Uncharted Love

Chapter 1

"Pilot!" shouted a very angry John Crichton. "Where is Kira?!", he had a feeling that something was wrong.

"She is in the cargo hold with Aleki; is there a problem, Crichton?"

"Yes, there is, nothing that you can help with!". Aleki was sure that Aleki was up to something. He always acted like his father, rebelling rule and order.

What was she thinking! Is she stupid! he thought to himself.

He stormed to the cargo hold, his boots making loud thumping noises on the floors of Moya. "I warned them both about this! I am her father, why does she not listen to me?" he said aloud to himself.

"Because she is your daughter, John Crichton!" Aeryn appeared to pop out of nowhere.

"Yours too, doll!"

"But she gets it from YOU! Let her go, John, she is just having fun-"

"Yeah! With Valorec's son!"

Aeryn was silent for a moment. "John, she is 17 cycles old … we can't control her anymore. It is her life …"

John stopped mid stride. "You may be right, but as long as she is on this Leviathan, she is under our rule! And another thing, she is ONLY 17 cycles old!"

"John, she is also my daughter, I have some say in her life, don't I? You aren't the only per-"

"Shikiera!"

"Nadira!" Aeryn grabbed the young Luxon/Nebari by the shoulders as she whipped around the corner, after her younger sister. "What is the problem here, ladies?"

"She hit me--"

"Because she wouldn't--" Nadira spat.

"Well, if you wouldn't have broke John's ship I--" Shikiera stopped abruptly as she just noticed John behind her. " Whoops, sorry Nad …"

John narrowed his eyes at the two young children. They looked more Nebari than Luxon. In fact, they didn't look Luxon at all, except for the fact that they were only 13 cycles old and already almost 5 foot 9, and had the raised eyebrows and collar bones that stuck too far out. They were certainly a piece of work, those twins. "What. Did. You. Do."

"Uh … sorry Crichton, I didn't mean to! We were just playing and … uh … I kind of tripped on the seat and-" NaDira tried to explain but John was already down the hall after his daughter … again.

Aeryn took both of them by their ears and led them to their father, who, she thought, would punish them accordingly.

Now that Moya had five more beings on board, all under the age of 20 cycles, there was never a boring day. There were Laiua, Zahn and Stark's daughter; Nadira and Shikiera, Dargo and Chiana's girls (the medical mystery of the millennium, John thought); Kira, and now Aleki.

About 5 cycles ago, Chiana got into some trouble with the peace keepers, and Aeryn had to, again, go save her from certain death. When she got down to the base, and passed all of the security 'traps,' she saw Aleki. He looked almost exactly like Valorec, and oddly enough, a little like Tek. He was arrested for trying to help Chiana, she was told by, in fact, Chiana. So, Aeryn had to go investigate this very familiar-looking and kind person. When she found out that it was Valorec's and son, she just had to save him, even though she had to push herself the entire way there and try to block off the feelings that she used to have for Valorec, but she went anyway, at least just in debt to his father for turning him in when the whole 'Pilot replacement' incident occurred.

When she got him on board. Pilot had a bit of a problem with it, but after days of Aeryn trying to convince him, he accepted.

Kira was thrilled to have another person--besides Laiua--like her on board, at least Sebacian, someone to talk to and do things with, even if he was 2 years older than her. But he wasn't exactly to happy to be there. He was the only Sebacian male on board, besides Crichton, and he was about 15 years older and not a peace keeper, but a human.

But he got used to it. Aeryn taught him how to fly prowlers and a lot of mechanical things about ships.

Kira, however, was always mad at him for pushing her away; she was probably like an annoying little sister to him, only with out the happy protective part. Sometimes it seemed that he hated her. She had a temper like her mother's, so she learned to avoid him after time.

But as the cycles passed, it got harder for Aleki to avoid her. She, over the cycles, grew out of her small, scrawny body. She got much taller, around 5 foot 8 (for some time, she was taller than him) developed a chest, and a 'kickin' figure. She had long dark red curly hair and green eyes, which was a first for the Sebacian species: John said that it came from his grandmother.

For the longest time Aleki had a squeaky high voice and for some time appeared not to grow above 5 foot 5. Then he hit 16 and it all changed. He shot up 7 inches in 1 and a half cycles and lost the squeaky voice. He had short black hair (which he somehow managed to spike with some sticky substance that Zahn gave him) and blue eyes. He worked out constantly so he had a nice and fit body.

But after so many cycles of him treating her like he did, she just hid the feelings that she had for him and tried to forget that she even had them. But they were inevitable.

Crichton pressed on, determined to catch them doing something that they weren't supposed to be doing. When he finally entered he cargo hold, he was shocked, amazed. They weren't doing anything wrong. Laiua was making them both help unload a case of crackers; it was a surprise to see them doing something other than just sitting around doing nothing. John didn't know what to expect when he came down here. He could kick himself for thinking that she would do anything wrong. She was a mostly good kid--no, young woman. He turned and left, muttering, "Now, where are those twins …"

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"Why do I have to help unload!" Aleki grumbled at Laiua.

"Because you're the one who is always eating!" Kira spat at him.

Laiua laughed. "Do you two ever stop arguing!" Laiua was 18 cycles old, tall, pale blue and looked very much like her mother.

Aleki watched Kira as she bent over to get a box of crackers out of the large case. His eyes traveled up her knee boots to her long calves to her back side which was pleasantly confined in a short leather like skirt. "If only they would send bigger shipments, deeper cases …"

"Are you insane!" Kira shouted at him. "We've been down here for an arn already!"

"Maybe I am, but then we wouldn't have to unload as often …" he said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"You are insane …" She picked up her large case and put it on the cart to take up stairs. "Since you seem to like the job so much, you can push the cart up!" She cocked her head and raised her eyebrows at him.

"Fine, I will," he said as he mimicked her face.

"You two ... I will never understand each other," Laiua said as she left cargo hold.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Kira shouted after her. "Have fun," she said sarcastically at Aleki as she ran after Laiua.

Aleki pushed the cart out of the hold and braced himself for the long trip to the kitchen.

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"Will you and Aleki ever stop fighting?" said Laiua calmly.

"It's not my fault that he is a frelling moron." Kira said as she plopped down on the sofa-type-thing that was in the lounge area.

"Soften up to him, maybe if you were a bit nicer to him, he wouldn't be so cross."

"Tell that to him! He is the one who starts it all the time!" Kira got out a deck of 'cards' her father made for her. You played all sorts of Earth games with them. "Wanna play?"

"Sure," she replied.

Kira dealt out the cards. 7 each. "Got any sixes?"

"Go fish; got any queens?"

Kira wasn't really sure what a fish was and where it was supposed to go, but it was a fun game, even though she always lost. She handed over her queen after she had just picked it out of the pile cards in the center of the table.

"Ya know, he is sort of attractive in a Sebacian sort of way …" Laiua said.

"Yeah, I know, but even though he is, he sure has an attitude because of it … he spends one and a half arns in the bathroom every morning!"

"So do you! Any threes?" she added.

"Go fish. Yeah, but I'm a woman, I need it. Any jacks?"

Laiua rolled her eyes at Kira and handed over her Jack.

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Aleki rolled his cart of crackers past the lounge room and heard the women talking. Being the sneaky person that he was, he decided to eavesdrop. He stopped his cart and pulled up next to the entrance, out of sight of them, and put his ear to the door.

"I just don't see what his problem is. Ever since he got here, he has treated me like dirt. I've never done anything to hurt him!" he heard Kira say.

"Well, that's just his nature. You can't change that."

"I know! It just hurts. Got any Kings?"

"Go fish. I know it does. Just tell him how you feel."

"Yeah, right, and be laughed off of Moya by him in the process!" said Kira as she picked a card out of the deck.

Aleki was shocked to hear what he just heard; he didn't know that she felt like that. All this time, he thought that she hated him for some unknown reason. "I could kick myself," he said aloud softly.

"If you never tell him, how is he ever going to change? Any fours?"

Kira handed over her four.

"I'll make a deal with you, if I win, you tell him, if you win, you go on feeling miserable around him; got any eights?"

Kira smiled. "Deal. Go fish."

Laiua picked an eight out of the deck and placed her last card paired up on the table in front of her. "I win!"

Kira smiled slightly. "You knew that you were going to win, didn't you?"

Laiua gathered up the cards and grinned. "Maybe … Good luck!" She got up to leave the room.

At seeing Laiua start to leave, Aleki backed away from the door and started down the hall at a very fast pace. He knew what he had to do when she told him how she felt about him. He was going to tell her that he loved her. He couldn't hide it anymore. He had always thought that if he let her know before, he was the one who would get laughed off of Moya, not to mention how he would probably get his genitals chopped off by her father. Crichton never seemed to like Aleki, probably because his father was Aeryn's lover before they met.

He was at the kitchen and he saw Chiana. She was still attractive at her age and after giving birth to twins.

"Hey Chi, can you do me a favor and put these away?" And before waiting for her response he ran out of the room. "Thanks! Bye."

"Hey! A simple 'Please' would be nice!" she shouted after him.

He ran down to his quarters to get on a change of clothes, since he smelled of those 'cardboard saltines' in the words of Crichton. When he got in, he striped down and climbed into his shower. When he was done, he put on a pair of black and red cargo pants, a black ribbed muscle shirt and his boots. He spiked he hair and was done.

"Now all I have to do is wait for her," he said to himself.

Kira walked back to her room. "I smell awful," she said to herself.

"I know! We have all been meaning to tell you about that …" said Nadira.

"Where did you come from?!" shrieked a startled Kira.

"Oh … around … I'm supposed to be in my room for breaking your dad's Farscape ship … but I can't stay there, its all boring and stuff …" she said while leaning on the wall next to Kira's door.

"Well, I advise that you get back to your room before your Dad finds out that you got out," she said while trying to get to her room.

"Well, goodbye, I have to go torment Shikiera," NaDira said while walking away.

"Bye." Kira walked into her bathroom, started up the water, and stripped down. She walked into her shower and let the hot water massage her back. When she got out, she put on a tight black tank top and a pair of red and black cargo pants. She wasn't even sure that they were hers, but they looked cool. She sighed and walked out the door, prepared to make a fool of herself. "Why did I let Laiua talk me into this …"

Thus ends chapter 1. Look for chapter 2.