Ghosts of the Past - Part III

Posted on Fri Nov 8th, 2024 @ 11:44pm by Lieutenant Fang Lee & Lieutenant JG Zai & Lieutenant Adrianna Baciami & Lieutenant Lanna Alexander

1,122 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: Stars Around the Well
Location: Observation Deck | USS Arcadia
Timeline: Day 3 after leaving Base

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He looked at the counselor. "It's impossible. If we were not a match I would not already be feeling the symptoms or the pain of the change. The ceremony now is just a formality and to cement the link so that we both do change properly so that our bodies tune to one another."

Fang snorted. "You should have just left it alone and stayed away from him. You two are not for one another despite what the soul reader and the symptoms say." Fang, who had sat down back at the table, said.

Zai walked back and sat down too. "Lee Fang you need to stop. You promised me a long time ago," he began without thinking, "that you would not be like your father. You are jealous and angry, and possessive and I can see borderline violent as of late. If I'm the trigger I'm deeply sorry but gods of Capella! You are so much better then he is."

Fang snorted. "You know nothing about my family."

"Ainar! I know everything about your family. I know that they went after my people, lead the other tribes, the ones that didn't have sense, against us. I know that because of your father's anger and hate my entire family with the exception of my sister is gone, I've had to be a fighter a leader since was sixteen years old! I've had to claw to save my people and get them off Capella and to safety and rehome them! I have lived thousands of years worth of experiences in this life time because of your family and your father, the man you swore you didn't want to become. I left Capella to come and find you for your betrayal for this!" He lifted his shirt and there on the belly was a long jagged scar, one fang had seen but no known the origin of.

Fang's eyes widened.

"I got to Earth and I found you and even before I knew that you weren't to blame, that it was a Klingon in disguise I couldn't see you hurt. All those memories of those years spent together came rushing back and I couldn't hurt one of the most important people in my life. I did love you back then or at least I thought I did and when I thought you betrayed me i wanted nothing more then to die but I had my people to care for. Then it was like we were never parted in the Academy and then you left for a year and I almost died, I had become so emotionally dependent on you living in the past and Sabastian was there to save my life to pull me out, he mind melded with me ne brought me back but even before that he had been there to talk with me to comfort me. I didn't realize I was falling for him then. He knew who I was why I was there and he knew how I felt about you but he said nothing, he supported me.

Then we were on ships together and I convinced myself what I felt for him was not real that i was in love with you and maybe I was because the heart is a remarkable thing. Then when I came close to telling you how I felt and everything else you pulled away, found someone to warm your bed and I would be heartbroken because you would not talk to me for days, months sometimes and then out of the blue you would come back cuddle up to me and tell me how much you missed me and I would fall back into my feelings and convince myself that I was wrong here. Sabastian, the whole time, via subspace was there to listen to me to emotionally pull be through even though it was killing him. Do you know how that constant back and forth would wear one down?"

Fang, who'd been oddly silent was growing more pale by the minute as the words sank in.

Adrianna took a step back. She couldn't say or do anything to help. Equally, she could see that Fang was far from in the violent mood anymore. "Fang..." She spoke softly, "you want to sit down?"

"I...How..It's not.." Fang was stuttering. He stared at Zai as if seeing him for the first time.

“Zai...stop” Lanna rested her hand on Zai’s arm for a moment, whether he’d realised it or not he’d just given away his true identity to Fang.

Zai looked at her and then realized all that had just happened.

Fang has struggled to his feet walking over to Zai. "I...You can't be..." He lashed out grabbing Zai's hair and lifting it so that he could see beneath the back of the neck hairline. There, in all its glory, something he hadn't noticed before because Zai always covered that area with his hair, was a lotus mark. One that only one person had, "Za...Xingtian." He dropped to his knees pulling Zai with him and throwing his arms around him. For the first time since he'd left Capella he cried. "It's you...You're my Xingtian...All these years..."

"Yes..it's me but I am NOT your Xingtain...not anymore Fang. I'm your friend, yes but that is all." Zai gently pushed Fang aside and stood up.

Fang grabbed for him. "Please...Please talk to me...I'm so.."

“Fang...” Lanna stepped in seeing how much Fang was struggling, and how much it was affecting Zai as well.

"No! I'm not ready for an apology to hear it or accept it. Maybe in time we can sit and talk but....not now." He looked over at the counselor and then Fang.

"Lee Fang, Why don't you stay with the counselor. Adri let's go have a drink and then I promise I'll report to sickbay, the doctor has already threatened to vent me if I don't report the slightest change in health."

Adrianna nodded, "people and venting. Just incinerate, then no-one will ever accidentally fly into a body at warp."

Zai snorted. "I am defiantly needing tub time tonight."

"I am borrowing it tomorrow whilst you are at work," she muttered.

"Deal."

Lanna sighed, everything was so complicated between the two people she now considered her friends. “Would you like to take a walk to the Arboretum Fang?”

He watched Zai and Adrianna walk out and shook his head. "I don't think I can walk." He couldn't, it's as if all his limbs were failing. "I think I need a minute."

“Of course” Lanna offered an understanding smile. “I’ll stay here with you, I’m not leaving you.”

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