TITLE: Goodbye (WIP)
AUTHOR: Katherine (dragon) (Dramkat2)
SERIES: None As Of Yet
PAIRING: Trance/Harper
TYPE: Sad basically AU
RATING: PG-13 to be safe
ARCHIVE: To Andromeda Romance site yes, and others please ask.
SUMMARY: Trance loses Harper, and goes through hell. (Response to Andromeda's Sparky
Awards Challenge)
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Andromeda, just the characters I make.
Trance held Harper's cold body in her small purple arms, mostly covered in dark rich
blood, some hers, but most his. The remains of what was the Maru lay behind them. She felt
numb, her body tingly. She didn't want to look down but she did anyway, there lay Harper's soft
face, so peaceful, his eyes still looking into hers. Flashes of the events came pouring in, the
explosion rocking the ship, the sires going off all around, another explosion, and then the sound
she'll never forget, Harper's head hitting the medal floor.
She had pulled them away from the ship and held him close begging him not to leave her.
He said he wasn't going anywhere and then he stopped talking still smiling, with those blue orbs
sparkling into hers.
Trance reached down and shut his eyes, she let her head drop to his chest then hard as she could
began to cry, he was gone he was really gone. She was alone on this plane; it would be days
before Andromeda found them. She didn't care if they ever showed up at all, she couldn't face
them. She was supposed to protect him and she had failed.
Trance sat up and pulled Harper up to her. Holding him tightly.
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Trance heard the slipfighter land near them. She looked at Harper still in her arms "They're here." She pulls him up to her chest, and begins to rock back and forth. She heard Rommie and Beka stop and gasp. Rommie's hand appeared on her shoulder; she stopped her rocking and slowly looked up at her. "He fell, he hit his head, he bled, and he isn't talking to me anymore." Tears started streaming down her face
.
Rommie looked back to Beka and saw the tears running down her cheeks as well. She
looked back to Trance who was rocking Harper's dead body and humming lightly. "Trance... we
need to go back to Andromeda."
Trance looked at her blankly. "Okay." Rommie reached down and tried to pick up Harper, but Trance held on tightly "No...No" she pulled him back, and again held him to her chest. "You can't take him from me."
Rommie frowned and looked like she would cry. She put her hand on Trance's shoulder again. "Trance you're weak, you can't carry. Let me. I won't take him out of you site...okay?" Trance looked at her for a moment and then back to Harper for a second she looked like she was gonna yell, but in the end she lifted Harper up so Rommie could take him.
Trance looked at Rommie watching her carry Harper's limp body. How was she gonna tell
the crew? Dylan would want a report. He'd ask for it as soon as she got onto the ship, not caring
for her feelings. If he does that she'd knock him out!
They reached the fighter and placed Harper the back, Rommie turned to Beka "Wait here. I've
told Andromeda to send a crew down to get the Maru and bring it back to the ship." Beka
nodded, tears still stained her cheeks. Trance sat down next to Harper, she smiled and smoothed
his hair. It was always messed up.
The trip back was fast. As they entered the docking bay she could see Dylan waiting with some of the med officers. Why do they need a med officer? I can tell them he's dead, gone, not coming back. She wanted to yell but she didn't have the strength to.
Dylan held a sad look as he watched Trance walk off the ship. Trance looked at him, her
eyes holding tears that had yet to fall. She watched him walk up to her and ask what she had
already known he'd ask. Trance didn't even remember doing it, but the next thing she knew she
was being held back by Rommie and Dylan was on the floor holding his nose. She struggle
against Rommie "You heartless bastard!!! You don't even care!!" she pulled out of Rommie's
grasp. "Get away from me!" She went at Dylan again, but this time she was stopped by a hypo
being pushed to her neck, and she was out.
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Trance woke up in the brig; she hated to be confined in a small space. She sat and pulled
her knees up to her chest waiting for someone to come. She didn't have to wait long soon Beka
walked in a sat down in front of her cell, she looked up at Trance pity in her eyes "Never thought
I'd see you in here."
Trance looked up at her, her face blank "I mean every word I said, he can't keep me in here for ever just because I hurt is little ego."
Beka's face went from pity to shock in seconds, hearing Trance talk like that. "Trance you broke his nose."
Trance simply stared. Beka sighed "Trance we're all upset about Harper, but you can't take it out on Dylan."
Trance shot an ice-like look at Beka. "You think I was taking the death of Harper out on Dylan! I hit him because he didn't even care. The first thing he wants is a report of what went wrong with the Maru. Not to know what happened to Harper, but what happened to your ship!!"
Beka looked at Trance in shock again "What happened to you Trance? This isn't you."
Trance stood up "How do you know who I am or not!? How do you know the last two years haven't be a joke?!"
Beka stood up her face now sad. "I don't. I'll be back in about an hour to pick up for his funeral." She turned and walked out.
Trance plopped back onto the floor. What did they know? Nothing, they didn't spend three days holding their best friend's body. They didn't know her. She went on like this until Beka came back with two guards.
Beka looked at her "Ok Trance, you ready"
Trance stood up. "No I'm busy can ya come back later." She stepped up to the barrier. As Beka let her out keeping a very close eye on her, she could tell Beka was now scared of her. That's why she had brought the guards. Trance smiled to her self, as they walked to the Ops deck. Everyone was there looking at the coffin.
Trance looked at it, nice and smooth nothing like Harper. He was rough and messy. That's why she liked him so, he didn't care about the order everyone else had, he had his own. And now he was gone, and she had managed to scare Beka and break Dylan's nose. What was happening to her? She wanted Harper; she needed him to make her laugh when she wanted to cry. But he was gone, he wouldn't come back, she'd never hear him laugh, they'd never sit up at all hours talking while he fixed something or made a new gadget.
She fell to her knees, tears streaming down her cheeks, while she held her head and yelled those thoughts to stop. Beka reached down and held her close as she was racked with wave after wave of sobs.
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Trance didn't know what happen, but she somehow ended up back in her quarters. She sat on her bed staring out the window; she had been there a while. Rommie had brought her food five times so it must have been about two days now. It couldn't be good for her to stay here, or for them, something was happening to her she knew it. She was changing, her temper, which was never there before was suddenly very there and she didn't know how to control it. She was stronger too. She also felt funny, like something was happening to her skin. She had heard of this kind of stuff happen to her people before, but most had either left the planet and were never heard of again, or they had killed them selves. She didn't like her options.
For the first time in two days she moved off the bed and stepped to the floor and moved to the bathroom. She turned the shower on and undressed; stepping into it she felt her skin tingle the feeling of hot meeting cold. She lowered her head letting the water cascade down her neck and onto her back. She placed her head on the wall and thought, she wanted to hate Harper, hate him for leaving her alone and scared. She wanted to Hate Dylan for not caring, she wanted to hate Beka for trusting her too much, she wanted to hate Tyr for thinking her weak and a traitor, and Rommie well she just wanted to hate her. But she couldn't hate them for something they couldn't help. She finished washing and stepped out of the shower, pulling a towel on. She walked to her closet and slipped on a pair of shots and a small tank top.
She walked back to her window and looked out it. They were near a nebula, the blues and greens mixed with reds and oranges. It was beautiful. Trance frowned and let a tear fall, "how could something so beautiful be looking at me when I'm in so much pain."
"But the universe has a sick sense of humor." said a soft voice
Trance spun around and looked into the ice blue eyes of her dead best friend. "You're not here, you died"
Harper laughed "Yeah I'm not here, but you want me to be so I'm here."
Trance smiled "So I'm crazy now?"
Harper laughed. "Not any more than normal, you just haven't let go of me yet."
Trance frowned again. "I don't want to, I'll have nothing left."
Harper frowned slightly. "You will too, the crew, your plants."
"I'm leaving, I can't stay here, I have to be on my own for a while," said Trance, her eyes tearing up again.
Harper looked into her eyes "If that what it will take" with that he faded away
"No! You left again!" trace fell to the floor crying.
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It had been two more days and Trance now stood in front of a slip fighter, a small bag in her hand. She had masked her life sign so Rommie wouldn't know what she was doing until she was gone. She had picked this fight because it was the one she had flown back to Andromeda on with Harper's body.
Trance threw her bag in the back and climbed into the fighter prepping in to launch, she had to work fast. If Rommie caught her they'd throw her back in the brig and it might be weeks before she could try again or they'd dump her on a planet. And she didn't need that to happen. She finished quickly and launched out of the ship. She was quick to scramble the fighter's pattern they'd never have a chance of finding her now. She prepared to go into a slip portal.
"They'll miss you," said Harper
"I don't care," said Trance, still typing.
"Ok then," he kissed her cheek "Goodbye my purple princess."
Trance laughed as a tear fell from her eye. "Goodbye Harper." She flew into the portal.
That's the end of Chapter one. This will be continued
