Meatslop: It's what's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner [Open]

[aboutthatevac]

It had been months since Stacy had released Sarah Kerrigan but the meatship hadn't seen very much of her. It wasn't because she preferred to spend her days alone, at least not solely. It was safer this way. For her and for everyone else on the ship. She had come clean to the Captain, given him a short explanation of her reign as the Queen of Blades. She knew that he could not legally imprison her for crimes she had committed in her own universe but she was still surprised that he hadn't arrested her on the spot. It's what he should have done. Murderers shouldn't go unpunished, especially not when they'd murdered billions people. But then just because Kerrigan wasn't behind locked away didn't mean she wasn't a prisoner. She didn't remember everything but what she did was played out in brief bursts. Images flashing into her mind before vanishing as quickly as they had come. But that was good. That was what she deserved. And slowly she became accustomed to this new life. Barely interacting with others, training, waking up wracked with sobs and shaking.

And then he came. One day. One day with Jim Raynor. Because Stacy hadn't tormented her enough.

If one were to speak in metaphors, you might say that there was a hole in her heart. Kerrigan would say that was a terrible metaphor as she no longer had one. It was more a reminder of what she was missing. What she could have been had the zerg not claimed her.

Now Kerrigan sat in the messhall. It was not as popular as it once was now that there was a supply of real food but it was not as empty as she would have liked. Usually Kerrigan ate quickly and left but today, and in fact every day since Stacy's surprise "gift" to the crew, she sat staring at her slop but not seeing it at all. You would expect more from a telepath. They were supposed to get lost in others' thoughts, not their own.

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[hi_there_aliens]

Daniel flushed, embarrassed and angrily. He wasn't suggesting they ignore the issue. "That's not what I meant! No, we can't let them attack other people, but we've been screwed over by the Daligig before when they assign a mission." He tried to calm down. "I'm just saying it's very easy to see things in black and white. It's dangerous. That's what's being painted here."

[aboutthatevac]

"Don't," Kerrigan nearly spat. "Lecture me about the Daligig. You have no idea." For a moment her eyes looked like they were glowing before returning to their previous jade green color. "There is no white, only black and the fools who cannot see that."

[hi_there_aliens]

Daniel stopped. Either it was a trick of the light or her eyes lit for a second, a faint orange that, mercifully, wasn't followed by a double voice. He looked again, just to be sure. They were green.

Of course he had no idea about the Daligig. Neither did Sarah. He didn't think anyone really did.

"That's where you're wrong. There's no such thing just good and evil. It's a stupid and narrow minded-way to look at the world."

[aboutthatevac]

Oh, no goa'uld in Kerrigan. But she had been infested by something else. Something that was, in her opinion, much, much worse.

"There is evil. I've seen it. I've been it. Stop talking about things you do not know. All you are accomplishing is annoying me and that is a very dangerous thing, Daniel Jackson."

[hi_there_aliens]

That could mean anything. Daniel's imagination easily supplied a few possibilities. A former, rehabilitated criminal. Maybe she'd done something, accidentally, a temper maybe, because he could believe it from her, and she regretted it. Maybe even a host of the Yeerks, like Eva. His luck couldn't be that bad.

Whatever her story was, she was wrong. The world, the universes, just couldn't be compartmentalized into good and evil.

"But there are grays to everything," Except the Goa'uld. "So you think we just kill them all? What if the Daligig were the ones that started it in the first place?," Daniel persisted. Being told to, all intents and purposes, shut the hell up didn't usually stop him. Besides, it wasn't like she was holding a staff weapon or ribbon device to his head.

[aboutthatevac]

"If that's true then it makes my job much easier." For her the Ohm were just a stepping stone to the real problem. True, they deserved to die for destroying the universe she was supposed to save but that wasn't her main concern. "But it doesn't excuse what the Ohm have done. My universe did nothing to provoke them." Although if it was in her power earlier she probably would have done so eventually.