Well hello again, Julian fans
On my first chapter I told people if they had any suggestions for a new story. AMM had a really good idea and I couldn't wait to write it, I was so busy yesterday that I didn't have any time to update!
I hope you like it
*And for some mad reason, I haven't been given the rights to Star Trek. If I did, I would start a DS9 spin off*
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"We're losing helm control, sir!" Julian had to shout over the sparks and alarms that were going off inside the little shuttle.
Not long after he and Sisko left the planet, systems started losing power. It just suddenly happened, no spacial anomalies were to blame, they put it down to just a simple malfunction.
Just when Sisko was going to answer, everything stopped. The alarms stopped, the sparks, all was silent apart from the two occupant's heavy breathing. Frowning, Sisko tapped on his panel, trying to find out what had happened.
"According to this, everything is fine…" He looked at Julian, who was on his own computer panels, trying to get the shuttle moving
"I don't have helm control, Sir. We're adrift in space. I'll send a distress signal" He tapped a few times and turned his chair to face Sisko. "Now what?"
"I suggest we try and repair…" as he was talking, he noticed a high pitch whine, emitting from his console, barely had he time to turn to take a look, that a shower of sparks knocked him from his seat. He landed a few metres away, unconscious
Julian immediately ran to his side, checking for any injury.
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Sisko awoke in comfort; he was on a bed, with a blanket over him. He felt a slight pressure on his head and moved his hand to investigate, feeling a bandage over his left temple. Frowning, he got up and walked to the front of the shuttle, seeing Julian attempting to repair damaged consoles.
"Doctor?" Julian turned round to face Sisko with a look of surprise
"Sir, you should be resting. The medkit was ruined and I couldn't treat your injury properly. Sit down" Julian got up from where he was sitting and moved over to Sisko, pointing to an empty seat.
"What happened?" Sisko asked as Julian was checking his bandage
"I'm not surprised you don't remember, Sir. The entire shuttle went dead, we're adrift in space. I sent a distress signal out and shortly after, your console exploded. You banged your head on the floor but that's all I could detect without a medical tricorder. Are you in any pain, I couldn't ask before as you wouldn't have answered"
He didn't remember any of it, he gently shook his head and squeezed his eyes shut, trying to remember anything at all. "No pain, Doctor. Just a bit confused"
Julian smiled and walked back to where he was originally, starting on repairs again "No wonder, Sir, you were out for two hours!"
Two hours? He remembered something, something bad. He only saw images, Jake! He saw Jake being taken away from him…
"JAKE!" He was running after the hooded figure that held his unconscious son over their shoulder. He already lost his wife, he would be damned if he lost his son as well!
He continued to run, but his legs were beginning to turn to jelly, he couldn't keep up. "JAKE!"
"Sir?" Sisko jumped and stared at Julian, who was still by the helm. "Are you alright?"
"Jake?!" Sisko asked, his voice shaking "Where's Jake?"
Jake? Julian was puzzled "Sir, Jake's back on the station, you saw him right before he left"
"No! I saw him being taken away!" Sisko stood up and slammed his fist on the console "What happened to Jake?!"
Julian jumped when Sisko hit the console; he was delirious, if only he had a hypospray to sedate him. "Sir, you're confused. Jake wasn't taken away; he's safe and sound on the station." It must have been a nightmare he had; now he can't tell reality from fantasy
When Sisko made a move to approach Julian, he collapsed
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"Jake!" He mustered all his strength to drag himself towards the figure, by the time he got there, he saw Jake being handed over to a Borg Drone. "No!" He tried to stand but couldn't, he just had to lay on the ground, unable to prevent his son being taken away from him
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Julian was still trying his best to fix the console, but he wasn't able to get helm control or engines back online. He tried everything he could think of, but still nothing.
If Sisko wasn't unconscious and completely out of it, he would have asked for help. Now he just had to sit by and wait for rescue, bored. He thought he'd check on Sisko, make sure he was still asleep.
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"The boy will be assimilated" the Borg carried Jake away, leaving the hooded figure alone.
The figure was too preoccupied with the Borg, that he didn't notice Sisko drag himself closer to him, grabbing hold of his ankle and yanking hard. The hooded figure landed on the floor next to Sisko and tried to put up a fight, in the process, knocking his hood off.
Sisko's eyes widened at the face in front of him, hazel eyes stared up at him and he smiled a cruel smile before shoving Sisko away and running off into the distance.
"I'll get you, Julian!" Sisko vowed
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Julian walked into the room Sisko was sleeping in, seeing him thrash around in bed, covered in sweat. Julian ran over to get some water and dabbed some on the Captain's face, trying to get his fever down. "Captain, I need you to open your eyes for me"
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He heard that distinct British voice echo all around him; he wanted to make him suffer! How dare he take his only son away! He would make him regret his decision of helping the Borg.
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Sisko's eyes flew open and saw Julian staring at him. "Sir, how are you feeling?"
"It was you!" Sisko yelled, grabbing a fistful of Julian's uniform and pulling him closer "You gave Jake to the Borg!"
Sisko was surprisingly strong for someone who had a concussion and a fever "Sir, I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Don't play innocent with me, Doctor!" he yelled as he pushed Julian away, causing him to stagger back. Sisko jumped off the bed and approached Julian.
"Captain, you're not thinking clearly now! Calm down!" Julian was trying desperately to get the Captain to see he was not a threat
"I haven't thought more clearly in all my life, Doctor" He had cornered Julian, now. Towering over him with threatening eyes. "I remembered"
He had to calm him down, make him understand "Sir, you had a nightmare, it was all a nightmare, Jake is safe on the st…" Sisko's hand shot out and grabbed Julian by the throat, cutting off the rest of his sentence as well as his air
Sisko pulled Julian towards him, all the time keeping sufficient pressure on his throat, Julian's eyes began watering and he clawed at the hand that was strangling him, but Sisko didn't even notice. He dragged him to the back of the shuttle. "Do not lie to me, Doctor! I saw you! You betrayed me, and for what?" He shook the man in his hand "FOR WHAT?!" He dropped Julian on the floor and watched as he gasped for air.
Julian realised with a sinking feeling that Sisko could not be reasoned with, he was angry, and could easily kill him. Giving one last attempt to plead with his Captain, he looked up and was about to speak when Sisko bent down to grab his shoulder and haul him up to his feet
"Where is he?" Sisko demanded before he pushed Julian back against the wall and his head impacted painfully with the metal walls. Sisko let go of him and he slid down the wall, leaving a bloody trail in his wake.
Julian's head was throbbing, the room was spinning and he couldn't bring himself to get up, so he just closed his eyes and hoped Sisko would ignore him for the time being.
Sisko looked down at the Doctor, and watched as his eyes closed. "NO!" He will not let him rest, not for one minute. He once again picked Julian up and shoved him to the floor once more, at this, Julian's eyes opened, he wanted to see where he was landing as to avoid any more damage.
"I knew you were awake, Doctor! Don't lie to me!" he knelt down and pinned Julian down to the floor, he was immobilised, he couldn't protect himself from the blows that were sure to come. "WHERE. IS. MY. SON?" Sisko delivered a violent punch after every word, breaking Julian's skin and splitting his lips, spilling blood down his jumpsuit.
After several more blows to the young man's face, Sisko got off Julian and stepped away. "Well?" he said calmly
Julian was stunned, blood was seeping out his wounds and falling into his eyes, he couldn't see, let alone speak. He just coughed, and winced as a shooting pain hit him in his jaw, it felt dislocated.
"I trusted you, Julian! We all did, how could you do this? What did you get out of it?!" Sisko kicked Julian in the stomach, causing Julian to curl up to protect his ribs "ANSWER ME!" He continued kicking, not caring that Julian's arms were in the way, he only wanted to make the man suffer. He continued kicking until Julian went limp, completely unconscious.
"Just wait until you wake up!" Sisko was so angry, he trusted this man, and he had no idea what had lead Julian to betray him.
He took a step back and threw a hand to his head, things had suddenly gotten distorted and he promptly fainted next to Julian
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Julian awoke to pain, everything hurt. He remembered what had happened and tried to remain still, avoiding Sisko from hitting him again.
He couldn't hear anything, not even the tapping of fingers on a computer panel. He slowly opened his eyes, discovering that he could only open one; his right eye had swollen shut. He moved his head, very slowly, to see what was going on around him. He saw his Captain, lying unconscious next to him, his bandage had a widening spot of blood on it.
Momentarily forgetting about his injuries, he went to move up, only to cry at the excruciating pain that hit his entire body. Just before he faded in unconsciousness again, he heard Kira's voice, calling their names and stating that they will beam aboard shortly. He kept his eyes open and saw a glimmer of blue at the front of the shuttle, and then everything went black
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Kira and Miles beamed aboard the shuttle, puzzled as to why Bashir or Sisko didn't respond to their hails. Seeing the obvious outline of a body, they ran to the back and saw their commanding officer lying unconscious, a bloody bandage on his head, but otherwise he looked unharmed. Kira moved her gaze to the other body, the Doctor, looked exponentially worse. His entire face was a mass of blood and bruises and he was lying curled up, hugging his stomach tightly.
Bringing out her tricorder, she scanned him and blanched at the readouts. He was bad, and it would take nearly a day to get back to DS9. She didn't expect any of them to have such horrifically bad injuries so didn't see reason to bring a medic with them. Julian sounded fine when he sent the distress signal out.
Asking the computer to beam the four officers to the other shuttle, they immediately set course for the station, maximum speed.
Miles helped Kira carefully move Julian to one the beds and made him as comfortable as possible, giving him a hypospray to ease the pain.
Moving to Sisko to check his injuries, she found blood on his knuckles. Taking a closer look, she found no visible wound, she didn't even want to consider how blood ended up on his knuckles. He would never do anything to hurt members of his crew, surely.
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They were due back to the station in fifteen minutes. Both Julian and Sisko were still unconscious, although Miles predicted the latter will be awake before they reached the station.
He wondered back to the back of the shuttle, leaving Kira with the helm. He walked over to Julian, they had cleaned his face but his nose still spilled blood down his face. He was so pale, and Miles could hear his breathing was laboured. He couldn't do anything to help his friend, he felt so useless.
Sighing, he went to check on Sisko, only to see two brown eyes staring at him with a questionable look.
"Chief? What happened?" He rasped
"Sir, we found yours and Julian's shuttle adrift in space after Julian sent a distress signal. He's bad; we're waiting to get him to the infirmary. We don't really know what happened to him" He did know, he didn't want to admit it but the blood on Sisko's knuckles made mute testimony to what had happened to Julian
"He's alive? Don't you know what he did?" Sisko's voice was slowly rising with each word
Miles was confused, what did Julian supposedly do? "What did he do?"
"Jake! It was him, Chief! It was HIM that gave Jake to the Borg!" he slowly raised up and stared at Julian's still form with contempt
"Jake's fine, Sir. He's on the station. You saw him right before you left for the mission. I think you banged your head"
Sisko stared at O'Brien with confusion on his face "What do you mean? I saw Doctor Bashir take Jake and give him to the Borg…" he frowned and closed his eyes
"Jake is safe and sound, Sir. You've got a bandage on your head and looking at the tricorder; you've got a concussion and had a fever. I think you were delirious" Miles was trying his best to make the Captain understand
Sisko was beginning to understand, now. He remembered saying goodbye to Jake, his console exploding, Julian trying to treat him, and then he felt a feeling of guilt. "Oh… Oh… GOD. What have I done? He was trying to explain to me but I wouldn't listen! What did I do to him?" He rose up and walked to Julian's side.
"You can't blame yourself, Sir. You were injured, had a fever, you weren't thinking straight…" Miles would have said more but Sisko turned round and gave him a look of ferocious anger
"What did I do to him?" He ordered, still staring the chief
"Er, head injury, broken jaw, internal bleeding and cracked ribs… but like I said, Sir. You weren't thinking straight" O'Brien said
Sisko nodded sadly and turned his gaze back to Julian, "I see…" thinking about his injuries, he was upset at how he could have done such serious damage with his bare hands "When do we arrive at the station?" he inquired
Just then Kira called over to them, saying that they were approaching the station now and Julian was to be beamed straight to the Infirmary
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Jake had met his father when he stepped out of the airlock and greeted him with a hug. "Are you alright, dad?
Sisko just nodded, hugging his son close. He could not believe that he actually thought Julian would do something that horrible
He released his son and looked into his eyes, before turning to make his way for the Infirmary to be treated himself
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When Sisko entered the Infirmary, he was greeted by nurses and doctors operating on Julian. He didn't want to disrupt them so he just propped himself on one of the biobeds and closed his eyes
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When he awoke, his head was a lot clearer; he opened his eyes and saw one of Julian's nurses hovering over the biobed next to him. Moving his gaze down, he discovered it was Julian on the biobed, his head and jaw wrapped in a bandage.
Seeing the Captain was awake, the nurse explained to him that Julian's injuries were all taken care of and that they had proof Sisko wasn't himself when he attacked the Doctor.
"Thank you, will he remember anything?"
The nurse frowned "He did sustain a lot of injuries to his face and head; I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't remember anything past the shuttle leaving the station. We could try and help him remem…" She was cut off by Sisko's booming voice
"No! I don't want him to remember what I did, and I don't want the incident brought up ever again. Make something up! Please!" His pleads were so genuine, the nurse just nodded and informed the rest of the medical staff of the Captains wishes
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Two days later Julian woke up, indeed not remembering anything whilst on the shuttle. His staff told him he had banged his head in the shower. They added the true injuries and how he sustained them into the medical logs, embedded as so he could never read them
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Do you like it, I really hope you do! I had two drafts but this one seemed better!
Let's all applaud AMM for their brilliant idea *I live for the applause, applause, applause...* o.O
Oh and I doubt Julian couldn't gain access to medical files as he's the f*cking CMO! But let's just all forget that, OK. It's my story *I do what I want!* ;)
And now for a preview...
"Julian was laying on his back, his uniform torn to pieces, revealing bruising and bloody wounds up his entire body. There was a bruise on his temple but no blood on his face. His arm was at an angle which suggested it was broken, as was his leg.
"Julian can you hear me?" Jadzia asked, her voice slightly shaking. He looked awful but at least he was breathing. She could see his chest rising and falling
She received no response and turned to Kira..."
MUSHUSHY- I'll get cracking with your story soon, I just need it to be different from my next story, which I wrote before you gave your suggestion. *Thinking time*