And here it is, my gift fic to one Sugarcandyaddiction, I know it's late but still in time for the time of the year to give something.
Pairings will be Karen/Lourdes and maybe Hal/Lourdes, Hal/Karen and even Hal/Karen/Lourdes
I own nothing, not Falling Skies or any of the characters/actors or any of that, so don't sue.
This story is rated for a possible future, should the one the fic is intended for want a future.
The night was cold and dark, and the moon was hidden from sight as Lourdes walked amongst the trees outside of camp. She had gotten a letter from Hal saying to meet him in the clearing just ahead, it was not like him she knew that but she still felt like she had to go. It had been weeks after the Volm had landed and the elections that placed Tom Mason in charge, but all that seemed like a distant memory as she walked through the woods.
It was her first field mission and she has been on edge about ever since she was told that she would be going out with Hal's team. It was hard enough when she was told she had to learn to shoot and carry a hand gun with her but that did not compare to the fact that they were going to scout out Boston to see what the enemy was up and to scrounge up whatever they could find.
"Hal, are you out here?" Lourdes asked into the night when she reached the clearing the letter spoke of, but Hal was nowhere as far as she could tell. "Hal?" she asked again into the darkness, and again no reply was given, say that of the wind that has picked up. A cracking sound to her left made Lourdes turn her head so fast that she nearly got whiplash, but whatever had made the crack remained hidden in the shroud of the night.
Lourdes was starting to freak out, and her mind began to wonder to fearful thoughts of her capture or death at the hands of the aliens, and with those thoughts she pulled the hand gun out of the holster at her hip and held it close to her. Everything around her suddenly looked like the enemy, every tree and every bush and every sound that the wind made her heart race even more.
She slowly started to back up into the cover of the trees so that she could make a run for the camp, and the safety of her team mates. As she kept backing up she heard the one sound that she had hoped never to hear in a situation like this, breathing behind her. Lourdes slowly turned with her gun at the ready like Hal had showed her, and the relieve that she felt when the very same person stood before was like nothing that she had ever felt.
"Hal, where have you been hiding, I was starting to worry" she asked only loud enough for Hal to hear, but she did not receive an answer, only a stern glare that did not look like Hal at all. Lourdes was beginning to worry again, because the darkness of night did not just surround them but it could be seen in Hal's eyes as well. "Hal are you okay?" Lourdes asked again and again Hal did not reply, but he did start to move forward towards her.
"I am glad you came, Lourdes, I was beginning to worry that you would not come" Hal said with a tone of voice that Lourdes did not recognise, but it did send a chill up her spine. "She said that you would come if it was me who asked you to, but I did not believe that you would" Hal kept saying while he walked ever closer to her. "Who told you that I would come out here, and why would you want to meet out here away from camp?" Lourdes voiced her worries but Hal did not seem to hear them, or he just simply chose to ignore her.
Hal was standing in front of her now, and he closed the distance between them even more as he leaned closer to her, Lourdes just held her breath as he was now only a couple of inches from her, if she was not scared out of her mind right now she might have felt something else but this moment and this Hal that stood before her only caused her to feel fear. "Who asked you to bring me out here Hal?" she asked again, and this time she got her reply but not from Hal, all he did was smirk at the sound of the voice that spoke behind them.
"I asked him to bring you out here Lourdes" Karen said from behind her. Lourdes froze at the sound of that voice; the one person she had hoped to never see again was now standing behind her. Just then did Lourdes see that everything about tonight was wrong. Hal could not walk, yet he stood before her; fear had clouded her mind too much for her to notice, and now she can feel the cold sweat roll down her skin with the realisation that this was a trap and that Hal was now under Karen's control.
Finding whatever courage she could within herself she turned towards Karen, "what do you want with me, what did you do to Hal?" Lourdes asked while trying to keep her voice steady but failed. Karen smiled at the way that Lourdes was trying to act strong but she could see that it was just that, an act to hide the fear that she felt. "I just showed him the light" Karen said while Skitters came out of wherever they were hiding and surrounded them, "and I am going to show you that same light Lourdes, you once wanted Hal to notice you and tried so desperately for him to just look twice in your direction, but you did not expect me to take notice of you and with all your efforts you have shown me just how useful you are and will be". As Karen finished talking Lourdes felt pain erupt from the back of her head and her vision fade to the same darkness that surrounds her in the dead of night.
"It is a shame that you were so trusting Lourdes, it is the first trait that you should have discarded when the skies fell", Karen then turned to the Skitters to her right and said, "get her ready for the next part of our plan", she then turns back to Hal, "go and make sure that she is not missed for the next couple of hours, I will provide you with a distraction to make you more believable".
Reviews show respect for another writer, be they good or bad so show your respect for a fellow writer. My fic writing skills might be rusty since I have not published one in ages, hence the new account with no history, and I am also not used to writing anything remotely close to yuri but I have an ally who will be helping me in that regard so no worries.