Eternity by Richard A. Merk

Author:Richard A. Merk
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Inimitably Superfluous
Published: 2011-01-09T22:59:07.921000+00:00

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Captain Cross and M’rowan stopped by Security on deck 7 to pick up a trio of guards. By the time they got to the Eternity’s enormous U-shaped hangar, Doctor Beckett was waiting for them. She stood beside the waiting Mustang class runabout shuffling her feet and looking apologetic.

“Doctor?” asked Cross as he strode up at the head of the column of armed men. “Did you forget to tell me something?”

Beckett stopped her nervous shuffling and simply said, “I’m coming with you.”

Cross shook his head. “I don’t think so, Doctor. This is probably going to be very dangerous. Besides, given your past experience with Vincent Kelly and your reaction up on the bridge not fifteen minutes ago to just hearing his name, I’m not sure you’d be any use to us if push comes to shove. You might wind up getting yourself killed.”

Beckett looked away in embarrassment, but only for a moment. “It caught me by surprise, sir. But I know Vincent Kelly. He won’t come quietly. Push will come to shove, and that’s why I have to come with you, sir. You’ll need a doctor. I guarantee it.”

Cross eyed the woman carefully, trying to gauge her motives. That she needed to confront her demon was clear, but why in this way? Couldn’t she do the same from the other side of a brig forcefield once they’d caught Kelly and locked him up? Or was that too easy? Did she need to face him on even terms in order to exorcise him once and for all? Or was it something different altogether? Was she planning revenge?

“What if your patient turns out to be Vincent Kelly?” he asked. “Like you said, he most likely won’t come with us peacefully. Odds are we’ll have to shoot him.”

“Then I’ll do my job, Captain,” was Beckett’s steady answer.

That was good enough for Cross. “Fine. Get in,” he said, motioning towards the door in the rear of the shuttle. “But try and keep yourself out of the line of fire…”

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