Flying High
By
Chajo and Lady MoonHawke
"Than was a damned stupid stunt you pulled," Commander Stargazer
said as he stood in front of the cell, his arms crossed over his chest.
Phantom was stretched out on the cot, an arm thrown over her
eyes. "Which one? Flying while high or punching the idiot"
"Take your pick. I know why you hit him. What in
blue blazes possessed you to fly doped up? You're smarter than that, Phantom."
"Call down to Bedlama General. Ask about how the kid I took in
is doing."
"Later. Why are you chasing around the galaxy with your
head in a cloud?"
"Only reason I do it is if there is a life or death situation.
Not a wishy-washy maybe they will die. But a ‘he WILL die if something isn’t
done right then.’" She snorted softly, sitting up. Bringing one knee
up to her chest. She clasped her hands about it, resting her head back against
the wall and closing her eyes. "Hell, why do you think I seem to vanish from
the space lanes for a few days at a time. Yeah, I know better than to do it."
"Did it ever occur to you, young lady, to pick up a phone?
I know there something between you and the Twins, and I don't much care what
as long as no one's breaking any rules and no one's getting hurt.” He uncrosses
his arms, making a sweeping gesture with one hand. “But when you rip-roar
across the galaxy in that state, you put more lives at risk. So for
the moment, you're staying right here until you come down." He frowned
at her, hands resting on his hips.
She cracked open an eye. "Yeah, but who other then the HummingBird
or the Maraj is fast enough? And I do live closer." She ignored
the comment about the twins; it wasn’t something she liked bandied about.
Her relationship with them was private. "Give or take 24 hours, it's usually
out." She closed her eye again.
"Take a shower while you’re here." The Commander turned to leave.
"Once you get your self out of here I plan on it." She retorted,
then muttered about ‘perverted old farts.’
“There's a doorway right over there young lady. I can't
see you once you're past it." He pointed out, muttering ‘smart aleck kids.’
Phantom snorted. "Yah, maybe, but how do I know what you keep
under surveillance in this place? And if I find out that brat Moonie
has been watching anything with me on it, his ass is mine to smear across
the control room floor."
"You’re a suspicious brat, aren't you?" he asked, shaking
his head.
"I've learned to be"
"Get cleaned up. We'll discuss this more later.”
He turned to leave.
Opening her eyes again, she made sure he was gone before making
use of the small bathroom that was joined to the cell. She couldn’t do anything
about her clothes, but at least she could get clean. Removing her jacket and
dropping it to the floor next to the cot as she got up, she headed to the
bathroom.
She paused in the doorway, shaking her head. A clean pair of
sweats had been left hanging up on the shower stall door. She also noted
the towels that were with them. After making sure the door was shut firmly
she stripped and made use of the shower.
After she got out and dried off she put the sweats on. Must be
an extra set of Em’s, or else what was in storage here, she thought to herself.
Running a hand though her hair she winced slightly at the number of tangles
she found. “And I forgot to ask for a brush.” She sighed as she exited the
bathroom. “Ah well.”
She lay down on the cot, turning so that her back was to the
force field. Curling up into a ball, she was asleep in minutes.
The twins were finishing up filing the reports from the patrol,
talking quietly between themselves.
“You figure out where Phantom is yet Sis?” Will asked, turning
his head to look at her.
“Not yet, little bro” Emily replied.
"If your looking for Phantom, she's down in one of the detention
cells" Jon said snidely as he passed the twins on his way to the Commanders
office.
"Damned tight ass." Emily muttered.
Will just frowned, jerking his thumb over his shoulder at Quicksilver’s
back. “Did you notice that bruise? Who do you think gave it to him?”
Em frowned, glancing in the direction of the Commanders office,
where the lieutenant vanished. "I'm sure he deserved it. His attitude
is getting worse and worse, especially where Fense is concerned.”
“Hmm… yeah… you don’t think…” He looked at his sister, putting
two and two together. “Didn’t you say she was pretty riled up a few hours
ago?”
"Took you long enough, little bro."
He just gave her a mental raspberry in reply.
She grinned from ear to ear. "C’mon, let's wake her up
and see what we can do in the way of damage control.”
Both headed down to the lower level of the station where the
detention cells were at. Walking down the short hallway, they reached the
last one on the left. It was the only one with an active force field.
Looking in they saw Zan, back to them, curled up, her hair was
unbound and fanned across part of the cot and down to almost the floor. Even
with the slight distortion the force field caused, they could see it was tangled
and un-brushed.
"Remind me to learn that trick," Will murmured.
"What?" Emily asked.
“Sleeping anywhere. Could come in handy." After a few moments
he shook his head. “Do we have to wake her? She doesn’t sleep this peacefully
very often. We both know that.”
“If we want to get to the bottom of this, we need her side of
things. I hate to wake her up just as much as you do Will. Come on, lets get
this over with.”
A little while later, the trio was in Commander Stargazer’s office.
The twins were in-front of his desk while Phantom leaned against the wall,
eyes closed as she listened to them try and get the charges dropped.
"Hey, guys? What are you two up to trying to get me out of this?
For once I'm in agreement about things," she said opening her eyes as she
pushed away from the wall she was leaning on.
"You don't deserve this," Emily said rather forcefully.
"Excuse me, But last I heard DUI and FUI was both against the
law. Now let me get this straight, your the law around here and you want to
bend, if not out right break, said law?”
"Last I checked, no one ran any tests. We have innocent until
proven guilty, too." Will pointed out.
"No, but you do have two people’s eyewitness account of me admitting
I was high."
"Well, I'm the Easter Bunny. Does that make it so without
proof?" Will commented, he was rather pissed at the moment.
She clenched her jaw tightly, growling under her breath at him.
"You're forgetting she decked an officer, Sergeants. Nice
one, too," Stargazer put in.
"She was provoked," Emily said, leaning over to rest her palms
flat on his desk. "He accosted her without proof of wrong-doing or a
warrant."
"And I blew past him doing excessively over the standard limit,
ignoring his attempts to stop me."
“So you earned a warning about speed, which is exactly 1 on your
record." Will stood over her, arms folded across his chest. "It's
not enough for confinement."
She growled at him again, arms crossed over her own chest, not
backing down.
"At ease, everyone" Commander Stargazer barked out.
The twins complied, but it took Phantom a moment to back down.
"I have a number of complaints here, and I'm the one who has
to figure out how to deal with then. I have seen proof of excessive
speed, so that will stick. Watch it in the future, Leadfoot.
The assault of an officer, and the counter-complaint of assault on
a civilian I'm sure I'll see cancel each other out. No charge either
way. The FUI, well, I'm going to have to see proof of the intoxication.
I'm sure you know the drill, young lady. Report to the Med-Bay."
Phantom just nodded curtly to the Old man and turned to head
towards the med-bay, still muttering under her breath about stuff, aimed
more at the twins. "Damn it all, you two get enough garbage from silver britches
cause of things. You don’t need to add to it. And don’t you even think about
tampering with things."
Will leaned against one of the steel counters, arms folded once
again. "Well?"
"Well what?" She took off her jacket and tossed it on to the
bed then rolled up a sleeve absently. "Left or right?”
Will threw her a plastic cup. "Niether." He pointed
to a door. "In there."
Phantom made a face. "Damn, forgot about that one."
"You want me to come at you with a needle? You don't like
doctors, remember?" he pointed out
"Needles I can deal with." Phantom flexed one arm slightly, in
the crook of her elbow, a small depression style scar resided there. "Being
looked over like a side of beef, I hate."
"Well, get in there and I won't have to look."
Phantom just growled under her breath, but dealt with it.
Emily came in a moment later, rubbing her temple. "Can
you two please stop barking at each other? The feedback is getting
fierce."
"If you two had kept your traps shut, none of this would be happening.
I'd have left in the morning, none the worse for wear, except maybe a few
kinks from a hard sleeping surface," Phantom said from inside the bathroom.
The twins exchanged a look. "Oh, yes. Heaven forbid
we try to protect someone we care about. Let's just throw you to the
wolves,” Emily sniped.
"Protecting and getting out of trouble are two different things.
Yeah, I decked the idiot, but only after he got in my face in the emergency
room when I was trying to deal with the doctors there and a hysterical mother."
She really hated these type tests. To her they felt more intrusive of her
privacy then regular blood test. "I would have done worse if he had a shirt
I could have grabbed hold of. he'd be there himself, probably in traction."
"And zipping around stoned seemed like a good idea at the time?"
Will asked sarcastically.
"Would you have wanted me to wait around till someone got their
thumbs out of their asses to decide if a kid from fence was worth sending
out someone to pick him up? Hellfires, I was lucky I made it when I did."
"We would have done it." Emily said.
"You wouldn’t have made it." An arm with said cup stuck out from
behind the door.
Emily collected it. "Okay. I'll be back."
The sound of running water a moment as she washed her hands,
then her face. Stepping back she leaned forward, resting her head on the
cool surface and let out a tired sounding sigh.
"Come on out of there. You can't hide in a bathroom forever."
"Says who?"
"Me. I need a hug."
She snorted softly, but came out, hair slightly damp around her
temples.
"C'mere." He wrapped her up in a big hug. "That was
a dangerous thing to do, and you could have been hurt."
"Yeah, I know." She leaned against him, and he could feel her
tension.
"Can I say anything that would convince you not to do it again?"
he asked quietly.
"Can you guarantee part of the tunnels on Fense won't collapse
trapping or killing kids... people? Can you do anything to make them see the
advantage of living somewhere else other then that place?" She buried her
head against his chest. The metal of his armor felt both cool and warm at
the same time.
He sighed. "Probably not." She heard him call
mentally to Emily and she joined them, wrapping her arms around them from
behind.
"Zan, I know why you did it, but it was a damned stupid thing
to do."
She just mumbled something, literally asleep on her feet, leaning
against Will.
They stood there for a while, until the sound of someone passing
Med-bay grabbed their attention. Neither Phantom, nor the Twins, needed the
rest of the ‘Hawks talking about their relationship.
Will picked her up, cradling her against his chest as Emily grabbed
her jacket. Wordlessly they agreed to take her to their quarters and tuck
her into bed there.
“Which one though?” Will asked quietly
“Whichever one we reach first?” Emily returned.
“Or whoever has the bigger bed?” he chuckled softly, knowing
that his sister had the bigger bed. His was only a double while hers was
closer to a queen.
Once they reached her quarters, he tucked Zan into the bed.
“Stay with her.” Will said as he started to leave.
"You're not staying too?" she asked
"Here? And get everyone talking about stuff that's not
their business? Not at the moment. I'll finish the testing."
“Will, we have to figure out--” she started.
“I know. But not right now. Later.” He slipped
out the door, leaving them alone in the dark.
*THE END*
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