Come on, baby, come on, come on, darling,
Let me steal this moment from you now.
Come on, angel, come on, come on, darling,
Let’s exchange the experience…
RIP Roswell | Dark twisted fantasy turned to reality | Jones/Liz AU
Fic blurb by @wunderlass
It’s been three years since Max, Michael, and Isobel released Jones from his prison. Two years since Jones took over Max’s body and went on a spree of destruction, leaving Liz and her friends to vanish into hiding. Eighteen months since Jones ascended to become Dictator of this world too.
Max is gone, his consciousness crushed by Jones. Michael too--Jones sparing no mercy for his only son because of the threat he posed. Those who survived are fugitives in a world reshaped by destructive fire, staying ahead of their enemies only through Maria’s visions. But Maria’s health is failing and Liz doesn’t have what she needs to help her dearest friend.
It cannot last, not when Jones has thrown every resource he has into hunting them down. But when he finds Liz, he doesn’t deliver the immediate death she’s expecting. Instead, he repeats an offer she once threw back in his face:
Join him. Repair his body, and he will spare her friends. Join him, and he’ll give her all the resources she needs, all the resources she’s ever craved, to save Maria’s mind and the world around them.
This time she accepts, because she has no choice. Because to work against him from the inside is the only option she has left.
Yet it doesn’t take long for Jones to make it clear that he wants more from Liz. He doesn’t just want her brilliant mind--he wants all of her too. Body and soul. It’s why he’s become increasingly fixated on her despite every scientific mind on Earth being available to him. And through working at his side, she learns dangerous secrets about the bonds between aliens and those they connect with. Maybe, just maybe, it might give her an element of power over Jones. But will it be enough to bring him down?
He thinks he’s in love. And sometimes when they’re alone, she swears she sees glimpses of the man she once loved surfacing. She swears Max is still in there and if she can just find a way to reach him, this nightmare will be over. But is it really Max, or is Jones manipulating her, acting the best way he knows how to secure her affection?
One thing’s for sure. Jones wants to forge a permanent handprint bond with her, and once that happens, she’ll lose any advantage she has. He’ll be in her head--in her blood--and betrayal will no longer be an option.
in sickness and in health (trojan horse) by @lambourngb
Alex has had wild weekends in the past on leave, where only a squadmate’s strong grip kept him upright for morning PT, but he was 29 now, down a leg, down a boyfriend and he was the only force standing in the way of Project Shepherd, so when he woke up on a Monday with no memory of the last two days, it was a problem. He just had no idea just how big of a one it was.
Part One - AU where Padme lives and joins the Rebel Alliance (Inspired)
“There is an entire subplot with Padme joining the Rebel Alliance with Mon Mothma and Bail Organa. This was really her story, that was going along at the same time that Anakin was being seduced by Palpatine at the beginning before he turns.”
- George Lucas