Chapter Eighteen:
Three days later Tyr was sitting in the observation deck reading when Beka entered looking for him. Tyr lowered his book and looked at her when she stood in front of him.
"Is there something I can help you with?" He asked.
"Yea, explain to me how Aikera ended up in a coma." Beka said. Tyr sighed and laid his book to the side.
"She stepped in between me and someone trying to attack me. She made a stupid move that ultimately saved my life, and hers." Tyr said. He motioned Beka to sit next to him. Once she was seated he continued, "There are times I wish I had never gone back to her planet to trade that day. Maybe then I would have started my pride again."
"Maybe it happened for a reason Tyr. Maybe you were meant to start your pride here, on the Andromeda." A voice said interrupting the conversation. They both looked up not seeing the owner of the voice that interrupted them. "Don't bother looking you won't find me- brother."
"Aikera." Tyr hissed out. Beka put a hand on his arm stopping him. Tyr looked at her questioningly.
"She's right. Why did you ask to escort me to the Archduke's party?" Beka asked venturing onto thin ice with the Nietzschean. Tyr took in a slow breath and let it out then looked Beka in her eyes.
"Because Rebecca Valentine I--" Tyr started then stopped to think about how to word his feelings. "I love you."
Beka smiled then put a hand on his cheek, "That is the most romantic I thing I have ever heard you say Tyr. I love you too."
"Would you ever consider becoming my mate?" Tyr asked, also knowing how thin the ice was.
"Would you ever take other mates? I have a vague understanding of how prides work. You already have a son." Beka said.
"I would take other mates, but you will always be my first wife, the only one I will bed each and every night." Tyr said. Beka had to smile then she quickly looked around the room. Tyr looked at Beka questioningly.
"I'm waiting for another random voice to talk to us." Beka said. Aikera then appeared in front of them.
"How about this one on for size?" She asked. Beka screamed from shock and Tyr just looked at Aikera's 'body' in front of them.
"What are you doing?" Tyr asked.
"I got to make this quick because Harper is having a cow over this, but I have to tell you that I'm pregnant." Aikera said then her image was gone. Tyr sighed knowing that there was some more explaining that had to be done.
"Come on Beka lets go find the Princess then one of use will explain that scene." Tyr said getting up and leading the two of them to Aikera's location, with the help of Andromeda of course.
"Aikera why'd you have to wig me out more then already necessary." Harper asked. "First you talk to them like a disembodied voice, then you tell me you're pregnant then you do the whole 'I'm in two places at once, literally' stunt."
"He's right Aikera, and how far along are you?" Tyr said entering the medical bay. Trance was leaning against a counter watching the interaction with amusement. Things were most defiantly different then her first time around, and hopefully it would be better. The first time they didn't even go to Aikera's home planet.
"Four weeks. Not that you need to ask Tyr. I know you smelt him on me that night." Aikera said crossing her arms over her chest and looking away from her adopted brother.
"I think it is time the whole crew knows who and what you really are Aikera, you know I'm right." Tyr said.
"Do I have too?" Aikera said with a whine.
"It needs to be told. We cannot hide forever." Luna said from next to Aikera. The princess looked down at her 'daughter'.
"You're so not helping my case here, but since I have just been out voted. Take me to your leader." Aikera said sliding off the bed. Harper helped Luna off the bed and the six of them headed to Dylan's office. Once the rest of the crew arrived for the impromptu meeting Tyr looked at Aikera. She sighed trying to figure out where to start.
"Dylan, I believe at one time you wanted to know how Tyr and I met and why I had such hatred for him at the time of my arrival." Aikera said receiving a nod from the captain. She then explained the story to him that Rev had heard about two months earlier. Once done she looked at Luna then the rest of the crew. Before anyone could ask, Aikera created an image of herself across the room. Dylan went to ask a question when the image spoke up.
"Yes captain, this is real. I can talk while in both forms and I am about to explain this." The image said then flickered and was gone.
"My mom," The solid Aikera started, "Wasn't royalty from birth. She is, or was until she died, part of a species known as Gaharina's. They have been living in secrecy for so long that they are believed to be myth now. The only reason we continue to thrive the way we do is that we blend in easily. We do have a home planet somewhere, but mother never told me the coordinates. I had to learn to control my abilities on my own my whole life. That is why my father dislikes me so, not because of my rebellious ways, but my abilities to do things he could not do. After I was conceived, my mother left him and met Charlemagne's parents. That is how he and I know each other so well. Mother never denied father his rights to me, but she also never told either of us about her past and my future as a Gaharina."
"What of Luna?" Rommie asked.
"Each Gaharina has their own special ability that only they can do. But we all, as a whole have some abilities in common," Luna said speaking up, "I can be in two places at once also. Not to Princess Aikera's extent. Nevertheless, where I can read emotions, she cannot. We each to our own but as a whole."
"How old are you again?" Aikera asked the child.
"Six." Luna said with a smile.
"What else can you do Aikera?" Dylan asked. He wanted to know what he was teamed with now.
"Can't tell you. Besides now that I'm pregnant, I can't do much of anything." Aikera said shocking Dylan and the rest of the crew.