It's A Trap Challenge: Babylon 5: No Choice

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Title: No Choice
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: John Sheridan.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Spoilers/Setting: Z’ha’dum.
Summary: Sheridan has been warned about what will happen if he goes to Z’ha’dum, but he goes anyway.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 477: Amnesty 79, using Challenge 274: It's A Trap.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.

Even knowing what it will likely mean, Sheridan has no real choice in the matter. Kosh told him if he went to Z’ha’dum he would die, and in his flashforward, Delenn warned him not to go, but somehow that only makes him feel more certain that he must, whatever the cost. The answers to a lot of questions might be found there: who the Shadows are, what they want, what this is all about, and maybe if he can learn the truth, he’ll see a way forward. The only downside is that if he dies, he won’t be able to tell anyone, but it’s a chance he’ll have to take.

So he agrees to go with Anna, the woman who is in some way both the wife he lost five years ago, and someone he can barely recognise. As much as she looks like Anna, at least outwardly, there’s something subtly wrong about her, enough that he knows he can’t trust her. Nevertheless, she won’t tell him all she knows, not here, so Z’ha’dum it is.

But he won’t go unarmed, and he won’t go unprepared. He has a backup plan; if he dies, he’ll take them down with him.

The End