Prologue to my first andromeda story. Was posted before.

Disclaimers: don't own anything.



/ Do you remember Chloe from time to time?

\ Of course, she belonged to my crew.

/ I do, too.

\ Oh, Harper.

/ No, I don't mean it like that. I mean, I don't whether she's alive or how she's living, but somehow I think, I would feel it, if she died.

\ What's then?

/ Didn't matter where we've been she used to wake me around 4 o'clock.

\ Why at 4?

/ She said it's our time. But the truth is, at 4 the nightmares are worst. In these hours we used to talk about everything.

\ I know.

/ You know?

\ Yeah, I've seen you once on the bridge of the Maru.

/ Oh.

\ You were cute. Something between an old married couple and siblings.

/ She should have stayed.

\ You know what Trance said; her place wasn't with us.

/ But with me.

\ Harper.

/ No, I need her Beka.

\ Why?

\ Why now?

/ We used to play this game for hours. It was stupid. I mean, someone started with an illness they had and the other had to top it with another illness.

\ That's sick.

/ Sure, but that was our surviving.

\ What?

/ Things can be so bad you have no idea whether you can stand it, but you'll survive cause there are worse things out there you have yet to experience.

\ Harper, you'll survive.

/ That's not my point. Not really.

What's it then?

/ She used to tell me that my body sucks because of this whole immune system crap. I mean, I hate my body for being so weak. Would I be like Tyr I wouldn't be a lost case.

\ It's not your fault.

/ The larvae in my body ain't my fault, too. And I hate them.

\ Okay, but what's got Chloe to do with all this?

/ Dunno, my body sucks. Her body sucks. We could suck together for awhile.

\ You never sucked together. You were loud and frightened and young, Harper. And you're still young. Maybe Chloe could say something or do something to make you feel better, but she's not here. I'm here. I'm with you all the way to hell and back. Maybe you'll meet her again, but till then stop to hate yourself or your body. It's just the time we live in.

/ I just miss her.

I know. But she promised you to find you.

/ Yeah.

\ Then wait for her.