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Beka lay in a narrow conduit on the Andromeda. She was using on of Harper's tools to adjust one of Andromeda's scanners.
Suddenly sparks flew out as the connections frayed. "Damnit!!" Beka swore pounding her fist on the wall beside the panel.
Holo-rommie appeared before her, "Ouch. Didn't you know it's not nice to beat an innocent ship?"
She was trying to make a joke and Beka knew it but she wasn't in the mood and just gave Rommie a dirty look.
"Beka we're docked. Dylan has a group of local engineers working on me. Why don't you just take a break? I'm sure if you just rested a bit Dylan would let you go down to see Harper again."
Beka dropped the tool she was holding. Slowly she picked it up and began to study it. "What do you think Harper would say about all these strange engineers working on you Rommie?"
"He probably would hate it. Right now though we are out of options."
Beka sat in silence for a moment. "I was going to give you a big speech about how I needed to stay here. Stay here, and make sure the repairs are going just the way Harper would like them.but it would be a lie."
Rommie looked at her with empathy. "Beka?"
"Truth is I'm not sure I can face going down there again."
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The next morning Dr. Lemieux arrived to take Harper out to the commons. The Commons was a courtyard used by both the staff and other patients.
He looked through the small room's window and was surprised but what he saw. He knocked on the door lightly and walked in with his hands on his hips.
"Hey Doc!" Harper greeted him cheerfully.
"I hope you can put it back together again!?"
"Doc.really.I'm engineer! This is nothing. Goes to show you a bored, good looking genius should never be left alone." He laughed lightly.
Harper had managed to take most in the furniture in his room apart. Using the bed frame, parts of the desk, even the curtains to create this umm. The doctor scratched his head. "Umm, so what is it?"
For a moment even Harper looked puzzled. Then a grin flashed across his face. "Modern Art!"
The doctor chuckled. "Okay then. Sooo, you ready for a field trip?"
"I've never been more ready."
"One thing first." The doctor took a step forward.
Instinctively Harper took a step back.
The doctor studied him for a moment then showed him what he had in his hand. It was a simple wristband. "It's a tracking device. It's mandatory that all patients where them when they are not in their rooms. It also has your name and your medical history on it."
The doctor took another step forward. Harper took another step back. "Look Doc. I'm not going to run away."
"I'm sorry Harper but it's mandatory no exceptions. It's just a bracelet."
Harper looked at in the small device hanging from the doctor's hand like it was going to bite him.
The doctor watched him closely. "Tell me what you're thinking?" He whispered.
Suddenly Harper reached forward and grabbed it from his hand. He slapped it across his wrist and it beeped as it locked in place. "Can we go now?" the smile was gone from his face.
The doctor looked at him a moment longer and gave a small nod. "Follow me."
He led Harper through the hallways and out in to a massive courtyard. Harper sighed happily when the light wind blew through his hair. "All I need is my surf board and a beach...and well an ocean."
"You don't spend much time on planets do you?"
"Nah, we're mostly spacers." Harper started to wander a little. "There are a lot more people here then I would have thought."
"A lot of people need help. We help them."
A tall chubby man walked over to Harper. Harper squinted at him for a moment then his eyes grew large.
"Do you like boxing?" the strange man asked.
"No!" Harper nearly shouted. "I hate boxing! Lets go Doc." Harper abruptly turned the other way and walked quickly towards a shady area.
"What was that about?"
"Just trust me. Don't ever tell him you like boxing."
Harper sat on a low bench that was built around the girth of a tree. He rubbed his hand along the tree's bark affectionately.
"Trance has a tree like this on the Andromeda. on earth most of the trees were dead."
The Doctor sat down beside him.
Harper laughed lightly at himself. "I think I'm home sick."
"What do you miss most?" The boy seemed sober yet the doctor wondered if he would say something flippant. Whenever they got to close to the things he hid the young man got twitchy. He talked more but never about things that needed to be said. Now the boy looked uncertain . as if even sharing this little bit about him self was a difficult thing.
Harper shrugged his shoulders. "Beer, my bed."
"Harper really!" Dr. Lemieux retorted disgustingly.
They sat in silence a moment longer. The doctor could feel the tension building in the boy.
When he spoke next it was nearly a whisper. "I miss Beka, and Rommie. Trance and her stupid plants. I miss waking up and knowing where I am and what I'm supposed to do. Hell, I even miss Tyr and Dylan. I miss waking up and knowing everything is as it should be."
"You and Beka seem to have a special relationship."
Harper started to play with leaf that had fallen from the tree.
Harper shrugged. "She saved me from earth. I owe her everything. My life is hers."
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Beka and Dylan sat in his office and played 'Go.'
Rommie and Trance had gone planet side to visit Harper. Meanwhile, Tyr was left in charge of supervising the repair team.
Dylan moved the smooth black pawn to a new square and Beka studied the board. "Rommie tells me you don't want to go down a visit Harper."
"Rommie has a big mouth."
A voice from the walls echoed out. "I do not!"
"Rommie please!" Chastised Dylan.
"Big ears too."
The walls gasped with horror.
Dylan attempted his original question again while Beka moved her game piece.
"Beka really what's the problem. I did want you to rest. It's been hard on all of us. But, I never wanted you to give up on him completely. Rommie has been down there. She says things are much better now."
"You don't understand. " She sighed drawing her self away from the game. "A long time ago I made a promise to him. I promised him I would never leave him." She laughed quietly. "At first it was a nothing promise. My engineer was a nervous wreck those first few weeks off of earth. He was afraid I would just dump him when I didn't need him anymore. But, after a while it began to mean something more."
"You've kept your promise to him."
"No I haven't and that's the problem. I haven't been there for him when he needed me.twice now. How could I ever face him again? She was near tears. "This is all my fault."
Dylan leaned forward. "I think Harper's.'illness' is no ones fault. I think it was just a matter of time. You couldn't possibly have done anything. And, besides the fact that he is the youngest member of our crew he's not a child. He's lived through more then most of us."
"Dylan you don't understand. I know what triggered all of this. He told me just before he collapsed. And, I've done nothing. Now he's sick." Two tears rolled down her cheeks. "I'm sorry Dylan. I can't face him and you can't make me go down there. Give me a few days. I'll pack. Tell him Uncle Sid needed me.or something. What's one more lie?"
Beka got up to leave. Dylan stood and grabbed her wrist. "Beka, I've seen you face down the biggest goons in the universe. I know you can get through this. Don't go. Just talk to me. Tell me what happened!"
"Everyone has a breaking point.Harper had his.this is mine."
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Harper stood in his small room. There was a small window with bars on it. It was to high up for him to see the ground but he could see the sky just fine. He decided to pull his mattress over. Which was much easier now that the pieces of what was once the bed frame were scattered across the room. He lay down on the mattress and gazed out to the stars. Brendan, Declan, Siobahn, and him used to climb the hill near their shelter on earth. They would lie out there forever looking up at the stars. They were hard to see. The pollution and atmosphere had been really bad. But you could always see a few sparkling through.
That was before the Magog had come.
His mind leapt away from those memories. Why couldn't he remember stuff? He could name every wire, every pathway on the Andromeda. Yet, part of his childhood and even more disturbingly all of last week was just gone. He had the feeling if he could just go home to Andromeda.talk to Beka...then everything would be okay.
He looked up at the stars. He could see some of the lights moving. Ships leaving and arriving. "Beka where are you?" he whispered to the dark. "I need you."
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TBC
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Beka lay in a narrow conduit on the Andromeda. She was using on of Harper's tools to adjust one of Andromeda's scanners.
Suddenly sparks flew out as the connections frayed. "Damnit!!" Beka swore pounding her fist on the wall beside the panel.
Holo-rommie appeared before her, "Ouch. Didn't you know it's not nice to beat an innocent ship?"
She was trying to make a joke and Beka knew it but she wasn't in the mood and just gave Rommie a dirty look.
"Beka we're docked. Dylan has a group of local engineers working on me. Why don't you just take a break? I'm sure if you just rested a bit Dylan would let you go down to see Harper again."
Beka dropped the tool she was holding. Slowly she picked it up and began to study it. "What do you think Harper would say about all these strange engineers working on you Rommie?"
"He probably would hate it. Right now though we are out of options."
Beka sat in silence for a moment. "I was going to give you a big speech about how I needed to stay here. Stay here, and make sure the repairs are going just the way Harper would like them.but it would be a lie."
Rommie looked at her with empathy. "Beka?"
"Truth is I'm not sure I can face going down there again."
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The next morning Dr. Lemieux arrived to take Harper out to the commons. The Commons was a courtyard used by both the staff and other patients.
He looked through the small room's window and was surprised but what he saw. He knocked on the door lightly and walked in with his hands on his hips.
"Hey Doc!" Harper greeted him cheerfully.
"I hope you can put it back together again!?"
"Doc.really.I'm engineer! This is nothing. Goes to show you a bored, good looking genius should never be left alone." He laughed lightly.
Harper had managed to take most in the furniture in his room apart. Using the bed frame, parts of the desk, even the curtains to create this umm. The doctor scratched his head. "Umm, so what is it?"
For a moment even Harper looked puzzled. Then a grin flashed across his face. "Modern Art!"
The doctor chuckled. "Okay then. Sooo, you ready for a field trip?"
"I've never been more ready."
"One thing first." The doctor took a step forward.
Instinctively Harper took a step back.
The doctor studied him for a moment then showed him what he had in his hand. It was a simple wristband. "It's a tracking device. It's mandatory that all patients where them when they are not in their rooms. It also has your name and your medical history on it."
The doctor took another step forward. Harper took another step back. "Look Doc. I'm not going to run away."
"I'm sorry Harper but it's mandatory no exceptions. It's just a bracelet."
Harper looked at in the small device hanging from the doctor's hand like it was going to bite him.
The doctor watched him closely. "Tell me what you're thinking?" He whispered.
Suddenly Harper reached forward and grabbed it from his hand. He slapped it across his wrist and it beeped as it locked in place. "Can we go now?" the smile was gone from his face.
The doctor looked at him a moment longer and gave a small nod. "Follow me."
He led Harper through the hallways and out in to a massive courtyard. Harper sighed happily when the light wind blew through his hair. "All I need is my surf board and a beach...and well an ocean."
"You don't spend much time on planets do you?"
"Nah, we're mostly spacers." Harper started to wander a little. "There are a lot more people here then I would have thought."
"A lot of people need help. We help them."
A tall chubby man walked over to Harper. Harper squinted at him for a moment then his eyes grew large.
"Do you like boxing?" the strange man asked.
"No!" Harper nearly shouted. "I hate boxing! Lets go Doc." Harper abruptly turned the other way and walked quickly towards a shady area.
"What was that about?"
"Just trust me. Don't ever tell him you like boxing."
Harper sat on a low bench that was built around the girth of a tree. He rubbed his hand along the tree's bark affectionately.
"Trance has a tree like this on the Andromeda. on earth most of the trees were dead."
The Doctor sat down beside him.
Harper laughed lightly at himself. "I think I'm home sick."
"What do you miss most?" The boy seemed sober yet the doctor wondered if he would say something flippant. Whenever they got to close to the things he hid the young man got twitchy. He talked more but never about things that needed to be said. Now the boy looked uncertain . as if even sharing this little bit about him self was a difficult thing.
Harper shrugged his shoulders. "Beer, my bed."
"Harper really!" Dr. Lemieux retorted disgustingly.
They sat in silence a moment longer. The doctor could feel the tension building in the boy.
When he spoke next it was nearly a whisper. "I miss Beka, and Rommie. Trance and her stupid plants. I miss waking up and knowing where I am and what I'm supposed to do. Hell, I even miss Tyr and Dylan. I miss waking up and knowing everything is as it should be."
"You and Beka seem to have a special relationship."
Harper started to play with leaf that had fallen from the tree.
Harper shrugged. "She saved me from earth. I owe her everything. My life is hers."
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Beka and Dylan sat in his office and played 'Go.'
Rommie and Trance had gone planet side to visit Harper. Meanwhile, Tyr was left in charge of supervising the repair team.
Dylan moved the smooth black pawn to a new square and Beka studied the board. "Rommie tells me you don't want to go down a visit Harper."
"Rommie has a big mouth."
A voice from the walls echoed out. "I do not!"
"Rommie please!" Chastised Dylan.
"Big ears too."
The walls gasped with horror.
Dylan attempted his original question again while Beka moved her game piece.
"Beka really what's the problem. I did want you to rest. It's been hard on all of us. But, I never wanted you to give up on him completely. Rommie has been down there. She says things are much better now."
"You don't understand. " She sighed drawing her self away from the game. "A long time ago I made a promise to him. I promised him I would never leave him." She laughed quietly. "At first it was a nothing promise. My engineer was a nervous wreck those first few weeks off of earth. He was afraid I would just dump him when I didn't need him anymore. But, after a while it began to mean something more."
"You've kept your promise to him."
"No I haven't and that's the problem. I haven't been there for him when he needed me.twice now. How could I ever face him again? She was near tears. "This is all my fault."
Dylan leaned forward. "I think Harper's.'illness' is no ones fault. I think it was just a matter of time. You couldn't possibly have done anything. And, besides the fact that he is the youngest member of our crew he's not a child. He's lived through more then most of us."
"Dylan you don't understand. I know what triggered all of this. He told me just before he collapsed. And, I've done nothing. Now he's sick." Two tears rolled down her cheeks. "I'm sorry Dylan. I can't face him and you can't make me go down there. Give me a few days. I'll pack. Tell him Uncle Sid needed me.or something. What's one more lie?"
Beka got up to leave. Dylan stood and grabbed her wrist. "Beka, I've seen you face down the biggest goons in the universe. I know you can get through this. Don't go. Just talk to me. Tell me what happened!"
"Everyone has a breaking point.Harper had his.this is mine."
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Harper stood in his small room. There was a small window with bars on it. It was to high up for him to see the ground but he could see the sky just fine. He decided to pull his mattress over. Which was much easier now that the pieces of what was once the bed frame were scattered across the room. He lay down on the mattress and gazed out to the stars. Brendan, Declan, Siobahn, and him used to climb the hill near their shelter on earth. They would lie out there forever looking up at the stars. They were hard to see. The pollution and atmosphere had been really bad. But you could always see a few sparkling through.
That was before the Magog had come.
His mind leapt away from those memories. Why couldn't he remember stuff? He could name every wire, every pathway on the Andromeda. Yet, part of his childhood and even more disturbingly all of last week was just gone. He had the feeling if he could just go home to Andromeda.talk to Beka...then everything would be okay.
He looked up at the stars. He could see some of the lights moving. Ships leaving and arriving. "Beka where are you?" he whispered to the dark. "I need you."
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TBC