Path: newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!postnews.google.com!z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Mareel" Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative Subject: NEW ENT: At What Cost 1/1 [G} (A/R) Date: 19 Jan 2005 04:46:14 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 53 Message-ID: <1106138774.376835.98030@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.243.61.92 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1106138778 8709 127.0.0.1 (19 Jan 2005 12:46:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:46:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=4.243.61.92; posting-account=1x8S4AwAAAAsIaIc_cTPVeKx9cxFO3lH Xref: news.earthlink.net alt.startrek.creative:161990 X-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:46:19 PST (newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net) Title: At What Cost Author: Mareel Contact: Mareel@earthlink.net Author's URL: www.geocities.com/bdebpr Series: Enterprise Rating: G Status: Complete Codes: Drabble, A/R Archive: Permission to archive granted to ASC*, EntSTCommunity, Others welcome, please ask. Disclaimer: Of course they belong to Paramount, or more likely, to themselves Summary: Cries and whispers... arms and heart full... each cradling Author's Notes: Raw thoughts tumbling out, unstructured, in the night. This is the twelfth in a series (sequel to Mend) inspired by the Treksoap Jon and Mal, but aside from knowing that there was an mpreg, no familiarity with those characters or plots is needed to recognize Jon's situation as that of any father facing the possible loss of his partner to complications of childbirth. For those interested in specifics, at this point Mal's life is in danger following the birth of twins, conceived after he was subjected to Xindi medical experimentation. *** At what cost... these two priceless lives? You chose to give them life... did you choose to trade your life for theirs? You would defend them now with your life... if bearing them costs your life, is that cost too high? You didn't choose to conceive them... conception was impossible without the violation you suffered. Now you pay the price again. But I love them with my life... they are my life now. You had no choice... then you chose to bear them for me... us... them Now all choices are taken from you again but one Don't go, Mal... *** Finis NewMessage: