childofwar

The Monster Within

#scienceofficermarcus #v: nice to have a family #r: drabble

Cam heaved again, clutching at her stomach. Wiping at her mouth with the back of her hand, she grimaced instinctively at the feel of liquid smearing across her face. Sitting back up, she stares at her hands, almost black with a mix of rainbow coloured bloods. She scrubbed them against her pants, blinking against the flashing light.

There was a siren — an emergency claxon sounding in the distance. Or…not so distant after all. Dragging herself across the floor away her lost food, Cam leaned against the cool metal of the wall, shielding her eyes against the bright red of the alert lights.

She took deep, breaths as the haze that had clouded the edge of her vision for so long finally faded. The awareness of the pain that came with it was a kind of sweet relief. Tilting her head back, Cam gulped down air; even this smokey miasma was better than anything she’d felt since coming home to that…scene.

Even that vague thought was enough to bring every detail hurtling to the front of her mind — all the marks that this was an assassination by the Rioryl, the blood smears across the wall, the carefully sympathetic eyes of those black clad shadows who had been a constant on the edges of her life. For once, she saw her mother’s face again, eyes wide and glazed over, cruelly unmarred in contrast to every other inch of her skin.

Yet that was still less painful than the smiling expression her mind twisted it into next, the lively swish of hair as her mother laughed at something, beautiful and alive. It was a sweet pain, a cathartic burn that made Cam smile as she opens her eyes again to scene of destruction laid out before her.

Yes, she had done all of this. Now, with the fog of her pained fury lifted, Cam might have finally wondered if it all hadn’t been too much, if her mother would have been ashamed at the lengths Cam had done to track down those truly responsible for Carol Marcus’s death and make them pay. Except she didn’t because as she breathed in the smokey air and listened to the blare of the emergency warning, she knew it was all over anyways.

Folding her hands over her heart, Cam closed her eyes again and smiled to herself. “I love you, Mum,” she whispers before the self-destruct activates, blowing the Section 31 Cold Space Station 7 out of existence.

#khan's daughter

Don't forget it. Cam will go to extremes for her family.

#scienceofficermarcus #v: nice to have a family

"I love you too, Mummy."

Cam snuggles closer to her Mum under the blanket, pulling it tighter around them, sealing out the chill.

Carol’s arms wrap tighter around her daughter, kissing the top of her head and brushing her hand through her hair. “I don’t think we should get up today. Do you?”

#scienceofficermarcus #v: nice to have a family

"Nuh-uh." Cam shakes her head against Carol's chest, looking up with a grin. "Let's stay right here alllllll day."

"I love you…"

#scienceofficermarcus #v: nice to have a family #|| will always cuddle you

"I love you too, Mummy."

Cam snuggles closer to her Mum under the blanket, pulling it tighter around them, sealing out the chill.

[ Cam pouts. ]

I can read. I just don’t know what…what…what this word means!

[carol looks up, and she softens slightly] What are you doing here, sweetheart?

Disturb? It means to bother someone or something…

[ Cam shrugs ]

I missed you. Ensign Travers said you were working, but...I really missed you.

[ She thinks for a moment. ]

Disturb...disturb. Oh. I'm disturbing you now, aren't I?

#scienceofficermarcus

2 aboard the Ranger

"There, there child, you will not be alone any longer. I will kill the man who tries to separate us" Asha promised lifting the child up and running hands through her blonde hair in a soothing manner.

"We will find the others I promise you that, you will never be alone again"

"I missed you, Asha." Cam snuffled as she hide her face in the Augment woman's neck. "I didn't like being alone."

#secondaugmentasha

jundlcndwastesmoved1

Anna felt her features soften and she let a sigh pass through her parted lips. “When were you put to sleep?” She asked her. “How old were you?”

"I was almost nine. It was..." her nose crinkles as she screws up her face to remember. Some things were still coming back slowly -- an effect of the long cryostasis, it was thought.

"12 days until my birthday," she declares with a small, proud smile for remembering that quickly dims again. "I was going to get a puppy, maybe..."

#interstellarstars

[she’s shut herself in the lab again. three days by most of the crew’s reckoning. there’s a sign on the door- 'do not disturb'. it’s not stopped anyone so far…]

Can no one on this ship read?

#all starfleet personnel #star trek rp

[ Cam pouts. ]

I can read. I just don't know what...what...what this word means!

#scienceofficermarcus

Augment Call

Where are all my fellow Augment players? Those wonderfully creative OC augments -- I know you are out there. There used to be a lot of us, but we seem to have dwindled in numbers.

I am generally terrible at finding people on my own, so I would appreciate some help in finding more of these wonderful characters to play with. Thus, if you play an OC Augment, or know of one, please let me know! If not, perhaps help spread the word that I am looking. Family does have to stick together, after all.

Also, if you want to explore some of the possible plotlines dealing with the Augments, let me know that too -- Augment or not!

captain-jimkirk-deactivated2014

Benedict Cumberbatch & Alice Eve

#v: nice to have a family #the family she never got to know

jundlcndwastesmoved1

"I’m Anna," she introduced herself. "Anna Hart. I understand you can’t trust anyone here because of what’s happened to you and the others like you, and I understand you don’t want to prove yourself either. But…not everyone in Starfleet thinks you’re a monster or—or horrible."

Cam still can't quite meet the woman's eyes, but she relaxes a little bit.

"...it was going to be my birthday soon." She doesn't know what day it was anymore -- or even what year, really. They had only told her she had been asleep for a long time. But when she had been put to sleep, it had been less than two weeks to her birthday.

She had been looking forward to it.

#interstellarstars

2 aboard the Ranger

Jaina couldn’t help but wrap her arms around the girl in a comforting hug. All her life she wanted a child, a child like Cam but Starfleet had taken that from her. “Sh…it’s okay little one” She told her, giving in and pressing her lips to the girl hair in an affectionate kiss, one a mother would give to child. “I have to be Jaina Prince, they don’t realize who I am. . .how did you escape your cryotube? Are the others free as well?” She asked her face turning grave.

jamesfuckingkirk-deactivated201

Cam pressed her lips together tightly against the tears that pricked at her eyes as she wrapped her arms tightly back around the woman.

"I don't know. I just woke up -- I was all alone."

#secondaugmentasha

childofwararchive

Captain and Child

Her small little hand curling around his was enough to have Jim hefting her up into his arms, letting her hide her face against his neck. She might know Khan, might be the same ilk as the monster but she was just a child, a little girl who was lost without her family and Jim doubted there was a person in the universe who would be unmoved by her reaction.

"Hush, it’ll be okay." He didn’t promise, he couldn’t promise. If she was an Augment, well, he didn’t know exactly what would happen once it was confirmed. Letting her go to Starfleet to be tested and frozen, or even shaped into their perfect soldier (he knew they’d do that) didn’t settle well with Jim. First things first, he was taking her somewhere quiet and safe and they were going to talk, which is why he headed straight to the observation deck, the stars soothing to anyone but Bones.

#t: captainandchild #jamesfuckingkirk

It was a lot for a little girl to take in: going to sleep in a world being torn apart, a sense of urgent panic seeped into everything, only to wake up in a completely foreign place, be presented with blue people and be told she was in space and the war was over, had been over, for a very long time ( and a very long time being anything from a year to a century for a nearly-nine-year-old ) and vaugely putting together that something very, very bad had happened to at least one of her beloved family members.

It really wasn't any surprise that Jim's neck and shirt collar were damp by the time they reached the observation deck.

She was fighitng it, of course. Big girl's didn't cry, and she was almost nine you know, and girls who didn't behave suitable for their age didn't get pets for their birthdays. Funny how some things stuck with you.

2 aboard the Ranger

Jaina frowned at the girl giving her a serious look before making sure that no one had heard it. “The Asha you knew is dead, and I can assure you she’s not going to be returning anytime soon”

Cam's frown deepened. "But you aren't dead Asha! You're right here!" Her upper lip trembled as all the joy she'd felt at finding one of her family began to slip away.

"-- I missed you."

#jainaisnotanaugment

jundlcndwastesmoved1

Anna came back to her with a cup of orange juice, hoping that this was okay with her. There wasn’t a lot of options. She pushed it into the girl’s hands and said, “Here you go. I hope this is alright? So…you never did tell me your name.” She cocked her head to the side.

#interstellarstars #|| sorry this took so long!

Sipping at the orange juice -- it tasted odd, different -- Cam avoided the woman's eyes.

"--Cam. My name is Cam."

2 aboard the Ranger

"My name is Jaina Prince, Captain of the USS Ranger… what are you doing aboard my ship?"