Chapter 7
Disclaimer: I don't own this show. Damn.
Summary: Captain Dylan Hunt's daughter tries to put the pieces of her life back together after the ship wakes up from the three hundred year entrapment.
A/N: Sorry that this took so long to get up, I have been busy.
I hope that people like this.
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Tessa paced back and forth in her room. She was trying to take in what D'anara had told her. She found herself wondering why he had risked everything to come to her and then not tell her why. She was also wondering how it was that she knew him, why he felt so familiar to her.
She groaned in frustration.
"Tessa?" Rommie's holo asked as it appeared next to her. "Are you alright?"
Tessa turned and looked at the hologram, "No," she said simply, "I'm not".
She placed a hand on the back of her neck and rubbed it.
"I was thinking about D'anara," she went on, walking to the other side of the room. Rommie raised an eye brow.
Tessa reconigized that look, "I keep wondering why he's here, and how he knows me," she went on.
"Why not just ask him?" Rommie suggested.
"I already tried that, he wouldn't tell me anything," she said, plopping on her bed.
Rommie's eyebrow refused to come down, "What about someone else?" she suggested.
"Already tried that too," Tessa answered. "I asked Rev to talk to him, but he was still coy about everything. He keeps saying that he can't tell me why he's here because he's afraid for my safety," she added.
She got up off of her bed and moved towards her rogue's gallery. She picked up a picture of her and Riley.
It was when she was looking at the picture that she suddenly got an idea.
She turned back and looked at Rommie.
"Rommie, I need you to see if you have any records on D'anara," she said.
"What are you looking for?" Rommie asked.
"Anything that would be helpful," Tessa replied.
Rommie gave her another look, "I've only three other people to be this protective of me," Tessa answered, "And two of them are supposedly dead."
"You think that he could be either your mother or Riley?" Rommie asked, this time appearing on the holoscreen.
"I'm not sure," Tessa replied, "But I would like to find out."
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Tessa was on her way back to Command when she heard footsteps coming up from behind her, fast.
She stopped walking and turned around to face the person that was following her.
"I need to speak to you," D'anara said. She gathered from the tone in his voice that he meant it. She nodded slowly and gestured for him to join her in her walk.
"What's on your mind?" She asked.
"I have information about someone on this ship," he told her in a quiet voice.
Tessa raised an eyebrow, "Who?" she asked.
"He is close, and you are already…" he didn't finish his thought.
"I'm sorry, I have already said too much!" he said, looking at the floor. He looked like he was going to cry.
Tessa felt her heart go out to him. She wanted to know what he did, but she didn't want to make him uncomfortable. That wouldn't get them anywhere.
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Tessa stepped into her quarters, even more confused then when she had left. She had listened to D'anara as he told her all of the information that he could. It would have been more of a shock if she didn't already have inkling as to what it was. She could tell from the tone of his voice that he had risked something in telling her the tiny bit that he had. But she couldn't help that he wasn't being totally honest with her, either because he didn't want to, or he was being forced not to.
Tessa grunted in frustration and plopped down on the couch.
"Rommie," she called finally, running her hands towards the back of her head and keeping them there.
An instant after she had called, the ship's A.I. appeared, wearing her traditional Commonwealth uniform: Red with blue stripes. Rommie placed her arms behind her back, looking at the young woman thoughtfully, "yes?"
Tessa looked up at the holo; "Would you please let Rev know that I would like to talk to him?" she asked, her voice sounding desperate.
Rommie simply inclined her head, "Of course," she replied.
"Is everything alright?" she asked a moment later. Tessa shook her head, "No, it's not," she answered.
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Tyr sat behind the private computer counsel that he had in his quarters. He had just gotten done talking to the creature that was known as Collector Trion. From what he had heard in their short conversation, he had nothing that Tyr wanted.
But, Tyr thought to himself, that could change.
-End of Chapter-
