A/N: Thank you all for your support for this story. This is a major turning point in the story. Please don't flame me until you see where I'm going with this. Thanks, NurseKelly, for your guidance.
I'm sorry the show is cancelled and feel even worse for everyone who had faith that Fox would keep it on TV. I lost faith that shows I love will go more than 1 season ages ago. At least Maddy/Mark will live forever and not be split up by a bad writer for ratings.
Warning: Strong T rating and angst ahead. I never introduce angst into established relationships so I'm trying something different. I hope you'll stick around and see where I take this.
Sergeant Will Carter hated to take medicine, particularly sleeping pills. He'd taken them only once before. He had to deal with a particularly bad stretch of night terrors after his first mission when he was forced to kill a man with his bare hands. The vivid dreams he had from those pills still haunted him.
His desire for Abigail meant he was going to have a long night of erotic images going through his mind. Not that it was a bad thing, but it would only increase his sexual frustration.
He dumped two pills into his hand as he sat on his bed. His body ached and he was pissed at himself for letting Carter get the best of him. The Sixer with the same name caught him off guard with a boot to the head, knocking him back and off the roof. At least it was only a one-story building.
He took a moment to look at the pills before he swallowed them. I need to sleep. I need to be on my game to talk to Abigail tomorrow. His plan was to bring her to his house and never let her go until she shared every detail about her past with him. Will needed to know everything with an intensity that scared him. As he drifted off, her face filled his mind.
Abigail came to Will on a mountaintop. It was covered with pink and white flowers. Their fragrance mixed with the flowery smell of her hair and was intoxicating. She was wearing a white dress so bright it blinded him.
"Abigail," he sighed as she stood before him. Her face was rosy in the sunlight and the smile as sweet as her kisses. He pulled her to him and claimed her mouth. Their kisses set his heart racing as he moaned, Abby, against her flesh.
Suddenly she was hovering over him. It was dark, with only the faintest moonlight illuminated her face. Her fingers brushed hair from his forehead so he captured her hand, laying kisses on her palm. When he traced a path to her wrist with his tongue, she gasped.
"Will!"
"Abby," he breathed, his lips and tongue moving up her bare arm as he pulled her down next to him. "My sweet, sweet Abigail, come here."
She was within his reach, the smell of flowers filling his nostrils as he rolled on top of her and claimed her mouth. Her hair was spread over his pillows and her sweet body molded to his.
As Will made love to Abigail, a part of his mind said that there was no way that even a sleeping pill could make it feel this real - her smell, her taste, the feel of her perfect body under his hands. No way I'll wake up rested after this wet dream.
Abigail pulled the blanket over her head when she heard Jess get out of her bed. There was no way she was going to face anyone this morning. She had embarrassed herself and ruined any chance she would ever have with Will Carter.
You weren't supposed to be a virgin. This is a bad dream.
Those words muttered by Will tore her up. Shame filled her and made her face burn. How could something that felt so pleasurable, so wonderful to her be so bad for him? He's Will Carter. You're a novice. Of course when he found out you were a virgin he wasn't happy. He's used to women that know what to do.
"Aunt Abby, are you coming with us? You need to get up if you are," Jess said as she shook her aunt.
"Jessica, don't disturb her," Kyle's voice barked from the hallway. "She'll never go with us so come on."
"Go where?" Abigail asked as she pushed the blanket down to look into the excited face of her niece.
"Dad's going to an outpost south of Terra Nova to check on some the staff after the meteor and we can go. Olivia is taking us in a rhino." Jessica ran to their closet and pulled out a backpack.
"You can't go OTG. It's not safe." Abigail's eyes widened.
"Olivia's got a gun. Besides we're only going to an outpost and then coming back. We won't be gone more than a day. Olivia said there are brachs in that area," Jess said. "You've got to come."
"We can't go OTG without you." Jason came in next and sat on her bed.
Abigail wanted to tell the kids to leave her alone so she could wallow in despair because she just ruined her only opportunity to have a relationship.
"I wish Will could come with us, but Olivia doesn't like him," Jason added sadly. "Did you see him last night?"
"I… He was asleep." She looked at the children.
"So we can go OTG and be back to tell him all about it later. It's only a few hours from here," Jess replied as she grabbed a jacket and stuffed it in her pack.
"I don't think anyone should go OTG. We are still getting the colony in order after the EMP." Abigail was loath to tell the kids Will Carter was probably not going to be part of their life any longer not just because Olivia didn't like him.
"We don't know how badly the outposts were hit. Medical and the military are going out to check on them," Jess explained. "Can you please come? It'll be a birthday gift for us."
"I'm taking my knife to help protect us too," Jason said. His blue eyes pleading for her to come.
Abigail got out of bed and pulled on her robe over her shirt and sweats. "I need to talk to your father." She hurried from the room to find Kyle and Olivia embracing in the hallway.
"Kyle, can I have a word?" For once Abigail was so upset with the stupid notion of taking the kids OTG that it gave her courage to confront Kyle.
Kyle looked livid as he extricated himself from the female soldier. "Can you get the kids loaded, Liv?"
"Of course," Olivia replied with a smile. "Good morning, Abs, I hope you can join us. But if you want to stick around, I can understand that too. I'm sure Malcolm could use an extra set of hands."
Abigail suddenly didn't like Olivia Fernandes as much as before. Abs was a demeaning nickname Kyle called her only because he knew she hated it.
"I don't have time for this. I'm taking my children and fiancé OTG. You can come because the kids would like you to or you can stay. Your choice. But make it soon because we leave in twenty minutes." Kyle turned and headed to his room.
LATER THAT AFTERNOON
Will groaned and opened his eyes. The bedside clock was showing 16:00 hours. He'd slept of almost twenty-four hours thanks to Doctor Shannon's sleeping pills.
He pushed the covers down and swung his legs off the bed. It wasn't often Will slept in the buff and really thought he'd at least passed out with his boxers on. His vision was still coming into focus in the dimly lit room, so he reached over and brightened the bedside lamp.
His back was killing him, but the pain made him focus. His thoughts wandered back to the dream he'd had that night. It was about Abigail as usual only this one has some unusual elements to it. They were having sex in his bed for starters. His fantasies involved rovers, waterfalls, fields of flowers and lately under the stars on a mountaintop, but never his crappy military housing unit. Maybe because she was here recently for the kids' birthday.
Will ran his hand over his stubbly face and through is hair, which really was getting too long for military regulations. The most unsettling part of his dream was that Abigail had been a virgin.
In his wildest fantasies he was the only man to kiss her and make love to her, but didn't believe a woman as naturally passionate as her could have held that in for years. He was so upset to imagine another man touching her that he purposely refrained from asking her about her past experiences. His sweet Abigail was just that, his, and he couldn't bear to share her with even the memory of another man.
Instead of a slow, methodical introduction into the art of lovemaking though, Will took Abigail quickly. He heard her cry out and tried to stop, but he lost all control when she started to respond. Thankfully for him, the dream ended after that. Will would never hurt Abigail and it chilled him to think his subconscious would even conjure up something like that for their first time.
Will stood up and froze, his eyes noticing something dark on the sheets. He turned up the lights to survey the room and saw a small white, lacy bra on the floor next to the bed. Terror seized him and with a shaking hand he pulled the blanket off his bed to see a stain on the white fabric. He dropped the blanket like it was contaminated.
"No!" Will cried, trying to come to grips with the evidence he found. He didn't dream that Abigail came to him and he had sex with her. It really happened. She had been a virgin. "Oh, God. I…" The fact that she was gone from his house spoke volumes.
A knocking at the front door pulled him back. He quickly grabbed a pair of sweats and made his way to the door. He opened it, praying it was Abigail and that his greatest fear wasn't realized.
Instead he saw Taylor and Jim Shannon, which solidified in his mind that he'd done the unthinkable. In his drug-induced sleep, his angel came to check in on him and he'd taken advantage of her.
"I think- Oh, God- I think I forced... I couldn't sleep. I asked Doctor Shannon, your wife, for sleep aids," he cried to his CO and the sheriff as he imagined Abigail being crushed from his over two hundred pounds. He wanted to kill himself.
"Calm down, Will," Taylor said. "What are you going on about?"
"I can't remember… Abigail was here. But it was like a dream... No a nightmare."
"What about Abigail?" Jim Shannon asked as he and Taylor walked into Will's house.
Will wasn't listening. "The blood."
"Blood?" Jim gasped.
"On the sheets." Will waved toward his bedroom area. "I must have hurt her- Oh God!"
"Sergeant!" Taylor shouted.
A part of him hoped Taylor or Shannon would put him out of his misery.
"Carter!" Jim shouted and grabbed Will's arm.
"I hurt her!" Will cried. He felt a tear slide out of his eye and he didn't care who saw it. "I think I raped the woman I love!" He should be shot or at least left to die in a fashion far worse than Foster's.
Shannon and Taylor stood in silence as he clenched and unclenched his fists. His confession of love didn't phase them or him. It felt natural to say he loved Abigail because it was the only word that seemed to fit what his emotions were. And you ruined any chance you had with her because of those damned pills.
"I need to tell her I didn't know what I was doing. I need to beg her not to hate me." His voice cracked as he prowled around the room. He wanted to race through the colony, find Abigail and throw himself at her feet.
"Will, sit down," Taylor said, motioning with his hand toward the couch. "No matter what drugs you were on, I can't believe for a minute that you'd hurt Abigail."
"But, I did…"
"I need you to calm down." Taylor turned toward Shannon. "Shannon, can you get your wife?"
"What did Abigail say to you?" Will was desperate. He was clinging to every sound Taylor uttered.
"Let's have Doctor Shannon take a look at you. You don't normally take sleeping pills. I think they're make you irrational."
"I'm not…" Will started, but stopped when Taylor raised his gun.
"Don't make me stun you. Now sit down."
Once Elisabeth got him stabilized with a drug that counteracted the effects of the sleeping pills, Jim spoke. "Will, Abigail and the kids are missing. Josh went to check on them because we knew you were in no condition to visit with them."
Will felt a stabbing pain pierce his heart.
"Kyle Porter missed his shift at the infirmary as well. No one has seen them all day," Elisabeth continued. "We hoped that you might know something."
"What!" Will shouted and he leapt to his feet. "If he's hurt any of them nothing will keep me from killing him."
Because Abigail didn't want to think about the fact that they had driven for hours into the jungle outside Terra Nova in a rhino with only one soldier to protect them, she forced herself to listen to the sound of the motor and let it lull her to sleep. Jess sat immediately behind the front seat chattering away with Olivia. Jason sat next to her because he knew how frightened she was.
She was surprised she hadn't dissolved into a quivering mass in the back of the rhino and attributed her lack of a panic attack to the numbness that consumed her if she thought about a life without Will Carter. It's going to be a reality when you return so you better get used to it. He already said having sex with you was a bad dream. Do you think he has anything more to say to you on the subject?
"We still have no radio contact with Terra Nova?" Kyle asked Olivia.
"I told you that the transmission stations were wiped out by the EMP," she explained with a grin. "Don't you remember? It's also why the HUD is so messed up."
Abigail knew that the Head Up Display or HUD showed the rhino's location in relationship to Terra Nova. It was part of Will's training. The device was also tied into the transponder that allowed Terra Nova to know where the rhino was.
A frightening thought took hold of Abigail and wouldn't let go. What if they broke down out here? No way to contact Terra Nova and call in a rescue. They were all alone.
Before she could let that send her into a panic attack, something dropped onto the roof of the rhino. It caused Jess, Jason and her to scream and Olivia to shout as well. She slammed on the brakes.
"Is it a good idea to stop?" Jess squeaked. "Can't you go faster and shake it off if it's a dinosaur?"
"I've never known dinosaurs to…" Olivia stopped speaking as her eyes looked out the window.
Abigail gasped and the kids hugged her tightly. Several people walked toward the rhino with weapons raised. They were dressed with lots of leather, feathers and jewelry made from the bones of assorted dinosaurs hanging off them.
"Sixers," Olivia gasped. "I don't know what they're doing here but stay calm. They'll take the supplies in the rhino and then send us back to Terra Nova. They've never killed anyone before."
Abigail wasn't so sure that they wouldn't kill them, but clung to the female Sergeant's words as the only lifeline she had.
The rear door of the rhino was pulled open as well as the front.
"Get out!" a dark-skinned woman barked at Olivia.
"No need," Kyle replied.
Abigail hadn't paid attention to him until that moment. Never in her most terrified state could she imagine the scene that was playing out in front of her.
"Kyle, what are you doing?" Olivia asked, her eyes widening as she looked down the barrel of her own gun.
"Thanks for the ride, Olivia. I appreciated is," he said coldly before he shot her point blank in the head with a sonic.
The children screamed. Abigail gripped them more tightly and prepared for Kyle to turn the gun on her.
TBC
A/N: I don't think it's really an evil cliffhanger because you should know what I will and won't do to Abigail. I debated leaving the Kyle reveal to next chapter but thought I'd add even more for you to take in to this little chapter. I am working hard to get the next one up soon.
I'll publish the smutty tag later today as well so you can see what really happened at Will's place. It's not necessary to read it as I'll work in the important details in the later chapters, but I know a lot of folks like to read adult stuff.
