Introduction

Hello all! I started watching Salvation only recently and fell in love with it! I feel the dynamic between Darius and Liam is very close to parental and it stirred the spanko within me. This short story is a tag or rather a remake of first season's episode six. I couldn't get out of my head an alternative plot where Liam would be held accountable for disregarding Harris during the operation of the crystal's extraction.

I've played around a bit changing some things like Liam's age. I've made him a 19 year old gifted graduate student. I know we don't hear it too often, but I personally have read numerous stories of teens starting college when most of us are still struggling with high school and considering what Liam has managed to create as a master student, making him a 19 year old prodigy didn't feel too much. Plus the younger age helps my plot line and the eventual mentor-parent/protege-son dynamic between Darius and Liam.

Even though the general lines of the episode are kept I've added scenes and altered bits and pieces to lead to the final confrontation of Darius and Liam. Also even though most of the writing is my own, I've kept parts of dialogues that I absolutely loved in this episode as they were. Those parts are written by the Salvation screenwriters and I don't owe them in any way. Nor do I owe any of the characters of the show. I am simply borrowing them to play.

I hope some of you will enjoy this! I know it's not a very popular series but I find it really good and highly recommend it!

You probably won't understand much if you haven't watched season one up to that episode, so you might consider watching the show, or simply watching this episode again if you have forgotten it, before reading this or it might seem a bit incoherent!

For any new readers, English is not my first language and this is not beated (for now). I'm not sure if my beta will agree on taking on this story as well and I didn't have the time to ask for now but I will do in the near future.

The story is complete and I'd love to hear your thoughts over it and possible requests for future one shots!