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Chapter 4.

"What was that!" Peters gasped.

Ripley knew what it was and she wasn't about to let them know about it just yet. She turned off the computer, "Damn!" She exclaimed, "I'm sorry, the tape fucked up."

"Was… was that possibly an alien?" Indig stuttered.

"I don't know…" Ripley sighed. She shook her head and wondered why she had thought that.

"Well… alien, person… Whatever! But I'm not hanging around to find out!" Luppes said immediately.

"You scared?" Allan teased.

"Yes actually… Aren't you?" Luppes exclaimed, "I'm outa here…" He said quickly heading for the exit.

Peters grab his arm and held him back, "Where do you think you're going!" She said angrily.

"I'm getting back onto our ship, thank you very much!" Luppes pulled his arm away from her and left.

"That fool!" Peter said softly.

Ahliase sighed, "Let him go…"

"Do you think we should look around that area see if there are any clues as to what it was?" Indig said, finally sounding smart.

"I think we should…" Allan agreed, looking at around the crew.

"I'm not so sure about that though…" Ripley said softly.

"What's the matter?" Indig asked her, "You too scared? Or is it just that there's something you're hiding?"

Ripley felt nervous, but kept her front, "No, I just feel that it might not be important… It might just be a glitch in the tape…" She replied.

"You might be right, you might be wrong, but I think that we should search for it anyway. Human or alien…" Ahliase said, tying back her blonde hair.

"I don't think it would've been human…" Peters said smartly, "There were only 3 of you and an android… How could it have been human? You might be right, maybe a glitch, but it didn't really look like it to me…" She secretly smiled towards Ripley.

"Ok… Fine, lets go and look!" Ripley waved her arms in the air, "Lead the way, Captain Ahliase!"
"Fine…" Ahliase said, tossing an awkward glance at Ripley. She then walked out of the control room.

Peters and Ripley were the last to leave.

"What's going on? I know you know what that was…" Peters said softly.

Ripley smiled sarcastically at Peters, "I'm sure you do." She muttered and walked off.

"They'll find out that you were hiding it… They'll find out that something's inside you…" Peters replied just before Ripley completely left the room.

"And why wouldn't she tell…" Ripley whispered to herself as she caught up with the rest of the crew. It was then that Ripley had a thought.

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"Luppes… Back so soon?" Lin said looking up from Bishop.

"Yeah…" He replied, taking a seat.

"Why are you in here?" She asked him.

"It's safer in here than out there…" Luppes said looking at Bishop.

"Well, that's all very well, but would you mind sitting in the dining room… with Newt and Hicks?" Lin asked him.

Luppes didn't say anything for a while, then stood up and began to walk out.

"Thank you…" Lin smiled and turned back to Bishop.

She began to sew his skin back together. This took her about half an hour until she was finally please, "He maybe synthetic, but the skin should grow back together…" Lin reassured herself. She then proceeded to turn him on.

Again Bishop twitched and opened his eyes. "Lin…" Bishop said softly.

"Hey Bishop… I hope I did alright…" Lin smiled.

"I'm sure you did…" Bishop said standing up. He took a few steps and walked back to Lin. He looked down at her.

Lin looked back up. She blushed slightly and took a step back awkwardly.

"What's the matter? You appear to be slightly hot…" Bishop said feeling her cheeks.

Lin looked away and moved back towards the table and began to clean up the table, "It's nothing."

"You might be sick…" Bishop said concerned.

"I'm alright… Don't worry, it's nothing…" Lin said, beginning to clean the instruments she had used.

"Are you sure?" He asked her.

"Yes…" She said with slight laughter in her voice, "Go and see how Hicks and Newt are doing, why don't you…"

"If you insist…" Bishop said as he made his way out the door.

Lin smiled at Bishops acts of helpfulness. She adored it, but what would it mean to him?

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"Ah… Bishop! You're up and running!" Hicks said happily.

Newt ran to Bishop and hugged him, "Bishop! You're alright!" She exclaimed.

"Newt…" Bishop said as he lifted her up, "How are you?"

"So, this is the droid…" Luppes began, "I don't mean it as an offence…"

"It's ok…" Bishop replied, sitting Newt down on a chair, then taking a place next to her.

"Say… Bishop…" Hicks began, "What's Lin up to?"

"I think she's cleaning up. I would've helped, but she asked me to join you. And I was rather anxious, I must say, to see how you were all going…" Bishop explained, "By the way Hicks, how's your eye?" He asked.

Hicks lifted the patch and showed him. His eye was alright, but the iris was very cloudy, "It's alright, I just can't exactly see with it…"

"Lin did a good job, didn't she?" Newt said suddenly, "With both of you!"
"Yes, she's quite the little doctor, ain't she." Luppes added.

"Indeed she is. I must credit her for that!" Hicks laughed, "Sophisticated language… Wouldn't it be funny to live in a world with people only using it…"

"And where did that come from?" Luppes asked.

"I dunno… Sounded funny…" Hicks replied.

"Kind of like killing birds with stones… It sounds really funny…" Newt added with a giggle.

"I don't think killing is funny…" Lin said casually as she entered the room and took a seat, "So, what are we talking about?"

"About your skills as a surgeon…" Luppes answered.

Newt giggled again, "Sorry about the killing comment…"

Lin smiled and turned to Luppes, "Surgeon, I like the sound of that…"

"You're a funny one…" Luppes smirked.

Hicks sat back, "I don't want to be rude, but could someone cook something? I can't cook, and I'm getting hungry…"

"I am too…" Newt said softly.

"Ok, ok… I'll get something started…" Lin said getting up.

"And you'll finish it?" Luppes said stupidly.

"I will do it instead…" Bishop stood up.

"No, it's ok…" Lin said, "Don't worry, you've just come out of surgery…" She joked.

Bishop smiled briefly, "Please… At least let me help you. To repay you for your kindness." He smiled, "Besides, it's why I'm here, to assist."

"And to pilot… Remember, the rest of us are too dumb! Science officer!" Hicks teased, "Go on, Lin… Let him at least help!" He taunted her.

Lin threw him a sarcastic smile and went into the kitchen.

Bishop followed soon after.

"Have fun!" Hicks said to Bishop.

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"See anything?" Indig asked.

"Not a thing… Not even my hand! Bring the light over here please." Allan replied sarcastically.

"Sorry mate… Didn't mean to…" Indig said pathetically.

"Sure you didn't…" Allan mumbled.

"Quit wining, you two…" Peters said harshly as she continued into the darkness.

"Why do we get stuck with you?" Allan said in a slack tone.

"Yeah… You walk too fast." Indig agreed.

"Shut up and move! You two are really fucking me off!" Peter growled back at them.

"You know, sometimes she scares me…" Indig paused briefly, with a sniggered from Allan.

"So, Ripley… What's going on?" Ahliase asked Ripley as they entered the medical lab on the Sulaco.

"What do you mean?" Ripley answered back dumbly.

"You know what I mean…" Alhiase turned around to come face to face with her.

"There's nothing I'm hiding!" Ripley smiled.

Ahliase looked her straight in the eye, "Ripley! I grow tired of your ignorance! Tell me what is going on, now." She said through gritted teeth.

"Go fuck yourself!" Ripley said softly and continued on down the dimly lit hall.

Ahliase released her tension and stormed after her, "Fucking hell! You are endangering a lot of people if there is something going on… Even your precious little Newt! So you better spit it the fuck out!" She yelled as she grabbed her arm.

"As I said before you Barbie doll… Go fuck yourself!" She said and pulled her arm away.

"What happened to you… Newt told me you were nice and everything. I guess you're only nice to her. Well, Newt is one of the 'a lot of people'…" Ahliase said as she and Ripley continued to move on, "So you can fuck that… I am sick of your attitude!"
"Yeah! Well, I'm sick of you! I'm over 90 years old… I really ought to be dead, but it's not happening! You know why? Coz I've been crammed in those cryo-chambers for a live time and more! I promised that I'd be back for my daughter's 11th birth… 62 years later, here I am… She died 7 years ago! I have out lived my daughter BY FAR! I am sick of it! Newt is the closest thing!" Ripley snapped, and headed back to the Ameddin.

"Where are you going?" Ahliase yelled.

"Back to my daughter!" Ripley yelled back and disappeared from Ahliase's sight.