"I'm telling you Harper you have to go into the matrix and get her out."
Rommie said "If she keeps this up I'm going to be the most ticklish android
in the known galaxies and you won't have a job to do." Rommie almost
doubled over laughing.
"I'll still have my job. Besides her mother training for today is about to
start." Harper said as he picked up his 2-month-old son. He looked as if he
was six months old.
"I can't believe how big he is." Beka said.
"Well he'll grow like this for some time Beka, get use to it and here you
are the one who volunteered to teach her how to be a human mother." Harper
said handing Shay to Beka. Angel walked in as almost on cue.
"How do you keep doing that?" Rev asked. He was interested in knowing about
Angel and her people's way.
"Doing what?" Angel asked.
"Walk in every time Harper hands Shay to Beka." Rev said.
"Oh that. I can sense it. It's part of my ability." Angel said walking over
to Beka. "I guess we should go huh?"
"Yea but here you carry your son since you are already here."
Angel took her son; she enjoyed in the process of helping Harper take care
of their son. There was so much joy in it. They went to the mess hall. They
ate lunch with Shay making a mess as usual.
"You know I think he is more human then anything." Angel said.
"I think he is just like his father." Beka said they both laughed. The past
2 months went by fast. Angel now had to start taking over as the dominant
parent for the next 10 months. He was starting to show a sign that he has a
power of some kind. She hoped it wouldn't happen until later on.
"Beka can we talk in your quarters privately?" Angel asked when she
finished cleaning Shay off.
"Yea sure, but why?"
"I'll explain it when we are in your quarters."
They went. Beka immediately put privacy mode on.
"How can I tell Harper that he won't be able to help care for his son for
the next 10 months?" Angel asked.
"What? Why is that?" Beka asked.
"He is starting to posses a power, and the mother always dominates the last
10 months of a child's first year to help with the child's power." Angel
said putting Shay on the couch as he went to sleep.
"He's going to be devastated you know that right?" Beka asked.
"I know, I could do worse. I don't have to tell him and leave without
leaving a note as to what I'm doing or anything."
"Don't do that Angel, he was hurt so bad the first time you did that,
another time might kill him." Beka said. Angel was pacing around trying to
think of what to do.
"I don't want Harper to get hurt by the power. I don't know which one he
has yet and it will take the next 10 months to figure it out and help
Shay."
"So what are you going to do?" Beka asked.
"I know but I can't tell you. Don't take it the wrong way Beka. I'm not
going to leave the ship I just won't be where you guys are."
"So what are you saying?" Beka asked.
"I'm gonna shut me and Shay off from the rest of you guys."
"What? You can't do that."
"Beka its either that or leave, if I leave and one of my people find me
they will take me home and they will kill Shay. I can't live with that.
Shutting myself off from you guys is the only way to protect him until he
is one. It is the only way." Angel said, she fell to the ground crying.
"Andromeda, disengage privacy mode please." Beka said.
"Aye ma'am disengaging privacy mode." Andromeda said not blinking in.
Andromeda told Harper and Trance that the privacy mode just turned off and
Angel was crying in Beka's room. They both went. Trance wanted to give Shay
a check-up because he seemed to be becoming alittle different then they all
thought he would be. Harper was just concerned for his wife and son. They
walked in to find Angel asleep in Beka's bed with Shay and Beka sitting in
a chair next to the bed.
