Title: Meant to Be

Author(s): Elflore and Rehanna (No, Reh didn't ask if she could post this. He already told me I could do whatever I wanted with it.)

Rating: PG ...Reh was naughty and made John say "damnit" (pretty mild compared with some of my others. :)

Summary: It's John and Aeryn getting together. Isn't that enough?

Spoilers: None. Vague references to "Throne for a Loss," "Thank God it's Friday, Again," "The Flax," "DNA Mad Scientist," "Nerve," "Picture if You Will." (Don't worry if you haven't seen PiFYW, we don't give anything away. It's not even a quote we use. )

Feedback: Pleeeeease? You'll get a cookie! I promise!

Note: This was an rp for random shippiness to start with and SOMEHOW it turned into a story.. Don't ask us how, we don't know.

Disclaimer: We don't own the characters, wish we did, and then we'd be making all the money, not Jim Henson Productions, Hallmark Entertainment, Nine Networks and the SciFi Channel. Anyway, please don't sue us; you wouldn't get anything. While the characters don't belong to us, the story DOES so please don't steal it, or plagiarize it or anything like that. © Elflore and Rehanna, 2000

*New Author Note* I want a story with chapters. This one would kinda be perfect (I remember having to break it up when I sent it out for feedback). And it will have short chapters. Sorry.

Oh, and so all the lovely people who keep reviewing my J/C stories don't think I'm giving that up on them, I'm not. This was written over a year ago, but I'm becoming a review junkie, so I thought I'd post it here ;) . All reviews will be shared with Elflore (

Several more minutes passed. Slowly, the couple drew closer together, until their shoulders were brushing, and John found Aeryn's right hand in his left. He turned...looked into her eyes...

And the interruption finally arrived, in the form of a brightly blinking light on the console and a loud beeping noise.

This time John did sigh. "What's that supposed to mean?"

Aeryn frowned. "Looks like some sort of radiation warning."

"Any chance we could just ignore it?"

"Well...it doesn't look like it will do us or Moya any harm if the levels remain where they are, but we really should check it out. Find out where the problem's coming from."

Reluctantly, John nodded. "Yeah, you're right." He tapped his comm. "Yo, Pilot...are you reading some kind of radiation nearby?"

There was no response.

"Maybe your comm is malfunctioning," Aeryn suggested. She tapped her own.

"Pilot?" Still nothing. "Maybe the radiation's worse than I thought, if it's affecting the whole comm system. We'd better go down there, talk to Pilot directly."

But when they reached his chamber, Pilot was nowhere to be seen.

John's eyes grew wide. "What the...this can't be happening! He's bonded to the ship, isn't he?"

"Yup," Aeryn replied simply. She seemed to be taking this with utter calm...which suggested to John that she was nearly in shock.

"So he can't just get up and walk away, right?"

"Nope."

"So something very, very bad is going on."

"Almost certainly, yes."

And from there, things got worse. John and Aeryn split up, searched the ship, and found that Pilot wasn't the only one missing. Zhaan, D'Argo, Chiana, and Rygel were missing as well.

John finally had Aeryn to himself, but he certainly couldn't enjoy it under these circumstances...could he?

At the end of the search, John returned to Pilot's Chamber. Aeryn was already there, standing behind the console. Her eyes were closed, her body very still...almost as if she were meditating. Something he might have expected from Zhaan...but Aeryn?

"You okay?" he asked.

"Yes...I'm fine," she replied, but distantly, and her eyes didn't open. "I'm just...talking to Moya."

"You can do that?"

"Evidently, yes. Because of the DNA I share with Pilot, I would guess. Nothing else makes sense."

John nodded. "All right...so what's she telling you? Does she know what happened, where everybody else went?"

"No, John..." Now Aeryn did open her eyes; they still reflected that unnatural calm...but there almost seemed to be fear, too. "In fact, Moya doesn't have any idea what I'm talking about. She claims that for the last cycle, ever since she escaped from Peacekeeper control...you and I have been her only passengers."