A/N- this is a reply to a challenge by Marissaat the slipstream board write a story in 30 min with following paragraph in it (the paragraph is the first of the fic I am not going to repeat it a 3rd time.) But me and the ss don't get along when it comes to posting so I am posting it here and well ya. Oh and it did that me 45min to write this but that is counting looking up the quotes
Oh and side note I have a lot of tests coming up and I am gone for the next couple weekends so I could be slow in posting new stuff
(ok I edited this because A reading through I saw that I mentioned Rev and then he disappears, and B well there where some minor things that needed fixing. Ok off to spend my weekend 'getting shot at' going to a civil war reenactment, 1st one *jumps up and down with excitement, landing on her hoop skirt and flipping it over her head*.)
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sorrow.
Tibetan proverb
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Tyr picked Harper up off the floor, and flung him against the wall. He could hear the boy's ribs crack, and the small cry of pain but none of it mattered as he hefted the small human into the air.
The engineer connected with a table, and slumped to the floor. His leg was on an odd angle, but it didn't stop him from finding some wellspring of strength to get to his feet, and slice at Tyr with a wicked looking knife.
Growling from the pain of the cut, Tyr snapped the boy's wrist, while contemptuously batting away the weapon with his other hand.
Throwing Harper down to the floor, he kicked and stomped the young human until he had almost beaten him into the Maru's deck. Picking him up once more, he slammed the small human up against the wall, and forced him to look into his enraged glare.
"Now you will tell me NOW where you've hidden it, or I swear you will not live beyond this moment." Harper stared into Tyr's rage filled eyes. A thousand thoughts went through his head, like how could such a good day turn so bad.
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Trust
That funny five letter word people use to tell you they accept you
It's funny how hard it is to give trust
But how easy it is to take away
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Earlier that day
The sun shone down on the group of unlikely tourist. Harper looked up almost hugging the surf board in his hands. Beka glance over at him smiling. It was good to see him smile with everything that was going on. Looking a Tyr she saw Tyr. His expression pure niechzien no emotion of any kind betrayed only the look that he could sap you in half if he wanted. Rev stood to the outside of the group. Passersby where already staring and she knew it wouldn't belong before he headed back to the ship. Shore leave never ended well when Rev stayed down too long. Harper looked over the group "I'm off, met back with you guys in a bit." With those words Harper ran off to the shore, his inhaler bouncing up and down on his chest. With his free hand he tucked it into his shirt and continued running towards the freedom of the waves.
Beka smiled as she watched him run. She looked around the beach trying to figure out a good patch of land for tanning. Tyr just stood next to her like a body guard. She had lost sight of Rev; he must have wandered off while she watched Harper run to the beach. She lay down on the beach and was drifting off to sleep when a shadow was blocking her sun. Moving her hand to shade the sun she looked up into Dylan's face. His uniformed showed that he wasn't here for a day at the beach.
"Thought you said we had the day off from saving the universe."
"Something's come up; I need everyone back to the ship." Beka looked around the beach. Tyr was off in the distance wandering up and down the beach flirting with random women. Rev was still no where to be seen and Harper was out in the waves.
"Well good luck finding Rev and then pulling Harper away from those waves."
"Rev is back at the ship. Harper can stay, let him have his fun." His eyes showed that he still was dealing with the possible death that now hung over the engineers head, the reminder of his infestation hanging around his neck for the whole ship to see. Beka just nodded she still didn't know how to handle what was happening to Harper. He had been her friend for years and now it was not a quick fever that was taking him but the slow death of his worst nightmare. With that the two of them headed off to talk to Tyr and go back to the Maru.
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"Authorization: Shut up and do what I tell you!"
Beka
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Tyr paced the ship. How could such a simple problem turn into such a disaster? The stupid girl had tricked them. The stupid human had charmed Beka and Dylan into letting her aboard. She had talked them into trusting her. And then she had locked them in the brig. Beka was so badly injured Tyr wondered if she would survive. Tyr couldn't even begin to think of Rev. He never knew what to make of the 'peaceful magog' but when that girl shot him and then made Tyr chain him down. Well that was an image he wish he could earse from his mind. The only problem was they all kept playing over and over in his head. All their faces, bloodly, buised and looking to him in the end to save them, in the end he had been the only one to get away. And the burn in his shoulder was an all too clear reminder that he wasn't going to easily defeat that girl, all this for some information that we didn't even have. The comm beeped. What now? Tyr thought as he slammed his hand down on the button.
"Easy I could hear that down here and I don't want to have to rebuild the coms a second time." Harper's cheerful voice came in over the loud speakers. How could the boy be so peppy at a time like this? Tyr had just made it back to the Maru and launched it. If it hadn't been set to return to the planet… Tyr shook his head at his own stupidity. The boy had spent the day surfing while the rest of them had been fighting for their life and the Andromea.
"Harper, the ship has been taken over. Dylan, Beka and Rev have been injured and captured. The female holding the ship claims she won't release it till we give her all the stuff on the Krishna Project. Do you know anything about this?"
There was a long pause before Harper spoke again. "Tyr I think we may have a problem."
"Harper what is it? You need to tell me everything."
"I will big guy, but I think it's better in person."
"I'm on my way to pick you up now."
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?
Love is everything its cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical about it...it really is worth fighting for,
being brave for, risking everthing for.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
--Erica Jong
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Harper paced back and forth at the landing pad. He stopped and took a breath from his inhaler. How could he explain this? How could he explain that he had been so desperate for a cure that he had offered his own sister for a cure? Harper never meant to give Krishna to the traders. They would never get his sister. He had hidden her too well in a pile of false information on a free planet. It had taken the last of the money he had earned, well he didn't think about those days, about what he did to get the money to keep his sister safe.
It was a silly promise. They said they had a cure, he said he knew someone who understood the physics to build the advance slip tunnel. He never thought that they would believe him. He had the beginning computations that Krishna had done years before. She had left out the simple parts that she did in her head but Harper had never been able to figure out those parts. What could he do? How could he save the Andromea and his sister?
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I'm fine the shaking is the side effect of the fear
Willow
The Zeppo: BtVS
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"Ok Boy what do you know about the Krishna Project." The look on Tyr face told Harper this was no matter to joke about.
"It's the name of some information I promised some people"
"Where's the information Harper"
"Hidden"
"Then get it so we can get our ship back."
"I can't Tyr"
"Find a way"
"I won't"
"We need that information to get the ship back." Tyr's eyes
"Tyr think, we can do this another way. We give them the information they have everything. Why would they give us back the Andromea? They'll just want more."
"All I want is that information and then I'll decide if we will give it to them."
"Tyr no one will ever get it." Harper continued backing up until he tripped over a chair on the floor.
Tyr picked Harper up off the floor, and flung him against the wall. He could hear the boy's ribs crack, and the small cry of pain but none of it mattered as he hefted the small human into the air. The engineer connected with a table, and slumped to the floor. His leg was on an odd angle, but it didn't stop him from finding some wellspring of strength to get to his feet, and slice at Tyr with a wicked looking knife. Growling from the pain of the cut, Tyr snapped the boy's wrist, while contemptuously batting away the weapon with his other hand. Throwing Harper down to the floor, he kicked and stomped the young human until he had almost beaten him into the Maru's deck. Picking him up once more, he slammed the small human up against the wall, and forced him to look into his enraged glare.
"Now you will tell me NOW where you've hidden it, or I swear you will not live beyond this moment." Harper stared into Tyr's rage filled eyes. Harper looked into Tyr's eyes and tears welled up in his eyes. Not for the pain that was filling his every thought but for the fact that his sister was going to die because he was too much of a coward.
"It's not an it Tyr, it's a human."
"What does this human know?"
"Too much and she has to stay hidden."
"Why, why is her life more important then Beka and Dylan's, Does her life matter more then the common wealth and all of Dylan's dreams? Does it matter more then the most powerful warship in the galaxy."
"To me."
"You're sick little man; you would give up all that for a girl."
"Not just a girl" Harper wheezed feeling himself start to blackout, "my sister." Tyr stared at him in horror as Harper went slack in his arms. Tyr gently placed him on the ground. What had he done?
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Theresa
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