---DreamScape---
This time he felt more comfortable in the body he was currently in.
/Maybe this time I'm in me./
Then he took a moment to think about what he had just thought. ...Then he lost his train of thought as events unfolded around him. On the left view screen was a map that had been enhanced by sonar. On the right one, Andromeda was saying something, pointing out details on the map.
"...I estimate one tenth of one percent of the original population has survived." She concluded.
"They've worn their hate down to as pure a point as possible." He heard himself say. Then he heard Beka speak.
/Giving out orders. ...It never ends./
While he could barely hear her, he was able to make out his own dialogue with Harper quite clearly.
"And with Zara, don't forget." Harper called after the departing Beka.
"Seamus, you're proof that even here, there's a capacity for love." His own voice sounded slightly amused.
"Love? Who said anything about love? That's almost downright human of you Telemachus." At that moment he experienced a duality. With his words, Harper had incited exacperation within Telemachus. At the same time, he -not Telemachus who was currently on the command deck looking at Harper- took a moment to see something the body did not.
/And I thought only Dylan actually knew my name for all the times I've heard it and not Rhade./
"You insult me after I say something nice?" The body he was standing in looked at Herper who was doing some very odd things to his hair... and his eyebrows?
"Easy. This is how fights start." Harper's tone was an odd type of dramatic.
In that moment, Telemachus, for a moment, felt like a part of the crew.
But it passed.
---End DreamScape---
As he sat in what would normally be Beka's chair, Harper couldn't help but think of all the times the older man had felt like a close friend to him. All the times Rhade had teased him, or when he would tease Rhade with little quips against Nietszcheans that he didn't truly mean. At least not in any derogatory manner. Amazingly enough, the two got along quite nicely; warmer than Rhade's companionship with Trance and definitely more friendly that any of his relationships with any of the other senior crew members.
Harper had a sudden realisation. Something trivial but still, strange.
/I saw this guy's ancestor when he was still warm, just barely dead./ It was an odd one. Considering, he had an odd feeling of deja vu everytime he thought of Gaheris Rhade.
/I feel like I should know the guy. Maybe that's why we get along so easily./ He had a drifting thought about alternate universes and past lives but he was interrupted by a beep on one of the consoles. Moving up to it he could see that the alarm had both been the sensors and the warning for an incoming message with a Commonweath code. He didn't think he'd need Beka for this so he pressed a button that would activate the communication.
He never thought he'd be as speechless as he was at that moment.
"Eureka Maru, this is the Andromeda, please reply."
TBC...
AN: I know it's short but I felt like I haven't written in forever and as a reader that always frustrated me when it happened with other writers and their stories. By the way can you tell I just watched "The Others"? Positively LOVED the beginning with its cute Beka/Harper/Telemachus moment.
This time he felt more comfortable in the body he was currently in.
/Maybe this time I'm in me./
Then he took a moment to think about what he had just thought. ...Then he lost his train of thought as events unfolded around him. On the left view screen was a map that had been enhanced by sonar. On the right one, Andromeda was saying something, pointing out details on the map.
"...I estimate one tenth of one percent of the original population has survived." She concluded.
"They've worn their hate down to as pure a point as possible." He heard himself say. Then he heard Beka speak.
/Giving out orders. ...It never ends./
While he could barely hear her, he was able to make out his own dialogue with Harper quite clearly.
"And with Zara, don't forget." Harper called after the departing Beka.
"Seamus, you're proof that even here, there's a capacity for love." His own voice sounded slightly amused.
"Love? Who said anything about love? That's almost downright human of you Telemachus." At that moment he experienced a duality. With his words, Harper had incited exacperation within Telemachus. At the same time, he -not Telemachus who was currently on the command deck looking at Harper- took a moment to see something the body did not.
/And I thought only Dylan actually knew my name for all the times I've heard it and not Rhade./
"You insult me after I say something nice?" The body he was standing in looked at Herper who was doing some very odd things to his hair... and his eyebrows?
"Easy. This is how fights start." Harper's tone was an odd type of dramatic.
In that moment, Telemachus, for a moment, felt like a part of the crew.
But it passed.
---End DreamScape---
As he sat in what would normally be Beka's chair, Harper couldn't help but think of all the times the older man had felt like a close friend to him. All the times Rhade had teased him, or when he would tease Rhade with little quips against Nietszcheans that he didn't truly mean. At least not in any derogatory manner. Amazingly enough, the two got along quite nicely; warmer than Rhade's companionship with Trance and definitely more friendly that any of his relationships with any of the other senior crew members.
Harper had a sudden realisation. Something trivial but still, strange.
/I saw this guy's ancestor when he was still warm, just barely dead./ It was an odd one. Considering, he had an odd feeling of deja vu everytime he thought of Gaheris Rhade.
/I feel like I should know the guy. Maybe that's why we get along so easily./ He had a drifting thought about alternate universes and past lives but he was interrupted by a beep on one of the consoles. Moving up to it he could see that the alarm had both been the sensors and the warning for an incoming message with a Commonweath code. He didn't think he'd need Beka for this so he pressed a button that would activate the communication.
He never thought he'd be as speechless as he was at that moment.
"Eureka Maru, this is the Andromeda, please reply."
TBC...
AN: I know it's short but I felt like I haven't written in forever and as a reader that always frustrated me when it happened with other writers and their stories. By the way can you tell I just watched "The Others"? Positively LOVED the beginning with its cute Beka/Harper/Telemachus moment.