OK a new story in the works, Please Please let me know what you think, good or bad I can take it! I have given you a couple of chapters to get the feel of it.
Earth: Heaven or Hell.
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Thanks to Ruth for frankly putting up with me over this one and for the beta read of course.
All the Chapter headings are taken from this, the first Hybrid in Razor.
I feel their lives, their destinies spilling out before me. The denial of the one true path, playing out on a world not their own, will end soon enough. Soon there will be four, glorious in awakening, struggling with the knowledge of their true selve. The pain of revelation bringing newclarity and in the midst of confusion, he will will find her. Enemies brought together by impossible longing. Enemies now joined as one. The way forward at once unthinkable, yet inevitable. And the fifth, still in shadow, will claw toward the light, hungering for redemption that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering. I can see them all. The seven, now six, self-described machines who believ themselves without sin. But in time, it is sin that will consume them. They will know enmity, bitterness, the wrenching agony of one splintering into many. And then, they will join the promised land, gathered on the wings of an angel. Not an end but a beginning.
Chapter One - I feel their lives, their destinies spilling out before me.The Denial of the one true path, playing out on a world not their own, will end soon enough.
The three of them stood in the doorway blocking the way. The scene that met them was one of shock and despair, especially for the Admiral of the fleet. They were his people, the crew whose safety he was charged with, even if he had to risk their lives on a daily basis. Behind him, Cally left formation and rushed to her husband and child's side. Helo was next over to his wife and child. Adama was left looking around at them all, Tyrol, Anders, Tigh, Tory, less surprising to him in some ways Sharon, her child Hera and the Cylon prisoner. He felt the rush of air from behind him as another trolley was wheeled quickly in.
His eyes shut at the sight of the occupant on it, this time not in a coma as the others but writhing in obvious pain on the bed.
This was not how it was supposed to be, his mind screamed, they had made it. Earth was in sight and his world was suddenly tumbling all around him.
His hand reached out and caught hold of the flailing one of Laura Roslin. She quietened slightly at his touch and he reached out, with his other hand, to smooth her hair away from her forehead.
He looked wildly about him as nurses and doctors rushed around the beds. This shouldn't be happening surely this was not how it would all end. This couldn't be what they had all fought for, all this time.
Everything had happened so suddenly. They were amazingly on track to Earth. Adama knew the Cylons weren't far behind, but it was a chance he had to take, a calculated risk. Leading the Cylons to Earth had always been a possibility; he just hoped that for once the Cylons didn't find them or that finding Earth would prove a solution in itself. Ironically it had, but not in the way Adama had wished for, there was no military force to destroy the enemy. Instead it seemed to be the area itself that was the defence and now the entire Cylon fleet was drifting in space. A cause to celebrate within the fleet, even on Galactica the cheers could be heard, Adama had found the thirteenth Colony just like he always said he would.
Raptors were sent out ahead of the fleet to investigate the area fully before reporting back to Galactica waiting at the point it had jumped to for safety.
The news was not what the Admiral had thought it would be or hoped for, Earth was empty. There was no lost tribe there, not anymore and no defence against their pursuers. Adama had little choice but to carry on to Earth and as the giant ship began to move forward so did the assortment of protected ships that made up the fleet.
It was at this point that everything started to happen at the same time.