Part 1: A Dark Day
Summary: Acastus Kolya escapes from the Atlantis Brig, with tragic consequences.
Acastus Kolya was something of a thorn in the expedition's side. The last time the man had been on Atlantis- he'd taken control of the city and nearly killed Rodney and Elizabeth. Then of course there was the incident on Dagan. There was a feeling that it was too good to be true that Kolya was their prisoner; a feeling that was soon to be proven correct. In a perverse twist of fate, Kolya had managed to escape, killing a guard in the process, and was now sneaking up on Dr Rodney McKay.
"Dr McKay, so good to see you again." Kolya said. He was pointing a Beretta at McKay's temple. McKay thought that this had to be some kind of nightmare.
"What do you want?" - McKay asked.
Kolya leaned closer to Rodney and answered, "I would've thought that someone as smart as you could work it out. I want to escape."
"Don't you realise that Colonel Sheppard will never let you leave here alive?"
Kolya grinned at Rodney's remark. "If I escape, I can help the Genii destroy you. If I don't, I will at least know that you die too. So I'm happy either way." Kolya pressed the barrel of the gun against Rodney's temple. Rodney closed his eyes tightly and tried to imagine that this wasn't happening, that he wasn't there and that this maniac wasn't about to kill him.
"Why are you doing this?" Rodney asked.
"Because you are a terrorist and an enemy of the Genii," came the simplistic answer.
Remembering previous experiences, Rodney decided that it wasn't worth arguing with Kolya.
From her position in the control room Elizabeth's jaw dropped in horror when she saw Kolya walking into the gate room. He was holding Rodney in front of him with a gun held up to the side of the terrified scientists head. Closely followed by a security team of marines, John Sheppard rushed into the gate room. However, Kolya was a seasoned soldier who was familiar with tactics. He'd positioned himself close to the gate. They couldn't approach him from behind and from the front there was no clean shot.
"Kolya!" John yelled, taking aim with his P90, "Let him go!"
Kolya chuckled. "Major Sheppard, or should that be Colonel Sheppard, I'm sure that if I let him go then you'll only kill me anyway." he yelled, once again pushing the gun against Rodney's temple. The scientist was already visibly distressed and a few tears were already beginning to form in his eyes. "So lower your weapons or I will kill Dr McKay!"
"Oh crap! Crap crap crap! I'm going to be killed by this maniac!" Was all Rodney could think. He'd been in the field, and had faced death before but he'd never had a gun this close to him before. He was almost paralysed with fear.
"Okay", Sheppard said as he lowered his P90 and gestured with his arms for the Marines to do the same.
"And your side arms," Kolya added. John looked at the Marines and nodded. Then they all removed their side arms and lowered them to the ground. John couldn't work out how things could have gone so badly wrong He expected to wake up and to find that this was all just a bad dream and that his friend would be safe. Kolya slowly walked forward, one arm around Rodney's neck and his other hand pointing the gun to his head.
"I want you to open the Stargate to a Genii-occupied planet!" Kolya ordered.
Elizabeth looked over to a scientist at the control console and nodded. The scientist began punching in the symbols on the DHD and one by one the chevrons lit up. When the wormhole was established, Kolya walked back towards the gate pulling Rodney along with him.
As they neared the event horizon Kolya brought the gun back and ran it down Rodney's apine until it was pressing in-to his lower back. "Time to say goodbye to your friends," Kolya whispered to Rodney. Rodney shivered and John could now see tears running down the Rodney's face. As they were passing the event horizon, Kolya fired.
Rodney felt a sudden shock and for a moment he wasn't sure what was happening. "I've been shot, that bastard actually shot me!" The world seemed to shrink as blackness engulfed him. "This is it, it's over." he thought to himself as he drifted out of thought and conciousness Kolya kept holding on and dragged Rodney's now inert form back through the gate with him, still using him as a human shield, then the gate shut off. An eerie silence filled the room, almost as death itself was in the air. Elizabeth broke down into tears, John felt sick and everyone realised the same thing. They had lost Rodney.