Path to Europa by Garion Swann

Author:Garion Swann [Swann, Garion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Alex watched through the aft optics as Dijon got smaller, he was happy to be leaving that place. He sighed and turned to walk back towards the bridge. The ship had felt different since he, Grey and the security team returned from a firefight. He was impressed with how fast the response of security was, he guessed that was Nuisance's doing. Grey had been taken straight into surgery and had been there for the last eight hours. Doctor Tamber was working tirelessly to keep Grey alive. Apparently, he was lucky to be alive, not many people would have survived the shot that he took.

Alex had been into the infirmary several times each time met with the same answer that Doctor Tamber would update him as soon as she could. She had now banned him out of sickbay, purely because he was distracting her. He had already transmitted a letter of condolence to the family of Jeremy Tillerson, the security officer who was killed during the firefight. It was always a risk when you work on a ship. It was very common for spacers to die, be it on a ship that is destroyed, or by a firefight on a ship or station, it was an accepted risk for all who ventured into space. That didn't however, make it any easier, especially when someone died in an easily avoidable scenario. Alex had been upset, angry and frustrated with Grey. If he had kept his mouth shut he wouldn't have been shot. This mixed with the anger he showed Commander Young in engineering meant something was wrong, and Alex was going to find out, once Grey woke up. This frustrated him even more though because he wanted answers right now. He had become fed up with pacing and headed to the canteen he'd not eaten for at least eight hours. He entered the canteen, and it was about half full, several people turned their heads and noticed it was the Captain that walked in, he could feel the mood of the room, they did not often lose a crewmember. This death was avoidable, that's what makes it worse, the crew didn't know that, but Alex did, and it toyed with him. He could feel the anger over what had happened building inside of him. The crew in the mess hall had turned back to their food, Alex opened the cupboard that contained his food, he stored some in his quarters but didn't want to separate himself from the crew so stored food in the communal as well. He looked at the ingredients in front of him and decided he wasn't in the mood to cook something. Alex enjoyed cooking, every so often he will cook a meal for the whole crew, they'd not be on a job and usually docked so the entire crew could join in. He looked at the various instant meals he had, they were the ship's stock, they didn't taste the best, but they were at least palatable, some of the other crew complained about previous ships that only had field rations.

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