Hey! Thanks for all of the reviews. I would have posted this faster but it is somewhat sad so I wanted to get it just right. So, enjoy!
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"Mmmmm...." Isa snuggled closer to Harper, "Beka said you wanted to see me."

"She did?"

"Yep. But if you didn't I can go."

"No. I mean...I'm sure I wanted to see you. I just can't remember why. Oh....I got it! I remember why."

"Why?"

"What'd Beka want?"

"Just to talk."

"Isa, I know her better than that. Now come on, what'd she want?"

"She just said that something's bothering you, that she was worried about you, and she wanted me to make sure that your okay."

"Oh."

"So, are you okay?"

"No."

"Than what's bothering you?"

"Nothing important." He sighed and sat up on the edge of the bed. Isa sat up behind him and lightly kissed the back of his neck. She wrapped her arms around his waist, and placed her chin on his shoulder.

"If it's not important then it wouldn't be upsetting you like this." She tightened her grip on his waist. "There's nothing you can say that I wouldn't understand."

"Oh, believe me. There is." He put his arms over hers and held them tightly to him.

"Okay, there probably are some things that I wouldn't understand, but you could help me understand."

"Isa, there are just some things that no one understands. Not even me.

"Well, you could at least let me try....Please?"

"Okay. Sit." He said and patted his lap, indicating that she sit there. She moved around him and sat in his lap.

"Okay Santa, for Christmas I want a pony and a hamster and a Harper. Most of all I want the hamster though." Harper laughed and kissed her cheek. "Okay, in all seriousness though, what's wrong?"

"In all seriousness?"

"Well, almost all." Harper laughed shortly and took a deep breath.

"Uh, jeeze, where to begin?"

"How about at the beginning."

"Yeah I guess. Good a spot as any, right?"

"Right."

"Okay. Uh, Rommie engage privacy mode."

"Privacy mode engaged, authorization Chief engineer Seamus Harper." Rommie's voice replied.

"Uh, you hungry, or thirsty, or..."

"You're procrastinating."

"Sorry, just never told this to anyone before."

"It's okay, take you time."

"Thanks doll--face. Uh, okay. You know I was born on earth, right?"

"I do know."

"Well, I was born on earth. I grew up there until I was seventeen. That's when I met Beka. She took me off world and I've been with her ever since."

"And this is depressing, how?"

"Because, well, about two days ago was my birthday. And before you ask, I'm twenty two."

"Happy Birthday."

"I wish."

"I have got to learn to keep my mouth shut."

"It's okay. Well two days after my tenth birthday my parents died."

"Oh my Gosh. Sweetie, I'm so sorry." She hugged and kissed him.

"Thanks babe." He kissed her shoulder.

"Uh, do you mind if I ask, uh, how?" She asked him shyly. He drew in a shaky breath.

"Uh, well, the Neitzschean slavers came to our little shack, yah know it kinda passed for a house. Anyway, the slavers came and killed my parents."

"Well, what'd they come for?"

"Me."

"What?"

"They came to take me, and my parents wouldn't let them." The tears in his eyes began rolling down his cheeks. " I don't exactly remember what happened. I was sitting in my room playing with some junk components my dad had got me for y birthday. I heard a lot of yelling coming form the other room, then my mom ran into my room with my eleven-year-old sister. My mom told us to run. No questions, no complaints, and no looking back, just run. So, we did. Just me and Kim. I can still hear my mom's heart wrenching screams, but I did what she had said; I didn't look back, I just ran. All I could do was run and listen to my mom's screams, until they were cut off by gunshots." Now he and Isa were both crying, "We hid out at my cousin Brendan's house for two days before we went back. Yah know, we probably shouldn't have gone back." Isa wiped some of the tears from his face with her thumbs.

"I'm afraid to ask." She squeaked through her tears.

"It's just. We got back to the sight of both of my parents' mangled bodies hanging form the door of our little makeshift home. Me and Kim stayed with Brendan and his family for about three years."

"What ever happened to Kim?" She asked wiping some of her own tears away.

"She went insane. She was raped about a year after we moved out of Brendan's family's place. After that, she just lost it. She spoke in this really creepy high pitched voice, and then during a Magog raid she mistook one for a puppy dog, so she tried to pet it and it killed her."

Isa was speechless. She just sat there, looking at him. He wasn't even looking at her; he was just staring into space, tears streaming down his cheeks. Isa again began to wipe away his tears. She leaned in and hugged him tightly, he hugger her back and kissed the top of her shoulder.

"I am so so sorry. Is there anything I can do to make you feel better?"

"Yeah."

"What is it? It can be anything." She told him. He took in a deep breath and hugged her tight.

"You can't leave me. Ever." He told her in a soft shaky voice.

"I promise I will never ever leave you."

"Thank you." They spent the next few hours like this. They didn't say anything, just sat together, lost in the feeling of being in the others arms.
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"Rommie?"

"Yes, Dylan?"

"Can't you do this?" He asked the hologram sarcastically. He was sitting at his desk (he'd been there for hours); it was covered in flexi's. Having a full crew was nice and had lots of advantages, but it had its disadvantages too. Like all of the requests for shore leave, not that he didn't get enough of that from Harper on a regular basis. He also had to put up with all of the resumes for new crewmembers.

"I'm sorry Dylan, I can't." She replied.

"It's okay. Are the girls finished in the briefing room yet?"

"Yes. My avatar has taken them to their quarters."

"Okay."

"Is that all?"

"Yeah." The hologram left and he went back to work.
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"Seamus?"

"Yeah?"

"My butt's asleep." Harper began to laugh at her statement.

"Okay. Get up." Isa got off his lap and he stood up next to her.

"I'm hungry." She told him.

"Me too."

"I was kidding."

"Oh."

"Come on. Lets go get something to eat." She grabbed his arm and began pulling him towards the door.

"Wait. Wait, wait, and wait. **Deep breath** Do I look like I've been crying?" Isa stood in front of him and looked at him for a few minutes then took in a deep breath and kissed him.

"No, do I?"

"No."

"Okay then, lets go."

"As you wish, Oh great Goddess of......me."

"Damn right I am, but you know you love me."

"Of course I do. Oh Isa?"

"Yeah?"

"You can't tell anyone what I told you. Okay?"

"Okay."

"You promise?"

"I swear on the life of the amazing Sammiejo Stubb, that I will never tell anyone."

"Why her life?"

"Why not?"

"Good point. I just thought that you would use you sister."

"I would, but......I hate my sister."

"Okay. Well, shall we go stuff our faces?"

"Sure." Harper disengaged privacy mode and they left, headed for the mess hall.