Ok, sorry it took me longer. This is a longer chapter so it took me longer to type up. There might be a few small errors because I'm tired and just getting annoyed at proof-reading this a million times.
Just some FYI: John is not on the Genii home planet(that is just a detail I wanted to let you in on, though it's not that important).
Chapter 5
"You know, if Rodney was here, he would be annoying the hell out of you." Sheppard said, half hoping merely saying it would make it true. Unfortunately John Sheppard was alone, well, except for Kolya and five of his soldiers. John had been re-located to the gate room which now had multiple TV screens.
"It seems you've spared no time or expense while getting this ready Kolya." John said from the chair he was tied to in front of the screens.
"Oh, anything to make you feel worse." Kolya replied smiling at John. "I also wanted to make sure that you could see the look on her face when she dies begging for mercy."
"That won't happen. Elizabeth has been given survival training and she's far smarter…"
"Jonathon, you and I both know Dr. Elizabeth Weir will not last more than a day against my soldiers. If she's lucky." Kolya chuckled. "Of course she's intelligent, but she's no John Sheppard."
"What in the world!" Elizabeth screamed as she regained consciousness and opened her eyes.Staring back her were a pair of big yellow eyes. She jumped up and the yellow eyes, along with their monkey-like body, hopped off of her. Once upright Elizabeth leaned on a tree and calmed herself. The pains from her brief meeting with Kolya were coming back to her. Her arm was still a little tender but thankfully her leg felt far better.
The monkey-like creature was still studying her and now had cocked its head to one side as if in confusion. In this cute position Elizabeth decided it was begging to be pet so she walked toward it. Unfortunately, she had been wrong.
As she reached out her hand to pet it, the yellow eyes turned blood red and the monkey started hissing. Even more regrettably, it jumped onto Elizabeth's injured arm and bit her. Elizabeth screamed and tried to throw the monkey off of her by flailing around, but it soon turned into falling down as she tripped over a rock and fell into a river. Thankfully the monkey creature did not seem fond of the water and ran away once it and Elizabeth landed.
This is just perfect. Elizabeth thought half crying. This is not in my job description and now I'm soaked. Wait a minute, I don't remember getting here. The last thing I remember was...
Flashback
(woosh)
"Good-bye Dr. Weir. I'll be sure to take good care of Major Sheppard." Kolya said as he waved Elizabeth off.
She stepped through the stargate with two of Kolya's guards. Once through, Elizabeth quickly surveryed her surrounding. They were standing in a clearing which was surrounded by a wall of tall evergreens.
"Well Dr. Weir, we must bid you adieu for now." One of the guards said as he bent into a condescending bow.
"Until we meet again." The other laughed before he knocked her over the head with a gun.
As Elizabeth lay there losing consciousness one of the guards said. "Don't worry, by the time you wake up somewhere in this forest, I'm sure you'll have a few minutes to get your barings."
Behind their laughter there was a faint sound of water.
(end flashback)
"The Gate! The gate must be near the river." Elizabeth exclaimed excitedly. "Now if only…"
She quickly lost her enthusiasm as she remembered what getting to the gate would entail. Of course there would be a few soldiers around the gate and there were certain to be soldiers on their way toward her very soon, if not already.
Elizabeth's eyes fell upon the gun the guards had left her. She had taken the one thrown to her by Ford but she hadn't even had the time to think. More importantly she'd had others who had been able to shoot for her. Now she had to take every shot for herself. Maybe it was selfish to hope the others would take the shots before her but it had always worked. Now it was different. Now she had to take every shot. Now she had to choose every target. Now she had to kill each attacker. Now, it was different.
Come on Elizabeth. You've got to do this. If not for yourself than for John. Elizabeth stopped. John was still with Kolya, blaming himself for the whole situation. Elizabeth could not let him do that. She slowly walked over to the gun which had its handle pointed towards her almost as if daring her to pick it up.
She grabbed it. It felt cold in her hands but she knew she would need it.
Damn it! Elizabeth cursed. Which way is the gate?
Elizabeth scanned the area hoping an answer might be hidden in the trees.
Well I could wait for the guards to come and see which way they come from.
Or not.
I could pick a direction and go. And as much as Elizabeth would have loved to come up with a pros and cons list for this situation, she turned down stream and began to jog.
Ok so Elizabeth, what are you going to do when you meet up with the soldiers? Well I'm going to…going to…well, run away, first off. Run far enough into the forest and then parallel with the river until I think it's safe to return.
Elizabeth felt slightly reassured now that she had something of a plan. Naturally she knew she needed a miracle to survive but she had to.
As if on cue, Elizabeth heard the sound of voices. She slowed to listen and walked a short distance into the forest as not to be seen. When she started to listen again she heard a sing-songy voice call. "Dr. Weir! Oh Dr. Weir. Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie. We promise if you come out now we won't make it too painful."
Laughter echoed through the forest and fear gripped Elizabeth.
"Uh." The Voice sighed. "Lizzie we know you're around here. We don't want to have to shoot you before we have some fun."
Laughter filled the forest once again but Elizabeth's fear was replaced by hatred.
You think I'm going to let you catch me and degrade me? Ha, you're as unbelievable as Kolya.
Elizabeth quietly went deeper into the forest but unfortunately soon heard the soldiers start to fan out. resignedly, she pulled her gun out and clicked off the safety.
Elizabeth saw a shape move to the right of her and stopped. Quivering, she raised the gun aiming at the shape but before she could truly convince herself to shoot, it suddenly lunged at her, knocking her to the ground. As they thudded Elizabeth felt the butt of the gun connect with her attackers head.
Once free from his unconscious grip Elizabeth scrambled up and ran parallel to the river as fast as she could since she knew the other soldiers must have heard their fall.
As she ran the tree branches pulled at her clothes and scratched her, as if trying to pull her back. After a couple of minutes her legs were burning and screaming at her to stop. If it had not been for her mind, which was too preoccupied with the idea of death to let her legs stop, she would have been caught.
She slowed when she heard voices again. This time the same voice returned from behind.
"Well, you put up quite a little fight back there Lizzie. Very impressive, but now it's time for our fun."
Elizabeth started sprinting again hoping she could out maneuver them, or out run them, or anything. Soon she could hear voices all around her.
"Don't get excited Liz." The Voice taunted. "No matter how close to the gate you get you'll never leave here alive."
'Close to the gate'! I'm actually getting closer! Elizabeth thought in surprise. She slowed and quieted her movements more. Suddenly there was movement all around her and two soldiers came out of the woods, surrounding her. She raised her gun but couldn't find the courage to shoot.
"Oh Lizzie, put the gun down." The owner of the taunting voice said as he approached Elizabeth and pushed her arm down. Elizabeth couldn't move: she was too scared of the other gun pointed at her. The Voice walked around and embraced her from behind.
"Now I've heard you're a difficult one." The Voice whispered into her ear. "You're not going to be difficult for me are ya, Liz? 'Cause we can make your death more or less painful and more or less slow."
Elizabeth was shaking with fear as the Voice's hands roughly searched every inch of her upper body.
Elizabeth! You can't just let him do this. Elizabeth screamed in her mind. Remember John. Remember what he said!
With this thought Elizabeth found new courage. She spun around in the Voice's arms and grabbed his face kissing him as hard as she could. His grip on her relaxed in surprise and the other soldier lowered his gun. With this slight reassurance Elizabeth executed her plan. She now had the gun sitting on the side of the Voice's face which was toward the guard. She quickly lifted that hand and pointed it at the other soldier's leg while continuing to kiss the Voice, praying she was holding his attention. After the shot rang out Elizabeth brought her hand back up swiftly and knocked The Voice in the head. Then Elizabeth did not want to wait around to see what would happen next. She sprinted in the direction she'd been going far faster than she thought she could even run.
She reached the gate and shot the guard in the leg, ran up and punched him hard in the face as he was fumbling with his gun which had been sitting at his side, knocking him out. God, Elizabeth, what are you turning into? This just isn't like you. Well, there's no time to think about it now. Let's just go home.
"Well, Major Sheppard, I must say I'm impressed." Kolya said as he turned away from the TV screens since the feed near the stargate had been cut when the guard was shot.
"Well I guess you underestimated Elizabeth, Kolyie." Sheppard laughed.
"Oh, no matter she'll only end up back here for me to kill personally." John has a confused look on his face. "You didn't think I'd leave the potential to dial Atlantis, did you?"
(woosh)
John's heart sank as he saw the semi-soaked form of Elizabeth Weir walk through the even horizon.
A/N: I hope I made that believable enough. I had a lot of fun writing this chapter but I'm not sure I got it all across as well as I could have. Don't worry, Elizabeth's emotions on her violence(though not killing) will be dealt with in the next chapter.
I have completely forgotten to thank all of my proofreaders. Thank you Patriya, Autumn, Cathy, Mara, Rachel, Sarah, Katie, and Brenda. You guys caught all of my stupid errors. Thanks
Only two more chapters to go!
