Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate: Atlantis. Sigh
A/N: This takes place during "Hide & Seek". Story written for SGFFChallenges Live Journal group. By T'Karish.
Darkness. Forever dark. Forever trapped. Forever. Infinity. Never to be released. Never to again feel light. Cleansing light. All that's left is dark. Filthy dark.
Wait. We are being released! What is this feeling? Joy! Elation! We are free! Free! Now we must find home. Home. How do we get there? It's been so long since we were trapped here. We feel so... weak. We need energy to survive. We must have it! We must take it!
We search for energy. Must find it. Little bursts of energy run around, but hardly enough for us. We ignore them.
We find more energy! We move towards it. We must have it! We envelope it, sucking energy. We are starting to feel better when we realize that the energy is dwindling. We hear something... Thoughts? Words?
We pull back. Sentient! We were eating something sentient! We leave as quickly as possible, looking for dead food. Can't eat live food. It wouldn't be right.
We find more energy! This should be dead.
Yes! Food! Is it alive? We hear words again. What is this? We pull back again. Can't be alive! Isn't alive! Mustn't be alive! We carefully try again. No words this time. Not alive. Lots of energy this time.
Mmm... Feeling strength come back. A little while longer, and we can return. Just a little while...
Gone! The energy is gone! Where did it go? We need it! It can't disappear! We must find more energy!
We roam aimlessly around, looking for food. There! Energy! Light! We lurch towards it. We can finally eat!
No! A trap! They plan to trap us again! Couldn't bear that! Must leave it!
Now what is this feeling? We are familiar with it, but we don't know what it is called. We heard the sentient one's thoughts a while ago. Did it have a name for it?
Yes. Anger. We like that. It fits. Anger. We feel anger towards they who seek to trap us again. We want to lash out against them. We search for something to eat.
Yes! More food! Near the light! Light! We envelope it. Food! We will eat, then we will be strong enough to go back.
We feel something entering us. What is it? We probe it and find it is one of the sentient ones. Does he seek to destroy us? We try to find out, but it is protected by a shield of energy. We wonder if it is a present to make amends with us. We start eating away at the energy, ignoring the thing inside it. We decide that the sentient ones were trying to make up for the eternity we spent in the box.
Wait! The other energy is leaving! It is going through the light! We must follow it!
We angrily strike out at the one who tries to take away our food! The energy has left, and it's thoughts are open to us. It says that it just wants us to leave through the light. It says that it doesn't want to hurt us. We decide that there is truth to it's thoughts, and that whatever is beyond the light won't hurt us. We eagerly go through the light, feeling ourselves cleansed. We find ourselves in another place. There is much light here, and we eat the energy that we followed to this place.
We feel ourselves changing back to our natural self. We feel all our anger draining away, and we join with those around us. We are darkness no longer.
We are light.
