Three days past and Janet was still holed up in Heller's tent. Janet had been suspicious about Heller from the moment they met. After all Heller was made from the Council and Janet knew just how their old leaders worked, she'd dealt with them enough times. The Colony had stopped for a winter storm to pass, leaving Janet and Heller alone more often.

On the third day she looked at Heller while the doctor checked her side. "I know who you are."

Heller gave her a funny look and went on dressing the wound and taking care of the infection. "Well of course you. I've been taking care of you for three days."

Janet looked at her seriously, "No. I mean I know who controls you."

The doctor froze. She slowly looked up and met the other woman's dark blue eyes. "What are you saying?"

"You know damn well what I'm saying. I can tell by the way you looked at me the first time we met. You knew the They sent me like they sent you." Janet spoke with a hushed voice.

Heller looked at the tent flap. "How could you tell about me?"

Janet grinned, "Your kind was made by the Council. Unless you've turned your back on them yet they still own you."

Heller shifted uncomfortably and continued dressing the wound. "So will you tell the colony?"

The red head laughed bitterly, "Ha! Course not. If I give you up I give up myself." She propped up on her elbows and grinned sarcastically. "Besides, you're saving my life, I owe you some respect."

Julia looked at the red head and then back at the wound. Needless to say she was a bit surprised. "So we know each other's secrets and you respect me? Alright, I'll do the same." She glanced up at the other woman's blue eyes.

Janet closed her eyes. "I thought so."

Outside the tent, True and Ully kept trying to peak in and see Janet. They could see the women talking but they had no idea what it was about. Just as Janet got up on her elbows a familiar voice called out behind them.

"True! Ully!"

They turned around.

Devon came striding up to them with a friendly smile on her face. She stopped a little when she reached them, "Now what are you two doing over here?"

Ully answered for the pair, "We wanted to see how Janet was doing."

She chuckled and then put her hands on their shoulders and guided them away from Heller's tent. "Now I know it's exciting having someone new around. But we have to be careful, we don't want another situation like Gaal. Do we?" They shook their heads, True looked slightly upset. "We'll let her rest and then we'll get to know her better. But in the mean time I want the both of you to stay away from her."

"But she saved me from that mud slide," True said earnestly. "She's not like Gaal at all. Really Devon."

The woman smiled at True's words. "I know she did True but for the Colony we have to be careful."

She left them in the middle of camp near her tent and went off to do something else. True and Ully walked into his tent.

"Why won't anybody listen to me Ully?" True asked as they went for the V.R. gear on a table.

"I listen to you," he said kindly. True gave him a less than half hearted grin and shrugged her shoulders. He went on, "They just don't see her the way we do. The Terrians even told she's a good guy."

True messed with the gear in her hands, "I know they don't trust strangers because of Gaal, but Janet is different. My daddy said she was bringing more people for the colony and she saved me."

Ully always knew what to say as he did now, "They just have to get to know her like you do. She didn't save them."

True looked at him and knew he was right. He turned on his gear and she did the same, they ended up playing the rest of the day with the V.R.

Meanwhile Morgan sat by his and Bess's tent, he kept staring at the medical tent. It was obvious he still didn't like the newcomer. Bess sat down next to him and knew what he was staring at.

"Hun please just move on. She isn't a threat, not her in current state. And she was sent here to bring us more colonists. She isn't all bad." She rubbed his shoulders in a comforting way but still he didn't drop his gaze.

He slowly shook his head. "There's something about her Bess I just don't have a good feeling. You keep saying she isn't like Gaal but it was so easy for him to trick us, it could be the same with her."

"But she saved True's life. True keeps saying that Janet didn't even want to join us after the crash. She wanted to die when we left her the first time, she almost did." Bess tried to convince him to soften up at the idea of Janet, she wasn't being successful.

He shook his head firmly and stood up, going back into the warm tent, his wife followed him. "I wish she had. It would have done us all a favor."

"Morgan!" She chided him. "How can you say such a thing?"

He raised an eyebrow and laughed once, "By remembering the treachery of Gaal that's how."

"Gaal wasn't like her Morgan," she said firmly. "She was a pilot bringing more colonists. She was and is one of us. Whether you like it or not."

He looked at her and sighed. "Bess I know you're trying to help her but I don't trust her. Can't you feel the tension she's created?"

"You mean what Gaal created."

"Gaal seems to be a reoccurring issue here."

She dropped her crossed arms. "He ruined how we perceived strangers. But Janet technically isn't a stranger. She came from the stations after we left. Her whole family is dead, she's on the edge of life or death herself and she's scared." She went closer to him and looked into his eyes. He looked back in his sheepish way. "I know it's hard to get past what Gaal did, but we can't distrust everyone we meet. I have to believe that not everyone new is like him. If we did that we wouldn't move on as a colony. Lots of people we don't know are coming our way and if we can't forget about Gaal then we learn from him. Janet is a learning experience too."

Morgan knew she spoke the truth, even though he didn't want to accept it. He looked at her in defeat and held up the V.R. gear. "Care to join me for lunch?"

She smiled. "Of course Morgan." She smiled and took the second V.R. head set. She knew that by him not arguing back meant that she had won the argument.

While they sat at a nice table and enjoyed a V.R. lunch he looked at her apologetically. "You're probably right Bess but I still can't shake this feeling in my gut. I don't know what it is but it only started when this Janet Saint came into camp. I can't shake it either."

She smiled kindly. "Just give it time and effort and it'll pass."

They both smiled and commenced with their V.R. lunch date.

Danzinger was sitting on a rover adjusting the controls. The cold winter weather was freezing everything and he constantly had to do updates and check that the rovers would run correctly. He looked up and saw Devon with True and Ully, they went into Devon's tent and he guessed they were playing in V.R. After all what else were they supposed to do in the cold? He looked around the camp and saw Bess and Morgan talking, Morgan seemed up set and Bess kept trying to convince him of something, John knew about what. In the time since he had brought Janet back Morgan had done nothing but throw the medical tent dirty looks and talk about Janet in a negative light.

"Guess he was affected by Gaal on a level none of us knew." He thought to himself.

Danzinger himself couldn't deny that he was a little wary of Janet. It was only natural after the situation with Gaal and how close the man came to seriously hurting True, or worse. But Janet had been one of them and the main concern with her was just building trust, after all there wasn't anyone alive on the planet who could speak for her, no second opinion. He felt indebted to her after she saved True and he was beginning to realize that he had developed romantic feeling for her. She was an independent but caring woman.

Strong and pretty, and True adored her. He never met a woman quite like her and he loved that about her, he also couldn't shake the thought that maybe she cared about True like she knew what it was like to be a mother. Danzinger was almost certain the red head had had a child at one time, but what had happened that made her so hostile towards others he didn't know and couldn't guess. The other guesses he did make were ones he didn't want to think about.

Unbeknownst to Danzinger the woman he had saved felt very strongly for him. As she lay back on her cot to get some rest, Heller was gone by this time, she passed her time doing a lot of thinking. Mostly about John Danzinger and True. John had looks and a personality to go with it. Not to mention he was a father and she could relate to him about being a parent. One thing her ex husband never understood were children and when they were faced with that situation he just so happened to get a promotion at the same time that required him to be away more often. She always wondered if the love they felt for each other had ever been real or if she was just a trophy wife for him.

That was when she decided to join her cousin and become a pilot. Boy did the Council love that. A woman who had a child and whose family was indebted to the Council for giving them money to live? They latched onto her right quick and were kind enough to provide child care services so that she could work for them more. She quickly became a pilot and excelled at all missions. Not long afterwards, she learned that her brothers, father and husband had all died in an Earth mine. The death of her family effected her deeply but she fought through it for the sake of someone bigger than herself. Then the real tragedy happened.

She hated thinking about it but it had been over twenty six years since that day and she forced herself to keep going. Her thoughts led to the Danzingers. For reasons Janet didn't want to understand she had latched onto the girl, saving her from that flood and caring for her until her father came to get her. It was obvious True had been hurt by this Gaal character and he had betrayed them all with her trust. She didn't want to end up like that, she couldn't bear to hurt the little girl or her father.

Janet finally made up her mind to leave as soon as she was able to. Too many bad things happened to the people Janet loved and she refused to have anything happen to these good people. Besides that she didn't want to be where she wasn't wanted and having only three people around who trusted you makes a person feel immensely unwanted like Janet felt now. She knew that the others didn't approve and wanted her gone, she didn't blame them. She would ask for a tent and some supplies and then leave and never come back. She planned to live out the rest of her life alone. She turned her head on her pillow and saw the Danzinger man right through the flaps of the tent. He was sitting on a rover doing some work on it. It hurt her to think about leaving but she knew she couldn't stay with them. She closed her eyes and dreamt of a world where she could be free and happy and live with Danzinger and True.