My Heart Will Go On
Chapter Seven: Downfall of the Outlaw Star
"Hey Quatre where are you going?" Jennet asked as she walked up to Quatre looking through some files and locking a room. He turned and gave her an icy glare. "Quatre?" she asked uncertainly.
"Look." Quatre said taking a step away from her. "I'm on to your little plan, I already know that your using me so if you just leave me alone!" he turned away from her.
"You heard me?" she asked in a quiet voice.
"Yeah. And it hurt Jennet it really hurt, but you don't care so it doesn't matter." Quatre headed down to the hanger, pulling out his walkie-talkie. "Duo its Quatre, did you find Melfina?…Good…Good…is she in place?…of course…I'll be down there in a moment." Jennet heard the last part of the conversation and decided to follow him to see what he was up to.
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"Please don't make me do this." Melfina whispered from her place in the cockpit. "Just power up the ship, women." Wufia stated evenly. This was really getting stupid, they kidnapped this Melfina girl and suddenly she was what powered the ship finding out from there scanners that she wasn't even a human she was an android. Wufia shook his head. If they lived through this he almost was scared what would happen if that Gene character found out about there little plan.
"How's she doing?" Came Quatra's voice over the intercom.
"Fine just fine."
"Tell her to but the ship at maximum power."
"You heard him do it women." Wufia ordered.
"But I-"
"No buts women." Melfina shrunk back a little into her chamber before complying with his demands. 'I'm soo sorry Gene.' Melfina's heart whispered, before using all of her life to power the ship, Wufia watched in horror as her body began to disappear. "Quatre we've got a problem…I'm sending you a visual."
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On the other side of the base Gene clutched his chest.
"Gene what's wrong?" Jim asked helping his friend up.
"Must find Melfina. NOW!" he grabbed his chest again. "What is happening to me, Jim?"
"Just hang on buddy I'll go find Jennet."
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Quatre stole a puzzled glance at the visual that was on the computer screen.
"WHAT THE HECK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!" Quatre spun around to see Jennet staring at him eyes filled with anger and hate.
"I found out what powered your ship and I'm exploring its debts."
"You're killing her!" Jennet lunged at him giving him a solid punch to the jaw, knocking him over. She raced to the computer trying to contact Melfina or shut down the ship. She ran over to Quatre and grabbed his walkie-talkie, "Wufia! Tell Melfina to stop powering up."
"Sorry I only take orders from Quatre."
"Quatre tell him to stop!" she looked down at Quatre as he slowly started to get up.
"You hit me." He said stunned.
"And I'll do it again if you don't tell him to stop."
"Wufia tell Melfina to stop."
"Alright." The two heard some commotion in the background. "Um Quatre she's not responding."
"What's going on here?" Jim asked.
"They are putting Melfina into fossil orbit!" Jennet shouted.
"There what?"
"You heard me get over here." The two made a scramble to the computers and began typing thing after thing into the computers. "Jim she's not responding…were losing her."
"NO!"
"NOT YET!" Jennet screamed. "Melfina come in! MELFINA!" the line beeped and went dead. Tears blurred her vision as Jennet ran into the ship. Quatre slowly began to walk over to the computers when Jim hit him in the gut sending him to the ground once again.
"Before I just didn't like you." Jim said grabbing his shirt collar. "Now I hate you." Giving him a shove back to the ground he ran into the ship after Jennet.
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Jennet ran into the cockpit past Wufia and looked at Melfina's chamber. With one solid kick she sent the entire thing into shatters, spilling Melfina's tattered body out of it, electric light gleaming over her body. Jim came running in panting.
"How is she?" he asked kneeling next to Jennet who was holding Melfina's body.
"She's gone." She said about to cry.
"Come on." Jim said picking Melfina up and caring out of the ship Jennet and Wufia in tow. When the got out Gene was there looking in utter shock.
"No." he whispered. "NO!" he ran over to them looking at Melfina and hiding himself in her neck. "She can't be gone not yet, not now." Jim pulled Melfina away from him and continued caring her. Gene tried to go after him, but Jennet held him back, she pulled him softly into her arms and the siblings fell into a sobbing heap on the floor.
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Jennet looked out her window and rubbed her eyes. Her hair was pulled back into a pony tail the first time that she remembered doing that in a long time. She went back to the computer that she was working on with Jim and sat back down next to him.
"Hey are you alright?" Jim asked squeezing her knee.
"I'm fine." She said. "How bad are the damages?"
"Pretty bad." He said rubbing his eyes. "Not only did we lose the only source of power that the ship has ever had we also need to fix the inside where she used to be."
"Can't we just download the lane line into the ships computer and use that as our power source?"
"We could try but I don't know if it will work." Jim said. Jennet once again looked away looking at her brother on the other side of the room. It had been a week since Melfina's death and he wouldn't eat or sleep all he did was sit there and stare into thin air.
"I'm going to the lunch room to try to get Gene to eat. Do you want anything?"
"Um no that's okay." Jim said not taking his eyes away from his computer. Jennet nodded and walked out of the room. Jennet slowly walked down the hallway. When all of sudden she was grabbed from behind and pulled into a dark room.
"If you don't let go of me right now you'll be sorry." Jennet whispered to the person holding her.
"Please just let me hold you before you kill me?" the figure asked just above a whisper.
"Quatre?" Jennet whispered in shock. "Let go of me right now!" she said struggling against him.
"Please?" he asked again, and Jennet stopped struggling. She turned around and looked at him and what she saw nearly broke her heart. It seemed that Melfina's death had hit him pretty hard. In his eyes she could see that he was holding back tears of regret.
"Quatre" and before she knew what was happening she had buried her face into his chest and was crying her heart out. In his arms she could feel Quatre shaking with unshed tears. "Quatre?" she looked up at him.
"I'm sorry so sorry. I didn't know that she would die. If I did then I would have never done it. I'm so sorry."
"Quatre its alright you didn't know."
"But it cost someone's life." He whispered back. "How come I always have to be responsible for peoples deaths and the people that I care about get taken away from me."
"O Quatre I'm sorry. If I hadn't said those things none of this would have ever happened." She buried her face in his chest. "And none of it was true either. I was just trying to hide my actions behind a lie. I'm so sorry Quatre I was trying to convince my brother and Jim that I wanted to get out of here just as much as they did. I didn't mean to hurt you. In truth I want to stay here I want to see Earth. I've seen just about everything else. Now I want to see Earth…the place I was born."
"I guess we both did things that we didn't want to do." He said pulling her closer. "What about Jim?" Quatre asked.
"I don't know." He felt her relax in his arms. "Its just all so confusing right now."
"I hope that you can figure it out soon." He said.
"In the meantime what am I gonna do about Gene. He is so depressed, I have to figure out something before its to late."
"And you will Jennet I know you will." Quatre placed a small kiss on her forehead. "I better go." The two left the room with out so much as a goodbye each going there separate ways. Back in the room a man emerged from the shadows.
"Beware Jennet I am getting closer and soon all that you care about will be mine."
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End of this chapter. What did you guys think? I know that it was kinda depressing but I hope you liked it. The next chapter is called the Ball. And now I would like to know who you think Jennet should be with Jim or Quatre? Its up to you to decide if nobody votes well then to bad for you I'll decide and you may not like it. Well please review
~ Jennet