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Andromeda
"The Princess"
Chapter 1




"Harper! Harper, come on please give it back?" Trance pleaded.

"You don't want this back, Trance," Harper told her.

"Yes, I do! Beka gave that to me, please Harper give it back!" Trance said chasing Harper down a corridor. Harper bumped into Dylan who stopped Harper. "Dylan, please make him give it back!" Trance asked almost in tears.

"Harper, what do you have?" Dylan asked him, still holding onto Harper's collar.

"It's nothing!"

"Harper."

"Okay, it's this purple rose in this plastic gem thingy," Harper showed Dylan.

"Beka gave it to me!" Trance told Harper and Dylan.

"Harper?"

"Okay, okay I'll give it back to you, Trance." Harper held out his hand with Trance's rose gem in it and she took it from him.

"Thank you. Why did you take it, Harper? This is mine and I don't take your stuff!" Trance said crying.

"I'm sorry Trance, I just miss Beka and I thought maybe it would I don't know make me feel better or something." Harper sat down in the corridor and Trance sat down next to him and hugged him. "Beka's gone, Trance."

"I know. I miss her too Harper." Trance gave him her rose gem. "You can borrow it, okay?"

"Okay, Trance. Thank you," Harper said holding the gem tightly in his hands.

"Trance? Harper?" Dylan was still standing in front of them. He knew that they missed Beka, he missed her, too. It was all his fault, but the others had kept telling him that it hadn't been his fault. But it was, Beka was dead and he couldn't bring her back. Harper and Trance stood up, and Trance wiped her eyes. "Let's go eat lunch," Dylan told them and they followed him down the corridor. "Trance. Harper. Go on ahead, I'll be there in a few minutes."

"Okay," Harper told him and he and Trance walked down the corridor ahead of Dylan.

"They really miss her, Dylan," Andromeda said as her holographic image appeared next to Dylan.

"Yes, they do. I don't know what to do. Rev Bem hasn't left his quarters for a week, Tyr doesn't act like Beka's death has effected him even though I know he misses her, and Harper and Trance are just a mess. I don't know what to do, Andromeda."

"They must all grieve in their own ways, Dylan. Give them time. How did you grieve for Sarah when you found out that we were 300 years in the future and she was dead?" Andromeda asked Dylan.

"I wrote a letter to her and transmitted it...and then I found her in the past looking for me," Dylan said, "if that would happen. That we could send out letters to Beka of how much we miss her and then she'll just show up on the ship."

"Dylan, why don't you go to your quarters?"

"I told Trance and Harper I would be right there."

"It's okay I'll tell them, now go to your quarters. I'll send an avatar with your lunch."

"Thank you, Andromeda."

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