Disclaimer: see chapter one
Authors Note: It turns out that I lied about first person chapters. Sorry! This was the only way to a) introduce some potentially key characters, and b) beginning the explanation about the whole 'seeing mist' thing.
Shadow walked away from Jet, over towards Berenice and Krystian.
Berenice had tied her long, lavender hair back in a plait hours before the evacuation, but now, due to all the running and the falling rubble, bits of hair had managed to work their way loose and coil themselves around her face.
Berenice had been an off-worlder, found during one of the expeditions. She had been the only survivor of a small village, on a planet called Ticala where the Stargate was in orbit. She had been the first orphaned off-worlder to be brought back.
At the age of six, the Commander had placed her in the girl's dorm room, and the already formed, 'Terrible Trinity' as they had been dubbed by all on Atlantis, which, had then, consisted of Trip, Rhea, and Shadow, soon expanded it's ranks to four.
When they were older, Berenice had taken to weapons training like a duck to water, or Shadow's father to an injured patient. (On a side note, it was remarkable how easily the three were compared.)
She was determined not to allow the Wraith to kill any more people.
During her weapons training on board the Puddle Jumpers, she had gotten to know Krystian outside of classes.
He'd been working with his father on repairing one of the ships that had been damaged on a recent mission.
The rest of the Four, (as they had been newly dubbed, because Berenice wasn't terrible, and no-one could come up with an adequate new name), had heard a full description of him later.
It wasn't until Rhea heard that he'd been repairing a ship that she'd exclaimed, "My BROTHER! Your crushing on my brother?"
From that moment onwards, hints were dropped by the original trio to Krystian whenever they met him, in the halls or during class, but he never got them. That had continued for a year and a half, but the trio didn't give up.
They were WAY beyond hints now. The time had come to be completely, and if necessary, brutally, honest.
A month before coming here, back to Atlantis, which they had just left…(she'd think about that later, came the disjoined thought), the original trio had kidnapped Krystian, blind-folded him, and taken him for a short flight over to the North pier, where they had proceeded to interrogate him about what was his dysfunction? Was he completely blind?
He'd answered that he was scared of being refused.
REFUSED?
Berenice wouldn't refuse him even if he had the plague. The Trio managed to get that through his thick skull, which took at least an hour. After they'd return to the docking area, upon which the three had gotten reprimanded for taking a jumper without a supervising adult, he immediately walked off. They had all tried to follow, but he spotted them, trailing not so inconspicuously behind them.
Later, when the group were all gathered in our room, from what answers the three could get from a lovesick Berenice, he'd gone to the mess hall, and had, in front of the entire room, (including his father), pulled her into a mind-shattering kiss.
Everyone had just watched the unexpected occurrence shocked, she later heard from Trip's dad. Lizzie, who had been in the mess, said that she didn't even think a Wraith attack would have pulled them out of it. After all, Krystian was known as being incredibly shy and quiet, the total opposite to his father, whom Shadow had heard from her father as being nicknamed, 'The Long-Haired Pillock' in the early days of the expedition.
Shadow pulled her thoughts together and told Berenice of their new 'orders'. The three quickly searched the surrounding crates, finding food, (remember that crate), life sign detectors and other Atlantian gizmos, as Jet's father called them, and in the third, found the vest jackets.
She gave one each to Berenice and Krystian, who swiftly put them on, and opening another crate, found the stock of P90's.
One each was distributed to them, and the pair quickly moved to the exit to wait for the departing group.
She quickly got Tobyn loaded with bed linen she'd found in the next crate, the top of the pile coming just below his blue eyes, and placed at the back of the group before they set off.
As Jet passed through the exit, and as she and Rhea had lifted a heavy crate lid, the mist like figure she had been watching out of the corner of her eye suddenly took on a clearer shape. She started, and the lid fell onto her foot, causing her to give a pain filled yelp.
The figure on the floor was Krystian's father, Dr Thomas Kavanaugh.
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