From: "Aubrey W. Adkins" Subject: Adventures of Lyta and G'Kar Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:25:20 -0500 All characters/places/persons not belonging to the writer are the sole properties of their owners, PTEN, WB, JMS, and will be turned over to the owners at the request of their agents. All other characters/places/persons are public domain. Title: Adventures of Lyta and G'Kar (This is just a short few lines. If anyone thinks it might be worth writing, let me know.) There are no spoilers in this story. "--" = spoken words <--> = telepathy [--] = self thoughts `--' = emphasis Negative comments welcome at: xazqrten@norfolk.infi.net Somewhere in hyperspace G'Kar's spacecraft is moving on a course toward the Gaim homeworld. "Lyta." "Yes, G'Kar." "We've been gone from Babylon 5 for two days now and you haven't said two words. Is something wrong?" "No. I have been thinking about what you said in my cell about the reasons for you bringing me along being more correct than you had first imagined. You asked me to consider the walls I would bring with me." "And what did you bring?" "I'm not sure. I am not sure that my reference points are all they could be. I think I need someplace to start that doesn't include my biases." "I'm not sure I understand." "You have suffered and hated with a hatred that is beyond anything I have ever known on a personal level." "You want to discuss my past?" "Not exactly." "I don't understand?" "G'Kar. You could talk forever and the true feelings of what you have suffered would not be fully expressed." "What are you suggesting?" Lyta explained that she wanted G'Kar to remember all of his experiences and let her scan him as he did. She said she could help him remember things that he would never remember otherwise and that she would feel his feelings and get a real understanding of how his hatreds developed and how he had learned to deal with them. She said her hopes were that she would be able to use what she learned and apply it to her angers." G'Kar agreed and said, "You could scan me at anytime." "I wouldn't do that, G'Kar." "I know." "I will do the scans when you are asleep. It won't be too stressful that way." In spite of himself, G'Kar was humbled by the fact that he was sitting not 4 meters from probably the most powerful non first-one telepath ever to exist in the galaxy and she asked permission to do something no one could have stopped her from doing. He wondered just what all she could do. Little did he know, he would learn sooner than he wanted. A week later they exited the jumpgate in the Gaim system. They were hailed and identified themselves to the Gaim controllers. Getting permission to visit institutions and access to libraries of information was easier than G'Kar had expected. The Gaim queen was surprised by his requests, but permitted them when he explained his mission. Lyta had been wearing a breathing mask while G'kar used his gill implants. Lyta had made their quest much easier by directly accessing the Gaim queen's assistant's mind and implanting the language data directly into G'Kar's mind. After that they could read the texts without assistance. They returned to the ship after each day's work. They spent a month on the Gaim homeworld researching and visiting various religious and civic centers and libraries. They had just returned to the ship and closed the hatch and Lyta removed her mask before they Gaim atmosphere had been purged. G'Kar's eyes widened when she did this. "Lyta! It isn't safe yet," exclaimed G'Kar. Lyta was smiling at him and it was then that he realized she also had gills. Hers unlike his weren't visible when not in use. "What else don't I know about you?" "In good time, G'Kar. In good time." They had been in hyperspace three days away from the Gaim homeworld and G'Kar was beginning to understand why people like Captain Lockley were afraid of Lyta. She was a dangerous unknown quantity. However, he didn't feel any apprehension by being so close to her. Then again, he wasn't worried about trying to control her and all his dealings with her had been honest and aboveboard. Lyta was "dreaming" again. She was seeing the young Narn from the viewpoint of a very youthful Narn. She was experiencing another moment in G'Kar's childhood. It was one of many since she had started exploring his memories with him, some months ago. Scanning G'Kar in this fashion caused him to relive the experience and allowed Lyta to experience it and study it and its effects on his mind at the same time. She was learning about real anger and hatred and what its long-term effects could be. In some ways she was beginning to understand herself a little better. Is it worth continuing??? I plan to expand what happened on the Gaim homeworld. Aubrey