The Romulan Courier

By Sirap

She had vowed never to use it. It was too dangerous, even in the hands of Starfleet. She'd decided in the beginning to take it to a planet somewhere and have it destroyed.

But now she'd need to break her vow.

Because the reason she'd been running, the device that lay hidden on her ship. It could send people through time.

And it could bring her brother back.

The crowd around her was growing.

T'Kiera, still unconscious was being placed in manacles.

And Tom lay motionless. The sight brought tears to her eyes but she refused to let them fall.

She didn't care if she was violating the temporal prime directive.

She didn't care if she contaminated the time line.

She was going to bring her brother back.

Standing up she ran for her ship, people shouted after her, telling her to stop, asking her to come back but she didn't listen.

She ran to the small cargo area on her ship and pulled an blanket off the 'past changer'. The name was inscribed on the side of the sleek blue and chrome device in a language that she was unfamiliar with. But she did know, it wasn't written in Romulan.

She wasn't exactly sure how it worked but Tom was always showing her the things he had learned at the Academy. She almost felt that she'd attended herself.

She could figure this out.

She had too.

Pressing a small button on the underside of the 'past changer', a click sounded and a lid popped up on top.

She could hear the people outside yelling at her to let them in, saying they had questions for her but again, she ignored them.

There was a rounded triangle shape beneath the lid, a glowing blue light shining through it.

Moira looked at her hand and back to the upside down triangle shape. Deciding it would be a good fit, she pressed her eyes shut and placed her hand onto the blue light.

She heard another slight click before the world disappeared in a haze of vertigo.

* * * *

"You brought it?"

Moira's eyes snapped open. Disoriented only a moment she quickly recognized T'Kiera's melodious voice, her sickenly sweet smile.

A chill ran up Moira's spine. It had worked. She wasn't sure how but she was getting a second chance to save her brother. And this time, she wouldn't fail.

"I have what you want. Now where's my brother?" she asked reciting words she'd already spoken. Moira's eyes went to the slight bulge in T'Kiera's robes. A small detail she hadn't noticed the first time around. The Romulan phaser.

The one that would kill her brother if she couldn't stop it.

"It's not that simple." Moira blocked out T'Kiera's words, knowing already what she would say.

Moira took a deep breath.

"killed the Romulan courier."

She poised her hand over the handle of her phaser.

"have any idea."

She'd need to be quick, extremely quick. Moira

Moira ripped the phaser from her waistband.

T'Kiera reacted quickly, reaching for her phaser but Moira knew where it was hidden. With perfect aim, Moira fired.

She hit her mark, T'Kiera's phaser. The phaser crackled, sending green energy pulsing through T'Kiera. She cried out and fell to the floor.

"Nice shot. How did you know she was armed?"

Moira whirled around at the voice.

"Tom!" she cried. For once allowing her tears to stream down her face.

She ran to him, pulling him into a hug.

A crowd gathered around T'Kiera and Moira again heard the monotone buzz of a flat line fill the room. This time however, she didn't care.

"What's going on, Moira?" Tom asked still held in his sister's embrace. "What was all this about?"

Moira pulled back.

The 'past changer'.

She'd forgotten.

To be continued. I couldn't make you wait too long for this! I didn't like leaving Tom dead.