Deliverance Act 2
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Title: Deliverance
Rating: NC-17 (adult readers)
Spoilers: Some spoilers, maybe, for S1-4.
Summary: Keller works with Todd to cure Sheppard, but the research reveals a questionable course of action, wherein ethics and loyalties become strained. With expedition teams caught in the escalating conflict between Michael's forces and the strengthening Wraith Alliance, some in the team begin wondering just how much of what they saw in the alternate universe could come to pass in their own.
Disclaimer: MGM own Stargate: Atlantis. This story is for entertainment purposes only and no revenue is being made from copyright material. No infrigement intended.
Act 1 & 2 now available.
Author's Note: Look guys, the rating says it all, but I'll spell it out. This contains explicit scenes, and explores themes which some readers may find disturbing. Your browser has a back button!
Previous Episodes:
Harm's Way (1), Chain of Command (2), Enmity (3), Mantle (4), In Truth... Freedom (5) Letting Go (6) and Beyond the Third (7) can be accessed here.
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Deliverance: Act 2 - Review Part 1
Date: 2009-07-10 04:25 pm (UTC)Safe journey if I don't hear from you again.
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I should have seen the miscarry-part coming. Or perhaps I was expecting it to happen off-screen. Silly Alicia going to meddle again with things that are not her concern. But it wouldn’t be human, I guess, to just keep walking…
Is Isla sitting there from about right after her visit with the Second, then? Because she still carries the knife with her…
"An individual among us shirking her duties?" Taevun said. "Perhaps this is her reward for it. She—"
Son-of-a-bitch, if I ever get my hands on him, I’ll kill him myself… But I guess he’s been taken proper care of.
Oh, now that I think of that… Does the Queen know the Hive Second GoL’ed his ‘concubine’? Will she get punished for that, or does the Queen know he did it to kill the baby? Or at least that’s the consequence of it. Oh, and he did it again later on…
Poor Second, oozing his enzyme onto Alicia’s chest like that. His hand is screaming ‘yummy, lemme have’ at him, but the good boy is able to resist. Lol. It’s the Wraith version of a ‘wet dream’, but he had his while being wide awake. I could ask if enzyme leaves stains on the dress, but since later on Hanna’s gets shredded, I take it they have a closet filled with those dresses? I mean, each time Hanna and the Hive Commander get busy, her dress probably dies, so…
Hmm, something that struck me just now… In the AU, Todd gave Sheppard some strength with the help of the GoL, but who said Sheppard wasn’t in one go infected with the Hoffan drug, too? I mean, shouldn’t he perhaps have dropped dead? Not what I want that to happen…
Is Todd not yet wondering why, or how, rather, Michael can have infected Sheppard with a retrovirus if Michael currently, and for a long while already (months?), I think, is located on the Elder Hive? That together with a different, a wrong shaped strand showing up in Sheppard’s blood…
LOL @ the Commander thinking it’s his Queen the Second is hissing for… Idiot still doesn’t get it. If Michael doesn’t want to, she’s more bound to pick her Second than him…
Hey, wait… How is Hanna doing? Did she ‘serve’ him more than once in meanwhile? I mean, if the Commander thinks he’s getting the Queen very, very soon, perhaps he’s saving his energy a bit, or something… Can’t be standing dry when the Queen wants your boys! Or rather your girl…
Edit: well, the answer is yes, and nope.
"Then… I have another task that I demand of you, Commander," she purred.
Does that mean she gave up on Michael, and is moving on, looking further now? Will we be seeing his new ‘mission’, or whatever you want to call that, later on?
Lol, if he was ‘the one’, and Alicia and Hanna were to assist the Queen around that time, perhaps, once he finishes with the Queen, he’ll jump on Alicia! Hah. Okay, enough jumping.
…she reached behind her to run her fingers through his hair.
Eep… Did she get them back? Because I’m thinking stuff can go missing in that mop of his…
(cont.)
Re: Deliverance: Act 2 - Review Part 1
Date: 2009-07-10 05:38 pm (UTC)**
Why do you say you should ahve seen the miscarrying part coming? And yeah, you just /know/ Alicia is going to get herself into trouble.
Isla has not exactly been sitting there, no, but she hasn't been anywhere to get rid of the knife just then.
Yeah Taevun was a nasty piece of work. I only hope he tasted better than he behaved. :)
The Elder Queen has no idea what the Second did with his servant, no... nor really is she that interested. She's a little insane you know?
You have to wonder at /why/ the Second has such a strong response to Alicia...
Who says that AU Todd hasn't developed some way to be immune to the problems of feeding on infected Humans. He's with Au Alicia after all.
You have to take it as read that off-camera as it were, Todd was told that Shep and co ended up in an alternate reality wnere the Michael from there infected Shep.
The Hive Commander is an idiot, yes.
What's that about Hanna now?
Nope, as you'll see in act 3 the queen has not given up on Michael. (or was it act 4 - either way you'll see.)
Wait a minute, you want the Hive Second to jump Alicia? Funny that...
Awww, c'mon, Todd's hair is not /that/ tangled.