Chapter Three
It took Edward three days to piss off everyone with his holier than thou attitude, in fact the first person he pissed off surprisingly enough was Ivan, the calmer of the lot. That fucker should never have insulted his wife to begin with; he found himself on his ass in the mess hall very quickly after that. Ivan didn't even put his coffee down to do it, just kicked his leg out and down winding the stupid fucker.
Now a month into the mission they had yet to find anything, if it weren't for the fact that there was some forms of entertainment on the ship they all would have gone insane. Demetri for one was glad as all fuck when he found his bow hanging on the rec room wall.
"I'm sick of looking at bloody asteroids and stars. We better find something to explore soon or Edward is going to find himself shot out of an air duct, and Jane might just go on a murdering rampage for the hell of it and blame space madness." Demetri grunted out as he let another arrow go when he heard the doors swoosh open.
Marcus chuckled, "Why it still surprises me that you know it's me each time I don't know, but I whole heartedly agree."
"Do Aro and Caius know that you are dying and don't plan on returning back to earth?" Demetri asked seriously as he placed his bow down and turned to face the eldest Volturi brother.
Marcus's brows rose at the question and shook his head slowly, "No, I told them it was to make sure that you all did your jobs right. How did you find out in the first place– wait, I don't want to know."
Demetri chuckled, "Wise choice. Don't worry, only myself and Emmett know. You forgot that Emmett is our doctor and I the captain. I have to know all my crews' health, both physically and mentally."
"Fair point." Marcus hummed. "I have come to collect you for shift, Felix looks about to fall asleep on the controls. According to Alec we have been picking up anomalies in space."
Demetri sighed before placing his bow back onto the rack. "I'll be there shortly, just let me shower and change."
"As you wish," Marcus stated before leaving to go back towards the bridge. It didn't surprise him that Demetri figured out his plan so quickly, after all it was true that the captain of the ship must know all his crews' health, it just prepared him for different situations.
"Why it surprises me that only you and Jane can interrupt Dem while he is shooting is beyond me, but I'm glad." Felix chuckled tiredly as his hands and eyes roam sluggishly across the screens before him. Ten hours of this was tedious and Felix was sure as fuck glad that he will be able to sleep soon and not have to wake up till his next shift.
"Because Marcus is my elder and Jane can kick my ass, she scares the fuck out of me." Demetri chuckled as he walked to his station, "You can leave now. You look like death warmed over."
"Gee thanks so much." Felix replied dryly as he stifled a yawn. "But truly thanks, I don't envy you." He snorted out before standing and stretching, his joints cracking.
"Yeah, just go sleep. Alec, you want to bring me up to date on your readings before Ivan comes to relieve you?" Alec nodded while transferring the data from his station to Demetri's.
"From my calculations Dem, if we continue this course we will run head on into the anomaly and I highly doubt ye' want that." Peter drawled out while finishing off the rest of the calculations on what direction they should head into to avoid it.
Demetri hummed in thought as he looked everything over; there were what would be deemed as ripples in space. Something that seemed strange as the anomaly wasn't there at the end of his last shift, so they – the ripples – just suddenly popped up.
"No, we will continue on the same course, we need to investigate what it is. Peter, find us a way we can get close to the thing as safely as possible for – god forbid – Edward to actually do his job and examine it and what not." Demetri sighed out harshly; they all had been avoiding Cullen as much as possible or he would end up in outer space.
"Aye Capten'" Peter saluted with a chuckle before beginning a new set of calculations to do what Demetri asked for.
Shaking his head, Demetri sighed, exasperated, "For the last time Peter, you're not a damn pirate."
"We're on a ship, are we not? Specifically, we're on a ship called the Arc, you are our captain and we your crew. I have every right to be a pirate." He pointed out, never looking away from the screen before him.
"Why me?" Demetri muttered to himself while his eyes looked up at the ceiling in exasperation.
"Peter going on about being a pirate again?" Jane asked as she walked onto the bridge to relieve her twin. "I thought space would be fun and we would actually have work to do, but half the time it's doing readings and then just regular maintenance." She sighed while cracking her fingers.
"One would agree but alas, no. I think we got gypped." Peter answered in an exaggerated sad tone.
"At least they gave us things to do on board and comforts of a four star motel but right now we do have work to do." Demetri quipped as he began to slow the craft down till Peter had the equations done.
"If we head due east by 17 degrees we will reach the safety point to view the anomaly in little over 15 hours. I'm sending you the coordinates now so you can correct the course." Peter informed after ten minutes of silence, when his program beeped to indicate the completion of its task.
"Good, we'll have to inform Jasper, Felix and Ivan when they start the next shift so they are forewarned about our plans. I'll get Marcus to inform Edward of his job once we reach our destination." Demetri informed the others while he adjusted the course of the ship and the speed Peter had calculated for before he settled in for the long task of avoiding asteroids and keeping an eye out for planets or other signs of life forms.
Jane looked over her shoulder at Demetri and frowned worriedly. "Hey, Pete?"
Peter at hearing his name looked up from his screens and over towards where he heard the whisper. "Yeah what's up Jane?"
"Have you noticed that something's different about Demetri? He's been acting all strange like since we started this mission; I'm a bit worried." She whispered while looking quickly over to Demetri's stiff frame to make sure he didn't hear.
"Somethin' big is comin' Sug, for all of us. You know sometimes I get these knowin' feelings? Well something told me that our Cap'n there has sensed it coming too and he's a bit worried. You've known him longer than us so you know that out of all of us Demetri is the serious one, the one to take blame if something bad happened to us." Peter stated softly, trying to soothe the little sprite everyone had adopted as a sister. It was very rare that she was worried or frightened and right now she was both and it didn't sit well with him.
"Do you know what it is?" Jane asked, somewhat relieved but still worried.
He shook his head, "Sorry Sug', my knower doesn't give me all the information; just snippets."
"Thanks anyway Pete." Jane sighed before turning back to her station.
"You're welcome, now our shift is about to end. In fact Jasper and Felix are on their way up now." He told her with a smile, his eyes locking onto the security screens next to him. For a ten man ship there were at least twelve stations they had to monitor; it was excessive, especially since there was at least three to four on deck.
"We have arrived to relive you!" Felix boomed out as he stepped onto the deck with a wide smile. Jasper stood at his side with an amused expression as he shook his head.
"You've been hanging around Emmett too much. Alright bro, up you get and go get some rest. You too Darlin', if you leave now you'll get to be all kissy with that husband of yours in the hall." Jasper drawled out, laughing as Jane shot out of her seat and down the hall to find her husband.
Demetri tensed as he felt a hand land on his shoulder before relaxing when he realized it was only Felix, looking quickly at the clock he was surprised that it was time for his shift to end.
"Anything new to report?" Felix asked, choosing to completely ignore how tense or zoned out his friend was.
"Yeah, wait till Ivan is here so I can update you on what we are doing. You'll need to alert everyone immediately when we reach the destination." Demetri informed him, holding back the yawn; he didn't realize how tired he truly was till then.
"I'm already here, Jane said there waz something ve needed to be invormed of, zomething mission wize." Ivan stated as he and Jasper walked to where Felix and Demetri stood on the bridge.
"Okay, Alec detected an anomaly during his shift and I decided we needed to check it out. Something like this doesn't just appear when it wasn't there on my shift; I've already corrected our course so we stop a safe distance away with Pete's calculations. We should reach there in- five hours and thirty-two minutes. I'm off to bed; alert us when we reach there." He informed the others tiredly.
"Aye Captain, now go rest." Felix chuckled out with a salute, causing Demetri to pull a face before making his way to the bunk area. He couldn't shake the feeling something bad was going to happen though.
A/N: Well, you just know what's going to happen next right?
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