Summary: Beka and Tyr muse over the events that have occurred over the year they've been on the Andromeda
Pairings: Beka/Tyr (eventually)
Spoilers: Any episode up to Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way is fair game (the episode order in the USA)
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Chapter 1: Beka
Beka Valentine didn't cry.
She hadn't when her brother had pushed her and she
scraped her knees when she was four years old. She hadn't when she
had broken her arm by tripping on
and falling down a ladder on the Maru when she was thirteen.
She hadn't even cried when her first ever boyfriend had dumped her for
one of the few friends she
had ever had.
She hadn't cried when her father had died, either.
There was too much to do. Funeral arrangements. What there
were of them, anyway; she had had to make
most of them herself since her money supplies were short. Send
a message to Uncle Sid, Dad's longtime friend and partner, who she knew
wouldn't come although
she had to make the gesture. Procrastinate in sending a message
to Rafe, who wouldn't come either. Send him the message, then send
him another, more
appropriately angry one. Hold the funeral. Get mad at herself
for not being able to have a better one. Get mad again at Rafe for
leaving. Blame herself, Rafe, and
everyone else in the known universe for her Dad's death. Consider
getting drunk for the first time. Decide against it. Move on
with her life. But most of all, stay
busy and don't cry.
It wasn't her fault. Not really. She
had been brought up by only her father...what had "Uncle Sid"said?
Raised like wolves. She had never seen her father cry.
She had never seen her brother cry. She had never seen anyone
who was close to her cry. And so she didn't either. Her father
had told her that she was brave,
that he was proud of her for not crying when she was thriteen.
And so "Big girls don't cry" became her motto. And no one in her
life did anything to change that.
Then she had met those people who were now the crew
of the Andromeda, different from anyone else she had ever known.
Trance had cried for HG. Dylan
cried over the loss of Sara. Rommie cried for the Pax Magellanic,
her older sister. Harper...although he would never admit it, Beka
knew he cried sometimes for
his family back on Earth. Tyr had cried when they had destroyed
1,000 Nietzschean ships. Rev cried for his species, for the people
whom he had never wronged.
But Beka Valentine didn't change herself for anyone.
She wouldn't cry just because those around her did. Absolutely not.
Not when her crew sided with Dylan
instead of her. Not when her older brother scammed her again.
Not when her "Uncle Sid" tried to bribe her, take her prisoner, summarily
screw up her life, and talk
trash about her father. Not when poor HG had died. Not
even when the universe decided to go and give her a kick in the ass like
it apparently had.
So why did she feel like crying?