A Prayer for Heros, Fallen - Part Three

Posted on Mon Feb 24th, 2020 @ 2:34am by Commodore Siaxx "Bluemoon" Dvald-Vaxx MD & Jillian "Phoenix" Sullivan

Mission: Mission 11: Red VS Blue
Location: Various Locations - Starbase 400
Timeline: 1930Hrs, January 12th, 2390

"Well if things go sour with your folks, you always have a plate an' a bed here," Blake offered.

"I really appreciate that." Siaxx smiled at him. "So... do you want me to go chat with Rachael and invite her to dinner.... so you can meet her?"

"I think Blake would be more at ease," Dorothy laughed in kind. "Though I think it's more Phoenix's first impression of the lady that's got her a bit skeptic."

Siaxx nodded her head slowly. "Phoenix doesn't know her as I do." she paused a moment. "which honestly is to be expected... she sees her as little better then your average spoilt teenager but I've known her most of her life.."

"In what way?" Dorothy asked as she finished her plate.

"Rachael is a little more thoughtful then most know.... part of it is because of her abilities and the rest of it is down to what her parents taught her."

"Jill don' care for kids much because she don' think she can take care of 'em. Goes back to the massacre, really. Not bein' able to save her baby sister when we told her ta guard the young ones," Blake pointed out very soberly. "Might of blamed her, back in the day. In my grief. But I apologized the moment she let us talk to her. Still... She'll never admit it, but I think it's my fault she can' really get to know kids well."

"Something like that... I doubt one would ever truly get over." Siaxx commented. "Her anger feeds my own and mine... I think feeds hers...." she sighed. "like a never ending conductive loop.."

"Thing with Jill is that as good as she is with keeping all that pain and rage bottled up, eventually it gets to be too much when they aint shit for her to kill," Dorothy informed very carefully. "Anger is what's kept her alive all these years... Hard for her to just let go of a tool that's been useful to her when all hope was lost. An' I tell you this so you are aware that Jill might be tame now, but she is very much a wild animal. And it's the wild nature of hers that got her the pardon from prison to fight the spoonheads in way no Fed morally would."

"She'd already snipped twelve spoonhead officers, and decapitated another in her late teens. Before she enlisted as a marine." Blake spoke very lowly so Aryssa would not overhear them from the girl's room. "She's a trained killer. Lethal, more so with 'at temper of hers."

Siaxx nodded. "She's told me a couple of things... " the Bolian kept her voice down. "She's not told me and I never asked.... if she wants to share then that's great, I'm here for her but if not... then I won't press..." she smiled.

"I'd be remiss if I did not at least make you aware of Jill's dark side," Dorothy added. "Part of me thinks she needs closure with the death of most her siblings, to be at peace. Until I figure out how to accomplish that, I'm not sure what else I can do."

"She's lost a lot and she's going to lose more." she commented sadly as she looked at Dorothy. "I don't see her finding peace any time soon."

"Then we need to be there for her as much as possible. To make what time we spend together now, good," Dorothy surmised.

"How long are you guys remaining on base?" she inquired with a smile.

"Dorothy wants ta spend the few months she has, here with all her family. Then I plan ta move to a retirement community on Risa," Blake answered bravely for his wife. "We're too old to go galavantin' 'round the galaxy."

"Why don't you settle on Kaleb Four?" she commented with a smile. "Its just as nice as Risa and I find the Viery territory to be lovely." she grinned at them.

"The main thing is to make Jill as happy as we can, spending time with us," Dorothy smiled brightly. "She's a good woman. Deserves joy."

Siaxx nodded. "Yeah she does..."

There was a loud clash from Aryssa's room, which immediately followed with both she and Phoenix laughing hysterically.

"If she's showin' off her quidditch broom in her room again..." Blake balled his fist in aggravation. "Damn Yeager for giving her that infernal thin'."

Siaxx jumped when she heard the bang. "What the!" she raised an eyebrow as she heard Blake's comment. "Do I dare ask?"

"Gave it to her for a birthday present last year. It's all she ever does in her spare time - play in the Quidditch World Cup holo program," Dorothy explained. "It's why she is behind in her studies... Been playing that game for six years. But this year the holo program company released the interactive hover broom that helps to simulate flight in the holodeck."

"The professional World Cup teams in the program bought them. Each model of broom has supposed stats. The more expensive the broom, the better it is." Blake rolled his eyes at that. "Yeager bought her the most expensive one there is - A two-thousand gold-plated latnium bar broom that only hovers four feet off the ground."

Siaxx narrowed his eyes. "Who is this Yeager anyway...." she paused. "is he who I've heard about?" she quickly looked around.

Again there was a massive crash, followed quickly by a loud thump, and a round of laughter from Aryss'a bedroom.

"It is. He showed up on her birthday with his security in tow and gave her that thing, along with her own charge chip to spend whenever and however," Dorothy spoke with dark eyes. "We don't let her have the credit chip until she's old enough to manage money."

Siaxx nodded her head as she clearly agreed with what the others were saying. "I have nothing nice to say about him.... considering what Phoenix has told me about him..." she stopped as she sighed. "I've not met him and I despise him..."

"We don' like him either. But he's kept Aryssa out of tha mines and out of the air in the prison complex," Blake told Siaxx. "Aryssa don' like him either. She knows the guy showers her with stuff ta keep her mouth shut of all the things she sees in the warden's mansion."

"I can only imagine exactly what those are." Siaxx shivered, not with cold but with barely restrained rage. "I'd like ten minutes alone with his worthless ass.... I'd make him a woman..." and with that, a rather dark smile appeared on her face.

"Could always try to frame him for something when he comes in," Dorothy spoke hypothetically. "Get Jill to file charges on him. Pretty sure he'd go to prison, with Aryssa's blood to prove her story."

Siaxx slowly smiled. "I have something far better... a friend of mine who would love to destroy his mind... her name is Torilla. Mother to Rachael who you'll be meeting tomorrow."

"That aint justice. Justice is him rottin' someplace, knowin' folks he wronged got tha better of him," Blake spoke fiercely. "He can' live in fear if ya turn him into a vegetable."

Siaxx regarded Phoenix's father. "It can be arranged.... but we'll need to be careful in any case.. otherwise he'll have you guys back in the slammer and me along with it for causing trouble.... and Valen knows what he'll do with me." though it was clear that Siaxx had a few good ideas if the look of disgust on her face was anything to go on.

"So should we drag the children out of their room?" Dorothy asked in transition of a new subject. A playful smile was on her gaunt face as she shook her head to another crashing sound.

Siaxx raised an eyebrow as she heard and felt the raging thunder ripple through the room as the toy crashed into the wall for the umpteenth time. "No, let them spend some time together." she commented. "Engineering can always repair the damage and Jill and Aryssa need to bond..." she added more quietly. "they will need that in the days ahead..."

"Where do you see yourself with Aryssa?" Dorothy asked with curiosity.

"That.... is up to her." Siaxx responded. "I'd like to get to know her and see how she copes with life on the Starbase but.... I am not about to force her to do anything, that includes respecting me.... she has no idea as to who I am or what I want from her."

"Is that because you don't want her to know you, or because you think she might not like what she sees?" Dorothy asked gently.

"The latter." she admitted. "to be honest.... my relationship skills are not the best... they all fall apart generaly rather quickly... mostly because of my experiances.. and to make matters worse.. its usualy by me.. self doubt and my trust issues with men." she paused. "maybe Phoenix-Jill..... is what I need."

"If you truly want to be part of Aryssa's life, then don't hold back with who you are with her," Dorothy spoke gently. "Teenagers don't think outside their scope. If you are guarded, she'll see it as you not wanting anything to do with her."

"Considering how things are presently going between me and Phoenix... rocky at present... I'm not sure I need to worry too much about Aryssa."

"If it helps to talk, we'll listen," Dorothy offered, Blake meanwhile shoveled the last of his food in his mouth.

"I told my superior a couple of things I shouldn't have... about Phoenix..." she admitted. "the subject... was the Warden." she sighed. "I thought... I was helping matters but... all I did was piss everyone off because I always had an aggression issue which I can't control at times..... now that's irony for you."

"Did you tell Phoenix you might need to tell your boss about Yeager?" Dorothy asked quietly, thinking back to the moment Phoenix left the table.

"No... that was the moment trouble between us started.." Siaxx sighed. "I never thought to ask...."

"I would not be shocked if you slept alone tonight then," Blake noted with a frown.

"You'll work it out though. If you like her enough, that is," Dorothy amended.

"I probably will..." Siaxx commented. "same as last night..." she sighed softly. "We'll sort things out... we usualy do."

"If she's unreasonable, you can send her ta us," Blake joked lightly.

"I have a feeling... I will be." Siaxx wasn't joking in the least and it showed.