An Atrocity Aboard the USS Enterprise

by Persephone67

Rachel Deveaux, the Enterprise's biochemistry officer, is researching the unique foliage of a planet that the crew is surveying. When this plant life turns out to have some adverse effects on three of the crew's male officers, Rachel will find herself trapped in a horrific situation. Her only chance at escaping from her captors, lies with a terrorist by the name of John Harrison.

7. Chapter 7

Chapter 7

It was bright…too bright. Her head felt like it had been split in two, and the luminescence was only making matters worse. As she clenched her eyes closed again, the fuzziness of her memory started to slowly shift into horrific clarity. She remembered everything. The pain in her ribs and the aching that she felt throughout the rest of her body prevented her from moving to sit up as she opened her eyes to try to figure out where they had left her. As her eyes adjusted to the brightness, she turned her head to view the room, which she suddenly realized was the inside of the brig, and when her gaze reached the corner near the barrier, she saw him. The man that had killed all those people in an attack against the federation, the man that was surely furious about his incarceration at the hands of her shipmates… a man. The last description was enough to frighten her after the heinous experience that she had suffered at the hands of three of them. Her breath hitched as it sunk in that she was locked up with another man, one that in all rights, could be just as cruel as the others. Her broken psyche was stripped of all sensibility as her attackers stole any sense of security that she had ever harbored, and the pain that her body was in, combined with her fragile mental state made her instantly hysterical.