Disclaimer: I do not own Farscape or anything pertaining to Farscape. I just like to play with them.

This was my first Farscape fanfic so be easy…I was a newbie when I wrote this.

One For the Road Part 1: Can You Hear Me now?

John slowly let his hands run through her raven colored hair and watched as the strands fell back down against his lap. Her eyes were closed, but he knew she wasn't asleep. She was simply enjoying the moment. Quiet. Not something that they got a lot of on Moya, but today had been uneventful and they had taken the chance to sneak off on their own. A long sigh escaped his lips and a smile crossed her face, as she understood why. Life was perfect in every sense of the word. How could it not be when you found yourself sitting under the stars with the most beautiful woman lying with her head in your lap? Your wife, the woman who carried your child inside her. His hand slipped from her hair and found its way to her extended abdomen. She moved his hand over to the side where he immediately felt the movement of his child.

"He's on this side today." She whispered, her eyes still closed.

A look of amusement she didn't see was his only reply. She always called the baby a "he". She had told him she was sure it was a boy. He on the other hand was leaning toward a girl. Not that it mattered. He'd be happy with either, but she was adamant saying he had no idea what he was talking about. She kept telling him he would see in the end. In which he would just smile and let her go without telling her that technically it was 50-50 so if she was right it didn't really mean anything.

"We need to get back, John." She opened her eyes and looked up into his.

"And why would we want to do that?"

"Because we have things to do."

"We?"

"You."

"Me?"

"You, John." She pulled her pulse pistol out of its holster and pressed it against his chest.

"You and your timing." She smiled as she pulled the trigger.

John's eyes jerked open. Blackness. There was nothing to see, but pitch-black darkness. But the room wasn't dark; he could feel light on his skin coming from somewhere. He blinked one…twice…three times. He couldn't see. He was blind. He tried to raise himself up, but found he was being held down.

"This is not good." He thought. He opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out.

"Also not good." He couldn't see or speak and if there was any noise he couldn't hear it. He was also very aware that he was naked.

"Think John. What can you do? Nothing. As usual you are in the worst situation, naked because this is your life, and you can't do jack squat. What's the last thing you can remember? Nothing. Your mind is blank. Well isn't that the icing on the cake. Oh, oh and there is definitely something touching your leg."

"Your dreams are quite humorous, Human. Do all of your species represent guilt and fear with mental cognitions during your sleep cycle?" A voice called out.

"Oh, good John, you're not deaf."

"Actually your hearing is impaired," Whoever it was sounded far away despite the fact he could feel it touching his legs.

"Excuse me? Did I say that out loud?"

"Negative. Your physical exterior is still readjusting and your senses are currently still off line."

"What do you mean readjusting? Readjusting to what?"

"You should go back into your sleep cycle, Human. When your sight returns, it would be most unpleasant to be awake."

"What the hell is going on?"

"The sight receptors can be quite painful."

"I want some answers now!"

"I really must urge you to go back into your sleep cycle human. Here, I will assist you." John felt a pinch in his left arm before he lost consciousness.

"Human? Human?"

"Go away. You're not real. This is a dream…or one hell of a hangover."

"I assure you I am not a fabrication of your higher functioning cranial organ."

"Say what?"

"You should be able to open your sight receivers now." John slowly opened one eye, but quickly closed it from the light. He opened it again slightly allowing it to get used to the light before opening the other.

"What's with the ultraviolet light?"

"Your eyes have not been used for fifteen solar days; they are not used to normal light levels." John raised his head slightly, as much as the restraints that held him would let him raise his head anyway. Oh, boy he was definitely naked. Out and about in all his glory in front of…what he could only describe as a Sebacean experiment gone wrong. It was still examining his legs.

"Back off buddy." The creature took a step back.

"Are your sight receptors working properly?"

"Who are you? How did I get here?" The creature approached him and looked deeply into his eyes.

"Pupil dilation is satisfactory. I can help your other senses return now that sight is restored."

"Wait, wait, wait a minute! Return? Why are they gone?"

"Side effects from particle expansion."

"What do you mean side effects from particle expansion?"

"Your physical being was separated. I united it again."

"Oh well, as long as we're on the same page! What is that supposed to mean?"

"I detect mockery, Human. Does this not compute?"

"No it doesn't compute! What do you mean you united me?"

"Sorry, will speak simpler. I believe you would say you were…blown up."

"Blown up? I was blown up?"

"You ask many questions human."

"Gee I'm sorry. I guess I'm not used to waking up in Frankenstein's lab without any of my working senses!"

"Mockery again"

"Can't get anything past you, huh, Copernicus?"

"I am going to try to stimulate your vocalization now, human." The creature, ignoring John's last statement, picked up something that John was pretty sure was going to hurt him. He closed his eyes and waited for whatever the creature was going to do. He really couldn't do much else at the moment.

"How can you hear me if I can't speak, anyway?"

"I cannot. You make no audible noise and therefore I hear nothing, you can only articulate through thoughts."

"You're reading my mind?"

"Affirmative. Once I stimulate your vocalization and hearing, I will leave your mind and will communicate normally." John watched as the creature put the unknown device to his neck.

"This is going to hurt isn't it?"

"Pain should be minimal."

"They always say that." He felt a sick-sliding motion as something inserted into his neck.

"Okay, not so bad." The device sent a jolt into his tissue.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh…My God!"

"Apologies." The creature slid the device out of his neck and pressed some sort of material against him to stop the bleeding

"You lied."

"No matter. Do not try to speak yet. I will stimulate your hearing now." The creature took the same device and John felt the sick-sliding again, but this time in his ear.

"You know people have nightmares about stuff like this."

"As I communicated before you represent guilt and fear with mental cognitions during your sleep cycle. Does all your species do this?"

"Yes."

"To what purpose?" The creature jolted John again.

"Ahhhhh…would you quit that!"

"Apologies. You were saying?"

"It's a subconscious thing. We can't control it."

"Peculiar. I find you sleep cycle interesting. To torture yourself with such images seems primitive. You may try to speak now."

"Yeah, well that's a human for you." John almost didn't realize he had spoken that out loud. The creature smiled its approval.

"Don't you think it's a little invasive to watch someone else's dream?"

"Usually I would not partake in such a mind reading, but your cognition while in sleep cycle was quite intriguing."

"I don't even remember dreaming."

"Your memory is affected. Usually I let this come on its own, but I can help it along if you so choose."

"What does that involve?"

"It is painless I assure you."

"Like the jolty thingy?"

"No, that was a necessary falsehood to gain your cooperation. Regaining memories can be overwhelming depending on the memories themselves, but painless. I simply awaken certain memories that your mind has emotional attachment to from the last cycle or so. Every other memory you possess will return as your memory sensors awaken." John nodded his approval.

"Please, close your sight receptors." The creature put its hands on John's head. An immediate large flash filled his brain.

"Aeryn…you've come back." Flash

"I'm so sorry."
"Yeah…me too."
"Cause you don't…trust me. So I don't know how to trust you."
"I think I've earned your trust."
"I would put my life…in your hands…but not my heart." Flash.

"I just caught this apothecary placing drugs in your quarters. She says they help you forget Aeryn."
"They just dull the pain."
"Do they work?"
"When I double the dose, yeah."
"How much perspective have you lost? You know if you take anything this witch gives you you halve the dose.
"D'Argo…it ain't none of your business so forget about it." Flash

"Oh, baby, you had me at hello."
"Rank and regiment. Now. And how…do you know my name?"
"What you should really ask…is how I know you've got a birthmark on the sweet spot on your hip." Flash

"Do you want me to go back to Moya?"
"We've already talked about this. It's entirely up to you."
"Fine. I'll go with what you prefer. Look I'm not trying to…pressure you John. I'm actually trying to take the pressure off. Would you be happier if I wasn't here on Earth? You don't have to justify it or explain it. Just give me an honest yes or no." Flash

"You tell my grandkids about me."
"Hah. That's a no-brainer. They gotta know who my hero is."
"Your gonna find when you have your own, you want 'em to pass you. Be better, climb higher. I guess if that's the measure, I'm…the greatest dad on Earth."
"I love you dad."
"You're the heart and soul of my life son. I love you." Flash

"When I was on the command carrier, I went to see a surgeon. I was really worried about what the Scarrans did to me. The fetus has been released from its stasis. So I'm going to have a baby."
"You okay?" Aeryn nodded her head.
"And the baby?"
"It's yours. I just wanted to tell you. Hope it doesn't change anything."
"Umm…well, it changes everything." Flash

"Will you marry me?"
"Yes." Flash

"You and your timing."
"I love you." Flash

John felt the chills run down his back. It was like the opening of floodgates. It was every awful, violent, happy moment he had ever lived all at once. His mom, Livvy, Dad, Farscape, Moya, Aeryn. His breath caught in his throat. Aeryn. He had forgotten her. She was his hope, his heart, his life, his everything and her memory had been taken from him. He clenched his fists, unable to show his anger in any other way.

"What the hell did you do to us?"

"I did nothing, Human. I did not separate your particles. I simply united them again."

"Aeryn…" he stopped, realizing this creature had no idea what he was talking about.

"The female that was with me, what happened to her? Did you put her back together too?"

"Negative. I only received one being to unite."

"There was a woman with me. She should of…she would have been with me." He struggled against his restraints.

"I know nothing of the matter."

"What happened to her?"

"I am sorry you are grieved Human, but I speak the truth. You were brought to me alone."

"Who brought me to you?"

"I cannot say."

"Who?!"

"I cannot say."

"WHO?"

"I think you have had enough stimuli for the moment Human." The creature shot John in his arm with something and his head fell against the table as he lost consciousness.