Forbidden Fruit

§†TWENTY-ONE†§

"Let me go." Sinisa woke up with a gasp. When nothing answered her cry, she tried to look around the room. Her eyes wouldn't focus on anything, so she just laid her head back down with a tired sigh. "Who's there?" Sinisa asked again, she could hear breathing nearby.

"Sire, will be back soon. He never goes far, to feed." A small tone-full voice answered Sinisa. When she looked a small girl was smiling back at her. She stood very still by Sinisa's feet. "Please don't tell him I was here. I'm not supposed to be in here." The red-haired girl looked sweetly at Sinisa.

"Sire?" Sinisa laughed, she knew the girl was talking about Knight. The connection made Sinisa heart hurt. 'It only makes sense he would find another, even have young of his own.' The thought ripped at Sinisas heart, she just want everything to go away. "You should go, be..."

"You should not be in here." Knight voice growled and both the female's turned to see an irritated Wraith in the threshold of the hut.

"It's not fair. Why..." The young girl started to argue.

"E-e-e-e-e-n-n-n-n-o-o-o-o-u-u-u-u-g-g-g-g-g-h-h-h-h-h!" Knights hiss stopped all argument from the small red-haired girl. She let out a huff and crossed her arms, but she did not say another word. Knight gave in to the child's demand after seeing Sinisa ignore them both, coldly. The Wraith silently nudged the Child to approach, his subtle growled warned her to be cautious.

"Go away, both of you." Sinisa moaned painfully.

"This is why I did not come for you sooner, my Sin." Knight purred. When he reached for Sinisa she shied away from him. "I always thought they told you. I would have used it against you."

"Sire, she doesn't know." The girl looked up to the taller Wraith standing next to her.

"I know she is your daughter. Now please go away." Sinisa grumbled. She was tired and suddenly wanted to go back to sleep.

"She is our daughter." Knight corrected Sinisa statement. The Null-Wikca closed her eyes and waited to be filed with that feeling that always came when someone lied to her. Several moments passed, nothing 'our daughter' was a truth. Sinisa gasped as she realized Rancor had kept that truth from her, all this time. She couldn't bare to have the HiveMaster lie to her about it, so she never really pushed the issue.

"Zah'ren?(Mother?)" The child's voice called to Sinisa softly. The silver hair human understood the child's Wraith speech perfectly. Sinisa turned to examine the child carefully, in response. She reached out to touch the girl's cheek. She had those small mark's like her father, but her face reminded Sinisa of someone else.

"Nana, you look like my Nana. She had fire red hair... I did not know..." Sinisa couldn't stop the tear's from falling from her cheek's. She realized the young girl was the same infant she was never allowed to see so many years ago. Sinisa looked at Knight remorsefully. "I thought you where selfish. I blamed you for year's... this is why, you never..." Sinisas emotions started to run wild.

"Sin?" Knight purred as he reached to comfort the distraught female. Her flesh started to convulse. When her eyes rolled back into her head, he nearly pushed the small hybrid to the floor. "Move child." Knight hissed as he pushed his feeding hand against the human's chest. The Wraith howled as he pushed his life-force into the human's pulsating shell. After a moment they both fell still, Knight breathed heavily as he tried to regain control of his sense's. Sinisa flesh was calm as the small red-haired girl approached her parent's cautiously.

Knight just looked at the small child painfully. When he shook his head 'no', the girl knew she might never see her Zah'ren awake again. The red-haired hybrid watched as Knight leaned helpless over his mate. She knew what his plan was and how hard the decision to do it, must have been.

"The Cruiser will be here, soon." She tried to comfort her sire's worried mind.

"You can forgive me, for leaving you?" Knight asked remorsefully. He knew the child could read his mind easily, there was no point in hiding from her.

"I won't forgive you, if you leave her, again. I know, this is the only way." The child's smile made it easier to accept leaving her. Wraith males rarely raised their own young. For him to have so many years with her, was a rare experience most Wraith never knew. Despite all the pain that surrounded her existence, his blood would live on in her. He even had little doubt, that as she grew into an adult, the image of the Null-Wikca would strike fear into her enemies.

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As predicted Sinisa did not wake up again. Knight could wait no longer, he moved her to the recently arrived Wraith Cruiser. The ship's crew was removed and Tareth was the only soul allowed to accompany Knight on bored. The ClothMaker had given up arguing with the smaller bulkier Wraith. He was only here to help Knight implement his plan effectively.

"The hibernation pod is ready. You know what to do once it is active?" Knight groaned as he crawled out from under a wall panel. The ClothMaker leaned against the control console with a regretful expression. Knight just sighed and walked past him, 'They had been over this before.'

"Yes, yes." Tareth groaned in return. "Once your both in hibernation, I am to activate the ship's navigation system. Then once I leave, your program will guide the ship through hyperspace. No one will ever be able to find it again, not even me. Are you certain, this is what you want?"

"If you know another way?" Knight hissed irritated. Tareth just sighed and finished helping him prepare in silence.

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Tareth watched quietly as Knight cradled Sinisas limp flesh in his arm's and stepped into the prepared hibernation pod.

"We can still activate another pod." Tareth purred as his clawed hand hovered over the control's reluctantly. Knights back faced outward, he wanted the ship to sense the human in his arm's first. He glared over his shoulder at the tall and thin Wraith who looked back at him.

"I will not risk being separated, again. Do it, before it is too late." Knight hissed painfully.

"May we meet again, Brother." Tareth waited for Knight to be settled and touched the console controls. It took only a moment for the Cruisers organic wall to engulf them both completely. Tareth checked the readout's, both life sign's where stable.

A few minute's later the Cruiser's lights flashed several time's. Tareth could tell power had been diverted from the unneeded system's. He laughed impressed, Knight had thought of everything. The old ClothMaker checked the navigation system's one last time. He hesitated to implement the program, he knew once the ship's course had been set, it could never be changed. Tareth had guided these two-lost soul's together, somehow, he felt responsible for their tormented fate.

Knight had found a way to remain together with his Parvana. They would remain frozen in hibernation, on a Wraith cruiser that endlessly circled the galaxy. Knight's program would give Tareth enough time to escape the ship. Then it would set a course that made certain it could never be boarded, again.

Tareth was remorseful as he watched the ship, from his Dart. The Cruiser opened the blue spatial window that would take it into hyperspace, moments later. Tareth feared it was the last time he would ever see his brother or the Null-Wikca, again. The Wraith let out a long sigh and turned his Dart towards the planet below. There was a red-haired female, currently testing his own mate's patient's. Tareth promised he would see that fiery child grow into a Queen, one day. However, that tall tale is a different story... for another day...