Dania

Posted on 30 Jul 2015 @ 7:56pm by

710 words; about a 4 minute read

Mission: Episode 09 - Empires
Location: KCA Central Command
Timeline: MD1 - 4 months, early morning

ON:

"Faye!" Hirad's voice carried down the corridor, reaching the sleep deprived mind of the Betazoid servant who lay sleeping at long last.

Tyrion squinted agains the bright light that suddenly poured into his room and yelped as he was hauled from his bed, painfully thudding against the hard floor. He yearned to crawl back into bed, his body aching and sore from the previous evening and the mental straing of extracting information without much sleep for three days.

"Get up," Hirad ordered, kicking his servant just for good measure. "Get up, get cleaned up and dressed, and come to my quarters in ten minutes. That's ten minutes Faye, not fifteen. Don't forget, you'll get lashed for every minute you're late."

"Yes master," Tyrion mumbled submissivly as he crawled to his feet. He was in no shape for this he needed sleep, his body cried for rest, his mind cried for rest. He was going to lose his focus if he wasn't allowed to get some rest.

Yet, exactly ten minutes later, Tyrion walked into Hirad's room, halting hesitantly as a sound he'd never heard before reached him. It sounded like wailing, but not like any wail he could remember. "Here Faye," he heard Hirad call sharply, "get your ass in here, right now!"

The Betazoid hurried, unwilling to face his master's wrath for no good reason. When he approached he blinked in surprise for on the bed lay a tiny infant. He looked up, briefly forgetting his place. "A baby master? Did you become a father?"

Hirad seemed to find it amusing as he burst into laughter. But it was a brief laugh as his eyes hardened almost instantly again. "No Faye, I didn't. Pick her up and look closely Faye. Look very, very closely." He thrust a scanner into the Betazoid's hands and pushed him forward. "Go on servant Faye, have a look. Now!"

Stumbling, Tyrion climbed onto the bed and cradled the wailing infant, studying her. She had a greenish skin with a mop of black hair and the darkest of green eyes he'd ever seen. Hand shaking, he activated the scanner and ran it over the tiny naked body. "She's Orion, and Betazoid master," he whispered, "and perfectly healthy."

"Turn the scanner on yourself," Hirad suggested harshly.

"What?"

"Turn it on yourself," Hirad repeated, backhanding him hard. "Don't make me tell you again."

Reeling from the slap, Tyrion almost dropped the child but he recovered quick. Almost two years with Hirad and he'd become almost insensitive to the strikes he often received to his face, learned to hide what he truely felt. Trembling, he turned the scanner on himself, and his eyes widened. "How is this possible?" he whispered fearfully, "I can't have children, I've never been with a woman. How is this possible?"

"Sometimes Faye, I question your intelligence," Hirad snapped, "there are other ways to impregnate a woman. I used your semen and got a lovely Orion girl pregnant. Of course I couldn't have her begging for her child so she conveniently died giving birth. This is your spawn Faye, and you take care of it. And for as long as you obey, she is safe. Do you understand?"

Tyrion cradled the infant to his chest, studying her intently. He blinked as he was clouted over the head. "Yes master," he murmured, "I understand."

"Get out. And get that spawn out of here, I don't want to see it again until I absolutely have to. And you know what that means don't you Faye?"

"Yes master," the Betazoid whispered, as he started to back away. He had quick arrangements to make, to ensure the girl's safety. Fortunately, Hirad didn't know that for a servant, he was actually reasonably wealthy, having had his own earnings to a degree from when he served Grayson - and still served Grayson in a different manner.

He carried the girl back to his own tiny room and sat down on the bed. He was going to have to find a way to feed and clothe her, and give her a name. "Dania," he whispered, watching the baby grasp his finger. "Your name is Dania, and I promise I'll keep you safe."

OFF:
Tyrion
Grayson's Servant
ISS Saalm
[pnpc T'Vanna]

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