A/N ok I have absolutely no idea what to do next. Well, a vague idea. I wont update for like a week at least cuz I will be going to California! ON the bright side, it is a three hour plane trip. Lots of writing can be done in that amount of time. :)

Chapter 12

"Closing to real time communications distance." Trance informed Beka, bringing her out of her daze. Beka was thinking of Telemachus. How if this went down the tube, she would never see him again. She just then realized something. She loved him.

"Beka, go into the other room while I talk to Caida."

Beka wordlessly left the room.

"Ms. Dermont, I am pleased to announce that I have caught the Valentine." Trance said as Caida came up on screen.

"Excellent. And you are?"

"Rhea Banit." Trance said without hesitating. Beka smiled from the next room. Back when Trance was purple, she had wanted to be named Rhea Banit so badly she used it as an alias and made Beka and Harper and Rev call her Rhea.

"Well Banit, meet me at docking bay 19 in a half hour. Bring Valentine."

"Will do."

Beka came in. "Trance, if I didn't know any better I would say you have done this before."

Trance smiled a mysterious smile. "Maybe. Lets go. We have to meet her."

ANDROMEDA

"Dylan," Andromeda said,"I have located many devices giving out small signals that would match that of micro cameras."

"Where?"

"They are systematically placed all over the ship. Hydroponics, and in corridors and mess hall."

"That means they would be able to see us all the time."

"Affirmative."

"But that would mean that Caida would have seen Trance." Rhade said slowly.

Andromeda's eyes widened with surprise (A/N is it just me or has Andromeda, not Rommie Andromeda and holo-Rommie have become so much more bitchy since the first season?? I mean, locking Rommie out and all that?) .

"Andromeda, send a communication to the Maru."

"Aye. Channel open."

"Trance, Caida knows who you are! She was seen you on a camera she placed on Andromeda, Do not go in there! Bring Beka and yourself back now!!"

"Because of the distance , she wont receive that for an hour and ten minutes." Andromeda said.

"So now what?" Harper asked.

"Now we go after them. Rhade, bring us to the drift but bring us right out of sensor range."

DRIFT

Beka followed Trance through the drift. In no time they were at the hanger deck.

Beka already had the cuffs on.

Trance walked up to the waiting Caida. "Hello." She gestured to Beka with her hand. "you see her, you pay for her."

Caida smiled a fake smile. "No, I see her. I see you...again." She pulled out a gun as 6 big and burly men came out from the shadows aiming guns at Beka and Trance.

"I thought you said she couldn't spring any traps."

Trance looked thoroughly startled. "I was wrong." A man walked forward and hit Trance with the gun and she fell unconscious. The last thing Beka saw before the same happened to her was Caida's twisted smile.