Thanks so much for everyone that has reviewed so far. I appreciate your feedback and positive comments. I've been posting really quickly coz I'm on break, so in the next couple of days expect more chapters, but after that it will probably slow down some.
Ohhh and Candace any questions about Andromeda, character questions, what they are exactly, how things work…just ask.
Harper sat down in the middle of command, right on the floor. Dylan, Rhade, Beka, Trance all just stared at him. He could feel their stares but at the moment he didn't care. His sister was alive. Michael had seen her. She was alive. His thoughts ran wild. 'I guess she isn't two anymore. That was 15 years ago, she must be 17 now. Man she was all grown up. If I saw her, I probably wouldn't even recognize her.'
"What does she look like?" he blurted out without thinking.
Michael smiled.
"She's beautiful, Seamus. She looks just like your mother, same deep brown eyes and soft brown hair. The first time I saw her I stopped dead in my tracks. I thought it was you mom for a second. Then I convinced myself I was losing it. But then I kept looking and she laughed, and then I knew she was real. She laughs like you Seamus."
Harper stared at his friend with tears in his eyes.
"I don't understand Michael. Why isn't she dead? How isn't she dead?"
"I wasn't in our usual neighborhood the first night I saw her. I was in another ghetto collecting some spare parts for a project of mine. I knew it was her though so I started asking around there. An older woman who's lived there for a long time said that she was brought there by the Dragons when she was just about ten, but she had heard that before she had been used in some of the Dragons experiments, and kept in their labs."
Harper cringed at the thought of his young sister locked up in one of the Dragons labs. He'd heard horrible stories of things they had done to people; he'd even been subjected to a few experiments himself. But she was so young, how could they hurt her like that? Suddenly Harper forgot about his friend and locked his view on Dylan instead.
"Boss?"
"Mr. Harper?"
"Come on Dylan, you know what I'm going to ask."
"Harper…she's your sister…you don't have to ask."
Harper sighed. He had to save her; he was going to save her. Suddenly his thoughts were interrupted by Rhade.
"Wait!...look, Harper, I understand she's your sister, and I know you want to save her. I mean if anyone from my family was stuck somewhere like that, I'd be right there. But we can't just rush in there. The Dragons don't take kindly to people taking what they think is theirs."
"She's not theirs." Harper said bitterly.
Harper and Rhade stood staring at each other. Rhade wasn't trying to offend Harper, but he liked to think things over. He wasn't the kind of guy who just jumped into things. Michael could feel the tension, all the way from Earth so he threw out an idea, trying to break some of that tension.
"Every month a supply ship comes in to deliver the food rations, the weapons, stuff like that. Harper, you can take a ship, anything you got up there, and rig it so the Dragons sensors can't detect it. You guys can just sneak in when the supply ship comes down. Don't say you can't do it, I've seen you do a lot more, and that's when you were working with a lot less materials than you got up on that warship of yours."
Rhade looked skeptical…and made his opinion known.
"Not that I don't doubt Harper's skill as an engineer, but don't you think the Dragons have technology advanced enough to detect a ship coming in, even if it is trying to hide."
"They don't bother looking." Michael bitingly replied, a touch of bitterness in his voice. "They know no one would come to try to save Earth."
Rhade stared at the screen, right into Michael's eyes. Silently he nodded. He hated the Dragons just about as must as Michael. Help Harper, and screw over the Dragons at the same time, why not?
"When's the next supply ship due?" he asked.
Michael smiled and answered, "Two days from now…Saturday."
Everyone in the crew looked up as they heard Dylan say:
"Let's do it."
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