Untitled 4 & 5
Yup, I have been busy today. Wrote two chapters of this here fic. Most likely wont be many during SGU's hiatus, as I am trying to stick as close to the actual story as possible. So plot movement and some boring old backstory here. When some of the action on the show picks up I may pick that up as well. In the meantime I am content with the drama. Enjoy!
Title: Untitled
Author: Carrie Key
Disclaimers: It's MGM, and SciFi (the other way is stupid), and very little of this is mine.
Summary: Why is Telford such a jerk most of the time?
Rating:T for teen. Some cussing, but nothing worse than prime time TV. Author note: Not so much a one shot anymore. And in case you havn’t noticed yet, spoilers do abound here. Tread carefullly should you not want to be spoiled. Properties listed here that I do not own nor are they related to SGU in anyway: Spider-Man and Inuyasha. They are owned by their respective companies. Also, I am not a doctor. I have, however, gone through what Kira goes through in this chapter. So it is based off of my XP only, and not anyone else’s.
Untitled 4/?
Things were calm and quiet in the infirmary, which was welcomed happily by Lt. Tamara Johansen. Life had become very interesting when an away team brought back two curious kinos that were from the future, depicting an illness and the cure. One was very scary to watch and the other was just short. But thanks to both of the kinos, once Dr. Volker started showing signs of the illness described, they were able to quickly execute the cure and now everybody was doing better. Well, almost everyone.
Lying in an infirmary bed not far from where TJ was organizing supplies was Dr. Kira Amuro. She hadn’t shown any of the symptoms from the micro organisms in the water, only one of a very small handful not too. But everyone was inoculated, as a precaution. A few hours after she had been given the shot, the historian came to the infirmary complaining of overpowering cramps. TJ at first thought of it as a reaction to the anti-venom they used. Once Dr. Amuro began listing all of her symptoms, it quickly became clear that it was not.
“How is she?”
Earlier, while Dr. Amuro’s condition worsened, Colonel Young had paid a visit to see how she was. It wasn’t long after she had discovered him in there that she became increasingly violent and wanted him out of the room. TJ had no choice in the need to keep her patient calm, she ordered the colonel out of the infirmary. “Resting, finally.”
By the look on her face, he could tell that she was unsure of allowing him back in the infirmary. “Don’t worry, I won’t stay long. I figure it’s best she stays calm.”
“Yes, I would agree.” TJ gave him a small smile.
“So, was it a nasty reaction to the inoculation?” He let his gaze fall on the small woman.
“Not really. I believe it’s what caused it, and I think I may have to instigate some new protocols for our people.”
“Oh?” As far as Young knew, and as long as he’d known Kira, she was never sick. Never had the chicken pox, the flu or even the common cold. And most of that information was garnered from her personnel file when they were picking people to go to Icarus. The few times he’d been stationed with her, he never saw her take a sick day. “What happened, then?”
“She doesn’t want me telling anybody, but I feel I need to disclose this information to you, sir. It reminded me that we are all human and that certain precautions are going to have be taken. Had I known what her condition was before giving her the inoculation, we might have prevented this from happening.”
“Wait…” He recalled a prior conversation with Kira, when she mentioned that she and Telford had started talking again, when she was on Icarus before winding up on The Destiny. He’d actually picked at her a little, hinting at the fact that whenever he saw them talking when they were all at the SGC it involved a lot of them leaving for the bedroom. She had blushed deeply, but never denied that they had been intimate during her time on the base. “Please tell me she wasn’t…”
“She was.” TJ looked as though she could cry.
“Dammit.” How was this going to be handled? Kira barely wanted anything to do with him since she informed him that she knew what he and Emily had done with Telford’s body. She kept the peace, and never uttered a word to anybody… “We need to get Colonel Telford here…”
As Young started to leave, TJ grabbed his arm. “Sir, I don’t think that is a good idea. Dr. Amuro didn’t seem very keen on the idea of having him here. In fact she almost became as enraged at the idea as she was to have you here.”
“But…”
“Everett, life is difficult enough on this ship to have David go into overdrive again. I don’t think we’ll be able to survive it this time. I doubt Rush could use the ship to his advantage for something like that.” Dr. Amuro sat up, slowly, wincing.
“How are you feeling?” TJ let go of Young’s arm, heading for her patient.
“Tired. Sore. I must admit, the last time I felt like that was when I had been captured by Amaterasu.” She took the offered cup of water from TJ.
“I can have David here, if you want him?” Colonel Young tentatively spoke up.
“No. Its best he doesn’t know. I can understand TJ’s reasoning for breaching the doctor-patient code for you, but it goes no further than that. Everyone else can believe it was a reaction to the medicine.” She closed her eyes briefly as she felt a small ripple of pain course through her.
TJ took her hand for her, squeezing it gently. “They should be much less frequent, almost nonexistent soon.”
“Thank you, TJ. I’m glad you were there when your sister experienced hers. Otherwise we’d be still wondering what was going on.”
“I’m glad I was there for you both.” Truth be told, TJ wished she never had to go through something like that again. The first time, when her sister lost her first baby, was hard enough. At least there had been a hospital near by. Here, with Dr. Amuro it had been much scarier. She had limited knowledge when it came to many things and TJ feared a few times that Dr. Amuro was going to die. Her sister hadn’t gone through as much pain.
TJ went about checking Kira’s vitals, and Kira sat there quietly as she did. She noted Everett was still in the room, and even though she hated him for what he had done, she found some comfort in a familiar face being present. “Everett, I need your word that this goes no further than this room. I do not want anyone else knowing, most definitely David.”
“Well, if we go forward with TJ’s newly proposed health protocols, then people are going to wonder.”
“Tell them that it has been something brewing for a while.” She took another sip of her water. “With our current situation it’s not the best thing to have a baby around.”
“I guess not. Alright, I’ll think of something with TJ. You get some rest. I’ll have Eli and a few others cover your shifts.” Before he left the room, Young’s face softened. “For what its worth, Kira, I am sorry.”
“We both are.” Kira barely whispered.
****
“So, how long do you think TJ will keep you in here?” Eli was visiting with Kira. He brought her laptop and they were going through her pictures and videos.
“Not sure. Here, look at this one…” She clicked on an icon, bringing up a video. “That’s my sister with her sons.”
“Wow. She looks nothing like you.” He laughs as he watches Kira’s family.
“She favors Mom, while our brother and I look more like Dad. That’s Devon and that would be Mamoru.” She points to each boy.
“Like in Sailor Moon?” Eli dodged a playful swat.
“No, more like my uncle.” She gives him a funny look. “Though they do have a cat named Chibiusa.”
“Now, you’re pulling my leg!” he laughed.
“Nope. It’s a white cat, and a horrible bitch at that.”
“What about this one, with the kids in the costumes…?” He goes ahead and clicks on the video, ignoring Kira’s protests. He watches as the boys dressed as a vampire and Spider-Man, her nephews run into a room decorated for Halloween, being chased by a large man dressed as a werewolf, complete with mask. They are laughing and giggling as the man roars and pretends to stalk them. Kira can be heard laughing in the background. They are all speaking in Japanese, the boys still laughing and trying to dodge the werewolf. Finally one of the boys lands a lucky shot between the werewolf’s legs causing him to fall to the ground, rolling in pain and cursing in English. “Wait, is that?” Eli looks over at Kira, and sees a few tears on her cheeks. “It is him, isn’t it?”
Kira nods, wiping a tear away. “He always liked spending Halloween with them. Since Kaitlin hated the holiday, David made sure I was able to get the boys so we could take them out. It’s one of his favorites.”
Eli turned back to the video, where he saw Colonel Telford, minus the mask. He was wincing in pain, but allowed both kids to climb all over him. “You know, Kira, I only put up with this because it makes you smile.” he heard Telford say.
“Kaitlin said if the boys are going to learn Japanese to be able to pass as somewhat native when she takes them to Japan, we all need to be speaking it around them, all the time.”
“I know, there are just some things I say better in English.”
“I know this is gonna sound bad, and I am sorry, but wow. He wasn’t always an ass, huh?”
“No, there were times when he was the most charming man in the world.” Kira reached with her hands, wiping her eyes.
They were silent for the rest of the video, which ended with Devon taking the camera and chasing his brother with it. The very last scene was of Telford and Kira, dressed as Kagome from Inuyasha, kissing.
“Kagome?”
“I would have dressed as Sango, but my sister didn’t want the boys to play with any of her weapons, especially the Hiraikotsu.” As she spoke, Kira starred at the paused video of her and David.
“Want to talk about it?” Colonel Telford was a topic of conversation that he rarely broached with Kira. He normally let her bring him up. But she seeemed like she really wanted to talk to somebody about him. At least that’s how Eli saw it.
“What? About David? Why?” She closed the video player, and brought up the music player. Soon there were sounds of quiet classical music playing.
“Normally you don’t bring out the soft muisc unless you are upset.” He reaches for his water bottle, taking a sip. “We don’t have to if you don’t want to.”
“No. I just don’t know where to begin. What do you want to know?”
“How about how you two first met? The beginning is usually the best place to start.” He adjusted himself in his seat, so he wasn’t so much on the bed anymore.
“It’s not a short tale. There’s a little bit of background info you’ll need.” She closed the laptop, silencing the music.
“Like what?”
“Well, for starters, he’d actually been apart of the SGC for about a year before we met. He never concerned himself with the ‘scientists’ and I rarely went off world. I was mainly there to help keep Daniel organized. David had just been given a promotion to Major and this his own SG Team, SG-14.” Kira set her laptop on the little table beside the bed.
“How long had you been a part of the program?” Eli watched her carefully. He didn’t fully buy the whole ‘bad reaction’ excuse for her being in here.
“Five years. It was the first year they started letting me go out more. General Hammond saw how overwhelmed Daniel was becoming and suggested that I take a more active role and get more off world expierence. So, whenever they needed someone to translate, record ruins, or the like, I was the go to gal.”
“So you two were put on the same team, then?” He really wished he’d had a kino with him. Eli always loved it when Kira would talk about the early days of the Stargate Program.
“No. We actually were never officially a part of the same team. After we met, sometimes I would join his team. No, we met on P3X-9674, a planet controlled by Ameterasu.”
****
Kira was being led away to her cell, though she guessed dragged was a better word. She could barely stand, let alone walk. Apparently Ameterasu had grown tired of Kira’s lack of cooperation. Her guards were none too kind in helping her to her prison as they opened the door and threw her in. She landed with a decided “Umpf!” as she crashed into her counterpart, Dr. Ryan Gene. He wasn’t in any better shape, and from what Kira could tell, he’d passed out again. Or had finally given into death like the rest of their team.
For once in her life, Kira could admit to not being able to recall much of what happened. Everything came in flashes. She could remember Ameterasu’s face, the ruins that the Goa’uld had stolen them from, the other six members of her team sent to explore them, and the pain. No, her memory did not fully kick in until she’d been imprisioned for nearly six months. She and Ryan were the last ones, and they barely survived. On the day that Ameterasu had promised them death, was when he came. She could still see his face clearly, the stern, yet worried look on his face.
“We have to get them out, now.” He had said.
“Sir, look at them, we can’t move them. I don’t know why she didn’t just put them in the sarcouphougus.” Garrison’s words still rang true. Ameterasu had used healing devices, but not the sarcouphougus.
“Then find me an alternative way to get them to the rendevous point. Brennen will be leaving without us if we don’t get there soon.” He hadn’t even introduced himself yet, but started adminsteriing some first aid. Not that there was much he could do for most of her injuries.
“I guess if we found a cart, or a strecher…” Garrison went off in search of whatever he could find to help them.
“Wh…who?” Kira had managed to choke out. She could feel the darkness threatening again.
“I’m Major Telford with SG-14, ma’am. We’re here to rescue you.” He helped her take a few sips of water from his canteen.
That was when the darkness took over. When she awoke next, Kira was on board a Tel’Tak, being held by very strong arms. “Dr. Amuro, stop struggling! You’re safe!” His voice was firm, but she could detect a hint of fear.
Opening her eyes, Kira relised she’d had a nightmare. One that had been real. “Where… are we?”
“On our way to the Alpha Base.” David was still holding her. “I think you poped open a stictch.” He lifted up his hand from her stomach to reveal blood. Thankfully not much.
“Oh,” was all she could muster.
“Garrison!” He called out to his teamate, who apparently was the one responsible for patching her and Ryan up.
****
“So, that’s it?” Eli raised an eyebrow. “That’s how you two met?” He had a feeling there were somethings she left out, but he didn’t press.
“Yes. He rescued me and my collegue from Ameterasu. She wanted to gain more info about the Tau’Ri from us, but we didn’t cooperate that well. I am still shocked we lasted that long.” Kira’s hand went down to her stomach.
“You ok?”
“Yeah. I’ll be fine.”
“When did you two start seeing each other?”
Kira laughed. “To hear him tell it, right away! When the truth is I made him wait and wait. I was mean to him, trying to discourage him. I wanted out of the whole military relationships, unlike what my parents, siblings and everyone else in my family did. I wanted a nice, civilian man who I didn’t have to worry about.”
“Guess he won, huh?” Eli noticed her hand was still on her stomach. Shadow pain from remebering her captivity, maybe?
“After almost four months of him checking up on me, making sure all my needs were met while I was healing up…” She smiled, “He even helped me with my physical therapy. I daresay Daniel was the first to clue me in to how David felt about me.”
“Really?”
She nodded. “Yes. I was seriously trying not to pay him any attention. But he wouldn’t give up, even after Daniel told me.” Sighing, Kira continued, “David finally was successful in asking me out. He had tickets to a Mel Brooks comedy fest over in Aspen, and I couldn’t take it anymore. Not only did I want to see Mel Brooks’ films, but I wanted to get this Fly Boy to leave me alone.”
“Awwww… I bet you two had a great time.”
“I did. Him, not so much. He learned from Daniel that Mel Brooks is a favorite of mine and he figured it was worth a shot. He couldn’t stand Mel Brooks. But he sat there, through six hours of films.” She giggled. “I decided that if he could sit there through that, that he was serious about persuing me, so I gave him a chance.”
Eli didn’t know what to say. He still didn’t like Telford, but it was nice to see Kira smiling. Even if she was a bit sad about it. So they just sat there, in silence, enjoying each other’s company.
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Title: Untitled
Author: Carrie Key
Disclaimers: It's MGM, and SciFi (the other way is stupid), and very little of this is mine.
Summary: Why is Telford such a jerk most of the time?
Rating:T for teen. Some cussing, but nothing worse than prime time TV. Author note: Not so much a one shot anymore. And in case you havn’t noticed yet, spoilers do abound here. Tread carefullly should you not want to be spoiled.
Untitled 5/?
“Your wife is doing well, then?” Emily asked him, taking a small bite of food.
True, David had no idea why he even went to her that one day after the LRC stones malfunctioned due to the FTL drive onboard Destiny. But he did and he was actually grateful. He had someone to talk to and commiserate with. Emily Young certainly did not deserve the man she married. “I guess she is doing alright. I saw her a few days ago. They had to deal with a ship wide illness and she’d had a nasty reaction to the medicine that cured it.”
David Telford sat across from Emily at his dining table. They’d decided after the last confrontation with Young that it would be best not to meet at her place anymore. Of course David didn’t tell her about the incident with Young shortly after and exactly how he acquired the marks and bruises on his face. He chalked it up to having to settle down a disgruntled recruit. “Everyone is fine, though.”
“Good. I wish I could meet her. Kira sounds like a nice person.” Emily sipped her wine. “And she is certainly beautiful,” She gestured to a photo of Kira and David resting on a nearby table. The picture was of happier times, during a visit to her family in Japan.
“That she is. I believe we’d been together two years when that was taken; at her uncle’s home outside Kyoto.” He let his gaze linger on the picture for a minute.
“You must miss her.”
“I do.” He had fixed up one of Kira’s favorite dishes, Hibachi Steak and Shrimp with lots of rice, and veggies. Emily seemed to be enjoying it.
“I hope you don’t think me being nosy or something just as bad, but I couldn’t help but notice the papers sitting out on the coffee table…” She looked sheepishly at him.
“Yeah… It’s ok.” He tried to reassure her. Kira still hadn’t given him a definite answer if she wanted to go ahead with the proceedings or not. “We’ve actually been separated for about a year now, and before they ended up on Destiny we were actually starting to talk about working things out.”
“I’m sorry. That’s horrible… Well, not horrible that you guys were talking about working it out, but that this situation doesn’t really give you the chance to do so.” She felt bad for him. To have the chance and to have it ripped away. David seemed like a man who would try, unlike her own husband, who seemed to be a lost cause.
“Well, it has helped us to talk more. In fact, a few weeks ago we had a long talk about ‘us’.” He conveniently left out that it had been prompted by what Emily and her husband had been doing with his body.
Emily smiled, “Good. Communication certainly helps bridge those gaps.”
David nodded his head.
“So, if you don’t mind my asking, what caused the separation?” Again, Emily looked sheepish, like she had no right to ask him anything concerning Kira.
He picked up his wine glass, letting the liquid chase after the piece of steak he’d eaten. “Well, we just fell out of touch. It wasn’t just one of us either. And I had ignored all the warning signs. She did try to talk to me about it, but I was stupid. I didn’t realize how stupid until I returned from a mission one day to find her and her things gone from the house.” He remembered that day clearly. It had been one of the worst days of his life. Being chased by Lucien Alliance and then coming home to find her gone… He’d been a wreck until Garrison had forced him to wake up.
Emily looked so sad. “Where did she go?”
“I had no idea until her former boss, Daniel Jackson, told me. He wasn’t too happy with me, but he said that she was in Japan with her sister.” He sighed. “I tried to go after her, but Daniel wouldn’t let me. He said that she needed some space.”
“She and Daniel were close, then?”
“Yeah, pretty close. Not like he was with his own team at the SGC, but she had been his PA for years before she took over his position when he was given a special position for Homeworld Security. In fact, when we met I had rescued her from a particularly nasty Goa’uld, and the way he fawned over her, and the way General O’Neill had requested my team take special care of her, I thought she and Jackson were lovers. Thankfully Daniel saw how I was looking at her and told me to go after her. He was too funny when I asked him about the two of them!” David laughed, recalling the wide eyed look on the linguist’s face. “He couldn’t get over it, and wouldn’t let me forget it.”
“That was sweet of him though, to encourage you to go after her.” Emily sighed.
“I’m sorry; this must be making it hard on you, considering the issues between you and Everett…”
“No, not really. If anything it’s helping me to make up my mind on what to do with him.” Emily got up, taking her wine glass, “Why not show me some more pictures of Kira? I’m sure you have more somewhere?”
“Actually, not many here. A lot of the photos we have are either with her on her laptop, or in storage in Colorado.” He stood up, leading her into the living room. “We never really used this place. I mainly got it so we’d have some place to stay other than a hotel when one of us had to be in DC.” A few years ago they always seemed to be in DC, and the hotel accommodations were not always desirable, especially when they ended up sharing a room with someone else due to the hotel overbooking. David put his foot down and the next morning went out and purchased the small home. He had handed Kira the keys, telling her to decorate however she wanted, he didn’t care, so long as he didn’t have to not be able to do what he wanted to do to her again. She laughed at him, but rewarded him with a happy and appreciative kiss.
“I see there aren’t many decorations here…” Emily observed.
He walked over to the shelves lining the wall, where a few books and a few swords lay. “No, Kira didn’t want to bother with a lot of decorations for here. About the only fully decorated room is the bedroom.” He pulled one of the swords off of the shelf, still in its scabbard. “This is hers. A gift to her on our wedding day from her father, before he passed away.”
“A samurai sword?”
“A tachi, actually. Slightly longer and more curved than a katana, which most people call Samurai swords.” He slowly unsheathed the blade, watching it gleam in the light coming from the lamp in the corner of the room.
“It’s beautiful. But why would he give her a sword for her wedding present? Is it a Japanese thing?” She eyed the sword warily. She trusted David, but weapons always made her uneasy.
“Actually he gave it to her as joke,” He chuckled. “He handed it to her and told her to use it on me should I step out of line.”
“So, has she ever used it? On you?”
He sheathed the sword, “No, not on me. However, there was this one time after we had gotten back from a rough mission and we fell asleep in the living room. Somebody was breaking in, and she was the first to react. The closest thing she had to grab was this sword, and she scarred the living daylights out of the guy! He actually fainted!”
Emily laughed with him, picturing the event in her mind. It was difficult to picture the obviously tiny woman with that large sword in her hands, wielding it as a weapon, but then again, it was hard to imagine her husband was billions of light years away on a space ship. “She knows how to use it?”
“Her father and mother were both military. Each of the kids was trained at an early age to defend themselves and in the use of multiple weapons. Kira doesn’t like to brag about it, but she’s better with a sword than a gun.” He placed it back on the shelf. “She can shoot, but she’s horrible at aiming. Same with any long range weapon. She can’t aim to save her own life. Close combat however, she can kick some ass. Her sister is superior with it, and their brother was one of the best martial artists and weapons experts I’d ever seen.”
“Was? Is it just Kira and her sister now?” He had mentioned that his in-laws had died within the last five years, only months apart from each other, but this was the first indication that the brother hadn’t survived.
“Saito. A Sergeant in the US Army. I’d actually met him and never made any connection between him and Kira until I saw a picture of hers of him. He died three years before I met her. It was a training exercise gone wrong in Iraq. Some insurgents bombed the training field and he never made it.” They had both made themselves comfortable on the couch.
“That’s horrible.” She placed her wine glass down on the coffee table.
They continued on talking for sometime, and not all centered on Kira either. They eventually went on to the subject of Emily and Everett. And then onto what life was like aboard The Destiny. And on how they wished they could get everyone home soon. An idea that David wished whole heartedly that he could make happen. But Young and Rush were both working against him.
****
It seemed more and more that bad days were a regular occurrence on The Destiny. And after yesterday had been a decent day as well. It seemed to start the moment she woke up. TJ wanted to see her for a follow up and to see how she was doing in general. Young had made TJ the shrink for the ship, a job that the medic confided in her that she didn’t really want. At least that visit went well, even if TJ was still smothering her, concerned about hormones and post partum depression. She hadn’t even had the child, and there was mention of PPD. Reminders of what she had lost she didn’t need.
Then off to the chair room to see what Rush had been able to garner. She no longer spent most of her time in the Control room. Neither did Eli, for that matter. Lately he’d been working on some project for Young and she threw herself into her work for Rush and the other scientists. If someone wasn’t sure of a translation or didn’t feel like dealing with Rush, they went to her. Today she hoped Rush would tell her to go away, and she could go back to the control room and blissfully work alone.
That was not to be, apparently. Nope, today Rush and Young decided to hash it out over the chair again. Apparently Rush had convinced someone to sit in it, and Lt. Scott and Sgt. Greer had been able to yank them out before the chair grabbed hold of them. Young was dressing Rush down almost hysterically. So, she stood there, in the background, waiting for the two to finish. When he was done, Young grabbed her arm. “We need to talk!” He barked at her, dragging her along behind him.
Kira tried freeing her arm, as he had a tight grip, actually hurting her. “Everett, stop! You’re hurting me!”
“We are going to talk, Kira. We need to put a tight leash on that husband of yours.” He spat at her through gritted teeth.
“It’s been three days since he was here last. What could he have possibly done that you couldn’t talk to me about before?” She wrenched her arm out of his grasp and backed up a few steps from him.
“Not here.” He knew others were paying him close attention.
“And why not? You’re doing an excellent job of attracting the attention of everybody on this ship.” Going back to bed was sounding better and better.
“Just come with me so we can discuss him, all right?” He realized he should have waited until a bit after dealing with Rush, that he was taking some of his anger and frustration with the man out on her. But then again, every chance he though he’d get to talk with her, something always came up. It was now or never.
“Fine. But yank my arm again and you’ll loose yours.”
They walked in silence all the way to his office, with Young brushing everyone off that came near them. Once there, he closed the door. He beckoned her to sit, but she remained standing. She stood with her back straight, legs slightly apart and her arms crossed. The look on her face spoke volumes of anger and embarrassment. Young regretted his actions all the more. “You should sit for this…”
“Nope, standing is fine.” If he was going to act like a jackass, then she was going to show him how much of a bitch she could be.
“Fine.” He honestly didn’t know how to begin this conversation. “My last trip to Earth, I saw something upsetting. And it has bearing for you.”
“Really?” She had a feeling she knew where this was going.
“How much do you trust David to not stray?”
“Oh for the love of… Everett, this is ridiculous. David told me he’d been making friends with Emily. It was right after you two used his body. He didn’t know why he went to her at first; he was still reeling from one minute being on the ship and the next being with her. He’s not sleeping with her, if that’s where you’re taking this.” Was he so caught up in his own life, and his dislike for David that he couldn’t see what was happening?, she wondered.
“Is that what he told you?” Young was pissed. David got to her first to cover his tracks.
“Yes! And I do trust him. Regardless of what our relationship is like, neither one of us are going to stray from the other. We made some pretty serious vows, and I don’t know about the rest of the planet, but the way he and I were raised, you promise something, it’s serious until the very end.” She hoped he caught the hidden implication in there. It wasn’t common knowledge about him and TJ, but a few people were aware of the relationship the two had shared.
“Then tell me why he was looking real cozy with Emily, sharing a few drinks, at my own house?” The sight of seeing Telford there, standing that close to her, it made him so mad.
“Look, all he is doing is offering an ear for her, and in return she’s offering him one. I’m really not in the mood for these little games today, Everett. Just because Emily can’t trust you, doesn’t mean you can’t trust her, nor can I trust David.” She felt so tired all of a sudden. Tired of dealing with the Colonel, tired of dealing with Rush, tired of dealing with this ship.
“That’s not what it looked like to me. And he’s telling Emily…” Young was getting flustered. “He has the balls to lie to her! He’s telling her that I’m still sleeping around on her!” This was not going the way he wanted it too. The problem with Kira is that she was a civilian, and one that was raised military. She knew she didn’t have to follow him, and she knew how to handle him. Right now, it was her in control and not him.
“Well, are you?” She shook her head. “You’re going on and on about how David is sleeping with Emily and it doesn’t look good for how you are ranting. Is it because of whatever happened between you and him long ago, or does it have to do with the fact that you may actually be still cheating on her? Which is it, Everett?”
Her question took him back. Were his actions really saying the latter part of what she said? Did he really portray the visage of a guilty man? “I’m not sleeping with her. We broke that off a while ago.”
“You’re sure? Because you can’t bullshit a bullshitter. I’ve spent long enough dealing with bureaucratic nonsense that I can read people pretty well, Everett. And either you are still with TJ, thinking about starting it up again or something else is going on, and because of the issues between you and David you’ve decided to take it out on us. And if that is the case, then you need to go have a nice long talk with TJ since she is doing the evaluations of everyone. And then you need to leave me and David alone.” She closed the short distance between them, her nose just inches from his. “Trust me, Everett. I may be pretty passive and let you, Rush and Wray run everything. But make no mistake that I can become one hell of a pain in your ass, and I will have General O’Neill and the entire Homeworld Security breathing down your neck.”
“So you’re handing out threats now?” He knew she’d be good to her word, and all it would take is a few well placed words to certain crew members that resented him for being in charge and he’d have a full scale mutiny on his hands. She may not be the most liked person on board the ship, but many held a lot of respect for her. They were all aware of her tenure with the Stargate Program, and the amount of knowledge she held. Kira also had an ace up her sleeve. Out of all the civilians she could handle Rush better when he got into one of his snits.
“You can call that a promise. I still believe this crew needs you, Colonel Young. But you know as well as I do, that it would not take much at all to throw the balance of power out of whack. I don’t want to, as it is just a stupid childish game, but you are giving me few choices here. I promised I’d cooperate with you when you abused my husband, but the friendship is over. That certainly has not changed.” She knew she was probably going too far with all of this, but what could she do? What Everett was doing to her and David was wrong. Yeah, David might be feeding Emily some lies, but then again, it might be he’s reading the same thing off of Young that she had been. “Leave me and David alone. I’m not asking, I am telling. You are lucky he didn’t go to Jack with what you did. That was gross misuse of the host body, and you know it. Don’t force either of our hands.”
With that she turned and left the room. She was playing with fire, and knew it would not go well for her, or for David, but she could no longer sit idle and allow Everett to do this. He was an excellent leader, but he allowed his personal life interfere too often. As she walked the halls of the ship, Kira made her way back to her room. She needed to calm down and collect herself before facing Rush and the others.
Once inside, she sat on the bed, starring at nothing. Then the tears flowed. Life was not getting any easier on Destiny.
Title: Untitled
Author: Carrie Key
Disclaimers: It's MGM, and SciFi (the other way is stupid), and very little of this is mine.
Summary: Why is Telford such a jerk most of the time?
Rating:T for teen. Some cussing, but nothing worse than prime time TV. Author note: Not so much a one shot anymore. And in case you havn’t noticed yet, spoilers do abound here. Tread carefullly should you not want to be spoiled. Properties listed here that I do not own nor are they related to SGU in anyway: Spider-Man and Inuyasha. They are owned by their respective companies. Also, I am not a doctor. I have, however, gone through what Kira goes through in this chapter. So it is based off of my XP only, and not anyone else’s.
Untitled 4/?
Things were calm and quiet in the infirmary, which was welcomed happily by Lt. Tamara Johansen. Life had become very interesting when an away team brought back two curious kinos that were from the future, depicting an illness and the cure. One was very scary to watch and the other was just short. But thanks to both of the kinos, once Dr. Volker started showing signs of the illness described, they were able to quickly execute the cure and now everybody was doing better. Well, almost everyone.
Lying in an infirmary bed not far from where TJ was organizing supplies was Dr. Kira Amuro. She hadn’t shown any of the symptoms from the micro organisms in the water, only one of a very small handful not too. But everyone was inoculated, as a precaution. A few hours after she had been given the shot, the historian came to the infirmary complaining of overpowering cramps. TJ at first thought of it as a reaction to the anti-venom they used. Once Dr. Amuro began listing all of her symptoms, it quickly became clear that it was not.
“How is she?”
Earlier, while Dr. Amuro’s condition worsened, Colonel Young had paid a visit to see how she was. It wasn’t long after she had discovered him in there that she became increasingly violent and wanted him out of the room. TJ had no choice in the need to keep her patient calm, she ordered the colonel out of the infirmary. “Resting, finally.”
By the look on her face, he could tell that she was unsure of allowing him back in the infirmary. “Don’t worry, I won’t stay long. I figure it’s best she stays calm.”
“Yes, I would agree.” TJ gave him a small smile.
“So, was it a nasty reaction to the inoculation?” He let his gaze fall on the small woman.
“Not really. I believe it’s what caused it, and I think I may have to instigate some new protocols for our people.”
“Oh?” As far as Young knew, and as long as he’d known Kira, she was never sick. Never had the chicken pox, the flu or even the common cold. And most of that information was garnered from her personnel file when they were picking people to go to Icarus. The few times he’d been stationed with her, he never saw her take a sick day. “What happened, then?”
“She doesn’t want me telling anybody, but I feel I need to disclose this information to you, sir. It reminded me that we are all human and that certain precautions are going to have be taken. Had I known what her condition was before giving her the inoculation, we might have prevented this from happening.”
“Wait…” He recalled a prior conversation with Kira, when she mentioned that she and Telford had started talking again, when she was on Icarus before winding up on The Destiny. He’d actually picked at her a little, hinting at the fact that whenever he saw them talking when they were all at the SGC it involved a lot of them leaving for the bedroom. She had blushed deeply, but never denied that they had been intimate during her time on the base. “Please tell me she wasn’t…”
“She was.” TJ looked as though she could cry.
“Dammit.” How was this going to be handled? Kira barely wanted anything to do with him since she informed him that she knew what he and Emily had done with Telford’s body. She kept the peace, and never uttered a word to anybody… “We need to get Colonel Telford here…”
As Young started to leave, TJ grabbed his arm. “Sir, I don’t think that is a good idea. Dr. Amuro didn’t seem very keen on the idea of having him here. In fact she almost became as enraged at the idea as she was to have you here.”
“But…”
“Everett, life is difficult enough on this ship to have David go into overdrive again. I don’t think we’ll be able to survive it this time. I doubt Rush could use the ship to his advantage for something like that.” Dr. Amuro sat up, slowly, wincing.
“How are you feeling?” TJ let go of Young’s arm, heading for her patient.
“Tired. Sore. I must admit, the last time I felt like that was when I had been captured by Amaterasu.” She took the offered cup of water from TJ.
“I can have David here, if you want him?” Colonel Young tentatively spoke up.
“No. Its best he doesn’t know. I can understand TJ’s reasoning for breaching the doctor-patient code for you, but it goes no further than that. Everyone else can believe it was a reaction to the medicine.” She closed her eyes briefly as she felt a small ripple of pain course through her.
TJ took her hand for her, squeezing it gently. “They should be much less frequent, almost nonexistent soon.”
“Thank you, TJ. I’m glad you were there when your sister experienced hers. Otherwise we’d be still wondering what was going on.”
“I’m glad I was there for you both.” Truth be told, TJ wished she never had to go through something like that again. The first time, when her sister lost her first baby, was hard enough. At least there had been a hospital near by. Here, with Dr. Amuro it had been much scarier. She had limited knowledge when it came to many things and TJ feared a few times that Dr. Amuro was going to die. Her sister hadn’t gone through as much pain.
TJ went about checking Kira’s vitals, and Kira sat there quietly as she did. She noted Everett was still in the room, and even though she hated him for what he had done, she found some comfort in a familiar face being present. “Everett, I need your word that this goes no further than this room. I do not want anyone else knowing, most definitely David.”
“Well, if we go forward with TJ’s newly proposed health protocols, then people are going to wonder.”
“Tell them that it has been something brewing for a while.” She took another sip of her water. “With our current situation it’s not the best thing to have a baby around.”
“I guess not. Alright, I’ll think of something with TJ. You get some rest. I’ll have Eli and a few others cover your shifts.” Before he left the room, Young’s face softened. “For what its worth, Kira, I am sorry.”
“We both are.” Kira barely whispered.
****
“So, how long do you think TJ will keep you in here?” Eli was visiting with Kira. He brought her laptop and they were going through her pictures and videos.
“Not sure. Here, look at this one…” She clicked on an icon, bringing up a video. “That’s my sister with her sons.”
“Wow. She looks nothing like you.” He laughs as he watches Kira’s family.
“She favors Mom, while our brother and I look more like Dad. That’s Devon and that would be Mamoru.” She points to each boy.
“Like in Sailor Moon?” Eli dodged a playful swat.
“No, more like my uncle.” She gives him a funny look. “Though they do have a cat named Chibiusa.”
“Now, you’re pulling my leg!” he laughed.
“Nope. It’s a white cat, and a horrible bitch at that.”
“What about this one, with the kids in the costumes…?” He goes ahead and clicks on the video, ignoring Kira’s protests. He watches as the boys dressed as a vampire and Spider-Man, her nephews run into a room decorated for Halloween, being chased by a large man dressed as a werewolf, complete with mask. They are laughing and giggling as the man roars and pretends to stalk them. Kira can be heard laughing in the background. They are all speaking in Japanese, the boys still laughing and trying to dodge the werewolf. Finally one of the boys lands a lucky shot between the werewolf’s legs causing him to fall to the ground, rolling in pain and cursing in English. “Wait, is that?” Eli looks over at Kira, and sees a few tears on her cheeks. “It is him, isn’t it?”
Kira nods, wiping a tear away. “He always liked spending Halloween with them. Since Kaitlin hated the holiday, David made sure I was able to get the boys so we could take them out. It’s one of his favorites.”
Eli turned back to the video, where he saw Colonel Telford, minus the mask. He was wincing in pain, but allowed both kids to climb all over him. “You know, Kira, I only put up with this because it makes you smile.” he heard Telford say.
“Kaitlin said if the boys are going to learn Japanese to be able to pass as somewhat native when she takes them to Japan, we all need to be speaking it around them, all the time.”
“I know, there are just some things I say better in English.”
“I know this is gonna sound bad, and I am sorry, but wow. He wasn’t always an ass, huh?”
“No, there were times when he was the most charming man in the world.” Kira reached with her hands, wiping her eyes.
They were silent for the rest of the video, which ended with Devon taking the camera and chasing his brother with it. The very last scene was of Telford and Kira, dressed as Kagome from Inuyasha, kissing.
“Kagome?”
“I would have dressed as Sango, but my sister didn’t want the boys to play with any of her weapons, especially the Hiraikotsu.” As she spoke, Kira starred at the paused video of her and David.
“Want to talk about it?” Colonel Telford was a topic of conversation that he rarely broached with Kira. He normally let her bring him up. But she seeemed like she really wanted to talk to somebody about him. At least that’s how Eli saw it.
“What? About David? Why?” She closed the video player, and brought up the music player. Soon there were sounds of quiet classical music playing.
“Normally you don’t bring out the soft muisc unless you are upset.” He reaches for his water bottle, taking a sip. “We don’t have to if you don’t want to.”
“No. I just don’t know where to begin. What do you want to know?”
“How about how you two first met? The beginning is usually the best place to start.” He adjusted himself in his seat, so he wasn’t so much on the bed anymore.
“It’s not a short tale. There’s a little bit of background info you’ll need.” She closed the laptop, silencing the music.
“Like what?”
“Well, for starters, he’d actually been apart of the SGC for about a year before we met. He never concerned himself with the ‘scientists’ and I rarely went off world. I was mainly there to help keep Daniel organized. David had just been given a promotion to Major and this his own SG Team, SG-14.” Kira set her laptop on the little table beside the bed.
“How long had you been a part of the program?” Eli watched her carefully. He didn’t fully buy the whole ‘bad reaction’ excuse for her being in here.
“Five years. It was the first year they started letting me go out more. General Hammond saw how overwhelmed Daniel was becoming and suggested that I take a more active role and get more off world expierence. So, whenever they needed someone to translate, record ruins, or the like, I was the go to gal.”
“So you two were put on the same team, then?” He really wished he’d had a kino with him. Eli always loved it when Kira would talk about the early days of the Stargate Program.
“No. We actually were never officially a part of the same team. After we met, sometimes I would join his team. No, we met on P3X-9674, a planet controlled by Ameterasu.”
****
Kira was being led away to her cell, though she guessed dragged was a better word. She could barely stand, let alone walk. Apparently Ameterasu had grown tired of Kira’s lack of cooperation. Her guards were none too kind in helping her to her prison as they opened the door and threw her in. She landed with a decided “Umpf!” as she crashed into her counterpart, Dr. Ryan Gene. He wasn’t in any better shape, and from what Kira could tell, he’d passed out again. Or had finally given into death like the rest of their team.
For once in her life, Kira could admit to not being able to recall much of what happened. Everything came in flashes. She could remember Ameterasu’s face, the ruins that the Goa’uld had stolen them from, the other six members of her team sent to explore them, and the pain. No, her memory did not fully kick in until she’d been imprisioned for nearly six months. She and Ryan were the last ones, and they barely survived. On the day that Ameterasu had promised them death, was when he came. She could still see his face clearly, the stern, yet worried look on his face.
“We have to get them out, now.” He had said.
“Sir, look at them, we can’t move them. I don’t know why she didn’t just put them in the sarcouphougus.” Garrison’s words still rang true. Ameterasu had used healing devices, but not the sarcouphougus.
“Then find me an alternative way to get them to the rendevous point. Brennen will be leaving without us if we don’t get there soon.” He hadn’t even introduced himself yet, but started adminsteriing some first aid. Not that there was much he could do for most of her injuries.
“I guess if we found a cart, or a strecher…” Garrison went off in search of whatever he could find to help them.
“Wh…who?” Kira had managed to choke out. She could feel the darkness threatening again.
“I’m Major Telford with SG-14, ma’am. We’re here to rescue you.” He helped her take a few sips of water from his canteen.
That was when the darkness took over. When she awoke next, Kira was on board a Tel’Tak, being held by very strong arms. “Dr. Amuro, stop struggling! You’re safe!” His voice was firm, but she could detect a hint of fear.
Opening her eyes, Kira relised she’d had a nightmare. One that had been real. “Where… are we?”
“On our way to the Alpha Base.” David was still holding her. “I think you poped open a stictch.” He lifted up his hand from her stomach to reveal blood. Thankfully not much.
“Oh,” was all she could muster.
“Garrison!” He called out to his teamate, who apparently was the one responsible for patching her and Ryan up.
****
“So, that’s it?” Eli raised an eyebrow. “That’s how you two met?” He had a feeling there were somethings she left out, but he didn’t press.
“Yes. He rescued me and my collegue from Ameterasu. She wanted to gain more info about the Tau’Ri from us, but we didn’t cooperate that well. I am still shocked we lasted that long.” Kira’s hand went down to her stomach.
“You ok?”
“Yeah. I’ll be fine.”
“When did you two start seeing each other?”
Kira laughed. “To hear him tell it, right away! When the truth is I made him wait and wait. I was mean to him, trying to discourage him. I wanted out of the whole military relationships, unlike what my parents, siblings and everyone else in my family did. I wanted a nice, civilian man who I didn’t have to worry about.”
“Guess he won, huh?” Eli noticed her hand was still on her stomach. Shadow pain from remebering her captivity, maybe?
“After almost four months of him checking up on me, making sure all my needs were met while I was healing up…” She smiled, “He even helped me with my physical therapy. I daresay Daniel was the first to clue me in to how David felt about me.”
“Really?”
She nodded. “Yes. I was seriously trying not to pay him any attention. But he wouldn’t give up, even after Daniel told me.” Sighing, Kira continued, “David finally was successful in asking me out. He had tickets to a Mel Brooks comedy fest over in Aspen, and I couldn’t take it anymore. Not only did I want to see Mel Brooks’ films, but I wanted to get this Fly Boy to leave me alone.”
“Awwww… I bet you two had a great time.”
“I did. Him, not so much. He learned from Daniel that Mel Brooks is a favorite of mine and he figured it was worth a shot. He couldn’t stand Mel Brooks. But he sat there, through six hours of films.” She giggled. “I decided that if he could sit there through that, that he was serious about persuing me, so I gave him a chance.”
Eli didn’t know what to say. He still didn’t like Telford, but it was nice to see Kira smiling. Even if she was a bit sad about it. So they just sat there, in silence, enjoying each other’s company.
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Title: Untitled
Author: Carrie Key
Disclaimers: It's MGM, and SciFi (the other way is stupid), and very little of this is mine.
Summary: Why is Telford such a jerk most of the time?
Rating:T for teen. Some cussing, but nothing worse than prime time TV. Author note: Not so much a one shot anymore. And in case you havn’t noticed yet, spoilers do abound here. Tread carefullly should you not want to be spoiled.
Untitled 5/?
“Your wife is doing well, then?” Emily asked him, taking a small bite of food.
True, David had no idea why he even went to her that one day after the LRC stones malfunctioned due to the FTL drive onboard Destiny. But he did and he was actually grateful. He had someone to talk to and commiserate with. Emily Young certainly did not deserve the man she married. “I guess she is doing alright. I saw her a few days ago. They had to deal with a ship wide illness and she’d had a nasty reaction to the medicine that cured it.”
David Telford sat across from Emily at his dining table. They’d decided after the last confrontation with Young that it would be best not to meet at her place anymore. Of course David didn’t tell her about the incident with Young shortly after and exactly how he acquired the marks and bruises on his face. He chalked it up to having to settle down a disgruntled recruit. “Everyone is fine, though.”
“Good. I wish I could meet her. Kira sounds like a nice person.” Emily sipped her wine. “And she is certainly beautiful,” She gestured to a photo of Kira and David resting on a nearby table. The picture was of happier times, during a visit to her family in Japan.
“That she is. I believe we’d been together two years when that was taken; at her uncle’s home outside Kyoto.” He let his gaze linger on the picture for a minute.
“You must miss her.”
“I do.” He had fixed up one of Kira’s favorite dishes, Hibachi Steak and Shrimp with lots of rice, and veggies. Emily seemed to be enjoying it.
“I hope you don’t think me being nosy or something just as bad, but I couldn’t help but notice the papers sitting out on the coffee table…” She looked sheepishly at him.
“Yeah… It’s ok.” He tried to reassure her. Kira still hadn’t given him a definite answer if she wanted to go ahead with the proceedings or not. “We’ve actually been separated for about a year now, and before they ended up on Destiny we were actually starting to talk about working things out.”
“I’m sorry. That’s horrible… Well, not horrible that you guys were talking about working it out, but that this situation doesn’t really give you the chance to do so.” She felt bad for him. To have the chance and to have it ripped away. David seemed like a man who would try, unlike her own husband, who seemed to be a lost cause.
“Well, it has helped us to talk more. In fact, a few weeks ago we had a long talk about ‘us’.” He conveniently left out that it had been prompted by what Emily and her husband had been doing with his body.
Emily smiled, “Good. Communication certainly helps bridge those gaps.”
David nodded his head.
“So, if you don’t mind my asking, what caused the separation?” Again, Emily looked sheepish, like she had no right to ask him anything concerning Kira.
He picked up his wine glass, letting the liquid chase after the piece of steak he’d eaten. “Well, we just fell out of touch. It wasn’t just one of us either. And I had ignored all the warning signs. She did try to talk to me about it, but I was stupid. I didn’t realize how stupid until I returned from a mission one day to find her and her things gone from the house.” He remembered that day clearly. It had been one of the worst days of his life. Being chased by Lucien Alliance and then coming home to find her gone… He’d been a wreck until Garrison had forced him to wake up.
Emily looked so sad. “Where did she go?”
“I had no idea until her former boss, Daniel Jackson, told me. He wasn’t too happy with me, but he said that she was in Japan with her sister.” He sighed. “I tried to go after her, but Daniel wouldn’t let me. He said that she needed some space.”
“She and Daniel were close, then?”
“Yeah, pretty close. Not like he was with his own team at the SGC, but she had been his PA for years before she took over his position when he was given a special position for Homeworld Security. In fact, when we met I had rescued her from a particularly nasty Goa’uld, and the way he fawned over her, and the way General O’Neill had requested my team take special care of her, I thought she and Jackson were lovers. Thankfully Daniel saw how I was looking at her and told me to go after her. He was too funny when I asked him about the two of them!” David laughed, recalling the wide eyed look on the linguist’s face. “He couldn’t get over it, and wouldn’t let me forget it.”
“That was sweet of him though, to encourage you to go after her.” Emily sighed.
“I’m sorry; this must be making it hard on you, considering the issues between you and Everett…”
“No, not really. If anything it’s helping me to make up my mind on what to do with him.” Emily got up, taking her wine glass, “Why not show me some more pictures of Kira? I’m sure you have more somewhere?”
“Actually, not many here. A lot of the photos we have are either with her on her laptop, or in storage in Colorado.” He stood up, leading her into the living room. “We never really used this place. I mainly got it so we’d have some place to stay other than a hotel when one of us had to be in DC.” A few years ago they always seemed to be in DC, and the hotel accommodations were not always desirable, especially when they ended up sharing a room with someone else due to the hotel overbooking. David put his foot down and the next morning went out and purchased the small home. He had handed Kira the keys, telling her to decorate however she wanted, he didn’t care, so long as he didn’t have to not be able to do what he wanted to do to her again. She laughed at him, but rewarded him with a happy and appreciative kiss.
“I see there aren’t many decorations here…” Emily observed.
He walked over to the shelves lining the wall, where a few books and a few swords lay. “No, Kira didn’t want to bother with a lot of decorations for here. About the only fully decorated room is the bedroom.” He pulled one of the swords off of the shelf, still in its scabbard. “This is hers. A gift to her on our wedding day from her father, before he passed away.”
“A samurai sword?”
“A tachi, actually. Slightly longer and more curved than a katana, which most people call Samurai swords.” He slowly unsheathed the blade, watching it gleam in the light coming from the lamp in the corner of the room.
“It’s beautiful. But why would he give her a sword for her wedding present? Is it a Japanese thing?” She eyed the sword warily. She trusted David, but weapons always made her uneasy.
“Actually he gave it to her as joke,” He chuckled. “He handed it to her and told her to use it on me should I step out of line.”
“So, has she ever used it? On you?”
He sheathed the sword, “No, not on me. However, there was this one time after we had gotten back from a rough mission and we fell asleep in the living room. Somebody was breaking in, and she was the first to react. The closest thing she had to grab was this sword, and she scarred the living daylights out of the guy! He actually fainted!”
Emily laughed with him, picturing the event in her mind. It was difficult to picture the obviously tiny woman with that large sword in her hands, wielding it as a weapon, but then again, it was hard to imagine her husband was billions of light years away on a space ship. “She knows how to use it?”
“Her father and mother were both military. Each of the kids was trained at an early age to defend themselves and in the use of multiple weapons. Kira doesn’t like to brag about it, but she’s better with a sword than a gun.” He placed it back on the shelf. “She can shoot, but she’s horrible at aiming. Same with any long range weapon. She can’t aim to save her own life. Close combat however, she can kick some ass. Her sister is superior with it, and their brother was one of the best martial artists and weapons experts I’d ever seen.”
“Was? Is it just Kira and her sister now?” He had mentioned that his in-laws had died within the last five years, only months apart from each other, but this was the first indication that the brother hadn’t survived.
“Saito. A Sergeant in the US Army. I’d actually met him and never made any connection between him and Kira until I saw a picture of hers of him. He died three years before I met her. It was a training exercise gone wrong in Iraq. Some insurgents bombed the training field and he never made it.” They had both made themselves comfortable on the couch.
“That’s horrible.” She placed her wine glass down on the coffee table.
They continued on talking for sometime, and not all centered on Kira either. They eventually went on to the subject of Emily and Everett. And then onto what life was like aboard The Destiny. And on how they wished they could get everyone home soon. An idea that David wished whole heartedly that he could make happen. But Young and Rush were both working against him.
****
It seemed more and more that bad days were a regular occurrence on The Destiny. And after yesterday had been a decent day as well. It seemed to start the moment she woke up. TJ wanted to see her for a follow up and to see how she was doing in general. Young had made TJ the shrink for the ship, a job that the medic confided in her that she didn’t really want. At least that visit went well, even if TJ was still smothering her, concerned about hormones and post partum depression. She hadn’t even had the child, and there was mention of PPD. Reminders of what she had lost she didn’t need.
Then off to the chair room to see what Rush had been able to garner. She no longer spent most of her time in the Control room. Neither did Eli, for that matter. Lately he’d been working on some project for Young and she threw herself into her work for Rush and the other scientists. If someone wasn’t sure of a translation or didn’t feel like dealing with Rush, they went to her. Today she hoped Rush would tell her to go away, and she could go back to the control room and blissfully work alone.
That was not to be, apparently. Nope, today Rush and Young decided to hash it out over the chair again. Apparently Rush had convinced someone to sit in it, and Lt. Scott and Sgt. Greer had been able to yank them out before the chair grabbed hold of them. Young was dressing Rush down almost hysterically. So, she stood there, in the background, waiting for the two to finish. When he was done, Young grabbed her arm. “We need to talk!” He barked at her, dragging her along behind him.
Kira tried freeing her arm, as he had a tight grip, actually hurting her. “Everett, stop! You’re hurting me!”
“We are going to talk, Kira. We need to put a tight leash on that husband of yours.” He spat at her through gritted teeth.
“It’s been three days since he was here last. What could he have possibly done that you couldn’t talk to me about before?” She wrenched her arm out of his grasp and backed up a few steps from him.
“Not here.” He knew others were paying him close attention.
“And why not? You’re doing an excellent job of attracting the attention of everybody on this ship.” Going back to bed was sounding better and better.
“Just come with me so we can discuss him, all right?” He realized he should have waited until a bit after dealing with Rush, that he was taking some of his anger and frustration with the man out on her. But then again, every chance he though he’d get to talk with her, something always came up. It was now or never.
“Fine. But yank my arm again and you’ll loose yours.”
They walked in silence all the way to his office, with Young brushing everyone off that came near them. Once there, he closed the door. He beckoned her to sit, but she remained standing. She stood with her back straight, legs slightly apart and her arms crossed. The look on her face spoke volumes of anger and embarrassment. Young regretted his actions all the more. “You should sit for this…”
“Nope, standing is fine.” If he was going to act like a jackass, then she was going to show him how much of a bitch she could be.
“Fine.” He honestly didn’t know how to begin this conversation. “My last trip to Earth, I saw something upsetting. And it has bearing for you.”
“Really?” She had a feeling she knew where this was going.
“How much do you trust David to not stray?”
“Oh for the love of… Everett, this is ridiculous. David told me he’d been making friends with Emily. It was right after you two used his body. He didn’t know why he went to her at first; he was still reeling from one minute being on the ship and the next being with her. He’s not sleeping with her, if that’s where you’re taking this.” Was he so caught up in his own life, and his dislike for David that he couldn’t see what was happening?, she wondered.
“Is that what he told you?” Young was pissed. David got to her first to cover his tracks.
“Yes! And I do trust him. Regardless of what our relationship is like, neither one of us are going to stray from the other. We made some pretty serious vows, and I don’t know about the rest of the planet, but the way he and I were raised, you promise something, it’s serious until the very end.” She hoped he caught the hidden implication in there. It wasn’t common knowledge about him and TJ, but a few people were aware of the relationship the two had shared.
“Then tell me why he was looking real cozy with Emily, sharing a few drinks, at my own house?” The sight of seeing Telford there, standing that close to her, it made him so mad.
“Look, all he is doing is offering an ear for her, and in return she’s offering him one. I’m really not in the mood for these little games today, Everett. Just because Emily can’t trust you, doesn’t mean you can’t trust her, nor can I trust David.” She felt so tired all of a sudden. Tired of dealing with the Colonel, tired of dealing with Rush, tired of dealing with this ship.
“That’s not what it looked like to me. And he’s telling Emily…” Young was getting flustered. “He has the balls to lie to her! He’s telling her that I’m still sleeping around on her!” This was not going the way he wanted it too. The problem with Kira is that she was a civilian, and one that was raised military. She knew she didn’t have to follow him, and she knew how to handle him. Right now, it was her in control and not him.
“Well, are you?” She shook her head. “You’re going on and on about how David is sleeping with Emily and it doesn’t look good for how you are ranting. Is it because of whatever happened between you and him long ago, or does it have to do with the fact that you may actually be still cheating on her? Which is it, Everett?”
Her question took him back. Were his actions really saying the latter part of what she said? Did he really portray the visage of a guilty man? “I’m not sleeping with her. We broke that off a while ago.”
“You’re sure? Because you can’t bullshit a bullshitter. I’ve spent long enough dealing with bureaucratic nonsense that I can read people pretty well, Everett. And either you are still with TJ, thinking about starting it up again or something else is going on, and because of the issues between you and David you’ve decided to take it out on us. And if that is the case, then you need to go have a nice long talk with TJ since she is doing the evaluations of everyone. And then you need to leave me and David alone.” She closed the short distance between them, her nose just inches from his. “Trust me, Everett. I may be pretty passive and let you, Rush and Wray run everything. But make no mistake that I can become one hell of a pain in your ass, and I will have General O’Neill and the entire Homeworld Security breathing down your neck.”
“So you’re handing out threats now?” He knew she’d be good to her word, and all it would take is a few well placed words to certain crew members that resented him for being in charge and he’d have a full scale mutiny on his hands. She may not be the most liked person on board the ship, but many held a lot of respect for her. They were all aware of her tenure with the Stargate Program, and the amount of knowledge she held. Kira also had an ace up her sleeve. Out of all the civilians she could handle Rush better when he got into one of his snits.
“You can call that a promise. I still believe this crew needs you, Colonel Young. But you know as well as I do, that it would not take much at all to throw the balance of power out of whack. I don’t want to, as it is just a stupid childish game, but you are giving me few choices here. I promised I’d cooperate with you when you abused my husband, but the friendship is over. That certainly has not changed.” She knew she was probably going too far with all of this, but what could she do? What Everett was doing to her and David was wrong. Yeah, David might be feeding Emily some lies, but then again, it might be he’s reading the same thing off of Young that she had been. “Leave me and David alone. I’m not asking, I am telling. You are lucky he didn’t go to Jack with what you did. That was gross misuse of the host body, and you know it. Don’t force either of our hands.”
With that she turned and left the room. She was playing with fire, and knew it would not go well for her, or for David, but she could no longer sit idle and allow Everett to do this. He was an excellent leader, but he allowed his personal life interfere too often. As she walked the halls of the ship, Kira made her way back to her room. She needed to calm down and collect herself before facing Rush and the others.
Once inside, she sat on the bed, starring at nothing. Then the tears flowed. Life was not getting any easier on Destiny.