Third Time Lucky
Author: Mallorysgirl
Disclaimer: Sliders is the property of it's creators Tracey Torme and Robert K. Weiss. This story however is mine and is the sequel to my previous story Second Chances.
I hope after you've read it you will review it, because all comments, including constructive criticism is welcomed. (Well enough of my babbling. On with the story:)
Quinn remembered a time when Sliding had filled him with excitement and adventure. How all it filled him with was fear and regret!
He had been happy at the start of his adventure. Yes of course he had missed his mother and with every passing day, did so more. But at the beginning he had had the rest of his 'family' around him. Now all he had was Rembrandt. Although none of his companions had been of the same blood, they had meant as much to him as his birth family, maybe even more now, because they had shared this whirlwind ride with him. Through the highs and the lows!
But he seemed to be losing them one by one. First he had lost the Professor. And he had felt like he had lost his father all over again. He had admired him since that day he had walked into that first Physics class, back at Uni. The man had such a thirst for the same subject as Quinn that he knew that he would learn a great deal from his teacher. And that he did.
When he had taken the bullet for him, something had died inside Quinn. He wasn't quite sure what, but something had made Quinn Mallory become harder. He knew it was probably guilt for dragging the Professor into all this mess, as well as the thirst he had gotten for revenge over Rickman. This was one of the things that had pulled him and Wade apart.
Wade! Her departure had hit him the hardest. The pain and guilt he felt over losing her was more than he could bear. He had pushed her away. Pushed her away when she had needed him the most and that he had to live with for the rest of his life. He didn't know what was more ironic, losing her by pushing her away out of fear of losing her, or losing her to himself!
She had of course left him for his double. The Quinn who had shown her how much he loved her. Something he hated himself for not doing. He knew that he had also lost her because of his relationship with Maggie. He had read the note Wade had left Remmie. It had said that she couldn't bear seeing him so in love with Maggie, and that's why she had left.
And now he had lost Maggie. Well not exactly lost. They had mutually agreed to part ways. After Wade had gone Quinn had realised that he had made the biggest mistake of his life, in not fighting for her. And he knew Maggie knew this too. They stayed together for another couple of months but it really put a strain on their relationship. Maggie resented Wade's hold over Quinn and how insanely in love with her he was, and Quinn had begun to resent that Maggie wasn't Wade.
He knew it wasn't her fault. It was his. He had picked the wrong one. He liked Maggie of course he did, and he valued her friendship, but he had come to realised that he didn't feel love for her, but more like a large case of lust. Wade was different. He now knew that with her it was love, pure love. He felt like such a bastard for it too, because deep in his heart he knew that with Maggie it had only ever been sex, where as with Wade he knew he would have been making love.
So Maggie had stayed on a world that wasn't that different from her own, she told him that he had to keep searching for Wade because love was worth fighting for. And that was what she was doing now; staying on a world with her late husbands double and Quinn wished her all the luck in the world.
She was right though he needed to find Wade; his Wade and fight for her.
Fight till he had nothing left in him.