Return to Kansas
Rating: PG
Author's Note: This is set in a timeline where John doesn't die in Infinite Possibilities Part 2: Icarus Abides, but instead him and Aeryn travelled back to earth. POV of another patient.
Disclaimer: I do not own this, I have no money so please don't sue. I do own li'l old Mrs. Foster so leave her alone! I am making no money out of this whatsoever.
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I remember when he first arrived at this hospital. The nurse came in and told me that I would be sharing my room with someone else. I was curious as to whom I would be spending the next few months with, probably swapping life stories etc. When I asked her nurse replied, "Ooh, Mrs. Foster, you'll like him. An astronaut they say." This was said in the usually patronising tone, often used with people above 65. It was almost as if she thought I had lost all sense of hearing. However, I soon became more interested in the fact that I might have someone more interesting to talk to for a while.
When he first arrived I was slightly wary of him. He had the mad glint in his eye of a man who had seen adventure and knew deep down that it would soon be coming to find him once more. After I began chatting to him for a bit, I became more and more drawn in by this strange man. He told me stories of his travels through space. It was pretty obvious that he was short of a few marbles and that none of what he was telling me was true, but his stories were so fantastic, so alive with detail that I couldn't help but become mesmerised.
He told me that he and his girlfriend, Erin I think he called her, were travelling back to earth, but something had gone wrong and he had ended up here. He did not know what had happened to Erin and, although she could not possibly be real, he seemed genuinely worried for her.
He began to describe what he had seen. He told me that Erin used to be a member of a race of warriors called Peacekeepers, who scoured the galaxies, massacring and conquering billions of planets and races. They had made the Nazis look like they were making peace. They were born to feel no emotions or remorse for the lives they took. Erin had been 'Irreversibly Contaminated' for spending time with him, and was therefore an enemy of the Peacekeepers.
One Peacekeeper, named Scorpius, did terrible things that would make you squirm. He had created a chair that would rip people's minds, layer by layer, invading any personal details that person had, until he found the information he was looking for. It was mainly due him being on the run from Scorpius that John had found a way to get home in the first place. But Scorpius was not completely Peacekeeper. He was a 'Sebacean-Scarren Hybrid'. His mother had been raped.
He told me that he had been 'twinned'. That somehow there had become two of him. One of them was left of his ship, Moya, and he had joined Erin on Talon. I believe his exact words when he mentioned what the other John would be thinking were, "man, that guys gonna be pissed that I finally managed to get Aeryn off Talyn and back to earth, but he's gonna frelling well kill me when he finds out I lost her as well!"
He told me that when he first disappeared into space, he stayed on a ship, A LIVING SHIP, named Moya. He apparently made friends there called Dargo, Zan, Chiana, Rigel and Stark. I remember thinking what strange names these people had, and what a warped imagination John had. I began to think that he was making these stories up to entertain me, but something about the small sparkle of hope in his eyes and the way his mouth turned up at the corners slightly whenever he spoke of his friends, made me think that he truly believed these stories.
His dad came to visit him once or twice and, like me, he was slightly sceptical of John's ravings. I could see the desperation in John's eyes as he begged his father to believe him and I felt a wave of sympathy wash over me. John had been missing for more than three years and not even his father believed where he claimed to have gone.
Then one day, she came. A tall, dark haired mysterious woman who I had never seen before in my life. As she entered our room she eyed me suspiciously. Then she looked over to where John lay asleep, his head wounds still not healed and walked over to him. The way she walked, everything about her really, suggested that she had been through some serious military training. Her long black leather coat and clumpy black boots were all I could see of what she was wearing. Her raven hair was tied back in a tight braid and her eyes darted around the room, as if waiting for something to jump out and attack her. She walked over to where John lay and perched on the edge of his bed. When I saw the look of love and concern in her face, I began to realise who it was. This strange woman, dressed head to toe like something out of the Matrix, was Erin. The girl who up until now, I had believed to be a figment of John's imagination.
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Rating: PG
Author's Note: This is set in a timeline where John doesn't die in Infinite Possibilities Part 2: Icarus Abides, but instead him and Aeryn travelled back to earth. POV of another patient.
Disclaimer: I do not own this, I have no money so please don't sue. I do own li'l old Mrs. Foster so leave her alone! I am making no money out of this whatsoever.
Feedback: PLEASE! I love feedback!
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I remember when he first arrived at this hospital. The nurse came in and told me that I would be sharing my room with someone else. I was curious as to whom I would be spending the next few months with, probably swapping life stories etc. When I asked her nurse replied, "Ooh, Mrs. Foster, you'll like him. An astronaut they say." This was said in the usually patronising tone, often used with people above 65. It was almost as if she thought I had lost all sense of hearing. However, I soon became more interested in the fact that I might have someone more interesting to talk to for a while.
When he first arrived I was slightly wary of him. He had the mad glint in his eye of a man who had seen adventure and knew deep down that it would soon be coming to find him once more. After I began chatting to him for a bit, I became more and more drawn in by this strange man. He told me stories of his travels through space. It was pretty obvious that he was short of a few marbles and that none of what he was telling me was true, but his stories were so fantastic, so alive with detail that I couldn't help but become mesmerised.
He told me that he and his girlfriend, Erin I think he called her, were travelling back to earth, but something had gone wrong and he had ended up here. He did not know what had happened to Erin and, although she could not possibly be real, he seemed genuinely worried for her.
He began to describe what he had seen. He told me that Erin used to be a member of a race of warriors called Peacekeepers, who scoured the galaxies, massacring and conquering billions of planets and races. They had made the Nazis look like they were making peace. They were born to feel no emotions or remorse for the lives they took. Erin had been 'Irreversibly Contaminated' for spending time with him, and was therefore an enemy of the Peacekeepers.
One Peacekeeper, named Scorpius, did terrible things that would make you squirm. He had created a chair that would rip people's minds, layer by layer, invading any personal details that person had, until he found the information he was looking for. It was mainly due him being on the run from Scorpius that John had found a way to get home in the first place. But Scorpius was not completely Peacekeeper. He was a 'Sebacean-Scarren Hybrid'. His mother had been raped.
He told me that he had been 'twinned'. That somehow there had become two of him. One of them was left of his ship, Moya, and he had joined Erin on Talon. I believe his exact words when he mentioned what the other John would be thinking were, "man, that guys gonna be pissed that I finally managed to get Aeryn off Talyn and back to earth, but he's gonna frelling well kill me when he finds out I lost her as well!"
He told me that when he first disappeared into space, he stayed on a ship, A LIVING SHIP, named Moya. He apparently made friends there called Dargo, Zan, Chiana, Rigel and Stark. I remember thinking what strange names these people had, and what a warped imagination John had. I began to think that he was making these stories up to entertain me, but something about the small sparkle of hope in his eyes and the way his mouth turned up at the corners slightly whenever he spoke of his friends, made me think that he truly believed these stories.
His dad came to visit him once or twice and, like me, he was slightly sceptical of John's ravings. I could see the desperation in John's eyes as he begged his father to believe him and I felt a wave of sympathy wash over me. John had been missing for more than three years and not even his father believed where he claimed to have gone.
Then one day, she came. A tall, dark haired mysterious woman who I had never seen before in my life. As she entered our room she eyed me suspiciously. Then she looked over to where John lay asleep, his head wounds still not healed and walked over to him. The way she walked, everything about her really, suggested that she had been through some serious military training. Her long black leather coat and clumpy black boots were all I could see of what she was wearing. Her raven hair was tied back in a tight braid and her eyes darted around the room, as if waiting for something to jump out and attack her. She walked over to where John lay and perched on the edge of his bed. When I saw the look of love and concern in her face, I began to realise who it was. This strange woman, dressed head to toe like something out of the Matrix, was Erin. The girl who up until now, I had believed to be a figment of John's imagination.
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So waddya think? Give me feedback and tell me whether it's worth continuing this.
Trixta
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