Title Life for Rent (1/?)
Author Bekabulwinkle
Author Email Bekabulwinkle@hotmail.com
Category: Drama – Romance - Angst Pairing Unknown yet – Suggestions welcome
Spoilers Its all over the place I cant really tell so if you know it then well it's a spoiler
Rating For the moment I'd say PG but it could change so keep an eye on this
Archive Well if you want too – just let me know where Disclaimer I own nothing that you know, just Jayd, she's mine the rest belongs to whoever owns them...
Panting and covered with sweat she tumbled from her bed, kicking the tangled sheets from her legs. Stumbling to her feet Jayd raced into her bathroom as the memory of what she had just seen made her stomach roll, emptying her stomach of its little contents and then some before pulling herself up. The dream still vivid in her mind as she splashed the cool water over her heated face, sweat mixed with tears and water now running down her cheeks. It had gotten worse over the last year, always the same glowing eyes and pain her body was wracked with it.
Peering at her reflection she cringed, she was drawn; her pale skin ashen and the circles around her dull and haunted eyes had grown even larger. Dropping her head Jayd felt her empty stomach roll, dragging in oxygen she clutched at the cool sink.
"Jayd...Jayd are you all right?"
She heard her great aunt call through her bedroom door, Stumbling a little as she made her way across the hardwood floors to the brightly painted door, her feet dragging and her body still shivering, leaning on it for a moment, the smell of the fresh paint still clinging to it, still dragging air into her burning lungs she finally spoke
"Just a nightmare Kathryn"
"Are you sure?"
Closing her eyes Jayd leant her burning forehead against the cold wood as she spoke
'I'm sure, sorry for waking you"
Her aunt's sigh was soft but Jayd still heard it, she felt bad. Kathryn had taken her in when there was no one else, they were all each other had now but all she wanted to do now was ride, get away as fast as possible as quick as possible. With trembling hands she redressed and left the old house, the purring of her motorbike breaking through the still night air as she tore from the drive way and away from the nightmare that had woken her.
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With sadness in her heart Kathryn turned from the purple door and slowly made her way back to her own bedroom. She waited silently knowing her niece would soon leave the house and not return until well into the next afternoon. Each night she had been woken by screams and each night she had gone and hoped her niece would let her in, let her comfort her but each night she went back to her room and waited to hear the door open, hear the creek of the staircase as Jayd walked down them a then finally the rumble of that bike she loved so much as it sped down the street and away from whatever troubled her niece.
Seeing Jayd fly down the maple line street she closed her eyes for a moment remembering the happy little girl she once knew. Pulling the blanket her mother had made her when she was still a little girl Kathryn turned her gaze from the rider to the dark night sky. Her mind went to Daniel as it always did when she looked at the stars. Daniel, Jack, Sam and Teal'C were the only family she had besides Jayd and they were all out there. Sending out a silent pray for them to come back safe she slowly got up and went to bed. Seeing the little green numbers tick over she couldn't help but compare her niece and the one time disrespected archeologist, they were so similar, both overachievers, both lost to the social world, and both so sad, so alone.
She remembered Jayd as a child, she would go treasure hunting in the attic, being gone for hours coming back to show them the small relics she had so lovingly found, small pieces of forgotten or lost jewellery or books, Kathryn had always thought she would follow in her fathers, her grandfathers, her great grandfathers ambitions – archeology ran in there family but Jayd didn't, when her parents accident happened she had been so young, left to look after her mother until her death less than a year ago.
Her life hadn't been easy up until that point, many times she had asked her niece to come stay with her, give Jayde some sense of a normal childhood but Gabby wouldn't allow it. So when she went to Gabby's wake Kathryn had asked Jayd to come stay with her for a while in the hope that she would once again find herself, at first Jayd refused, for almost five months Kathryn had no idea where she had gone, finally a few weeks ago she had turned up on her door step, thankful she hadn't asked any questions and the two of them had fallen into a routine of sorts. Yawning Kathryn closed her eyes, pulling the blanket a little higher as she shifted under it until darkness of sleep took her for the night.
**** **** ****
Gunning her bike she headed towards the flashing neon sign, easily gliding her Indian Spirit to a stop outside the doors, the bright light stung her eyes after driving so long in the moons shadow. It took her only a few minutes to adjust as she walked in, her eyes scanning the walls of artwork before sitting in the chair and looking through the laminated books
"Can I help you?"
The book fell from her fingers as she jumped,
"Sorry I didn't mean to scare you"
Looking up she saw the man who had spoken, he looked to be in his mid to late twenties a little older than herself, he was huge covered with tattoos and silver bars and hoops, his dark dread locked hair was pulled back from his smiling face
Taking a deep breath she let it out before speaking, running a hand over he own knotty hair
"Its fine"
Seeing him smile as he sat in the chair across from her, the book put back down on the coffee table in between them
"So do you know what you want?"
Nodding Jayd closed her eyes letting the image float to the surface for a second before opening them again
"I don't think you have anything here...'
"Can you draw it – or explain it to me and I'll give it ago, I'm not busy tonight so..."
Seeing him shrug she leaned back in the chair and nodded once more watching as he got up and went behind the counter, coming back a few seconds later with a pad and a pencil handing it too her
"Ohh no, I cant draw, do you mind if I just describe it to you?"
"Not at all – I'm Kelly by the way"
"Jayd – nice to meet you Kelly"
She said shaking his hand, soon she was describing the object and the pencil scratched across the paper.
She had no idea how long she had been in there, but when she finally had the image she wanted Jayd found herself sitting next to the big man watching his surprisingly gentle hands drift over the paper.
"So this is it?"
Kelly asked holding the paper up for her to see, the drawing was intricate, it would take ages to complete. The largest was a tribal like ring, barbs coming off it at angles, however it was the inside of the tattoo that was the shocker, it was a twisted meddle of blues, it looked like waves crashing in on each other but pushing out at the same time, the detail came from each wave being a separate line, twisting and turning.
The barbs were twisting out into stars all around the circle until at the peek was symbol he had never seen before, it was an outreached bird, almost like a phoenix of some sort, its wings curled around a crescent moon, it was something he had never done before and knew he would never do another. Her soft and weary voice made him look up
"That's it, can you do that?"
"Where do you want it?"
She had never thought where she had wanted it, thinking for a moment she finally spoke
"My back"
Nodding Kelly lifted himself off the chair and helped her up, for some reason he felt bad for her, maybe it was the total lack of exhaustion on her face, the haunt in her eyes or maybe he just loved the bike she had rode in on, he didn't know but he knew for the next three or so hours he would do the best work he had ever done.
Authors note – Well this is my first ever Stargate fan fic, I hope you like it so far and please give me feedback, tell me what you think and who you think should be paired with who...beka
Author Bekabulwinkle
Author Email Bekabulwinkle@hotmail.com
Category: Drama – Romance - Angst Pairing Unknown yet – Suggestions welcome
Spoilers Its all over the place I cant really tell so if you know it then well it's a spoiler
Rating For the moment I'd say PG but it could change so keep an eye on this
Archive Well if you want too – just let me know where Disclaimer I own nothing that you know, just Jayd, she's mine the rest belongs to whoever owns them...
Panting and covered with sweat she tumbled from her bed, kicking the tangled sheets from her legs. Stumbling to her feet Jayd raced into her bathroom as the memory of what she had just seen made her stomach roll, emptying her stomach of its little contents and then some before pulling herself up. The dream still vivid in her mind as she splashed the cool water over her heated face, sweat mixed with tears and water now running down her cheeks. It had gotten worse over the last year, always the same glowing eyes and pain her body was wracked with it.
Peering at her reflection she cringed, she was drawn; her pale skin ashen and the circles around her dull and haunted eyes had grown even larger. Dropping her head Jayd felt her empty stomach roll, dragging in oxygen she clutched at the cool sink.
"Jayd...Jayd are you all right?"
She heard her great aunt call through her bedroom door, Stumbling a little as she made her way across the hardwood floors to the brightly painted door, her feet dragging and her body still shivering, leaning on it for a moment, the smell of the fresh paint still clinging to it, still dragging air into her burning lungs she finally spoke
"Just a nightmare Kathryn"
"Are you sure?"
Closing her eyes Jayd leant her burning forehead against the cold wood as she spoke
'I'm sure, sorry for waking you"
Her aunt's sigh was soft but Jayd still heard it, she felt bad. Kathryn had taken her in when there was no one else, they were all each other had now but all she wanted to do now was ride, get away as fast as possible as quick as possible. With trembling hands she redressed and left the old house, the purring of her motorbike breaking through the still night air as she tore from the drive way and away from the nightmare that had woken her.
**** **** ****
With sadness in her heart Kathryn turned from the purple door and slowly made her way back to her own bedroom. She waited silently knowing her niece would soon leave the house and not return until well into the next afternoon. Each night she had been woken by screams and each night she had gone and hoped her niece would let her in, let her comfort her but each night she went back to her room and waited to hear the door open, hear the creek of the staircase as Jayd walked down them a then finally the rumble of that bike she loved so much as it sped down the street and away from whatever troubled her niece.
Seeing Jayd fly down the maple line street she closed her eyes for a moment remembering the happy little girl she once knew. Pulling the blanket her mother had made her when she was still a little girl Kathryn turned her gaze from the rider to the dark night sky. Her mind went to Daniel as it always did when she looked at the stars. Daniel, Jack, Sam and Teal'C were the only family she had besides Jayd and they were all out there. Sending out a silent pray for them to come back safe she slowly got up and went to bed. Seeing the little green numbers tick over she couldn't help but compare her niece and the one time disrespected archeologist, they were so similar, both overachievers, both lost to the social world, and both so sad, so alone.
She remembered Jayd as a child, she would go treasure hunting in the attic, being gone for hours coming back to show them the small relics she had so lovingly found, small pieces of forgotten or lost jewellery or books, Kathryn had always thought she would follow in her fathers, her grandfathers, her great grandfathers ambitions – archeology ran in there family but Jayd didn't, when her parents accident happened she had been so young, left to look after her mother until her death less than a year ago.
Her life hadn't been easy up until that point, many times she had asked her niece to come stay with her, give Jayde some sense of a normal childhood but Gabby wouldn't allow it. So when she went to Gabby's wake Kathryn had asked Jayd to come stay with her for a while in the hope that she would once again find herself, at first Jayd refused, for almost five months Kathryn had no idea where she had gone, finally a few weeks ago she had turned up on her door step, thankful she hadn't asked any questions and the two of them had fallen into a routine of sorts. Yawning Kathryn closed her eyes, pulling the blanket a little higher as she shifted under it until darkness of sleep took her for the night.
**** **** ****
Gunning her bike she headed towards the flashing neon sign, easily gliding her Indian Spirit to a stop outside the doors, the bright light stung her eyes after driving so long in the moons shadow. It took her only a few minutes to adjust as she walked in, her eyes scanning the walls of artwork before sitting in the chair and looking through the laminated books
"Can I help you?"
The book fell from her fingers as she jumped,
"Sorry I didn't mean to scare you"
Looking up she saw the man who had spoken, he looked to be in his mid to late twenties a little older than herself, he was huge covered with tattoos and silver bars and hoops, his dark dread locked hair was pulled back from his smiling face
Taking a deep breath she let it out before speaking, running a hand over he own knotty hair
"Its fine"
Seeing him smile as he sat in the chair across from her, the book put back down on the coffee table in between them
"So do you know what you want?"
Nodding Jayd closed her eyes letting the image float to the surface for a second before opening them again
"I don't think you have anything here...'
"Can you draw it – or explain it to me and I'll give it ago, I'm not busy tonight so..."
Seeing him shrug she leaned back in the chair and nodded once more watching as he got up and went behind the counter, coming back a few seconds later with a pad and a pencil handing it too her
"Ohh no, I cant draw, do you mind if I just describe it to you?"
"Not at all – I'm Kelly by the way"
"Jayd – nice to meet you Kelly"
She said shaking his hand, soon she was describing the object and the pencil scratched across the paper.
She had no idea how long she had been in there, but when she finally had the image she wanted Jayd found herself sitting next to the big man watching his surprisingly gentle hands drift over the paper.
"So this is it?"
Kelly asked holding the paper up for her to see, the drawing was intricate, it would take ages to complete. The largest was a tribal like ring, barbs coming off it at angles, however it was the inside of the tattoo that was the shocker, it was a twisted meddle of blues, it looked like waves crashing in on each other but pushing out at the same time, the detail came from each wave being a separate line, twisting and turning.
The barbs were twisting out into stars all around the circle until at the peek was symbol he had never seen before, it was an outreached bird, almost like a phoenix of some sort, its wings curled around a crescent moon, it was something he had never done before and knew he would never do another. Her soft and weary voice made him look up
"That's it, can you do that?"
"Where do you want it?"
She had never thought where she had wanted it, thinking for a moment she finally spoke
"My back"
Nodding Kelly lifted himself off the chair and helped her up, for some reason he felt bad for her, maybe it was the total lack of exhaustion on her face, the haunt in her eyes or maybe he just loved the bike she had rode in on, he didn't know but he knew for the next three or so hours he would do the best work he had ever done.
Authors note – Well this is my first ever Stargate fan fic, I hope you like it so far and please give me feedback, tell me what you think and who you think should be paired with who...beka