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Before you read any further this is where the rating of this story gets changed from Teen to mature due to foul language, also there is a chance that there will be adult situations and sensitive issues addressed in this chapter; regarding that, there are no graphical descriptions of intimacy in this story and there never will be however, there will be nudity but NO INTIMACY I repeat; NO INTIMACY So if you just signed up to read "LEMONS" then this story is NOT for you.
I will NEVER include lemons in this story or any of my others that I may write as they go against my principles of tasteful writing, yes there is violence, yes there is aggression and YES there is foul language but aside from that; this story is pretty tame from the ones that I have read on this site that have been written by others in the past so best regards and happy reading!
Vesper110
Chapter 5: Memories
As Richard tried to figure out how Sapphire was related to Amythyst he went all silent, he then looked at the DNA profile of Sapphire on his scanner and saw that what she said was true, she WAS Amythyst's real sister and she was angry at him to which he said, "Well Amythyst told me that her mother died shortly after she was born so I actually doubt what you say, even if my scanner tells me otherwise so I need to know how this can be true," Sapphire got angrier and said "I do NOT have to fucking tell you anything about my family because it is none of your business and stop using my sister's name so casually! She is far more important than you will ever be," this pissed Richard of so much he snapped at her and shouted, "IS THAT ANY FUCKIN' WAY TO TALK TO SOMEONE WHO COULD JUST AS EASILY HAVE LEFT YOU TO DIE OUT HERE!? I SAVED YOUR UNGRATEFUL ASS INSTEAD OF LETTING YOU DIE, YOU LITTLE SHIT! HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME WITH SUCH DISRESPECT?" He then just stormed off to cool down to which Sapphire poked her tongue out at him to which Richard just turned his back on her and took a deep breath before saying, "Look here Ms Triton, I am not the enemy here I do not deserve your bad attitude, pray tell me what I have done to deserve such shit treatment from a stuck up cow like you? All I did was save your life and that is all I wanted to do but right now because of your petulant behaviour I am regretting my decision to save you, do you want to know a secret? If it were up to me the minute you opened your foul mouth and insulted me I would have shoved you OUT of this habitat, INTO the jaws of A Reaper Leviathan and OUT of my life," to which Sapphire said in a nervous "Th...Then why didn't you?" Richard then looked at her with hatred before changing his expression to mildly perturbed and from mildly perturbed to sorrowful before saying in a sad tone "Because Amythyst wouldn't want it and neither would Crystal." He then turned around sadly and walked off before sitting down in the observation room and locking himself in before pulling out his PDA and looking at his pictures as he flashed back to the moment he became bitter.
"Emergency! Hull failure imminent, all personnel abandon ship!" once again he flashed back to the moment the Aurora was hit by the precursor weapon and he was already carrying a heavily pregnant Crystal to the escape pods only to have her torn out of his arms by the first explosion, he ran over to her and helped her up to which she said "Richard sweetheart I can't go on; I can barely move like this and I will only end up slowing you down, killing all three of us. You'll have to go without me and save yourself," Richard looked at Crystal who was crying to which he said "No crystal we can make it just the three of us! I'm not going anywhere without you!" to which Crystal just hugged him gently while saying "It's too late for us, too late for me so please, if you truly love me then the best thing you can do is survive and not forget about us, "after she said that Richard once again tried to get her to follow but she said in a slightly commanding voice "Look Honey, I don't normally pull rank in situations like this but here I will HAVE make an exception; Richard I ORDER YOU, as your superior, to get your handsome ass to those lifepods and abandon this hunk of titanium! NO ARGUMENTS, NO BUTS! JUST MOVE IT!" Richard tried once again to help her to which she just picked him up, gave him a kiss and threw him into the evacuation corridor before the bulkhead doors closed and as they did Richard cried out Crystal's name and began to bang on the bulkhead door, before hearing her scream as a load of support beams 'supposedly' fell on her. Fearing that she was dead Richard carried on to the lifepods with tears in his eyes; he loved Crystal and he was happy that she was expecting their first child but to have her and their unborn child taken away from him tore his heart in two. As his pod released he screamed out "It's not fair! It's not FUCKING FAIR! Why her? Why not me?!" then finally the Aurora's hull failed and then he blacked out.
3 hours later
After his flashback he heard Sapphire politely knocking on the door saying "Excuse me, hey are you in here? Please let me in, I'm sorry for being rude, I... I was just scared that's all." Still pissed off at her, he just said bluntly "Look bitch, will you just piss off for a while and leave me alone. After the bullshit you just pulled on me I don't wish to see you, so go on, go play with the Bonesharks and Ampeels; and leave me in peace!" Saddened at this Sapphire just walked back into the recovery room that Richard constructed for her so she didn't feel trapped and curled up in the corner, before bursting into tears as she said "well done Sapphire you stupid idiot, now he hates you! Why was I so fuckin' rude to him?!" she began to sob bitterly to which Richard heard her and left the observation room saying "Look Sapphire I can understand your feelings but having someone be hostile to you, for no fuckin' reason isn't very nice is it? Dry your eyes and tell me, Why were you such a bitch?" Sapphire paused for a moment and thought before saying "well judging from the way you looked surprised when I was up and about after a mere 2 days you have heard of project Eden frontier right?" Richard looked at her and said "What is project Eden frontier when it's at home?" Seeing how puzzled Richard was, Sapphire dried her eyes that were all red and puffy from crying and said "Project Eden frontier was one of Alterra corps secret side projects, or rather; I think it was Alterra corp but I don't know, either way it was bad. You see, with humanity colonising space they needed to evolve us so they chose several women, women with a high fertility rate and who were stable when it was y'know, that time every woman goes through? Well no one is more fertile than Vampires, I am one and my sister was erm... IS one that is if she is truly alive and not dead even our mother was a Vampire but she foolishly fell in love with our father and when he found out what she was he sent her to the labs as a 'volunteer' now my mother being the soft hearted and loving woman that she was agreed with this 'volunteering' and because she loved my father so much he used her as a fucking guinea pig! Sent her into the Alterra labs where she was poked, prodded and stabbed with an assortment of needles, she endured it because of our father lying through his teeth! If I EVER SEE HIM again..." as she said that she clenched her fist, her eyes began to glow red and finally some form of energy erupted from her and she screamed "I'M GONNA KNOCK HIS TEETH IN AND RIP HIM APART!" She then smashed down on the Habitat floor, causing a hull-breach to which Richard face-palmed and rolled his eyes and said "Well I always thought you girls were different but Jesus Sapphire, look what ya did! if I don't fix those breaches we will be swimming with the fishes, and since it was you that caused these hull breaches, you are gonna help me seal them; that is unless you want to sleep in a bathtub," to which Sapphire, stunned at the way he was acting after learning hers and Amythyst's secret said "Wait are you not gonna y'know, try to kill me?" Richard just looked at her and said "nope" before resuming his welding to which Sapphire asked him "even if you know I am a vampire, you're just gonna let me live?" Richard sighed before saying "Yep, and before you ask any more questions I will tell you what I told Amythyst; I will never just leave you by yourself to die, regardless of who or what you are that isn't important right now... what IS important is that my feet are getting all wet and soggy; and if you do not help me seal these breaches, I will use you as a flotation device! So grab that welder and GET WELDING... please?" Stunned into a brief silence at what Richard just said she once again put her tongue out at him to which Richard chuckled a sad chuckle and said, "Y'know for a Vampire, you are kinda cute and funny but please, don't do that again... it brings back some sad memories, and before you ask anything else, I will tell you once we are safe okay? Now please if you would not mind, could you weld those last three breaches near you and once the habitat drains all of the water it has taken in, we will talk." with that Sapphire sighed and did as she was told.
As soon as the last breach was sealed the Habitat CPU announced "hull integrity restored, draining systems initiated," then there was a mechanical whirring as the pumps droned into life while the water drained from the habitat slowly, as Richard stared at Sapphire with his hands on his hips before smiling at her and shaking his head before saying to her in a playful tone, "You cute ditz..." making her blush bright red as she shouted "Asshole!" they then laughed and stared out of the habitat window at the sun setting on the horizon just above the smouldering Aurora.
A few hours later, Sapphire felt unwell and said "Richard, I... I feel a little bit iffy; do you have anything that can help me?" Richard just stared at her and rolled his eyes before saying "Of course you are gonna feel a bit iffy, you just had your stomach perforated by a piece of metal, I mean yeah I have stemmed the bleeding and done some disinfecting of your wounds but for the treatment to be successful you are going to need a med-suit and thankfully I have one ready-made and I will give it to you so you can get changed, here." he then handed the suit to Sapphire who hesitated to accept it to which Richard said "Oh okay fair enough, I will let you sleep on it because I feel a bit sleepy and will be going to sleep soon, good night Sapphire." with that Richard sighed and headed into his room before climbing onto his bed and falling asleep.
A Bit Later...
After falling asleep for a couple of hours Richard woke up and felt something next to him as he looked over to his right he saw Sapphire sleeping in the bed with him trembling and crying in her sleep as she had a flashback of how her life was destroyed,
it was a cold day on the planet that had previously been colonised by humans and Sapphire opened her young eyes to find herself in some sort of suspension tube naked; as scientists poked her and prodded her with remote tools causing her pain as she cried out, "No please, stop this! I don't deserve this kind of treatment I'm just like you! Please STOP IT!" as she screamed the lights shut down and the klaxons where going off as she could hear the reactor grinding to a halt then exploding "EMERGENCY, REACTOR CONTAINMENT FAILURE! REACTOR CONTAINMENT FAILURE! LOCKING DOWN ALL LABS AND EVACUATING ALL PERSONNEL! THERE HAS BEEN A REACTOR CONTAINMENT FAILURE!"
Still bleeding and feeling sick Sapphire punched herself out of the containment tube cutting her hands to ribbons to which she said in an angry tone "I have had it with these experiments! My body feels so sore, why? Why do people treat me like some weird science project? Wait what does my PDA say?"
"Scanning subject... done!
- Name: Sapphire Triton
- Age: Unknown
- Gender: Female
- Status:
Subject contains multiple enhancements both Cybernetic and Genetic,
- Notes: part of Project Eden Frontier.
- Project Goals CLASSIFIED"
Seeing all of this on her PDA Sapphire got really angry and upset before throwing her PDA across the room, smashing it against the far wall, but to her surprise the PDA did not break; as the Klaxons continued blaring Sapphire grabbed some clothes off a dead scientist and got dressed in them before escaping the lab overhearing a conversation between some scientists that survived "I cannot believe it! Subject Alpha two seven six has completely terminated the research team, how the hell could she do such a thing?" to which the other scientist said "Well let us be frank shall we? Our people probed her, cut into her, forced things into her body without her permission and then sealed her up in a tube from her recent birthday; No wonder she is a bit pissed off." to which the third scientist said "But that is beside the point, the genes that we spliced into her should have rendered her harmless but obviously something went wrong with YOUR security measures!" To which the first scientist replied "Listen to me you fucking moron, our genetic research should not have caused this we spliced inert precursor DNA into her and it should have remained inert but something you idiots did awakened the dormant DNA within her and now we got a foothold situation in this base!" The second scientist paused for a second and said "As far as she is concerned she is a Vampire, we want her to think that even if it isn't the truth, after we terminated her mother after she outlived her usefulness something awakened within her and this was BEFORE we spliced the precursor DNA into her but no results were yielded and as a result I feel further observation is re..." Before the scientist could finish her sentence Sapphire let out a very loud scream and smashed the door off its hinges crushing one of the scientists to death to which the other two ran away after shooting her with a stasis rifle, they then sent in a load of muscular scientists to restrain her to which she let out an unearthly shriek and killed two of the six scientists trying to restrain her, before one of them knocked her out with tranquilisers, then it went from bad to worse. Since she couldn't move; a couple of scientists decided to force themselves onto her and then raped her brutally as she watched.
After all of that Sapphire cried out in despair and kicked the guy off her before grabbing a survival knife from one of the other scientists she killed and slit the throat of her rapist and brutally castrated the other men before killing them in the most bone-cracking visceral way, then after all of her attackers were dead she made the base reactor go into meltdown before leaving the base where she was being held and stowed away on the sunbeam, keeping herself hidden as the ship took off, before breaking down into tears as she hugged herself. Then she woke up with a start and saw Richard sleeping on a bench to which he said "Sapphire, why are you in my room and in my bed? That ain't right, I mean goddamn it girl what made you do something so reckless?" To which Sapphire huddled up on the bed and said softly "I... I didn't want to be alone anymore and if you want to know more about me, not that I interest you, you will have to tell me about yourself like you promised you would, if we survived and made ourselves safe." Richard looked at her sadly before sitting up on the bench and patted the seat next to him to which Sapphire climbed out of the bed and held the blanket around her body as she walked over to Richard before sitting next to him as he laid back and said "well there is nothing much to tell really, I was just a third technician on the Aurora heading towards the phasegate installation site, I was part of a four-man one woman team and that woman's name was Crystal white, a first technician on board the Aurora and a very beautiful young woman, like you she was a ditz but when she was doing her job she was amazing, absolutely no sign of her ditzyness whenever she was on duty. I met her as she was heading to the library on the Aurora. The way I got on board was while I was at college, the captain of the Aurora visited us and gave a lecture on what was going on but it was only me that asked the right questions and after I had finished asking him what I needed, he put in a request to see my work and the tutor was more than happy to show him my work on the precursor civilisation; even without my permission so fast forward three years and I end up on the Aurora working with her."
Nine years ago:
As Richard boarded the Aurora he was dumbstruck, this was the first time he'd ever seen a capital class ship up close; the Aurora was HUGE! As he entered the hatchway of the ship he was greeted by an Alterra rep who issued him his PDA and said "Welcome on board the Aurora, third technician Richard Scepton, your living quarters are this way, follow me." He followed the rep and walked through multiple corridors and as he got closer to the living quarters he found himself staring at a bunch of Exosuits being worked on by five people one obviously being female, she had a pair of the most beautiful green eyes he'd ever seen, soft long brown hair a very curvy figure and she was also very stacked, she looked like a goddess and it was obvious that she was the object of affection for her team and before he knew it she looked up and stared into his eyes before giving him a beautiful smile and waving making him blush, to which the rep said "Now look here Mr Scepton, first technician white is not easily impressed and she is very popular with the men on this ship for two obvious reasons but she seems to have taken a liking to you so be warned, she will not rest until she has your interest," To which Richard said "yeah well I am here to work, not to socialise and make nice, nice with anybody I have a job to do and that is all that interests me." with those words Richard headed into his quarters and sent the rep away before locking himself in his room and falling asleep, after travelling for hours he was very tired and slept all the way through the launch of the Aurora.
7 Hours later:
"Paging third technician Scepton, paging third technician Scepton; you are required to head to the captain's office for reassignment, repeat; report to Captain's office for reassignment." As the AI called him Richard got up a bit irritated and said in a flat tone "Oh for fuck sake I'm bloody tired! Is this thing so damn important that I cannot even get a decent rest?!" he then let out a small growl before sorting himself out and getting dressed, about half an hour later Richard left his sleeping quarters and headed towards the office to meet the captain but before he even got to the corridor that led to the captain's office the captain met him half way and said "Good morning Mr Scepton, I trust your quarter are satisfactory? Anyway let's head to the library because there is something I wish to show you." After the captain said that, they headed to the library and began to talk about Richard's work "I have to say Mr Scepton, that your most recent dissertation on the precursor civilisation and their culture was outstanding! SO much in fact that I had all of your work catalogued and placed in the library so our crew can learn more about our jobs, and don't worry I have forwarded over fifteen million credits into your account at five million per dissertation and I hope you will continue to impress and inform us all about what we would be dealing with in that galaxy." Richard nodded and went to say something but was interrupted by the sound of very feminine footfalls behind him and before he knew it he was crashed into by 12 stone of breasts and muscle before hitting the floor only to hear "Oh I hope that I'm not too late!" he then got up angrily and chased the woman to the library; no sooner had he got into the library he heard the girl let out a celebratory yell before she said "Oh thank god it's been published! I've always wanted to read all of these dissertations by 'him', so what one is it this time? Omigod! It's about the precursor culture! I'm so lucky and happy right now!" she then started to sing and skip out of the library not noticing Richard to which he said "Is it me or was that first technician White?"
The captain's eyes lit up as he smiled and said "Well Richard that is partly why I wanted to speak to you in my office, as of today you are on Pressure Re-Active Waterproof Nano suit modification duty with First technician White's team; it was her request that you be brought onto her team, but the thing is she doesn't know what you look like so be prepared to be fangirled over when she finds out who you are, good luck Mr Scepton you will need it." Richard sighed and said "Well sir to be honest I don't care, as long as my work doesn't get interrupted by constant questioning I will be fine." with that the captain said "this may be strange coming from me as your captain but Jesus Christ my boy; lighten up will you? We are going on a long journey and we cannot have stress and division among the ranks on this ship!" After that Richard returned to reality to which Sapphire said "So in reality you are a very intelligent and strong man... with about as much personality as a cardboard cut-out that is obsessed with nothing but work?! Why be that way?" and all Richard said was "Because it was the way I have been living for most of my life, anyway it is time to sleep now so you head back to your bed and I will sleep in mine." To his surprise Sapphire looked at him with big watery eyes as her bottom lip quivered, to which she said "Please let me stay with you, I won't be much trouble I promise! Just don't leave me alone again!" Staring at Sapphire's expression Richard started to feel uneasy and found that he just couldn't say no to her, so in the end he gave up and said "I may be cold and unapproachable but, goddamn it! I still cannot say no to a pretty face! Alright you can stay here in my room and in my bed while I sleep on the bench," Sapphire looked at him a bit puzzled and said "But Richard, I was hoping to share your bed with you, oh and don't get the wrong idea, I'm not a shameless hussy that will sleep with anyone, I'm just someone who is very lonely and can feel the cold quite a lot due to my sensitivity so please? After all I am still a woman regardless of who or what I am," Richard just stared at her and said "Not all women are like you, some women hate the thought of cuddling up to a man that they have only known for a couple of days, I will be honest with you as I always am; but you are not acting like a woman," to which Sapphire said "That's not true, you do lie to me; oh yeah I know who and what you are Richard, I know what skills you have but for some reason you have decided not to mention your medical expertise, no normal technician can treat the wounds of a completely new species of human, vampire or whatever I am, so how did you manage to stabilise my wounds and keep me alive after I was so fatally wounded?" Richard paused for a moment before grinning and saying "Well Sapphire there is something you need to know about me and after you have heard what it is; I am very sure that all of your questions about me, yourself and Amythyst will be answered...
To be Continued...