Chapter 6

Ties - part 1.

Mo could not sleep, rolling from side to side for at least two hours.

She could never sleep when she was in a new place.

She wondered about the exploring Atlantis at night, but Sheppard set before her door guards. So, she began to view the books, that Beckett lent her, but she could not focus on reading, so turned off the light and lay down.

She remembered the first time, when she changed the place of her residence - it was also a forced situation.

It was only a few months after her meeting with the Grey Council. She had not supposed, back then, how something which seemed like such a trifle could change her fate…

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"…Moonlight shifted her hands over the her head, combing wet hair. Hot water showers spouting from the top was nice, but not as much as the hands that had just started to wander over her body. A quiet, throaty purr into her ear made a delicate shudder of ecstasy go through her.

- Is my Queen is too tired to pay a little more attention to her faithful servant? - he whispered in her ear, clenched his hands a little tighter to her breast.

She smiled, amused.

- My time is very precious, but as an exception... for faithful service - she said with a sneer, when his hands again began to slide down, getting lower and lower, and his lips rubbed her shoulder and neck.

She moaned softly when he slid slowly into her, and she leaned hand against the wall. Calm, rhythmic movements and a silent snarl caused an increase in the excitement.

She ignored the first sign on the door. Just as he is. However insistently the second and third long sound slightly distracted him. He stopped and growled, angry.

- Leave it… he will go away - she said, resting her head on his shoulder, and she touched his jaw with her lips. - Do not stop... I feel so good - she whispered.

He smiled with satisfaction and kissed her, when the long beep repeated.

He growled, even more angry, and came out from her.

- It looks that he not go until I break his bones - he hissed, grabbing a towel and wrapping it around the waist. - Wait a minute here - he said and walked out of the bathroom, closing the thin, organic diaphragm.

Then he went to the quarters' door and opened it. He already wanted to snarl something, angry, when before his eyes appeared a tall silhouette of Skyfall.

He was clearly angry. Very angry.

He pushed his son back and closed the door behind him.

- Where is she? - He hissed.

- Who? - Sharpeye pretended, that he not know what his father was talking about.

The officer ignored him and looked around, to keep away from the entrance to the bathroom. He opened it. Behind them was Moonlight, ending just wrapping a towel.

- She - he pointed a finger at her with an ironic tone, and walked over to his son. - Do you know what the Queen will do with you when she finds out? - he growled.

- Why? - almost snorted Sharpeye. - She will never be a Queen, so she could be with who she wants to - he said.

- Maybe she will not be Queen, but she's still HER daughter - he stressed.

- So what? - Mo interjected, going to the bathroom.

Skyfall looked at her uncomfortably.

- You'll know when your mother feeds on your lover... Get dressed - he ordered firmly. - You move to a new hive.

- You wanted said: to a old hive - she snorted. - This is almost a relict.

- You like to tinker, so now you'll have plenty of opportunity for doing this... At least you are meaningfully spending free time - he said, and stood in front of her, pulling his face to hers. - And if you miss the companionship... find yourself aliqtar - hissed sarcastically.

- You would have more of a need of on... you're awfully tense - she talk back, lifting a bit on the fingers to be higher.- Think it's time to find someone to replace Malice?

Skyfall growled ominously.

For a moment they stared at each other, but as far as science officer was clearly angry, Moonlight looked was amused.

- Do not argue with me, just get dressed - he repeated, growling through his teeth. - In half an hour you have to be in the hangar, the freighter. Take only the bare essentials. Then I send to the rest - he said, throwing her a last dark look, and turned on his heel. - And you pray, that her mother will not found out - he said to his son. - Darkstone already suspected something, so it's only a matter of time when you're done... as HER snack - he said and opened the door, he left the quarters.

- I wonder how he knew? - Mo said.

- I do not know... You like annoy him? - he snorted.

- It's my hobby.

- I noticed - he said teasingly, and walked over to her, encircling her waist. - Unfortunately, he's right - he said quietly. - If Darkstone suspects something, you should temporarily move into the hive of your father.

She looked at him in disbelief... and winced mouth angry.

- Great - she hissed under his breath and began to take her clothes off the floor.

Sharpeye grabbed her by the arm.

- It's will be better... just for a while - he said and leaned closer to her. - Until everything settles down.

Then his lips touched her, as if he was playing and finally kissed her... pulling her towel. She did the same with his, and pushed him onto the bed. Smiling a little ironically, she sat on him. He grabbed her buttocks and they moved closer to each other, starting to kiss again. She moved her hands down his chest to stop on his penis, massaging it until it became fully swelled.

Still holding her buttocks, Sharpeye slightly lifted Mo and pet her on himself..."

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…It was their last time together.

On the hive led by her father, he invented for her so much work, that for the first two months she did not even have time to think about the meeting with the Sharpeye... And when she visited her mother, she never been alone - always accompanied her father or Skyfall.

So finally the passionate feeling been extinguished.

Each of them has gone to their own path.

And those days remained in her memory only as a fiery romance with her first male Wraith.

They no longer tried to be together again, and eventually Sharpeye chose his personal worshipper - fiery-haired Lyli, her human sister.

They were together until the end…

Moonlight sighed and looked at the bedside clock - it was one in the morning. In irritation she threw a pillow over her head, but after a while pulled it and again picked up one of the books.

Encyclopedia consisted of four volumes - she has already read half that night.

Now she lit the light and opened again the next volume.

She always loved to read, just like her mother. It is up to her which book to read first. Then she took to the collections her father and Skyfall - his personal library was the largest. He have specimens from different, often long ago forgotten civilization.

When she grew up and flew with him and her father on various expeditions, they always sought among the ruins of the city of new books of interest to them...

For a moment she wondered what he was doing...

The officer put his book on the edge of the bed and stared at the ceiling, assuming his hands behind his head.

That night, he was hard to sleep.

It's been five days since she's gone, he thought. He was no longer angry. He just hoped that she was all right. She did not fall into any trouble... and for that she had a special talent. From a child.

And she always have to stand your ground.

Even when she listened to reason on the other hand, usually anyway she doing things her way.

Her father stopped discuss with her as soon as she grew up. He was good at advising, but in the disputed issues began to replace is his friend... As if this did something to help.

He guess then they began to argue about everything, Skyfall thought with amusement.

Unfortunately, their last fight ended with her departure with hive…

He did not think that he ever this will tell, but he began to miss the quarrel... and her.

Now here is so... quiet.

Everyone is missing something, he noted.

Everyone got used to her presence and behavior, and now it became like on any other hive...

Moonlight sighed, hung up the encyclopedia, and put her head on the pillow. She missed her boys.

Sunblaze silly jokes, grim faces Stardrift or roaming the technical channels with Electricwave... even quarrel with Skyfall - nobody does such face expression as he, when he gets mad, she smiled.

But most missing her father now. He could always cheer her up... support.

It was the same, when they made her move to hive, which he took command…

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"…The freighter landed in the hangar. Moonlight did not speak all the way to Skyfall. She was sitting alone on a bench, leaning against the wall and stared straight ahead with her arms folded across her chest.

Her father was waiting for them on the platform, but Skyfall got alone.

Icestorm looked a little surprised on friend.

- Did you bring her? - he asked.

- Yes. She sits in side - he said.

- She is mad?

- Gently speaking... What did you expect?.

- She will understand that it would be better... I prefer not to think about what SHE could do to your son if she found out about them - he said.

- Me neither... While I understand the bitterness Mo - he said and glanced over his shoulder on the inside of the transporter.

- You talk to her - asked Icestorm.

- Why me? It's your daughter.

- But you she listen to sooner.

- I doubt it - he snorted.

- Believe me, my friend, that with you she much less discussed than with me - he concluded.

- Somehow I did not notice - he muttered. - Besides the fact that she HEAR me is tantamount to LISTEN to me.

Icestorm wanted to say something, but his daughter was at the threshold of the transport ship, resting her hands on the hatch frame.

- You know that when you badmouth someone, you should be far away from him? - she scoffed gloomy tone of voice.

They did not answer. Skyfall patted his friend's shoulder.

- Well, good luck - he said in a whisper, and moved away quickly.

Icestorm glanced at him over her shoulder, and then to his daughter.

- It was with you good Queen... Even so old Wraith how Skyfall will not risk a confrontation with you - he sneered.

- Somehow I did not notice that he ever had such a resistances - she pointed in the same tone.

The officer walked up to her, standing on the sloping hatch transport.

- You're always saying to us that you prefer the truth, even if it is painful - he reminded. - You taught him this... your squabbles.

- These are not squabbles, only counter-argument: my BUT against his BUT - she smiled mischievously.

- Surprisingly, he also said the same - he snorted. - I think you do not so much makes you different.

- I beg you - she said. - As water and fire.

- What always says First Mother?... Ah, yes: opposites attract - he snort.

Mo looked askance at him... and then she grew serious.

- I understand your concerns and reasons, dad... Although I do not agree with them... It's just not fair... And this annoys me that this is all - she looked somewhere behind him. - Sometimes I hate this place - she said thoughtfully for a moment and then she looked straight into his eyes. He looked at her gently. - You never feel like you had to get out of here? You had so many adventures. Seen so many different worlds. So many amazing places. You do not had want stay there?

Icestorm smiled gently.

- Your mother was always angry, that I told you these stories. To this day she believes it's because you're so... weird ideas - he brushed a strand of hair from her face.- What would you do in these places, Mo? - he asked calmly. - In most of them hate us. The rest is omitted. You was there alone.

She did not answer right away. For a moment she stared at him and then pushed away from the wall and sat down on the nearest bench.

- But I would be free... Away from this... nonsense - she said, angry, leaning back against the inner hull.

The Wraith sat down next to her.

- You are still young. At your age, everyone rebels... Every culture has its nonsense, as it did you call. Do you think. that human females are better than you? Sometimes they are forced to marry. Their men beat

them... You have a very good example with Malice... She was at your age, when she was forced to marry. Her husband abused her physically and mentally. Once, he beat her up so that she miscarried. Then she ran away... She got on one of our trade planets. There found her Skyfall. Mentally, she was a wreck, but in

the end she came together... And how it end? After thirty years, when she went with other worshippers of this same trade planet ... she met him... her husband... He slit her throat just for the fact that then she left with him and made him a laughing stock in their village.

Moonlight did not respond, playing with his fingers.

- But at least he got what he deserved: he finished a Skyfall meal - she said.

- Yes, but it will not restore her life.

- That why life is really not fair.

The officer leaned against the hull. For a while they both were silent.

- If you care about him... for his safety... you leave him - he said.- This is not the time. Let's all cool down... There has never been such a female as you do, so we all need to first get used to this, to treat you like any Wraith, not like a Queen... Maybe in time you'll be able to calmly talk to your mother about this option. But not now...

- Are you angry about Sharpeye?

- No, on the contrary. I'm glad that you chose him... But it just was not time, Mo.

She sighed heavily.

- I wonder if it will ever be time on this - she almost whispered. - You can afford to wait. In fact, you are immortal. I have, at most, a few hundred years before me - influenced.

He smiled slightly.

- Patience... And once you find your love... For now, you can still be my little Mo - he jokingly added, looking at her.

She smiled slightly amused.

- Daddy's daughter as Mia says?

- Exactly.

She became sad.

- With this daughter, unfortunately, you can not already be proud of - she said sadly.

He sat down sideways and took her face his hand, looking directly into her eyes.

- You'll always be my pride, Mo - he assured. - I do not care what others say and think about you. I have not been proud of you because you had stay a Queen. I was and I will be proud of you as long as you are yourself. I instilled in you all the old values, because I saw that you respect them. Even if others laugh at them now.

- But it's our history, our heritage. They should be respected.

- The war very changed many Wraith. What have committed to us Lanteans and humans... well, left in their hearts only bitterness and anger... and they passed it on to future generations... That's why enjoy me so much, what you are, Mo... And this is why I'm proud of you - he said and kissed her gently on the forehead.

She smiled and then hugged him, putting her head on his shoulder. He hugged her to him. They sat there a long time.

- Who will tell her that I am transferring here? - she asked suddenly, with a note of irony.

- I was hoping that you - he said.

She pulled away from him, throwing he grim look. He grinned.

- Why me? - she said.

- You have a better chance of surviving this confrontation - he said.

- Great... I'll have to come up with something sensible - she muttered with a grimace on his face and leaned back against the wall. - And then hold on to it.

- You'll be fine... you have in this skilled - he snorted, as a basis.

Again she looked askance at him... and then laid her head on his shoulder.

- And if at the moment we have to sit here?

He did not answer. He only embraced her arm and drew a cheek to her head.

They sat there for a long time. In silence. Like the good old days when she was little...

Later that day, she went back to the hive mother to tell her about "her" plans.

The Queen was busy, so Mo returned to her quarters to pack their belongings.

Empty trunks were already waiting for her. So, slowly she began to fill them with clothes, books and all of her treasures. Even she did not realize how many "souvenirs" she collected a through all these years, she thought with amusement, putting the last things.

Finally, she closed her trunks and sat down at the desk, starting to play with hair brush.

Pensive, she did not even notice when the Queen went to her room.

She stood behind her and took brush in hand.

- You still have it? - she asked.

Moonlight looked at her and smiled gently.

- This is my first FEMALE gift from you - she recalled with nostalgia.

- You are too sentimental she stated coldly. - Once you liked as I combed your hair - said Nightwind and began gently brushed her daughter hair. - Reportedly you decide to move to hive your father.

- Yes... I must something to do, and there is a lot of work... it's a flying scrap - she scoffed.

The Queen smiled corner of her mouth.

- I've decided, that I'll make of this hive research unit - she said. - I thought, that you will feel comfortable there.

Mo looked at her.

- You're not mad?

- I am not. You put it very well: you should do something. And there are plenty of things that you like... So... As you see, that in this matter we both agree... Exceptionally - she said with a sneer. - At least once you'll listen to me - she added.

The girl smiled.

- I always listen to you, mother... But not always I agree with you - she said.

- And that from a child - she said. - And that's the problem - she said and turned her back to herself, back to brushing her hair. - You always had to stand your ground.

- Father always says that I have this after you - she snorted.

The Queen stretched tighter brush through her hair and she moaned in pain, but then she smiled wickedly to herself. For a long moment she sat quietly, and finally she said:

- I wonder...

- As always - the Queen said ironically.

But she ignored her attention.

- Is it will not be suspicious, that the research unit command intelligence officer and not science?

- This is for safety.

- Whose? Research unit or intelligence officer?

The Queen again strongly stretched brush through her hair, so Mo moaned again... amused at the same time the reaction of the mother.

- You sit calmly - reminded her Nightwind…"