1 Chapter 13
The following days, Beka recovered. Not fully, but well enough none- the-less. She found her way to the Maru that day after being released from medical. It was the place she could go to think and clear her mind of the universe and its chaos. Somehow, she always could just feel that way when she came here. It was her home, her heart. The center of what it meant to be alive for Beka. And as she was mindlessly wondering through her thoughts, something unexpected happened…
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Harper decides to come in and check up on Beka. He figures she must be on the Maru and walks on over, allowing himself in when he gets there. When he steps in, he hears a familiar sound that he would trade anything not hear again, Beka crying. She is in the shower area sitting down, though the shower is not running. When Harper comes around the corner to see what is wrong, all he sees is blood and Beka sitting on the floor of the shower, crying and almost shaking. He knew what had happened.
"Beka?" he finally says.
She doesn't respond though, nor does she look up. Instead, she stops making noise and just lets the tears go.
Harper doesn't know what to say, so he comes down and sits next to her, putting one arm around her shoulder and using his other free hand to hold her hand. Beka curls into him, just letting all the water shed from her eyes, down her face and onto her clothes.
"I'm so sorry," Harper barley whispers.
That was all that was said all the time they were there. No one came in to interrupt them; thinking she and Harper were just talking. They had no reason to find Beka anyway. No battles occurred while they were sitting there, and they were not going on any shoreleave trip. It seemed things would loose their touch all of a sudden, become tasteless and normal again. Beka couldn't understand why. That was the one word that kept running through her head over and over again. Why? After all the contemplation of deciding whether or not to keep the baby, it suddenly disappears. She feels like life has just played a cruel joke on her all of a sudden. First the man she loved, now the child she never got to know. Why?
The following days, Beka recovered. Not fully, but well enough none- the-less. She found her way to the Maru that day after being released from medical. It was the place she could go to think and clear her mind of the universe and its chaos. Somehow, she always could just feel that way when she came here. It was her home, her heart. The center of what it meant to be alive for Beka. And as she was mindlessly wondering through her thoughts, something unexpected happened…
~~~~~~~
Harper decides to come in and check up on Beka. He figures she must be on the Maru and walks on over, allowing himself in when he gets there. When he steps in, he hears a familiar sound that he would trade anything not hear again, Beka crying. She is in the shower area sitting down, though the shower is not running. When Harper comes around the corner to see what is wrong, all he sees is blood and Beka sitting on the floor of the shower, crying and almost shaking. He knew what had happened.
"Beka?" he finally says.
She doesn't respond though, nor does she look up. Instead, she stops making noise and just lets the tears go.
Harper doesn't know what to say, so he comes down and sits next to her, putting one arm around her shoulder and using his other free hand to hold her hand. Beka curls into him, just letting all the water shed from her eyes, down her face and onto her clothes.
"I'm so sorry," Harper barley whispers.
That was all that was said all the time they were there. No one came in to interrupt them; thinking she and Harper were just talking. They had no reason to find Beka anyway. No battles occurred while they were sitting there, and they were not going on any shoreleave trip. It seemed things would loose their touch all of a sudden, become tasteless and normal again. Beka couldn't understand why. That was the one word that kept running through her head over and over again. Why? After all the contemplation of deciding whether or not to keep the baby, it suddenly disappears. She feels like life has just played a cruel joke on her all of a sudden. First the man she loved, now the child she never got to know. Why?