Title: Blacklist
Rating: M
Pairing: Hicks/OC
Summary: Set in Movie: Aliens. In Alien, Ripley and her friend April survived. After Ripley agrees to help Burke, her and April set off to destroy the aliens. But April is falling for a certain soldier. Hicks/OC

Prologue

Darkness enveloped the atmosphere and there was nothing but calmness. A peaceful quiet that drifted over the horizon, at least that was what it felt like to April.
She wasn't aware that Ripley was plagued by dreams, horrific and realistic dreams that woke her up screaming almost every night.

April was what you could now officially call a 'survivor.' Her and Ripley had stuck it out and defeated the alien. Then clasped themselves in their sleep as they drifted off and forgot about the universe outside.

Twenty five years old and April was what you could definitely call traumatised for life. Watching her family die and the horrors in the ship was enough to deem somebody crazy.

Closed off from the others and Ripley too, April was less than ready to brace herself to living again normally on the outside world.

Ripley awoke screaming again for the second night in a row and April was beginning to lose her patience. Rolling over with a very unladylike grunt, the brunette watched the older woman breathe rapidly and hug Jonesy, the ginger cat. 'You awake?'

April rolled her eyes, sighing she answered, 'yeah. You woke me.'
The older woman chuckled a little and placed the cat down on her bed who purred contently for a moment before cuddling into Ripley's legs. 'Sorry.'

April rolled over to face her friend, 'Ripley, what are we doing here?'
Ripley laid back down and shrugged, 'briefing tomorrow. We will find out.'

April was sat at the head of the table, in front of the big projector screen Ripley was intently looking at. Pictures of their old team was flickering on the screen and April looked away when a familiar face of a man and woman appeared.

'I don't understand this.' Ripley said, turning around to look at the group of men, one, a man she had met earlier and introduced to April as, 'Burke.'
'We have been here for three and a half hours, how many times do I have to tell the same story?'

April glanced at the other men who were sighing and muttering within themselves before a grim voice said, 'look at it from our point of view, please.'
Ripley took this as a sign to sit and took her place on a chair beside April who could glare daggers at the elderly man who was talking. 'You truthfully admit to detonating an expensive piece of hardware.'

The man was looking at Ripley who was looking at him right back. April remembered it was her idea to blow the hardware up. Alien aboard and all.
'42 million dollars,' said another man checking his notes. April and Ripley exchanged looks, neither of them had that kind of money but it was hard to take in when they were telling the truth.

'You self destructed the system for unknown reasons.' The elderly man at the foot of the table spoke again. His hands making movements on the table to ellaborate the seriousness of the situation.

'Hey, hold on. It wasn't for reasons unknown. That was company orders to destroy the thing that killed her crew.' April cut in not liking the tone any of these men were using. Ripley turned her head to the money man and sneered at him, 'and your expensive ship.'

'There is nothing to prove the existence of this creature you described.' The elderly man spoke, a mocking smile on his lips and he spoke firmly.
'Good,' Ripley stood and glared at him, 'that's because I blew it out of the goddamn air lock. Look, me and April stayed on that ship to kill that thing to protect all of you!'

April looked at the ground. Nothing really could prepare her for the conversation at hand. It was surreal to know that people, important people like these didn't believe something like this could exist.

A snide comment from a woman made Ripley turn to face her with an evil explanation. April was tedious of the same conversation and figured it was her cue to leave. Placing a comforting hand on her friends shoulder, she stood and said her polite goodbyes to the chair people.

April walked to her hospital room feeling embarrassed and tired. It was only moments after she was met with a very angry looking Ripley.
'Everything okay?'
Ripley paced the room, 'there are families there! 60 to 70 families in danger.'

April was in shock. Nothing reported by over a hundred witnesses. 'Are you sure?'
'That son of a bitch admitted it.' Ripley said finally sitting down and sparking up a cigerette. April sat across from her and looked at her carefully, 'we aren't going back,
are we?'

Ripley looked up at her not surprised by her question which startled April a little. 'No.'
April was satisfied with the answer. There was no way she would go back. She will die first. Going back would endanger her life, and Ripley and Ripley is the only thing she has now.

A knock on the door sounded and April answered it to be met with Burke and unknown man dressed in a soldier uniform. 'April, hello. Is Ripley there?'
April glanced behind her and Ripley looked up at hearing her name. Crossing the room, she took one look and then slammed the door in their faces. April had to move her hand before it got crushed.

'Please, Ripley!' Burke yelled and let himself in anyway which April was upset about. Ripley stood up prepared for a confrontation. She looked at April and told her to leave. April obliged quickly and took a walk down the hall.

'I don't get it, you want me to go back in there?' Ripley asked after Lieutenant explained everything.
Burke was excited and Ripley looked at him disgusted, 'no way.'

The Lieutenant shifted, 'you will be going in with the troops, you both will be protected.'
Ripley paused and looked at him carefully, Burke cringed and mentally cursed the Lieutenant for his mistake. 'Both?' Ripley asked interested.

The Lieutenant swallowed although it was more of a gulp and decided to let her know all the details now anyway. 'You and April.'
Ripley, scoffing, shook her head vigorously, 'that is a hell no! I am not taking that girl back in there, no way.'

The Lieutenant and Burke left shortly after, their heads dipped and shoulders slumped, defeated. Ripley was positive she wouldn't endanger April's life again. But families in close encounter with aliens was a big deal. If Burke wanted to destroy them, she wanted to help.

That night, Ripley contacted Burke and made conditions clear. April would know nothing about the mission until the last minute and think it was an experiment to rescue the families. And Ripley made Burke promise he was there to destroy, not to capture and test. Giving Ripley his word, Burke mentally smirked and Ripley turned off the power communicator aggreeing to the mission.

This would be interesting, she thought.

I am so sorry guys. I will get around to updating all my other stories, and I know I won't get a lot of reviews on this but I noticed there weren't any Hicks/OC fics and I was a little upset. I watched Aliens and found Hicks to be a complete hottie, not anymore, being 54 and all but back then... Swwooooon. 3

I hope you enjoy, whoever is reading this. More to come soon.

~ Noxin