My Life Is a Closed Book

My Life Is a Closed Book

Vers tossed and turned in her bed. Nothing new there, but what was new was her latest dream. Her mother and father were arguing, “I should never have stayed. I should have taken Car-Ell and returned home” Her mother screamed at her father

”Her name is Carol” Her father growled and struck her mother so hard she was knocked off of her feet. To her surprise her mother arose off of the floor, her eyes were a brilliant gold and they were on fire

”I am Mari-Ell. I was a champion of the Kree empire and first of the supreme protectorate. I will be damned if a human! would lay a hand on me and mine without permission.”Mari-Ell hissed as she propelled Joe Danvers across the room. Carol, was that her name? No. Her mother had called her Car-Ell. Her mother was Kree.

Vers dream shifted and she woke up screaming just as she saw her mother impaled by a spear. Her breathing was rapid and she was hyperventilating, she knew this, but she couldn’t calm herself.

Vers? Vers open the door”

“Oh shit Yon-Rogg. I must have woken up the entire block” she thought

she tried to stand, but she fell straight to her knees. Her breathing was still erratic. Yon-Rogg burst into her bed chamber and fell to his knees in front of her

”Vers. What’s wrong? You need to slow your breathing. Do you hear me Vers? Slow your breathing” Vers looked to be in a state of shock, she obviously wasn’t hearing him. She needed a short sharp shock to pull her out of it, so he did the only thing he could think of. He kissed her. What he didn’t expect was her to return the kiss with such fervour. “Vers, we really shouldn’t” he gasped as he slowly pushed her from him

”I. I’m sorry” she just didn’t know what was going on.

”Don’t be” Yon grinned “I quite enjoyed that” the two of them burst out laughing, but suddenly stopped as they caught each other’s eyes. They both knelt there on the floor for what seemed like an eternity just looking at each other like they were seeing each other for the first time.

Yon-Rogg cleared his throat; he was suddenly feeling very unnerved with the whole situation,” Maybe we should make ourselves a little more comfortable because I’m not leaving here until you’ve told me everything Vers, and I mean everything.”

Vers sighed “Where to start” she said quietly. “I’m not from a boarder planet” She said matter of factly, or rather my mother isn’t. I think I was born on Terra” she continued. Yon-Rogg’s heart started to beat so fast, for the first time ever he felt fear. She was remembering her past life. “My mother called herself Mari-Ell; she called herself the first of the Supreme Protectorate. She named me Car-Ell”, he gasped, now this was something he was not expecting. He knew of Mari-Ell, but it was taught that she was sent on a mission to Terra and perished while trying to execute that mission.

“Are you sure?”

”It was a dream Yon. I could never be sure. But I hear the name Joe Danvers. I think he was my father and my mother was called Mari-Ell, though, I think she called herself Marie. I could hear them both screaming at each other, my mother kept calling me Car-Ell and my father kept calling me Carol”

Yon-Rogg was absent mindedly smoothing Vers hair while staring off into space. Mari-Ell was considered dead. She was part of the Elite guard having been appointed by the Empress herself. Yon knew that she had been sent to Earth but her mission was classified. So this woman that he held had been half Kree to start with, which explained how she didn’t perish when the energy core exploded. "I have heard the name Mari-Ell, we can check your genes against hers to see if what you say is true but this will have to wait until the suns rise. Try to go back to sleep, we will tackle this in the morning.”He laid her down on her bed, covered her with her bed clothes and took the liberty of kissing her tenderly on the lips. He closed her door behind him and made his way to the temple to talk to the Supreme Intelligence. He had a feeling they would like to hear about this conversation

Yon-Rogg entered the temple and stood on the plate that served as a conduit to the Supreme Intelligence. He stood still as the tendrils crept up and around his body. The world around him was erased and suddenly he was transported into the Supreme Intelligences domain.

”Commander why do you come to speak with us at this late hour?”

as always his father stood before him, but this time he started to fade. Yon-Rogg was confused, what was going on? You could have knocked him over with a feather when Vers appeared in front of him and she was a vision of beauty.

”You told me to come to you if there was any development with Vers. I was called by Vers neighbour Mar-Nok saying that Vers was screaming and sounded terrified. I gained access to her domicile and found her in her bed chamber crumpled on the floor trembling. I was expecting her to tell me about her usual nightmare of her shall we call it accident? But she informed me she was half Kree, her mother was Mari-Ell and that she was named Car-Ell. She knew Mari-Ell’s designation word for word, I know we will have to test her genes but Supremor I have no doubt she is who her dreams tell her she is.” He spoke like he was filling a report on his screen, though he knew this conversation would never be written down

”You are right to notify us of this development Commander. This is good news. Mari-Ell’s child is a great gift to us and knowing her lineage will make things a lot easier for the both of us” Yon-Rogg was not sure he liked the wording used by the Supreme Intelligence. It unnerved him.

”In what way Supremor?”

”Now that we know she was half Kree to begin with can complete her treatment. Knowing her lineage makes it that much easier, we now know how to repair her properly” Vers smiled at him triumphantly. “take her to the med lab when she wakes. To test her genes of course. Oh and Commander?”

”Yes Supremor?”

”You have our permission to pursue Car-Ell for your mate”

Yon-Rogg bowed his head, slightly embarrassed, his endorphins would still be racing through his body, of course they would have picked up on it, plus he probably reeked of pheromones. ”Thank you Supremor” he acknowledged as he left the conversation.

He had every intention of going back to his domicile, but he found himself letting himself back into Vers’ domicile instead. He sat down in her bed chamber and watched her sleep, his stomach was doing somersaults, although he wasn’t sure if that was excitement for the future or dread of what was possibly going to happen tomorrow.