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"If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says fifteen miles to the. . . observatory! Observatory, yeah, I'm headin' down the Yautja hallway, looking' for the observatory . . .observatory."

Nova sang to the Yautja child on her hip that had no idea what she was saying, but was trilling along with her anyway, making her grin widely as she carried him down the hall. Every now and then A'nu would screech, matching her tone perfectly as he 'sang' with her.

She and A'nu were on their first outing together.

After his (eventually) successful training session, Little Knife had suggested that Nova could take A'nu to look at the surrounding stars and planets. An activity that apparently the suckling enjoyed. Nova had agreed straight away and left with her nephew. Giving his mother plenty of time to clean their quarters in A'nu's absence.

Yautja's stared at her as she carted the suckling to the closest transport, singing merrily to him. They looked confused at the unlikely couple but no one approached them . . . which Nova was grateful for.

"I got me a ship, it's as big as a whale and we're headin' on
down to the observatory. I got me a transport, it seats about twenty. So, hurry up and bring an alien's baby!"

Nova got onto the transport, ignoring the other occupants as she sang. She was entertaining A'nu greatly and that was all that mattered.

She jostled him up and down on her hip as she got off the transport, and he screeched that headache causing I'm-very-happy noise at her handling of him. Nova made a mental note to remember that Yautja children were very excitable and to not throw them up and down in the future.

She followed the directions Little Knife had given her to the observatory, making all the right turns, taking all the proper hallways and eventually she found herself in the most amazing room in all of the universe. Made entirely out of glass except for a metal walkway the room. . . .well, extended walkway, was designed like one of those walk-through aquariums that housed sharks and manta rays. Only she wasn't underwater. . . he was in space, and this observatory looked like it ran the entire length around the Clan ship. . .like a giant see-through tunnel.

It felt like she was standing out amongst the stars.

She knew her mouth was wide open as she gazed in awe at the glinting lights that seemed to go on for. . .galaxies. Separated only by the thick layer of glass Nova stared out into what she officially considered to be 'eternity', and took in one shaky breath after another.

A'nu wriggled, and Nova numbly put him down. He ran to the curved glass wall and pressed himself tightly against it. . .and then froze there, his body going still as he took in the view.

Staring out like Nova was into a twinkling blanket of never ending stars.

"Amazing, isn't it?" Inquired a hushed voice.

"Yes," Nova answered automatically.

"I spend most of my time here. It helps me think."

"I can see why. . .it's beautiful."

"It really is."

Nova blinked shaking her head, coming slowly back to her senses. That wasn't an alien voice she was hearing. . .it was a voice speaking English.

Snapping her head to the side Nova found something that she had never expected to find up here in space.

Another woman.

A beautiful mocha skinned woman with dreadlocks was sitting with crossed legs right next to her. . .and she hadn't noticed her until now. Dressed in a loincloth, and a strip of leather around her breasts, she sat calmly looking out at the stars.

"You're human!" Nova blurted, and then mentally kicked herself for doing so.

The woman turned to look up at her, and Nova noticed she had the same symbol carved into her cheek that Ti'kon had on his forehead. With her recent teachings, Nova knew that this was the Clan symbol. Bits of gold winked in her hair, and Nova took in the fact that she also had gold rings worked into her dreadlocks in an imitation of the Yautja hair style. She was stunning and exotic in a way that made Nova extremely self-conscious.

"Yes, I am," she declared, "and so are you apparently. Do you want to sit down, or are you going to gape at me more?"

The woman grinned at her evilly, and Nova found herself sitting down before she could think about what she was doing.

"You have an American accent too!" Nova blurted.

The woman was laughing now.

"Yes, I do, and you have a. . .strange accent," she smiled.

"It's Australian," Nova offered, not realizing that her accent turned the word 'Australian' into 'Australyen'.

"Austrian?" The woman asked, confused.

"No, Australian," her accent mutilated the word again.

"Oh. . . Austra-li-an."

Nova frowned at the other woman. "That's what I said."

She burst out laughing again, and Nova found herself reluctantly smiling at her amusement.

"G'day mate!" The mocha skin woman shouted.

"Yeah . . . " Nova said slowly. "Let's not do that here, shall we."

"Put another shrimp on the barbie!" She yelled, laughing harder.

"Umm, we say prawns, but let's move on from my nationality. . .What the hell are you doing here. . .on an alien spaceship?"

The woman continued to laugh so hard that she had to hold her stomach. Nova waited for her to collect herself patiently.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," she said. "This is all just really surreal for me."

'Tell me about it!'

The woman's laughter subsided into giggles, as she wiped tears from her eyes.

"I'm here because it felt like the best thing to do after all the shit that went down in Antarctica."

Nova nodded. "Yeah. . . .I have no idea what you mean. You're gonna have to explain it to me in a little more detail."

And explain she did. She told Nova that she and a team of experts had gone to investigate a temple that was discovered underneath tons of ice, only the temple wasn't deserted.

"There were these creatures. . .ugly mother fuckers. They looked like bugs-"

"Black, long heads, no eyes?" Nova offered.

"Yes."

"I know exactly what you mean."

Nova was horrified when the woman described how the creatures reproduced. Ti'kon had left that part out of her education, and she understood why. . .it was terrifying on a nightmarish level.

"How the hell did you survive?" She asked.

"I killed one by accident, and he decided to help me."

Nova smiled at this part, putting all the pieces she knew about the ritual of Chiva's together.

"And by him you mean tall, muscled, mandibled, and well hung don't you?"

The woman threw her head back laughing again.

"Yeah, that's him. That's my Scar,. . .his name's Yeyinde but I call him Scar."

Nova nodded, vaguely remembering hearing that name somewhere.

"Mine's name is Ti'kon, but I call him Big Guy."

The woman's eyes widened, "Are you two Life-Mates as well?"

"Yeah, we've tied the knot the Yautja way."

Nova looked around quickly, making sure they were the only ones there. A'nu appeared to be in some sort of trance laying on the glass.

"Have you and Scar. . . .done it?"

The woman snorted.

"Oh Lord, did we do it. Right after we killed the Queen of all those monsters. In the snow and still bleeding we did it, until it was physically impossible to do it anymore. . .I almost got frostbite."

It was Nova's turn to laugh at the woman's stark honesty, she wasn't talking to some wilting flower of a female.

"And did he fit okay?" Nova asked once she could stop laughing.

The American looked confused for while. "Oh, you mean his John Thomas. . .I won't lie it was a tight fit, but I was determined to take him. All the I-just-survived-and-need-sex instinct helped a lot, too. I couldn't even understand him then, and I still wanted him more than any man I've ever met. . . We've saved each others lives. . .I've never had that sort of connection before . . . even if it should have felt wrong."

Nova knew that the woman wasn't really with her anymore. She was lost in her own thoughts.

"Well, who's to say it's wrong?" Nova said, snapping her attention back. "Love knows no boundaries after all. A set of mandibles shouldn't change that."

"Love," the woman said slowly.

She turned to Nova suddenly. "That's it. It's love!"

Nova blinked, she sounded like Nova had handed her some sort of revelation.

"I was worried because he never said the actual words, and I was scared because it all happened so fast and I could never go back."

"What, to Earth?" Nova asked. "Why would you want to go back there when you have this?" She gestured to the stars. "Earth is a boring, shitty place filled with asstards. Why would you want to go back?"

"No, I didn't mean Earth," the woman said distantly. "I meant I couldn't change the past. . .I can't change what's happened."

"Oh, you're having one of those moments," Nova said nodding, having had her own revelation punched into her recently.

"But he didn't need to say it," the American continued. "I've been sitting up here thinking he didn't. When you don't have to say something for it to be true. You can love someone and not have to say it. . .it just is, and he does. . . Oh God, I've been so stupid."

"Yep, it's one of those moments."

The woman stood up suddenly and made for the exit to the observatory, back out onto a normal hallway.

"Hey, where are you going?!" Nova called to her as she disappeared around a corner.

"I have to tell him!" She shouted back.

"That you love him?!"

"No, that I'm pregnant!"

Nova blinked, dumbfounded. Well they certainly had done it then.

"My name's Lex by the way."

Nova jumped, her voice was close again.

She had come back, her head was peeking around the corner of the exit.

"I'm Nova."

"I'll see ya around, Nova."

Her head disappeared again, only to come back seconds later.

"Oh, and should he be licking the glass?"

Nova turned to find A'nu doing just that. Leaving thick trails of saliva on the clear surface, so that they ran down and dripped onto the floor.

"I don't think so."