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Ziggy is by far the most neglected main character in the series, I think because he is so complex and what little emotion we see from him is driven by his past with Voyager. I got this idea driving home, when does he start to feel something more for MOMO than just an objective to complete, does he know what it is? This is set at the UMN Center just before Juli wakes him up.


I remembered how warm her hands where.

She would stand over my shoulder as I worked on reports; hand on my shoulder after the apartment was quiet.

She also knew, often before I even did when and where I had an itch, digging her nails into that spot and scratching until it was gone.

I wasn't supposed to remember things like this but since the girl I had. Bits and pieces came to me, things like her hands, or that first memory of the park and the dog.

What was it about the girl that drew these memories, feelings out of me? My mission was all but complete, so why was I still here?

I knew she saw me as a father like figure, protecting her and saving her the way her own father never could. Why did I try to ease her feelings when her mother was so cold to her? I didn't mind it as it made her doing what I asked during battle that much easier, but protecting her feelings was not the same as protecting her body. Now there was something different, an, itch.

It wasn't really an itch, I didn't feel things like that anymore but it was the best way to describe it. A thing that I couldn't reach that annoyed. No, annoyed was the right word; persisted.

It was almost time for the procedure, I knew she would like me there but there really wasn't a reason for me to attend. My mission was over.

Maybe I would attend though, until the Y-data had been extracted there were still many groups that would like to obtain the girl.