Fic: HL/SGA fusion drabble

[wickedwords]

For workerb, who brought up the idea so I had to run with it.


The first time a wraith feeds on him, they know he is different. A drone puts his hand on Methos' chest, and the quickening energy spills out into its hand, tearing away a tiny piece of someone else's soul. Startled, the wraith reports it, as Methos doesn’t age. From the quickening of a child to the quickening of a bed-ridden dodderer, the wraith pluck and consume the souls Methos had taken, each one a different taste, a different feel, like a gold chocolate box. He becomes the hive queen's own, a special treat for celebration days.

And he never dies.

Comments

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

Oh! God!

That's really very horrifying. In a cool way.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Methos is like that, a survivor of the most horrifiying situations imaginable, and yet still incredibly cool.

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

Whoa!

Just.... whoa!

eep!

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Poor Methos. He's still my favorite sufferer as he does pain so well.

[logovo1.livejournal.com]

Ick!!
*covers eyes*

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Don't worry! Methos will survive, and eventually, he figures out a way to escape, taking the hive down with him. 'cuz he's that kind of guy.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow! This idea is so great! And yet, in the end I kept thinking, "poor hive queen, she just doesn't know what she's done." This is Methos we are talking about. Methos, who rode with Kronos 1000 years, called him brother, and then betrayed him. Methos, the manipulator and the survivor. He can outwait even the wraith.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

He can, he totally can. And he always manages to come out on top.

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Oh, Wraith Queen, are you ever in for a shocker.

Good crossover.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Nothing says "biblical vengence" like Methos-in-chains. He's totally going to kick her ass and destroy her hive once he gets out of that cocoon.

[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

yie. I was just thinking about this the other night, actually, and you did it even nastier.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

He's fine! Really. It's just a flesh wound.

[mmmchelle.livejournal.com]

Poor Methos.

I feel so badly for him. That is a very disturbing image.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

yeah, I'm pretty hard on him, as he does bounce back. If they ever come up with regeneration in SGA...man, wouldn't that be fun?

[libitina]

That's wonderfully creepy - I love it.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeee!!!!!

I am ~so~ having nightmares about this!

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Just tiny little ones, right? 'cuz you know Methos will survive.

[kimberlite.livejournal.com]

each one a different taste, a different feel, like a gold chocolate box

Wow, that's a lovely (if disturbing) image. I agree that the hive is in for an unpleasant surprise.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think my LJ should contain a standard warning for 'may suddenly veer off into intense imagery at any time, proceed at your own risk.' I'm glad you enjoy it.

Hmm. Now I am contemplating how exactly Methos would visit vengence on the hive queen. I'm thinking...fire. Lots and lots of fire.

[cetpar.livejournal.com]

Very cool drabble. But it's sad to think Methos has survived thousands of years to end up as the Wraith gourmet treat. But he's resourceful, so I hope he doesn't stay that way forever.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

He wouldn't. The wraith would get into a pattern, and Methos would watch and wait for his chance. He would notice the Wraith worshipers, and he would figure out a way to use them to his advantage. There comes a time when the Wraith Queen comes out for the celebration, and they bring Methos with them, to show her power to all.

That night, the village lies in flames in the rubble of a hive ship and everything it contained.

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

You made me read SGA. OMG didn't think that was possible. *is awed*

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Nooo! Don't do it! Don't--

Okay, I'm too late. But this was mostly Methos-focused. It's not like it was 'real' SGA. *g*

[j00j.livejournal.com]

Oh, god. Horrifying, indeed. Helluva drabble, though. I am strangely comforted by the thought of how epic Methos' vengeance is going to be.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Incredibly, amazingly epic. If he could blow up 5/6 of a solar system, he would. And guilt would not enter into it.

[taselby.livejournal.com]

Ooh... *shiver*.

No one brings the creepy like you.

You, ah... are going to write the big version of this, yes?

*+3 Smile of Irresistiblility*

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

LOL! Oh, man. If only I could. But I have no stick-to-it-ness when it comes to epic stories.

[zoerayne]

Oh. My. God.

That's...creepy like a creepy thing. What a fascinating concept.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm good with that whole 'creepy' thing you know. If it's not romance, it's really kind of creepy. *g*

[copernica3.livejournal.com]

Hell, yes.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

OH, YES... My such beautiful suffering. Not to mention the glorious destruction afterwards.

Seriously, the few Wraith that survive this one are going to become vegetarian Jains.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

If any survive, it's true. Maybe that tribe eagerly embrace the retrovirus, as a way of escaping the eternal one. Can you imagine the tales the survivors would tell as humans in Atlantis?

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

::hides eyes::

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

No, really! It's okay. He eventually escapes. And he frees Rodney and Ronon too, at the begining of season three...

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, MY. That's creepy all right.

And it's gonna be WAY creepy for the Wraith...

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Yes, he won't need a life signs detector to find them. Since they all took pieces of his quickening, he'll know where to find them.

And he'll make them give all the pieces back.

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! I can't wait until Methos meets Sheppard, and they recognize each other as having death under the surface of their skins.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking of that! And Rodney would totally freak because one moment, there are two slightly-dorky, charming guys there and the next minute, it's like the entire world changed, and death has just arrived.

And Ronon would look at the two, blink, and go: "Huh."

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

WOW! A new way to torture Methos. I thought that after Maygra and Barb G that all the ways to cause the Old Guy pain had been explored. I should have known better. But no woman can resist his charms. I wonder what will happen when he takes the Hive Queen's head?

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

That's the point at which the hive ship is destroyed, due to a massive 'electrical system malfunction.'