Yay reveiw for the last one :)

Chapter 4

This couldn't carry on, the dreadful suspense that she lived in always afraid that he'd appear again. She was just so tired all the time – tired of being scared, tired of the nightmares, tired of crying herself to sleep and then wake up crying the next morning as her mind took her through what had happened in one dreadful dream after another.

The trouble was she didn't know how to make it stop how to make herself normal again and erase what had happened. She couldn't talk to anyone however much they asked they wouldn't understand they'd think it was her fault, after all, it was in a way. If she hadn't done what she had to him all those years ago then this would never have come about.

But it couldn't carry on she kept seeing him just around the corner everywhere she went and had flashes of the smiling faces of her friends bruised and torn as he carried out all of the things that e had told her he would do to them if she left him again. She couldn't do that to her friends it would be her fault like everything else and hey wouldn't even know it.

Walking around the corner she saw Dylan at the other end of the corridor talking to some people she didn't know. One turned to look and in that second she knew that he had caught her, Dylan turned smiling towards her holding out a hand to introduce the others but she had already turned away. She would leave, leave all of them run and hide and run again so he would never find her – if he was trying to find her he wouldn't hurt Harper or Dylan or Trance.

And if she was running if she had to think to survive then maybe she wouldn't think about everything else and eventually the aching would stop. Maybe.

By now she was running down the corridor towards the Maru she was vaguely aware of Andromeda calling out to her as she sped past but she didn't stop to hear the words. Collapsing into the pilots seat she powered up the engines but the hanger doors wouldn't open, and her ship seemed to be trying to drag downwards back towards the deck. He was trying to catch her again he was controlling the ship already. It was true what he had said she could never escape, not really. With a clang she let the Maru fall back to he ground and curled up on the chair. Vaguely she registered the airlock opening and running feet coming towards her. Someone wrapped thir arms around herand she waited for what she knew would come next. But nothing happened, slowl she looked up at harper who was staring at her with a worried look. Harper! She had to tell him and warn him!

"He's here, he's here we have to leave, we have to leave now!" she hurriedly said struggling to reach the pilots controls again.

"Who's here?" Harper replied looking anxiously around

"Him, he's with Dylan, he wouldn't let me leave."

"You mean the officials from Jexcara?"

"Officials?"

"Those are the only different people on the ship. They're here for a tour of the Commonwealth – or at least those bits we can reach in 7 solar days."

"He isn't here?"

"I don't know who he is but I don't think so, believe me no one got out of that prison except you and me." Harper replied his face going hard, "You're safe here – trust me."

Nodding she let her head fall back into his shoulder and gradually let her eyes drift shut.

"Harper – Dylan needs to speak to you on command" Andromeda's voice said softly through the speakers.

"Right now? Tell him to wait."

"Right now" Andromeda commanded looking worried "he needs to talk to you this minute."