Lady A: One more chapter then I have to go write up the next ones.
Jim: She is completely mad!
Lady A: *gives him a dead panned look* We know this already, Captain. Please do not state the obvious.
Moriarty: Can I keep her?
Artz: *stuns Moriarty with a phaser* Never in a million years, you psychopath!
Khan: This is what happens when Lock is not here. It makes for far too much stupid in the room.
Lady A: *giggles* You sound like a certain consultant detective, Khan.
Khan: I don't even know what that is supposed to mean.
Lady A: *falls over laughing*
Everyone: *blinks owlishly*
Lady A: Look at you lot, so vacant. Is it nice not being me? *grins like the Cheshire cat*
Artz: *sighs* Our authoress has gone a bit wibbly. Where is Lock when we need her?
Lady A: *continues laughing like mad*
Chapter Seven: Cheating Death
Jim felt the pain lance through him again.
"Artz, we need to get you to sick bay." Jim stated moving forward a little
She smiled slightly.
"Why?" She asked a knowing look in her eyes.
"You were injured when the module exploded. I felt it. It's your left side." He answered.
"Fascinating. You're the one. Chris said you would be…I never believed him. You're really are the one…my chosen." She said quietly before falling backwards.
She hit the floor with a thud and a grunt of pain.
"Artz!" Jim yelled as he raced to her side.
He knelt down just as Bones and the medical team arrived. The doctor started scanning her.
"Punctured lung, grazed the heart…well one of them anyway. Not much time." She whispered fighting to keep her eyes open.
Artz, you have to stay awake!" Jim ordered helping the medical team place her on the hover bed.
Several minutes later in sick bay, Artz lay on a bio bed in critical condition, her vitals all over the place. Bones, Jim, and Spock were off to the side near the doctor's work station.
"She's bleeding internally, her lung has collapsed, and her left heart is irrevocably damaged. Her system can't function properly on one heart alone and without knowing the other half of her species or having a transfusion from both sets of blood, my hands are tied. There's nothing I can do, Jim." Bones informed a look of frustration and uselessness on his face.
He was a doctor meant to save lives and yet he couldn't save the life of the young woman who risked everything to save them. He was beyond angry with himself.
"We can't just give up, Bones. She saved us. The least we can do is save her." Jim replied hotly, his emotions running extremely high.
He couldn't lose her, not now…not when they had just been reunited and he had so many questions. Spock remained silent, knowing that the situation was volatile enough without him adding to the ever growing flames.
"Don't count me out just yet, doc. I have a tendency to do the impossible." Artz said standing in front of the bio bed she had once occupied.
"Artz, you shouldn't be standing!" Jim exclaimed moving towards her but she held up her hand for him to stay back.
"I'm dying…but I can fix that." She stated as a faint orange gold light started to appear from her hands, "See? I have this little trick…sort of a way of cheating death."
The energy started getting stronger and flowed up her neck as well.
"Give you a clue, Doctor McCoy. My other half…is Gallifreyan." She stated smirking.
The doctor's eyes widened to the size of saucers, recognizing the name of the race he had only heard rumors about, and he quickly grabbed Jim and pulled him back.
"Get back!" Bones ordered as the energy erupted from her body.
"What's happening?!" Spock yelled blocking the light from his eyes with his arm.
"She's regenerating!" The doctor answered.
The light vanished faster than it had appeared and she popped forward a bit, her injuries completely healed and her hair slightly longer. She blew it out of her face as she grinned at their shocked faces.
"Hi. The name's Artz. I come from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Casterberus. I am over a thousand years old and I've saved your lives and every member of your crew from hostile aliens wanting to invade our dimension from fluidic space. I think that covers everything, don't you agree?" She proclaimed crossing her arms closer to the end and jutting her right hip out in a sassy manner.
"Over a thousand years old?!" Jim exclaimed astonished.
She rolled her eyes.
"Of all the things I have said and done, it's my age that surprises him." She commented with an exasperated sigh, "Why do humans always have that reaction? What's it like in your funny little minds? It must be so boring."
The three men simply stared at her, sporting fish out of water looks…even the Vulcan. She waited patiently for them to get over their initial shock and for the barrage of questions that was sure to follow.
Lady A: Chapter 7: Cheating Death is over and done with it. I really loved this chapter. It was so much fun to write and type. *giggles like a mad woman* Coming soon: Chapter 8: The Honor of Bones!
