A message to the world

Posted on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 @ 2:23am by T'ali Alaya'an & Walter Jones

843 words; about a 4 minute read

Sheila looked into the cell and whispered, "Hey you alive?" She quickly looked back down the row of cells, trying to keep an eye out. "What have they done to you love?" She looked at the electronic locks on the cell, and took out a small kit and started work on it.

T'ali moved to the corner of her cell huddling into a ball. She watched the woman trying to get into the cage.

Another trick, she thought to herself.

"Gow awaay," she said slurring, she still couldn't talk in their language, "noow triks". She was tired and just wanted to be left alone to die, without any more of the guards beating her or playing with her mind.

"Don't worry dear, I'm not going to hurt you." Shiela successfully picked the lock and heard the locks disengage. "Now I promise, I'm not going to hurt you, I just need to access something in the back of your cage, salvation should be here in a day or two and I can get you out of here."

T'ali looked at her for a moment and as the cage door opened she tried to pull herself into her corner even more as she sobbed quietly. She didnt know what this woman was going to do to her. She was freezing in the torn up rag, she was still wet and she wasnt breathing very well anymore. She just shut her eyes and waited for the womans first attack.

"Poor thing, they must have beaten the tar out of you." carefully opened the door and then quietly shut it again, then moved to the back of the room opposite of Tali and produced a tricorder. Removing a few wires from her hair she roughly connected it into one of the conduits. The intel officer sat down with her knees to her chest and looked at the woman on the other side waiting to get signal out. "How did you get locked up in a place like this."

T'ali opened her eyes as the woman talked to her, she understood a few words but not all. She understood her general meaning thuogh but had no real way to reply. She was rather confused, she was diffirent than the others and she had some sort of, strange thing with colours on it.

"I..I dunt," she said trying to speak the womans language. She placed her hand on her temple then shook her head all the while trying to hold back her tears.

"It is ok, you are probably in shock." Sheila sat for a second, the tricorder quickly trying to find a signal. "I don't normally look like this, I'm actually blonde." She tried to smile. "I'm Lieutenant Commander Sheila Jones, Starfleet Intelligence, do you have a name dear?" She was in direct breach of her cover but this person seemed to be in far deeper then she was.

T'ali didnt understand anything the woman had said, it was nothing like how the guards talked. She seemed nice, she hadnt moved to harm her or raised her voice any. T'ali touched her cheek, wiping off some of the blood which covered her. She moved her hand towards the woman a little and whimpered wiping it off on her drenched rag.

"Ut herts," she said trying to say it hurts. It was just bits and pieces she had heard from the guards but she knew its meaning. She looked at the woman with her bright half glowing blue eyes and moved her makeshift clothing a little to the side revealing her near black ribs.

"Ut herts," she said with a sob.

"Oh..." She was about to reach out to the girl when the Tricorder lit up with a connection. "One second love." She turned back to the tricorder and uploaded the data she had been collecting and message. "This is Lieutenant Commander Jones, everything on schedule, trade convoy coming in soon, will need extract for myself and one other." She waited for the data to finish sending before closing up the tricorder and slowly moved over to Tali "You really are all beat up, damn heathens. Don't worry sweety, I'm going to get you out of here." She sat down next to Tali and took off her over tunic. Fortunately when Starfleet medical augmented you they did your entire body, the rough cardassian garb itched against her skin but she didn't think the girl would mind much. "Here put this on."

T'ali hesitated for a moment before grabbing the clothing slowly and slipping it over her torn rags she wore. She looked towards the door and then back at the woman in front of her. She pointed at her then at herself then motioned towards the door.

"Hang on another day or two, help is on its way, I swear it." Sheila looked at the poor woman, wishing she could do more for her right now. "Just hold on." Sheila stood up and moved over to the door. "I'll be back, but for now, just hold for now."

RSS Feed