say.

"Oh hell, tell me you did not just get possessed again?" Tony moans.  "Damn it, you did just get possessed again," he sighs.  Xander nods, holding his hands over his eyes.

Allison looks over at the young man trying to curl in a fetal position on the couch, the other man who's silently holding a hand on his back.

/Umm hello?/ Xander asks telepathically.  /You're not out to destroy the world, eat my brain, or kill everybody I hold dear, are you?/

/Nooo, I died trying to stop the world from being destroyed, or at least having it stuck in an eternal loop like a bad remake of Groundhog day,/ a male voice says, not quite sarcastically but in a tone of voice that makes it clear he thinks Xander is insane.  /I don't generally eat brains, and from what I've seen of your friends I'm sure they could stop you if I wanted to kill anybody./  Xander blinks as a tall man with a neatly trimmed beard wearing a three piece suit comes into view in his mind.  /Well, this is . . . unusual, but better than what I had been doing./

/And that was?/ Xander knows better than to be asking questions of the ghost that just possessed him, Daniel will be killing him if he makes it out of this in one piece.

The man shrugs. /Making Fargo think he was seeing things?  I thought making my picture nod in approval was a nice touch./

/Fargo knew you?/

/Oh yes, and so does the woman currently checking your pulse.  Oh, you might want to move, being curled up in a fetal ball is going to leave you sore. And you're upsetting your friends./  Moving closer to Xander, the man once known as Nathan Stark coaxes him into uncurling the body they're currently sharing.

Xander's eyes flicker open as he straightens up, looking around the room before settling on the woman standing beside him.  Reaching up, he gently cups her cheek.  "Allie," he says softly.

"N. . . Na. . . Nathan?" Allison blinks.

"I told you I'd always be with you Allie."  He looks down at her swollen stomach and smiles softly.  "How's Kevin? And the baby?"

"She.  . . She's fine, so's Kevin.  Carter has been helping . . . a lot."

"Maria, Maria Elena." Nathan/Xander says with a sad smile.  "Hello Maria, it's nice to finally meet you."

Allison's face crumples, Fargo might have told Xander of Nathan's nickname for her, the younger man had known Dr. Stark was the baby's father and his death is what had spurred Fargo into leaving Eureka, but there was no way Fargo could have known of the message Nathan had left for her, she hadn't even told Carter of what Nathan had said  when she had viewed the crystal. And there was no way he could have known of that long ago day when Allison and Nathan had been dating and she had told him of the young girl who had given her life, then given her up.

Nathan holds his ex-wife in his arms while she cries.  Allison leans against his shoulder while a hand runs up and down her back.  Ohh the voice isn't the same, but the words, the mannerisms, she can close her eyes and imagine the last few months hadn't happened and Nathan is comforting her after a bad dream.

She finally straightens up, reaching for a Kleenex to wipe her eyes.  "Thank you," she says huskily. "I . . . didn't know how much I'd been holding back. The last few months have been . . . difficult."

"I know Allie, I was here after all." It takes a couple of seconds of concentration, but Nathan soon has Xander's body up and moving, walking over to the window.

Tony, Jack, and Horatio watch Xander's body, seeing the different mannerisms, body language, and speech patterns.

"Is Xander aware of any of this?"

"Of course, right now he's complaining that Daniel told him to stay out of trouble, it's not his fault he got possessed again, is it?"

"Yes," Tony and Horatio say in unison. "It is."

Nathan chuckles at something Xander tells him.  "I don't think I'll repeat what . . . Xander just told me.  And what type of name is Xander anyway?"

"It's short for Alexander."

"Well that makes sense at least." Xander/Nathan heads for the door.

"Where are you going?"

"Umm, I don't know about you but I'd rather not spend the rest of my life sharing a body with your friend." Nathan says sarcastically.  "Can one of you call Fargo, I need him back here as soon as possible."

"For what?" Tony asks, automatically dialing Fargo's number.

"Fargo and Carter saw my body disintegrating, but what actually happened is inside the chamber is a time bubble.  With time moving outside, they couldn't see I'm actually in there.  If Fargo can figure out a way to get me safely out of there, I should be fine."

"You should be fine?" Allison asks dryly.  This day started out strange and has gone downhill from there.  If anybody had told her she'd be talking to her dead ex-husband who's currently possessing a young man and is talking about bringing himself back to life, she'd have had security get them, order a drug test, and have them locked away until they came off of whatever they had been exposed to.  Looking over at the others, she's stunned to see they're not the least bit surprised by this turn of events.  "This happens often?" she asks.

"Xander getting possessed?" Horatio asks. She nods.  He nods. "The last time he ended up being possessed by a former CSI that worked with me, he had been killed when his gun jammed.  Xander ended up in the same cemetery Speed was buried in and caught his attention by going 'here ghosty ghosty ghosty' by his grave site."

"So this?" she waves a hand at Xander's body who's currently heading for the elevators, looking over his shoulder at them.

"Is absolutely normal for Xander," Horatio sighs, putting his sunglasses back on as Faith snickers.

"What happened to your former CSI?"

"Dawn sneezed him up a new body, he's back at the base on another case while we're here," Tony sighs. "He's either going to laugh or swear when he finds out what happened."  Faith grabs Tony's phone, dialing a number.  "Faith!"

"Chill.  I'm calling little D so she can get hold of her teachers, in case we need their help."

"Yeah?" Dawn says, answering her phone in the Sheriff's office.  Her eyebrows go up into her hairline when she hears the voice on the other end.

"Faith, is anything wrong?"

"You might say so, boytoy got himself possessed."

"Oh no, not again," Dawn moans.  Everybody turns to look at her.  "Xander's possessed."

"Again?"  Daniel asks.  "I told him to stay out of trouble."

Dawn snickers.  "That's what the entity that's possessing Xander is saying, he claims it's not his fault. Horatio and Tony disagreed."

"Do they know who or what is possessing Xander this time?" the Eureka inhabitants look at him.  "Last time it was one of Horatio's CSI's that had been killed when his gun jammed."

Dawn's eyes grow wide when she passes on Daniel's question, looking at Fargo.  "He claims he's your old boss, Nathan Stark. Dr. Blake seems to be convinced, guess he told her something we wouldn't know."

"Dr. Stark?" Fargo squeaks.

"Yeah, he wants you and Sheriff Carter up there as soon as possible. He claims his body's still in that thingy," Dawn waves a hand.  "What you thought you saw was just time restarting."

Fargo stares at Dawn in shock before abruptly jumping to his feet and heading out to the car.  Daniel catches up with him, grabs the keys, and pushes him back into the sheriff office where Dawn is waiting.

"All aboard the Dawn express, direct to Global Dynamics," Dawn says, creating a portal.  Daniel and Fargo grab the others, pushing them through the portal as Dawn takes up the rear.  They arrive in the lobby of Global Dynamics, seeing Xander and the others standing at the elevators.  Faith, Tony, and Jack are used to Dawn's portals so they don't even blink, Allison had seen her do it earlier, but Xander, or whoever's inhabiting his body blinks and smirks as Fargo stumbles exiting the portal.

"Good of you to join us," he smirks as Allison runs her badge through the reader to bring the elevator.  "Fargo!" he snaps when the younger man doesn't move fast enough for him.

"Yes sir, Dr. Stark."  Fargo jumps and quickly moves across the lobby to the elevator.  There's no mistaking that tone of voice.

They head to the room neither Fargo or Carter has been in since that day.  Thankfully they'd been able to stymie Thorne's intention and had left the room exactly the way it was then they'd left.  Stark makes a tutting sound in his throat when he sees the layers of dust on everything, swiping a finger through it and holding it up. He automatically reaches into his pocket for a handkerchief, looking down and blinking when he sees a plain shirt.

Carter hands him a damp paper towel from the bathroom down the hall, he wipes his hands and then the chamber.

"Are you sure your body is in there?" Carter asks.  He abruptly shakes his head, he can't believe he's talking to a man possessed by Nathan Stark, that is weird even for Eureka standards.

"Positive, I can see it."

"How are we supposed to get you out of there, if Time is stopped inside the chamber?" Carter asks.  Everybody turns to look at him.  "You're the scientists, not me."

"You know Carter, that is a damn good question." Stark rubs his. . .errr Xander's face.  "I'm not really sure. . . but I do know who can help me.  Henry, I'm going to need a few items." He rattles off a list of objects and Henry leaves.  Dr. Blake rubs her hand on her stomach as the baby moves, Stark automatically reaching out and putting Xander's hand over hers, she sighs as the baby settles down.

"Thank you," she sighs.  Oh nobody had said anything to her face, but she knew that Nathan's death and the pregnancy had made her difficult to be around.  She snorts mentally, she'd been difficult to be around well before Nathan's death.

"Of course any child of mine is going to be difficult, even in the womb."  He smirks, a look that everybody from Eureka recognizes.

"You all are taking this much too calmly," Dr. Blake says when everybody is finally back at Thorne's old office. It was weird to hear two different speech patterns coming from Xander's mouth, but it was even more disturbing that the others who had came to Eureka seem to think this is absolutely par for the course.

"This isn't the first time Xander's been possessed," the man introduced by the others as Dr. Daniel Jackson, head of DCIS sighs, looking over at the young man who's busy scribbling math equations on a whiteboard.

"And knowing Xander, it won't be the last time," the young girl named Dawn sniggers.

"Hey!" the young man yelps.  "At least I get possessed by people that can help us. . .or we can help them." He turns to look at Horatio, lifting an eyebrow.  Everybody blinks, that is such a Stark move but the voice is definitely Xander's.  "I don't see you complaining too loudly about getting Speed back, and I'm sure people will be glad to get Dr. Stark back, especially if it means getting rid of Ms. Thorne."

"Who has my notes?" Stark asks, seemingly out of nowhere.  The Eureka natives are used to his leaps in logic, probably like the DCIS crew is used to the leaps Xander's mind makes, and don't even blink. "I know Thorne cleared out my house as soon as possible without looking like a total shrew."

"My house or Henry's attic; Thorne had a fit when she realized that you didn't keep anything of value on Global Dynamics systems and she couldn't get your projects without looking like she was stealing from the dead," Allison says absently.  Stark snickers softly.  "Yes, we all know you did it deliberately to make her miserable," she says absently. "Ms. Thorne didn't realize that all scientists are paranoid little creatures that think the man is out to get their research, so they have to break it up and hide it in three or four different locations.  That way if somebody broke in and stole their notes, it wouldn't work for them."

Somebody's stomach growls in the quiet room, everybody looks around and Faith starts snickering. The mood lightens. Fargo stands up and clasps his hands together. "Let's go get something to eat at Vincent's."  He picks up the phone and reserves the back room for them, "And then we can start making plans for getting Dr. Stark's body out of the chamber."  Fargo hustles everybody out of the room, the Eureka natives looking at him with disbelief, their quiet little Fargo has grown a backbone since he's been gone.

The meal is a lively one, Fargo being filled in on what happened while he was gone from Eureka and the Eureka natives being filled in on what happens at DCIS.  Jo shakes her head hearing about the sizes of the busts that Xander's been on, Xander would be complaining about the others but Dr. Stark took over his mouth, right now he's interested in eating Vincent's cooking after being without a body for so many months.

He suddenly stares at the wall a second, a smile forming on his face as his subconscious finally comes up with the solution to his problem.  "The Doctor," he says aloud.  Everybody turns to look at him.  "Henry, do you still have contacts with Unit and Torchwood?"

Henry nods.

"Send them an e-mail, giving them a general rundown on what happened and ask them if they can contact the Doctor for help."

Faith finishes her second full plate of food, covering her mouth with her napkin when he belches softly.

"That. . .is good food. You weren't kidding, Fargo."

"No, our cafeteria has good food, but there's only one Vincent."

"Sooo," Dawn says in her most innocent tone that has everybody who knows her giving her 'what are you up to this time' looks. "Fargo says you guys have a kickass spa.  Does DCIS taking over Eureka allow us to use it? We don't have one on the base ...yet, and I've missed being able to pamper myself, too busy beating up bitchy teenagers who think I'm trying to steal their boyfriends because I don't put out like they do."

"You could always go join your sister in Cleveland." Xander says in a sing-song voice, eyes full of mischief.

"I . .will. . .hurt. . .you." Dawn says slowly, pointing her fork in his direction. "I am trying to be a good girl, not one of the slut patrol from Cleveland."

"Slut patrol?" Fargo asks.

"Before you arrived Fargo, some of the girls in Cleveland believed in sharing. . .boyfriends and STDs.  About six of them had about five diseases; Xander yelled at them, John yelled at them, House yelled at them. . ."  She smiles.  "I think the shortest lecture was two hours. The girls begged to take the medication, I think some of them even promised to become celibate, and Slayers are horny little creatures, especially after a battle."

"Did it work?" Allison asks.

"Unfortunately no, some of them were found to have went right back to sharing boyfriends and diseases," Dawn said.  Allison shook her head.  "House was not amused."

"House?"

"Gregory House, the Doctor in charge of our infirmary.  Mr. Cranky boy himself,"  Xander snickers.

"I believe that we can get you in the spa," Dr. Stark says, sipping on a mug of tea.  "DoD agents routinely had access to the spa when they were in town, I don't see why you can't while you are here."

Dawn grins and gives Faith a look. "Oh hell no, why would I want to go and sit around getting prettifed?"

"For Dean?"

"Dean likes me just the way I am."  She smirks. "Besides, he's not here.  No use getting all gussied up if you don't have somebody to pounce when you're done.  Your hand ain't going to do it for you, you only do something like that for your guy or girl." Fargo splutters. But everybody else at the table whose had serious relationships sigh and nod.

Henry comes back to the table, he'd excused himself a minute ago. "I sent a note to my contacts with details of everything that happened.  They'll leave a message for the Doctor."

"Thank you Henry." Stark says calmly.  He ignores the flutter in the young man whose body he's inhabiting stomach, he is not nervous, even if Henry and Allison are giving him amused looks. He's not, he's just gratified that the long months of being without a physical form is finally over, even if it's not his physical form.

"So should we start putting your belongings back in your house?"

"Nobody's moved into it yet?"

"Thorne was more for getting rid of employees than bringing in new people." Allison snorts. "We have twenty empty houses thanks to her closing projects."

"Get me a list of those projects and the personnel removed." Daniel tells Tony. "We can go over them with the rest of Global Dynamics projects and see if they need to be reinstated or not."

"Did you have much trouble taking over Area 51 or the NID?" Henry asks.

"Not after we removed 90 percent of their personnel for being sick torturing bastards." Abby snorts. "Stupid idiots that didn't get arrested in the first round got arrested in the second round when they tried to get government funding to open their own company so they could torture people.  Said it right in the proposal."

"Nobody claimed they were smart," Henry snorts, taking a sip of coffee.

"Whined like babies for hours because we were taking away their fun," Abby says.

"My old team already had some experiences with NID. . ." Daniel says.  "Us too." Dawn interjects. "So it was a pleasure to swoop in and throw them in prison where they belonged."

"Dawnie," Xander moans.

"I know everybody thinks they had something to do with Mommy's death, Xan. Spike was drunk one night and talked."

Xander looks at her sadly.  "We didn't want you to know, Dawnie, you were only 14 when Joyce died."

Everybody looks at them. "Joyce collapsed from a walnut-sized brain tumor literally overnight.  No prior symptoms, she just collapsed.  We talked to Wilson after DCIS was founded, he thought it was a little suspicious."

"How did you meet the NID?" Dr. Stark asks.

"They set up a lab in our town under the college, they were capturing and torturing demons and humans," Dawn says absently.  "Xander and the others ended up taking them down. The government covered everything up, they didn't want it to get out they were sponsoring a group that was torturing civilians."

"They were supposedly punished for their actions, but I recognized some of the names of the scientists as those who were arrested when DCIS took over, their goon squads were taken over by the UN, they're demonic 'peacekeeping' groups now, so it looks like they got off with a slap on the wrist," Xander says.

"And that was only because civilians took them down," Dawn snorts.

"Yeah, the government gets testy when their top secret base gets busted by a bunch of kids and a former high school librarian," Dawn agrees. "They don't like it when you give them a black eye."

"Never mind the fact that they shouldn't have been doing that in the first place," Horatio says.

Dawn waves a hand. "Please, that's beside the point.  They were taken down by kids."

You can tell the Eureka natives are in shock, dying to ask the question.  Fargo finally is the one who does.  "Why?"

"They had a friend of ours," Xander says.  "We went in to get him out, then took them down when we realized what they were doing.  The government hushed it all up, at least until the President was killed by that demon who was avenging his family, then our agency was created to handle them and make sure something like that never happened again."

"We had some NID personnel try to get onto Global Dynamics projects, we sent them packing when we realized what they were doing," Dr. Blake says, sipping her herbal tea. "As you said, 90 percent of their personnel are torturing bastards."

Meanwhile, over in Cardiff Jack Harkness looks at the message Ianto had brought him and picks up a phone.  He'd been surprised when the Doctor had sent him a Superphone so he could contact the other man, he wouldn't have thought the other man would want to hear from him.  He punches in the numbers like he's done a hundred times in his mind, takes a deep breath, and hits send.

The phone is picked up on the other end by the third ring.  "Hello?" the Doctor asks calmly, Jack smiles, the Doctor could be running from crazed aliens and still sound completely unruffled.

"Doc, it's me. I got a message from a scientist named Henry Deacon in the United States, he lives in a small town called . . . "

"Eureka, yes I know who you're talking about." The Doctor puts the phone down on his end, the TARDIS putting it on speaker for him as he starts changing course.

"It seems that there was a. . .incident with an experiment someplace called Global Dynamics." Jack looks at the note in front of him.  "There was a time loop that was only stopped with the sacrifice of a scientist, one Nathan Stark.  Everybody thought they saw his body disintegrating in a chamber, but he's been hanging around as a ghost?"  Jack blinks, that sounds strange but after being with the Doctor and all he's seen in Torchwood. . .

"Yes Jack, keep talking."

"He ended up possessing a young man who'd come as part of the team that was taking control of the company from the DoD?"

"Department of defense, or Defense Department as it's more commonly known." Ianto and the Doctor say in unison.

"And he claims his body's still alive in the chamber, what they thought was his body

disintegrating was actually time starting again outside the chamber.  They're asking our help to get him out of there," Jack says, blinking as he can hear the TARDIS arriving in the HUB.

"Hang up Jack, I'll be up there in a couple of seconds.  Did they send anything with the request?"

Jack looks at Ianto who nods.  "They sent copies of all the information they had on the incident. I'll set up a workstation so the Doctor can look at it," he says before walking out of the office.  He passes the Doctor as he runs up the stairs and settles at Toshiko's empty station.

Jack stands up, putting the phone away in his desk as the Doctor bursts into his office.  Jack holds out his hand to the Doctor to shake, squeaking as the other man pulls him into a hug.  The Doctor looks at Jack, his eyes, his eyes are so old. "What happened?" he asks him.  Martha had told him that Jack's team had lost a couple of members when she last talked to him, but he wasn't expecting to see the other man so shattered, but only somebody who'd seen him after the Year that Wasn't and knows how good Jack is at hiding his feeling would be able to see it.

Jack sighs and sits down on the couch that had been brought into his office folding his hands together to keep them from shaking.  The Doctor drops down onto the couch beside him, one arm around his shoulders as Jack softly tells him what happened, finding out Gray was alive, Owen and Toshiko's deaths, being buried alive for so many years. . .

Ianto looks up when the door of Jack's office opens and the Doctor walks down the stairs.  His coat is wet and he brushes at it irritably until Ianto takes it off and hangs it up on the coat rack in the corner of the room as he sits down at Tosh's computer. The information they'd received is up on the computer and Ianto can hear the Doctor mumbling softly under his breath as he starts to read.

"This shouldn't be possible, what were they thinking?" Ianto hears as he walks over to the Doctor's workstation with a mug of tea. He touches his shoulder gently and the other man looks up before he puts the tea down in front of him.

"You must be Ianto, Martha described you perfectly." The Doctor sips his tea. "Ahh, just how I like it, thank you."

"You're welcome, Doctor, do you think you can help them?"

"I believe so, though I'd have to see what they were working on to make sure."

"I can send them a message and tell them we're on our way," Ianto offers.

"Don't bother, by the time they got the message, we'd already be there."

"Not the way you drive, Doc," Jack snorts from the landing in front of his office.

He looks. . .at peace, for the first time in a very long time Ianto thinks.  Ianto should be jealous of the Doctor, he knows Jack has feelings for the other man, but he's glad that he could help him when Ianto himself couldn't.  He moves to take the empty mug and the Doctor calmly puts a hand over his.

"You helped him a lot more than you know, Ianto, you kept him sane until I could get here," he tells him quietly.  Myfanwy lifts her head from her nest in the corner of the Hub. "Is that a pterodactyl? Brilliant," the Doctor says, getting up and walking over to get a closer look at her.

"Sir, is there anything you need for me to do while you and the Doctor are in the States?" Ianto asks quietly as he brushes off the Doctor's coat and holds it out for the other man to put on.

"You're coming with us, aren't you?" The Doctor asks.

"Of course you're coming with us, Yan," Jack says, wrapping an arm around both men's shoulders.  "Leave Gwen a note; it might be a couple of days." Jack shuts down Toshiko's computer and looks over at the Doctor as he throws open the TARDIS's door.  Ianto looks at Jack but the older man grabs him by the hand and pulls him into the TARDIS, the blue box vanishing noisily from the room as Myfanwy flaps her wings and heads out into the night.

Henry looks up from going over the notes from the experiment the next morning when an unfamiliar sound comes from the corner of the room.  Everybody there looks in that direction as an object starts materializing in the corner, solidifying into a blue box with the  words police box over the door.

The door opens a few seconds later and a man who is nearly bouncing with excitement comes out. “Dr. Henry Deacon? I'm the Doctor, I hear you have a little predicament you need my help with.”

“Oh good, I was hoping your friends at UNIT or Torchwood would know of a way to get hold of you.  Did you get the notes we sent you?”

“Yes, and can I say I'm impressed. I don't know what your man was trying to do, but this level of time technology shouldn't be possible in the current time period.”

Xander's body snorts in the corner. “I don't think they knew what they were trying to do, Doctor. I'm Dr. Nathan Stark, the man at the heart of the matter. And this,” he waves a hand at the body he's inhabiting, “Is Alexander Harris, the young man I'm possessing.”

“Can you tell us if Nathan's body is still inside the machine?” Jack Carter asks suddenly. “Because I swear I saw it dissolving in little blue sparkles, but Stark is convinced what Fargo and I saw was just time restarting outside the chamber and he's still inside.”

“And I'd like to get my own body back if possible, Doctor. I'm sure Xander would like to have his own back as well.” Nathan says. “And ...my fiancee is pregnant, I want to hold my son or daughter in my own hands when they're born.”

“Well, we can get one thing out of the way right now.” The Doctor says cheerfully, pulling out his sonic screwdriver and scanning the machine. He looks at the readout for a second and smiles. “Yep,” he says, popping the p. “There's definitely a body inside the chamber.”

“Is. . .is he alive in there?” Allison asks, holding onto Nathan. ..err Xander's arm.

“Nope.” The Doctor says with a grin. Everybody's face falls. “But he's not dead in there either, he's frozen in time, sort of like a fly in amber. He's not alive or dead, he's nothing until time starts moving for him again.”

“Well, that's something at least.” Nathan murmurs, patting Allison's hand. “Do you know how we can get my. . .my body out of there?”

“That,” the Doctor says, looking at him. “is the 64,000 dollar question, isn't it? Tell me exactly what happened.”

Nathan looks at Carter, who starts to tell the story.

The time finally arrives.  All the modifications the Doctor, Henry, Nathan, in Xander's body, and Jack had performed on the original equipment has been made, checked, double-checked, and triple-checked. Allison chuckles softly when she sees Carter crossing his fingers out of the corner of her eye.  She'll never admit it, but he's not the only one calling on a little divine intervention for this to work. The dark glasses everybody is wearing makes things difficult to see clearly, but she swears she can see the Doctor smiling as he pulls up a large lever attached to the machine, the light growing brighter and brighter as Jack Harkness calls out numbers until it's too bright to see inside the lab, even through the special glass of the observation level and the dark glasses everybody is wearing.

Nathan and the Doctor had flatly refused to allow her. . . .and by extension the others, into the lab when the process of trying to remove Nathan from the machine, too dangerous he had told her. Only Xander's hand cupping the baby bump and her child moving in her womb had finally made her accede to the requests, though she'd threatened to kill Nathan if he got himself dead doing this. Jack Carter had blinked but Nathan had chuckled and kissed her gently on the cheek as she made her way up the stairs to the area that had been set up for the others to watch.

Jack Harkness keeps calling the numbers on the display he's reading, he can feel the time energy ripping through the room. It had taken them a week to make the changes needed to do this, most of the time had been taken up by shielding to make sure the energy didn't leave the room, this amount of energy could do more damage than merely a 'bad groundhogs day impression' as Jack Carter had called it when the Doctor had asked what sort of experiences the machine had caused. The Doctor had blinked, but Ianto had chuckled and been able to explain the popular culture reference to the Time Lord.

“Now Jack,” the Doctor calls as Jack continues to call out numbers. Jack Harkness quickly runs across the room as the Doctor opens the machine from his spot across the room, he reaches in and pulls Nathan's body to safety. Jack can hear the Doctor quickly shutting things down as he drags Nathan across the room before the overdose of energy kills him.

The Doctor is across the room as soon as the energy levels start falling to levels that safe, for him anyway, like Jack just proved the energy isn't safe for anybody but a Time Lord. He drags them to the shielded area they'd created, propping Jack up against the wall before turning his attention back to Nathan.

He's still breathing and the Doctor sighs as he feels a strong heartbeat against his palm. Looking at the readout on the remote he'd hooked up to the machine, he unlocks the room when the energy levels have dropped until it's safe for humans. He's not surprised when a rush of feet head down the stairs from the observation level, raising his voice instead.

“Dr. Stark, please come in here. Everybody else stay out, especially you Dr. Blake, we don't know what chronal energy can do to a baby still in the womb.”

He can hear Dr. Blake complaining about being ordered to stay back, he smiles as he hears two voices talking quietly before a body drops down beside him.

“I hope you know what you are doing?” He asks Xander, it's obvious who's in charge of the body this time.

“I hope so too,” Xander says before closing his eyes and starts chanting. The Doctor blinks at the ancient Latin that crosses his lips, it's not a language he hears everyday. Obviously it's something the younger man learned by rote, the pronunciation of some of the words are not quite right. Xander's hand lingers lightly on Nathan's body, one on his chest over the heart and the other on his temple. Xander's body shudders and collapses.

Nathan's eyes flutter open as the younger man is rolled off of him by the Doctor. “Are you okay?” he asks him, scanning him with his sonic screwdriver.

“I believe so,” Nathan says slowly, moving arms and legs he hasn't been in for nearly six months.  “Although I feel like I could sleep a week. How's Xander?”

“I . . .hate. . .exorcisms.” Xander complains softly from his spot next to Nathan. “Though sleeping for a week? Sounds real good right about now.” His voice trails off as he gives up the fight to stay awake.

“Can somebody please call the infirmary and have a couple of stretchers brought down?” The Doctor calls, raising his voice slightly.

“Already on their way.” Jack Carter says, squeezing into the remaining area of the room. “Can they be moved?”

“Yes.” the Doctor says.

Carter looks down at Stark and smirks. “Now who's laying down on the job, Stark?” he says with a grin, hand clapping the other man on the shoulder.

“Told you I'd see you around Carter.”

The stretchers arrive a couple minutes later and Stark, complaining the entire time about the indignity of being carried out of the room and he's fine, he doesn't need to go to the infirmary, is lifted onto it by Carter. Allison immediately grabs his hand when he's out of the room and holds it to her cheek, crying.

Xander is carried out of the room next and everybody but Ianto and Jack Carter follow them up to the infirmary.

“Are you . ..oh my god, he's dead.” Carter says when he touches Jack Harkness, still slumped against the wall.

“Yes, the energy released opening the chamber killed him.” the Doctor says calmly. “It was the only way.”

“Why didn't you tell us?” Carter asks sadly. “One of us. . .”

“Isn't this how your friend got into the chamber in the first place?” The Doctor asks calmly. “Jack volunteered.”

Ianto touches Jack Carter calmly on the shoulder. “It's okay Sir, the Captain is. . . .special.”

Jack Carter jumps when Jack Harkness jerks and takes a deep breath at his feet.

“And that,” the Doctor smiles, “is why we didn't want everybody to come in here. Ianto, will you help Jack into the TARDIS so he can rest while I start dismantling everything?”

“Do you need me to come out and help you Sir?” Ianto asks, taking the key from the Doctor's hand as Carter helps Jack Harkness onto shaky feet. Looping an arm around Jack's waist, Ianto leads him over to the TARDIS. The Doctor watches Ianto open the door, looking forward to the Sheriff's 'it's bigger on the inside' exclamation, but it doesn't happen. Carter just looks over his shoulder at him and grins. “I've lived in Eureka for nearly four years now, nothing surprises me anymore.” Jack Harkness laughs at the pout on the Doctor's face before the door shuts behind the three of them.

Carter comes out a few minutes later and walks over to the Doctor, taking over the job of dismantling the dampening panels used to shield the room so the Doctor can take them back into the TARDIS. An hour's work with the three of them, Ianto having came out when Jack had told him the TARDIS could watch him sleep, he didn't need to stay with him and watch him, because while that's sweet after they'd just made love god wouldn't that be boring right now?, has nearly one wall uncovered and a cart of panels ready to be taken back into the TARDIS when Fargo comes back into the room.

“Sheriff Carter, you're needed in the infirmary.” Fargo says.

“Stark throwing a fit?” Carter smirks.

“Yes Sir,” Fargo smiles.  “And I never thought I'd be glad to hear him complaining.”

Carter smiles, boxing up the last few screws they'd used to hold the panels together and putting them on the cart before following Fargo out of the room. The Doctor grins at them as they walk from the room before taking the cart into the TARDIS.

He'd talked to Nathan and Henry, this level of technology was dangerous in the wrong hands. Nathan had just snorted and nodded, he'd be dismantling it while he was removing his additions to the room and taking it with him. Nathan hadn't even bothered to complain, merely waving his hand at the chamber where his body was trapped, the machine had caused nothing but trouble for them. Global Dynamics wanted the machine gone, Stark didn't want to be reminded of what happened, and the lab could be used for something else.

Carter grins as the nurses all look at him with 'get in there and shut him up' looks when the elevator opens and he can hear Stark complaining from a room.

He leans against the doorway. “Stark, we all thought you were dead for nearly six months and we've had to deal with Eva Thorne and duck Allison's mood swings,” he's out of reach, but she swats in his direction anyway, “Let them fuss.”

“How is everything?”

“The Doctor is taking down the shielding, the takeover of Global Dynamics by DCIS is in Fargo's capable hands . . .and saying that with a straight face is just wrong.” Carter grins at Fargo to take the sting from his words.

Fargo grins. “Xander already had the job of troublemaker on the team, I had to settle for Deputy Head.” he says with a chuckle.

“Vincent is in love with Faith and the girls who came with Daniel, he finally has somebody who both appreciates his cooking and has a hell of an appetite, Dawn is in love with the spa, last I heard she was begging Daniel to build one on their base, right now the closest one is the town that's a few miles away and they have to make appointments a month in advance with so many girls there.”

Xander is in the other bed of the room, sleeping the sleep of the 'been possessed by the Snarky Bastard of the Century, been in the middle of remaking the lab so he can have his own body back for nearly a week and performed a fucking exorcism on myself thank you very much, I am fucking exhausted and going to lie down for a week and now I have to listen to everybody bitch because I was possessed and it wasn't my fault this time' when there's a knock at the door.

“Dr. Stark, we haven't been formally introduced,” Daniel says, his lips twitching as he comes into the room, “I'm Daniel Jackson, the head of DCIS. Your company is no longer under the umbrella of the DoD, DCIS will be taking over.” he introduces himself formally.

Stark, his lips twitching as well, while they hadn't had the time to really talk since the Doctor had arrived and they'd started working on getting Stark back his own body they had talked at least once, gravely holds out his hand for the other man to shake. “Okay, now that we have the formal bullshit out of the way, what do we have to do to make everything work smoothly between us?” Daniel asks, pulling over a chair so he's sitting between Dr. Stark's and Xander's hospital beds.

“Shoot Larry?” Carter asks, his lips twitching.

“Don't tempt me.” Stark and Allison say in near unison, smiling at each other.

Daniel looks over at the bed where Xander's sleeping. “Xander, you're going to be ready to leave in the morning, right? After all, you getting possessed is the reason we're here a week longer than I had planned.”  Daniel's grin says he's teasing and Xander opens one eye, glares blearily at him and flips him the bird before yanking the covers over his head.

“Just for that, you get to do the paperwork over this.”

“I came, I saw, I was possessed, I got unpossessed, the end.” Xander says from his bed. “How soon can I get out of here?”

“Not until I do kid,” Stark complains.

“And the longer you complain, the longer you both have to stay.” Allison says.

“Don't make me call in House.” Daniel threatens “Our doctor,” he says at the others looks. Fargo just grins. “He's the Snarky bastard of the century and hates it when Xander tries to escape the infirmary, he keeps threatening to tie him to the bed.”

“Kinky bastard, needs to use them on Wilson, not me.” Xander complains.

“Go back to sleep Xander, you're getting silly.” Daniel says, rolling his eyes. “I'd warn the nurses about him trying to escape when he feels better.”

Stark looks at Carter, “That sounds familiar.”

The next morning has Stark dressed in a suit talking quietly with Allison and Daniel as he goes over the final paperwork putting Global Dynamics under DCIS, the rest of the team had finished going through the experiments and files they'd been sent to look over, Xander might have been busy getting Stark out of his head and back into his own body, but they'd had jobs to do. The Slayers and most of the others had headed back to the base last night, the only people still in Eureka were Xander, Daniel Jackson, and Fargo.

Stark wraps an arm around Allison as the jeep carrying the three of them pulls out of the parking lot. “Be it ever so humble,” Stark says looking around as an explosion can be heard in the building and Carter, sighing, heads in the direction of the elevators, Stark's gaze lingering on him until the doors close. “it's good to be home.” He scowls a second later. “Larry,” he bellows, bringing the other man running. “I'm going to miss Fargo though.”

“Yes Sir, Dr. Stark?” Larry comes running up.

“Find out what the hell happened and have the report on my desk.” he waves a hand the direction Sheriff Carter had gone. “I'm going to be with the Doctor the rest of the day.”

Larry stands staring after the heads of Global Dynamics as they walk away. Suddenly, being assistant to the Head of GD isn't looking as good as he thought it would. How the hell is he supposed to know where the explosion had came from? A second explosion and a bellowed 'Larry' has him running towards the elevator.

Josette said "this is The End."