I Don't Regret | By : JasminSteele Category: M through R > Predator Views: 3941 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter Three
Big No No
I sat in the hangar at the table and chair that had been set up for me. They were both smaller because I was the only one that ever went there when it was too hot everywhere else and I appreciated that they tried to make me as comfortable as they could.
For the most part the hangar was used for storing transport shuttles and repair gear for said shuttles. Thaiden and the rest tended to stay in the pyramid and rarely left it unless they were going outside in the surrounding area but they didn’t need a shuttle for that. The shuttles were to transport people or goods from the orbiting space station, Mo'r-pheus, but they were usually delivered to us.
I chucked as I remembered the first time I had found the room. It had been only a few months after I came out of my shock and I had started to wander around on my own when everyone else slept.
When I had found the hangar it had been a Godsend, it was the middle of their summer and I was getting sick from the heat- literally.
It took them a while to even realize I had been going down there to spend my days but when Thaiden found out he just about shat a brick.
I was sitting with my back against the wall closest to the lift enjoying a piece of dried fruit. I had finally come out of my denial and started accepting where I was, which had been no small task for me or my caretakers.It was when I had just finished eating that I heard the warning beep of an incoming communication.
“Tobias, what are you doing?” The voice was deep and the words were barely recognizable as English. It sounded very concerned, as if something was terribly wrong.
“I just finished eating lunch, why?”
“Come up,” was the only reply so I got up, put my stuff back into the leather bag I had been using and quick stepped to the lift. “Kerhite,” the voice said telling me where to go.
The lift stopped and I actually ran down the hallway to the training room and opened the door without hesitation.
I was greeted with very loud growling and what I could only assume were colorful expletives.
Thaiden was at the end of the room with Tox in front of him, <i>holding</i> him back. Boedog stood near the door where I came in and I looked at him with worried eyes.
“What’s wrong?” I asked highly concerned. I had never seen the elder Yautja so angry or upset, something bad had to have happened.
Once Thaiden saw me he relaxed but not much. He was still breathing heavily and kept tensing his muscles.
Boedog filled my view before he knelt down on one knee. He put his hands gently on my shoulders and said, “This is very important, Mei-hswei, what were you doing?”
“Just now?” I asked bewildered. Boedog nodded and looked at me with a hard glint in his eyes. “I was…eating lunch,” I said still confused. “I found a room that was cooler than up here, I thought…” Boedog got up and turned around to face Thaiden and Tox.
He told them something, I only understood a word or two and it left me still wondering what the hell was going on.
Thaiden came forward and I stood there, stock still, letting him come up to me to kneel down himself. It was difficult to get used to giants getting on one knee to be on my level but they liked to do it so they could look me in the eyes.
“Do you know <i>where</i> you were?” he asked with a thick accent. The anger had left his voice but he still sounded stern.
<i>The last thing I want to do is upset you</i>, I thought as I stared at him. “It…looked like a storage room,” I said slowly. “I couldn’t take the heat.” Even as I was standing there I was starting to sweat heavily again. I had seen the night sky just before entering the training room but that meant nothing during the summer season, it would cool off only slightly and not enough for me to stay comfortable.
Thaiden nodded then got up and started talking to Tox and Boedog. When he was finished they both nodded and Boedog came back to look at me.
“Thaiden thought you were trying to…leave,” he said slowly.
“Leave?” I asked sounding hurt, because I was hurt. <i>How in God’s name would I leave</i>? I <i>knew</i> I couldn’t have left even if I wanted to, what would I do even if I had gotten into space? I couldn’t read their writing, I’d get lost and…
“You were in the…shuttle bay,” Boedog clarified.
“Shuttle bay?” I echoed. I thought back to just a few minutes ago when I had been eating that piece of dried fruit. I had thought all of those big things I saw in there were containers of some sort; I thought it was a storage area for supplies and possibly food or fuel; I had no idea I had stumbled upon their shuttle bay. “Elder Thaiden, I didn’t know,” I whispered. I looked down at my feet ashamed at myself and little disappointed in Thaiden. His outburst showed he didn’t trust me still, even though it was I who shouldn’t have trusted them yet.
“Elder,” Tox said and he caught all of our attention. “I found the data.” He lifted his arm up and waited until we all gathered around to watch.
A simple two dimensional hologram popped up with a light blue dot on it. I knew that dot represented me, they had shown me that I had a small device implanted in me that kept track of my location and it provided a means of communication. I focused on the communication part and tried to forget that I had a digital leash on.
“It is the same pattern each day,” Tox said as he fast forwarded through my movements for several days. His next phrase was lost on me because he switched to his native tongue. I was hoping he said I hadn’t touched anything.
When Tox stopped the recording Thaiden turned to me and put a hand lightly on my shoulder. “Apologies,” he said and gave me a gentle squeeze.
“My apologies, Elder Thaiden, I did not know.” I bowed my head low and waited until he let go of my shoulder to look up again. The tension that I didn’t even know was there had left everyone and we all stood in the training room.
“I will come with,” Boedog said as he stood next to me. He was letting me know that if I wanted to go somewhere else new that he would come with me, to make sure I didn’t get into trouble or most likely get hurt. I nodded and smiled at him.
If Boedog hadn’t been there Thaiden probably would have killed me or at least beat me within an inch of my life.
I smiled remembering Boedog back then. He was so patient, more than Tox or Thaiden, and stuck by my side even as he became frustrated with learning my language. Learning his language hadn’t been a cakewalk for me either and I had told him ‘we could be frustrated together’. We laughed and it was that moment we started to feel attracted to each other, that I started to fall for him.I shuddered at another memory, one of my first when I woke up there. It wasn’t pleasant…it took me almost three months to come out of my denial and delirium and it took me another three months to realize that they weren’t going to kill me.
So much to think about, I thought as I still sat in my chair in the hangar. So much has happened…
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