Posted by Civilian Vashkilu (New Arrival) in The Price of Freedom

Posted by Civilian Jewel Stone (Detective Chief Inspector MCD) in The Price of Freedom

Posted by Civilian Vashkilu (New Arrival) in The Price of Freedom
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Eli took her hand and opened it softly, “Non of that now” he said. “You can survive all this” he said cleaning up the wounds she had made.

Her body went tense as he grabbed her hand. She understood he was only hearing her, but her eyes darted around wildly. Lokhar would be very unhappy if he saw another man holding her hand. It didn’t matter why. She tried to pull away, but her body only twitched feebily.

“That’s the point I’m making, its why I keep these” he said taking her now bandaged had he turned about put her hand on his scares just under the shoulder of his shirt. “These remind me where I’ve come through, the hell i had to endure to get to this day. If I had succeed back when Vash and crew found me, I would not have met my daughter. ” he said. “Your scare may be on the inside, and that’s ok, use them, and then don’t look back..” he said holding her hand there letting her feel the layers of callused skin. “My entire back is like this, waist to shoulders.”

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Under normal circumstances, Dradvia would gave offered to heal them. Under normal circumstances she wouldn’t be a doctor. She would be on Risa making jewelry. Her life wasn’t normal though. She tried to pull her hand away from his grip, buy she couldn’t. When he slid her bandaged palm over the skin of his scars, the dam broke. “NO! NO! PLEASE DON’T!” Dradvia jerked hard enough to wrench her body off the biobed and crumple onto the floor. Her body weak and battered. She curled herself tight against the underside of the biobed shaking.

Wild eyes darted around. He would come, he would and she would be in trouble for that. Her labored panicked breathing filled the space.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

“There you are” he said softly but firm so the tone would catch.”No one is going to hurt you while old Eli is around , your safe with us. ” he said knowing she would not believe it, “Your master released you to us, charged us to take you home” he said and looked at vash, maybe now that she was awake vash could help

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

She tried to push her self further away, under the table. Her eyes were wild, her body hurt so badly. She didn’t want to be aware. Her knuckles turned white, but the bandages protected her palm.

Vash stood up and slowly walked over. She knelt down. “Dradvia?” She reached with her empathy.

Dradvia’s eyes snapped to Vashkilu. Orion! She curled into a ball, her forehead touching the floor. “Mistress! Please please I didn’t touch him. He made me! Please!”

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli let vashe deal with that, he , in the meantime prepared a painkiller that would help dull the damage that had been done to her. It would not remove the pain but it would dull it.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

The absolute terror of her knocked Vash back on her heels. Dradvia was terrified of her, not just scared or wary. The primal terror was strong enough to see in the room. She back up a few steps and then sank down into the same position that Dradvia was in. She waited patiently until she felt the small ripple of shock. “I’m a slave just as you were, Dradvia. You do not bow to me.” She reached carefully over and slid a PaDD to her. “See. Mistress Valeria and Master Lokhar freed you. You only belong to yourself now.”

Dradvia knew that the Orions served their masters too, but they were still above the rest of them. She glanced at the PaDD. She didn’t believe it. Master said he needed her. She shook her head, “No, no he wouldn’t give me up. Please. Please, mis… please First.” She wasn’t above this woman. She was beneath her, she would always be beneath her.

Vash sighed. It was too soon. “I won’t report it. Eli has been hired to care for your medical needs. He won’t do anything he shouldn’t. I promise. We’re going to get you somewhere that can give you the best treatment. Will you let him help you? Please?”

Dradvia glanced up, but didn’t look right at Vash. She didn’t move other than that for several long minutes. “I know you are hurting,” Vash continued. “You’re a doctor aren’t you? Lokhar praised how skilled you are.” It was a risk mentioning him, but she hoped that would help Dradvia would relax a bit.

“Yes, First, I am.”

“Good, then Eli will tell you everything he is doing. He’ll show you too. Please let him help you, Dradvia.” She tried to reach out and touch her hand, but Dradvia pulled away. She couldn’t help her with her empathy if she couldn’t touch the girl. She sighed.

“Okay,” Dradvia nodded, but she stayed curled up on the floor, blocked in on two sides for protection.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli looked down at his hands. “I did not me to scare your, I’m like you in more ways that I care to admit. This is a form of sedative called Diphenylmethane, It’s only a half does to help you relax a little, ” he said softly, his voice deep and welcoming. “I won’t hurt you Dradvia” he said softly

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

She stared at the hypo. Her eyes wide and locked on it. Eli could see her breathing turn more rapid, her pulse hammered in her throat. She hated being drugged. She couldn’t protect herself. No… no they helped. Master had shown her. And this was a low dosage.

She licked her lips as she watched him come closer with it. She was SO thirsty. She just wanted Ale. Maybe Master sent some.

Her eyes focused on the hypo as Eli got closer. She held very very still while he gave it to her.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli looked her in the eyes. “Your going to be ok” he said as he gave her the shot. He hated what she had been through. “Is there anything I can do for you?” he asked her softly wanting to find something to bring her some comfort.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Her instinct was to look away. To not meet his gaze, but she couldn’t seem to help it. His eyes were warm and deep. They were kind.

Her eyes darted to the Orion woman. She’d moved back to the pilot’s seat. She licked her lips again. “I’m thirsty.” Her voice was barely a whisper and it was desperate.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli smiled and retrieved some water, handing it to her, “Here ” he said, “do not drink to fast, small sips, but i suppose you know that, what kind of doctor are you?”

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Dradvia took the water, careful not to let their fingers touch accidentally. She sipped it, but she wanted to guzzle it. She was so thirsty! The water hit her mouth and there was relief because she expected their to be some. But then it was gone. Her thirst building. She sipped again and again trying to ease the horrible ache.

“G g general and immediate care,” she answered quietly. She sipped the water again. Just a little relief from the thirst? Was she that dehydrated? She took a bigger sip but it didn’t help.

She turned the whole cup up and guzzled it down. It spilled over her lips, splashed into her nose, made her cough as she almost breathed it in. And then the empty liquid hit her stomach that had been too long without anything in it. Her stomach cramped painfully. The corner of her eyes tightened but she didn’t protest.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

“Hmm, what kind of drugs did they have you one” he asked her out, he knew the look, her eyes and behavior told him what he would confirm with a blood test if she did not tell him. “You are going through withdawl”

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash’s ears perked up. Poor thing. All that and drugged too. She shook her head silently as she monitored the shuttle.

Dradvia drew back. She knew she had been drugged. It was Lokhar’s way. “I… I don’t know. Master called it ‘The Kiss.’ We would smoke it together.” The water cup was empty, but water didn’t help her thirst. “I’m so thirsty,” it came out as a whine. “Please,” her blue eyes stared up at him, “didn’t Master leave some Ale for me?” She hated the pleading weak sound of her voice, but she needed it.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli’s face stayed soft he knew the answer before she said it, what a cruel man, he thought to himself. “What kind of Ale,” he asked. The kiss was likely Oxathrene-9, it was orignally used as a pairbonding aid for species that required chemical bonding for mating, but had issues for of one or another. The Syndicate got a hold of it modified it and turned it into a recreational drug. If he had giving her Romulan ale which was highly addictive to most humaniods, and kiss, she was going to go through some really bad withdrawl. No only that but she was chemically bonded to Lohkar, and it would take a lot of hormone theropy to undo. At her mention of hte kiss he looked at vash for a brief moment

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash met his eyes, the horror in them clear. Vash knew what Kiss was, but she’d stayed strictly away from it. Orion’s were immune from the bonding effect, but she was half Orion. She knew some non-Orions who used it, and if they had ever been separated it from their mate. Well it was really bad.

Dradvia chewed her lip. “It, it was blue and in a clear bottle that looked like an hour glass. Please, Master must have left some for me.”

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli wanted to turn around and kill lohkar but that would likely end up in his death, and her re-enslavement. “Romulan Ale” he said the disgust was clear in his voice, the combination of those two things for more than a few times would bend her mind in ways that would take a lot of time to repair chemically, not to mention emotionally.
“Im sorry Dradvia, he did not ” he said softly. “Dradvia,” he asked quietly. “You are going through severe withdrawl and it’s only going to get worst, I would like to sedate you” he finished.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Dradvia whimpered, it was pain and desperation. No Ale? Master didn’t leave any for her? She’d done something wrong then. When Elias mentioned sedation she jerked so hard she rocked the biobed and bruised her shoulder, smacking her head pretty hard too. “No, I’ll be good. I promise, I won’t make a sound, I’ll be good.”

Vashkilu, New Arrival

“Dradvia,” Eli’s deep voice penitrated. “You are not in trouble, I just don’t want you to suffer, the withdraw from romulan ale is brutal, trust me, and the kiss, is basically hell physically and emotionaly. Please let old Eli help you?” he asked

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

His voice was like a splash of cold water, it was strange. Her eyes lifted to his face. It was hesitant, but she looked at him. “Please.... don’t drug me.” Some part of her that was desperate to survive shown behind the tears the made it impossible to focus. If she hadn’t been so broken, addicted so badly to the drugs and ale, Dradvia would understand he was offering peace and healing. Her mind and more her emotions, couldn’t process it. She only knew that horrible things happened to her when she was drugged.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Tears pooled in Elies eyes, but only one broke the tention, a small stream down his left cheak. “Ok” he said softly, “if it gets to bad, if it’s too much, you can change your mind” he then sat next to the gurrny and waited for her to get back on in her own time.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

When he agreed, the tension went out of Dradvia. She slumped back into the small space she had hidden in and closed her eyes. She was so tired and so afraid. Why had Master abandoned her? More pressing was hee thirsty. Her mouth felt parched, but it watered at the thought of the ale.

She could wait. Sometimes she had been made to wait all day before she was allowed Ale. How long had it been? Her mind shied away from the memory. What had been done to her.

Dradvia didn’t know, but it had been days since she’d had any. Though the doctors had fed her just enough of the chemicals to stop her from waking from withdrawl. She was well into it now. But it would get worse. She rubbed her soaked shirt over her lips, trying to alleviate some of her thirst. It didn’t help, it made it worse.

She fell into a fit full sleep. When she did, Vash got up and walked over. Kneeling down quietly she set a hand against Dradvia’s arm. Her whole body shuttered, her mouth went dry, and a thirst she had never known hit her.

Her Deltan empathy was able to alleviate some of the discomfort but not all of it. She looked up at Papa, “We can get her back in bed without waking her now. Her body is in pain, and not just the withdrawl. How are we going to help her?”

Vashkilu, New Arrival

He shook his head. “lets get her into bed” he said slowly lifting her up and onto the curny. “We can find Romulan and Ale easily enought out hear, and the Kiss” he shook his head. “Stepping her down of the ale give her little bits at a time until can manage with out, but the kiss, If we do that then she is likely going to bond with who ever gives it to her. I don’t want to do that to her” he said softly.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

“Where we would have to go to get Kiss in this part of space, would be very dangerous for her. And cruel to do to her.” Vash set a hand over Dradvia’s forehead. “She’s in a lot of pain Papa. Not just from the withdrawl.” She looked back at him, “Is giving her Ale really going to help?”

Vashkilu, New Arrival

He shook his head. “If she wont let me sedate her, she is going to get much much worse, The ale will take the edge off, but it will also take longer for her to get through it.” he said ‘The Drift will have the OX-9 it’s fairly straight foward to get there we would stay while you went, but ” he said looking at her, “I really don’t want to do that too her” he said, “We would have to very carefull to not indicate interest in her, she would be very pliable and seeking ,,,,, comfort with someone and will try hard to get it.” he noted. To be honest asking an X adict what to do, I don’t really know, I had you to get me through it and it wasn’t Romulan Ale and Kiss,” he noted.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

“No Kiss. It’s not right. Even with good intentions it would make her obedient to us. But… Papa you know you may have to sedate her anyway. I feel her fear about it, but it may be the only way.” Vash was practical. They did what they had to do.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

” I wont, not unless she’s about to die” he said, “She has been forced to do so much already, I saw it in her eyes” he said. “I know that look, when things get bad and we’ve built a little trust with her, she’ll ask for it” he leaned forward and put his arm on the gurny and layed his head on his arm, he was tired. “I’m going to sleep ok” he noted

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash nodded. “I’ll keep an eye out. You could sleep on the cot. It will be okay.” She knew he wouldn’t. Vash had caught him sleeping like that next to her many times when she had been sick or injured. She returned to the pilot’s chair and kept an eye on their course and sensors.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Then she heard him stand and in a moment his arms were wrapped around her from behind. His giant arms like a blanket around her. He kissed her blad head and said. “I love you daugher”

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Her hands came up and gripped his forearms and her shoulders hunched as she squeezed his arms in a hug. “I love you too Papa.” Vash tipped her head back and turned slightly to look at him. She kissed his cheek. “Go sleep. You’ll need it. I don’t think I will be much help with her. She’s terrified of me.”

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Once she knows you that will change” he said kissed her cheek back and then messed her not existant hair, he went back to where he was head down on his arm on the edge of the gurny.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

The flight was quiet. No one was looking for them, and they were well known by reputation. Vash mulled over the problem. Where could they take Dradvia and not get into trouble themselves.

It was quiet in the shuttle, Vash made herself something to eat and quietly read. It was a couple of hours when Vash felt the first spikes of fear. She turned and moved over to the biobed. It was Dradvia. A nightmare. She had no idea what the woman was remembering, but there was no mistaking the terror and trauma. She set a hand gently to Dradvia’s forehead. “Easy, you’re safe here. No more dreams.” After a few agonizing moments, Dradvia slipped into a more restful sleep.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli opened his eyes for a moment. and then fell back to sleep, he wanted to be close so he could help her if needed. There were a lot of unkowns with Dradvia she could turn on them , not that that would go well for her, but she was not thinking clearly. He would take care of her, show her that there were poeple out there that cared

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Dradvia woke, disoriented and confused. The bed alarmed at the spike in her heart rate. Where was she? Her eyes darted around, there was a dark head of hair on the corner of her bed. Attached to the scalp of a very big human male. Elias. She blinked lethargicly. She felt weak, shaky, and so thirsty she whimpered.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli’s head boped up when the heart monitor alarmed. “Easy there Dradvia, Easy,” he said looking at here. “What can I do, can I get you something?” he asked, what he wanted was to sedate her until they could get her to a facility, but she had refused, he was trying to think of something that might make her comfortable. “Are you hungry?”

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Dradvia nodded and licked her lips. “Please? And water?” it was a plea, a cry, confusion, and a cry for help. She was so thirsty. The monitors showed her blood sugar was extremely low, not dangerous but close.

Vashkilu, New Arrival
“I can do that” he said going to the hold and gathering some fruit, and cheese then he got a water as well and brought it to her. “I’m sorry I can’t help you much more than that, I could give you some anti-anxiety meds it might help a little.” he was a medic not really a doctor, had she been shot he could have helped her, but mental and withdrawl were not really something he could help with.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Dradvia shook her head pulling away a little at the mention of medications. Deep down her reaction felt wrong, but she couldn’t allow it. She let him set the food down before she reached for it. She hesitated when she touched it, instinctively flinching, knowing she would be told no, she couldn’t have it.

The denial didn’t come. So she took a few bites. The fruit relieved some of the thirst. At least the dryness in her mouth.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

“There you go, Is there anything I can do for you?” he asked, “Please let me help you Dradvia,” he was not sure it would do anygood, but he had to try.
Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. She ate quickly. She hadn’t been starved, but this man was obviously in charge, in control. He could change his mind and take the food.

She liked he used her name though. No pet names or non-names. The food was good, anything would be good. She guzzled the water, but somehow her manners were impeccable.

“W w why?” She asked the question but her arms came up to protect her face.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli moved close to her when she asked that question, “Dradvia,, look at me” he said waiting for her to comply she would have a compulsion too.

It was a compulsion, but one so ingrained now she didn’t fight it. She lifted her eyes briefly, but didn’t dare meet his eyes directly for too long.

He looked at her his eyes full of sincerity, “I will never hit you, ever” he said “I just don’t want you to hurt anymore, you have been hurt so much over the past months

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

“I deserved it. I displeased him. I had to be punished.”

Across the shuttle, Vash flinched as the emotions and pain hit her.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli shook his head, “You may have been a slave to them, but you did not deserve that, even the doctors and nurses, Valaria’s own people thought it was wrong, and offered to help me make you confortable. Your main nurse, I forgot her name, said she was sorry she could not help you more” he noted. “You didn’t and don’t deserve to be treated that way, and I’ll have words with anyone who tries” he said softly but his words were full of resolve.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Dradvia didn’t know the name. She never spoke to her. She didn’t even remember her. She shook her head vehemently. “No, Master had to make sure I lear… ugh.... aaahhh.” The food hit her stomach the and it began to rebel about it. She curled in on herself, too much for her delicate stomach as it expelled what she read?

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli didn’t even flich, he had delt with such things all his life, certianly vash had thrown up on him more times than he could count. He grabbed a vomit bag , and a cleaning cloth. He haded her the bag, and “Im going to clean you up, ok?” he said holding the rag short of her.

Detective Chief Inspector MCD, Jewel Stone
~Constable Blackwood
~Tamsen Stone, Terraforming Environmental Scientist

Vash started over to help, but Dradvia flinched, trying to move, hide, and clean up the mess all at once. Vash sat down and tried to ignore it. That seemed the best thing she could do.

Dradvia nodded as she heaved I to the nag. Every drop of food she had eaten eventually ended up in the bag. She was covered in a fine sweat and shaking.

Vashkilu, New Arrival

Eli for as big as he was, his hand was larger that Dradvia’s head., was suprisingly gental and intentional. The cool rag made clean the area’s that were exposed,and he cleaned up the floor.. He grabed a new robe out of the storage. “Here you can put this on and take a sonic shower in the back. I’ll face away and not look, I promis” he said. “If you want I can give you something for the nausia

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic