Hell on Earth Pt. 2 (Sequel to The Twinning of Aeryn Sun series)
Author: blueaeryn
Rating: R
Summary: John, Aeryn and Lucky Go To Earth
Notes: Spoilers through the end of S3 Disclaimer: Not mine.
"Okay," John said. "What the hell is going on?" He was frustrated and tired of people messing with him.
John moved to Aeryn's side and took Lucky from her arms. "I don't know who the hell you are." John pointed his finger at the Aeryn standing beside his father. "But this is Aeryn Sun, not you."
"John, why don't we take this inside?" Jack placed his hand on John's shoulder.
"Get your hand's off me." John backed away from Jack. John took Aeryn's hand and walked up to Jack.
"Now, take us out of here."
Jack swept his hand by John signaling for him to lead the way. The Aeryn from Earth shot Jack an angry glare and he nodded his head and held up his hand telling her to just wait.
"What is going on?" Aeryn whispered into John's ear. She was beginning to worry that they were somewhere they weren't supposed to be. Or maybe John was where he was supposed to be, but she wasn't. It was a scary prospect.
"Don't worry, we'll clear this up." John rubbed Aeryn's hand with his thumb. Lucky shifted in John's arms and he hiked the little boy further on his hip.
John, Aeryn and Lucky were led to a small room with a large mirror on one side. He didn't have to ask to know that there were observers on the other side of the glass.
John sat Lucky in one of the metal chairs and slid one out for Aeryn. She gave him a puzzled look and he nodded his head toward the chair. "Sit down."
Aeryn took a seat beside Lucky and John pulled out a chair beside her. Placing his arms on the table John looked over at Aeryn. She was scared he could tell. He hadn't seen that look on her face since they had gone to the fake Earth the Ancients had created.
"It's going to be okay," John promised.
"How can you be so sure," Aeryn said. She picked up Lucky who was whimpering and placed his head on her chest. "You can't know what is going to happen."
The door opened and Jack walked into the room. Thankfully the woman claiming to be Aeryn wasn't with him. John didn't think he or Aeryn could take her right now.
"Son, it is good to see you," Jack said pulling out a chair.
"Stop with the chit-chat," John said leaning back in his chair causing the metal legs to scrape the floor. "I want to know who that woman is and how she got here?"
Jack breathed a heavy sigh and looked at his son and the woman who looked so much like the woman he had taken under his wing. She wasn't a replacement for the loss of his son, but she was a link to him and her son, well her son was almost like having John back. He looked over the woman who cradled a boy that looked so much like TJ it was frightening. She wore a steely expression, so harsh and cold, unlike the woman he called Aeryn Sun.
Telling the story of the arrival of Aeryn Sun to Earth was an easy one, he had told it so many times to various IASA officials and to his grandson. TJ asked almost once a week to be told the story of his mother's arrival on Earth and how she carried him inside her and how TJ had been born on Earth.
Aeryn Sun had arrived on Earth in John Crichton's Farscape One Module. She landed on Earth amid suspicion and heavy guard. Immediately asking for Jack Crichton when she landed, everyone was surprised she spoke English. Jack Crichton was summoned immediately and was shaking in anticipation. He hadn't been told who arrived in the Farscape One module, just it had come back to Earth.
His heart fell when he saw the woman sitting in the tiny interrogation room. Her harsh features took Jack aback but he also noticed tenderness about her. She sat up straight in the chair, her head held high ready to take on anyone.
Jack didn't want to take her on he just wanted answers about his son. Why was she here in John's module and where was he?
"My name is Jack Crichton," he said sitting down across from her. "You asked to see me."
"I know," she said. "John spoke of you often, and in a way I met you before."
Jack gave her a puzzled expression. "What do you mean?"
"Too long to explain that," Aeryn waved him away. "Best to tell you why I am here."
Aeryn told Jack she had found Earth as if John Crichton's own hand was guiding her. She had come trying to escape the Scarren's who had been chasing her. She saw the wormhole open and took it as a sign or the fate that John kept talking about and dipped the module in and found herself orbiting Earth.
It wasn't easy explaining her existence, but Jack tried. Somewhere deep inside he knew she told the truth. This woman was linked to John. What hurt was her belief that he was dead, and Jack could tell John's death had hit her hard as well. She loved his son and mourned his death.
There was a bright spot, however, when Aeryn told Jack why she fought so hard to stay alive. She carried a piece of John Crichton within her. She was pregnant with his child.
Life took on new meaning for Jack when she told him she carried his son's child. He fought everyone he could find to make sure Aeryn was safe and that no harm came to her. It surprised everyone how useful she could be to their continuing space program, and soon she had made herself invaluable to IASA. As their trust grew in Aeryn, so did her waistline and a few months later she gave birth to John's son and Jack's grandson. Aeryn has decided to name him Talyn John Sun Crichton, and Jack doted on the boy.
That had been four cycles ago. TJ was a thriving three-year old and Aeryn was an up and coming member of the IASA team. Jack was happy with his life, even though he missed his son, but now this man came claiming to be his son. He didn't know what to think about it.
"That is a load of crap," John said disgusted. "This woman is not Aeryn." John stood and stalked around the room. "I wish people would stop frelling with me." John ran his fingers through his short brown hair and pressed his palms against his skull.
Aeryn looked over at Jack and noticed his leery stare. He thought John was losing it and he just may be right. "John" Aeryn said standing up with Lucky in her arms. "Why don't you calm down?"
"I can't." John shot her with a wild stare.
It forced Aeryn to step back and shield Lucky to her. She hadn't seen him like this since he left to go and find the Scarrens. He had been wild and uncontrollable the day he had left, and since he returned to her and Lucky a sense of peace had come over him. Now, however, the same wildness seemed to have returned.
"Look at him." John pointed his finger at Jack. "He has this look like he doesn't believe who I am. My own father."
"John, he is just confused." Aeryn tried to touch his arm, but John moved back. "He thought you were dead."
"Maybe I am dead," John said pacing again. "Maybe this is purgatory of some sort. A way to punish me for all my sins."
"Listen to yourself," Aeryn said angrily. "Just think about what you are saying and you will know it is crazy and full of dren."
Jack watched the two interact. There was camaraderie there even when they were fighting. It seemed this Aeryn knew just what to say to calm John down, something Jack could never do. He couldn't understand a word she was saying, but she seemed to be giving him a lot of grief for his reactions.
John looked at Aeryn and he saw the fire in her eyes. She sure was pissed and Lucky knew it to. He just lay in her arms silently waiting for her to finish her rant.
"You're right, you are always right." John seemed to deflate like a children's party balloon. He took a deep breath and reached for the chair in front of him. He turned it around and straddled it to stare at his father.
"It is me, Dad." John winked at Jack. "John Crichton is home."
John saw a tear form in the old man's eyes and it shocked him. Fighting to stay alive in the world he had been thrown in, John rarely thought about what his absence would do to the people he left behind. Watching his father fight back tears, John got a taste of what it was like without him.
Hearing Aeryn move behind him, John felt her hand on his shoulder. He leaned his head over and touched his cheek to his hand. It was his way of saying he was sorry for acting like a mad man, and when he looked up he was rewarded with a tight smile. This was hard on Aeryn, he could see it and John almost regretted coming back to Earth.
"So, what is on the agenda?' John slapped his hands together. "I am sure they want to run various tests on me to make sure I am who I say I am. Bring it on."
"That can wait," Jack said with a slight smile. "First, why don't you introduce me to these two."
John looked up at Aeryn and Lucky. He took Aeryn's hand that had been resting on his shoulder and led her to the chair beside him. When she sat down, he took Lucky from her and settled the boy on his lap.
"This is Aeryn Sun, the real Aeryn Sun." He just had to add that. "And this little guy is my son Lucky." John ruffled the little boy's head.
"Are you my grandpa?" Lucky stuck his finger in his mouth. "I hafta' artafacial leg." Lucky lifted up his leg with the artificial limp and tapped it.
"What." Jack leaned in closer. "What is he talking about? I can't understand him."
For a moment, John as surprised at his father's words, but then he remembered the translator microbes. Lucky had been injected with them soon after his birth, and though he could understand Jack, it didn't work both ways. John never thought about it, but he guessed Aeryn taught Lucky her language and to Jack Lucky was speaking Sebaccean just like Aeryn.
John didn't want to go into the horrors surrounding Lucky's birth so he simplified the answer. "Lucky was born without a leg." John kissed the boy's cheek. "We had him fitted with a new leg before we left. He is really proud of it."
"I can see." Jack lifted his hands as if he wanted to take the boy from John but sat back. "He is, he looks..." Jack stopped his sentence.
"You think he looks like the other boy?"
"His is an exact copy," Jack said smiling slightly. "Like they were twins."
Jack's comment about her son and the other boy being twins caused Aeryn to flinch. It reminded her of the baby that had been ripped from her body by the Scarrens, the son that was to be Lucky's twin his brother. She also thought of her own twinning and the other Aeryn Sun that had died in John's arms.
John noticed the look on Aeryn's face. Yes, he was thinking the same thing. Twins, the baby she had lost, the woman he had lost that had her face. Would this madness ever stop?
"I have to talk to her." John jumped from his chair. "I want to see her."
"Who John?" Jack stood to face him.
"The one you call Aeryn Sun," John said. "The one who says she is Aeryn."
Jack stepped back. "I can arrange that. She is just outside the door." Jack moved to open the door.
"No." John turned his head to look at Aeryn. "Not here. In another room."
John couldn't and wouldn't subject Aeryn to the woman's presence. Some things were better left said in private, in a place where the air could be cleared.
"Alright, John I'll arrange it." Jack turned and left the room.
"I am going to talk to her and get his all cleared up." John took Aeryn by the shoulders. Lucky slid down between them and stood beside Aeryn's leg. "I am going to find out what the hell is going on."
Aeryn nodded. She touched his cheek and gave him a false smile. "Go."
"I'll be right back." John leaned in and kissed her softly on the lips. Before he parted he brushed his nose across hers. "I love you he whispered as he left the room."
It was strange to open the door and see the face of the woman you had just kissed goodbye. But there she was, in body at least. The spirit of Aeryn Sun, in John's eyes, was with the woman he had left in the other room holding his son.
John shut the door and the woman turned to him. "John?" She turned her head slightly. "Oh, John." She ran to him and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Where have you been?" She kissed him deeply and as John tried to pull away, she dragged him closer to deepen the kiss.
Summary: John, Aeryn and Lucky Go To Earth
Notes: Spoilers through the end of S3 Disclaimer: Not mine.
"Okay," John said. "What the hell is going on?" He was frustrated and tired of people messing with him.
John moved to Aeryn's side and took Lucky from her arms. "I don't know who the hell you are." John pointed his finger at the Aeryn standing beside his father. "But this is Aeryn Sun, not you."
"John, why don't we take this inside?" Jack placed his hand on John's shoulder.
"Get your hand's off me." John backed away from Jack. John took Aeryn's hand and walked up to Jack.
"Now, take us out of here."
Jack swept his hand by John signaling for him to lead the way. The Aeryn from Earth shot Jack an angry glare and he nodded his head and held up his hand telling her to just wait.
"What is going on?" Aeryn whispered into John's ear. She was beginning to worry that they were somewhere they weren't supposed to be. Or maybe John was where he was supposed to be, but she wasn't. It was a scary prospect.
"Don't worry, we'll clear this up." John rubbed Aeryn's hand with his thumb. Lucky shifted in John's arms and he hiked the little boy further on his hip.
John, Aeryn and Lucky were led to a small room with a large mirror on one side. He didn't have to ask to know that there were observers on the other side of the glass.
John sat Lucky in one of the metal chairs and slid one out for Aeryn. She gave him a puzzled look and he nodded his head toward the chair. "Sit down."
Aeryn took a seat beside Lucky and John pulled out a chair beside her. Placing his arms on the table John looked over at Aeryn. She was scared he could tell. He hadn't seen that look on her face since they had gone to the fake Earth the Ancients had created.
"It's going to be okay," John promised.
"How can you be so sure," Aeryn said. She picked up Lucky who was whimpering and placed his head on her chest. "You can't know what is going to happen."
The door opened and Jack walked into the room. Thankfully the woman claiming to be Aeryn wasn't with him. John didn't think he or Aeryn could take her right now.
"Son, it is good to see you," Jack said pulling out a chair.
"Stop with the chit-chat," John said leaning back in his chair causing the metal legs to scrape the floor. "I want to know who that woman is and how she got here?"
Jack breathed a heavy sigh and looked at his son and the woman who looked so much like the woman he had taken under his wing. She wasn't a replacement for the loss of his son, but she was a link to him and her son, well her son was almost like having John back. He looked over the woman who cradled a boy that looked so much like TJ it was frightening. She wore a steely expression, so harsh and cold, unlike the woman he called Aeryn Sun.
Telling the story of the arrival of Aeryn Sun to Earth was an easy one, he had told it so many times to various IASA officials and to his grandson. TJ asked almost once a week to be told the story of his mother's arrival on Earth and how she carried him inside her and how TJ had been born on Earth.
Aeryn Sun had arrived on Earth in John Crichton's Farscape One Module. She landed on Earth amid suspicion and heavy guard. Immediately asking for Jack Crichton when she landed, everyone was surprised she spoke English. Jack Crichton was summoned immediately and was shaking in anticipation. He hadn't been told who arrived in the Farscape One module, just it had come back to Earth.
His heart fell when he saw the woman sitting in the tiny interrogation room. Her harsh features took Jack aback but he also noticed tenderness about her. She sat up straight in the chair, her head held high ready to take on anyone.
Jack didn't want to take her on he just wanted answers about his son. Why was she here in John's module and where was he?
"My name is Jack Crichton," he said sitting down across from her. "You asked to see me."
"I know," she said. "John spoke of you often, and in a way I met you before."
Jack gave her a puzzled expression. "What do you mean?"
"Too long to explain that," Aeryn waved him away. "Best to tell you why I am here."
Aeryn told Jack she had found Earth as if John Crichton's own hand was guiding her. She had come trying to escape the Scarren's who had been chasing her. She saw the wormhole open and took it as a sign or the fate that John kept talking about and dipped the module in and found herself orbiting Earth.
It wasn't easy explaining her existence, but Jack tried. Somewhere deep inside he knew she told the truth. This woman was linked to John. What hurt was her belief that he was dead, and Jack could tell John's death had hit her hard as well. She loved his son and mourned his death.
There was a bright spot, however, when Aeryn told Jack why she fought so hard to stay alive. She carried a piece of John Crichton within her. She was pregnant with his child.
Life took on new meaning for Jack when she told him she carried his son's child. He fought everyone he could find to make sure Aeryn was safe and that no harm came to her. It surprised everyone how useful she could be to their continuing space program, and soon she had made herself invaluable to IASA. As their trust grew in Aeryn, so did her waistline and a few months later she gave birth to John's son and Jack's grandson. Aeryn has decided to name him Talyn John Sun Crichton, and Jack doted on the boy.
That had been four cycles ago. TJ was a thriving three-year old and Aeryn was an up and coming member of the IASA team. Jack was happy with his life, even though he missed his son, but now this man came claiming to be his son. He didn't know what to think about it.
"That is a load of crap," John said disgusted. "This woman is not Aeryn." John stood and stalked around the room. "I wish people would stop frelling with me." John ran his fingers through his short brown hair and pressed his palms against his skull.
Aeryn looked over at Jack and noticed his leery stare. He thought John was losing it and he just may be right. "John" Aeryn said standing up with Lucky in her arms. "Why don't you calm down?"
"I can't." John shot her with a wild stare.
It forced Aeryn to step back and shield Lucky to her. She hadn't seen him like this since he left to go and find the Scarrens. He had been wild and uncontrollable the day he had left, and since he returned to her and Lucky a sense of peace had come over him. Now, however, the same wildness seemed to have returned.
"Look at him." John pointed his finger at Jack. "He has this look like he doesn't believe who I am. My own father."
"John, he is just confused." Aeryn tried to touch his arm, but John moved back. "He thought you were dead."
"Maybe I am dead," John said pacing again. "Maybe this is purgatory of some sort. A way to punish me for all my sins."
"Listen to yourself," Aeryn said angrily. "Just think about what you are saying and you will know it is crazy and full of dren."
Jack watched the two interact. There was camaraderie there even when they were fighting. It seemed this Aeryn knew just what to say to calm John down, something Jack could never do. He couldn't understand a word she was saying, but she seemed to be giving him a lot of grief for his reactions.
John looked at Aeryn and he saw the fire in her eyes. She sure was pissed and Lucky knew it to. He just lay in her arms silently waiting for her to finish her rant.
"You're right, you are always right." John seemed to deflate like a children's party balloon. He took a deep breath and reached for the chair in front of him. He turned it around and straddled it to stare at his father.
"It is me, Dad." John winked at Jack. "John Crichton is home."
John saw a tear form in the old man's eyes and it shocked him. Fighting to stay alive in the world he had been thrown in, John rarely thought about what his absence would do to the people he left behind. Watching his father fight back tears, John got a taste of what it was like without him.
Hearing Aeryn move behind him, John felt her hand on his shoulder. He leaned his head over and touched his cheek to his hand. It was his way of saying he was sorry for acting like a mad man, and when he looked up he was rewarded with a tight smile. This was hard on Aeryn, he could see it and John almost regretted coming back to Earth.
"So, what is on the agenda?' John slapped his hands together. "I am sure they want to run various tests on me to make sure I am who I say I am. Bring it on."
"That can wait," Jack said with a slight smile. "First, why don't you introduce me to these two."
John looked up at Aeryn and Lucky. He took Aeryn's hand that had been resting on his shoulder and led her to the chair beside him. When she sat down, he took Lucky from her and settled the boy on his lap.
"This is Aeryn Sun, the real Aeryn Sun." He just had to add that. "And this little guy is my son Lucky." John ruffled the little boy's head.
"Are you my grandpa?" Lucky stuck his finger in his mouth. "I hafta' artafacial leg." Lucky lifted up his leg with the artificial limp and tapped it.
"What." Jack leaned in closer. "What is he talking about? I can't understand him."
For a moment, John as surprised at his father's words, but then he remembered the translator microbes. Lucky had been injected with them soon after his birth, and though he could understand Jack, it didn't work both ways. John never thought about it, but he guessed Aeryn taught Lucky her language and to Jack Lucky was speaking Sebaccean just like Aeryn.
John didn't want to go into the horrors surrounding Lucky's birth so he simplified the answer. "Lucky was born without a leg." John kissed the boy's cheek. "We had him fitted with a new leg before we left. He is really proud of it."
"I can see." Jack lifted his hands as if he wanted to take the boy from John but sat back. "He is, he looks..." Jack stopped his sentence.
"You think he looks like the other boy?"
"His is an exact copy," Jack said smiling slightly. "Like they were twins."
Jack's comment about her son and the other boy being twins caused Aeryn to flinch. It reminded her of the baby that had been ripped from her body by the Scarrens, the son that was to be Lucky's twin his brother. She also thought of her own twinning and the other Aeryn Sun that had died in John's arms.
John noticed the look on Aeryn's face. Yes, he was thinking the same thing. Twins, the baby she had lost, the woman he had lost that had her face. Would this madness ever stop?
"I have to talk to her." John jumped from his chair. "I want to see her."
"Who John?" Jack stood to face him.
"The one you call Aeryn Sun," John said. "The one who says she is Aeryn."
Jack stepped back. "I can arrange that. She is just outside the door." Jack moved to open the door.
"No." John turned his head to look at Aeryn. "Not here. In another room."
John couldn't and wouldn't subject Aeryn to the woman's presence. Some things were better left said in private, in a place where the air could be cleared.
"Alright, John I'll arrange it." Jack turned and left the room.
"I am going to talk to her and get his all cleared up." John took Aeryn by the shoulders. Lucky slid down between them and stood beside Aeryn's leg. "I am going to find out what the hell is going on."
Aeryn nodded. She touched his cheek and gave him a false smile. "Go."
"I'll be right back." John leaned in and kissed her softly on the lips. Before he parted he brushed his nose across hers. "I love you he whispered as he left the room."
It was strange to open the door and see the face of the woman you had just kissed goodbye. But there she was, in body at least. The spirit of Aeryn Sun, in John's eyes, was with the woman he had left in the other room holding his son.
John shut the door and the woman turned to him. "John?" She turned her head slightly. "Oh, John." She ran to him and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Where have you been?" She kissed him deeply and as John tried to pull away, she dragged him closer to deepen the kiss.
