No Way Back - Act 3

[cedar_grove]

Title: No Way Back
Rating: NC-17 (adult readers)
Spoilers: Some spoilers for S1-4. S5 The Seed
Summary: When Teyla learns that Michael is in Wraith hands many old feelings surface, and hoping to bring herself peace, she returns to Atlantis to ask for help in ending her conflict once and for all. Sheppard and the team join her in the mission to recapture Michael from the Hive, but things go terribly wrong, and though Teyla's struggle is ended, it is not at all in the way that anyone intends.
Disclaimer: MGM own Stargate: Atlantis. This story is for entertainment purposes only and no revenue is being made from copyright material. No infrigement intended.

Acts 1 to 3 now available.

Author's Note: Look guys, the rating says it all, but I'll spell it out. This contains explicit scenes. Many thanks gospikey for hard work in Beta.

Previous Episodes:
Harm's Way (1), Chain of Command (2), Enmity (3), Mantle (4), In Truth... Freedom (5), Letting Go (6), Beyond the Third (7) and Deliverance (8) can be accessed here.

Comments

Re: No Way Back: Act 3 - Review part 1

[cedargrove.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yes indeed, nice icon

Poor deluded Hanna, that's all I can say. She's made some very silly choices in her time, the biggest of those of course was to get herself noticed by the HC. Of course as the Queen's Handmaiden that wasn't hard, but she should know better. The Handler issue may come up in Apostasy, though I'm not sure... the way my characters are with me right now, there's no telling.

As for the threesome. *falls about laughing.*

No, you don't really want to know about the branding. Not pleasant. It is hot branding, yes, but not to the forehead.

Gods forbid that Malcolm would have anything to do with Hanna. Nope, that throwing on his mercy is not literal - and the mood he's in right now, he's not feeling very merciful. And that's something that I only see getting worse, not better. As for the Commander, well... to say his days are numbered would probably be stating the obvious - no matter what he might try with Malcolm.

The Hive commander issue, that whole thing is /very/ complicated... and some people are going to come unstuck very soon.

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Caldwell was perhaps right... it was perhaps folly to go after the Elder Hive by themselves... but it's done now, and they have to suffer the concequences.

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No, we don't yet know exactly what the EQ took from Michael. It /is/ possible to work out what it might have been, but only by playing close attention to certain scenes in Deliverance that hinted at Wraith anatomy and the placement of certain organs. I'm glad you brought this up though :)

Let's assume for a moment that it /was/ Michael's seed that she took, (and I'm neither confirming nor denying that right now), in theory she could use it to make either new commanders, or a Queen. (but not both). The capacity is in the Queen's breeding state, in other words - unlike in humans - in Wraith it is the Queen's genetics that decide.

There was indeed a flashback to Michael's 'former life' where he had to mate with the Queen, yes. In that flashback we see that he indeed did something to prevent her from using the union to create a new queen. It's a safe assumption to suspect that it was a 'sperm killing' potion as you put it, and at that point he was oblivious to whatever he did to her, so I guess yes, he knocked her out.

You're not making too much, it was a fair question.