Minutes later he was still lying on his chest and he couldn't figure out why he trusted this female. Was it because Shepard trusted her? No, Shepard trusted many people even when he shouldn't. Was it because she was a doctor? No, he didn't trust the geni doctors five years ago and he had trusted her before he knew that she was a doctor. Was it because she was attractive? Maybe. But it had to be something about her eyes because when he looked in them he trusted her.
When she looked at him she saw him staring at the wall thinking? About what? Then she saw a smile flicker across his face for a moment and he looked at her. Well now I know what he's thinking about. She couldn't help but think all manners of things. She blushed and returned to getting her supplies.
He saw her face turn red. Then she turned around and he saw that she had a tattoo on the back of her neck a three dimensional star with tribal lines coming off it. The tattoo extended below the collar of her coat. he couldn't help but wonder what had made her face turn red. What she had really thought about was,
"Oh he looks so good."
"I really shouldn't think of him like that"
"I wish there was some way he would believe that I'm not going to hurt him"
"I can't imagine what the Geni did to him. They probably made him stay awake for all of it, torturing him mentally and physically. At least I have the luxury of not remembering what they did to me when I was captured." she absentmindedly rubbed a spot across her side. The emotions that Rea felt with her thoughts were overwhelming and she couldn't help but blush.
She turned around, she had a small needle in her hand and she was holding a metal tray with other objects that he didn't like the look of.
He was squirming around trying to get away from her but the pain in his shoulder wouldn't let him. Rea set down the tray with her medical supplies on the table beside him.
"Shhh, its OK. What's wrong?"
"I will not allow you to touch me with that" he said jerking his head over to the needle.
"The needle? That is nothing more than anesthesia. It will take away the pain," Rea said trying to calm him down.
"If this is so then why was it not used before?" he asked not sure if he trusted her enough to allow a needle to be used.
"Because it will make you tired and we needed you to stay awake long enough to assess how badly you were hurt."
"Very well"
She began to work. He felt a small prick in his skin and then the pain was dulled. When she went to remove the center she ended up pulling a three inch long stinger from his shoulder. She had just finished putting a gauze pad on the wound and was about to get up off the bed when he passed out, falling to the side, his head lying on her lap.
"OK I guess I'm staying" Rea thought as she started to stroke his hair as one would a cat, she heard something," he's purring!" she thought. a few minutes later she fell asleep leaning against the wall.
While he slept he dreamed about his time in the hands of the Geni. That soon ended and gave way to a dream concerning a certain doctor, but his nightmare returned.
"Shouldn't we try to move her?"
"Ronan, lad if we try to move her we might wake them both and just her is scary enough to not try. Besides she hasn't slept all week and to put up with the both of them she's gonna need all the rest she can get."
The wraith started to stir. Ronan rested his hand on his pistol; he didn't want to be caught off guard. Just because Shepard trusted it didn't mean he had to.
He woke up expecting to be in a cell, but found that he was lying on his side in a bed. he felt something warm beneath his cheek, he was laying on Rea's lap and she was asleep. He couldn't help but think how awkward it was, that twice he had woken up to find her at his side. Her hand was resting on his neck, under normal circumstances he would be irritated by the close contact but at the moment he found it pleasing. He slipped out from under her hand trying not to wake her, then he shook his elbow length white hair trying to get it in some kind of order. When he looked at her he saw that her white lab coat was loosely hanging off her shoulders revealing a black tank top and that her tattoo rippled across her shoulders.
He loved the scent of her. Her scent told him two things one that she had never mated. Two that she was in heat. The only thought that was on his mind was how beautiful she was.
The wraith had shook his hair like a wet dog, and it was now staring at Dr. Maveriks. Ronan drew his gun and pointed it at the wraith thinking that it was going to feed.
He heard a weapon charge, he turned around and found himself staring at the business end of a Satedan firearm. He had a million thoughts going through his head but on e of them happened to concern the now very awake and very pissed off doctor sitting next to him.
"RONAN!" Rea yelled getting madder by the second. She had screamed loud enough that Sgt. bates to come running into the room.
"What's going on here" bates said a little wide-eyed at the scene before him. Rea was glaring daggers at Ronan, Ronan was holding a gun to the wraith's head, and the wraith was dumb stuck in the middle of the two of them. All of the commotion caused Shepard to wake up.
" What the world is going on," Shepard asked groggily
"He was about to feed on Dr. Maveriks" Ronan said not taking his eyes off the wraith
" I was not." the wraith snapped back at Ronan who had just pushed the gun harder at his forehead.
"Yeah right and why should we believe a wraith"
"OK everybody chill out and be quiet, and Ronan put the gun down" Ronan slowly eased the gun away from the wraith's head.
"Now calmly tell me what happened" Shepard said getting irritated at everyone. Then everyone explained his or her side of the story and everything cooled down. (Well almost everything, the wraith and Ronan were still giving each other death glares)