It´s shorter than usual but it was so emotionally draining to write it, especially since I had to rematch both episodes to get the timeline right, that I couldn´t go on but though I´d post it, anyway, since I know a few people are waiting for it.
This part will contain spoilers for the season finale, as usual, I don´t own anything.
metube: I´m afraid she did- I needed her to lie to him, though because that´ll be an interesting problem to further explore later on… I actually made my Mum watch the finale with me and I cried so hard she got really worried… Anyway, you´ll just have to push through and hope for better times which will come- eventually.
Well, it might be fun but it´s also much, much more work and I´m not sure I´m going to have enough ideas and be creative enough but I´ll think about it, promise!
Madi92: Well, the eps are great, apart from the fact that Wash DIES (damn it, it always makes me feel sick to think about it- but well, since they won´t do a second season and we didn´t see a body or anything, in my universe she´s still alive and I`ll come up with a great adventure for her in the following parts where she gets to single handedly kill off the remaining Phoenix soldiers and get back to Taylor ;)
And I´ll take care of Lucas- for good…
The next night their meeting was interrupted by Skye Tate and Jim hurried after the girl, leaving Wash to arrange for people to get away safely before they would be discovered.
Wash advised Skye to contact Taylor, the girl was the only one who´d be able to get into the command center without raising suspicion since Lucas had taken a liking to her.
"Tell him to send someone to the tree line at the west perimeter, we have to get Shannon´s family out, at least the doc and the girls, they can use the drainage ditch."
The lieutenant hurried over to Boylan´s and arrived just in time to witness Jim and Josh being hurled outside and dragged off towards the command building and she was still looking after them when Lucas came out of the bar and walked up to her.
"Your little intrigue is up."
"I don't know what you are talking about."
Wash replied coldly, her heart hammering in her chest, of course they had known that Lucas would find out about their little guerrilla tactic sooner or later but they had been hoping that they would have more time to come up with a plan for when it happened.
"Fine, in that case I´ll fill you in- your friend Shannon somehow managed to get hold of a communication device and a couple of trackers and he informed my father about our convoys, the routes they would take, how many escorts there would be and consequently we lost almost thirty man and more than half of our vehicles this week."
Wash kept her expression completely blank as Lucas stared at her and finally the young man nodded.
"Of course, you´re just as impenetrable as the old man- tell you what, Wash, if I find out that you had anything to do with this, no matter how small a part you played and knowing you, it wasn´t small at all, I´ll make you wish you really had died that day at Somalia."
Wash´s first instinct was to roll her eyes but then she remembered the promise she had given Nathaniel and thought better of it.
"In that case it´s a good thing that I kept out of it, isn´t it- I should be be downstairs, if you excuse me."
She brushed past him, then stopped dead when she felt Lucas´hand on her arm.
"I know that you were in on this, I can´t prove it yet but I will and then not even Mira can help you- I´ll make sure that you die like my mother died, slowly and painfully and I´ll enjoy every moment of it, bear that in mind."
He let go of her and walked away towards the command center and Wash remained standing in front of the steps for a moment, trying to compose herself, she had to find a way to get Jim Shannon and his son out of the brig and they all had to get out of Terra Nova as quickly as possible.
She climbed down the steps to the bar and had just gotten a glass of water with a few drops of Bourbon from Boylan when Weaver entered with a group of soldiers, loudly complaining about a rash on his arm he´d developed after having been OTG in the afternoon and announcing that he would go to the infirmary to have it checked out.
Wash strained her ears to listen to the details, a plan forming in her head and was still at the bar when Carter came in with some Sixers.
Boylan inquired after Josh and was told that the boy already had been sent home while Jim Shannon would stay at the brig until he had confessed all Lucas wanted to know.
Making up her mind, Wash slipped out of the bar and hurried over to the infirmary, Elisabeth was on duty and she needed her to go through with her plan.
The doctor looked alarmed at the sight of her but quickly ushered her into her office.
"Lieutenant- do you know anything about Jim and Josh?"
"Josh´s probably home by now, Jim´s still in the brig, we need to get him out of there."
The older woman looked shaken but pulled herself together again instantly and Wash continued.
"I can´t stay long, Lucas is looking for a reason to kill me, if he finds out that I was involved and he will, no one will be able to keep him from doing it.
You and the kids will be blamed for what Jim did by association, we need to get out of here, all of us and quick."
Elisabeth nodded, eyes wide with fear.
"Tell me what to do."
Wash hesitated for a moment, then asked "how good are you at lying to people?"
"I´m a doctor, I can do it- who am I going to lie to?"
"Weaver- he´ll be here soon, I saw him at Boylan´s, he was complaining about some sort of rash on his arm."
Elisabeth rolled her eyes."
"You´re right, he´s deadly afraid of anything he encounters, all the nurses are complaining about him wasting their time."
Wash nodded.
"Make someone give him an injection, then feed him some story about a parasite you´ve infected him with, promise him a cure if he gets your Shannon out of the brig."
"You think he´ll do it?"
"He will, trust me, he´ll do anything to save his own skin. Once he´s at your place you knock him out with another injection and meet me at the west perimeter near the drainage ditch, Jim knows where it is, you can hide between the containers there, I´ll contact Taylor now, he should be waiting already, Jim didn´t have the comm on him, it´s at the bar."
"How will we get out?"
Wash bit her lip, she hated to lie to her friends but she knew that if she told Elisabeth Shannon that it was unlikely that they all would make it out and that therefore she would have to stay behind to give the family the chance to get out, the other woman would protest vehemently and there wasn´t time for it.
"They set up a detection grid around the perimeter fence, Durwin told us we´d need a Phoenix access card to disable it, I´ll try and get one from one of the soldiers now."
"All right- be careful, Wash, you said it yourself, if they realize you´re helping us-"
"I´ll will be- I have to go now, good luck."
Wash slipped back inside the bar, relieved when no one paid her much attention, the bar was packed and it took her some time to make it over to Tom Boylan.
"I need the comm" she whispered, smiling at a Phoenix soldier who was checking her out openly, she would need someone just like him to get an excess card.
"My office" Boylan told her and Wash nodded, then walked towards the stairs and started to climb them, anyone watching her would assume she was on her way to the bathrooms and it wasn´t possible to watch the steps leading up to or the office from the lower floor.
She found the comm in Boylan´s toolkit and activated it, hoping that the frequency would still be working and at the same time dreading the conversation she was about to have with Taylor, she would have to lie to him and given the fact that it might be the last time she got the chance to talk to him at all, especially after Lucas´ latest threats, the mere thought was almost killing her.
"Taylor."
"It´s me."
"I´m waiting fro you- be careful, Wash, if anything happens to you-"
"Nothing will happen" she told him firmly, she needed him to stay focussed and act quickly and all she could do was hope that he would get over her in time and be able to move on.
"I´ll see you in a bit" she added, then switched the device off, she had to hold on to the desk for a moment, she had never felt so empty, so out of hope but she had to focus now, she owed it to Shannon to get his family out of the colony and she would.
Back down at the bar she leaned against the counter next to the soldier she had seen looking at her earlier, feeling relieved when she realized he was too drunk to even get suspicious of her sudden interest in him and Wash endured his arm around her waist for a few minutes, pretending to listen to his drunken talk with interest before finally running a hand up his chest and pulling the access card out of his breast pocket.
She motioned for Boylan to bring another drink and handed it to the soldier, then waited until he had slumped down on the bar, too drunk to remain upright anymore.
"Back door" Boylan whispered to her, pulling her behind the bar and Wash crouched down, crawling towards the back exit, the door was open and she smiled up at her former comrade gratefully before sneaking outside and setting off for the west perimeter, looking around for a possible distraction should it be needed until she noticed the piled up explosives near the empty housing units that had been meant for the eleventh pilgrimage.
Disabling the detection grid was easy and she found the Shannons between the containers and when she took in Jim´s bruised face and body, it was obvious that he wouldn´t be able to run fast enough, let alone carry Zoe.
Resigning herself to the fact that she wouldn´t make it out and probably not survive the night, Wash felt a fresh surge of determination, she would fight to her last breath and she would make sure that those bastards wouldn´t get the chance to destroy everything Taylor and she had worked for.
There was so much she wanted to tell Nathaniel but instead she asked Shannon to remind her CO about the craziest mission of her career and told him to take his family and go, ignoring his pleading, ignoring Maddy´s horrified expression and Elisabeth´s incredulous stare, there was no other way and told them to wait for her signal.
The explosion destroyed most of the new buildings and it didn´t take more than a minute until Wash was struggling in the grip of two soldiers dragging her off towards the command center.