Sophia was cold. It seemed to her that the people in charge of the prison had deliberately turned the temperature down. She was sat on the floor with her legs pulled up to her chest hoping the temperature would rise in the near future. Khan was sitting on the bed, apparently deep in thought and she really didn't want to disturb him because she was still scared of him. Finally he seemed to waken from his thoughts, make Sophia wonder if he had actually been meditating. He looked around the room and his eyes fixed on her. "You're cold." He stated calmly.
Sophia shrugged. "A little." She admitted, not wanting him to know the truth.
"Come here." He instructed. She got up slowly and walked over to him. Khan could tell she was scared and wasn't surprised. Very gently he pulled her down onto the bed next to him. He was surprised by just how cold she was. He lay her down on the bed and pulled the blanket over her. Then he lay down as well. She tensed slightly as his arm snaked out and pulled her closer but he was so much warmer than she was that she didn't mind. It wasn't long before Sophia was asleep and Khan was left to wonder why he was being so soft with her.
Sophia didn't wake up when Admiral Marcus came back. He smiled disturbingly happily at the sight. "You really do have a soft spot for her." He mused. Khan resisted throwing something at the man only because there wasn't anything for him to throw. "You crew is now cryogenically frozen. You will be helping us and she will stay here."
"What do you want me to do?" Khan asked. He knew that he had no choice.
"I believe that there is a war coming. You are going to help us win it." Khan raised an eyebrow. "Or," Marcus added. "Your crew will die and the girl will be hurt." Khan made no answer, showing
Marcus he had won. "Once we have an alias for you, you will begin." Again Khan gave no answer.
Marcus left and Khan looked down at Sophia. She looked a lot younger in sleep than she did awake. She looked a lot like one of the children who had met when he was younger. An awful lot like the girl who had once hidden from bullies behind him. He wondered if fate was playing a cruel trick on him. Gently he shook Sophia awake and told her what was going on. She accepted it without comment. "Sophia, where did you grow up?" Khan asked after a few minutes.
She smiled slightly, he had finally made the connection. "On the corridor above you. Room 96."
"You were one of the little kids who were going to be changed when you were older." She nodded. "You were bullied."
"Not after you helped me but I knew that the normal humans would turn on people like me before too long, just because of fear." She smiled slightly. "I have a question now." Khan sighed and Sophia ignored it. "What did you mean when you said you thought that there was something more to me to Marcus?"
"I meant that I saw you fighting and there is definitely something you aren't telling me." Sophia bit her lip and Khan knew she was thinking. "What is it?" He prompted.
"I'm not entirely un-augmented." She admitted. "The doctors fiddled with my brain just a few weeks before we left on the Botany Bay. I'm still kind of getting used to it." She didn't look at Khan.
"Interesting." Was all he said for some time. Sophia frowned at him. "That is, no doubt, why you were good at fighting." Sophia shook her head. She didn't understand how he could accept that sort of information so easily.
I'm not entirely convinced by this chapter but I couldn't think of a better was of doing it. Khan is being soft again and Marcus has noticed. Do you want more information about their past?
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Guest Jassie - yes, you can translate it into German and put it up. Please tell me how it does. Ich spreche eine kleine Deutsch. But not enough to translate it.
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