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For Thea and FBF
Beware of spoilers for the last aired episode of all series (although the Vala story is probably safe).
Five Things Vala Really Likes About Earth:
1) For some reason, ice cream is singular to Earth. Meatloaf is a universal constant but only Earthlings had ever combined cream, sugar, ice and salt in that marvellous alchemy that produced ice cream. Vala thinks that this is Very Significant and if Daniel would ever take her to the ice cream place in Colorado Springs, she might even tell him why.
2) Vala thinks that TiVo is the bestest thing ever - she finds the idea of a device that will not only record the TV you want but find TV especially to please your tastes delightful. It makes her feel a bit like a queen again, having this device that exists only to serve her TV-viewing pleasure. Although, until what Mitchell refers to as The Cinemax Incident, Vala didn't realize that the TiVo's selections were only suggestions.
3) Vala finds the women are fascinating. At least the ones she's met: Carter goes through entire weeks without so much as wearing a skirt, let alone skin-tight black leather corsets. And yet, that doesn't seem to deter Mitchell from watching her ass when she walks out of a room like a dog waiting to be thrown a bone. Vala knows that she's attractive - damn attractive when she wants to be - but that's not exactly highly valued currency around Stargate Command. This idea of a woman being respected for her smarts and skills, having authority based on her abilities than by conning or forcing her way into power – it’s interesting. Obviously an ideal rather than everyday practice - Vala's not that naive, never has been - but she watches the way the men listen to Carter, the way they take her seriously, listen to her ideas, value her. Vala craves that respect. Craves it worse than gold.
4) When Vala finally gets permission to travel unescorted off the base, her first stop is Heroes and Dragons on Brigerton. She's been itching for the next issue of Action Comics ever since she finished Teal'c's last month. Daniel can ramble on and on about stuffy dead cultures and yet never see what's right under his nose - the living, breathing, evolving mythology of his own people. Superman represents the collective super-ego of the United States (although she suspects Batman would be better in bed - all dark and aggressive) – or so she tells Mitchell when he catches her reading Superman in the dining hall. Well, that and the men are hot.
5) Brad Pitt.
Five Things Lee Wishes He Could Tell His Father:
1) "Why am I never enough for you?"
Lee feels an irrational stab of hurt when, on the day after fleeing their second Cylon invasion, his father asks him if Kara will ever forgive them for leaving the colonists behind.
2) “It's her fault Zak's dead!"
It twists like a snake in his gut, the way his father and Kara laugh together. They're so easy together, so comfortable telling jokes and old pilot's tales over ambrosia. Lee's drunk and he's angry and it's been the worst two frakking weeks in human history and right now he hates his father and he hates Kara because it seems so easy for them –two soldiers in the middle of a shooting war. Well, he's not a soldier, dammit, he's not even regular fleet. He's just a bartender with the right father. He imagines dropping the little bomb Kara left with him in some misguided attempt at absolution and destroying their friendship as utterly as the Cylons destroyed his planet.
3) “Oh, yeah? Well, that moustache makes you look like an aging porn star!"
His father's dry comment about the talented galley crew on Pegasus makes him suck in his gut and he hates himself for that involuntary display of weakness. Dammit, he's a grownup and a fellow officer and a husband and he commands his own frakking battlestar – and it's still all about his father's approval. Truth is, though, they're both going to seed, losing their edge. They're two warriors who have lost their war.
4) "I'm resigning my commission to open a noodle shop on New Caprica."
Lee used to be a decent cook. He was good enough to start thinking about opening his own place, a little bar with a small menu of standards: nothing fancy, just a neighbourhood place where people would come to have a beer and hang out, maybe grab a quiet dinner on a lazy night. The fact that the Cylons were trying to kill him on a pretty much daily basis helped distract Lee from the fact that he hates the military. He only joined the frakking Reserve Officer program in university to please his father and look how that turned out. True, Lee wasn't dead, but babysitting a battlestar with a crew that was running about a dozen techs short of "skeleton" levels… he's bored out of his frakking mind.
If it wasn't for Dee…
5) "I think I'm in love with Kara."
At first, it was because Kara was his brother's girl. Then she was his brother's widow (next thing to); then the woman responsible for his brother's death. And then she was something else entirely. In between wanting to punch her and wanting to frak her so bad his teeth hurt (either way), he wants something entirely different from Kara, something he's afraid to look at. His dad is probably the one person left alive he could talk to about it, if Lee wasn't so afraid of
what he'd say (either way). It's not that Lee's afraid of getting hurt, not quite, but he thinks that if he loses one more thing (what he has of his father's respect; whatever bizarre pseudo-sibling, BFF with a side of lust relationship he has with Kara) he'll fall all the way apart.
Five Things Veronica Mars Wishes She Didn't Know:
1) What Lilly looked like with her skull caved in, brains and blood and bone exposed and glistening in the light reflected from the pool.
2) That Duncan Kane slept with her while he thought she was his half-sister. Under the circumstances, she can forgive him for walking out before she woke up the next morning but she can't quite bury the knowledge deep enough to forget. No matter how hard she chases the fantasy, Veronica knows that Duncan's weak in some essential way, a little too much like his father (her mother).
When she confronts him about Meg’s pregnancy, there's a part of her that's relieved the other shoe has finally fallen.
3) That the standard course of treatment for Chlamydia is oral antibiotics, twice daily for seven days. It's times like these that Veronica misses Lilly so much it hurts to move. Lilly was her best friend, her tell-everything-to friend and Lilly never-ever betrayed her trust. Lilly would have held her hand and told her it was going to be okay and that she worried too much and helped her come up with something really, really painful to do to Duncan for being such a cheating horndog.
It could be Lilly was just too fucked up by Celeste and about being a Kane and maybe she would have inevitably screwed Veronica over or gotten bored or left her behind for some jet-set life as fabulous as she was. The thing is, Veronica will never get to find out because Aaron Echolls thought it would be fun to screw his son's girlfriend and Lilly could never turn down a dare.
Wallace may be her brother from another (better) mother, but she would seriously rather die than ever have the “hey, guess which STD I've got" conversation with him and Mac, although a girl, is not that kind of friend. 'Diseased and lonely' was so not how she pictured spending her last month of high school. Maybe it's that Aaron is finally going to trial, but Veronica can't stop thinking that it would be so different if Lilly were here. And she wonders if she'll ever stop wishing that she were.
4) That Beaver Casablancas didn't use the condom Dick and Sean so thoughtfully left him when they laid her out like a buffet in Shelly Pomroy's guesthouse bedroom. Veronica'd actually wondered where Duncan had gotten the birth control he said he used when they were together that night - she knew he hadn't carried condoms around with him when they'd been going out - she'd assumed that was one more thing that changed after he'd so precipitously dumped her before Lilly died. But the condom was the one consistent detail between Dick and Sean's versions of that night, so - mystery solved.
The good news? She didn't have to track Duncan down in Brazil or China or whatever country he was currently living in that hopefully didn't have an extradition treaty with the US and tell him he needed to have himself and his daughter tested for STDs.
The bad news - apart from learning she'd been raped by Dick Casablancas' younger brother (if that wasn't skin-crawlingly awful enough) - she let Beaver play her. He looked at her with his big, blue "everybody picks on me" eyes and played her like mark. She'd been so sure it was Logan or one of his asshole 09er friends with her in that room, she'd overlooked the only suspect without a witness to corroborate his story - Dick had Sean, Duncan had Carrie Bishop but Beaver - poor, overlooked Beaver - was too hapless to hurt anyone, right?
5) What it's like to lose everything - Veronica hears the explosion and sees the fireball and it's like she's standing at the very bottom of the deepest, darkest well imaginable. Her father's the sheriff, her father's invincible, her father walks through fire for her, her father stays, her father's the only thing in the whole world she can count on.
Her father's dead.
After that, nothing really matters anymore.
Five Things Aeryn Wanted to Do on Earth But Didn't:
1) Ever since she and John made love on the false Earth, with the storm flashing and banging outside, Aeryn had a recurring fantasy of making love in the rain. They've done showers but she suspects that the sensation of rain on your skin combined quite differently with the feeling of a good hard frell. If John hadn't spent so much time avoiding her while they were on Earth, she might have tried to talk him into it.
Or she might not have.
2) John's wrong when he alleges that Aeryn sees him as a substitute for the John who died on Dambada, second-choice, also-ran. She suspects that on some level he enjoys wallowing in his sense ill-use, that it's more comfortable for him to believe that he was rejected than simply unlucky, that it gives him a sense of agency in the face of fate. So Aeryn doesn't talk about the John Crichton she knew on Talyn. But meeting Jack, the real Jack and not some alien masquerader, there's a part of her that itches to tell him about his other son. She's painfully, achingly aware that it's neither her place nor her story to tell him. Even if the ending belongs to her alone.
3) One night shortly after they were released from quarantine and while John's family was all together, the family photo albums came out. John selfishly embargoed his baby pictures - something about an incident with a rug - but there were others, of Olivia, of Bobby. The children here were cared for with such gentle, indulgent attention. The pictures of Susan with Bobby as an infant fascinated her – the juxtaposition of her uniform and the baby she cradled with an expression of so much pride and joy. Aeryn wanted to ask her how she could be both a soldier and a mother but she didn't dare. She watched though, watched as Bobby leaned into his mother's warmth as they sat together on the sofa, looking at old photos. Watched Susan put her arm around his shoulders and tuck him in close to her body. They radiated affection.
What must that be like, Aeryn wondered, and how did you learn to do it? Aeryn wished she had the nerve to ask.
4) Privacy was a rare commodity in the house that had been assigned to be their residence on Earth and it was even rarer outside it. Aeryn detested the guards set over her and would have taken a change of clothes and a fistful of "cash" and ditched then at the first opportunity - except she was trying to set a good example for Chiana. She may have, in a moment of weakness, promised John that she would help keep Chi in line. That and, really, she wouldn't know where to go... but it would have been fun to find out.
5) They toured museums, embassies, castles, palaces, parliaments, galleries, concert halls and theatres. And through it all, Aeryn had been unfailing polite, interested, attentive, charming - putting her best and most diplomatic foot forward (such as it was - there was that incident when the American Ambassador to the UN patted her eema and she and her microbes both were at a loss to understand the Canadian Prime Minister). She did it for John and she never regretted it, not until D'argo turned four and insisted on watching "Revenge of the Sith" on a daily basis. And then Aeryn wished she'd told George Lucas that he was a self-indulgent hack who couldn't write or direct his way of a dirty diaper when she had had the chance.
Five Ways D’Argo Didn’t Die:
1) When the pulse rifle in his right hand clicks down on an empty cylinder, D’argo hurls it at the head of the nearest Scarran, knocking the scaly bastard out cold. He switches to a two-handed grip on his remaining rifle and it’s almost too easy to pick’em off when he actually takes time to aim. After learning to shoot with a Qualta Blade, he’s Arnie-frelling-Oakley with PK issue, which is why they cheat by trying to blow him up with mortars… If he hadn’t been bleeding to death internally at the time, the concussion from the blast would have killed him.
2) After he drops the first six or seven, the Scarrans decide it’s not worth the price to kill one dying Luxan and find a short cut around his little alley. He can hear them on the other side of the wall on his left. Frell that, he’s making a gesture here — sacrificing himself for the good of the next generation: this is the noblest of deaths for a Luxan warrior (ha, John’s so going owe him for the rest of his life) – and the frelling Scarrans are not going to frell this up for him.
This is how D’argo discovers that Scarran power cells make a real good bang (totally worth dragging his bleeding eema over two dozen motras of rubble). This is also how D’argo discovers the empty Scarran landing craft on the other side of the wall. It smells like the floor of a public necessary but the field medical kit is easy to find (John still owes him for this one, though).
3) D’argo died and went… straight to Hezmana? He’d have nightmares like this on Moya after they escaped the first time, worried that he’d go to sleep and wake up back in a Peacekeeper cell. If the red and black accents decorating the white infirmary walls weren’t enough of a clue, Grayza’s smile confirmed it – “Ka D’argo, how good to see you awake. We have so much to discuss-“ this was hell.
4) The rifle clicked empty and D’argo knew that this was it. He lifted his chin and stared straight down the barrel of the Scarran disruptor to meet his death with honour. The Scarran fired and the red bolt disappeared into thin air with a sucking pop. Then the Scarrans wavered in his sight then fizzed away – this must be what it’s like to die.
“You’re not dead, Ka D’argo,” a voice spoke into his ear.
The speaker stood beside him, tall and slim-built, his hands fisted deep in the pockets of his black leather jacket and his shoulders hunched forward. He stuck out a hand and pulled D’argo to his feet.
“What’s going on? Who the frell are you and wha-“ D’argo grabbed his stomach, his pain-free, whole stomach, “What have you done to me?”
He grinned and D’argo realized that he wasn’t much more than an adolescent.
“This is a rescue.”
“A rescue? What the Hezmana-“ A breeze wafted through the alley, lifting the boy’s lank, wavy hair out of his eyes for a moment – black eyes like holes in the universe. “Who are you?” D’argo asked again.
The boy’s smile twisted into a bitter frown, “I guess you could say I’m you’re nephew…”.
5) The Eidolon counter-attack was a pointless effort even before John Crichton broke their planet in half. But they were fighting for their home and that gave them the determination and the ferocity to drive back the Scarrans from the city centre and briefly establish a corridor between the harbour and the emergency spaceport in the central park. In the end, only a handful made it off the planet, barely a thousand from a population hundreds of times greater. Even so, it took Sikozu nearly a full solar day to find D’argo among all the refugees. She was surprised he was alive at all, given what Eidolons knew about Luxan physiognomy. Perhaps he was just too stubborn to die. It seemed they had that in common.
Beware of spoilers for the last aired episode of all series (although the Vala story is probably safe).
Five Things Vala Really Likes About Earth:
1) For some reason, ice cream is singular to Earth. Meatloaf is a universal constant but only Earthlings had ever combined cream, sugar, ice and salt in that marvellous alchemy that produced ice cream. Vala thinks that this is Very Significant and if Daniel would ever take her to the ice cream place in Colorado Springs, she might even tell him why.
2) Vala thinks that TiVo is the bestest thing ever - she finds the idea of a device that will not only record the TV you want but find TV especially to please your tastes delightful. It makes her feel a bit like a queen again, having this device that exists only to serve her TV-viewing pleasure. Although, until what Mitchell refers to as The Cinemax Incident, Vala didn't realize that the TiVo's selections were only suggestions.
3) Vala finds the women are fascinating. At least the ones she's met: Carter goes through entire weeks without so much as wearing a skirt, let alone skin-tight black leather corsets. And yet, that doesn't seem to deter Mitchell from watching her ass when she walks out of a room like a dog waiting to be thrown a bone. Vala knows that she's attractive - damn attractive when she wants to be - but that's not exactly highly valued currency around Stargate Command. This idea of a woman being respected for her smarts and skills, having authority based on her abilities than by conning or forcing her way into power – it’s interesting. Obviously an ideal rather than everyday practice - Vala's not that naive, never has been - but she watches the way the men listen to Carter, the way they take her seriously, listen to her ideas, value her. Vala craves that respect. Craves it worse than gold.
4) When Vala finally gets permission to travel unescorted off the base, her first stop is Heroes and Dragons on Brigerton. She's been itching for the next issue of Action Comics ever since she finished Teal'c's last month. Daniel can ramble on and on about stuffy dead cultures and yet never see what's right under his nose - the living, breathing, evolving mythology of his own people. Superman represents the collective super-ego of the United States (although she suspects Batman would be better in bed - all dark and aggressive) – or so she tells Mitchell when he catches her reading Superman in the dining hall. Well, that and the men are hot.
5) Brad Pitt.
Five Things Lee Wishes He Could Tell His Father:
1) "Why am I never enough for you?"
Lee feels an irrational stab of hurt when, on the day after fleeing their second Cylon invasion, his father asks him if Kara will ever forgive them for leaving the colonists behind.
2) “It's her fault Zak's dead!"
It twists like a snake in his gut, the way his father and Kara laugh together. They're so easy together, so comfortable telling jokes and old pilot's tales over ambrosia. Lee's drunk and he's angry and it's been the worst two frakking weeks in human history and right now he hates his father and he hates Kara because it seems so easy for them –two soldiers in the middle of a shooting war. Well, he's not a soldier, dammit, he's not even regular fleet. He's just a bartender with the right father. He imagines dropping the little bomb Kara left with him in some misguided attempt at absolution and destroying their friendship as utterly as the Cylons destroyed his planet.
3) “Oh, yeah? Well, that moustache makes you look like an aging porn star!"
His father's dry comment about the talented galley crew on Pegasus makes him suck in his gut and he hates himself for that involuntary display of weakness. Dammit, he's a grownup and a fellow officer and a husband and he commands his own frakking battlestar – and it's still all about his father's approval. Truth is, though, they're both going to seed, losing their edge. They're two warriors who have lost their war.
4) "I'm resigning my commission to open a noodle shop on New Caprica."
Lee used to be a decent cook. He was good enough to start thinking about opening his own place, a little bar with a small menu of standards: nothing fancy, just a neighbourhood place where people would come to have a beer and hang out, maybe grab a quiet dinner on a lazy night. The fact that the Cylons were trying to kill him on a pretty much daily basis helped distract Lee from the fact that he hates the military. He only joined the frakking Reserve Officer program in university to please his father and look how that turned out. True, Lee wasn't dead, but babysitting a battlestar with a crew that was running about a dozen techs short of "skeleton" levels… he's bored out of his frakking mind.
If it wasn't for Dee…
5) "I think I'm in love with Kara."
At first, it was because Kara was his brother's girl. Then she was his brother's widow (next thing to); then the woman responsible for his brother's death. And then she was something else entirely. In between wanting to punch her and wanting to frak her so bad his teeth hurt (either way), he wants something entirely different from Kara, something he's afraid to look at. His dad is probably the one person left alive he could talk to about it, if Lee wasn't so afraid of
what he'd say (either way). It's not that Lee's afraid of getting hurt, not quite, but he thinks that if he loses one more thing (what he has of his father's respect; whatever bizarre pseudo-sibling, BFF with a side of lust relationship he has with Kara) he'll fall all the way apart.
Five Things Veronica Mars Wishes She Didn't Know:
1) What Lilly looked like with her skull caved in, brains and blood and bone exposed and glistening in the light reflected from the pool.
2) That Duncan Kane slept with her while he thought she was his half-sister. Under the circumstances, she can forgive him for walking out before she woke up the next morning but she can't quite bury the knowledge deep enough to forget. No matter how hard she chases the fantasy, Veronica knows that Duncan's weak in some essential way, a little too much like his father (her mother).
When she confronts him about Meg’s pregnancy, there's a part of her that's relieved the other shoe has finally fallen.
3) That the standard course of treatment for Chlamydia is oral antibiotics, twice daily for seven days. It's times like these that Veronica misses Lilly so much it hurts to move. Lilly was her best friend, her tell-everything-to friend and Lilly never-ever betrayed her trust. Lilly would have held her hand and told her it was going to be okay and that she worried too much and helped her come up with something really, really painful to do to Duncan for being such a cheating horndog.
It could be Lilly was just too fucked up by Celeste and about being a Kane and maybe she would have inevitably screwed Veronica over or gotten bored or left her behind for some jet-set life as fabulous as she was. The thing is, Veronica will never get to find out because Aaron Echolls thought it would be fun to screw his son's girlfriend and Lilly could never turn down a dare.
Wallace may be her brother from another (better) mother, but she would seriously rather die than ever have the “hey, guess which STD I've got" conversation with him and Mac, although a girl, is not that kind of friend. 'Diseased and lonely' was so not how she pictured spending her last month of high school. Maybe it's that Aaron is finally going to trial, but Veronica can't stop thinking that it would be so different if Lilly were here. And she wonders if she'll ever stop wishing that she were.
4) That Beaver Casablancas didn't use the condom Dick and Sean so thoughtfully left him when they laid her out like a buffet in Shelly Pomroy's guesthouse bedroom. Veronica'd actually wondered where Duncan had gotten the birth control he said he used when they were together that night - she knew he hadn't carried condoms around with him when they'd been going out - she'd assumed that was one more thing that changed after he'd so precipitously dumped her before Lilly died. But the condom was the one consistent detail between Dick and Sean's versions of that night, so - mystery solved.
The good news? She didn't have to track Duncan down in Brazil or China or whatever country he was currently living in that hopefully didn't have an extradition treaty with the US and tell him he needed to have himself and his daughter tested for STDs.
The bad news - apart from learning she'd been raped by Dick Casablancas' younger brother (if that wasn't skin-crawlingly awful enough) - she let Beaver play her. He looked at her with his big, blue "everybody picks on me" eyes and played her like mark. She'd been so sure it was Logan or one of his asshole 09er friends with her in that room, she'd overlooked the only suspect without a witness to corroborate his story - Dick had Sean, Duncan had Carrie Bishop but Beaver - poor, overlooked Beaver - was too hapless to hurt anyone, right?
5) What it's like to lose everything - Veronica hears the explosion and sees the fireball and it's like she's standing at the very bottom of the deepest, darkest well imaginable. Her father's the sheriff, her father's invincible, her father walks through fire for her, her father stays, her father's the only thing in the whole world she can count on.
Her father's dead.
After that, nothing really matters anymore.
Five Things Aeryn Wanted to Do on Earth But Didn't:
1) Ever since she and John made love on the false Earth, with the storm flashing and banging outside, Aeryn had a recurring fantasy of making love in the rain. They've done showers but she suspects that the sensation of rain on your skin combined quite differently with the feeling of a good hard frell. If John hadn't spent so much time avoiding her while they were on Earth, she might have tried to talk him into it.
Or she might not have.
2) John's wrong when he alleges that Aeryn sees him as a substitute for the John who died on Dambada, second-choice, also-ran. She suspects that on some level he enjoys wallowing in his sense ill-use, that it's more comfortable for him to believe that he was rejected than simply unlucky, that it gives him a sense of agency in the face of fate. So Aeryn doesn't talk about the John Crichton she knew on Talyn. But meeting Jack, the real Jack and not some alien masquerader, there's a part of her that itches to tell him about his other son. She's painfully, achingly aware that it's neither her place nor her story to tell him. Even if the ending belongs to her alone.
3) One night shortly after they were released from quarantine and while John's family was all together, the family photo albums came out. John selfishly embargoed his baby pictures - something about an incident with a rug - but there were others, of Olivia, of Bobby. The children here were cared for with such gentle, indulgent attention. The pictures of Susan with Bobby as an infant fascinated her – the juxtaposition of her uniform and the baby she cradled with an expression of so much pride and joy. Aeryn wanted to ask her how she could be both a soldier and a mother but she didn't dare. She watched though, watched as Bobby leaned into his mother's warmth as they sat together on the sofa, looking at old photos. Watched Susan put her arm around his shoulders and tuck him in close to her body. They radiated affection.
What must that be like, Aeryn wondered, and how did you learn to do it? Aeryn wished she had the nerve to ask.
4) Privacy was a rare commodity in the house that had been assigned to be their residence on Earth and it was even rarer outside it. Aeryn detested the guards set over her and would have taken a change of clothes and a fistful of "cash" and ditched then at the first opportunity - except she was trying to set a good example for Chiana. She may have, in a moment of weakness, promised John that she would help keep Chi in line. That and, really, she wouldn't know where to go... but it would have been fun to find out.
5) They toured museums, embassies, castles, palaces, parliaments, galleries, concert halls and theatres. And through it all, Aeryn had been unfailing polite, interested, attentive, charming - putting her best and most diplomatic foot forward (such as it was - there was that incident when the American Ambassador to the UN patted her eema and she and her microbes both were at a loss to understand the Canadian Prime Minister). She did it for John and she never regretted it, not until D'argo turned four and insisted on watching "Revenge of the Sith" on a daily basis. And then Aeryn wished she'd told George Lucas that he was a self-indulgent hack who couldn't write or direct his way of a dirty diaper when she had had the chance.
Five Ways D’Argo Didn’t Die:
1) When the pulse rifle in his right hand clicks down on an empty cylinder, D’argo hurls it at the head of the nearest Scarran, knocking the scaly bastard out cold. He switches to a two-handed grip on his remaining rifle and it’s almost too easy to pick’em off when he actually takes time to aim. After learning to shoot with a Qualta Blade, he’s Arnie-frelling-Oakley with PK issue, which is why they cheat by trying to blow him up with mortars… If he hadn’t been bleeding to death internally at the time, the concussion from the blast would have killed him.
2) After he drops the first six or seven, the Scarrans decide it’s not worth the price to kill one dying Luxan and find a short cut around his little alley. He can hear them on the other side of the wall on his left. Frell that, he’s making a gesture here — sacrificing himself for the good of the next generation: this is the noblest of deaths for a Luxan warrior (ha, John’s so going owe him for the rest of his life) – and the frelling Scarrans are not going to frell this up for him.
This is how D’argo discovers that Scarran power cells make a real good bang (totally worth dragging his bleeding eema over two dozen motras of rubble). This is also how D’argo discovers the empty Scarran landing craft on the other side of the wall. It smells like the floor of a public necessary but the field medical kit is easy to find (John still owes him for this one, though).
3) D’argo died and went… straight to Hezmana? He’d have nightmares like this on Moya after they escaped the first time, worried that he’d go to sleep and wake up back in a Peacekeeper cell. If the red and black accents decorating the white infirmary walls weren’t enough of a clue, Grayza’s smile confirmed it – “Ka D’argo, how good to see you awake. We have so much to discuss-“ this was hell.
4) The rifle clicked empty and D’argo knew that this was it. He lifted his chin and stared straight down the barrel of the Scarran disruptor to meet his death with honour. The Scarran fired and the red bolt disappeared into thin air with a sucking pop. Then the Scarrans wavered in his sight then fizzed away – this must be what it’s like to die.
“You’re not dead, Ka D’argo,” a voice spoke into his ear.
The speaker stood beside him, tall and slim-built, his hands fisted deep in the pockets of his black leather jacket and his shoulders hunched forward. He stuck out a hand and pulled D’argo to his feet.
“What’s going on? Who the frell are you and wha-“ D’argo grabbed his stomach, his pain-free, whole stomach, “What have you done to me?”
He grinned and D’argo realized that he wasn’t much more than an adolescent.
“This is a rescue.”
“A rescue? What the Hezmana-“ A breeze wafted through the alley, lifting the boy’s lank, wavy hair out of his eyes for a moment – black eyes like holes in the universe. “Who are you?” D’argo asked again.
The boy’s smile twisted into a bitter frown, “I guess you could say I’m you’re nephew…”.
5) The Eidolon counter-attack was a pointless effort even before John Crichton broke their planet in half. But they were fighting for their home and that gave them the determination and the ferocity to drive back the Scarrans from the city centre and briefly establish a corridor between the harbour and the emergency spaceport in the central park. In the end, only a handful made it off the planet, barely a thousand from a population hundreds of times greater. Even so, it took Sikozu nearly a full solar day to find D’argo among all the refugees. She was surprised he was alive at all, given what Eidolons knew about Luxan physiognomy. Perhaps he was just too stubborn to die. It seemed they had that in common.