This is was first time I was able to see him after the freeze and I was determined that no one will have the chance to drag me apart again.

I stayed in the cage with him, demanding that they leave me in there and leave me be.

"Why was I brought back Khan? You could've just left me in my frozen chamber." I gently asked him standing above him as he sat down on the white bed.

His posture was perfect as always, back straight and gazing up at me.

"They unfroze you before I had the chance to argue, they used you and the rest of our crew against me so I would do as they say."

"Is that why I've been locked away in that horrible prison at Starfleet headquarters? Is that why they wouldn't tell me where you were or why I was there?"

All he did was nod to my questions. My voice echoed throughout the small blindingly white cell.

I slowly felt myself becoming hysterical. I was angry at how they manipulated him, used me and our crew against him and then used him like a lapdog all because Admiral Marcus wanted a war that no one else dared to think about. It made my blood boil and I was ready to rip someone or something to shreds.

"Calm down Sylvia," Khan pushed himself off of the bed and placed his hands on my shoulders. "It's not wise of you to fight, I don't want to see you get hurt."

"And I don't want to see you get hurt either but there's no way I'm going to be able to stop that especially as they're using you for their own personal gain!" My voice cracked but I didn't want to cry. I didn't want to show them I was weak.

"I won't get hurt, we're better than them, we know more than they do and are more advanced than them-"

"But you still let them treat you like some sort of lapdog that's been manipulated against their will." I interrupted him, not thinking about what I was saying.

I didn't feel the need to think before I speak, he had every right to know what I was thinking even if he could easily tell what anyone was thinking I felt the need to say it out loud so it would get through to him.

"I am not their lapdog!"

"Well they've turned you into one Khan!"

Angered flashed in his eyes but I wasn't scared of him. I thought he was going to hit me - I wouldn't be surprised.

In the past he had accidentally hit me for talking back but I was never phased by it. I would normally just go in a huff with him for a while before returning to him and listen to him apologize over and over again. And no matter how many times I felt like the relationship was falling apart, we both always found a way to stop it from falling down.

"Khan, you have to stop this, please. I can't bare to think about the consequences." I whispered, wrapping my arms around him and resting my head on his chest.

"It's already begun and I'm determined to finish what I've started."

I sighed. I knew that no matter how much I begged him to surrender he would still refuse, claiming he had honour when I had heard everyone on this ship say he had none.

He wasn't going to give in so easily.

Even if he escaped here his only option would be to go on the run again and I wouldn't hesitate to go with him, even if that meant staying on the run my whole entire life, I wouldn't care as long as I had him by my side. And no one was ever going to tear us apart.