Extraterrestrial Moors

9

I smile for the first time in I don't know how long. It feels so good, but then that stupid voice in the back of my head speaks up. I can't ignore the suspicions that it brings up. "Rafe, why are they doing this now? What are they trying to accomplish?"

Rafe looks down not able to meet my eyes and I'm sure that he's either not going to answer my question or lie to me. So I am therefor surprised when he looks back up and is a bit angry and it comes out with his answer.

"They want you to trust them." His mouth thins down in anger. I can't tell if it is anger at himself, me or those in charge though.

"They are wanting your trust after doing everything to lose it. I'm sorry Maha, I tried hard to get them to treat you better but it seemed the more I told them what to do the less they did it. It's only because you started dying that they started listening to you. As to why they are so hungry for your trust? That is something a lowly Lt doesn't need to know. I'm sorry if that doesn't answer your question. If it doesn't then be more specific and I'll do my best to answer."

I am shocked by his honest answer. I know that they wouldn't have wanted him to divulge some of the things that he did. I find myself relaxing in ways that I couldn't before. So I was dying and that's why they started listening to the Lt.

"Are you here because you are being ordered to be here?" I demand to know. I'm afraid of this answer though.

"Yes and no. I am here because I am ordered here. But not in the way that you mean Maha. If I hadn't been ordered here then I'd have other duties. But I want to be here, at least as long as it doesn't hurt you. I only stayed away before because you hated me, I had hurt you so bad. I'm still not sure why you have forgiven me even if it is only a small bit."

His words bring a warmth inside of me that I hadn't realized was cold before. I start feeling dizzy and see spots of black dance in front of me.

l start to panic, "Something's wrong Rafe." Then the room goes black and I don't know what happens next.

She fainted. I hadn't done anything this time and she was actually smiling at me, but then she said that something is wrong and she faints. She was sitting already but I catch her before she hits her head again on the floor. 

I pick her up and carry her back to the infirmary. I call out to the doctor and have a hard time covering my panic. She shouldn't have passed out like she did.

"What did you do Lt?" The doctor demands taking her from my arms and setting her on the exam table in front of him.

"Nothing Doctor. We were talking while she was eating and she was even smiling at me. Then all of a sudden she says something was wrong and she passed out."

She doesn't regain consciousness. They had drawn blood and as the results come back there is shocked murmuring.

My Commander comes in and the doctor's have a quick conference with her while I never leave Maha's side.

"Lt. I need you to come with me." I've never heard my Commander's voice so angry. I look at her about to protest but my protest dies as soon as I see her face. Something is wrong, very wrong and I think a whole lot of bad is about to come down on me.

She takes me not to her office like I had expected but to the brig's interrogation room. If I'm being brought here than the chances of me ever being with Maha again are all but nil. 

"Sit down Lt." The Commander says and I numbly sit down.

"You know why we are here?" The Commander says coldly.