Urgo Returns. Chapter 5. Aftermath and Invitations.

A.N. Sorry it has taken so very long to update. Thank you for being patient with me and I hope to get the rest written and posted ASAP. Then I can concentrate on Gift of a Family, Memory Lane and the Prequel to Soul Mates.

Thanks again to Sulien for beta reading and everything else she does to help.

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Empty cartons of food littered the table along with far fewer leftovers than there should have been. SG-1, the Scoobies, Buffy and Spike all lounged back, bloated and stuffed. Everyone was feeling the after effects of the binge eating. Even Anya had eaten far more than she normally would have, thinking it some kind of human custom she didn’t know about.

“I feel like I’m going to explode! I can’t believe we ate all the pies,” Jack moaned in pain.

“You ate 3 whole pies yourself, Teal’c ate even more than you and we all pitched in.” Sam pointed out.

“It was most satisfying,” Teal’c stated. Then a pained look came over his face. “Until now.”

“Jack,” Daniel whispered, leaning in. “We really need to talk about these people. They know too much about things they shouldn’t.” Glancing around, he made sure that only the members of SG-1 were within hearing distance and paying attention.

“Has it occurred to anybody else that we have been acting like we did when Urgo was downloaded into our brains?” Sam asked.

“Oh, for cryin’ out loud, Carter. It can’t be Urgo. Togar got those chips out of us.”

“No, Sir, actually, Togar downloaded Urgo out of the chip. The chips are still there, only they should be dormant. Theoretically speaking, Urgo could reactivate the chips again. It was never a concern because we would have to be on the same planet in the same hemisphere. Urgo was going to stay on Hesperia with Togar. We weren’t ever going to go back there.”

“Then if it is Urgo, how did the great pest return?”

“It’s really just a theory at this point.”

“Carter did you even see all of the food we just ate?”

“There could be any number of explanations. Maybe Togar sent Urgo back out to explore again. The odds of us ending up on the same hemisphere of the same planet at the same time are astronomical. I would never have even brought it up but the way we have been acting...”

“Jack, there is another option,” Daniel stated. “I overheard an odd conversation between these people. Apparently, some of them are missing hours and they are researching what might have happened to them during that time. The shop girl Anya said that they may have been abducted by the Asgard for medical testing and experimentation.”

“What?!” Jack asked loudly and was quickly hushed by the others.

“Well she actually called them the Ozgard. She also described the Goa’uld...sort of.”

“We may have some kind of security breach, and we may also have Urgo residing in our heads again,” Teal’c stated, summing up the conversation.

“If it is Urgo, I’d like to figure out some way to teach him a lesson for messing with us again!” Jack grunted.

“Who’s Urgo?” Buffy asked from across the room.

“Uh, Urgo isn’t a person. I was just saying that I didn’t make hotel reservations, ergo I need to figure out where I’m going to stay tonight.” Jack answered wondering how she could have heard that.

“Me too,” Daniel stated.

“As do I,” Teal’c joined in.

Sam looked very embarrassed as she admitted that she too had not planned ahead and gotten reservations. It was something she was always very good about.

Jack arched his eyebrow at Sam, knowing why she was so embarrassed. “So, could you recommend a good hotel or place to camp out?”

All the Scoobies’ eyes got wide when he said this, except for Spike who seemed to smirk evilly.

“Camp out?” Buffy asked in obvious horror. “Bad idea. Camping out is bad. Bad, bad. You don’t want to camp out.”

“Why not?” Daniel asked.

After a long pause, Buffy answered. “Mosquitos; big, killer mosquitos.”

Spike grinned wolfishly and added, “Yeah mate, they’ll suck you dry.” Looking at Daniel, he thought. That’s one way of getting rid of him.

“So, what about a good hotel?” Sam asked while wondering what it was that made these people so worried about them camping out. It certainly wasn’t the mosquitos.

“A good hotel...in Sunnydale? Hmm, I can’t say that there is one,” Buffy stated.

With a smirk, Spike said, “There’s a motel at the other end of town.”

“Spike!” Buffy stated in a sharp tone of voice. “We can’t send them there, it’s not safe.”

“Yeah, dead boy, what ya thinking?” Xander added.

That was the bloody point. Spike thought to himself.

“Why isn’t it safe? And why did you call him dead boy?” Asked Jack.

Xander stammered for a moment before saying, “‘Cuz his sense of humor is about 6 feet under.”

“Where do people stay when they come to visit Sunnydale?” Sam asked. They have to stay somewhere.

“Sunnydale isn’t really a place people come to visit,” Buffy stated. Then she took a deep breath and asked something she had been wanting to ask them since this conversation started. “Why don’t you come stay at my place, I have plenty of room.” She smiled, thinking, That way I’ll know you’re safe and I can spend more time with Daniel.

Anya burst out with a brilliant smile. “That’s a great idea! It will be a while for Giles’ Jr.’s background check to come through. I would hate to loose the sale because he was dead. Buffy, make sure to keep him alive so he can pay me for all of those books.”

Willow started laughing a little nervously. “Ah ha ha, Anya, don’t be so melodramatic. We don’t want to scare the nice people.” Then realizing that as outsiders to Sunnydale they had no idea about how to keep themselves safe, she added, “You do want to be careful while you’re here though, Sunnydale isn’t the safest place to be wandering around after dark.”

“Why is that, exactly?" Jack asked.

“Gangs; gangs on PCP. Officially they cause most of the problems in Sunnydale,” Willow stated.

“Not to mention the meat-forks and mosquitos,” Spike smirked.

The members of SG-1 blinked, but decided to let it go.

“That would be great, thanks for inviting us to stay with you,” Jack stated to the surprise of the rest of his team. He wanted to keep an eye on these people and find out more about the security breach, besides, it was looking like if Urgo was back, he was in these people as well.

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