Fic: Perfect Soldier (20/?)
Title: Perfect Soldier - Chapter Twenty
Genre: Crossover (Dark Angel) / Drama
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Sam/Kurt.
Summary: Sam Evans, X4-471, decided that Lima, Ohio was a safe, innocent and unassuming place to start a new life. One moment changed that assumption.
“You’re an idiot.”
Sam was in the back of some kind of van, bound at his wrists and ankles with that strange metal alloy that he could not break. He was honestly terrified but he was not about to let that show. He instead resolved to break down the already fragile woman’s mind. She did not respond to him, bustling around, working with some kind of computer system. It was strange, since all of the computers in the world were still currently defunct, but whatever she was working with seemed to be functioning at least to some degree. She must have kept a few tricks up her sleeve when she left Manticore behind.
He kept talking, despite her lack of response.
“If you think that Manticore is going to let you live, even after you turn me over, then you’re truly an idiot. Maybe if I was one of their precious X5s then you’d stand a chance. I’ve heard that Colonel Lydecker has a bit of a soft spot and maybe you could have tweaked your way into his heart, but I’m useless to you. You’re walking right into the lion’s den Leslie and it’s going to be your head on an autopsy table right next to mine.”
She still failed to respond to him.
“You’re the one, the one who told Finn and Kurt that I was an inhuman monster, aren’t you? It’s hilarious, really, considering what you’re doing right now. You’re selling me out to save your own skin, letting Manticore disembowel me. Do you really think I’m inhuman? Do you think that it won’t hurt me what they do to me? Do you think it won’t be blood and guts and organs lying on that table?”
She finally spoke.
“I’m not going to live my life running.”
“It’s not a beautiful or ideal thing, realizing that you’re going to be running from them for the rest of your life. I realized that when I was doing my damndest to keep them off of my trail and away from the people I love. It’s going to suck and it’s going to take a lifetime of running to stay alive, but you know what? I’d rather run than sell myself out to the devil. They’re not going to let you live Leslie. You seemed to know the vivid details of the assassinations they had my kind carry out. We killed enemies of Manticore, of course, but we also killed traitors from the inside. They were often shot in the back.”
The woman flinched. He saw it and tried to pry deeper into that wound.
“We could work together to keep ourselves safe,” Sam said. “There are others out there like you, I’m sure. I thought that an ex-Manticore officer was something that could not possibly exist but this is a big world and Manticore has made its fair share of enemies. There is also an entire unit of X5s out there, fighting, running. Do you really plan on selling me over to Manticore? Do you really think it’ll save your sorry life?”
She hit him, backhanding him across the face. “Shut up you stupid mutant!”
Sam closed his eyes. God, he hoped that Kurt was alright and that he had the sense to not go searching for Sam, not go digging into trouble. He knew the moment that the thought crossed his mind, however, that Kurt had said that he and Sam were together in this, no matter what. Kurt was now in as much danger of dying as he was. Sam pulled against the handcuffs that were holding him tightly but they would not budge in the slightest.
-
Kurt would not budge in the slightest as Coach Sylvester told him what she knew about the missing employee. Finn and his parents were right at his side but he knew that this was all about him. He was the one who loved Sam and he was the one who had to find a way to save his life. This crazy woman had taken him and it was obvious that her intentions for him were completely sinister. He was scared at how helpless he was.
“Is there anything else?” Kurt asked, though he could tell by the expression on her face that there was nothing else she could tell him about the missing boy or the missing member of her staff that had taken him.
“What did she do to lady lips, kid?” Sue asked.
“I don’t know,” Kurt admitted. “I’m…I’m scared, Coach Sylvester. Sam’s special and I don’t know what I’ll do if I lose him.”
For a moment, Kurt could see a flash of pity in the woman’s eyes. “We’ll get your loverboy back,” she said. “Let me see if my friends in the government can do anything for him. Meanwhile, get your family back home, Kurt. Something evil is afoot and I’m not going to have that at my school.”
Finn put an arm on Kurt. “Dude, we need to go back home and think or something,” he said. “We can’t do any more good here and people are starting to crowd around a bit.”
It took a lot of effort but between Finn and his parents, Kurt eventually found his way home. The Hummel-Hudson house was not empty however. The girl with short hair and piercing eyes, the X5 called Jondy, was sitting on top of his dad’s car, perched and waiting for their arrival.
“Where is Sam?” she asked, quickly. She jumped down from the car and stared at them with eyes that were more cat-like than ever. “He’s in much danger. Zack sent word to us that Manticore was heading back into Ohio on some kind of call. I shouldn’t be here. Hell, Zack would kill me and cut me off from contact like he did with Max if he knew what I was doing, but I had to warn Sam.”
“Sam’s gone,” Kurt said, frantically. He stepped up towards the girl, hoping that she knew something, anything that could help him find Sam. “I think that this woman, Leslie Howe, who was working at my school, I think she kidnapped him.”
Her eyes darkened considerably. “Officer Howe was one of the combat officials at Manticore,” she said quickly. “I heard in the barracks shortly before our escape that she was eliminated.”
“Surprise, she’s alive,” Kurt said, frantically. “She was working at our school as a guard and told my brother and I that Sam was a monster and that we couldn’t trust him, because he was inhuman. I sincerely think she was responsible for what happened to him.”
The girl’s eyes were alight. She was thinking through things. “It’s no doubt that she escaped Manticore’s clutches and is using Sam as a bargaining chip to get herself back in their good graces. It won’t happen, ever, but at the same time it’s as good of a chance as she has.”
“Is she like him?” Carole asked Kurt.
He nodded, eyes still locked on Jondy. “Can you help me get to him?” he asked.
She shook her head, but then stopped herself. “I’ll help you Kurt,” she said, “but only because he’s so lost to his love for you. If Manticore becomes involved and takes him though then I won’t. I won’t jeopardize my freedom for him.”
Kurt looked at the girl and for an instant he understood her horror. She was going against everything that she believed in to save Sam and she was risking the thing most precious to her, her freedom. “I definitely accept your terms,” he said softly. “I just really need help getting to Sam. If something happens to him…”
“I got enough of the sappy love stuff from him,” she said quickly. “Come on. We need to locate this woman. I’ll use all of my ability to get a location on Manticore officials. Wherever they are, she is. She’s attempting to transfer him to them, undoubtedly.”
“I’m going with you,” Kurt said quickly.
“I anticipated that,” she said quickly. “You’re a very stubborn thing.”
“Kurt.”
Kurt turned around to face his father. The man had been quiet for a very long time, but now that he knew that his son was putting himself into unfathomable danger for Sam, he could not stop himself from speaking.
“I know what you’re going to say Dad,” Kurt said quickly. “I know that it’s dangerous and stupid but…Sam is so haunted by that place and I can’t be the one to let him be dragged back there.”
“If I directly forbade you to go, Kurt…”
“Dad, even if you directly forbade me, I would still go,” he said, looking to the young transgenic who just shook her head. She did not understand the relations between all of them.
“Do you have a working vehicle? As far as my understanding goes, cars that predate electronically dominated systems are working to a reasonable degree now.”
Burt looked at Kurt and then to the young super-soldier. “I have an old van that’s proving to work pretty decently. It’s the one in the garage. It’s an eighty-six but I’ve kept it working like a baby. You can use it.”
“Do you know how to drive?” the girl asked Kurt.
Kurt nodded, quickly.
Kurt knew that his family was worried about him and that this was the most dangerous thing that he had ever done in his whole life but he had to be strong for Sam. He leaned over and hugged his dad, who hugged him back tightly. “I know that I couldn’t have been stopped if it was someone I loved,” his father said reassuringly, hugging tightly. “Just be safe Kurt, please.”
Kurt nodded. “I will.”
He looked at Finn. “Take care of them alright? I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.”
“I trust you dude, I…I believe in you.”
Genre: Crossover (Dark Angel) / Drama
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Sam/Kurt.
Summary: Sam Evans, X4-471, decided that Lima, Ohio was a safe, innocent and unassuming place to start a new life. One moment changed that assumption.
“You’re an idiot.”
Sam was in the back of some kind of van, bound at his wrists and ankles with that strange metal alloy that he could not break. He was honestly terrified but he was not about to let that show. He instead resolved to break down the already fragile woman’s mind. She did not respond to him, bustling around, working with some kind of computer system. It was strange, since all of the computers in the world were still currently defunct, but whatever she was working with seemed to be functioning at least to some degree. She must have kept a few tricks up her sleeve when she left Manticore behind.
He kept talking, despite her lack of response.
“If you think that Manticore is going to let you live, even after you turn me over, then you’re truly an idiot. Maybe if I was one of their precious X5s then you’d stand a chance. I’ve heard that Colonel Lydecker has a bit of a soft spot and maybe you could have tweaked your way into his heart, but I’m useless to you. You’re walking right into the lion’s den Leslie and it’s going to be your head on an autopsy table right next to mine.”
She still failed to respond to him.
“You’re the one, the one who told Finn and Kurt that I was an inhuman monster, aren’t you? It’s hilarious, really, considering what you’re doing right now. You’re selling me out to save your own skin, letting Manticore disembowel me. Do you really think I’m inhuman? Do you think that it won’t hurt me what they do to me? Do you think it won’t be blood and guts and organs lying on that table?”
She finally spoke.
“I’m not going to live my life running.”
“It’s not a beautiful or ideal thing, realizing that you’re going to be running from them for the rest of your life. I realized that when I was doing my damndest to keep them off of my trail and away from the people I love. It’s going to suck and it’s going to take a lifetime of running to stay alive, but you know what? I’d rather run than sell myself out to the devil. They’re not going to let you live Leslie. You seemed to know the vivid details of the assassinations they had my kind carry out. We killed enemies of Manticore, of course, but we also killed traitors from the inside. They were often shot in the back.”
The woman flinched. He saw it and tried to pry deeper into that wound.
“We could work together to keep ourselves safe,” Sam said. “There are others out there like you, I’m sure. I thought that an ex-Manticore officer was something that could not possibly exist but this is a big world and Manticore has made its fair share of enemies. There is also an entire unit of X5s out there, fighting, running. Do you really plan on selling me over to Manticore? Do you really think it’ll save your sorry life?”
She hit him, backhanding him across the face. “Shut up you stupid mutant!”
Sam closed his eyes. God, he hoped that Kurt was alright and that he had the sense to not go searching for Sam, not go digging into trouble. He knew the moment that the thought crossed his mind, however, that Kurt had said that he and Sam were together in this, no matter what. Kurt was now in as much danger of dying as he was. Sam pulled against the handcuffs that were holding him tightly but they would not budge in the slightest.
-
Kurt would not budge in the slightest as Coach Sylvester told him what she knew about the missing employee. Finn and his parents were right at his side but he knew that this was all about him. He was the one who loved Sam and he was the one who had to find a way to save his life. This crazy woman had taken him and it was obvious that her intentions for him were completely sinister. He was scared at how helpless he was.
“Is there anything else?” Kurt asked, though he could tell by the expression on her face that there was nothing else she could tell him about the missing boy or the missing member of her staff that had taken him.
“What did she do to lady lips, kid?” Sue asked.
“I don’t know,” Kurt admitted. “I’m…I’m scared, Coach Sylvester. Sam’s special and I don’t know what I’ll do if I lose him.”
For a moment, Kurt could see a flash of pity in the woman’s eyes. “We’ll get your loverboy back,” she said. “Let me see if my friends in the government can do anything for him. Meanwhile, get your family back home, Kurt. Something evil is afoot and I’m not going to have that at my school.”
Finn put an arm on Kurt. “Dude, we need to go back home and think or something,” he said. “We can’t do any more good here and people are starting to crowd around a bit.”
It took a lot of effort but between Finn and his parents, Kurt eventually found his way home. The Hummel-Hudson house was not empty however. The girl with short hair and piercing eyes, the X5 called Jondy, was sitting on top of his dad’s car, perched and waiting for their arrival.
“Where is Sam?” she asked, quickly. She jumped down from the car and stared at them with eyes that were more cat-like than ever. “He’s in much danger. Zack sent word to us that Manticore was heading back into Ohio on some kind of call. I shouldn’t be here. Hell, Zack would kill me and cut me off from contact like he did with Max if he knew what I was doing, but I had to warn Sam.”
“Sam’s gone,” Kurt said, frantically. He stepped up towards the girl, hoping that she knew something, anything that could help him find Sam. “I think that this woman, Leslie Howe, who was working at my school, I think she kidnapped him.”
Her eyes darkened considerably. “Officer Howe was one of the combat officials at Manticore,” she said quickly. “I heard in the barracks shortly before our escape that she was eliminated.”
“Surprise, she’s alive,” Kurt said, frantically. “She was working at our school as a guard and told my brother and I that Sam was a monster and that we couldn’t trust him, because he was inhuman. I sincerely think she was responsible for what happened to him.”
The girl’s eyes were alight. She was thinking through things. “It’s no doubt that she escaped Manticore’s clutches and is using Sam as a bargaining chip to get herself back in their good graces. It won’t happen, ever, but at the same time it’s as good of a chance as she has.”
“Is she like him?” Carole asked Kurt.
He nodded, eyes still locked on Jondy. “Can you help me get to him?” he asked.
She shook her head, but then stopped herself. “I’ll help you Kurt,” she said, “but only because he’s so lost to his love for you. If Manticore becomes involved and takes him though then I won’t. I won’t jeopardize my freedom for him.”
Kurt looked at the girl and for an instant he understood her horror. She was going against everything that she believed in to save Sam and she was risking the thing most precious to her, her freedom. “I definitely accept your terms,” he said softly. “I just really need help getting to Sam. If something happens to him…”
“I got enough of the sappy love stuff from him,” she said quickly. “Come on. We need to locate this woman. I’ll use all of my ability to get a location on Manticore officials. Wherever they are, she is. She’s attempting to transfer him to them, undoubtedly.”
“I’m going with you,” Kurt said quickly.
“I anticipated that,” she said quickly. “You’re a very stubborn thing.”
“Kurt.”
Kurt turned around to face his father. The man had been quiet for a very long time, but now that he knew that his son was putting himself into unfathomable danger for Sam, he could not stop himself from speaking.
“I know what you’re going to say Dad,” Kurt said quickly. “I know that it’s dangerous and stupid but…Sam is so haunted by that place and I can’t be the one to let him be dragged back there.”
“If I directly forbade you to go, Kurt…”
“Dad, even if you directly forbade me, I would still go,” he said, looking to the young transgenic who just shook her head. She did not understand the relations between all of them.
“Do you have a working vehicle? As far as my understanding goes, cars that predate electronically dominated systems are working to a reasonable degree now.”
Burt looked at Kurt and then to the young super-soldier. “I have an old van that’s proving to work pretty decently. It’s the one in the garage. It’s an eighty-six but I’ve kept it working like a baby. You can use it.”
“Do you know how to drive?” the girl asked Kurt.
Kurt nodded, quickly.
Kurt knew that his family was worried about him and that this was the most dangerous thing that he had ever done in his whole life but he had to be strong for Sam. He leaned over and hugged his dad, who hugged him back tightly. “I know that I couldn’t have been stopped if it was someone I loved,” his father said reassuringly, hugging tightly. “Just be safe Kurt, please.”
Kurt nodded. “I will.”
He looked at Finn. “Take care of them alright? I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.”
“I trust you dude, I…I believe in you.”