Title: The Price of Envy
Spoilers: None
Time scale: One year on from 'Freak Nation'
Rating: PG-13, language. My change.
Date: 26~12~02
For disclaimer and full summery see first chapter.
Feedback: Deb: Thanks for the support, always love your comments. *Huge Grin* Hope you like the next chapter. Skyeyes: Long term, definitely, tell me what you want and I'll write, the only reasons I tend not to continue is cos I run out of ideas. But this is different, plus huge fun... enjoy. Panda007: Hope you're not disappointed. *Laughs*. Moe: Thanks, my spellings have been improving, I'm gonna try to keep this different to other DA Fics. Plus I'm wanting to get to know Alec's unit. So yeah he does have a sister. But because she's new I'm gonna play around with her a little bit, see whether to build her up or stay with the original DA characters.
A/N: At the moment the chapters are coming on short with not much action, I'm trying to set the scene, which I'm not very good at. Once I have all the characters where I want them, and have said what I want to say I'll begin with the action and adventure. Also a lot of the first chapters are going to be full of past tense stuff, with lots of flashbacks to show how the situation for the transgenics got so bad they were forced to leave. Anyways it'll get better, I promise. Happy reading.
Thanks...
Rommie
Dedicated to Liz and all the nuns.
~The Price of Envy: Chapter 2~
~By Rommie~
Site B. Location: unknown
'Awaiting voice conformation and access code'
"Doctor Sarah Omestos. Code Med/5529/M008/"
"Access granted... Have...Have a nice day"
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"Have a nice day, who the hell put that into her data base? No wait don't tell me..."
"I'm trying to lighten up your 'not so good mood', Jesus Doc, I want kill to smile once every few years"
Moving towards the older man, she playfully shoved his laptop along the small desk he had positioned his self at. "Don't mess with my 'not so good mood'" And with one swift move, the piece of hardware was within her hands and heading towards the bases living quarters. "I'm going to use your baby to check communications, but only if it's alright with Mr Brian?" The mockery in her voice brought a scowl to Brian's features, His gaze moved from the laptop to the cruel smile touching Sarah's lips.
"Yeah Ok, but don't break her, Lydecker's going to have a fit. She's the only one I've got left."
"It's so sad that you have a relationship with your laptop"
"Hey her and me have been through shit. I want to have her back by tonight; I need to double check security. Can't have this place swarming with transgenics without precautions against the outside world"
"They don't even want to be here" Her gaze found Brian's, and she couldn't hold back the pang of sympathy that hung within her voice. "And this is their best shot"
"Lydecker knows what he's doing, he'll make them see the truth. They need this..." he motioned towards the facility they were standing in, the rooms unused, electricity that had never reached all the corners. And the new command, the seats awaiting trained transgenics. "He'll make them see. But their coming, first batch get here tonight..." he stopped, and the uncertainty grew in his voice "Sarah he knows what he's doing"
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Terminal City
"He shouldn't have stopped the bullet. But then again Alec always did put others before himself."
"It's good to see you too Max" There was no sweet talk between them, no small words that would allow Lydecker to cross through the parted door into what had once been her privet space. Instead, he drew in the silence, welcomed it. If that one day he could earn back their lost trust, then some things were worth paying for. "What are you still doing here?"
And as she turned, he took in the women standing before him. There was no smile, no depth within her dark eyes. Instead her features remained expressionless, and it terrified him.
"I wasn't aware my safety was in your best interests."
"Max I'm not your enemy, when can you except that I'm not here to destroy what you have"
"And what exactly do I have Lydecker? A relationship that's in tatters, a family that can't even look at me without feeling betrayed. My best friends gave up on me the second I said 'yes' to your so called 'relocation salvation plan'. And they're never going to forgive me" She couldn't hold back, what was the point? Everything she had built had been destroyed. "And Alec's never going to forgive me" and it came out as a sob, a bitter feeling caught within her throat, and the more she talked, the more she looked into his eyes, the more painful it became to hide the emotions she had once been so good at. So when she broke down, and the tears began to fall, she didn't protest as she was rapped within his arms, her head sinking into his chest, and supported by his caring hands. Was this what he wanted? A broken soldier unable to deal with a dying nation she had created. But it didn't matter, because he held her as Alec had held Jamie. He held his soldier within his arms. And the guilt only grew.
To be continued...
This one pretty much wrote it's self, it certainly wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I originally tried to post yesterday, but html format wasn't working on my computer. Glad I didn't thought, the first scene at the beginning was written this morning, and it runs so much more smoothly than the one I would have posted yesterday. Anyways, please review. Any comments are welcome.
Rommie.