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

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?

[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.

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]

[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.

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.]

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.]

[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.

[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.

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.]

[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.]

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.

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.

[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.]

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.

Sounds like a base.

[Specifics was good. Specifics kept him from thinking about her.]

I doubt it can be worse then we've been through.

[His words are more analytically though. It's as if he's reading star charts and theory rather then discussing the place Aeryn is being forced to live in.]

Things can always be worse.

[She'd seen that first hand, and she knew he would die to save people again. It was his way, he was.. he was... He was the man she loved and father of her unborn child.]

Are you sure you could survive without your pulse pistol?

No one. Is touching. Winona.

[John always did have a strange 'full metal jacket' type relationship with his pulse pistol.]

Weapons aren't allowed; or so I was told when I woke up. None of mine, even my holster wasn't with my clothes when I found them.

[As Chiana once said, Aeryn doesn't even shower without a pulse pistol]

... God dammit!

[This seems to upset him more then anything else so far. Over the years he's become the same way about his pistol. It was one of the many reasons he wondered if he'd ever be able to return to normal life back on Earth.]

And we can't get them back?

I don't even know if they are here at all, however we are brought in seems to be able to be selective.

[A pain she had no right to feel, twisted inside her. He reacted more strongly about his weapon than about her. Can't have it both ways Aeryn, you left, let him move on.]

It's funny, no one's noticed you're gone here on the ship.

[They really hadn't. She'd been around and doing everything that she was doing before. So then how was she in two places at once?]

I'm what?

[She blinked because that didn't make sense for a couple of reasons.]

I left Moya, I.... we had a fight just before I did, flipped a coin. If I left how can I be there now?

You came back with Scorpie in tow.

[There's a slight bitter edge to his voice.]

I havn't seen Scorpius since Talyn destroyed his command carrier; and why would I bring him to Moya?

Are you feeling alright? You're not making sense.

You have't -

[He's clearly getting confused, and as always when John gets confused he seems to become more frantic and angry.]

You brought him on board Aeryn. How can you not remember that?

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

Have a wild Crichton

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

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