Well, another chapter for you to bore yourselves with! Anywayz... read on.. AND PLEASE REVIEW! so yea! I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 3.

"Bishop… I'm back, tell them about the Xenomorphs…" Ripley said, shaking Bishop slightly.

"What are you doing!" Lin exclaimed as she approached the scene. She grabbed Ripley's shoulder and pulled her back, "You are damaging him! Why must you continue to cause him pain?" She said, "What happened to your good attitude?"

"Lin, calm down…" Peters said putting a hand on one of Lin's shoulders.

Lin looked back at her, "Ok…"

"Ripley?" Bishop replied suddenly, "Hello again…"

"Xenomorphs, Bishop. The Xenomorphs on LV 426! Tell them about the Xenomorphs…" Ripley said slowly.

"Xenomorphs. The queen lays many eggs, and from the eggs comes a creature we call a face hugger. It attaches itself to the face of a human and impregnates the victim with an embryo… Soon after…" Bishop stopped, suddenly being cut be Ripley.

"No Bishop, you stupid robot… Our experiences, they know what it is…" She said, becoming frustrated again.

Hicks only listened and tried to sleep, despite the liveliness of the conversation.

Lin glared at her briefly and then refocused her attention to Bishop.

"I'm sorry, "Bishop said and then continued, "A group of marines were asked to have a look on LV 426 after loosing contact with a colony there. Not long before, Ripley had explained her situation (57 years prior, on the Nostronomo). Suspecting that Xenomorphs, or aliens, were involved, the company sent Ripley with them as an adviser.

"Once we got down there, there didn't seem to be anything… not even humans. While we were down there, we came across Newt, the only survivor on that planet. Eventually we found where the Xenomorphs were hiding and we were attacked. During that first battle, most of our crew was destroyed.

"A decision had been made to evacuate to planet and blow the area up, which we did successfully. Once we returned to the Sulaco, we discovered that the alien queen had been on board." Bishop stopped for a moment, and then continued, "Ripley managed to get her out the airlock.

"Ripley then placed us in the cryo-chambers and here we are now."

"But how did you get like that?" Ahliase asked.

"Oh, as we were walking out of the Sulaco, the alien queen stabbed bishop with her tail and tore him in half…" Ripley said quickly.

"Even though the synthetic told us…" Ahliase paused for a second.

This gave Bishop an opportunity to add a comment, "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself…"

" Artificial Person, what ever, I am still finding it hard to believe… But I'll take your word for it," Ahliase sighed, and then smiled, "This has been a confusing day, so far… And it's only mid-day. Lets sort things out later, ok? Lin, continue to fix Bishop." Ahliase ordered, "The rest of us can get back to checking through the Sulaco."

"Yes, Captain…" Lin said as they left, and put a hand on Ripley's shoulder.

Ripley turned around to face Lin, "Yes?" She said coldly.

"Why do you have to be so mean?" Lin said, just as cold as Ripley's expression.

Ripley remained silent, staring at her, then turned towards the door and left the room.

"You weren't like this when he saved your life!" Lin said coldly.

"Dude, this one big piece o' shit…" Luppes laughed as he looked around.

"That's coz ours is small," Indig replied, "Damn Company so cheap ass, couldn't even get us no fucking cryo-chambers."

"Shut up guys, please… You're always saying that, we get the fucking point." Allan said, hitting the 2 black men over the heads.

"What the fuck…?" Luppes cried hitting Allan back.

"Boys, don't fight, please." Peters turned around.

The 3 men glared at each other and continued to walk in silence.

"So, that's the control room?" Ahliase turned to Ripley, "By the way, what did Lin want?" She asked, remembering Lin had said something to her

Ripley did not answer the second question, rather she completely ignored it, "Yea. I'm sure there's some footage of the queen in there." Ripley said as she entered the room. Looking through all the memory she came across video recordings. Played them, looking carefully for alien footage. She played the first recording. A man in medical, he was writing something. When he turned around, Ripley recognized him, "Burke… Why didn't I see this before? The fool was writing down messages he received…"

"Burke?" Ahliase raised a brow.

"He was a man sent on company orders to retrieve one of those little fuckers for the bio labs back on earth." Ripley fast-forwarded the tape. The thought of Burke made her blood boil. He reminded her so much of Ash – That fucking droid!

"Oh… I see…" Ahliase said continuing to watch.

They continued to watch carefully. They watched hours of footage right down till Ripley, Newt, Hicks and Bishop were back nito the cryo-chambers, and still nothing. They continued watched, but as they were about to turn off the tape something darted across the screen, which gave everybody a scare.

"Hey Lin…?" Hicks said to Lin.

Lin turned away from what she was doing (fixing Bishop up) and looked at Hicks, "Yes?"

"Is Bishop on or off?" He asked.

"He is off… I didn't want to cause him pain…" Lin smiled and stopped what she was doing. She covered up Bishop body and moved towards Hicks, "Now I know there's something you wish to discuss…"
"Do you like Bishop?" Hicks sat up again, "Because you always seem to be arguing for him… And they way you look at him…"

Lin smiled softly, "Hicks… I am only doing that because I feel that it is not right that she should get angry with him… He's broken, his programming is slightly damaged and he can take a lot of things literally. I know of her experiences, but that doesn't make her anymore special than the rest of us." She said, sitting next to Hicks.

"Lin, how old are you?" Hicks asked her.

Lin smiled at his query, "Why do you ask?"

"Because, you look… Um… Indefinite I suppose… You look old, but young." He replied, studying her facial features, "It's almost unnatural…"

"I assure you, I'm not artificial, if that's what you're wondering." Lin said with a hint of delight in her voice, "You seem to be asking alot of questions... at any rate...I am 19 years old, though… "

"19! Holy shit!" Hicks said in shock, "You're a bit young to be the 'droid' of the family, aren't you?"

"You'd think that, wouldn't you…" Lin said with a slight sigh.

"What's the matter?" Hicks asked, sensing something not quite right.

"I was just thinking." She broke away from her thoughts.

"About what?" Hicks asked her, becoming more interested, "You can tell me…"

Lin hesitated, and finally answered, "Bishop. By the way, how's you're eye?"

Hicks smiled at the young girl, "Don't change the subject! Bishop… I should have known. You're crazy over him! You always look at him any chance you get, and even now your eyes wonder over to his body." He patted her weakly on her shoulder.

She pulled her eyes from Bishop again and refocused her attention to Hicks, "I'm sorry… It's so obvious, isn't it? I don't know what it is about him that makes me feel this way. And I know that because he's an artificial person, he wouldn't feel the same way…" She looked at the ground and sighed again, "I suppose it wouldn't matter if he did find out. He wouldn't understand anyway."

Hick knew she was right, but didn't want her to feel down, "Well, you never know. He might!" He said, lifting Lin's head, "But what does it matter? If your feelings are strong, then you should want him to be alright."

"I do… But if he did find out, how would it affect him?" Lin said, looking into his eyes, "I'm afraid… Please don't let him know… Don't let anyone know. It's obvious, but please… Bishop will never figure it out." She pleaded him.

Hicks then spotted something behind Lin. When he took a better look, he realized it was Newt, standing at the doorway, "Newt…"

Lin turned around quickly and spotted the girl.

Newt stood there still, until finally she realized what she had done, "I heard everything…" She said softly.

The three were silent for a few minutes. Lin stood up and walked over to Newt, "It's ok… I trust you." She said picking her up.

"I wont tell anyone! I promise, cross my heart and hope to die!" Newt said sincerely.

"I believe you, I believe you…" Lin said softly with slight laughter. She walked back to Hicks and put her down, "Sit down, sweetie. We've all ignored you… I'm sorry. Would you like anything?" She asked.

"No thank you. I'm alright…" Newt replied, looking up at Lin and then to Hicks, "Hi Hicks!"

"You ok?" Hicks asked her.

"Yes, of course I am!" Newt replied happily.

"Ok, ok… Just checking!" Hicks said, touching Newts soft cheek with a smile.

Ok... that was a bit rushed now, wasn't it... but I can't think of anything more to type and such... Besides... wouldn't it drag on quite a bit? Anywayz... I'm going to be adjusting it... mean while... tell me what you think should happen in the next chapter: 1. Bishop knows that Lin likes him

2. Bishop was on for the whole time

3. Everybody gets happy

4. they discover an alien on board the sulaco...

anywayz... T.T.F.N. Melinda