[USS Athena] Personal Log Entry: Erei'Arrain T'Shana cha'AAnikh - "Bequest" , Part 3

From: T'Shana Tubed <antediluvian2370@xxxxxxxxx>
To: USS Athena <ussathena@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:50:04 -0700 (PDT)
..........CONTINUATION


    
T'Shana slurps a bit
more of her tea, thinking of what came next. Especially since the
events she is describing at the moment are not part of her memory,
but only what she read in the doctor's report and word of mouth.

"The doctor set out
to search the crew for possible donors, but could not find a match.
His search was made even more difficult, since we were in a battle
and he had to address other matters going on... including hostile
forces boarding the Columbia.

"By then, we had
arrived at a wormhole leading straight out to Space Station Nigala,
way out in the Beta Quadrant... well, not quite as way out as we are,
but hard to reach from the Alpha Quadrant without cutting off time
with the wormhole. And before long, the Captain took measures in his
own hands and sent the Ledger Domain, his special craft, via remote
control straight to the warbird and blew it up. The blast from the
explosion, however, unexpectedly threw us into the wormhole... and as
we traveled through its corridor, the fight within the ship was still
going on.

"The Columbia was
thrown out the other end... badly damaged and a distress call was
sent out. Fortunately, the Nigala wasn't far off... matter of fact,
in view... and they immediately sent three ships out to help. It was
a good move on their CO's part, since we had a little surprise on our
tails... the ship that apparently brought the intruders close to the
Columbia had escaped the explosion, too, and followed us through the
wormhole... and though small, it wasn't gonna give up its hostile
stance... ugh... it cloaked and began firing on the Columbia and the
three ship that came to aid her....

She finishes her cup of
tea, shaking her head, considering how wild this tail must seem.

"Eventually, the
Captain order all of the crew beamed to a special reinforced R&D
section on the Columbia... and then, he vented the atmosphere from
the rest of the ship... essentially hoping to kill the intruders...

“Well, it did. All but
five of them, who somehow had found a pocket somewhere to survive. Of
that wasn't discovered until the Columbia was hauled in to the
station for repairs.... that was after the other ships were able to
pinpoint that Rihannsu ship and destroy it.”

She gets up and orders
another tea from the replicator. Instead of sitting back down, she
begins pacing back and forth.

“I
still don't know how they did it, but I've been told they had...
which was later on confirmed.... but I'm getting ahead of myself.

“Anyways,
by the time I woke up in the infirmary, every was over and the
Columbia was almost done with repairs and ready head back out and
back to the Alpha Quadrant.... the Columbia's Captain had arranged
for me to stay on the Nigala for a while until I was 100% again...
and apparently the Nigala's CO had agreed to that.

“It
was when I woke up in the recovery room, next to a Romulan Starfleet
officer, when I finally found out how I had survived.... the surprise
of his disclosure was a bit more than I had expected....”

She stops her pacing,
taking a long gulp from the tea. The valerian root extract had calmed
her down, but this part of the story still made her heart race.

“The
Romulan Starfleet officer awoke and introduced himself to me as
Commander Havraha cha'Aanikh. He informed me that he had donated the
elements that saved my life. Of course... at first I didn't quite
believe him, but since the doc on the Columbia had discovered that I
was part Romu...Rihannsu... dang I keep forgetting to say it
right...”

T'Shana steps up to the
window, staring out into the darkness of space. Her eyes briefly
focus on the reflection of herself in the surface of the window.
Saying that was still hard for her to do. She sighed.

“The
stations CMO came in not long after we both awoke and confirmed the
Commander's story... he also gave us both some more unexpected
news...”

She clenches her jaw,
drinking the rest of the tea down with shaky hands.

“The
reason the match was so close and the Commander was able to donate
what I needed was.... ugh.... because he is.... he is.... my father....”
 

..........TBC

"Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use."
[USS Athena] Personal Log Entry: Erei'Arrain T'Shana cha'AAnikh - "Bequest" , Part 3

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