The Fifth Member of SG-1

"Receiving The Badge"

Stargate Command, Briefing Room

Jack leant back, oddly enough he wasn't surprised by the question. He looked rather pensive about it.

Neither was Jonas, although he was positively grinning into his fist.

Sam was, however, and she was looking at everyone, seeing they all weren't surprised… except Teal'c, who wouldn't really let on if he was or not.

Speaking of, Teal'c didn't budge from the posture he had kept since Harry began speaking – that of a raised eyebrow.

Harry looked between them, and in his nervousness, seemed to not really notice any of the signs that spoke of which way they were leaning.

"… So um… Can I?" he asked after a few minutes of silence.

Hammond just lifted his head slightly, and asked, "Colonel?"

"Ahm… Sir?" Jack asked.

"I already received Harry's formal request to join an SG team. I asked if he already had one in mind that he'd like to join."

"So even if I say No, sir?" Jack asked.

Sam looked at Jack in shock, evidently she was on the side of letting him join, along with Jonas who had already made his opinion known the moment Harry began speaking.

Teal'c however, was the one who spoke up in defence of Harry.

"In the time Harry has spent here, He has shown a remarkable ability to learn quickly, and has proven his technical and tactical capabilities under pressure. Such as when he saved your life in the X-302, and when he avoided capture by Nirrti, and even earlier than those, captured Nirrti single-handedly…"

Jack sighed and nodded, "I get the picture, Teal'c." he looked up at Harry, and just looked, not stared, but looked, for a moment, before he replied, "We'll see how we go on a mission. But if you mess up,"

"I'm off the team. I got it." Harry agreed, then smiled.

Sam looked at him in pride. Harry turned to her, saw the look, and said, "50 bucks says that within the next 3 missions, something goes wrong and I have to save at least one of your arses…"

Sam looked down in shame at the reminder that she had lost the last several bets – each at 50 bucks, and merely replied, "No bet."

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Stargate Command, Gate Room

Jack and the rest of SG-1 waited for their newest addition to join them.

Harry entered, the Earth patch on his left arm, but an unused Velcro patch on his right – he wore full SG Team off-world BDU's with full combat outfit, and some gear he set aside for Offworld missions in a small backpack. In his hip holsters – one specially made, lay a Zat on his left, a berretta 9mm on his right, and just forward of the berretta pistol holster was an attached holster to store his wand. Attached to the clip in it's normal hanging state was a P-90 – customised to fit Harry's wand along it's length on the right side just inline with the Ammunition cartridge, almost touching the Torch attached above it.

Like the others, he wore a baseball cap in the same color as his BDUs.

"Harry." Jack greeted.

"Colonel, sir." Harry replied back, but tripping over it – he had always called them by their first names – or just their name in Teal'cs case (like everyone else.)

"Just call me Jack." Jack said, and Harry nodded and nervously smiled up at the Stargate. "You're missing something." Jack added.

"Hm?" Harry asked as he turned to see Jack opening a small container.

Jack opened it, and took out the item, and slapped it against Harry's right shoulder – onto the Velcro patch.

Harry lifted his arm and looked at the patch – the SG-1 team patch – in awe.

"Harry Potter, Welcome to SG-1. Pass go, collect 200 bucks, free get out of jail free card." Jack joked.

Harry grinned back, then turned to look at the stargate.

Jack half-turned to Sergeant Walter Harriman, and made a swivel gesture. "Dial it up!" he called to the sergeant.

As the Stargate began to dial, he turned back to face the gate, and asked Harry at his side. "You do know how to use that P-90, right?"

Harry smirked, but continued looking at the Stargate. "I've been training with it since I started here as an official member of the Program, Colonel. And I did end up using one back on P3X 367, as well as Abydos."

Teal'c spoke from the side, "I Observed Harry in the field, Colonel O'Neill, while he is not as skilled as either of us with the use of Tau'ri weapons, he is proficient enough to hold his own."

"Thank you, Teal'c." Harry said, turning to the left to say so to Teal'c.

Sam, to his right, the other side of Jack, added, "I have been watching him, Colonel. He was clearly used to handling automatic weapons like the P-90 and MP5's, if not at an intermediate user level with them."

"You've handled these weapons before?" Jack asked.

"MP5 and M4, back in my home reality." Harry replied simply, some of his smile fading at the memories.

"Say, you said, when we first met, that you were this, leader of an Order…" Jack began.

"From what General Hammond said, you handled those politicians remarkably well," Jonas added getting the hint.

Harry took in a deep breath of air, and slowly exhaled it, before he answered, "Back there, when I became Leader… I saw the war go truly global. Enemy forces throughout South America, Africa, the Middle-East and some of Asia. Countries formerly part of Russia, but remarkably, none from actual Russia nor North America… And we just had a force that knew the threat, in little ole' England. Not even Ireland, Wales or Scotland, never mind Europe. I had to take the forces of Light Global both in scope of operations, but also in scope of recruitment. But if the US Air Force suddenly started to recruit from say, Russia, China, France or England, there'd be an uproar, right?"

Jack and the others nodded.

"Exactly." Harry simply finished, still gazing at the Stargate.

Any extra questions were stopped before they had been verbalised, by the Stargate activating, and Hammond speaking through the intercom, "SG-1, you are go. Good luck."

Jack nodded, and waved Teal'c and Jonas ahead.

Sam and Jack stood either side of Harry, and as they stepped up onto the ramp, Jack simply said, "One of these days, you're going to tell me exactly what you went through."

With that, Jack went on ahead.

Harry stopped just in front of the event horizon, stood beside Sam.

"You alright?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, just… some bad memories."

Sam nodded. "Need I remind you that this mission is a test?"

Harry shook his head, and looked at her. "He's right. Some day I will tell you everything. Just not anytime soon." With that, sam noticed a strange look on his face, as though he was fighting off some bad emotion or, rather, some drive to do something bad.

When he seemed to win against that drive, he smiled and said, "Last one through pays for a round of drinks?"

Sam nodded, and with that, Sam and Harry quickly threw themselves into the Stargate.

Walter had heard that, and smirked. He knew exactly who lost.

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A/N: And we've reached the end of The Fifth Man of SG-1. I've decided to make post-joining SG-1 into a 2nd piece between TFM and TUO. and what can I say, at 40k+ this is my LONGEST piece of Fanfiction.

Thanks go to Marius George, who has reviewed nearly if not all of the chapters. Also thanks go to Shwilly for the idea of how Harry gained experience in dealing with politicians. This I combined with where he got his intuition from. Basically, when he began to lead the Order of the Phoenix, voldemort was recruiting dark wizards and witches from everywhere. (I mentioned the places as a prelude to something - guess what!) Harry had to expand the Order's operations, but he couldn't with their resources without recruiting also from outside of england. there comes in with him dealing with Politicians, who try to get something for themselves and their country out of allowing it. Harry had to wise up or loose credibility or even worse. Imagine for yourselves what went on there before he did wise up and manoeuvred them into letting him recruit as he needed, not as they wanted. I will say that the wising up on the side of the politicians happened after Voldemort created a Point-singularity weapon and test fired it. Not a spell, but a magical item requiring another to negate the gravity fields from extending outside of the casing (you know, otherwise Voldemort would drain himself to death for a low-power test fire!)

For this, can both please review with what name they would like me to use for the OC characters I shall introduce as members of an SG-Team? (Perhaps even make 2 of those russians into those characters... depends if they give a russian-sounding name or one that I can make sound russian. :P

Coming Soon: The Adventures of SG-1; starting with 'The Fifth Man' which will cover the first mission, upto Fallen.