Fic: A Not-So Fairytale
Once upon a time, in a galaxy sort of far away, there was a fair maiden who went by the name of Jenny, who traveled the stars saving people, creatures, and planets. Sometimes she was called, but usually she found the trouble on her own. However, the former was how she found herself back on her home planet of Messaline.
Someone had managed to track her down with the information Cline had given them about the shuttle she’d stolen, to inform her that her old friend had gone missing and hadn’t been seen for two weeks. Jenny, instantly concerned for Cline’s well being, hurried home, to find a much different planet than the one she’d left months before. She was greeted by both human and Hath, and both (well, the Hath, to the extent that Hath could), caught her up on everything she’d missed, and, over a cup of tea, explained Cline’s disappearance. They’d heard that since she’d left, she had been traveling and , for lack of a better term, saving everything that needed saving that she’d come across (news apparently traveled fast). As soon as she finished her tea, Jenny bid farewell to her hosts, and practically sprinted, in usual Jenny fashion, out into the still new wilderness of her home planet to find her soldier in distress.
It had taken her a while to get the hang of the saving people and planets business, but Jenny had been determined to make her father proud of her, whether he would find out or not, and soon, it came as naturally to her and it seemed to do to him. She thought about him, now, as she fought her way through a jungle, trying to make her way to the building that she assumed Cline was in. She hoped that what she was doing would make him proud now. And even if it didn’t, it made her proud, and that was enough for her.
Finally working her way through the jungle to get to Cline’s prison, Jenny easily slipped inside, to find that everyone was asleep. Thinking that it was one of the lesser odd things she’d seen since she’d been traveling, she practically tiptoed her way through the rooms, checking each one for the lost soldier, finding him asleep in the last one. She poked him a few times, shaking his shoulder and whispering his name. When he didn’t respond to any of it, she grabbed her canteen from her bag, and emptied it over his head.
Cline woke up, sputtering, while Jenny watched, hands on her hips. “Jenny!” blinked at her, surprised. “I thought you were gone!”
She smiled at him, then gave him a little smack on the arm. “You’re the reason I’m back. They tracked me down, because they figured I’d be able to find you. And I was just about to go off and overthrow the dictator on Scranthia.”
“Sorry about that, mate,” he yawned and stretched as he stood up. “I didn’t get kidnapped on purpose.”
Jenny rolled her eyes. “Who are they?” Then rolled them again when he shrugged. “You could have asked.”
“I didn’t think to, while they were kidnapping me.” Cline stood up, and took a good look around him. “Let’s get out of here before they wake up, yeah?”
Jenny took his hand, smiled, and said “run.” And, although they didn’t live happily ever after, they did make it out alive. Which was good enough for the both of them.
Guest Starring: Cline
Word Count: 580