Title: Barley Alive
Author: Shakia
Spoilers: None
Squel to: Frozen Nightmares
Summary: Harper is kidnapped by aliens who claim they worked with the Dragons on the Ice Kludge project and they force him to do things he will never forgive himself for.
Author's Notes: Blah, I'm really sorry for how messed up the last chapter looked. I have no idea how to fix that so I can use the symbols to seperate everything X.x If anyone does, please let me know O.o sighs So, sorry if this chapter looks weird and is hard to follow. I'll have to agian resort to this. Um, I'm ganna put FB for flash back, -r-r-r-r-r- for just when it's a lapse of time and PT for present time. In the last chapter their was a key part that was messed up. The section at the very begining where he said he had killed Beka was in the future. I hope that helps a little X.x Oh, and if (which I find doubtful) anyone wants to put any of my Andromeda fics in an archive, feel free as long as you contact me first about it! Although I was thrilled at sparkycola1's offer :3 I hope you got my email about that X.x anyhow, onto the next chapter...
Instantly after Beka had spotted Harper she had realized how horrible he looked. He was pale and thin. Another thing she had noted was how exhausted he had looked. It had been very obvious that he hadn't slept or eaten in quite a while. After noticing this her instant reaction was to try and get him to eat something. Surprisingly he hadn't caught her as she suggested they get something to eat. Beka had noted bitterly that Dyllan either didn't notice how horrible Harper looked, or just didn't care. She had told Harper she would meet him back in his quarters and was off to the mess hall to grab each of them some food to eat in there. As she walked through the halls she let out an agrivated sigh. How could Dyllan do this to him? She had been sure the whole "punishment" would have stopped long before she got back. She felt anger burn within her at the thought and found herself subconsiously clenching her hands into fists. She was seriously considering leaving Andromeda. She had been completley take back by Dyllan's reaction to this. He hadn't even tried to understand and, in fact, seemed to be afraid of Harper. The person who had saved them countless of times.
She entered the door to the mess hall and weaved through the tables to where Andromeda usually prepared the food.
"Andromeda?" She sighed wearily.
"What are you going to have Beka?" Andromeda's voice asked as her hologram appeared before her.
"I'm just grabbing something for me and Harper to eat. Maybe lasangna or something. Oh, and a Sparky Cola." She added as an after thought. Andromeda's hologram nodded before vanishing.
"Andromeda?" Beka asked once more. "Can you tell me when the last time Harper ate was?" She asked uneasily.
"Actually I was surprised you got him to eat." She told her. "Trance, Rev, I and even Tyr have been trying to get him to eat." She explained. Beka furrowed her brow.
"Wow." She stated worriedly.
"Harper hasn't eaten in about a week." She concluded.
"What?!" Beka said in disbelief. She had expected it to have been a few days, but not a whole week. She found herself hesitant in asking the next question that seemed to follow after that. "How much sleep has he gotten?" She asked, concern clear in her voice.
"Not much, but I'm worried about him Beka. Every night he either doesn't go to sleep or does and wakes up either screaming or covered in sweat." She explained as the food was deposited before Beka. Beka nodded and took the tray of food.
"Thanks Andromeda." She sighed and headed for the door as thoughts swarmed through her mind.
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Once Beka reached Harper's room she found that she was still deep within her thoughts. She was worried, angry, confused, and terribly concerned about Harper. She gave a weary sigh and entered the room. The long bar of light coming from the outside lay over the room and onto the bed Harper sat on. He winced at the sudden light as Beka stepped in. The doors slid shut and the first thing Beka realized was the rush of heat that came to great her.
"Man Harper, why is it so hot in here?" She asked, heading toward his bed. She blinked a few times as she agian tried to get used to the very dim lited room. She was seriously wondering how Harper could see what he was doing in here. Harper shrugged as she set the food on the dressor beside his bed. Finally after another moment Beka adjusted to the darkness.
"Alright, here's your food." She offered, handing him a plate and a Sparky Cola. His face lit up.
"Alright, a Sparky!" He said, grinning.
"Let me guess, Rommie wouldn't let you have one?" She asked, smiling.
"How'd you guess?" He asked as he opened it. Beka frowned as she took her own food. She noted the tired and pained expression hidden behind his eyes. She doubted many other people would notice it, but she had known Harper long enough to see it. Beka soon realized Harper hadn't touched his food.
"Harper, when I said let's get something to eat, I meant let's as in both of us." She said as she motioned toward his food. He merley shrugged.
"I'm not really hungry." He told her.
"To bad Seamus, you need it." She told him. He hesitated as he toyed with his food. Finally after a moment he took a bite. Beka grinned. "See, that wasn't too hard." She told him, urging him on. "Besides I'll get you another Sparky if you eat it all." She continued.
"Make it a pack on you got a deal boss." He said, smilling. Beka also noticed that Harper had not truley smiled since she had returned. None of them reached his eyes. She nodded.
"Alright, but you have to finish all of it." She said as she took a bite of her lasagna. There was a pause between them from which the two ate. As Beka skimmed over the room once more she realized how many more devices lay around it. Before she had left there had merley been a few; all unfinished. Now their had to be at least three times as much, mist looking quite finished. Soon the thing that had been eating her from the moment she stepped into the room became too much of an annoyance.
"Harper, why do you want it this hot?" She asked finally. Harper stopped eating and tensed. Beka noticed this and furrowed her brows. "Harper?" She asked cautiously.
"Uh...I'm cold..." He tried uneasily.
"Harper, you'll have to give me something better than that." Beka pointed out. Harper shot a momentary glance to her.
"No really, I am." He said hastily.
"You really aren't that good at lying Seamus." She pointed out. "Andromeda could you turn down the hea-" She began.
"No!" Harper blurted out suddenly. Beka turned to him.
"Harper?" She asked nervously. He hesitated.
"Sorry boss....I'm just really, really cold." He said.
"Harper, you're sweating more than I am." She said softly. Concern filled her once more as she tried to think of why Harper would possibly want the heat up so high. It had to be big because he was so determined in avoiding her every question about it. He fidgeted nervously, shooting a look up at Beka.
"No reason." He tried. Man, he really didn't want her to know. She looked at him, her gaze full of worry. She realized that he wasn't going to give in.
"You better finish your food." Beka said. Harper seemed relieved to have a change of subject and continued to eat. Without warning a loud bang errupted from around the ship, catapulting the two off the bed and careening to the floor. What little light there was shut off, plunging them into darkness.
"Harper, are you okay?" Beka groaned immiediatly after she had been able to get a hold of her thoughts. Her head throbbed painfully for she had hit it rather hard agianst the wall behind her. She spotted him beside her as he slowly got to his feet and nodded. "Yea." He replied, rubbing his head and looking toward the door. Beka struggled to her own feet; leaning agianst the wall for balance. "What the heck was that?" He asked after a moment.
"No idea." Beka admitted. "Andromeda?" She called out to the room. No responce. She had a very bad feeling about this.
"Beka, Rev, Trance, report to the bridge immidiatly." Dyllan's voice rang out. Beka headed toward the door and was about to give her command code to open it, but paused when realizing Harper wasn't behind her. In order for Harper to be locked in his quarters anyone who wanted to get out had to give their command codes.
"Harper?" She asked, barley able to make out his figure as he stood by the wall.
"You sure it's okay I get out of here, Bek?" He asked uneasily. She felt the familiar anger at Dyllan burn through her at this question.
"Yea, we're under attack and your the best engineer anywhere!" She said, sounding almost irritable. He headed over toward her and she turned to the door and stated her command code. The door opened and to Beka's surprise she came face to face with Rommie.
"Beka, we have to get to the bridge." She said hurriedly. Beka noticed that it was just as dark in the halls as it was in Harper's room. "Sensors are down and so is power in almost everything." She explained. Beka nodded. Rommie turned to Harper, her face suddenly falling.
"I'm so sorry Harper, but you'll have to stay here." She apoligized honestly. Beka felt her jaw drop. No way could Dyllan have gone this far. Even Tyr would have to agree this was definatley harming their chances of survival if their Engineer wasn't allowed to fix anything when they were under attack.
"But Rommie I could help-" He started pleadingly.
"Sorry Harper." Rommie repeated, her voice still filled with regret.
"Rommie, you can't be serious." Beka began in disbelief.
"Beka, this is very urgent." Rommie told her. Beka sighed irritabley.
"Fine. It'll give me a chance to talk to Dyllan anyways." She sighed before looking over to Harper. "I'm really sorry Harper. I promise I'll be back for you." She told him. What Beka didn't realize was that later her promise would be depended on. That it would be the only thoughts that would keep Harper sane.
Harper nodded as the he stepped back inside his quarters. Beka watched as the door slid shut and cursed out load.
"I swear Rommie, I am seriously going to get this to stop one way or another." She vowed angrily. Of course "one way or another" included the fact she was seriously considering leaving Andromeda with her crew.
"Beka we can discuss that later, right now we need to get to the bridge." Rommie told her. Beka nodded as Rommie took off down the hall. Beka quickly ran after her, begining to wonder what had happened to make everything shut down so suddenly.
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Harper paced back and forth through his quarter's, his mind racing. He felt so helpless here. He had never thought that he wouldn't be aloud to fix Andromeda. She needed him now and he wasn't aloud to fix her. He bit his lower lip as thoughts continued to race through his mind. Although he was sure that he deserved far worse than the punishment he had recieved he didn't think it should go so far to where others were in danger. He wouldn't stay here while the ship was being attacked. He wouldn't stay here if everyone could die all because he hadn't helped. At that moment Harper made the decision to brake out of his room and head to Engineering where he could try to fix the problem. He headed to the door and knelt down beside a panel that was next to it. He quickly took it off and went to work.
If he had wanted to get out of his room it would have been simple for him. The codes and safeguards Andromeda had set up to prevent him leaving were easy for Harper to by-pass. Soon he had done just that and the door beside him slid open. Harper abandoned the open panel and ran out the door. As he did the ship suddenly shook voilently and an explosion sounded out. Harper steadied himself before he picked up his pace as he tore toward Engineering, his mind focused on the one goal. He had to repair the ship while he still could. The halls were dark, almost pitch black. Harper realized that even the little backup power needed to dimly light the ship was gone. Nothing had ever drained her of so much power before. Just as he was nearing his goal he suddenly felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. He stopped, wheeling around and automatically reaching for his gun. He silently cursed when remembering his was taken away.
"Hello? Beka?" He asked the hallway cautiously. Only a tense silence responded him and after another moment he cautiously continued, ever so often flashing a look over his shoulder. Soon he was sure someone was watching him so he stopped once more.
"Hey, who's there?!" He demanded, spinning around. "If it isn't the Ice Kludge." He jumped as panic rose in his chest as he took a step back. Although the voice wasn't familiar, it sent his skin crawling. Without warning he felt a sudden seering and blinding pain from the back of his head along with the sound of metal clashing agianst something, before he felt his legs curmple beneath him. The ground rushed up to meet him and soon all he knew was darkness.
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The End...Naw, just kidding :P TBC So anywho, that was the second chapter :3 Remember that I only have Notepad so can't correct my spelling and also Please, please review!
Author: Shakia
Spoilers: None
Squel to: Frozen Nightmares
Summary: Harper is kidnapped by aliens who claim they worked with the Dragons on the Ice Kludge project and they force him to do things he will never forgive himself for.
Author's Notes: Blah, I'm really sorry for how messed up the last chapter looked. I have no idea how to fix that so I can use the symbols to seperate everything X.x If anyone does, please let me know O.o sighs So, sorry if this chapter looks weird and is hard to follow. I'll have to agian resort to this. Um, I'm ganna put FB for flash back, -r-r-r-r-r- for just when it's a lapse of time and PT for present time. In the last chapter their was a key part that was messed up. The section at the very begining where he said he had killed Beka was in the future. I hope that helps a little X.x Oh, and if (which I find doubtful) anyone wants to put any of my Andromeda fics in an archive, feel free as long as you contact me first about it! Although I was thrilled at sparkycola1's offer :3 I hope you got my email about that X.x anyhow, onto the next chapter...
Instantly after Beka had spotted Harper she had realized how horrible he looked. He was pale and thin. Another thing she had noted was how exhausted he had looked. It had been very obvious that he hadn't slept or eaten in quite a while. After noticing this her instant reaction was to try and get him to eat something. Surprisingly he hadn't caught her as she suggested they get something to eat. Beka had noted bitterly that Dyllan either didn't notice how horrible Harper looked, or just didn't care. She had told Harper she would meet him back in his quarters and was off to the mess hall to grab each of them some food to eat in there. As she walked through the halls she let out an agrivated sigh. How could Dyllan do this to him? She had been sure the whole "punishment" would have stopped long before she got back. She felt anger burn within her at the thought and found herself subconsiously clenching her hands into fists. She was seriously considering leaving Andromeda. She had been completley take back by Dyllan's reaction to this. He hadn't even tried to understand and, in fact, seemed to be afraid of Harper. The person who had saved them countless of times.
She entered the door to the mess hall and weaved through the tables to where Andromeda usually prepared the food.
"Andromeda?" She sighed wearily.
"What are you going to have Beka?" Andromeda's voice asked as her hologram appeared before her.
"I'm just grabbing something for me and Harper to eat. Maybe lasangna or something. Oh, and a Sparky Cola." She added as an after thought. Andromeda's hologram nodded before vanishing.
"Andromeda?" Beka asked once more. "Can you tell me when the last time Harper ate was?" She asked uneasily.
"Actually I was surprised you got him to eat." She told her. "Trance, Rev, I and even Tyr have been trying to get him to eat." She explained. Beka furrowed her brow.
"Wow." She stated worriedly.
"Harper hasn't eaten in about a week." She concluded.
"What?!" Beka said in disbelief. She had expected it to have been a few days, but not a whole week. She found herself hesitant in asking the next question that seemed to follow after that. "How much sleep has he gotten?" She asked, concern clear in her voice.
"Not much, but I'm worried about him Beka. Every night he either doesn't go to sleep or does and wakes up either screaming or covered in sweat." She explained as the food was deposited before Beka. Beka nodded and took the tray of food.
"Thanks Andromeda." She sighed and headed for the door as thoughts swarmed through her mind.
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Once Beka reached Harper's room she found that she was still deep within her thoughts. She was worried, angry, confused, and terribly concerned about Harper. She gave a weary sigh and entered the room. The long bar of light coming from the outside lay over the room and onto the bed Harper sat on. He winced at the sudden light as Beka stepped in. The doors slid shut and the first thing Beka realized was the rush of heat that came to great her.
"Man Harper, why is it so hot in here?" She asked, heading toward his bed. She blinked a few times as she agian tried to get used to the very dim lited room. She was seriously wondering how Harper could see what he was doing in here. Harper shrugged as she set the food on the dressor beside his bed. Finally after another moment Beka adjusted to the darkness.
"Alright, here's your food." She offered, handing him a plate and a Sparky Cola. His face lit up.
"Alright, a Sparky!" He said, grinning.
"Let me guess, Rommie wouldn't let you have one?" She asked, smiling.
"How'd you guess?" He asked as he opened it. Beka frowned as she took her own food. She noted the tired and pained expression hidden behind his eyes. She doubted many other people would notice it, but she had known Harper long enough to see it. Beka soon realized Harper hadn't touched his food.
"Harper, when I said let's get something to eat, I meant let's as in both of us." She said as she motioned toward his food. He merley shrugged.
"I'm not really hungry." He told her.
"To bad Seamus, you need it." She told him. He hesitated as he toyed with his food. Finally after a moment he took a bite. Beka grinned. "See, that wasn't too hard." She told him, urging him on. "Besides I'll get you another Sparky if you eat it all." She continued.
"Make it a pack on you got a deal boss." He said, smilling. Beka also noticed that Harper had not truley smiled since she had returned. None of them reached his eyes. She nodded.
"Alright, but you have to finish all of it." She said as she took a bite of her lasagna. There was a pause between them from which the two ate. As Beka skimmed over the room once more she realized how many more devices lay around it. Before she had left there had merley been a few; all unfinished. Now their had to be at least three times as much, mist looking quite finished. Soon the thing that had been eating her from the moment she stepped into the room became too much of an annoyance.
"Harper, why do you want it this hot?" She asked finally. Harper stopped eating and tensed. Beka noticed this and furrowed her brows. "Harper?" She asked cautiously.
"Uh...I'm cold..." He tried uneasily.
"Harper, you'll have to give me something better than that." Beka pointed out. Harper shot a momentary glance to her.
"No really, I am." He said hastily.
"You really aren't that good at lying Seamus." She pointed out. "Andromeda could you turn down the hea-" She began.
"No!" Harper blurted out suddenly. Beka turned to him.
"Harper?" She asked nervously. He hesitated.
"Sorry boss....I'm just really, really cold." He said.
"Harper, you're sweating more than I am." She said softly. Concern filled her once more as she tried to think of why Harper would possibly want the heat up so high. It had to be big because he was so determined in avoiding her every question about it. He fidgeted nervously, shooting a look up at Beka.
"No reason." He tried. Man, he really didn't want her to know. She looked at him, her gaze full of worry. She realized that he wasn't going to give in.
"You better finish your food." Beka said. Harper seemed relieved to have a change of subject and continued to eat. Without warning a loud bang errupted from around the ship, catapulting the two off the bed and careening to the floor. What little light there was shut off, plunging them into darkness.
"Harper, are you okay?" Beka groaned immiediatly after she had been able to get a hold of her thoughts. Her head throbbed painfully for she had hit it rather hard agianst the wall behind her. She spotted him beside her as he slowly got to his feet and nodded. "Yea." He replied, rubbing his head and looking toward the door. Beka struggled to her own feet; leaning agianst the wall for balance. "What the heck was that?" He asked after a moment.
"No idea." Beka admitted. "Andromeda?" She called out to the room. No responce. She had a very bad feeling about this.
"Beka, Rev, Trance, report to the bridge immidiatly." Dyllan's voice rang out. Beka headed toward the door and was about to give her command code to open it, but paused when realizing Harper wasn't behind her. In order for Harper to be locked in his quarters anyone who wanted to get out had to give their command codes.
"Harper?" She asked, barley able to make out his figure as he stood by the wall.
"You sure it's okay I get out of here, Bek?" He asked uneasily. She felt the familiar anger at Dyllan burn through her at this question.
"Yea, we're under attack and your the best engineer anywhere!" She said, sounding almost irritable. He headed over toward her and she turned to the door and stated her command code. The door opened and to Beka's surprise she came face to face with Rommie.
"Beka, we have to get to the bridge." She said hurriedly. Beka noticed that it was just as dark in the halls as it was in Harper's room. "Sensors are down and so is power in almost everything." She explained. Beka nodded. Rommie turned to Harper, her face suddenly falling.
"I'm so sorry Harper, but you'll have to stay here." She apoligized honestly. Beka felt her jaw drop. No way could Dyllan have gone this far. Even Tyr would have to agree this was definatley harming their chances of survival if their Engineer wasn't allowed to fix anything when they were under attack.
"But Rommie I could help-" He started pleadingly.
"Sorry Harper." Rommie repeated, her voice still filled with regret.
"Rommie, you can't be serious." Beka began in disbelief.
"Beka, this is very urgent." Rommie told her. Beka sighed irritabley.
"Fine. It'll give me a chance to talk to Dyllan anyways." She sighed before looking over to Harper. "I'm really sorry Harper. I promise I'll be back for you." She told him. What Beka didn't realize was that later her promise would be depended on. That it would be the only thoughts that would keep Harper sane.
Harper nodded as the he stepped back inside his quarters. Beka watched as the door slid shut and cursed out load.
"I swear Rommie, I am seriously going to get this to stop one way or another." She vowed angrily. Of course "one way or another" included the fact she was seriously considering leaving Andromeda with her crew.
"Beka we can discuss that later, right now we need to get to the bridge." Rommie told her. Beka nodded as Rommie took off down the hall. Beka quickly ran after her, begining to wonder what had happened to make everything shut down so suddenly.
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Harper paced back and forth through his quarter's, his mind racing. He felt so helpless here. He had never thought that he wouldn't be aloud to fix Andromeda. She needed him now and he wasn't aloud to fix her. He bit his lower lip as thoughts continued to race through his mind. Although he was sure that he deserved far worse than the punishment he had recieved he didn't think it should go so far to where others were in danger. He wouldn't stay here while the ship was being attacked. He wouldn't stay here if everyone could die all because he hadn't helped. At that moment Harper made the decision to brake out of his room and head to Engineering where he could try to fix the problem. He headed to the door and knelt down beside a panel that was next to it. He quickly took it off and went to work.
If he had wanted to get out of his room it would have been simple for him. The codes and safeguards Andromeda had set up to prevent him leaving were easy for Harper to by-pass. Soon he had done just that and the door beside him slid open. Harper abandoned the open panel and ran out the door. As he did the ship suddenly shook voilently and an explosion sounded out. Harper steadied himself before he picked up his pace as he tore toward Engineering, his mind focused on the one goal. He had to repair the ship while he still could. The halls were dark, almost pitch black. Harper realized that even the little backup power needed to dimly light the ship was gone. Nothing had ever drained her of so much power before. Just as he was nearing his goal he suddenly felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. He stopped, wheeling around and automatically reaching for his gun. He silently cursed when remembering his was taken away.
"Hello? Beka?" He asked the hallway cautiously. Only a tense silence responded him and after another moment he cautiously continued, ever so often flashing a look over his shoulder. Soon he was sure someone was watching him so he stopped once more.
"Hey, who's there?!" He demanded, spinning around. "If it isn't the Ice Kludge." He jumped as panic rose in his chest as he took a step back. Although the voice wasn't familiar, it sent his skin crawling. Without warning he felt a sudden seering and blinding pain from the back of his head along with the sound of metal clashing agianst something, before he felt his legs curmple beneath him. The ground rushed up to meet him and soon all he knew was darkness.
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The End...Naw, just kidding :P TBC So anywho, that was the second chapter :3 Remember that I only have Notepad so can't correct my spelling and also Please, please review!