What Kate Saw- Lost/Serenity fic
What Kate Saw
by Tracy (lunarknightz)
Rating:PG13?
Category: Kate-centric,also borrows a particular plot point from "Serenity".
Spoilers: For Lost- "Arrival" Ep 2.2; and also for one plot point in Serenity (if you haven't seen the movie and wish to remain unspoiled, then this isn't the fic you're looking for at this particular moment.
Summary: Kate continues her journey through the hatch, and finds that the truth of the Island may be something worse than she ever imagined...
Author's Note: My brain is a crazy, scary, place. The plot bunny hit me, and I went for it. *g* If you haven't seen Serenity and either don't wish to or don't give a hoot if you get spoiled, then you're safe. Hopefully it's follow-able to someone who hasn't seen it, but the craziness of both seemed to fit one another. Does that make sense???
Kate is shaken, the gunshot having come all too close to her as she crouched in the airshaft. Jack had come after her, why did him being so incredibly stupid make her want to smile? She wants to stay crouched in her hiding spot, wants to find out what the story is behind this weird hatch. Maybe it can explain how in the hell they ended up on this stinking island.
Kate continues crawling, until she reaches a dead end. Below her, there is a grate. She takes off the covering and lowers herself through the hole.
She is now in a dark room, the only light coming from a glowing panel on the right side of the wall. Drawn like a moth to a flame, Kate goes towards it.
She touches it gently, almost as if she was afraid that a simple touch could break the screen.
At her touch, it springs to life.
The screen begins to project a video. A woman in some official sort of dress- obviously a uniform, but not a uniform Kate is familiar with- speaks, horrific images of corpses projected behind her.
”The overall results of our program were not as we hoped.” She pauses slightly. “This substance is rather tricky. Give too little, and there are no effects, give too much and the extremes are too much to bear. You can see in the images we’ve recorded that when it works…it…does weed out aggression. The subjects stop fighting…and then they stop…doing everything else. They stop eating….breeding…talking…” The woman sighs. “They just give up, lie down, and die.”
There is a loud crashing noise, and Kate is startled. She looks around the room before she realizes that the startling sound actually came from the video screen.
“There…there have been side effects, to those on our team who have been administering the substance to our test subjects. Though we took every precaution, they have been exposed…at a much higher dosage than our subjects. They ….they have a more extreme reaction. Their aggressor…their aggressor response has increased beyond madness...they’ve become…” The last word is whispered. “Monsters.” She sighs as the noise continues to grow louder, a heavy pounding, as if someone was trying to break down a door. “Those of us….those of us who haven’t been exposed are currently sealing up the observation hatch in Quarantine.”
Kate’s eyes grow large as the woman is taken down and devoured by a creature….the creature looks human, or rather as if it had been human at one point. It stands on two feet, but moves with the stealth and power of a large cat, such as a lion or tiger. The screen is now a horror movie that Kate cannot turn off, though she pounds at the screen now, no longer fearing it to be fragile.
A shot rings out, and the creature falls to the floor.
A man steps into the shot, checking on the creature first, and then on the woman.
”They both are dead.” He turns to the screen, and Kate recognizes him as her captor, the guy in the catch.
”I, Desmond, am the only one left that has not been exposed to the Pax. This creature was able to bypass my defense, but I vow that it will not happen again. I will continue our mission here, testing the Pax, that it may bring peace to all Allied worlds. I will await your orders and retrieval.” He pauses for a moment. “It is our recommendation on to suggest that the next testing of G-32 Paxilon Hydroclorate be done directly through air processors on a newly terraformed world.” The image disappears, and the screen returns to its’ previous state of glow.
Kate drops to her knees, and the candy bar, which had been just like heaven only moments before, comes back up. The little bit of heaven is too much to handle in this dark and lonely room in a hatch which seems to be in the middle of hell itself.
by Tracy (lunarknightz)
Rating:PG13?
Category: Kate-centric,also borrows a particular plot point from "Serenity".
Spoilers: For Lost- "Arrival" Ep 2.2; and also for one plot point in Serenity (if you haven't seen the movie and wish to remain unspoiled, then this isn't the fic you're looking for at this particular moment.
Summary: Kate continues her journey through the hatch, and finds that the truth of the Island may be something worse than she ever imagined...
Author's Note: My brain is a crazy, scary, place. The plot bunny hit me, and I went for it. *g* If you haven't seen Serenity and either don't wish to or don't give a hoot if you get spoiled, then you're safe. Hopefully it's follow-able to someone who hasn't seen it, but the craziness of both seemed to fit one another. Does that make sense???
Kate is shaken, the gunshot having come all too close to her as she crouched in the airshaft. Jack had come after her, why did him being so incredibly stupid make her want to smile? She wants to stay crouched in her hiding spot, wants to find out what the story is behind this weird hatch. Maybe it can explain how in the hell they ended up on this stinking island.
Kate continues crawling, until she reaches a dead end. Below her, there is a grate. She takes off the covering and lowers herself through the hole.
She is now in a dark room, the only light coming from a glowing panel on the right side of the wall. Drawn like a moth to a flame, Kate goes towards it.
She touches it gently, almost as if she was afraid that a simple touch could break the screen.
At her touch, it springs to life.
The screen begins to project a video. A woman in some official sort of dress- obviously a uniform, but not a uniform Kate is familiar with- speaks, horrific images of corpses projected behind her.
”The overall results of our program were not as we hoped.” She pauses slightly. “This substance is rather tricky. Give too little, and there are no effects, give too much and the extremes are too much to bear. You can see in the images we’ve recorded that when it works…it…does weed out aggression. The subjects stop fighting…and then they stop…doing everything else. They stop eating….breeding…talking…” The woman sighs. “They just give up, lie down, and die.”
There is a loud crashing noise, and Kate is startled. She looks around the room before she realizes that the startling sound actually came from the video screen.
“There…there have been side effects, to those on our team who have been administering the substance to our test subjects. Though we took every precaution, they have been exposed…at a much higher dosage than our subjects. They ….they have a more extreme reaction. Their aggressor…their aggressor response has increased beyond madness...they’ve become…” The last word is whispered. “Monsters.” She sighs as the noise continues to grow louder, a heavy pounding, as if someone was trying to break down a door. “Those of us….those of us who haven’t been exposed are currently sealing up the observation hatch in Quarantine.”
Kate’s eyes grow large as the woman is taken down and devoured by a creature….the creature looks human, or rather as if it had been human at one point. It stands on two feet, but moves with the stealth and power of a large cat, such as a lion or tiger. The screen is now a horror movie that Kate cannot turn off, though she pounds at the screen now, no longer fearing it to be fragile.
A shot rings out, and the creature falls to the floor.
A man steps into the shot, checking on the creature first, and then on the woman.
”They both are dead.” He turns to the screen, and Kate recognizes him as her captor, the guy in the catch.
”I, Desmond, am the only one left that has not been exposed to the Pax. This creature was able to bypass my defense, but I vow that it will not happen again. I will continue our mission here, testing the Pax, that it may bring peace to all Allied worlds. I will await your orders and retrieval.” He pauses for a moment. “It is our recommendation on to suggest that the next testing of G-32 Paxilon Hydroclorate be done directly through air processors on a newly terraformed world.” The image disappears, and the screen returns to its’ previous state of glow.
Kate drops to her knees, and the candy bar, which had been just like heaven only moments before, comes back up. The little bit of heaven is too much to handle in this dark and lonely room in a hatch which seems to be in the middle of hell itself.