"NO!" Lucas cried out, sitting up in bed and breathing hard. He looked around; it had just been a nightmare, the same nightmare he'd been having every night for the last two weeks. He let out a breath and fell back onto the pillow. He'd dreamt that someone had been pulling his soul from his body and he had been desperately trying to hang on but had been losing.

He turned his head toward the clock. It was time to get up anyway. He ran his hands through his hair and then sat up again. His headache was gone at least. He sighed and sat up, heading for the showers.

"Katy, they need you in med bay," Dr. Levin said quickly when Kat walked in the door to the science lab.

"Why?"

"Something happened to one of the crew last night. He was beaten pretty badly and they want to see if you can tell them what happened to him."

Kat frowned but she nodded. "I'll go right now." She rushed out the door and down to med bay.

When she entered, she saw Seaman Matthews lying on a gurney. Dr. Levin had been kind when he said that he'd been beaten badly. Badly was an understatement. The man's face was bruised on every inch of skin.

"Dr. Westphalen? Dr. Levin said you wanted to see me?"

"Yes, thank goodness you're here. We don't know what happened to him, he was discovered this way early this morning. I was hoping that perhaps you could tell us what happened."

"I'll do my best," she said, stepping up to the man and taking his hand. She closed her eyes; this was going to require her to go into his mind, to see what had happened through his own eyes. It was easily done, being that he was unconscious. She saw him pacing, walking the hallway, whistling. Something was around his throat, something was choking him. She watched him start to fade toward unconsciousness before falling to the floor. He turned over to look at his assailant and…

Kat dropped his hand with a little scream and her eyes snapped open. "Oh my God!"

"Katya what's wrong? What did you see?"

"No human person did this…there was something…something with red eyes that did this to him."

"How is that possible?"

"I don't know! It's what I saw! Something is on this ship!"

Dr. Westphalen shook her head. "Thank you Katya, thank you for trying."

"Doctor, I'm telling you the truth! Something is seriously wrong here!"

As she finished talking, Seaman Matthews went into cardiac arrest. She moved quickly out of the way, backing towards the entrance to med bay. Reaching it, she turned and ran out, heading for the science labs.

"Eli!" she shouted, running into the room.

"Katy? What's wrong? What's got you so upset?"

"Eli…I saw…something, something is on this ship, something evil. It hurt that man. Dr. Westphalen doesn't believe me!"

"Slow down Katy…"

"We have to do something! If we don't, more people will be hurt!"

"Perhaps the vision you got was wrong, I don't sense anything amiss here."

Kat shook her head. Maybe he was right. "Okay," she said, resigned.

"I have Lucas on his way here, there is an experiment I want to try," Dr. Levin said, changing the subject.

"Oh…okay. He agreed to participate?"

"Yeah, I assured him there was no brain scrambling involved." Kat chuckled as Lucas walked in the door.

"What so funny?" he asked.

"Nothing at all," Dr. Levin replied.

"Hey, did you guys hear about Matthews?"

"Yes, they just had Katya down there to see if she could help."

"Did you?" he asked Kat.

"I don't think so," she sighed.

"Well, let's get this underway. I need you two to enter the meditation room there, and sit facing each other." Both nodded and headed into the room, sitting down across from each other.

"This stuff weirds me out."

"Meditation?"

"No, well, yeah, all of it actually."

She smirked. "Don't worry; you won't turn into a hippie or anything."

Lucas chuckled. "Good one."

"Alright," Dr. Levin's voice said over the speaker. "I need you to put your hands together, palms touching. I want you to clear your minds and think of someone that you care about."

"That's easy," Lucas quipped.

Kat smiled at him before closing her eyes. Lucas closed his and both started breathing deeply. He'd learned this from his experience with Sam. As his mind cleared, he thought of Juliana. He hadn't thought much about her lately, things had been busy, though they had emailed back and forth. He briefly wondered who Kat was thinking of. Maybe her parents? He sank deeper into himself, still thinking of Juliana, but she was fading. Just as he began to wonder why, Ellie came to mind. He hadn't seen her in a while either. He thought of Juliana again, remembering the last time he'd seen her.

"Okay you two, that's good enough," Dr. Levin said over the speaker. Kat just looked at him raising an eyebrow and giving him a slight smirk.

"What?"

"She's pretty."

"Who?"

"Your girlfriend. That's who you were thinking of right?"

"Yeah, how did you….HEY!"

She shook her head. "Before you get upset, I wasn't breaking my promise. You were projecting, though apparently you didn't mean to."

"Projecting?"

"Yeah, where you think of something and you kind of just send it out there for other people to pick up on."

"And I was doing that?"

"Yeah. I can show you how to not do it if you'd like."

"Please. I certainly don't want to go around showing stuff to people without even knowing it." He paused. "What else did you see about that?"

She bit her lip. "Enough to know that I shut it out. Fast."

"Yikes. Yeah thanks for not watching."

She chuckled and nodded. "Not any of my business. Now, to shut off projection, here is what you need to do…"