Moment of weakness
By Natta
Summary: Harper decides it's time to do something. Beka is worrying over how to tell Dylan the startling news.
A/N The moment you've all been waiting for! This chapter is from Dylan's POV!
~Dylan~
I leave Beka in a heap on the floor, happiness and rage fighting inside me. She is pregnant again, but can I have a child with her? Even though I want one, her loosing the other baby made me so angry I can't love her anymore. She should have been more careful and the baby might have been all right. It was her fault and she has to pay for it. When Trance told me she was in medical and I should go visit her, that it wasn't her fault bla-bla-bla, I didn't want to listen. She had done it, I was the innocent one. Yet she was the one they seemed to pity, and they were angry at me for not visiting her.
Then she came back to me, frail and broken. For a moment I wanted to hug her and kiss the pain away, but then remembered how she had done it. I had to make the pain worse, to make her feel what I was feeling. So the next day I slapped her when she was crying. She went awfully surprised and slapped me back. I shoved her out of the room and left it at that then. Later though, my courage and rage was bigger. When she slapped me back, I gave her a real beating. After that she went quiet and didn't talk to me for a while. After a few beatings she was completely changed. I thought she would tell someone but she never did.
After a while, I raped her. Something I never thought I'd do to any woman. The first time I didn't really enjoyed it, but after a while I found the pain on her face and her tears somehow made it more enjoyable. I start putting on my clothes again and sit down in my favorite chair. I don't sit for more than a minute until the door opens.
"Don't these people know how to ring a bell?" I ask myself as I get out of the chair, going to see who it is. I see Rommie lifting at Beka who seems to be half unconscious and Tyr who looks around with a raged expression.
"What are you doing?!?" I ask. Tyr looks at me with a look of disgust.
"Don't think you can hurt her anymore. The little proffessor managed to put it on tape." Rommie lifts up Beka and they leave, all forgetting about me.
~Beka~
I feel myself being carried and wonder why. They still haven't given up on saving me? I open my eyes and see that it is Rommie. She smiles at me.
"Don't worry, we have proof now. We saw him raping and beating you, there is no way you will have to go back to him." A small glint of happiness is lit in me, but I just don't know anymore. Maybe it doesn't really matter.
They take me to medical and thinking that I am asleep, they start talking.
"Physically she'll be all right, but phsycologically...I don't know," Trance said.
"I think all we can do is to try not to remind her of what happened. We have to do something about Dylan, she must never have to talk to him again," Rommie answered.
"Yes," Trance said, "what do we do about Dylan? Do we leave him somewhere? He can't stay here after what he did." Rommie did an affirming sound.
"Since this is heavy abuse it is considered a crime so we should be able to leave him in a prison colony somewhere." I can't help to flinch from this. They are willing to remove him from the ship to keep me safe?
"We should probably leave her alone now," Rommie said. My whole body is filled with fear as they leave the room, I don't want to be alone! But I don't want to bother them anymore than I already did. So I stay quiet and pretend to be asleep, and in a moment, real sleep overcomes me.
~Dylan~
I reach medical where I know she is supposed to be. I sneak in and see her lying on the bed, her hair like a gloria around her head. She appears to be asleep, or unconscious, I don't know. I don't mind.
But I have to have her. I can't tell why, but I have to have her. I don't love her anymore, I don't love anyone anymore. But I have to have her!
I sneak in and lift her up. I know she hasn't been eating much so she feels like a rag-doll in my arms. It's nice to feel that she isn't healthy and well fed. I start carrying her toward the Maru. We're not going to stay here.
No one notices as me and Beka leaves the ship and takes the Maru out into the silent space.
By Natta
Summary: Harper decides it's time to do something. Beka is worrying over how to tell Dylan the startling news.
A/N The moment you've all been waiting for! This chapter is from Dylan's POV!
~Dylan~
I leave Beka in a heap on the floor, happiness and rage fighting inside me. She is pregnant again, but can I have a child with her? Even though I want one, her loosing the other baby made me so angry I can't love her anymore. She should have been more careful and the baby might have been all right. It was her fault and she has to pay for it. When Trance told me she was in medical and I should go visit her, that it wasn't her fault bla-bla-bla, I didn't want to listen. She had done it, I was the innocent one. Yet she was the one they seemed to pity, and they were angry at me for not visiting her.
Then she came back to me, frail and broken. For a moment I wanted to hug her and kiss the pain away, but then remembered how she had done it. I had to make the pain worse, to make her feel what I was feeling. So the next day I slapped her when she was crying. She went awfully surprised and slapped me back. I shoved her out of the room and left it at that then. Later though, my courage and rage was bigger. When she slapped me back, I gave her a real beating. After that she went quiet and didn't talk to me for a while. After a few beatings she was completely changed. I thought she would tell someone but she never did.
After a while, I raped her. Something I never thought I'd do to any woman. The first time I didn't really enjoyed it, but after a while I found the pain on her face and her tears somehow made it more enjoyable. I start putting on my clothes again and sit down in my favorite chair. I don't sit for more than a minute until the door opens.
"Don't these people know how to ring a bell?" I ask myself as I get out of the chair, going to see who it is. I see Rommie lifting at Beka who seems to be half unconscious and Tyr who looks around with a raged expression.
"What are you doing?!?" I ask. Tyr looks at me with a look of disgust.
"Don't think you can hurt her anymore. The little proffessor managed to put it on tape." Rommie lifts up Beka and they leave, all forgetting about me.
~Beka~
I feel myself being carried and wonder why. They still haven't given up on saving me? I open my eyes and see that it is Rommie. She smiles at me.
"Don't worry, we have proof now. We saw him raping and beating you, there is no way you will have to go back to him." A small glint of happiness is lit in me, but I just don't know anymore. Maybe it doesn't really matter.
They take me to medical and thinking that I am asleep, they start talking.
"Physically she'll be all right, but phsycologically...I don't know," Trance said.
"I think all we can do is to try not to remind her of what happened. We have to do something about Dylan, she must never have to talk to him again," Rommie answered.
"Yes," Trance said, "what do we do about Dylan? Do we leave him somewhere? He can't stay here after what he did." Rommie did an affirming sound.
"Since this is heavy abuse it is considered a crime so we should be able to leave him in a prison colony somewhere." I can't help to flinch from this. They are willing to remove him from the ship to keep me safe?
"We should probably leave her alone now," Rommie said. My whole body is filled with fear as they leave the room, I don't want to be alone! But I don't want to bother them anymore than I already did. So I stay quiet and pretend to be asleep, and in a moment, real sleep overcomes me.
~Dylan~
I reach medical where I know she is supposed to be. I sneak in and see her lying on the bed, her hair like a gloria around her head. She appears to be asleep, or unconscious, I don't know. I don't mind.
But I have to have her. I can't tell why, but I have to have her. I don't love her anymore, I don't love anyone anymore. But I have to have her!
I sneak in and lift her up. I know she hasn't been eating much so she feels like a rag-doll in my arms. It's nice to feel that she isn't healthy and well fed. I start carrying her toward the Maru. We're not going to stay here.
No one notices as me and Beka leaves the ship and takes the Maru out into the silent space.