Title: REUNIONS (Sequel to Behind the Mask)
Author: Kazavid
Chapter: 3 / 4
Series: Behind the Mask
Rating: NC/17
Pairing: Ronon Dex, Other
Archiving: None
Warnings: Sexual Content / Some Torture (Just to be safe)
Spoilers: None
Feedback: Yes
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis and its characters do not belong to me.
Summary: Carrying on from where 'Behind the Mask' finished. Ronon has a reunion with an old 'friend' while Lyssa becomes the innocent victim in between the two, and Sean is finally reunited with his sister.
REUNIONS
Chapter 3
"Did you hear what Lyssa said, about not being pregnant?" Sheppard, asked Ronon, watching him closely.
"Yes I heard." Ronon said.
Sheppard wasn't sure how Ronon was taking this piece of news, had he wanted Lyssa to be pregnant. Sheppard turned to look at Sean.
"Sean, what did Zara say about where Michael was holding her?" Sheppard asked.
"She never got to see anything, she was unconscious when he took her there, and the room she was in had no windows." Sean told him. "She said that he kept taking blood samples from her, but she didn't know why."
"Do you suppose it was underground?" Sheppard queried, looking at Ronon.
"It's possible, the room he has Lyssa in, doesn't look as if it has daylight coming in to it."
"Do you know of any facilities around here, that are underground?" Sheppard looked at Sean.
"I've never been to this planet before we made the trade for Zara, so I don't know."
"Teyla, you ever been to this planet, before?" He looked over at her.
"Yes, but I have only stayed in the village, I never ventured this far out." She told him.
"McKay, can you track where the signal is coming from?" Sheppard asked, McKay.
McKay, who was already working on that idea, looked up at Sheppard, "I think I may have found the source of the signal." He announced, excited.
"Where's it coming from?" Ronon asked, moving towards McKay.
"About a mile and a half in that direction." McKay told them pointing towards the open expanse of green fields.
Ronon didn't stand around, he took off in the direction that McKay had indicated, and was well ahead of the others, searching for any signs of disturbance in the terrain, anything to show that Michael had passed this way.
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The device suddenly came to life, showing Michael, and Lyssa.
"Sheppard!" McKay shouted.
"Where's Ronon?" Michael asked.
Sheppard looked ahead at Ronon who was now so far ahead, he was barely visible. "He's trying to track you." Sheppard said, telling a half truth.
"Well, I'll give him two minutes to get back here, if he's not back, then Lyssa dies." Michael said then turned the screen off.
"Damn it!" Sheppard cursed, then spoke in to his radio. "Ronon, you need to come back here, meet me half way."
"What for?" Ronon wanted to know, he didn't want to waste time, he wanted to find Lyssa.
"It's Michael." Sheppard told him.
Ronon met Sheppard half way, "What is it, what's he done now?" Ronon asked, afraid of the answer.
"I don't know, Michael wants to talk to you, try not to let him get to you." Sheppard told him, knowing how hard it must be to try and show no reaction, he wasn't sure he could do it.
About thirty seconds later the screen came to life.
"Ah Ronon, you're back. Seeing as you requested that Lyssa die slowly, I thought it only right that you should watch." He said, his eyes ever watchful of Ronon's reaction.
Ronon looked at the scene before him, he could see that Michael still had Lyssa tied up and stretched out before the screen, Michael, stood beside her, a smile on his face, as he watched Ronon looking at Lyssa. Michael took the knife he held in his hand, and turn towards Lyssa.
He took the knife and slid the blade across the throbbing vein in her neck, watching as the blood ran out in rivulets. He glanced at the screen, wanting to see Ronon's pain, but Ronon had closed his eyes.
"Open your eyes, Dex, and watch, or I will make it more painful for Lyssa. " Michael told him, harshly, he was doing this so that he could see Ronon's pain.
Ronon opened his eyes and glared at Michael, imagining how he would take Michael apart, how he'd make him suffer, and make sure that this time he died. Ronon kept his eyes open, tried not to show the glimmer of hope in his eyes, at seeing what Michael had done.
"I'll leave the device on so that you can watch." Michael told him. Then appeared to leave the room.
Sheppard watched, wishing he'd let Ronon kill Michael when he'd wanted to. He turned to look at Ronon, who was still watching the screen, but something wasn't right. Ronon had a small glimmer of a smile on his face.
"Ronon?" Sheppard asked, putting his hand on his arm.
Ronon turned away from the screen, and looked at Sheppard.
"Are you alright?" He asked him.
"Fine." He said. Sheppard saw him look at the screen again.
"McKay, turn that thing off." Sheppard said, if he found it disturbing to watch, got knows what Ronon thought. "Are you sure you're alright?" He asked again.
"Yes, why do you want to know?"
"Because, seeing what Michael just did to Lyssa, your reaction isn't what I'd have expected."
Ronon looked at Sheppard, "There's something Michael doesn't know about Lyssa."
"What's that?"
"He's expecting her to bleed to death, but that's his mistake. Lyssa heals very fast, twice as fast as anyone I know. If Michael had done that to one of us, we'd probably die, but with Lyssa. She'll lose some blood, but within a few minutes her blood will clot and the bleeding will have stopped."
"What are you talking about?"
"Remember when you asked her about the x shaped scar on her arm." Ronon asked.
"Yes, I don't think I'll ever forget it, what's that got to do with anything."
"I gave that scar to Lyssa, I'd been dreaming about the Wraith. Lyssa tells me I'd suddenly woken up and slashed out with the blade towards her, cutting her arm, twice. Within 3 days that wound was healed, completely." Ronon told him, "And remember when she got the shrapnel in her back and Sean said that she'd be ready to carry on in an hour, and you didn't believed him."
"So you're assuming Michael will leave her alone, now that he thinks she'll die."
"Yes." Ronon, hopes, that Michael, will leave her alone.
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Ronon got back to searching for Lyssa and Michael. He noticed Sean and walked over to him, he felt some anger towards the guy, for letting Lyssa go like that, but he didn't blame him, he knew what Lyssa was like. She would have insisted that he take his sister back and leave her there. Now standing beside Sean Ronon asked him.
"You never did say, why Michael became so interested in Lyssa."
Sean didn't want to tell Ronon, he was going through too much already, Sean wasn't sure how Ronon would react to the answer.
"I don't know." Sean lied, hoping his voice didn't betray him.
Ronon was very good at reading people and he knew Sean wasn't being truthful.
"What aren't you telling me?" Ronon asked, his voice raised.
"Ronon, come on just drop it, does it matter." Sheppard said, trying to get Ronon to back off.
"There's something he isn't telling me, and I want to know."
"Alright, fine, you want to know what it was, it was the guns."
"No, I don't believe that, something specifically drew him to Lyssa, now what was it?" Ronon continued to ask.
"Fine, it was the dog tags." Sean, finally admitted.
Ronon groaned, he turned, looking for something, anything to vent his anger on, he spotted a small tree and headed over to it.
Knowing what Ronon was probably going to do Sheppard shouted at him. "Ronon you smash your hands against that tree, and you wont be able to smash Michael, think about it."
Sheppard turned back to look at Sean, "How did Michael see the tags?" Sheppard wanted to know.
"He kept asking about the guns, and mentioning Atlantis. Lyssa came over and stood behind me. That's when he seemed to take notice of her. He showed her the tags he had, and then asked if he could see her tags. That's when he said he'd trade with us."
"So if I hadn't given her the tags, Michael never would have taken her." Ronon said, blaming himself.
"This isn't your fault Ronon, you know Michael, you know how devious he is." Teyla tried to comfort Ronon.
"Teyla's right, Michael's probably been planning something like this for each of us, you can't blame yourself for what happened." Sheppard, also tried to tell him.
"I don't think it was just the dog tags. He was very interested in the guns, kept asking about Atlantis. So even if he had never seen the tags I think he still would have done something." Sean told Ronon.
"Yes, but the tags identified her with me. That's all Michael would have been interested in, once he found that out." Ronon said, nothing they could say would make him feel less guilty.
"McKay, you managed to pinpoint a specific location yet." Sheppard said, turning to look at McKay
"Yes I think I have."
"You have?" Sheppard hadn't been expecting such an answer.
"Yes, it's about a quarter of a mile over there. That's where the signal is originating from."
It took them half an hour to find the entrance to the cave. Ronon was the first in, followed by Sheppard, McKay, Sean and finally Teyla. It was dark, and took a while for their eyes to adjust to the light.
"McKay, you getting anything, can you tell us which direction the signal is coming from."
"Yes, just up ahead."
Ronon spotted Michael up ahead, and took off after him, leaving the others behind. He followed Michael along the passages, gaining on him with every step. Then he saw Michael enter a room, slamming the door closed behind him. Ronon stood outside the door, he thought he heard muffled voices, coming from inside the room. He drew his foot up and kicked the door open. The blast, knocked him back against the wall, stunning him for a while, his blaster fell to the ground.