Summary: Dylan wasn't the only one to survive the event horizon. Story is set three years after the event horizon. Rated for future languages. AU.
Authors: Awohali, Terran
Rating: PG-13
Authors note: Ga Heris not Telemachus.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Andromeda or it's characters.
Rhone: Harper one of those Nietzscheans wasn't a complete idiot and knew that you weren't my slave. You have to leave.
Harper thinks for a second.
Harper: If I leave then they'll know that I'm not a slave and probably come after me.
Rhone: Damnit. Harper why'd you have to think?
Rhone sits on Harper's bed and then lays down. She closes her eyes.
Harper: C'mon Rhone. What about the rest of the crew?
Harper sits down beside her. Without opening her eyes she answers.
Rhone: We have to go check on them, but you're going to have to be my slave. Sorry.
Harper: At least I'm not Torum's slave or anything. I can handle being your slave. You aren't going to hit me and you could order me to...
He slowly stops and starts to drool. Rhone opens her eyes to see him drooling on his bed.
Rhone: Harper!
Harper: What?
He has a lopsided grin on his face.
Rhone: We need to be focused.
Harper: I am.
Rhone: On the task of freeing the crew?
Harper: No. Sorry.
Rhone smiles. They both get up from the bed.
Rhone: C'mon. We have to go.
Harper: Okay.
Rhone: Harper keep your eyes down, follow me at all times, and don't say anything. Please.
Harper: Okay.
Rhone gives Harper a quick kiss. She didn't know if it helped him, but it helped her.
Rhone: Okay let's go.
Harper and Rhone leave Harper's quarters. They walk to the command deck. When they get there Dylan and Rhade are being interogated by the Nietzscheans. Terran is nowhere to be seen. Torum's there.
Rhone: Where is Terran?
Torum: My lady. She is interogating the others.
Rhone looks at Harper, he's looking down and not saying anything.
Rhone: Slave, get me your nano welder.
Harper nods and walks over to his tools.
Torum: What are you going to do?
Rhone: Talk to them. What do you think? All of you leave. Now!
All of the Nietzscheans get out of the room fast. Harper comes back with the nano welder. He looks up. Rhone walks over to Rhade. He looks at Rhone like she's a traitor. He sees her bone blades.
Rhade: So I was right. You are a Nietzschean and a traitor.
Harper: Another bright remark from Rhade, the commander.
Rhone: Didn't sound right. Needs something about how he's a Nietzschean.
Harper: Yeah, I know. You're a Nietzschean now though. If I make fun of him then I make fun of you.
Rhone: Hopefully we can find a way to put my bone blades back in my arm or something. Then you can continue making fun of Rhade.
Rhone smiles at Harper.
Harper: And Terran.
Dylan coughs.
Harper: Oh. What about them?
Rhone: Should we leave them and fix the Andromeda or take them with us in the vain hope of fighting back the Nietzscheans and fixing the Andromeda on the run.
Harper: I like the first one.
Rhone: Of course we'll come back for you.
Harper: Unless we get caught.
Rhone: Captain, which do you choose?
Dylan: The first one.
Rhade: You still trust her.
Rhone: Although Rhade if you like the part where we take you with us in the vain hope of fighting back the Nietzscheans and fixing the Andromeda on the run, we can take you with us.
Rhade just growls.
Rhone: I'll take that as a no. You Harper?
Harper: Yep definite no.
Rhone: Captain can you try to convince Rhade I'm not a traitor. 'Cause if you don't I think Rhade will make living on the Andromeda very hard. Especially with me hiding and running and not getting to fix anything.
Dylan: I'll try.
Rhone: I don't like the sound of that.
Harper: Aren't you supposed to be torturing them into giving information on something?
Rhone: Oh, yeah. Okay Captain how am I supposed to torture you?
Dylan: Well you could hit Rhade and then hit me and tell them we blacked out and you couldn't use the nano welder on anyone. Sound really disappointed though.
Rhone: Do I really have to hit you?
Dylan: Unfortunetly, yes.
Rhone: Harper you do it.
Harper: I'm not hitting Rhade.
Rhone: Fine. Rhade I'm going to hit you now. Act unconcious when the Nietzscheans come back. Please.
Rhone hit Rhade right across the chin. He looked angry then slightly confused for a second. His head droops to his chest.
Harper: How hard did you hit him?
Rhone: I don't know. I... sorry.
Dylan: Now I'm not sure I want you to hit me.
Rhone looks at him.
Rhone: I'm not sure I should have hit him.
Dylan: Now Rhone you had too.
Rhone: I have to hit you now, don't I?
Dylan nods. Rhone hits him, but not as hard as she hit Rhade. He sits there for a minute. He winks at Rhone. His head droops to his chest.
Rhone: Harper let's go.
She still has the nano welder in her left hand. She walks out the door with Harper close behind. When they're outside Rhone throws the welder over her shoulder. Harper catches it without looking up.
Rhone: No one is to go in there without my permission. Torum are you a pilot?
Torum: Yes. My lady.
Rhone: Good. Get this ship running. When you do you go in there and pilot us to the nearest drift and then leave the command deck. Got it.
Torum nods.
Rhone: Where is Terran?
Torum: She's in the captains quarters.
Rhone goes to Dylan's quarters. When she get's there Rommie and Trance are talking about fixing the ship and Terran and Beka are talking about overthrowing the Nietzscheans and taking the ship back. She walks in with Harper close behind. Everyone looks up. She stops by the captain's dresser and folds her arms, bone blades fully exsposed. Beka and Trance gasp. Beka takes out her gun. She points it at Rhone, but Harper stands in the way.
Beka: Get out of the way Harper.
Harper: No. She's my girlfriend.
Beka: But she's a Nietzschean and she didn't tell anyone. For all we know she's working with the Dragans.
Harper: She's not working with the Dragans and she told me she was a Nietzschean.
Rommie: She told me.
Terran: I knew she was a Nietzschean.
Rommie: She told Dylan too.
Rhone: I don't know you enough to tell you my secrets. All I've ever said to you was 'I'm fixing the Maru with Harper' and 'Me and Harper finished fixing the Maru' so I'm sorry I didn't tell you.
Beka slowly lowered her gun.
Beka: I over reacted. This situation is making me on the edge.
Harper moves to Rhone's side. He here's a sound and he turns toward Rhone. He sees her reach toward him, but not quite making it. She starts to fall. He catches her and lifts her to Dylan's bed. Everyone is amazed he moved so fast to catch her.
To be continued.