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Chapter Two
Kolya and Elizabeth tumbled backwards, Kolya landing on the grass and Elizabeth on top of him. Elizabeth winced slightly on impact as the bullet fired from John's gun appeared moments later and whizzed overhead.
Kolya was no longer holding her during his moment of disorientation. Seizing her chance, Elizabeth scrambled to her feet and made a run for it.
"Stop her you idiots!" yelled Kolya to his remaining men who had escaped through the wormhole. He gathered his dropped gun and picked himself up off the ground.
Elizabeth had a good head start, but was still no match for a gun. He fired a warning shot and she stopped dead in her tracks. "I won't miss a second time!" warned Kolya.
Having felt the heat of the bullet pass her by, Elizabeth thought twice about running; her right hand automatically touched her stomach and she rubbed it smoothly. Feeling slightly nervous, Elizabeth stopped and turned back round to face him. "Don't shoot!"
"Give me one good reason why not!" shouted back Kolya as he moved towards her. "You and your people ruined everything I set out to do."
"I'm worth more to you alive. Aren't I?"
"Unfortunately for the moment, yes; and I expected better from you," smirked Kolya as he caught up with her. "My soldiers love a good chase."
Elizabeth really wanted to wipe the look off his face. "I hate to disappoint you, but I'm not the sporting type."
"Such a shame." Kolya grabbed her right arm and pushed her back towards the gate. "You might have gotten away had you been; you'll be lucky to get a second chance after we leave this place."
Elizabeth was beginning to wish she had run for it. "Leaving here?"
"You don't expect me to hang around the one place; Major Sheppard will most likely come looking. Do you?"
In truthfulness, Elizabeth was scared stiff having been forcibly taken from her people and with the thought of not being found scaring her even more. But if there was even the remotest chance of being rescued, she needed to remain strong and hope for the best. "And I thought you were the sporting type."
Kolya's gun wavered in front of her face. "Be careful what you say, Dr. Weir. Because your arrogance could be the death of you, and no one is here to save you this time."
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"Sheppard! Where is she?" asked Rodney for a second time.
"I couldn't stop him, McKay."
Rodney was beginning to feel his stomach churning at the thought of Elizabeth in Kolya's hands. "You didn't—you didn't let that creep take her, did you?"
"Yes, McKay, he's taken her." Before Rodney could butt in, he answered the question he knew he was going to ask before springing into action. "And yes I'm going after them. Ford, Teyla, you're with me. The rest of you wait here."
"Sheppard! You can't go blundering in without a rescue plan," warned McKay before John even reached the flight of stairs leading to the jumper bay.
"He's right, Major!" interrupted Sora as she let go of Carson and moved to intercept him. "Kolya wouldn't be there anyway. He wouldn't risk losing his prize so easily by staying on the Genii home world."
Halfway up the stairs, John turned to face Sora. "Then where?"
Sora looked down at her feet. She had said too much already, and the thought of betraying her people by disclosing Dr. Weir's possible whereabouts was too much to ask. True, she had come to accept these were good people and they didn't deserve this, but her loyalties still remained with her people. "I can't say. Commander Kolya could've picked any destination." In effect her answer was true—they had set up many bases all over the system and Kolya could be at any one of them. But it would limit their search if she gave each of their coordinates.
Somehow John didn't believe her, but he could see she wasn't in any hurry to help them. "Well, there's only one place to start and we've wasted too much time already." With that he climbed the rest of the steps, closely followed by Teyla and Aiden, who gave her a disapproving look.
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Elizabeth wasn't given the option to see where they were going. After their second of five trips through the gate, a blindfold was roughly placed over her eyes, blocking out the sun. Most likely to deter her from escaping, since she wouldn't know the way back to the gate. She knew by the rough grip on her arm that it was Kolya guiding her to their new destination. "What do you want with me, Kolya?"
He didn't answer.
She could feel the leaves crunching under her feet, and now and again she would trip on a branch that Kolya neglected to tell her was there. Probably just for the fun of it, since he would just yank her back up before she had the chance to fall over anything big. "If you are hoping to gain access to Atlantis again by kidnapping me, you're very much mistaken."
Still no response.
Elizabeth was grateful he had left her hands free, and she was able to reach into her right pocket and pull out a wet tissue; her clothes were still rather damp from the storm back home. But at least here she had a bit of warmth. She dropped the tissue onto the ground, wishing at the same time that no one would catch her doing so.
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The cloaked puddle jumper flew across the sky of the Genii home world. John performed a u-turn over the settlement before finding a place to set down near the gate.
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After what felt like forever climbing down steps, Elizabeth finally had the blindfold removed from her face only to be welcomed by a grizzly site, which she guessed was her prison cell. It was a small stone-walled room with one wooden bed and sink; two inches of dirty water covered the floor of the dimly lit room.
"Welcome to your new accommodation." Kolya pushed her into the room before closing the metal door behind her. "I'll give Major Sheppard a few days just to wind him up before contacting him."
"He won't trade, Kolya! He won't give up Atlantis for me."
"We'll see." With that Kolya left.
Elizabeth banged on the door to get his attention, but he didn't acknowledge her. After a few minutes Elizabeth stopped and turned back round. She crossed her arms over her stomach. The past number of hours finally caught up with her and, now alone, she let the tears fall freely from her face before she sunk to the ground where she stood.
TBC
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