5 Times Ryan Atwood Died
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ocmiss since she suggested this one... lol... sorry, I've gotta spread blame somewhere if I wanna survive! lol
The first two are Eureka!Ryan, but... obviously AU because in the regular timeline Ryan will NOT die in either of these ways (#2 is actually an event he survived in the 5 Times Ryan's Life In Eureka Saved His Ass On Atlantis entry!)
1. Mine
Ryan was scrambling up the hill with the rest of the team, trying to dodge to explosions going off around them. As he glanced down at the ground to find good footing, he saw it. The edge of a landmine sticking out of the dirt. Now that he knew to look, he could see dozens, hundreds, of them up ahead. Including...
"Leri, stop!" Ryan yelled running to shove her sideways so she'd fall into the clear patch rather than step on the mine. He wasn't so lucky himself. His right foot hit the edge of the pressure pad and he wasn't sure whether he heard the explosion or felt the pain first, he just knew both were overwhelming until he finally passed into merciful black silence.
~~~
"We need a medical team!" Lorne yelled into the radio as he and Cadman struggled to half carry, half drag, Ryan towards the wormhole Leri had just opened. They had wrapped a tourniquet around the bloody stumpy that was all that was left of Ryan's right leg, but it didn't seem to be doing much good.
As they burst through the event horizon on Atlantis, they lowered Ryan to the floor and Lorne moved to put pressure on the pulse point, hoping to further stem the blood loss until Beckett could get there. But as he did, his eyes focused on Ryan's chest and how absolutely still it had gone. "Ryan?" he asked, though he already knew he'd get no response.
"Dear God," Dr. Beckett said as he and his team arrived. "Move so I can..."
"He's gone," Lorne said, backing away to watch Beckett's frantic attempts.
~~~
Ryan's wishes had been made clear in a letter tucked into his file: cremation, with half his ashes scattered in the coeans of Atlantis, and the other half taken home to Earth, where they should be interred in Eureka. He'd said those were the only places he'd ever really felt at home in, and he liked the idea of being there forever. There was a ceremony on Atlantis for the scattering, which Leri asked to do since Ryan died saving her, and the majority of the city came to watch and pay their respects.
Later, it was Lorne and his team who took the remainder of the ashes to Eureka, where they found a town in mourning, eyes almost universally red and puffy. Zoe was the one who accepted Ryan's ashes, hugging them to her chest.
The ceremony in Eureka was relatively small, just the team and the Blake-Carters, but after it was over, the group headed to Cafe Diem and found it packed full of people, each of them with a Ryan story. When they heard that the paint filled water balloon weapon was real, the team told a slightly editted version of how Ryan had used that as inspiration to win the team a game of capture the flag, and how a colonel got nailed by it. When Allison Blake mentioned the incident involving Ryan and Sheriff Carter shifting out of phase, Lorne told them about it happening again, and how Ryan's message had been about wanting to kill a scientist who'd gotten shifted along with them.
"It was a very Ryan thing to do," Zoe told the team later. "He really... as long as I knew him, it was always everyone else first, him last. I don't think he ever figured out how important he was, because to him everyone else was always more important."
"We're sorry we couldn't do more, though," Lorne told her.
"You brought him home, or half of him, like he wanted. That's enough. That and the fact that, even though he couldn't tell em half of what he was doing, I know he loved his job. Anythign that got him that excited... it has to be amazing."
"It is," Lorne said. "If it's ever declassified, I'll lobby for you to get a ticket to visit so you can see for yourself."
"I'd appreciate that," Zoe said. "But you might not have to wait, I'm getting my physics degree in a few weeks, and Henry said he'd put in a good word for me, like he had for Ryan."
"Good luck," Lorne said, shaking her hand and returning the hug she gave him.
"Thanks for doing your best to take care of him," Zoe whispered. "But he's always been really good at finding trouble, and at least he went out doing something good."
"So you do not blame me?" Leri asked.
"Never," Zoe promised.
2. Immune System Collapse
It was Beverly Barlowe's fault. It was her little friends who'd let loose the virus in an attempt to gain control of Eureka by incapacitating everyone in their way. They just didn't count on the virus interacting with some experiments and turning deadly.
Over 100 Eureka residents died, and even then people kept getting sick for weeks while the top medical minds in the world tried to find a cure. Ryan ended up being one of the last fatalities before a treatment was found, his immune system shutting down entirely and a simple flu putting him down.
Zoe, in full mask and gown, had refused to leave her best friend's side, even though she was mildly ill, having been hit by a less virulent strain of the virus. She held his hand and kept telling him that he'd be fine, he just had to hang on a little longer. And no amount of quiet facts would convince her otherwise. Not until Ryan's temperature spiked to 107 and he went into convulsions, his body shaking so hard the entire bed was moving.
Three days later, Nathan Stark figured it out and started injecting biobots into the surviving residents, allowing them to act as an immune system, destroy the virus, and allow the real immune system to heal. Once it had, the bots would be ordered to go dormant and disolve into the patients blood stream.
Zoe refused to let hers be disolved though, since they were based on some of Ryan's design alterations to Stark's nanobots, and she figured she was as good a long term test subject as any.
3. Crash
Ryan couldn't move as he sat, hanging upside down in the wrecked truck. Beside him, he could hear Marissa groaning and wanted to turn and check on her, but he couldn't move, couldn't feel anything except a tightness in his chest.
"Ryan?" Marissa whispered.
Ryan tried to open his mouth, but even he knew it didn't respond. Something... something was wrong... something was... he couldn't... he couldn't breath... why couldn't he move?
Marissa's voice grew frantic, and pain shot through Ryan's body as she tugged on his body, screaming now that they had to get out, yelling his name over and over again.
It was almost a relief when things went black... silent... still... It was peaceful, without pain or fear.
"I didn't think you'd be next," came a gruff voice, and Ryan found himself on the ground outside the truck, watching as Marissa crawled out, still screaming as she stumbled away and the truck erupted into flames. Ryan turned towards the voice and saw Caleb of all people standing with arms crossed over his chest and an annoyed look on his face. "I expected you to rebuild the Newport Group when you got your degree."
"Mr. Nichols?"
"Welcome to the afterlife, boy. It's... interesting."
4. Party
Ryan froze as the gun went off and he felt a seering pain in his chest. Donnie yanked away, staring in shock, then stumbled out f the party while Ryan collapsed to the ground and the kids started screaming, racing for the doors as though they could escape having just seen someone get shot.
Someone get killed.
Surprisingly, it was Luke Ward who went to Ryan's said and put his hands over the bleeding wound, pressing as hard as he could while Summer yelled for someone to call an ambulance then came over to cover Luke's hands with her own, adding pressure.
But by the time the ambulance arrived, Summer had moved away, quietly sobbing as she sat on the floor, and Luke was sitting next to Ryan's still body, hands resting limply in his lap as he watched the lack of movement in Ryan's chest.
5. Earthquake
Sandy blamed himself. He'd told Ryan to stay put after the earthquake, and Ryan had listened to him. Ryan pretty much always listened to him. So Ryan had bled to death on the couch in the Roberts livingroom. It hadn't been until the middle of the night that Taylor had noticed how quiet Ryan had gotten, and she realized that there was something wrong with his breathing. By then, it had already been too late and he'd died before the ambulance could even get close to the house.
The official cause of death had been internal bleeding, caused by shards of glass lodged in his back, and the doctor had insisted that Ryan might not have made it even if the roads had been clear and someone had driven him in. Even if an ambulance had been called immediately, it might have taken too long to get through the rubble.
That didn't make Sandy blame himself any less, and it didn't stop Kirsten's crying jags that began to happen daily, everytime something reminded her of Ryan. It didn't stop Seth and Summer for leaving for providence at the first chance they got, or stop Taylor from returning to France and to Henri-Michel's arms.
It didn't bring Ryan back, and that was all that would have really mattered.
The End
Please don't kill me for killing hime 5 times... lol... it was ALLocmiss's fault! lol
ocmiss since she suggested this one... lol... sorry, I've gotta spread blame somewhere if I wanna survive! lolThe first two are Eureka!Ryan, but... obviously AU because in the regular timeline Ryan will NOT die in either of these ways (#2 is actually an event he survived in the 5 Times Ryan's Life In Eureka Saved His Ass On Atlantis entry!)
1. Mine
Ryan was scrambling up the hill with the rest of the team, trying to dodge to explosions going off around them. As he glanced down at the ground to find good footing, he saw it. The edge of a landmine sticking out of the dirt. Now that he knew to look, he could see dozens, hundreds, of them up ahead. Including...
"Leri, stop!" Ryan yelled running to shove her sideways so she'd fall into the clear patch rather than step on the mine. He wasn't so lucky himself. His right foot hit the edge of the pressure pad and he wasn't sure whether he heard the explosion or felt the pain first, he just knew both were overwhelming until he finally passed into merciful black silence.
~~~
"We need a medical team!" Lorne yelled into the radio as he and Cadman struggled to half carry, half drag, Ryan towards the wormhole Leri had just opened. They had wrapped a tourniquet around the bloody stumpy that was all that was left of Ryan's right leg, but it didn't seem to be doing much good.
As they burst through the event horizon on Atlantis, they lowered Ryan to the floor and Lorne moved to put pressure on the pulse point, hoping to further stem the blood loss until Beckett could get there. But as he did, his eyes focused on Ryan's chest and how absolutely still it had gone. "Ryan?" he asked, though he already knew he'd get no response.
"Dear God," Dr. Beckett said as he and his team arrived. "Move so I can..."
"He's gone," Lorne said, backing away to watch Beckett's frantic attempts.
~~~
Ryan's wishes had been made clear in a letter tucked into his file: cremation, with half his ashes scattered in the coeans of Atlantis, and the other half taken home to Earth, where they should be interred in Eureka. He'd said those were the only places he'd ever really felt at home in, and he liked the idea of being there forever. There was a ceremony on Atlantis for the scattering, which Leri asked to do since Ryan died saving her, and the majority of the city came to watch and pay their respects.
Later, it was Lorne and his team who took the remainder of the ashes to Eureka, where they found a town in mourning, eyes almost universally red and puffy. Zoe was the one who accepted Ryan's ashes, hugging them to her chest.
The ceremony in Eureka was relatively small, just the team and the Blake-Carters, but after it was over, the group headed to Cafe Diem and found it packed full of people, each of them with a Ryan story. When they heard that the paint filled water balloon weapon was real, the team told a slightly editted version of how Ryan had used that as inspiration to win the team a game of capture the flag, and how a colonel got nailed by it. When Allison Blake mentioned the incident involving Ryan and Sheriff Carter shifting out of phase, Lorne told them about it happening again, and how Ryan's message had been about wanting to kill a scientist who'd gotten shifted along with them.
"It was a very Ryan thing to do," Zoe told the team later. "He really... as long as I knew him, it was always everyone else first, him last. I don't think he ever figured out how important he was, because to him everyone else was always more important."
"We're sorry we couldn't do more, though," Lorne told her.
"You brought him home, or half of him, like he wanted. That's enough. That and the fact that, even though he couldn't tell em half of what he was doing, I know he loved his job. Anythign that got him that excited... it has to be amazing."
"It is," Lorne said. "If it's ever declassified, I'll lobby for you to get a ticket to visit so you can see for yourself."
"I'd appreciate that," Zoe said. "But you might not have to wait, I'm getting my physics degree in a few weeks, and Henry said he'd put in a good word for me, like he had for Ryan."
"Good luck," Lorne said, shaking her hand and returning the hug she gave him.
"Thanks for doing your best to take care of him," Zoe whispered. "But he's always been really good at finding trouble, and at least he went out doing something good."
"So you do not blame me?" Leri asked.
"Never," Zoe promised.
2. Immune System Collapse
It was Beverly Barlowe's fault. It was her little friends who'd let loose the virus in an attempt to gain control of Eureka by incapacitating everyone in their way. They just didn't count on the virus interacting with some experiments and turning deadly.
Over 100 Eureka residents died, and even then people kept getting sick for weeks while the top medical minds in the world tried to find a cure. Ryan ended up being one of the last fatalities before a treatment was found, his immune system shutting down entirely and a simple flu putting him down.
Zoe, in full mask and gown, had refused to leave her best friend's side, even though she was mildly ill, having been hit by a less virulent strain of the virus. She held his hand and kept telling him that he'd be fine, he just had to hang on a little longer. And no amount of quiet facts would convince her otherwise. Not until Ryan's temperature spiked to 107 and he went into convulsions, his body shaking so hard the entire bed was moving.
Three days later, Nathan Stark figured it out and started injecting biobots into the surviving residents, allowing them to act as an immune system, destroy the virus, and allow the real immune system to heal. Once it had, the bots would be ordered to go dormant and disolve into the patients blood stream.
Zoe refused to let hers be disolved though, since they were based on some of Ryan's design alterations to Stark's nanobots, and she figured she was as good a long term test subject as any.
3. Crash
Ryan couldn't move as he sat, hanging upside down in the wrecked truck. Beside him, he could hear Marissa groaning and wanted to turn and check on her, but he couldn't move, couldn't feel anything except a tightness in his chest.
"Ryan?" Marissa whispered.
Ryan tried to open his mouth, but even he knew it didn't respond. Something... something was wrong... something was... he couldn't... he couldn't breath... why couldn't he move?
Marissa's voice grew frantic, and pain shot through Ryan's body as she tugged on his body, screaming now that they had to get out, yelling his name over and over again.
It was almost a relief when things went black... silent... still... It was peaceful, without pain or fear.
"I didn't think you'd be next," came a gruff voice, and Ryan found himself on the ground outside the truck, watching as Marissa crawled out, still screaming as she stumbled away and the truck erupted into flames. Ryan turned towards the voice and saw Caleb of all people standing with arms crossed over his chest and an annoyed look on his face. "I expected you to rebuild the Newport Group when you got your degree."
"Mr. Nichols?"
"Welcome to the afterlife, boy. It's... interesting."
4. Party
Ryan froze as the gun went off and he felt a seering pain in his chest. Donnie yanked away, staring in shock, then stumbled out f the party while Ryan collapsed to the ground and the kids started screaming, racing for the doors as though they could escape having just seen someone get shot.
Someone get killed.
Surprisingly, it was Luke Ward who went to Ryan's said and put his hands over the bleeding wound, pressing as hard as he could while Summer yelled for someone to call an ambulance then came over to cover Luke's hands with her own, adding pressure.
But by the time the ambulance arrived, Summer had moved away, quietly sobbing as she sat on the floor, and Luke was sitting next to Ryan's still body, hands resting limply in his lap as he watched the lack of movement in Ryan's chest.
5. Earthquake
Sandy blamed himself. He'd told Ryan to stay put after the earthquake, and Ryan had listened to him. Ryan pretty much always listened to him. So Ryan had bled to death on the couch in the Roberts livingroom. It hadn't been until the middle of the night that Taylor had noticed how quiet Ryan had gotten, and she realized that there was something wrong with his breathing. By then, it had already been too late and he'd died before the ambulance could even get close to the house.
The official cause of death had been internal bleeding, caused by shards of glass lodged in his back, and the doctor had insisted that Ryan might not have made it even if the roads had been clear and someone had driven him in. Even if an ambulance had been called immediately, it might have taken too long to get through the rubble.
That didn't make Sandy blame himself any less, and it didn't stop Kirsten's crying jags that began to happen daily, everytime something reminded her of Ryan. It didn't stop Seth and Summer for leaving for providence at the first chance they got, or stop Taylor from returning to France and to Henri-Michel's arms.
It didn't bring Ryan back, and that was all that would have really mattered.
The End
Please don't kill me for killing hime 5 times... lol... it was ALL
ocmiss's fault! lol
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