So this is my first The last ship Fanfic. I hope you like it. it'll be a Rachel/Tom Story. I hope that even in the series she'll appear out of secret, lets hope she has to hide for her safety or something. let's be honest those two belong together and TNT would have made a big mistake to kill her, tom and rachel had huge chemistry, but anyway. I hope you like the story. sadly enough I do not own anything.
"Can we talk about what's going on in there?" Chandler approached her outside of the plastic quarantine bay. Placing my thermos on one of the cases I nodded my head tears stinging my eyes.
"we have it." I said out loud for the first time, a weight lifted off my shoulders as I finally said it out loud, like it was only real now. "We have a vaccine?" he asked, his voice more emotional then I had ever heard before. Tears pooling in his eyes as he took a step closer to me.
"We don't just have a vaccine." I admitted, looking at him. "You mean?" he questioned, rocking on his feet, so unlike him. "I mean that we can save people who are already sick." I sniffled, emotional as all the hard work, commitment, long hours to come to this point came crashing around us.
my emotions getting the better of me as the captain enveloped me in his strong arms, nobody could deny the chemistry between, the tension between the two of us having multiplied after the kiss at Vyerni. His masculine scent, his strong arms wrapping around my body, like some short of blanket, trying to protect me against the emotions I was feeling.
A tear slipping out of my eye as I hugged him back. "we finally have it." he whispered, his breath against the skin of my head. "yes." I nearly sobbed, whether it was from exhaustion, the relieve or being wrapped up in The captains arms I didn't know, but I did know that my knees were feeling very week all of a sudden. "hey there." He whispered, his arms tighter around my body as I felt my knees buckle under me, the captain my only support as held me upright.
"You haven't been resting much have you?" he asked, but it sounded more like a statement. "no." I admitted sheepishly, looking up at him, his sky blue eyes, looking into mine and I had the urge to kiss him again, looking between his eyes and lips, I got my knees back under me and took a step back, fighting every instinct to do so as I wanted nothing more than to kiss him, the shimmer of his wedding ring a reminder of why I couldn't. 'no Rachel, he's married.' I told myself.
"I should probably get to work and start making the Vaccine's for the crew." I whispered, taking another step back as his hand reached out. "I'm sure you can start that tomorrow after you've had some rest." He said, caressing my cheek, no longer being able to fight the instincts I leaned into his touch.
"I should go." I whispered, pulling away from his touch, his ring touching my cheek like a bucket of ice water being poured over my desires and feelings. Walking to my lab in the other space, I put on my protective gear and started process of making the cure for the cure, I just had to put it together, the machines would do the rest.
Leaving my lab I walked back to the Quarantine zone, "why don't you two go and rest, it's been a busy 48 hours" I suggested, looking at Doc Rios and Quincy. "What about you?" Quincy asked, "I'll be fine, I'll sleep on the cot, I need to be in range of the lab anyway." I shrugged my shoulders.
They tried to convince me in one of them staying behind, but I was determined to see this through and be here for the people who had put their fate in me, had put such a fate in me that they volunteered to test prototype vaccine. I thought it was important for them to know that I was still here and didn't forget what they had done.
Pulling on the protective gear I made my way back in the protective plastic, wanting to check all 5 of them, to make sure they would be okay. "Hey Master Chief, still awake?" I smiled down at him, walking to the small table and pouring a cup of water, handing it to him. "as are you." he stated. "I have a lot of work to do." I explained, taking the blood pressure cuff and wrapping it around his arm.
"I'm sure you could rest a little bit." He noted. "maybe;" I smiled, knowing I wouldn't but he didn't need to know that. Next I moved to Mills, he was sound asleep, Garnett seemed to be asleep as well so I let them be.
Kara wasn't asleep, her hand resting on her stomach as she stared ahead in disbelief. "Hey, how are you feeling?" I asked, walking between her and Tex's cot, he was snoring softly.
"I don't know." She let out a laugh. "happy, surprised?" I asked, sitting on the edge of her bed, wrapping the cuff around her arm.
"both." She smiled. "I think I haven't said congratulations yet;" I smiled, taking her one hand in mine. "thank you." she beamed. "everything's in order, don't worry, if there's anything you need, you can always come to me." I assured her with a squeeze of my hand. "thanks, I might take you up on that offer, I don't think I want the ship's doctor checking my pregnancy." She admitted sheepishly. "well, I'm always here." I smiled. "now get some rest, I'm sure now that we have a cure, we'll be looking for a lab of mass production;" I told her.
"Probably." She agreed, "you need anything before I go?" I asked, getting up. "could you give me some water?" she asked, "Of course." I smiled, walking to the pitcher, before bringing her cup and walking out of the plastic 'cage'.
I ended most of the night walking between the lab and the quarantine zone, checking on the five brave souls. When morning came I had enough doses for the crew and 60 more doses. "Have you slept at all?" Tex asked as I was making my round in the 'cage.'
"a little here and there." I lied, avoiding eye contact. "I don't believe you." he pointed out, getting up. "tex in bed." I ordered. "come on, I feel okay." He objected. "fine, but you're not leaving this room, until the entire crew has had their shots." I told him in a tone that didn't leave any room for discussion. "yes, ma'am." he saluted.
One by one they started to wake up. I knew the crew of the ship would be getting up as well, so I wanted to wait for them to get their shots, so the five of them could go to the mesh halls. Show that they were okay.
Maybe I should go and see the captain to get some sort of plan to get everyone vaccinated. 'speak of the devil' I thought to myself when I saw him and Mike come into the room. "Captain, Commander." I greeted, walking out of the plastic cage.
"Dr. Scott, have you had any sleep?" The XO asked, looking at me. "here and there." I lied, looking down at my now very interesting boots. "Well, I'm sure you'll be able to get some rest after today." The XO said, knowing he'd seen through my lie.
"the vaccines for the crew are ready, I was thinking to maybe gather them on the flight deck and give them the shots as soon as possible, the five of them will be able to leave soon." I suggested, looking between the Captain and the XO.
"sounds like a plan." The captain agreed, looking at me with an emotion I couldn't quite place in his eyes. Quincy, Beatrice, Doc Rios came in at that moment as we started explaining how the crew would be vaccinated, the XO had left to make an announcement over the com whilst I showed and prepared the vaccines in the lab. The four of us got the shots as first. "I'm going to the Captain's state room; I'll meet you on the flight deck when I have given him his shot.
Knocking on the door of his state room his reply came: "Come in."
"captain, I'm here to give you your shot." I said, holding up the small case in my hands. "have you eaten yet?" he asked, worry in his eyes and voice; "not yet." I admitted, no point in lying, he'd seen through my first lie already. "Well, after this you're joining me in the mesh hall for breakfast with the officers;" he stated, but it sounded more like an order to me; "Is that an order captain?" I asked, my back towards him as I prepared his shot, the atmosphere filled with tension of where we had left of last night.
'come on Rachel, he's married. Soon he'll be finding his family, just stop it.' I chanted to myself.
"You sure you have enough for the entire crew?" he asked, feeling the eyes on my back as I prepared his shot. "and 50 or 60 more." I replied, finally turning around to look at his face, whether I didn't want to realise or was just being ignorant of the look in his eye I didn't know, but it was something I wasn't used to being projected at me.
"When we get home we can use this as a vaccine and a cure?" he asked, "the uninfected will be immunized and the sick can be cured." I explained. "Providing they're not to far gone." I added with a tilt of my head; he tilted his head in agreement as I picked up the disinfectant swab and started walking over to him, where he was leaning against his desk.
"after all the failures and the false starts, I just feel so…" I ended, not knowing how to explain what I felt, happy was only the beginning after all the failures, the exhaustion, the ugly stares of the crew after they had been told the truth, the distrust in their eyes as the mission continued, the vaccine failing, the 16 crew members wanting to leave because of it, all of it had led up to this.
"Happy?" The Captain asked, catching my eye for the first time I had come into his stateroom, had been trying to avoid his gaze knowing it wouldn't do any good as my attraction towards him only continued to grow and those eyes had the capability to suck you in, as blue as the sky they were, like they had no beginning or end, just like I didn't know how I had felt for him in the first place. How could I have let this happen.
Taking a deep breath I replied, not breaking eye contact: "I can't truly remember the last time I felt that emotion." I admitted, as he pulled up his sleeve and I started to wipe his arm.
"still so much to do, we have to mass produce it, we have to distribute it." I sighed, dropping my gaze for a second, when I thought to the next load of working in the future, but I had come this far, the rest would only be like a walk in the park.
"Rachel?" he said, his tone making me lift up my head as I met his eyes again. "you did it," he smiled, his eyes full of trust. "let's enjoy the moment." He stated as I put the needle in his arm, before pulling it back out, our fingers touching slightly as he pulled his sleeve down as I rubbed the spot.
Electricity shooting through my body at the contact, 'god, get a grip Rachel.' I told myself.
"Come on we should check the flight deck, I'm sure you want to see the results of your hard work." He smiled, motioning for me to go first as he pulled his state room open.
So that's the first chapter. More will follow I hope, I'll take a slightly different turn of events, but still I hope to make it interesting for you guys. Just let me know if you'd want me to continue or not.