Authors Notes - Please don't think I'm too mean for not going straight back to Harper and co….I will get there. Please review me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Again thank you to all my reviewers…XoXLiLaNgElXoX…Lisa… Scaramouche (If you think Tyr with purple finger nails is strange you should read April Fools Day!!!)…fanofsmith… fia… luna fox and Lila!!!
Part Seventeen
"Thrusters are working again, though I'll have to remind Harper it's not good to leave Sparky cans in open consoles." Trance said, finally glad she had fixed it. Thinking like Harper to understand his system of bypasses had given her a headache.
"My 'bots have prepared the Med Deck" Rommie added.
"Party's ready, all we need is the guests" Dylan muttered eyes watching the stars and the stations that hung before them for any sign of the Maru.
"Anything?" He asked Rommie who sighed.
"Not since you asked five minutes ago. I told you Dylan, I will tell you when I detect the Maru."
"I just hate being here on a working ship unable to do anything to help."
Rommie gave him a sympathetic smile in understanding. All three of her averters thought the same thing. Only by logic did they remain.
Trance stepped up beside Dylan, worry in her eyes.
"Something's happened Dylan" she said softly "I don't know what but something's wrong."
Hunt looked the young girl in the eyes. "How?"
"I don't know. I'm scared Dylan. I just want them to come back"
"I'm sure their all fine Trance" Dylan reassured lamely, them he smiled slightly. "Tyr and Beka will look after him"
Trance blinked "What do you mean 'him'?"
Dylan's smile grew wider "I think you know Trance. Remember I'm the captain, I know these things"
Trance hugged her arms round herself, looking like the young purple girl she had left behind long ago.
"I miss him" Trance whispered and Dylan knew she wasn't just speaking about since they had got his message, days ago.
"They're coming back Trance" Rommie added
Trance tilted her head, leaning against Harpers shirt. It had been a long time since he had worn a Hawaiian shirt, he had stopped off at Infinity Atoll on the way to get the part. She missed him wearing his bright clothes, since they had found the Andromeda the engineer had seemed to grow up with all they had been through.
She wished she could have explained to him why she had changed, explained everything to him. But now trance was worried she wouldn't have a chance.
Rommie lent against the railing, staring out at the stars along with the others, willing the Maru to appear. Ever since the Maru crew had pulled her out of the black hole she missed having a full crew, the corridors were silent and the ship seemed bare. Now there was only three of them on the ship Rommie felt…empty. She missed harpers constant talking, the way he flirted with the machines to get them to work. She missed how Beka took her into slipstream, gently guiding her through a world she couldn't control. She even missed Tyr, even when he called her 'ship' and his scowling nature.
She needed her crew back, they were some of the best officers she'd ever had, even if they weren't highguard. She now trusted them more them she could remember trusting anyone else. She needed them back. Not just because they were her crew, but because they were her friends.
Again thank you to all my reviewers…XoXLiLaNgElXoX…Lisa… Scaramouche (If you think Tyr with purple finger nails is strange you should read April Fools Day!!!)…fanofsmith… fia… luna fox and Lila!!!
Part Seventeen
"Thrusters are working again, though I'll have to remind Harper it's not good to leave Sparky cans in open consoles." Trance said, finally glad she had fixed it. Thinking like Harper to understand his system of bypasses had given her a headache.
"My 'bots have prepared the Med Deck" Rommie added.
"Party's ready, all we need is the guests" Dylan muttered eyes watching the stars and the stations that hung before them for any sign of the Maru.
"Anything?" He asked Rommie who sighed.
"Not since you asked five minutes ago. I told you Dylan, I will tell you when I detect the Maru."
"I just hate being here on a working ship unable to do anything to help."
Rommie gave him a sympathetic smile in understanding. All three of her averters thought the same thing. Only by logic did they remain.
Trance stepped up beside Dylan, worry in her eyes.
"Something's happened Dylan" she said softly "I don't know what but something's wrong."
Hunt looked the young girl in the eyes. "How?"
"I don't know. I'm scared Dylan. I just want them to come back"
"I'm sure their all fine Trance" Dylan reassured lamely, them he smiled slightly. "Tyr and Beka will look after him"
Trance blinked "What do you mean 'him'?"
Dylan's smile grew wider "I think you know Trance. Remember I'm the captain, I know these things"
Trance hugged her arms round herself, looking like the young purple girl she had left behind long ago.
"I miss him" Trance whispered and Dylan knew she wasn't just speaking about since they had got his message, days ago.
"They're coming back Trance" Rommie added
Trance tilted her head, leaning against Harpers shirt. It had been a long time since he had worn a Hawaiian shirt, he had stopped off at Infinity Atoll on the way to get the part. She missed him wearing his bright clothes, since they had found the Andromeda the engineer had seemed to grow up with all they had been through.
She wished she could have explained to him why she had changed, explained everything to him. But now trance was worried she wouldn't have a chance.
Rommie lent against the railing, staring out at the stars along with the others, willing the Maru to appear. Ever since the Maru crew had pulled her out of the black hole she missed having a full crew, the corridors were silent and the ship seemed bare. Now there was only three of them on the ship Rommie felt…empty. She missed harpers constant talking, the way he flirted with the machines to get them to work. She missed how Beka took her into slipstream, gently guiding her through a world she couldn't control. She even missed Tyr, even when he called her 'ship' and his scowling nature.
She needed her crew back, they were some of the best officers she'd ever had, even if they weren't highguard. She now trusted them more them she could remember trusting anyone else. She needed them back. Not just because they were her crew, but because they were her friends.