Another Chance
Posted on Sun Apr 26th, 2026 @ 3:20pm by Lieutenant Delix
925 words; about a 5 minute read
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I awoke with is name on my lips yet again. It had been only weeks since the last dream. Dreams of his woodsy and floral sent of orange blossom and bergamot. A sent that surrounded me for a while until a purple eyed demon took him from me.
Tossing the covers back I perched on the edge of the bed for a moment before walking towards the desk that held my new orders. Finally, a break. I had been trying to get myself back to where he was for years and just when I decided to quit and storm his ship like a pirate in heat the orders came through. The USS Arcadia needed an Assistant Chief Engineer to Chief Sabastian Walker. A Lieutenant Commander now. I smiled with pride. I knew he would get there. He was always ambitious.
Now the issue would be getting him away from Zai. While my people are generally a polyamorous bunch I had no intention of sharing Sabastian with Zai. That little shit head had to go and I would do everything in my power to make it happen. I had heard they'd married and that was it.
Divorce was common. I smiled as a plan started to slot into place. My years with the Orions had given me guile that was not a native habit of mine.
I released a shuddered breath as I made my way through the small quarters and into the shower that barley fit me. Thank fuck that I'd made sure the new ship would have a bigger one to accommodate my six five frame.
Dressing quickly I wolfed down my breakfast and then strolled the station waiting for my shuttle. Apparently the Arcadia had encountered some delays coming back with the survivors of the transport that everyone was buzzing about. They had sustained some casualties and a spike of fear went through me.
Would he have been hurt? But no, not my Sabastian. He would be fine. He would be in engineering running the show. A conductor of energy and plasma and anti matter. Watching him work was beauty and grace and I had loved him from the first moment he'd crossed my path with that shy innocent smile. I had never met a person who was both and Alpha male and carried a softness in him that was...well I couldn't describe it.
He did everything with passion, even when we had been intimate. I smiled remembering those moments. Those times when I had almost turned his heart my way before that lavender eyed devil had pulled him back in.
"Get ready Zai. You are on the way out." I smiled. I had never hated anyone as much as Zai. Had Sabastian been with anyone else I would have been okay with it but not Zai. There was something cruel and fake about him. Something dark that called to a dark part of me that I kept hidden. I had hated him on sight and he hated me and I could tell that while I loved Sabastian, yearned for him, craved him like my next breath Zai only wanted to win him. He'd faked his innocents and his softness. A web designed to take my Sabastian.
How we'd argued and when I thought I would be rid of the beast Sabastian took his side. My heart... it was shattered into a thousand shards laid bear. His harsh words, his defense of Zai it broke me and I left. If it wasn't for the counselor on the ship I was assigned to, T'Prel, I would have died of a broken heart but she'd helped pulled me out of the darkness.
For a brief time I wanted to end things, just turn into nothing and then hope. Sabastian had reached out, he'd felt bad about how we'd left what he'd said and I had learned to breath. I swore to myself that I would find my way back to him and it appeared that the Gods were smiling on me this time.
Perhaps fates had seen the miserable shit I was and took pity on me and now I would get my chance to get Walker back to separate him from that snake to show the world who Zai truly was. I would not waste this chance. I had changed a lot over the years, bitterness, loneliness, anger, shame, pain. It had sculpted me into the man I was now.
I sighed as I stood looking out at the stars on the observation deck. One step at a time. First get to the ship then I would work, begin to bring myself into the fold and then step two.
I sighed as the shuttle called boarding in an hour. I had just enough time to get my shit and get on board. I had so many questions. Why was I being called to be second Chief when Sabastian had Zai in that role, last I'd heard. I didn't want to question good fortune but there was so much in my mind that I felt a headache coming.
I needed to snap out of it. I would find out soon enough. I'd tried asking T'Prel but she'd been vague. She just said that she'd recommended me because I was needed on the ship, my experience...my person was needed. Why?
I slammed my fist on the railing and headed back to my temp quarters. Answers would come soon enough. If I was one thing I knew it was how to get answers.
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