Notes: Yeah, yeah, it's been awhile. You don't have to lecture me about it. Oh wait... you weren't going to.
So, I haven't been updating any of my stories, until recently. Most of them haven't been updated in two or three years so I figured it was high-time I started to write more. My muse has been focusing more on original fiction and poetry lately and it was kinda making me depressed (check out how depressing my stuff is at ). So, I decided to get back into my lovely... or not so lovely, fan fiction. So... here it is.
Christina moaned as she began to wake up. She had a splitting headache both on the back of her head and in her eyes. She felt like she could barely move, but she also felt something piercing into her back. She opened her eyes and immediately closed them again as they were blinded by the lights in the room.
"Computer, turn down the lights." she ordered. Immediately the lights dimmed down and she opened her eyes again. She was surprised to see that she was in some kind of Hawaii setting and suddenly remembered what had happened. She sat up and looked around, but was too dark to see very much.
"Computer, turn the lights up slowly please." she said. As the lights became brighter she became very aware of her surroundings and saw that no one was there. She breathed a sigh of relief and grasped onto the table to help pull herself up. Whatever he did to her, she was in a lot of pain. When she was on her feet a wave of dizziness came over her and she had to sit down, but all the chairs were knocked over. She plopped herself back onto the floor and buried her face in her hands.
After a few minutes she felt like she was finally able to get up. She did it slowly and, after getting over a slight dizziness spell, she was able to see clearly, at least for the moment.
She looked at the place where she had been laying and saw a lot of glass and some blood. Her first thoughts were that maybe she had killed him, but then remembered that his blood was green and that this must have been her own. This puzzled her because she inspected herself and couldn't find any wounds, though there was some blood on her dress that was no longer as long as it used to be. She saw the rest sitting on the floor near one of the chairs. Neither of her shoes were anywhere to be seen, but she wasn't worried about that. She was worried about all that blood. She couldn't figure out how some of it got on her dress and why it was all over the floor.
Suddenly it dawned on her. When she woke up she felt a sharp pain in her back. Could that be where the blood was coming from? She made a move to look behind herself but got very dizzy, so she stopped.
'I need to get to Sickbay.' She thought to herself. She tried to step towards the door, but realized that she didn't remember which direction it was in.
"Computer, end program." she said. The Hawaiian scene disappeared and all that was left was a computer console, her shoes both on different sides of the room, the torn end of her dress, and a small puddle of blood. The door was now in visual range, but she still felt like if she tried to get to the door she would fall over.
She was about to send a message to Sickbay when she realized two things. One, if she saw Doctor Crusher, her mother would find out and she would never leave her by herself again. Two, Rukal would get in deep trouble and/or try to kill her.
Great. Now what could she do?
Then, it came to her. She would call Jessie. She could get the glass out and help her back to her quarters where she could take a long bath. Then, if the cut was really bad, she could go to sickbay and say that she just fell. Yeah, that's what she was going to do.
She searched her hidden pocket for her comm. badge and when she found it sent a call to Jessie.
"Hi Christina! How's it going? I'm so sorry about last night. I thought Jeff called you and he thought that I called you. Again, I am so sorry!"
"Jessie..." Christina said in an almost shaky voice.
"Christina, are you alright? You don't sound so good." Jessie sounded worried.
"No." she said. "Meet me in the holodeck. Right away!"
Christina couldn't hole herself up anymore. She let herself down slowly and rested against the console. She lay her head back and waited.
"Please hurry up." she whispered to herself. "Please, please, hurry up." She was afraid that someone else would come in and make a big deal of the whole thing. "Come on, come on. Hurry!" She felt her legs and hands begin to shake and the room began to spin.
Moments later, the room still spinning, she heard the swish of the door.
"Thank God you're here!" she said. She saw a figure come into the room and heard the voice of Jessie.
"Oh my God, Christina! What happened?" Jessie came over and knelt down next to her best friend.
"I need your help." Christina said. The dizziness was beginning to wear off. She leaned forward and Jessie saw the glass in her back.
"I need to call Sickbay." Jessie said.
"No! You can't!" Christina snapped, a little harder than she's meant to.
"Christina, I don't know what happened to you, but you really need a doctor."
"Please, Jessie. Don't make this harder than it already is. Just take the glass out and help me to my quarters."
Reluctantly, Jessie moved so she'd have a better angle to get the glass out.
"Christina, this thing is rather large. I think it's the only thing keeping you from bleeding to death."
"JUST TAKE THE DAMN THING OUT!" she screamed. She didn't care anymore. Why was Jessie doing this to her? She was her friend, wasn't she?
"Christina, what's wrong? Talk to me. What happened?"
"Just take it out! That's all I want! I don't want to talk about anything! Just take it out!"
Suddenly the door swished open again and two men, probably Ensign's, came strolling in laughing.
"Oh, I'm sorry." One of them said, and was about to turn around when he noticed the blood. "Is everything okay?"
"Everything's fine!" Christina screamed. "Just leave!" This was the worst thing that could have happened. To top it off, they were both men.
"No!" Jessie said, "Everything is not fine!" The men came closer. The second man tapped his comm. badge. "Morris to Sickbay."
"NOO!" Christina cried, "Please! Don't do this! I'm fine! It's just a little scratch!" She sat up all the way as the man had his conversation with Doctor Crusher.
The first man put his hand on her shoulder. "I'm a medic, can I take a look at it?"
Christina could feel her whole body tense up. This is not what she wanted. "Please," she pleaded, "Just leave me alone." She felt tears well up in her eyes and fought to keep them back.
"Christina," Jessie said in a soft, soothing voice, "We only want to help you."
"I don't want any help." she cried. The tears began to fall off of her face and onto her arms that were sitting on her lap. She attempted to wipe them away but it was a futile task.
"Then what do you want?" the man asked.
"I want to pretend that this never happened and go back home." she said, beginning to regain her composure.
"Sweetie, it looks like you've lost a lot of blood. If we don't take you to sickbay things could only get worse." the standing man said.
Christina gave up. It was no se fighting them. She was all out of energy so they would win. She felt Jessie's arm around her shoulders and she rested her head on it.
Doctor Crusher entered her office where Christina's Aunt and Uncle were sitting in across from where she sat down, concern etched on both of their faces.
Doctor Crusher sighed as she sat down. "Something happened to Christina last night." she started. The two seemed to become even more worried, but didn't say anything. "This morning Christina called her friend, Jessica, and asked her to come to the Holodeck, that she needed her help." she paused. How was she going to say this. She decided to just say it and get it over with. "Bernie, June, Christina was raped last night. I'm sorry."
June began to cry and her husband put his arms around her. "Is she alright?" he asked.
"Physically, she'll be fine in a week or so. She had a rather large piece of glass in her back and there's a bit of neurological trauma that will hopefully clear up soon. I'm going to recommend that she see Counselor Troi for counseling for awhile though."
"Have you told her mother yet?" he asked. He hoped she had. He didn't want to be the one to tell her.
"Yes." she replied. "She's going to be back in two days. Until then you will be making all of the decisions." she told them. "Counselor Troi is with her right now. She hasn't admitted what happened, but we have the physical evidence. The computer is working on finding a match to the DNA right now."
"Thank you." Bernie said. True, that probably wasn't the most appropriate thing to say, but he couldn't think of anything else. He hugged his wife tighter and Doctor Crusher left the room.
Notes: Sorry it was so short. My muse just totaly died at the end. At least you got some, right? Please review and let me know how it is!