An alarm rings through the ship.
The screams of the crew as this disparately try to escape.
Keyla Detmer pilot of the USS Shenzou stumbles through a rocking corridor to escape this downed vessel she called her home.
“HELP PLEASE!!”
A voice comes echoing through a corridor to her left. Keyla didn’t even think she just starts to run down the hall in search of this voice
“ANYONE PLEASE”
Keyla runs faster, more determined. She attempts to block out all the bodies and blood around her but the cold faces of her friends, her family follow her down the hall. She won’t let anyone else die
“Detmer please help me… I’m trapped”
Keyla looks to her colleague. Lt Wyse legs are crushed under a mountain of rubble that collapsed in. It looks like Wyse wasn’t the only crew member crushed under it but she was the only survivor.
“Okay Evelyn I’m going to start lifting rubble out of the way I need you to stay still…. I’m going to get you out of here”
Keyla starts moving rubble as fast as she can knowing that if she is not fast enough neither of them will make it off this vessel. The more she moves the more she realises ‘Wyse is going to die’.
“Keyla don’t stop please; I need to get back to my son please”
Keyla move another hunk of broken star ship away when she hears.
“Keyla she won’t make it we need to move” Ensign Hames calls from behind her.
Keyla continue in hopes that he is wrong just like he was wrong about being good at Kadis kot those many times shes destroyed him at the game.
“Keyla there’s no tim... KEYLA LOOK OUT!!!”
A console to her left explodes sending her flying into the wall on the other side. She looks out but all she sees in blood…so much blood. She feels as if she drowning in it, slowly losing consciousness.
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Joann is awoken by Keyla waking up screaming by her side. Another nightmare.
“K you’re okay you’re okay! I promise you. I’m here baby”
Joann wraps herself around her girlfriend, holding her close as she cries into her chest. This wasn’t the first time it’s happened but it definitely feels like it’s a lot worse than any others. Keyla is shaking despite her girlfriend attempting to calm her. Joann starts to rock her and hum trying to calm her like she was an infant. Keyla’s breathing slows but her crying carries on.
“You’re safe Keyla, we’re here on Discovery. We’re here”
Those words echo in Keyla’s mind, why does she deserve to be here when so many are dead when she was in charge of their lives as a pilot. Why did she not die with her captain?
Joann continues to hum but now softly massages Keyla’s head careful not to get too close to her Cybernetic. Keyla starts to relax and fall in Joann more, listening to her hum while her cries come to an end.
“It’s a song my mother sang to me back when I was still in the collective. She said that this song was used hundreds of years ago to protect people from demons. I will always be here Keyla to keep you safe, I promise.”
Joann would do anything to protect Keyla and it hurts her to see her in so much pain.
“T…t.. teach me..it…..so I.. can pro.. tect you”
Joann looks down to her red head and smiles.
“we can protect each other lieutenant”