Title: REUNIONS (Sequel to Behind the Mask)
Author: Kazavid
Chapter: 1 / so far
Series: Behind the Mask
Rating: M
Pairing: Ronon Dex, Other
Archiving: None
Warnings: Sexual Content / Some Torture
Spoilers: None
Feedback: Yes
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis and its characters do not belong to me.
Summary: Carrying on from where 'Behind the Mask' finished. Ronon has a reunion with an old 'friend' while Lyssa becomes the innocent victim in between the two, and Sean is finally reunited with his sister.
REUNIONS
Chapter 1
Lyssa stood in the clearing waiting for this Chimera guy to show up, she adjusted her face mask, making sure that it was secure. She turned to look at Sean.
"You think he might have changed his mind." Lyssa asked, him.
"I hope not." Sean answered. This was the last chance they had, there was nowhere to go from here.
"Someone's coming." Lyssa whispered, she readied her gun, and moved to take up a defensive position behind a large tree.
The man walked in to the clearing, and stopped a few feet away from Sean. Lyssa saw, that like her, he was also wearing something over his face. There was nothing unusual with this, people tended to want to protect their identity when dealing with criminals. That's why Lyssa had found it so easy to get by wearing her mask.
"You Chimera?" Sean asked him.
"Yes, and you must be Sean." Chimera asked.
"Yes." Sean answered. Lyssa saw that the guy was wearing gloves, she thought that this was a little excessive, but dismissed it.
Wearing a long dark coat, Chimera was a few inches taller than Sean but he was thinner. There was something about this guy that Lyssa found disturbing. Her sixth sense was telling her to get the hell out of there, she took no notice of it. This was their last, and probably only, chance to get Sean's sister back.
"I believe you wish to trade for the young girl I purchased, a few weeks ago?" Chimera asked Sean, getting straight down to business.
"Yes, I do. Do you still have her, is she alright." Sean asked, his voice rising slightly.
"Yes I still have her, and she is unharmed." Chimera told Sean.
"Then yes, we wish to trade." Sean said, eager to get this over with, and finally get his sister back.
"What is it you intend to trade with." Chimera asked, looking around.
"We have weapons, jewellery, food..." Sean began telling him.
"The weapons you have, are they like the one you're carrying." He asked Sean. Looking at the gun in Sean's hands.
"Yes, exactly like this." Sean told him, feeling a bit relieved, they had plenty of weapons, from trading with Atlantis.
"Where did you get the weapons from." Chimera asked.
"We traded for them." Sean answered, this guy was asking a few too many questions.
"So you have been to Atlantis?." Chimera remarked, causing Lyssa to stand up and start moving, slowly, towards Sean.
"Why do you want to know that?" Sean asked him, way too many questions, Sean thought.
"It's just that I have a few...shall we say...friends, there." Chimera told him.
Lyssa heard this and wondered if the man knew Ronon and Sheppard. She moved over to stand a few feet behind Sean, Chimera looked towards her and she saw him hesitate for a fraction, why he hesitated, she didn't know.
"Are you from Atlantis." He asked her, suddenly switching his attention from Sean to Lyssa.
"No." She replied, not giving anything away.
"Then you must also have friends there." He remarked.
"Why do you say that." she asked, curious as to why this guy would say such a thing, and why was he so interested in Atlantis.
He moved his hand inside his coat, and Lyssa moved her gun, pointing it at Chimera.
"I am only going to show you these." He told her, pulling a chain from around his neck, and showing her the dog tags attached. Lyssa moved closer to look, but before she had a chance to read them, he tucked them back in his coat.
"Yours?" He asked, pointing at the dog tags just visible through her jacket.
"No, a friends."
"May I?" He asked, gesturing towards the dog tags.
Lyssa lowered her gun, and allowed the stranger to take hold of the tags and read them. She didn't want to upset the guy, she was doing this for Sean and his sister.
"Specialist Ronon Dex, he must be a good friend " Chimera said, his voice harsh. It was almost imperceptible but Lyssa saw it, his whole body tensed as he read the tags. She saw his hand clench around the dog tags, almost as if he were about to rip them from her neck.
She wasn't about to confirm anything, but she didn't have to.
"He must be a very close friend to give you these." He added, then he abruptly dropped the tags and turned away, then he started walking away.
"You still want to trade for the girl." He asked, stopping for a moment, he turned to look at Sean.
"Yes, we still want to trade for the girl." Sean told him.
"Then I will meet you back here in one hour."
"But you never said what it is you wanted to trade for." Sean shouted.
"I will tell you later." He shouted over his shoulder, he didn't turn to look around.
"I don't like this." Lyssa told Sean, she didn't trust this guy.
"You never like anything." Sean told her, his mood much brighter now that he was closer to finding his sister. The closest they had ever been.
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It was just over an hour and Chimera hadn't returned yet, Sean was getting anxious, she could see it in his face, he was worried the guy wasn't going to come back.
Then she saw in the distance, two figures coming their way, one was obviously Chimera the other was much smaller, almost child like, must be Zara, Lyssa thought.
"Sean, look." She told him, pointing towards the two figures. Sean, immediately perked up.
It took a few minutes for Chimera to reach them, he stopped a few feet in front of Sean, he put his hand behind his back, and pulled a young girl around to stand in front of him. She was small and thin, her dark hair was hanging loosely around her face, this was most definitely Zara, Lyssa thought, the resemblance between her and Sean was unmistakable.
"Is this the young girl you wish to trade for." He asked.
Sean was too shocked to answer, all he could do was stare at his young sister. Finally he had found her, he saw that she was thinner, but at least she was alive and that was all that mattered. Sean quickly moved forward and wrapped his arms around her, still not quite believing that she was really here.
"Yes, this is the girl." Lyssa, answered Chimera.
"You never told me your name." Chimera said, turning his attention from Sean to Lyssa.
"Hunter." Lyssa told him, she wanted to keep him sweet, till the trade was done.
"How long have you know Ronon?" He asked her.
"Not long." She wasn't about to give this guy her life history. The less he knew, the better, she thought.
"What is it that you want to trade for." Sean asked from behind Lyssa.
"All I wish to trade for is a day or two of Hunters company. I'd like to show him the same hospitality that I was shown when I was on Atlantis." He told them.
Lyssa stiffened, she didn't like the sound of that. But looking at the faces of Sean and Zara, she knew she couldn't refuse. But why on earth would he want her company.
"Hunter?" Sean said, pulling her aside, he spoke to her.
"You don't have to agree with this guy, we can trade for something else, he seems to be interested in the weapons we have."
"I don't think so. besides I can look after myself, you know that." She said, convincing Sean that everything would be alright.
"I don't like this." Sean told her.
"I thought that was my line." Lyssa joked.
"Don't joke." Sean said quietly, he really didn't want to leave her here. Lyssa turned to face Chimera.
"Alright, we accept." Lyssa told him.
"When you see Ronon, give him these, and assure him that I will take very good care of Hunter." Chimera told Sean, taking the chain from his neck, he dropped the dog tags into Sean's hand.
"You're sure you want to do this?" Sean, asked Lyssa again.
"Yes, now go, get Zara out of here, I'll see you in a few days."
She watched Sean lead his sister away, he kept glancing back to look at her. Finally he was too far away to see, she turned to look at this Chimera guy, wondered what he looked like under that mask. But before she could put another thought together, Chimera had pulled a stun gun from his pocket, and shot her.
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It was a few hours later when Sean exited from the wormhole, bringing him back to Atlantis. The first thing he saw was Doctor Weir, who greeted him warmly, and offered him and his sister a place to stay for a few days. Sean had found it difficult to accept that this woman was the person in charge of Atlantis, she looked to fragile. He'd been expecting someone more like Colonel Sheppard.
"Is Lyssa not with you." Weir asked him.
"No, not at the moment." Sean told her, he glanced around but couldn't see Ronon anywhere.
"You said that you had to speak to Ronon."
"Yes, is he here." Sean asked her.
"He's with Colonel Sheppard, I'll have one of the security guys show you where."
Sean, and Zara followed the young man down several corridors, till eventually Sean spotted Ronon and Sheppard up ahead, in the corridor, they were talking and laughing. As Sean moved towards them Ronon glanced up and saw him. Sean saw Ronon's face light up, he must be thinking that Lyssa was with him.
"Sean, your back." Ronon said, he glanced at Zara, "And who is this." He asked Sean.
"This is my sister Zara." Sean introduced her to Ronon, and Sheppard.
"Pleased to meet you Zara." Sheppard said, smiling at her.
"Your sister, so you finally found her." Ronon said.
Sean knew that Lyssa had promised to come back to Ronon once they had found Zara, so it was obvious what Ronon was thinking. Sean just hoped that this friend of Ronon's, kept his word.
"Where's Lyssa?" Ronon asked, looking along the corridor to see if she was lagging behind.
"She's actually with a friend of yours." Sean told him.
"What friend?" Ronon asked.
"The guy we went to meet, the one who had Zara. He said he was a friend of yours. He didn't want to trade anything, just wanted Lyssa's company for a few days, wanted to show her the same hospitality that he was shown when he was on Atlantis." Sean told Ronon.
Ronon could feel the tension in his body getting tighter with every word Sean spoke. He knew something was wrong.
"What did this guy look like."
"We don't know he wore a mask, like Lyssa."
"Ronon, what's the matter." Sheppard asked him.
"What was his name." Ronon asked.
Just then, McKay came over to join the little welcoming party.
"He said his name was Chimera." Sean said.
"Never heard of it." Ronon said.
"I have." McKay announced.
Everyone looked at him.
"Well I have, it has several different references, it's a fire breathing monster, or it can be a figment of someone's imagination, a daydream, an illusion, or even a mutation, a result of using two different genetic materials and mixing them." McKay finally finished speaking. And realised that nobody wanted to know. "Fine, I'll shut up."
"He told me to give you these. Wanted me to assure you that he would take very good care of Hunter." Sean told Ronon, he dropped the dog tags in to Ronon's hand.
Ronon looked at the dog tags and read them, Sheppard was just about to ask Ronon what was on the tags, when Ronon erupted. The glass door leading out to the balcony, which was at the side of Ronon, suddenly shattered as Ronon slammed his fist in to it.
Everyone froze, even McKay, Sheppard, moved a little closer to Ronon, but not too close, he could see the blood dripping from Ronon's hand.
"Ronon, what is it." Sheppard asked him. Ronon doesn't answer. He just stands there, tension gripping his body.
"Hey buddy, you need to get that hand seen to, you're dripping blood everywhere" Sheppard told him.
Sheppard's words must have registered with Ronon, because Ronon lifted his hand and looked at the blood running down his fingers.
"Ronon?" Sheppard said, looking at the dog tags Ronon was clasping in his hand.
"He's got Lyssa." Ronon told Sheppard, in a tortured voice.
"Who's got Lyssa?" Sheppard asked.
"Michael."
"Michael! Wraith Michael?" Sheppard asked incredulous.
"You know of any other Michael?" Ronon said, his voice, calmer, but devoid of emotion.
No wonder Ronon was so worried, Sheppard thought. There was no love lost between Ronon and Michael. Ronon intensely hated Michael, probably more so than any other Wraith, just as Michael hated Ronon, not least because Ronon was always the one who ended up shooting him. Michael had never been able to get to Ronon, he'd never been able to get a reaction out of him. That was until now, Sheppard hated to think what Michael would do to Lyssa, just to get back at Ronon.