A/N: So this is my first try in SGA fic and I have to say thanks to bailey1ak for her help. Without you reading through it would have taken me longer to get confident enough to post anything at all. I am hoping to update every two weeks so I can write in my spare time and finish my other projects too ;). Anyways on with the show.

As a result of the resignation of General Hammond, General Jack O'Neill had to brief the newly appointed Director of Homeland Security on everything Stargate, including Atlantis and the Wraith.

This is going to be a long day, he solemnly thought to himself.

"Here is the background file you requested." Major Thompson said and handed him a blue folder.

Jack took it from him with a slight nod and then retreated back into his office. The briefing was scheduled for 0900 hours so he had a good half hour to skim through the pages. In his eyes an extra background check was a waste of time and money, because the woman wouldn't have been appointed Director if she were a security threat but for the sake of saving face he'd read a little bit of the file and be prepared for the meeting.

On the other side of the Potomac, in DC to be exact a brown haired woman looked over her schedule for the day.

Why do I need to clear out my whole day for a meeting with an Air Force General? Was the predominant thought on her mind.

Her research of said General had always ended at a proverbial brick wall and she was supposed to have access to the most classified intelligence .

Well he has an office in the Pentagon so he must be somewhat important.

A glance at the clock on her wall told her that if she didn't want to be late she had to leave now.

Twenty minutes later she gave her card to a young Air Force Major in the front room of the elusive General.

"Madame Director he is ready for you!" the young man told her and held the door open.

When she stepped foot in the office a gray haired man greeted her with a twinkle in his eyes you would expect in a five year old kid that just ate the whole chocolate supply in the house.

Not what I expected after all the walls I have run in. And why is he smiling like that?

"Director Sheppard it is so nice to finally meet you. I read some interesting things about you." he said and pointed at an open folder on his desk.

"It is nice to meet you too General but I have to admit I couldn't get any information on you." Nancy replied and sat down.

"Yeah that was a problem for you, huh? Well we can change that with this meeting." was his cryptic response.

Nancy didn't answer and decided to just wait and let him talk.

"OK than lets start. You are here today so that I can brief you on the Stargate Program and give you full Home World Security clearance and access." Nancy's breath stopped.

"Excuse me did you just say Home World and Stargate? Stargate like in that cheap, wacky TV Show with the X?"

She caught him wincing slightly when she said wacky but only a split second later the boyish smile had he returned and he countered

"Just wait until you see the feature film. But yeah like that."

"Oh wow, can that be possible? And most importantly how does this work?"

"Well to explain that it is simpler and with less talking from me when we watch this little film, our experts have prepared." with that Jack pressed a couple of buttons, darkened the room and started a TV set.

Within seconds the face and voice of Dr. Daniel Jackson appeared and explained everything from Giza over Abydos and Goa'uld to the creation of the SGC and its workings. Nancy had watched it all in silence but as soon ass the General stopped the recording she needed some answers to the many questions swirling around in her head.

"So everything Alec Colson said was true? There was an alien attack on earth and that gray little thing was an alien?"

"Technically that little gray thing was a clone and if it had had a conscious it would have been an Asgard, an advanced alien race who are or technically were our allies."

"Were? So they are our enemy now?"

"No, they are dead. I can't really explain but because they only cloned themselves as a means of reproduction they had some nasty problems and so they decided to kill themselves all at once, but they gave us all their knowledge first."

"Oh OK this is all a little much to digest at once and judging from the recording there is more. Can we take a break and get something to eat first?"

The General chuckled and pressed the backtalk button "Major Thompson we are ready to eat now!"

When he faced the woman at the other side of his desk again he added "I took the liberty to prepare something and you can ask questions over food, if you want to."

Nancy nodded in agreement and thought that she may have already figured out what John was doing.

He is stationed in McMurdo after all. But first I need some food.

General Jack O'Neill observed the woman in front of him closely and wondered briefly how she could take this all in so calmly but she hadn't heard about Atlantis being real and in another Galaxy yet so he figured that part would get a reaction as well as the mentioning of her ex husband.

After a while of quiet eating she felt the need to get answers.

"So Doctor Jackson mentioned an Ancient outpost in Antarctica am I right to assume that the military personal at McMurdo work there?"

Straight to the point. Jack thought.

"Not all personal has clearance to know about the Stargate program and everything related to it. Most of the boys up there don't have a clue what the international science team found out but once again I have some video that explains this way better than I can and we will get to that after you finished your meal." Jack answered smiling.

Half an hour later after a phone call from Dave and Grant she found herself watching another video in which Doctor Jackson, Elizabeth Weir and a really irritating man named McKay talked about Ancient technology and the city of Atlantis which apparently was or is in another galaxy.

"I really don't know what to say. This isn't a joke, right?" Nancy asked for confirmation that this was all true.

"You sound like the president but no ma'am this isn't a joke. It is all true and if you want to you are going to be able to visit Atlantis in a couple of months but first let me introduce you to the important people in Pegasus."

"Am I right to assume they work under the SGC too?"

"Not completely. The Atlantis Expedition is a civilian project with a military contingent for protection. And as before the IOA is controlling everything according to our deal with the other nations involved in the program."

He politely directed her attention back at the screen and started his text:

"Now I have to talk. The first expedition leader you have already seen, Elizabeth Weir but sadly she was killed by the replicators last year, her place then was filled by Colonel Samantha Carter mainly to balance between the science department, lead by Dr McKay, whom you also have already seen and the military commander Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard whom I don't need to introduce to you I assume."

Jack said with that twinkle in his eyes. Nancy was shocked, that was the super secret stuff John was doing now?

And he couldn't get the intel he needed? Strange!

As if reading her mind the General spoke up

"Ah and by the way thank you for your support a couple of weeks ago. Sheppard included it in his Top Secret report only I got to read. He couldn't have gotten the information without you because there is stuff the civilians don't tell us."

Only now she noticed the new folder on the desk and she took it.

"I assume you require my signature below these pages?"

"Yes the non disclosure agreement is mandatory but when you have signed it you will have full access to all SGC files and to all bases and that includes Atlantis. And remember you can't tell anyone about this not even your fiance."

After saying she figured that already and signing the papers Nancy Sheppard soon to be Harrison left the Pentagon and went home to mull over all the things she had learned today.