<USS Avalon> "In Need of Answer's" Jr Lt Georgia Lewis & Lt. First Class Melanie Redgrave

 
"In Need Of Answers"
Jr Lt Georgia Lewis & Lieutenant First Class Melanie  Redgrave
 
 
Georgia had been sitting in her quarters for several hours in the dark. She  
felt so utterly helpless and to blame for Cmdr Skyler's current condition. She 
 didn't know what to think when Lt. Marksbury had told her that Ms. Skyler 
didn't  even know who she was. She didn't understand how after all their years 
together  that she would not know her. There was a great deal she didn't 
understand and  even more that she didn't know how to fix.
 
The more Georgia thought about it the more she felt like she needed to talk  
to someone. The question was who? The first name that came to mind was Ms.  
Melanie.. Perhaps she will talk to me. Georgia stood up and put on the sweater  
that Ms. Melanie had given her and after taking a deep breath, made her way to 
 Ms. Melanie's room. Once outside she rang the chime and waited for an  
answer.
 
Time had had no meaning for Melanie as she sat at her deck looking over  
volumes and volumes of medical text. She wanted to find anything that would 
help  
Skyler and keep herself busy. Her door chime rang just as the words on her  
screen were becoming on large mass. Getting up from her chair, Melanie 
stretched 
 as she called out, "Come."
 
 
As the doors opened Georgia was standing there with her  head
hanging down. She heard Ms. Melanie tell her to enter so she slowly made  her
way into the young woman's quarter's. "Ms. Melanie, I's aint botherin ya  now
am I?"
 
 
A bright smile quickly danced across Melanie's face and she suddenly didn't  
look so tired. "Of course not, Georgia. Please come in and make yourself at  
home. Can I get you something? A spot of tea perhaps?" 
 
Georgia walked further into the room and sat down on the edge of the  closest 
chair. "Tea would be jest fine Ms. Melanie, Thank You." Looking over at  her 
desk Georgia saw all the books out and wondered what she was reading. "Did I  
disturb your reading, cause ifn I did I's can always come back? I don't want  
to....be a burden to you. I's know you is going half crazy over Ms. Skyler so  
ifn you need to be alone I's will understand."
 
After putting on the tea kettle, Melanie walked over and sat on the coffee  
table in front of Georgia. Taking the older woman's hands in her own, Melanie  
smiled up at her. "You could never be a burden to me, Georgia, your my family  
now." Melanie paused a moment and then looked over at the books. "I was 
trying  to find something about this coma of Skylerâs. I'm sure it's nothing 
Cazook 
 hasn't already looked into but I needed to do something." 
 
Georgia looked up at Melanie and paused for a moment. "Ifn Is didn't know  
better, I'd say you was the spitting image of your mama at your age. I just 
wish 
 there was sumthin I could do, I's feel as ifn it's all my fault. I shouldn't 
a  kept the promises and secrets,  it just tain't right to keep stuff like  
that from someone, now see what has happened 'cause I didn't tell nobody. I 
just  don't know what to do. That Lt. friend of Ms. Skyler's says that she 
doesn't  even know who I am. How can that be?" Tears started to fall down her 
face 
and it  took all she had not to just get up and leave.
 
Fishing a white lace handkerchief out of her pocket, Melanie handed it to  
Georgia. "You did just what Celeste wanted, Georgia." Melanie said softly. "You 
 
can't blame yourself for that. Elissabeth will help Skyler and things will be 
 fine. She just needs time to heal. Losing, losing her mother and Sunni was 
hard  on her and she's been hiding from that pain for a long time." 
 
"But what ifn she doesn't want to see me no more? Yous and I both know  Sunni 
ain't dead, cause I's is looking at her. I need to be able to help but I's  
dun't know how. What should I do?"
 
Melanie walked over and quickly set about making tea. When she came back  she 
handed one to Georgia. "You do what you've been doing since she was little.  
You be there for her wither she realizes she needs you to be or not."
 
Georgia took the tea which felt warm in her hands. She hadn't realized how  
much she had been shivering. She lifted the delicate tea cup to her lips and  
took a small sip. "This here tea is jest wunderful. What kind is it? Is it one  
of those English teas?" Georgia took another sip and contemplated what to say 
 next. "Ms. Melanie, can I's ask you a question?"
 
Melanie sipped at her own tea. "It's Vulcan actually. A gift from old  
girlfriend.. And you can ask me anything, Georgia." 
 
Georgia wasn't sure how to ask what she wanted to know. "Was you ever  afraid 
you would never find Ms. Skyler? I mean what made you want to find her so  
bad? Can't you help that Lt. person to help her?" The biggest question still  
weighed heavily on her mind. "Uh.....Ms. Melanie......how can yous think of me  
as family after what I's dun?" She was actually afraid to hear the answer but  
she needed to know.
 
"I grew up in a good home, Georgia. You should know that... But, I've  always 
had this sense that something was missing." Melanie started as she looked  
down into her cup. "I never understood it until I found out I was adopted.  
That's why I came looking for Skyler." Looking up at the woman across from her, 
 
Melanie did her best to answer the next question. "I don't know if I can help. 
I  didn't know I had Betazoid blood in me till I found out about Celeste. 
Besides,  Skyler turned to Elissabeth not me." The last question was easier. 
"Your 
my  family Georgia because you love me and I love you too. None of this is 
your  fault."
 
Georgia stood up abruptly and started to pace around Melanie's quarters.  
"But dun't you see it? It is all my fault. Ifn I'd told Ms. Skyler the truth  
from the start then none of this would be happening. I know she woulda come  
lookin for you, that's how she is. One stubborn woman. Guess that's my fault  
too, 
seeing hows I raised her to be independent. I jest need to do sumthing and  I 
can't take sitting around all day wundering." The more Georgia paced the more 
 agitated she became, she hadn't been this upset since her Henry had 
passed."I  jest screwed up everthin I was tryin to protect and for that I's is 
so  
sorry."
 
Melanie got up and stepped in front of Georgia. She grabbed hold of the  
woman's shoulders and looked her in the eyes. "You didn't screw anything up,  
Georgia. If you had told her you could have done some real damage, you know  
that, 
your a nurse who raised a partly telepathic child. Beating yourself up  isn't 
helping and it's likely to piss Skyler off when she wakes up." 
 
Georgia knew Melanie was right. "Ms. Melanie, Sunni, I has one more  question 
for you?"
 
Sunni.. Melanie kinda liked hearing Georgia call her that. "What's that  
Georgia?"
 
Georgia hesitated a moment then softly asked, "Could I stay here with you  
tonight? I dun't feel like being alone."
 
"Your more then welcome to stay with me as long as you need to, Georgia."  
Melanie answered as she closed the steps between them and hugged the  woman.

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