Sorry Aeryn, but Moya's not around so I found another ship for you!

[irreversibly_contaminated]

This is completely frelled; you know this.

It's just another wild plan from an inferior race. Don't talk to me until you have some better idea.


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Have a wild Crichton

[youmissed]

Aren't those the best kind of plans? [Okay, so bad joke] So what's so frelled that you're already pre-preemptively shooting it down?

eep! The dangerous kind. She's coming from the end of Dog With 2 Bones

[irreversibly_contaminated]

[blink, a shudder ran down her spine]

Aren't all plans made by your species frelled? [trying so hard to make a joke, failing so miserably] She's put me on a ship, a torture facility, alone.

Okay, I gotcha

[youmissed]

Well, there's the brand of frelled and then not-as-frelled-as-it-could-be. [His expression darkens as Aeryn lets him in on what's going on. Even if things are...weird between them, this isn't one of those gray areas in his opinion.] You serious? Where?

[He's two seconds from trying to round up the cavalry]

[irreversibly_contaminated]

[She knew he'd react this way; she told the woman she'd met on the ship how John would react, what he'd try to do, and the guilt was just deepening.]

It's just a ship...I don't know where we are; mostly filled with humans though. They call it a_facility and it's run by, what I gather, is a sadistic, psychotic artificial intelligence.

[youmissed]

Filled with humans? [John has that briefly kicked in the gut look he get when something genuinely surprises him, but it smooths over as he focuses on the real important part - Aeryn being held against her will. The rest they can deal with later] Have you found out where it's going? We'll...we'll figure something out, I'll get D'Argo on this and I could hit up Pilot and -

[He's off in planning a prison break mode because if he doesn't, he's not going to handle this like they need him to. Aeryn sounds ilke she's surviving. They are talking to the Survival Queen here. She could out SEAL a Navy SEAL.]

[irreversibly_contaminated]

John.. I don't know where I am, I don't know where this ship is going. There's little you can do to change that. Apparently the plan is that they find an inhabitable planet and offload everyone there.

No one here that I've run into knows about Peacekeepers, or Sebaceans... it's unlikely that this is my universe at all. [Not mentioning that she woke up naked and unarmed on a medical table, nope that's probably best skipped over.]

[youmissed]

So they're - they're just going to dump you off somewhere and that's it? It's Intergalatic Survivor? I can't accept that, Aeryn.

If you got pulled in, there's got to be a way back.

[irreversibly_contaminated]

It could be worse, all I have to do is endure until we reach the planet. We're not allowed weapons so physically I should be fine; dependent on the experiments.

I asked; the answer is always the same,people are pulled in here and there is no way to get out. [Except death.]

[youmissed]

"It could be worse" - [He echoes Aeryn, that look of incredulous disbelief on his face. ] Hell, Aeryn, anything could be worse with that reasoning! "It's okay if I can't shoot things, it's just a little Frankenstein on the side?", is that what you mean?

[John's looking pissed, more at the bad luck that had Aeryn get the short end of the stick than anything she's said. John reaches up, rubbing at his face and eyes and then drops his hand, blowing out a breath]

Well, okay. Someone's got to be calling the shots on this. This kind of operation can't run itself, right?

[humansaresuperior]

[John lets a hand rest on her shoulder. He knows it's gotta be pretty bad there. He's been watching things from the sidelines and he isn't happy with what he's seen.]

You won't be alone for long. I promise.

[irreversibly_contaminated]

[Things are...strained between them and the contact was far more potent that it would otherwise be. She sagged a bit, eyes nearly closing.]

I don't want you in a place where you'll be getting experimented on. You've been put through enough by Scorpious already.

[humansaresuperior]

Exactly, so it'll be just like home.

[The hand on her shoulder give a small squeeze of reassurance. He knows she doesn't want him there. Aeryn would never willingly hope for any of them to be stuck in a place like that.]

Only without the annoying side characters.

[Moya could really use a bit of a lightening. Like dropping Scorpie's ass into the nearest sun.]

[irreversibly_contaminated]

[John Crichton was dead, and John Crichton was alive. She held him in her arm while he took his last breath, and here he stands. How was she supposed to cope with this? How strong could she be?

But his touch...]

I don't want you to be hurt.

[Yet he would be; if not now, if not by that place then by her words when she had to tell him she... No, not going to think about that now.]

[humansaresuperior]

Don't you think it's a little too late for that?

[His hand slides off her shoulder. He's trying to be reassuring. He's trying to let this all roll off his back like his mom told him. He's trying to deal with this without those pods Noranti gave him. It's hard enough, now Aeryn has to go saying things that ... quite honestly would have made him pretty damn happy before. Now it just hurts.]

I'm a big boy Aeryn, I can take care of myself.

[irreversibly_contaminated]

I know-[She stumbled of the use of his name, when she left he wouldn't allow her to call him Crichton, nor was she entirely comfortable with John. She was terrified that letting the walls down, letting it become personal, that was the start to it all happening all over again.]

I know you are capable, you've proven it.

[humansaresuperior]

[The fact that she stumbled over his name, again, hurt more then any other torture could.]

Besides, a ship with a hundred-some-odd people. It'd be a nice change.

[Easier to keep his distance and try to move on. After all, he wouldn't have those pods there. He could just ... ignore her.]

[irreversibly_contaminated]

They do seem, accommodating.

[Friendly wasn't exactly the right word to use for them. She wanted to reach out, but she'd given that right away with the flip of a coin.]

It's a sizable ship, there's food, even a park area.

[What was she saying? These were positive things, was she trying to make him want to be there.]

But there are weekly experiments and some, I've heard, get very violent.

[leather_bastard]

I have found that the wild plans of at least one member of an inferior race often come to realization.

[irreversibly_contaminated]

Scorpius, you are quite literally the last thing I need to deal with right now. I have enough dren in my life to not have the patience for this.

[leather_bastard]

I was merely offering an observation.

[irreversibly_contaminated]

Well then I can do without your observations.

[leather_bastard]

That has not always been the case, as I recall. But, as you wish, Officer Sun.

[irreversibly_contaminated]

Oh no, what I wish has been long since out of the equation. I'm just doing what I have to do now to survive.

[leather_bastard]

As you have always done... as have I.

[irreversibly_contaminated]

As I have done since I became a fugitive, exiled from the Peacekeepers. Finding your place in life when everything else has been stripped away, how are you enjoying it?