Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Side sim: Matters of the Heart

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It was driving Roman crazy watching her like this. She was confused and upset and there wasn’t anything he could do about it. He winced himself when she cried out as she tried to turn herself. He leaned in and carefully hugged her, hoping it would help at least a little. “Tha e gu bhith ceart gu leòr.” (It’s going to be okay). He’d forgotten to ask in Gaelic, he wondered if that had made it worse for her somehow. So he switched to Gaelic when he spoke this time.

~ Roman

Rand tried to hug him back even though the movement made her wince as she stretched the arm. It was uncomfortable, but not horribly painful. “Tha mi airson a dhol dhachaigh. Fuirichidh mi anns an leabaidh, tha mi dìreach airson a dhol dhachaigh. (I want to go home. I’ll stay in bed, I just want to go home.)” She didn’t remember they were stuck in the room for a reason and that leaving meant a security escort. She also didn’t know that their quarters had been tampered with as well. Of course at the moment she thought she was planetside in an unknown hospital and wanted to go home, wherever that was.

Rand

“Feumaidh tu fuireach an seo, cuimhnich? Mar sin chan urrainn na daoine às mo dhèidh do ghoirteachadh,” (You have to stay here, remember? So the people after me can’t hurt you.) Roman looked down at her, and his hug got a little tighter, careful not to hurt her, “Chan urrainn dhomh do chall.” (I can’t lose you.)

~ Roman

“Chan eil mi a’ dol a dh’àite sam bith. (I’m not going anywhere).” It took a minute for the rest of his words to sink in and then she sat up too fast and made her self dizzy, grabbing onto him to keep form falling. “Dè? Cò mu dheidhinn a tha thu a’ bruidhinn? Cò tha às do dhèidh? (What? What are you talking about? Who’s after you?)” She remembered something about a letter and then searching the crew manifest, but then it all slipped away. But his words felt true, but she couldn’t put context and events to what he was saying, but a terrifying dread spread through her. She had a brief flash of memory filled with fire and a loud explosion. She gasped and then the memory was gone. She curled into him, the room no longer soothingly dim, but dangerously dark.

Rand