This is the very first fic I have ever submitted, feedback is welcome but please be gentle. It's very short but the first of a series, depends if anyone likes it whether I continue or not.

TITLE: Night Watch

AUTHOR: Brit

STATUS:

RATING: R

PAIRING: Harper/Tyr

SUMMARY: Harper watches Tyr sleep. This was supposed to be Harper/Beka but a certain gentleman got into my head and wouldn't leave until I had written this.

SPOILERS: None that I know of.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Andromeda or any of her characters mentioned in this story. If I did own these two guys I would have a permanent very big grin on my face.



Every night I hide in the crawl space above his room and watch him while he sleeps, he doesn't know that I do this; no one knows that I do it. Even Rommie has no idea, it wasn't difficult to override and block certain systems, not when you're a freakin genius like me.

He would be horrified if he knew; he is the most masculine, the most aggressively heterosexual person on board. Even if he weren't he wouldn't look twice at me. I'm the mudfoot, he is the uber. I'm the annoying brash engineer, always trying to hit on the ladies. Little do they know that if one of them called my bluff I'd run a mile? It's an act I put on, my protective shield. I've been hurt and rejected so much in the past that his ultimate rejection would kill me.

I'm ashamed when I remember the Nietzscheans raping me. My shame isn't because of what they did to me but because I enjoyed it and begged them for more. How would my friends feel about me if they knew that?

He stirs in his sleep, uncovering his magnificent body, he is so beautiful, he has no idea of the effect he has on me. When he calls me 'boy' shivers run through me, he makes me breathless.

I whisper the words he will never hear me say aloud. "I love you Tyr," I make my way back to my own quarters, to sleep and to hope that dreams of him will replace the nightmares, if only for one night.