SeaQuest
Epilogue
Samantha and Lucas returned to the SeaQuest three days later with more of an understanding of each other, and a few knots closer in their friendship. Things went back to normal for a while. Samantha rejoined the lab 4 research team, and Lucas slipped into his usual routine of fixing the computer when someone rang his doorbell. Though not everything returned to the way it was.
Their secret remained between the original scientists of Dr. Terrence Maybrid's staff, although the Chatton Parapsychology Center gained a new research division.
Not long after they'd returned, they discovered the bond they had made while trapped in one body continued to flow between them. The knowledge they shared from being together for so long split between them, earning Samantha a promotion to assistant computer analyst, and Lucas understood the intricacies of oceanography, cetaceans, and music in much more detail. They also formed an empathic link to one another that would sometimes progress to physical if extreme enough.
Those on board who knew, kept that secret to themselves. Tim had found it humorous that Samantha could be having a conversation with him in the mess, and suddenly for no reason at all, start laughing out loud, or yelp out in pain. On the other side of the ship, Lucas--for example--had just heard an incredibly funny joke from Ben, or burned himself.
Captain Bridger finally received a full nights sleep.
And Miguel got his replacement WSKRS.
They were more comfortable around each other, and that showed in the way they'd work together. At times, their motions would seem choreographed. The crew got use to their finishing each others sentences, and were grateful the teenage battles had become few and far between, though not totally extinct. Even though this ordeal had ended, they still had the unseen mysteries of tomorrow to face.
But that's another story.
The End…Or is it?