'Disclaimer: the characters don't belong to me.
Note: I had written this quite awhile ago (when the show was still on the air)for a list (that no longer exists), and have decided to post it here now.
blows the dust off> Enjoy.
T'is the Season....for Miracles
by Angelwings
The wishes are made...
A week before Christmas in four different places on four different worlds a few lost souls were calling to the heavens with much the same wish...
In a Kromagg prison on an earth unknown Wade Wells was sitting dispairingly on a cot...
"Why me? Why us?" she whispered to herself.
She looked over at the wall where shehad been marking down the days.
It's almost Christmas she thought. A time for family...and for miracles...
She thought of the people who had become like family to her over the years and sighed. 'What would be a miracle is if we were all together again.'
She didn't much believe in miracles any more, though. It was kind of hard to in a place like this.
She sighed. 'Some Christmas!' She recalled her Christmases at home and how she had always made a Christmas wish.
"Want to know what I wish? I wish I were out of here...even if it was just sliding with the others...," she whispered.
"I don't want to be alone on Christmas," She said as her tears fell.
At the same time on another world an aging somewhat heavy-set man was working on an invention...
"Blistering idiots!" he mumbled.
He didn't know how Quinn had done it. He was working on a sliding device which, much to his relief was coming along at quite a nice pace...though not even near the pace he had wanted it to. He threw down his hands in frustartion as yet another part didn't work as he had planned. He looked out the window, noticing the bright lights and decorations put up for the holidays. It was nearly Christmas...which meant that yet another year had gone by since his double had switched places with him. And much as he didn't like to admit it, he missed the little group that had come to be like a family to him.
"I wish we were all together again," he sighed.
"BECAUSE THEN I WOULDN'T BE HERE WORKING ON THIS INFURIATING INVENTION!" he shouted in frustration as the part that he was working on broke off.
And on a world in chaotic disarray a lonely little girl sat looking up at the heavens. She remembered how her mother had run with her when the monsters had come to her earth...and remembered the look in her mother's eyes when she had told her to hide. The little girl had noticed that her mom's voice was weak and the look of pain on her face. She remembered how her mom had told her that she loved her and would always look over her from heaven. The little girl looked up at the sky.
"I wish I still had a family," she whispered.
She did have a family out there somewhere--a father that she had never met...
On another world four others were making much the same wish unknowingly much at the same time...
A young man in his twenties awoke with a start from a nightmare.
'When had it all gone so wrong?' he thought.
Now only two of the original four sliders were still together.
'I had promised to get them home, now I just wish that all of us were together', he sighed, then fell back into a restless sleep.
In the same room the other of the remaining original sliders made the exact same wish, while across the room two others made much the same wish of family and belonging...
They are heard...
And up above someone was listening. Listening to the wishes of seven people who thought that they had slipped through the cracks. Listening and planning a miracle...