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rareslashTitle: Up All Night Long (and there's something very wrong) 1/?
Author: Crabwise_son
Fandom/Pairing: Anna/Erica Evans, V
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: 1.10 Hearts and Minds
Disclaimer: Mistakes are mine, characters aren't
She is remarkable because she is in fact unremarkable. Anna has encountered millions if not billions of the same breed. Determined, confident, distrustful, calculated. Honorable characteristics that must be stripped from their enemy if they are to succeed.
Anna clears her throat and Erica starts, hand over her heart as she regards the visitor queen standing pristinely at the end of the bed.
“I guess privacy is just a human thing.”
Anna raises her eyebrows in a silent show of amusement, waving a hand to brighten the room and taking a seat on the chair beside Erica.
It had been her son’s idea via Lisa’s that his mother should experience life on board the ship before allowing her son to join the live aboard program. There had been in a gleam in the blonde’s eyes that Anna had not missed, asking for a day to think about it before contacting them at the end of the night to arrange a room for her.
“I wanted to speak with you.” Anna says simply.
Erica made a small snort of laughter, getting out of bed from the opposite side and pulling on a pair of jeans. They had offered her a gown and robe (Anna had watched the tapes), but Erica had insisted on her own shorts and tank top.
“What did you need to speak with me about?” Erica asks, turning around and pulling her loose hair into a pony tail.
“Do you know a man,” Anna begins, tracing on the arm rest, “named Ryan Nichols.”
Erica’s eyes snap to Anna’s, “Doesn’t sound familiar, no.”
“He seems to know you. Quite well actually.”
Erica crosses her arms, leg shifting backwards, defensive stance Anna thinks and smiles, “What do you want.”
“I want us to trust one another.” Anna says as if a suggestion of anything else would…what was it? Hurt her feelings, “Your son cares deeply for my daughter, as we speak she is giving him a tour of one of our mechanically advanced units.”
“You mean the cloaked ships?” Her voice hardens and the worry for her son is etched deeply into her frown.
“Yes.” Anna stands, unsurprised when Erica shifts back as she moves closer, arms dropping, fingers half curled and ready to form a fist if need be, “They snuck off moments ago for a rendezvous it seems, if not for me checking in it would have gone unnoticed.” she placed a hand on Erica’s arm, establishing contact, “I came to you first, as mothers we must look out for the ones we love the most.”
“And you love Lisa?”
“With all my heart.” Anna’s mouth quirks upward again while her fingers slide down Erica’s arm in a subtle caress, “Metaphorically speaking of course.”
Erica doesn’t look amused and her fingers curl in a bit more, her face beautifully blank, emotionless, “What is this? Why are you here?”
“The same reason you are.”
“I am here to look out for my son’s best interests.”
“As am I. It would be very unfortunate were something to happen while you were here.” At this all trace of a smile has fled and green tints the woman’s dark eyes, “We have been having a disturbing amount of incidents as of late. I must do everything in my power to avoid another tragedy such as the human lives lost only weeks ago and the attacks upon my people.” Erica hadn’t even been aware that Anna’s fingers had wrapped around her upper arm, that they were so close a deep exhale would press them flush against one another, “Do you understand? Do you understand that I will do anything necessary to protect those I cherish the most even-” she tightens her grip on Erica, “-even if it means sacrificing the ones that they cherish as well.”
Erica swallows hard, giving a curt nod, “I understand.”
“Good, I am glad we are on the same page.” she releases her and adopts her usual serene smile, “I look forward to seeing you tomorrow at breakfast. Seven thirty.”
“Seven thirty of course.”
Anna turns and Erica is thankful, thinking that she is leaving when she only crosses over to the drawer and removes a gray robe with red sashes. She outstretches it to Erica, “I had these made especially for you. They should be to your liking.”
Erica placed her hands on her hips, “Thanks, but I really prefer-”
“I insist.”
Anna came behind her, breath at her ear as she held it open for the blonde to slip into, arms wrapping around her waist to tie the ribbons. Erica closes her eyes, ignores how cold Anna’s fingers are as they brush against her exposed stomach before retreating. Those same hands turn her around, the visitor’s eyes alight with amusement
“There we are, you almost look like one of us.”
Erica bites the back of her tongue, giving a smile just as saccharine as the other woman’s, “Yeah, almost.”
“Goodnight Erica. Seven thirty.”
“Seven thirty.” she confirms
As soon as the door slides shut behind Anna, Erica reaches into her bag and unearths a throwaway phone, bypassing the scores of unanswered texts to Ryan before landing on Jack’s number.
Something is up. FIND NICHOLS.
Author: Crabwise_son
Fandom/Pairing: Anna/Erica Evans, V
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: 1.10 Hearts and Minds
Disclaimer: Mistakes are mine, characters aren't
She is remarkable because she is in fact unremarkable. Anna has encountered millions if not billions of the same breed. Determined, confident, distrustful, calculated. Honorable characteristics that must be stripped from their enemy if they are to succeed.
Anna clears her throat and Erica starts, hand over her heart as she regards the visitor queen standing pristinely at the end of the bed.
“I guess privacy is just a human thing.”
Anna raises her eyebrows in a silent show of amusement, waving a hand to brighten the room and taking a seat on the chair beside Erica.
It had been her son’s idea via Lisa’s that his mother should experience life on board the ship before allowing her son to join the live aboard program. There had been in a gleam in the blonde’s eyes that Anna had not missed, asking for a day to think about it before contacting them at the end of the night to arrange a room for her.
“I wanted to speak with you.” Anna says simply.
Erica made a small snort of laughter, getting out of bed from the opposite side and pulling on a pair of jeans. They had offered her a gown and robe (Anna had watched the tapes), but Erica had insisted on her own shorts and tank top.
“What did you need to speak with me about?” Erica asks, turning around and pulling her loose hair into a pony tail.
“Do you know a man,” Anna begins, tracing on the arm rest, “named Ryan Nichols.”
Erica’s eyes snap to Anna’s, “Doesn’t sound familiar, no.”
“He seems to know you. Quite well actually.”
Erica crosses her arms, leg shifting backwards, defensive stance Anna thinks and smiles, “What do you want.”
“I want us to trust one another.” Anna says as if a suggestion of anything else would…what was it? Hurt her feelings, “Your son cares deeply for my daughter, as we speak she is giving him a tour of one of our mechanically advanced units.”
“You mean the cloaked ships?” Her voice hardens and the worry for her son is etched deeply into her frown.
“Yes.” Anna stands, unsurprised when Erica shifts back as she moves closer, arms dropping, fingers half curled and ready to form a fist if need be, “They snuck off moments ago for a rendezvous it seems, if not for me checking in it would have gone unnoticed.” she placed a hand on Erica’s arm, establishing contact, “I came to you first, as mothers we must look out for the ones we love the most.”
“And you love Lisa?”
“With all my heart.” Anna’s mouth quirks upward again while her fingers slide down Erica’s arm in a subtle caress, “Metaphorically speaking of course.”
Erica doesn’t look amused and her fingers curl in a bit more, her face beautifully blank, emotionless, “What is this? Why are you here?”
“The same reason you are.”
“I am here to look out for my son’s best interests.”
“As am I. It would be very unfortunate were something to happen while you were here.” At this all trace of a smile has fled and green tints the woman’s dark eyes, “We have been having a disturbing amount of incidents as of late. I must do everything in my power to avoid another tragedy such as the human lives lost only weeks ago and the attacks upon my people.” Erica hadn’t even been aware that Anna’s fingers had wrapped around her upper arm, that they were so close a deep exhale would press them flush against one another, “Do you understand? Do you understand that I will do anything necessary to protect those I cherish the most even-” she tightens her grip on Erica, “-even if it means sacrificing the ones that they cherish as well.”
Erica swallows hard, giving a curt nod, “I understand.”
“Good, I am glad we are on the same page.” she releases her and adopts her usual serene smile, “I look forward to seeing you tomorrow at breakfast. Seven thirty.”
“Seven thirty of course.”
Anna turns and Erica is thankful, thinking that she is leaving when she only crosses over to the drawer and removes a gray robe with red sashes. She outstretches it to Erica, “I had these made especially for you. They should be to your liking.”
Erica placed her hands on her hips, “Thanks, but I really prefer-”
“I insist.”
Anna came behind her, breath at her ear as she held it open for the blonde to slip into, arms wrapping around her waist to tie the ribbons. Erica closes her eyes, ignores how cold Anna’s fingers are as they brush against her exposed stomach before retreating. Those same hands turn her around, the visitor’s eyes alight with amusement
“There we are, you almost look like one of us.”
Erica bites the back of her tongue, giving a smile just as saccharine as the other woman’s, “Yeah, almost.”
“Goodnight Erica. Seven thirty.”
“Seven thirty.” she confirms
As soon as the door slides shut behind Anna, Erica reaches into her bag and unearths a throwaway phone, bypassing the scores of unanswered texts to Ryan before landing on Jack’s number.
Something is up. FIND NICHOLS.
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