Authors note- This takes place after "Uncharted Love", it is part two. It is
required that you read that before this, or this will make no sense at all.
TO LIZ: There are some 'Hi's' just for you! Heh heh heh.
Uncharted Love Part Two
Kira and Aleki led a happy life on Moya. It was more peaceful now than it was
before. For one, they were no longer fighting (as much), and two, Aleki and
Crichton got along so well now, sharing their Military knowledge. Yet it
seemed as if things were going all too well.
Aeryn was getting antsy. It was too quiet for her. She needed action, along
with the rest of the crew. So, when there was a supply shortage one day, they
all jumped at once for the opportunity to go down to a trade planet to
restock.
But unfortunately, D'Argo had gotten old and weak. He could not go, it was
the disappointment of the cycle for him. Lately, he had been getting sick,
and that, combined with his age made one cranky Luxon. So Chiana stayed
behind with him to keep him company, much to her internal agony of boredom.
Kira was in her room getting ready for the trip. She wore black leather
pants, lieutenant boots, a black tight fitting vest, lined in red. She walked
out of her room and down the hall to Aleki. She knocked on the door.
"You in there love? We are leaving soon," she called to him.
"Yeah, hang on a sec. You can come in if you want," he called over his
shoulder while tieing his boots. Kira walked into his room, closing the door
behind her. Aleki was wearing black leather pants, a black t-shirt and a
black and red trim leather jacket. He was in the middle of tieing his boots
when she sat next to him on the bed.
"Hi," she said casually, after a minute of silence.
"Hi," he replied with a grin on his face. It was a joke between them, said
for lack of thought. "Looking forward to going down to the planet?"
"Who isn't?" she replied. "It is so boring here. I sort of wish that
something bad would happen so we can do something, get off of this Leviathan."
"Bad things don't have to happen for people to have fun." He sat back on his
bed and looked at her, now done with his shoes. Then he grinned at her.
"What?" she said, sort of uncomfortably.
"Can't something good happen for people to have fun, or nothing happen at
all." He leaned foreword and kissed her tenderly on the lips. As he went to
pull away, he was stopped by her pulling him closer, intensifying the moment.
"We have to go love," he tried to say, but only succeeded in making a whole
bunch of mumbly noises. She giggled. Aleki leaned back onto the bed with her,
but there was nothing behind them and they only succeeded in falling to the
floor.
"OOF!" she said while giggling. He looked down at her and smiled, then kissed
her again. They were just starting up again when Aeryn entered the room.
"Can't you two keep your hands off of each other for five minuets?!" Aeryn
exclaimed with her hands on her hips. "We are leaving, just waiting for you
two!"
Aleki rolled off of her, slightly embarrassed at being caught in the act yet
another time. "Sorry Officer Sun," he said while straitening his shirt.
"Aleki, you are frelling my daughter, I think that we are on good enough
terms that you can call me Aeryn." She smiled at him and left.
"That was fun, was it not?" Aleki grinned at her, "And nothing bad happened."
"Yes it did," she said as she started out the door. "We fell off of the bed
and me mum interrupted us, I'd call that bad, too bad that we couldn't
continue!" She grinned evilly at him.
"Oh, why do you tease me so, there is enough stress around here so as it is,
then you add some to me! Aye love, you are a piece of work!" He walked behind
her in the corridor and wrapped his arms around her waist as they walked.
"Aye aye aye, now I can't wait for our return, just for something bad to
happen." He buried his face in her hair and breathed her in. He grinned.
"You are something else, a walking talking contradiction. Do you know that?"
She pushed him away as they entered the hanger and stepped aboard the
transport pod. Kira took her seat behind Aleki, who was in copilot. Aeryn was
piloting and John was sitting behind her, Zahn was sitting between John and
Kira.
"Is every one ready to go?" Aeryn said as she turned her head around to look
at everyone. She was still somewhat attractive (except for the average signs
of aging, like wrinkles around the eyes and random streaks of gray in her
hair) after all of these years of fighting and work.
"Ok Aeryn, all of the kiddies are buckled in! Lets get off of this
Leviathan!" said John. Aeryn fired up the engines as she commed Pilot to open
the hanger. They pulled out of Moya and headed down to the planet. The planet
looked very much like Earth, except for the different shapes of the
continents and the water a much lighter blue, tropical-like. That is almost
what the planet was, a tropical planet, controlled mostly by calm native
traders.
They broke through the planet's atmosphere and landed on the ground softly.
Aeryn still had her touch at flying.
"I am so glad to be off of that ship!" said Kira said as she got out of her
chair and headed for the door.
"You wait a minute!" said Crichton. "I don't want you two wandering off
together and getting lost or taken by the Peace Keepers or something. I think
that it would be best if all of us stayed together, just for safety and all."
"Alright!" Kira leaned on the jam of the door and crossed her arms, waiting
for every one to get out of their chairs. She had her eyebrows raised
arrogantly as her father slowly got out of the chair.
"Don't you look at me like that young lady! I am still your father, you will
do as I say, that goes for you, too, Alki-Seltzer!" Crichton now stood next
to Kira, opening the door. Aleki looked at Aeryn and Kira with a confused look on his face.
"What! What did I do!" he asked.
"Nothin' but you were thinkin' it! And don't tell me you weren't '!" Aleki
smiled to himself and looked at Kira. Kira smiled back at him.
They all got off of the transport pod and stepped into the sun. All of them
just stood there for a minute savoring the light it gave off and all of the
cool planet air. Crichton was the one who broke the silence. "I know that it
is good to be on a planet and all, but we still need to get supplies." They
all followed him into the city gates.
As soon as they walked in, they could smell the herbs of the aroma therapists
that sold their elixirs for a living, see the large bolts of colorful cloth
that brightened up the relatively dim area. They could also smell the subtle
smell of fish that wafted in from the nearby bay. The shiny new ship parts
glistened in the sun along with the jewlery made by the highly talented
natives. Kira looked around with amazement. It wasn't often that she got to
go down to a planet, especially one that was this poetic-looking. She started
to head over to a jewlery booth but Aeryn grabbed her arm and stopped her.
"Do you remember what your father told you?"
"Yes! I was only gonna go, like, 10 feet away!" she replied.
"Kira, this place is loaded with Peacekeepers," replied Aeryn. "Do you know
how high your risk is to getting taken? I was a Peacekeeper, I still am to
them, so they think that rightfully you belong to them. You too, Aleki. If
they see you and think that you are alive, you are as good as gone. Do the
both of you understand?" They both nodded in agreement. Aeryn walked to
Crichton who was inspecting a bushel of herbs with Zahn.
He stared at it sideways. He remembered all of the health classes he had had
in high school, all of the drugs he studied in class. The plant looked
exactly as marijuana. He was sure of it. "Ya know Aeryn, on my planet, this
plant is illegal."
"Really? Its just a sedative."
"A strong, psychological trip sedative!"
Aeryn looked away from John with an raised eyebrow, confused again at his
Earth-ness.
Aleki took Kira's hand as they poked around at the stand next to John and
Aeryn.
The table was coverd with glass and gem trinkets and knick knacks. There were
small ones that looked as if they would break if you touched them with a
feather and large ones that were much the same. "This stand is getting me
nervous," said Aleki, "Lets go with your parents."
Kira glanced and smiled nervously at the big burly Sebacian male that stood
over his stand. She started to follow Aleki away, but her foot cought on the
leg of the stand and she hurtled foreward, falling flat on her face. She
started to get up, but as she pulled up her leg, the stand started to wobble
and sway, she quick rolled out of the way before the entire stand fell to the
ground, all of the glass ornaments breaking into thousands of pieces. Kira
felt her face get hot and her chest swell with dread. "I-I-I'm sorry sir, it
was an accident!"
She started to clean up the mess when the man grabbed her arm and yanked her
to her feet.
"This is my life's work you stupid girl! You had better be paying for all of
this!" bellowed the man, his face red with anger.
"H-H-How much is it?" She tried to pull away from the man's hard grip, but it
was too strong. "You're hurting my arm!"
"75 million skewas!" he grunted at her, as he tightened his grip.
"I don't have 75 million of what ever they are! And how can they be so
expensive!" She withered under his iron grip.
"They are all made with precious gems and crystals that I had to buy, full
price from the planet Iomoeko! Which as you should know, is no longer
exists!" He twisted her arm behind her back. "If you cant give me my money, I
will be forced to take my payment in other ways!" He ran his hand through her
red hair and down her neck.
Kira slapped the man and stepped back a few steps. "How dare you! It was just
an accident!"
John and Aeryn glanced over at their daughter and at the table of broken
ornaments and rushed over, dragging Aleki with them.
"What is going on here, Kira!" John shouted.
"Daddy, it was an accident, I tripped and my leg got caught on the table leg
and it fell! I didn't mean to do it!"
Crichton turned on the man. "You heard her, it was just an accident. Now can
she go?"
The man turned bright red in anger. "No she cannot go! She owes me 75 million
skewas!"
"What the hell is a skewas? What ever they are, we don't have any of them,
we're sorry for for the mess, we will help you clean it up, but we cannot pay
you!" The man turned away from Crichton and looked around, about 10 seconds
or so later, he bellowed out "GUARDS!". At that, three Peacekeeper guards
rushed over to the scene. "This little trolep wrecked my stand and she and
her party refuses to pay for the damages! I demand justice!" The big man
crossed his arms.
"Which one?" said the tallest of the three guards.
"The one with the red hair," said the man.
The tall guard walked up to Kira and put a device that looked like hand cuffs
on her. He motioned for the other two men to do the same to the rest of the
party. They did and then they started to take them away.
"Wait, you cant do this! It was just an accident!:
"We'll leave that for commander Scorpious to decide," said the tall man, who
was obviously the leader.
Crichton stiffened at the mentioning of Scorpious. He looked over at Aeryn
and the rest of the group. They were all staring back at him with worry on
their faces. "Um, buddy," he said to the tall man, "can't we come to some
kind of agreement? I mean, it was just an accident!"
"Like I said sir, I will leave it to Commander Scorpious to decide what
happens to you," said the tall man as they went into a moderately large
building, obviously the Peacekeeper headquarters for the planet.
The group moved closer to each other. They all knew that what lay ahead for
them would not be good.
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Hehe, part 2 chapter 2 soon!
