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A/N: See previous.

Four of the six Avengers, along with Fury and Maria Hill, were sitting in a conference room in the Triskelion, waiting for the fifth, and last Avenger left on Earth, at the moment, to arrive.

Fury was just getting ready to call Stark, again, when the billionaire walked into the room.

"Have we finished yet?"

If the room wasn't full of people who were already used to him – even if some hadn't known him long – and spies, there would have been eye rolls exchanged.

"Sit down and shut up, Stark," said Fury.

"Pushy," said Tony, as he pulled out a seat beside Bruce with a nod in Bruce's direction.

"Late," countered Fury. "As it is, our guests had already been forewarned about your tendency to be late."

"Guests?" questioned Captain America.

"Forewarned? Am I that predictable?" asked Tony right over the Captain.

"Yes," answered a different voice completely.

No one jumped – though it was a near thing in both Bruce and Tony's case – as everyone turned to see who had spoken.

There were two men standing in the doorway; an Air Force officer, a major general by the looks of it, and a civilian. There were also several people standing in the hallway.

Bruce tensed in his sit.

"Nicholas Fury?" asked the general, who was the one who had spoken, not giving anyone a chance to speak.

"Who's asking?"

"General Jack O'Neill. Two L's."

He held up three fingers.

Maria Hill raised an eyebrow while Clint and Tony barely held in a snort of laughter. Bruce smiled tightly while Natasha watched everyone; Steve didn't understand if a joke was being made or not.

Fury didn't react and instead looked at the man standing beside him.

"Dr. Daniel Jackson."

"I was told there would be more than two in this meeting?"

"Meeting about what?" cut in Tony.

"An information exchange," answered Dr. Jackson as O'Neill didn't look like he wanted to answer Fury's question.

"In exchange for what?" asked Tony, eyebrows furrowed.

Bruce tensed even more.

"The protection of the planet. We can't have any more nukes aimed at New York. Danny was furious," O'Neill answered, almost careless, as if he, himself, didn't care that New York was almost destroyed.

"Danny" let out a sigh, "Jack."

"Daniel."

Funny. It was almost as if it was reflexive just like the silent word exchange that happened seconds later.

"Sheppard!" O'Neill called out.

"Sir," came a new voice that caused Tony to tense in his seat immediately and whip his head toward the door and everyone else to focus either on the door or Tony.

A new man, also dressed in Air Force blues, though his pins denoted he was lieutenant colonel, walked in the room surrounding by four other people, three civilians and another Air Force lieutenant colonel.

"Johnny?" asked Tony, sounding shocked to see him, looking unsure whether he should stand or not. How dare Johnny spring this on him!

"Tony," said Sheppard with a nod, though he was eyeing the light in his chest suspiciously.

"So this is him?" asked the man bedside Sheppard, crossing his arms.

"You know him, Stark?" asked Fury.

"McKay," said Sheppard, the warning clear in his voice.

"You mean you don't know, Nick. I thought you knew everything about my life. I gotta say, I'm shocked," said Tony grabbing his chest, though it was partially to cover the Arc Reactor from John's inspection.

"Oh, now I'm torn between liking him and hating him," said O'Neill to Sheppard.

"Stark!" said Fury.

"He has that effect on people, sir," was the reply.

"That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me this week, Johnny," said Tony, ignoring Fury. "JARVIS make a note."

"Of course, sir," came a dry British voice from above them, causing Fury to let out a curse.

Not a single person jumped, however, at the voice.

"Oh now I'm intrigued. Everyone asks about JARVIS the first time he's introduced and, Johnny's never met him, so why did none of you jump at the disembodied voice?" stated Tony.

No one said anything until Dr. Jackson said, "I'll do the introductions, shall I?" And not waiting for an agreement he started.

"Some of you may already know, Lt. Col. John Sheppard. Beside him are Dr. Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, and Teyla Emmagan." He pointed each of them out. "Finally, beside me is Lt. Col. Samantha Carter."

"I'm assuming you know everyone here as your people contacted me directly?" asked Fury.

"We do," replied O'Neill, not even trying to lie.

"Have a seat," said Fury, nodding at the remaining seats.

Everyone standing took a seat, and then Dr. Jackson started before anyone could ask any questions.

"Before we begin, everyone present has to sign non-disclosures agreements, and Mr. Stark, you'll have to turn off your AI's monitoring in this room," explained Dr. Jackson as he went into the bag he was carrying.

The Avengers present plus Maria Hill and Fury immediately became suspicious.

"Why?" asked Clint.

"Have you even heard of an organization with the initials SGC?" asked Carter.

"JARVIS?" asked Tony.

"No results, sir," came the answer.

Fury's face was blank while everyone else was confused, even Natasha and Clint.

"I've heard whispers," Fury admitted. "Nothing concrete."

"For good reason. The general population wasn't ready to know what we did, but thanks to recent events, that's most likely to change," said Dr. Jackson as he stood up and started to hand out the NDAs.

"I don't like to be handed things," said Tony as he backed slightly away from the packet, and Dr. Jackson's outstretched hand, when Dr. Jackson got to him.

Dr. Jackson didn't pause as he set the packet on the table in front of him before moving on to the next person.

Tony picked it up from the table and said, "Do I need my lawyers, Johnny?"

Sheppard rolled his eyes slightly at him and said, while avoiding eye contact, "It's a standard NDA, and essentially lets you know, in legal terms, what happens if you break the agreement, including the fact that you'll be found guilty of treason."

"Oh, nice."

Sheppard made a sound that could be taken for agreement.

"Do you need help, Mr. Rogers?" asked Dr. Jackson, a bit too loud.

"Danny, that awkward conversation was killing all of us, but don't draw attention to the kid that was frozen for a century; he has his own problems," O'Neill said.

The tips of Sheppard's ears went slightly red as he leaned slightly back in his seat and started to stare at the ceiling while Tony focused on pretending to read his NDA.

"Oh my God, was that an awkward, jilted lover conversation?" asked Clint, looking up from his NDA. "You've went through the male population too? How did we not know this?" He directed the last sentence to Natasha.

Tony and Sheppard both looked at him with identical horrified expressions on their faces while O'Neill snorted and even Jackson and Carter cracked a small smile. McKay, Teyla, and Ronon, however, had strangely blank expressions on their faces, though it looked like it was difficult for McKay.

"I'll take that as a no," said Natasha, though she sounded amused at their reactions.

"Can we focus?" asked Steve, having taken Sheppard at his word and signed the NDA.

No one answered him, but there was the sound of ruffling papers as they turned back to reading their NDAs.

After Dr. Jackson collected all the NDA's, O'Neill turned to Tony.

"Yes?"

"JARVIS, was it? Turn him off," O'Neill ordered. It was the first order any of the Avengers plus Maria Hill and Fury had heard him give.

Tony was silent for a moment before he pulled out his phone, pushed some buttons, set his phone on the table, and said, "He's no longer monitoring this room."

"Carter?" asked O'Neill.

Carter pulled out device, checked it, and said, "It doesn't appear like there are monitoring devices, sir."

"McKay," stated O'Neill.

"How come you ask Sam, but you demand of me?" questioned McKay as he fiddled with a device before leaving it on the table.

"Because she doesn't back talk me? How do you put up with the constant back talk?" O'Neill questioned Sheppard.

"Mostly by threatening him with lemons, sir," replied Sheppard with a grin.

"Ah. Do you have any handy?"

"Fresh out, sir."

"You're all comedians," replied McKay with a huff.

Tony was watching the byplay closely, and he wasn't the only one.

"Any time now, General," demand Fury.

O'Neill grinned slightly and said, "I don't do the explanations."

Steve frowned, and he wasn't the only one, but before anything could be said, O'Neill continued.

"Daniel."

Dr. Jackson, who had sat down at some point, leaned forward in his seat. "Let me tell you about the Stargate."

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"You mean to tell me that the Air Force and Marine Corps have been traveling to other planets for several years already, with the main mission of finding technology to protect this planet, and you didn't see fit to share that information with SHIELD?" questioned Fury.

"Yep," answered O'Neill.

"And you do it through a giant ring with a water puddle?" asked Fury.

"Yep," answered O'Neill.

"That's an over simplification –" started Carter before she was cut off by O'Neill.

"Carter?"

"Yes sir?"

"Science later."

"Yes sir."

"Were just the Americans involved?" asked Natasha.

"At first, but then other countries became involved, including the British, Chinese, French, and Russians to name just a few," explained Daniel, who shot a look at O'Neill for his answer.

"You two are aliens?" asked Clint, looking at Ronon and Teyla.

Ronon nodded once and Teyla inclined her head and said, "Yes, though in our galaxy, you would be considered the aliens."

"Semantics," said McKay with a wave of his hand.

"Galaxies?" asked Steve, faintly.

Teyla inclined her head once again and said, "As far as I am aware, Dr. Elizabeth Weir, Col. Sheppard, Dr. Rodney McKay, and their expedition are exploring our galaxy for much of the same reason as they explore their own."

"Not to mention the Ancient technology," O'Neill threw in. "No, Daniel. I need you here."

"But Jack," started Daniel, before he was cut off by Tony.

"You're the military leader on Atlantis?" asked Tony to Sheppard, and he made that sound like an accusation.

"Yes," answered Sheppard with slight nod, still not making eye contact.

"How did that happen?" questioned Tony.

Sheppard stiffened, finally looked Tony in the eyes, and asked, "What's that supposed to mean?"

An awkward silence fell before it was broken when Bruce cleared his throat and asked, "You also try to find allies as well, right, on your explorations? Not just technology?"

"Yes," answered Carter with a nod.

"So we have other alien allies besides Thor and Asgard, and the present company?" asked Bruce again.

"How do you know Stark, Sheppard?" asked Fury with a glare.

Sheppard didn't answer; he had had Wraith Queens try to force an answer out of him, a human didn't scare him.

"Stark?"

Tony didn't answer either, though probably more out of wanting to keep his privacy and sheer stubbornness than anything.

"Oh for crying out loud," said O'Neill, with a roll of his eye. "How they know each other isn't important, let's keep this ball of information exchange moving. I've got fishing to get back to."

They got back to exchanging information, and Tony and Sheppard didn't exchange anymore words or looks.

When they were ready for a break, Sheppard left the room as soon as military protocol and decorum allowed.

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O'Neill found Sheppard on the roof of the building after he left the rest of their group.

"For the record, sir, I was against me being here. I said it was a conflict of interest," explained Sheppard.

"I get it," said O'Neill. "Family's complicated."

They stood in silence for a few minutes before O'Neill clapped his hands together.

"Let's go see if we can go find your team and mine, and see if this cafeteria has pie before we have to go back into that room."

"Pie?"

"Next best thing to fishing."

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"How dare that –" McKay paused as if words failed him before he continued, "imply that Sheppard didn't deserve to be the Military Commander of Atlantis! Like Sheppard wasn't good enough." He ignored the food in front of him.

"You don't know that's what he meant, McKay," Daniel said, playing devil's advocate as he took a bite of his food.

"Meant or not, he had to know that's how Sheppard would take it after them not speaking for years," ranted McKay.

McKay continued to rant.

"Sometimes it is best to let Dr. McKay, what is the saying, 'get it out of his system'?" said Teyla.

"Sounds about right," said Sam as she took a bite of her blue Jell-O.

Ronon ignored them all and ate his chicken.

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"Where are you going, Stark? I've got questions," questioned Fury.

"Phone call. Can't wait," explained Tony and he walked into the hallway. He ignored the way his name was still be called, and called the person he needed to quiet shout at.

The call was answered on the third ring.

"Hello?"

"Why didn't you tell me Johnny was back stateside?" demanded Tony.

"Tony?" questioned Dave.

"You know someone else who knows someone called Johnny who wasn't stateside?"

Dave ignored the question and said, "How are you? Aliens in New York? Flying the nuke into the portal?"

"I'm fine," said Tony waving his hand.

"Which means you're not fine. But wait, John's back in the states? And he came to see you?"

The jealousy was audible.

"Not by choice, I think."

"Tell me everything," demanded Dave.

This was not the way Tony planned for the conversation to go.