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The Heart's Fondest Desire, by MissPadme. Holiday-themed tale: For the first time since her secret marriage, Padmé returns alone to her family home for a holiday.

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Couple: John Crichton and Aeryn Sun From: Farscape Site: JohnAeryn.com ------------------- Hardly love at first sight - the first time the Peacekeeper soldier saw the lost-in-space astronaut, she beat him up.  But once an attraction did grow between them (it became evident quickly), it became as powerful and difficult to deny as what drew Anakin and Padmé together.  And J/A sure give them a run for their money in the angst department!  They were not expressly forbidden from being together - but there were a lot of issues.  He's human; she's not.  He wants to return home; she has no home to return to.  Aeryn, like Padmé, has only known a life where she was reliant largely on herself, though Aeryn's was far more brutal.  In this relationship, she is the one who has always been forbidden from developing an emotional connection with a partner, and that lifestyle is a hard one for her to break. He is the one that makes the first steps in pursuing her, accepting his love for her far more easily than she can for him.  Like Padmé, she slowly warms up to him, but almost any time a step forward was made in her accepting her feelings and reciprocating his, almost immediately she would backstep quickly in fear, much to John's frustration.

Her career (such as it was: a soldier) had been her whole life, and she'd never known being dependent on anyone but herself.  She'd never known a life where she was able to be truly impulsive and be able to trust someone with her heart, and John gradually managed to make her realize her life could be much more than what she had.  But even when she did at last freely return his love, she figuratively put the brakes on a relationship, fearing the consequences that would come from an emotional attachment aboard a ship where their life was always in danger.  Of course, their feelings continued to grow regardless of this. Like any classic romance, obstacles external as well as internal hindered hope of a future together.  The whole series, John is pursued by a military commander who is obsessed with obtaining a powerful technology an alien race placed in his brain.  When Aeryn is coming to accept that she has feelings for him, John is briefly forced into a marriage with a princess to ensure the future of her dynasty, much to the pain of both Aeryn and John.  Then after another cautious forward in their relationship, John accidentally kills Aeryn when the neural clone in his brain - a copy of the personality of his pursuer placed there to obtain the wormhole info - briefly takes over his own personality (she's later resurrected).  When John is "duplicated" by an alien experiment, she ends up going off with one of the Johns and having a happy relationship with him - to the point where she even agrees that she'll return to Earth with him. But then that John is killed, and when she returns to the other John she is cold to him, her heart obviously broken.  When they've finally managed to reconcile after this, Aeryn is abducted by an alien race as blackmail to get the wormhole technology from the man who loves her - Crichton. In his darkest hours (and there were many) when he had no hope of anything else - ever returning to Earth, of being free of the psychopath who continued to pursue him, of ever seeing Aeryn again - one thing that remained steady was his love for her.  At one point, John was even prepared to give up the wormhole technology to his pursuer, knowing he was the only one who could help John find Aeryn.  The balance of power in this part of the galaxy, what this warlord would undoubtedly do with the technology: none of that mattered.  He cared about only one thing - getting back the woman he loved. During Aeryn's captivity, her captors discovered her pregnancy, and (correctly believing the child to be John's) were prepared to use the fetus as part of an experiment that they believed would give them the information they wanted from John's brain.  Aeryn was prepared to die rather than give her child up as a pawn of cruel experimentation and death, fighting her captors every step she could.  We already know Padmé or Anakin would make a similar sacrifice for either of their children. Even when Aeryn is rescued, and the pair become engaged and are celebrating the impending arrival of their child, the obstacles continue.  Immediately upon engagement they are hit with an alien beam which reduces them to piles of tiny crystal, and it is several weeks before they are made whole again, and then are immediately thrust back into war. Like Anakin faces in Episode III, at one point John has to come to terms with just exactly how much he is willing to do for the sake of protecting his wife and unborn child - how high a price he is willing to pay, how much power he is willing to use, how many he is willing to sacrifice for the sake of being able to raise his family in peace instead of war.  In a final desperate act, he uses the wormhole information in his brain to create a weapon that, if unchecked, could eventually destroy the galaxy, essentially using it to force the two main warring factions in their area of space to negotiate a peace settlement.  Though it works, the process almost kills him, and it is only when Aeryn places their infant son in his arms that he is revived from his catatonia. In the end, it does seem to work out for John and Aeryn, though - they are married, have their son, and they finally seem to have come to a moment of peace.

 
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