Gabrielle hasn't learned much about life yet. She didn't need to.
Her mother, father and siblings were there for her, and she didn't want anything else. She liked them. She liked playing with her siblings, daddy's funny grimaces, while singing for her, and what she really liked, mommy's embrace and smiling face.
Well, nobody wants more at the age of one and a half.
So she was happy, when mommy suddenly came to her room, and picked her up. She expected kisses, and smiles, but mommy's embrace was strange. Hurt. Mommy held her so tightly that it hurt Gabrielle. She didn't even smile. Mommy's face was wet.
"I won't let you take her!"
Mommy was acting strange, which scared Gabrielle. She started to cry. A brown haired woman stood behind her mother, and reached for the little girl.
"You know, I have to! Come on Gabrielle!"
Gabrielle was scared of her mommy's strange behavior, and since the woman was familiar, the little girl held out her arms to the woman. She definitely wanted the woman to held her, instead of her mommy. Her wish came true, the woman took the little girl out of her mommy's arms.
"NOOO!"
The mother screamed, and tried to reach for her daughter, but daddy hugged her from behind.
"She'll be fine, you know!"
"Don't let her! Lewis, please!"
"She will come back in no time..."
Daddy's voice was strange too, and his face was also wet. Gabrielle was comforted by the woman's hug, but as she saw her parents crying, she became troubled as well.
"Bring her toy too! She can't sleep without it. " Daddy asked the woman, and gave a stuffed toy to the girl.
It was Gabrielle's best friend: a yellow, duck-like creature, so the girl smiled, and hugged the toy. Hugging that plush meant she totally forgot about her crying parents, and didn't even notice the environmental change around her.
She and the woman landed in a small room, which had shiny walls, and funny lights. Gabrielle enjoyed the lights running up and down, but she become a bit upset, when the woman put her to the ground, and the lights vanished.
"Mommy is out there!" The woman smiled to her, and pointed to the part of the shiny wall. "Go and find her!"
"Mommy!" she said happily, and turned back.
Mommy wasn't there. She turned back to the woman, but she wasn't there either. Gabrielle was alone with her best friend in a strange room. Her mouth curled up to cry.
"MOMMYYYY!"
She cried very loud, and the bridge crew of The Stargazer looked shocked at the crying child running out of the turbolift onto the bridge.
