Onward With Love…
Chapter Eleven: Aftermath: A Frayed Bond Between
Two Hearts
By
With
much appreciation to Fred Kopetz , he encouraged me to go for it. With his
collaboration in this story about Derek and Nova it has turned out to be better
than I thought it would. His vision with detailing and added script has made
this so much more fun than expected. You and Gail ROCK! Thanks for
everything and I am so blessed to have a partner in writing.
Yuki
I.Planet Baynet
Bolar Battleship Antara
May 16, 2205: 0822 Hours Earth
Standard Spacetime
“Captain
Rycon, please tell me that you have some news about Baynet.” Hindleman said
hoping that he knew something of what happened to his daughter.
“Sir when we
arrived here at Baynet the Gamilon and Earth fleet warped here the same time.
There was a battle between us, but their fleet was much stronger and they out
numbered us 3 to 1. We will need re-enforcement to continue in the battle.”
Rycon told him while bowing his head.
“Are you
certain that it was Earth?” Hindleman wanted to make sure.
Rycon
replied “Sir I spoke to the commander of the fleet myself, his name is Captain
Derek Wildstar of the Endeavor!”
“Who did you
say the commander of the fleet was?” Hindleman couldn’t believe what he just
heard.
“Sir,
Captain Derek Wildstar!” Rycon said again.
“No this
can’t be! Captain Wildstar is the commander of the fleet? Out of all the damned
Earthlings he has come back to haunt me.” Hindleman was in disbelief.
“Sir” Rycon
continued “What would you like for me to do now?”
“Stay there
at Baynet; I will send more ships. Stay out of sight for now; I’m sure that
they will continue on to their next destination. Get me the information that I
asked for. I want to know what Commander Navox has found.” Hindleman said.
“Very well
sir, as you wish!” Rycon saluted and bowed before signing off.
Hindleman
screamed into the telecom “PEVIN, GET IN HERE NOW!!!”
Pevin ran
into the office and stood at attention as quickly as he ran in, “Yes sir?”
“Send out
another fleet to planet Baynet and make it fast!” Hindleman said with anger in
his voice.
“But sir do
we have a fleet to spare?” Pevin asked.
Hindleman
turned and threw a cup at him. “DON’T QUESTION ME, JUST DO IT!!!”
II. Outer Part of
Baynet
EDF Battleship Galaxy
II
May 16, 2205: 1310
Hours
“Sandor, are
you sure? We can hang back and wait on
you guys!” Glitchman said.
Sandor knew
it would be best if they continued with the mission to planet Tizen. “We need
to make sure that the Bolar fleet is handled here.”
“Very well then Sandor, we’ll head out with the Turion and make sure that all is clear,
Glitchman out. Well you heard him we are to head to Tizen with the Turion. Tolbert, are repairs completed?”
“Yes Captain
all repairs have been made and completed!” Tolbert wonder what had happened on
the Endeavor that made Wildstar
decide to stay back. He usually would be the one to go on ahead and leave one
of the other ships behind to sit with the Bolar fleet.
“Tolbert,
start countdown to warp” Glitchman called out to her, snapping her back to
reality.
“Yes sir,
warping in 15 minutes, attention all hands, attention all hands secure all
station, warping in T minus 15 minutes. Get to your stations and prepare for
warp!” Tolbert called into the intercom.
Mean while Glitchman
was on the video with Cantara “I understand Captain Glitchman, my best to
Captain Wildstar we will meet up with him on Tizen. We will start our procedure for warp also.
Cantara out!”
“Captain all
is secure for warp, start countdown in 5 minutes.” Tolbert walked over to Glitchman
and asked “Homer what do you think happened to make Wildstar stay back?
Wouldn’t he usually be the one to go forward and leave another ship behind? I
mean it’s only one battleship left, what could they do?”
“Lieutenant
Tolbert I don’t think it is in your place to question the fleet commander’s
orders. So continue with the countdown!” Homer knew exactly where she was
getting at, and it didn’t surprise him that she would do anything to get
involve in Wildstar’s personal life.
“Yes sir,
Continue countdown! Attention all hands, attention all hands prepare for warp
in T-minus 15 seconds. Everyone make sure you are strapped in and all stations
secure. Countdown 10 …. 9 …. 8 …. 7 …. 6
…. 5 …. 4 …. 3 …. 2 …. 1 WARP”
At that, the
Galaxy II warped out.
III. Planet Baynet
EDF Battleship Endeavor
May 16, 2205: 1405
Hours
“Wildstar
the Galaxy and Turion have just warped to Tizen. Maybe you should go see about Nova and make
sure she is okay?” Sandor tried to get him to see her, but each time he would
make an excuse as not to. It had been like this for almost a whole day now,
which Sandor was very unusual, since he knew that when Nova had been injured or
ill on board ship in the past, Derek would be down in Sickbay every free moment
visiting with her and encouraging her. “Wildstar?”
“I need to
go get some papers from my quarters, I’ll be back” Wildstar walked over to his
private elevator and took it up. He
didn’t even look back to tell Sandor to take command. He walked into the room that he shared with
Nova and looked around. He stared at the bed that they shared, the same bed
that they made love in that had gotten her pregnant. Derek even remembered the
date now; it was on the night they had made love after reconciling over their
argument over Julie Tolbert. I got her
pregnant nineteen days ago…almost three weeks ago now, Derek thought
bitterly. But she’s not pregnant anymore,
is she? He walked over to the bed and sat down. How can I face her? How could she not have known? Why didn’t she know?
It was OUR CHILD! “NOVA ,WHY DIDN’T
YOU KNOW!” He screamed at the top of his lungs. He got up walked over to his
desk and began to throw everything. He smashed the chair across the room, and
threw the lamp that sat on the side table. He fell to his knees in the middle
of the room and cried for the child he didn’t know about until it was
gone. He never heard the knock on the
door. Sandor opened the door and saw him in the middle of a mess on the floor in
his old Star Force whites crying. Sandor also had his whites on for a work
session.
“Wildstar,
Wildstar” He walked over to him and placed his hand on his shoulder. He knew to
follow him up to his stateroom knowing that he was avoiding seeing Nova and he wanted
to know why. “Wildstar get up, pull yourself together! You can’t continue to do
this to yourself. Nova needs you and the crew will need you also!”
“Let go of
me! What the Hell would you know
about losing a child?” Wildstar yelled at him.
Sandor had
to be harsh with him “No I don’t know that feeling…but I lost my sister and it
hurts just the same! And as much as you think that this only happening to you,
you’re forgetting that Nova is too feeling the pain! Don’t you think that she
feels responsible for something she had no control over?”
“Don’t talk
to me about my wife. She should have known….she’s a nurse for Christ sakes. She
should
have known!” He told Sandor.
“Derek, pull
yourself together NOW.” Sandor grabbed him from behind with his bionic arms and
kept him from moving “Calm down!”
All Derek
could do was cry in pain for the loss of his unborn child. It took him a long
time to pull himself together, but Sandor stood by him and waited for him to
collect himself. He walked over to the mini bar that Derek and Nova had in
their room and poured Derek a stiff drink.
He handed it to him “Here drink this…you need it right now!”
“Naw I don’t
want it!” Wildstar didn’t want a drink but Sandor stood over him and shoved it
in his face.
“Drink it,
damn it!” he commanded him.
Wildstar
looked at him and took the drink, and shot it down in one gulp. He handed
Sandor the glass and suggested another one. Sandor walked over and poured him
another one. “This is the last one, you have to stay sober.” Wildstar took it
again and shot it down again. “Better?” Sandor asked him.
“Yeah,
thanks Sandor I needed that!” Wildstar said clearing his head.
“No problem,
now can you tell me why you’re not by your wife’s side. She needs you now Derek
she’s probably wondering why you left her side. You haven’t been down there for
almost a day now and she’s probably wondering why.”
“Yeah, you’re right, I guess the
shock of getting the news about her being pregnant I just didn’t know how to
take it all in. It hurts Sandor I don’t know how to feel! I’m mad at her for
not realizing that she was pregnant, and then again I want to hold her. I just
don’t know if I want to see her just yet. I don’t know if I am ready.” Wildstar
poured his heart out to him.
“Wildstar
now think about how she’s feeling, she feels alone and blames herself. Do you
want her to go thru that alone too?” Sandor told him what he didn’t want to
hear but knew it was the truth.
“No Sandor
she shouldn’t go thru this alone. I guess I better make my entrance to the
little Mrs.” Wildstar tried to put a smile on. “Steve, can you take over the
bridge just for a few more minutes?”
“Of
course go to her I got this covered” Sandor walked out
with him and made his way back to the bridge, while Wildstar made his way back
to the medical ward after changing back into his blues. Walking into the medical
ward, he saw Doctor Webster and motioned him over. “How is she, Doc?”
“She‘s been
asking for you, how are you holding up Captain?” Webster was concerned. This
was not an easy thing to go through on Earth let alone on a ship in the middle
of a war.
“Just been busy, can I go in?” Wildstar didn’t
want to explain to him about how hurt he felt.
Doctor
Webster looked him over and nodded “She’s waiting for you.”
Derek walked
over to the door he stood there a few seconds before turning the doorknob. He
never got a chance to see her. The Endeavor
was rocked by an explosion that threw him to the deck. Derek got up and looked
around everything seemed okay but most of everything was thrown to the floor.
“What the hell was that?” He took off running to the Bridge. He didn’t even
think twice about what to do, he never looked in on Nova.
“What hit the ship, Sandor?” Wildstar
called out as he ran into the bridge.
“Captain on
the bridge! We’re assessing the damages now, skipper,” Sandor said. “The Antara decided to come out of the hole
and attack! I have the Black Tigers out there now. Ortiz is returning fire.”
“Pesci!”
Wildstar called into the telecom “How’s it looking out there?
“Sorry that
we didn’t catch them sir, they came out of nowhere. Before we knew it they were
on top of the ship. We are on top of it now sir!” Pesci yelled into the helmet.
“Miamato
swing hard to port let’s see if we can flush out the Antara. Let’s try to get this under control. Ortiz, use the laser
guns, make sure they don’t come to close to the ship.”
“Aye, aye
sir” Miamato and Ortiz called out.
“Sandor,
where’s the Antara now?” Sandor took
over Nova’s job in the meantime while she recovered. “Sir, she’s on the other
side of Baynet…about 50,000 mega meters from the planet. It looks like she’s
the only one still there.”
“Well let’s
see if there’s any way of getting to her without being detected?” Wildstar’s
mind was racing a mile a minute, trying to figure out how to get out of this
puzzle without any more damage.
“Sir maybe
if we do a mini-warp and come up behind them, we could use the wave cartridges,”
Miamato said.
“Sounds
good, call back some of the Black Tigers, and prepare for a warp! Pratt, Get me
the Lalanda on the screen.” Wildstar
said. “General Sirius…we have a plan. The Endeavor
will make a mini warp to the other side of the planet coming 50,000 mega meters
from the Antara. You stay back with
some of our Black Tigers and continue the fight.”
“Sounds good,
Captain. I will stay here and continue the fight. Good luck Captain!” Sirius
and Wildstar saluted each other.
Wildstar
then yelled into the ship’s speaker. “Attention all stations, attention all
stations…prepare for warp, secure yourself and prepare for immediate battle
with the Bolar ship Antara.”
“Captain,
our pilots are back on the ship! I have a reading on the warp, we’ll come up to
the Antara at about 50 megameters’
distance. We need to warp in 2 minutes to get the right calculation.”
“Okay
Miamato, take control of the ship. It’s up to you to get us there!” Wildstar
said in a stern tone. He wanted to block out what happened with Nova and
concentrate on what was going on in the present.
“Yes Sir,
starting countdown to warp, all personnel secure your positions, T-minus 5
seconds 4 …. 3 …. 2 …. 1 WARP!” it took
less than a second to warp to the destination, 50 mega meters from the Antara.
“Ortiz fire
all wave cartridges! Pesci get out there! Sandor take the bridge! I’m going out
with the Black Tigers!”
“Aye aye
sir, Captain leaving the bridge!” Sandor called out. He watched Wildstar leave
the bridge and understood why he needed to go with them. He had to take his
aggravation out on something. This was another way he dealt with it, but Sandor
thought to himself… Did he even see Nova?
Wildstar ran
into the flight deck with his helmet under his arm. He ran to his Super Starfighter
and looked it over quickly. Then, he jumped in and looked over his instruments.
He maneuvered his fighter towards the open hull and took off. It took less than
a few minutes to join in the dog fight that was occurring with the Bolar and
Cometine fighters.
Pesci looked
thru his cockpit window and saw the Captain out there side by side in the
fight. “Captain, glad to have you
fighting alongside us!” Pesci said into his helmet.
“No problem,
now get to work!” Wildstar ordered.
“Okay fellas
we have our Captain with us! Let’s make sure that he gets back in one piece.
Punch it guys!” Pesci laughed. He and the others were honored that the Captain
was with them.
“Pesch, get
to work!” Howard scolded him.
The battle continued, Wildstar chased
down two Cometine Scorpion fighters and continued to shoot.
He dodged a
spread of missiles fired by one of them and then shot down the enemy pilot, who
died in his plane with a loud scream.
Then, Derek followed
the other one near the Antara and
managed to shoot him down before he got into the ship’s flight pad. He pulled his Super Star up just in time, managing to miss the ship by mere inches.
“Wow that
was close, better get it together!” Them Derek shouted into his mike. “Pesci!
It looks like they are scrambling back to the ship! Pull back!”
On the Antara, things were getting very grim in
a hurry for the enemy.
“Captain
Rycon, we have major damage to the starboard side of the ship! We are losing
power! If we don’t fix the problem now, the ship is doomed!” A corporal
approached him with fear in his eyes, knowing that Rycon would kill him for
just even suggesting the thought.
“Rycon! What
do you think you’re doing” Hindleman came on the video screen. Rycon turned and
stood to attention with a click of his booted heels.
“General, I
wasn’t aware that you were there!” Rycon said, looking up at the screen
“I said to
stay out of the way and wait for re-enforcements! By attacking you risk your
ship, you idiot and the mission! Now pull your fighters back and pull away from
the planet! Maybe they will think you retreated. It is important that I get the
information that Navox has. Now get out of there!” Hindleman yelled. “Once is
all clear, go back and pick them up!”
“Yes sir, right
away sir!” Rycon shivered with fear, and knew he was to do what he was told or
else. “Call back our fighters, and prepare to warp!”
“Huh? What’s
going on, they’re pulling back?” Wildstar was baffled at what was going on.
“Pesci, hang back…let them go, let’s see where this is going!”
“Looks like
they’re leaving sir, maybe they knew they were outnumbered?” Howard spoke into
the helmet. “What do you think they are up to?”
“I’m not
sure, looks like they are warping, so let’s pull back to the ship. Let’s keep
her covered just in case.” Wildstar still a little confused as to their battle
tactics.
“Sir, they are warping!” Howard was stunned to see
what happened. She was as confused as the rest of the Black Tigers.
“Okay, let’s
get back to the ship. Everyone head on back!” Wildstar ordered.
They landed
one by one on the Endeavor; Wildstar
was the last one back in. Howard and Pesci were looking over their fighters,
making sure to file a report with the techs for any damage to their planes that
needed to be repaired.
“Captain”
Howard called out. “It was great having you out there with us. What do you
think they will do next?”
“I have a
funny feeling about that; I think that they are coming back with reinforcements!
I don’t think this is over yet!” Wildstar looked at Howard and thought of
telling her about Nova but decided against it. “I have to go, I need to talk to
Sandor on what to expect and then I need to see Nova.”
Howard
looked at him for a minute, he looked distracted about something. But, after
all, he was the Captain and they had just came out of a fierce battle. It never
dawned on Howard that something was really wrong with him and Nova. “Well, I
hope to fight alongside you again, sir.”
“Ah yeah,
Pesci talk later,” Wildstar said while running back to the bridge. Pesci gave
him a wave and turned to the repair tech to show him the damage that needed to
be fixed.
Sandor
watched as Wildstar walked onto the bridge. “Sir, they warped and we are not
sure where they went. What do think they
are up to?”
“They’ll be
back with a new fleet. We have to wait and see, I need to call Desslok and see
what he thinks, Pratt, get Desslok on the line. We are going to need to get in
touch with the EDF and see where they stand with another fleet. I doubt very
much that they’ll send us more ships but we have to give a report to
Singleton.”
“Sir I have Desslok
on the line,” Pratt called out “Putting him on video now!”
“Desslok, I’m
sorry to trouble you now, but it looks like the Bolars are trying to figure out
what happened on Baynet. They’re fishing into Devina’s disappearance, I think.”
Wildstar knew all too well that that was the reason for them being on Baynet.
“Well I guess I should make sure that I prepare my planet for
any retaliation, if they come to the conclusion that she is here.” Desslok said
smiling at the thought.
“There’s no denying that they know we are in a joint union.
I’m sure that they will come at us with full force. They might even turn
towards Earth itself next, as well as New Gamilon,” Wildstar wanted to make
sure that they were prepared for anything.
“Thank you Wildstar, but I think that we be able to take care
of that.” Desslok wanted to make sure that Devina would be safe. “I was
informed by Captain Cantara that they have just finished warping into the Tizen
solar system, and he will contact me once they have reached the planets.”
“We need to make repairs here on the Endeavor, which should take a day or so….then we’ll head over to
Paxton to meet up with Glitchman and Cantara. Wildstar out.” Wildstar turned to
Pratt “Okay! Put me through to EDF, let’s get this over with!”
“Ah, Pratt hold on! Captain, I need to speak to you…now!”
Sandor waved Derek over to a corner. Derek nodded and walked over with him.
“Derek, I can take care of this part, you need to be with Nova.”
“Sandor, thanks but I think it would be better if I speak to
Singleton. I know I have to see her. But she will understand, I promise right
after I’ll go to her” Wildstar knew it looked like he was avoiding see her, but
he had a ship to run and right now he had to put his personal life on hold.
This was war.
“Pratt, put me through now!” Pratt nodded and switched over
the line to the video screen. “Captain Wildstar, tell me the status of the
situation?” Singleton asked after they exchanged salutes and the usual
pleasantries.
“Sir the Galaxy II
and the Turion are warping to planet
Tizen. They will contact us once they reach the planet. We ran into some Bolar and
Cometine fighters here at Baynet, but they retreated for some odd reason. I do
believe that they will return with reinforcements.”
“It sounds like a likely possibility,” said the Commander.
“Sir, has the Council agreed to send more ships? It is already known to the Bolars and Cometines
that Gamilon and Earth have joined forces. I’m sure that they will be coming
back in full force.”
“Captain Wildstar…we are putting the finishing touches on the
new Andromeda-class space battleship
“Yes sir, I think we can handle it till then, Wildstar out!”
Wildstar saluted.
Sandor step over to him “Go now I have this covered, we just
have minor damage that can be fixed within the hour. There’s no need for you to
be here, now go!”
Wildstar knew then that he couldn’t avoid it any longer. He
nodded and headed towards the hatch. “Captain leaving the bridge, Commander
Sandor now in charge!” Sandor called out as he watched him leave.
Wildstar walked towards the medical ward with his hands in
his pockets and tried to think of other things that needed to be done, anything
to keep his mind from thinking about Nova.
When he walked into the medical ward Doctor Webster saw him
enter. “Captain” he waved him over.
“How is she, Doc?” He looked in the direction of the room
Nova was in.
Webster looked a little confused “Sir, she checked herself
out an hour ago over my strong objections. I told her she needed rest, but she
said she needed to get back.” Wildstar looked at him shocked, “Sir, honestly, she
is not well enough to start work, she needs to rest at least 72 hours. She can
have other complications, but she said that she was a nurse and knew the
consequences. Then she just left.”
“I thought she couldn’t leave, why would you let her leave?” Wildstar suddenly
started to worry. Before the doctor knew it Wildstar was running for the door.
He grabbed one of the telephones in the hall way and called the bridge. “Who is
this?” he asked, almost shouting into the phone.
“This is Lieutenant Pratt, sir!”
“Is Lieutenant Commander Forrester up there?” Wildstar
started to panic.
“Ah, sir, no she’s not.” Pratt said confused.
Wildstar hung up and ran to their stateroom throwing open the
door she stood there in the middle of the room in a black nightgown cleaning.
Earlier…..
“Lieutenant Commander Forrester you can’t leave you need to
rest at least for a day or two. As your doctor I’m ordering you to stay here!”
“Doctor Webster, I am a nurse I know the signs to look for if
I feel sick I’ll make sure that I come back, I promise. But right now I have to
work I can’t just lay here knowing there’s work that needs to be done. I
promise I will rest as much as my duties allow me to.” Nova finished getting
dressed and walked out of the room.
“Lieutenant Commander, you have to rest!” Webster yelled after her.
Nova made her way to the stateroom she shared with Derek,
thinking about what happened. He just
left me there, I needed him and he just left me there. Does he hate me for what
happened? I need to make this right, oh Derek how are we going to get past this?
Walking into the room she was shocked at the mess that laid before her. “Oh my
god, what happened? Then it dawned on her, she walked over to the bed and fell
on it and started to just cry before she got up and began to clean up.
“Nova, what are you doing?” Derek looked at her standing
there cleaning. “Give me that! You need to rest!”
“Derek I’m fine,” Nova continued to clean up some things off
the floor.
Derek grabbed her by the arm and tried to take her over to
the bed. “You need to rest! I’m tired of you telling me that you’re fine, now
get back into bed!”
Nova was curious as to what happened, “Derek, what happened
here, this couldn’t have happened from the battle?”
“Don’t worry about it you need to rest!” Derek said.
“Derek, I’m sorry,” she could see the stress in his face.
Between her and this war it wouldn’t be long before he broke down.
Derek looked into her eyes and then turned away. “It never
dawned on you that you were pregnant?”
“Derek, I’m beating myself up enough. I need you there for
me, please! Let’s just get past this.”
Derek couldn’t get past it like she like too, “Nova, do you
know what I’m going through right now? I have enough stress running this ship
and now this!”
“First of all WE are going through this…not just you! Second of all where have you been,
I needed you there waiting for you! You promised me you wouldn’t leave my side.
You don’t hear me putting any blame on you about that, do you?” Nova’s voice started to rise higher.
Derek walked away from her across the room. He was starting
to get angry and didn’t want to do anything to make it worse.
“Derek!” Nova
yelled.
He turned towards her and took a deep breath. “Okay, it
wasn’t fair to hit below the belt I am sorry, you’re right I should have been
there. But you have to understand how I felt about it. It took us both by
surprise, it something that we weren’t expecting. I have no right in putting
this all on you. Nova I do love you very much and yeah, we do need to get past
this.”
“Derek” She walked over to him. “Had I known…had I even
known… I wouldn’t have hid it from you, believe that. I would have given this all
up in a heartbeat to have it.” She looked at the room again, “I can tell you
were upset, this didn’t happen when the ship was hit.”
“No it was me, I guess I had my little temper tantrum. I’ll
clean it up, but right now the doctor said you need to rest.” He walked her
over to the bed and picked up the covers and placed it back on the bed. He
picked up the pictures that he threw and looked at it, then looked again at the
room before staring at her. “Nova?”
“Yes, Derek?”
He walked over to her and held her
tight. “I’m sorry it’s just that ….I don’t know ….the more I thought of the
possibility of being a dad and then losing that just made me…I had my hopes taken
away from me in one swoop.” She couldn’t say anything else to him all she could
do is hug him back. “Get some rest Nova,
I love you.”
Nova knew that this was not over for them. He was still
hurting from what happened, but so was she. She was just too tired to get into
it with him again. One thing that she
agreed with both Derek and Doctor Webster were right … she needed to get rest,
so she crawled into bed and tried to sleep, turning her head towards the
bulkhead as she put her face into the pillow. Derek covered her with the
blanket and gave her a kiss on the head. He walked out of the room and she
never turned to see him go.
He walked onto the bridge and called over to Lieutenant Pratt
“Pratt, put me thru to the Galaxy!”
Wildstar ordered. He was still reeling from the talk with Nova. He just
couldn’t shake it all off the way she wanted him to. He was going to be a
father and they never knew it. Now it was all taken away.
“Sir I have Captain Glitchman on the screen!” Pratt said.
Wildstar looked up at the screen and gave Homer a half smile.
“Homer, what’s the status on Tizen?” Homer could tell at once that he sounded
tired and strained, but he did not comment.
“Wildstar, we just finished warping here. We should be there at
the planet in a day or two. How’s it going there at Baynet…any action?” Homer asked
him.
Wildstar tried to stay focus on what Homer was saying, “Strange
that you ask! Homer, they retreated after they attacked us. I think we will be
here a little while longer; I have a feeling they will be back with backup.
Commander Sirius and I both agreed to stay in the area just a few days more to
see what they are up to. I spoke to Singleton and he managed to get the EDF to
send us a new Andromeda-class battleship
called the
“Will do, Wildstar I’ll wait for your call. Glitchman out.”
IV. Planet Tizen
EDF Battleship Galaxy II
May 18, 2205: 2200 Hours
For the Earth Forces in the Sector, two more long,
interminable days passed in which the ships made repairs and went on exercises
as the war moved on and May began to grind towards June.
On the Galaxy II,
Homer’s crew continued to cool their heels as the waiting game continued.
“Captain Cantara, I guess we must hang here a few days until
we hear from Wildstar and Sirius.” Glitchman told Cantara.
“Well Captain then we should make the best of it. How about
first thing we test our pilots in an exercise?” Cantara suggested
“Sounds good, I’ll have my pilots ready” Glitchman said
“Very well we’ll see you in the A.M.” Cantara said, saluted
and signed out.
“Tolbert, I’m calling it a night, make sure that you update
the next shift on what’s going on as we pass into the nineteenth.” Glitchman
ordered her.
“Yes sir” Tolbert replied. “Good night”
“Good night Tolbert”
“Captain leaving the bridge, Deputy Captain Tolbert now in
charge!” she called out.
“Lieutenant Anderson please get me a line to Earth; I’ll take
it in my room” Glitchman called over before leaving.
Homer walked into his room and threw his Captain’s peacoat
and hat on his bed. He sat at his desk and called down to the communication
officers, “
“Yes sir line 4 for you is ready,”
A moment later, Wendy’s face came up on the screen. “Wendy…hey,
baby.” Glitchman said with a smile. “How are you?”
Wendy smiled at her fiancé “Hello sweetie, I’ve missed you so
much!”
“Looks like we are going to be out here a little while longer…sorry
I won’t be home when I said I would be,” Homer missed her terribly.
“I understand Homer, it’s just part of our jobs…” Wendy said
with a low voice “We just have to accept it.”
“So what’s the story over on Earth?” Homer liked to hear what
was going on back on Earth.
“Nothing much here going on, I’m sure Derek has informed you
that the EDF is sending the new Andromeda-class
space battleship
“Really, that’s great! It looks like the old Star Force is
getting together out here.” Glitchman was happy to hear that.
“Homer is this a secure line?” Wendy asked
“Yeah, why?” Homer was looking at her confused.
“I’m not sure how to tell you this and this stays between you
and me. No one else knows except Sandor, and of course…Wildstar. Nova and I
were talking, yesterday. I was giving her the heads-up on their house and she
just broke down. Homer, Nova was pregnant and she lost the baby a few days ago,”
Wendy told Homer.
“Are you sure, this could cause a problem with the mission?”
Homer was shocked at the news
“Homer she’s going through a hard time, we are keeping this
under wraps, this can’t go beyond you and me. She tells me Derek is taking it
really hard.”
Homer couldn’t believe what she was telling him “He never
mentioned anything to me.”
“I’m sure he has his reasons, Homer. I can’t image what they
are both going through right now. Nova is walking on eggshells around him. She
feels its her fault that this all happened. It never occurred to her that she
was pregnant, she’s just beating herself up over it.”
“Bummer, can’t imagine what he is thinking,” Homer shook his
head in disbelief “I never heard them talk about kids it was always we’re
waiting, and now for them to go through this? Well my mouth is sealed, I know
that the EDF would love to hang them for this one for fraternizing on duty….at
least General Stone would.”
“Well they won’t have to worry about my uncle, he actually
considers them as family. It’s like they are family to all of Earth.” Wendy
said, she wanted to protect their secret and intended to do so.
“Well my love I have to go, need some sleep. I have an
exercise in the morning with the Turion
and their fighters. I’ll call you soon, Love you babe.” Homer pointed his
finger on the telecom and ran it down the screen.
“Love you too, my best to you all and look over Wildstar…he
is going thru a lot right now. And so is Nova.” Wendy said.
“Of course I will” Homer cut off the screen and looked at his
little stateroom. I hope that this
doesn’t interfere with the mission Homer thought to himself. He never realized that his door was open
slightly and Tolbert was listening in…
TO BE CONTNUED….