Jack smiled as he felt the vessel carrying him come to a stop not more than a day or two after leaving Babylon 5. That would be his backers coming to "take custody" of him. After this, he'd likely have to stay under the radar, just in case the small-minded old-world command staff of Babylon 5 spread his picture about, but that was fine, he was fine working in the shadows.
He waited patiently for the guards to come to his cell.
They came with a woman in the ill-fitting uniform of an Earthforce commander, not the uniform that Jack expected to see.
"Who are you?" he asked, furrowing his eyes.
The woman, in her early thirties, produced a broad smile under eyes that were intelligent but glassy in an uncomfortably unnatural way.
"You act like you expected someone to be picking him up," the guards said.
"He did," the woman said, producing a knife from her sleeve as she stood behind them.
"What are you doing?" Jack demanded as he watched the woman move.
She reached around to slash the knife over the neck of one guard and viciously into the eye of the next, twisting it.
"What the hell?!" Jack shouted. "This is insane, it's supposed to be a simple transfer of prisoners and then I get lost in the paperwork. That's the contingency that was on the books..."
"Oh, I was getting tired of the mask," the woman said with a giggle. "This game is much more fun. You like us to play this game well, don't you mistress."
The woman came up to the door of his cell and opened it without regarding the cooling corpses behind her and she walked up straight to Jack and grabbed his injured hand, jerking it up toward her until the shackles that chained him to the wall pulled tight.
"This is her work," the woman said eagerly. "We've been watching her for you, her and they, and her work is here before me."
"What are you talking about?" Jack asked hesitantly as the woman stood up then.
She stepped back and opened her uniform up, revealing that the inside was heavily bloodied even if the surface seemed to have come out clear. Out from it she drew a syringe and a vial.
"And now it is finally time for us to start our task," she declared feverishly before looking over toward Jack.
He tried to fight her off, but the handcuffs and ankle chains hampered him, as did the injuries he still had. With those limits, he couldn't do much in the face of her lunatic drive and the needle slipped into his skin.
And after that he was swimming in a world of fantasy and imagining as he was carried through, the scenes of blood and death that littered the halls of the ship fading only in the background of his thoughts.
"Leave this ship to be found," the woman said, the words filtering dazedly through his drugged blanket. "She would love the chaos this will cause. What a fun game that will be."
The giggle that followed was more than inappropriate for the thirty-something woman, especially in its childlike sound.
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