Weir's Journal - Chapter Three
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* Character Spotlight: - John and Elizabeth
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Chapter Three
Present Day
Koyla’s methods of interrogation went way beyond cruel.
I was taken to the New Genii home world and interrogated to the full; I was pushed to the limits through usual methods of torture and starvation.
For days this went on, it all could have ended early if I just handed him over the city by giving him the command codes to certain key systems, but I wasn’t a quitter he wasn’t going to give them so easy.
After their scientist failed to access those systems the hard way, Kolya stepped up to the next level and let loose his weapon of persuasion; a male Wraith. I felt my heart skip a beat when I saw it being brought into my cell, chained hands and feet.
At first I thought he was going to use the Wraith, so it could feed on me, when the chains had been removed. But what transpired was far worse; instead the Wraith poured poisoned images into my mind.
Certain Wraith has a unique ability to access the human mind and twist images to their own devise.
I screamed to the point, were I couldn’t scream any more. The images were repeatedly so painful and so terrifying it became hard to tell what was real and what wasn’t.
All of it lasted for fifteen minutes it felt like longer. I didn’t stop myself from falling into a heap on the floor when it finally let go.
The Wraith must have got what she wanted, she dragged me back up by the hair and was on the verge of feeding on me, only to be stopped at the last minute when guards entered the room and dragged him out. At the same time he hissed words of displeasure to them, over the fact she didn’t get the food she was promised.
I covered up my ears to drown them out. I didn’t here what the guard said to the Wraith for I passed out, and in my dreamful sleep, events leading up to this day slowly drifted back into my mind.
Flashback
Elizabeth looked up when she heard Teyla knocking on her office doorframe and calling her by name, she motioned for her to come in.
She did so and Elizabeth couldn’t help but notice the watchfulness look in her eyes. “Teyla. Thank you for coming... Is something bothering you?”
Teyla looked back over her shoulders to make sure she wasn’t overheard. “I just had a strange encounter with Lt. Colonel Sheppard.”
“That’s nothing unusual considering the pandemic spreading at the moment. Actually. It’s the reason I asked you here.”
Teyla stood to attention as Elizabeth briefed her.
“I need someone I can trust. To take over security detail for me till Colonel Sheppard is back in form. I can’t ask on Major Lorne, because he too has the ATA gene and you know the problems that is causing at the moment.”
As if on queue the lights in the control tower flickered on then off repeatedly for a few seconds. In that time John’s meaning began to make sense to Teyla. “That is what he meant.”
“Who?” questioned Elizabeth.
“John, outside in the corridor just now. He said to me… if I ever have to choose sides, just remember who my friends are.”
Elizabeth took a moment to absorb those words and didn’t like what they might imply. “He wouldn’t… no I can’t believe he would go that far. Not even under these circumstances.”
Teyla followed Elizabeth’s movements as she got up from her chair and walked to the front, to lookout the window facing the stargate. “Do you think he is planning something?”
Elizabeth rubbed her forehead when she replied. “I think he might be working against me…”
“If that is the case. Would it not be best to quarantine those affected by the virus now, before this escalates into something we cannot control?”
“In light of people’s behaviour recently I think that will be a wise move. I guess we don’t release how dependent we have become to rely on those with the ATA gene; the only thing affected by this virus.”
“Will your people on earth not send someone help find a cure, now that Dr. Beckett that Beckett has caught the it?” asked Teyla.
Elizabeth shook her head and crossed her arms over her stomach. “This has become a quarantine zone, no one in and no one out. We can’t risk people back on earth catching it."
TBC