Star Trek: Voyager - 038 - Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer

Author:Kirsten Beyer [Beyer, Kirsten]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Imaginary Wars and Battles, Science Fiction, Radio and Television Novels, Media Tie-In, Space Opera, Adventure, High Tech, Interplanetary Voyages, Star Trek Fiction, TV Tie-Ins, Life on Other Planets, Interstellar Travel, Ship Captains, Star Trek, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction - Adventure, Fiction - Science Fiction, Science Fiction - Star Trek, Science Fiction - Space Opera, Science Fiction and Fantasy, American, Science Fiction - General, American Science Fiction And Fantasy, Media Tie-In - General, General & Literary Fiction, Voyager, Janeway, Captain Janeway, Movie-TV Tie-In - General, Science Fiction - High Tech, Modern fiction, Movie or Television Tie-In
ISBN: 9781416594963
Google: bIoc-41VKYEC
Amazon: 1416594965
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2009-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

He finally emerged from the bedroom wearing a tattered old robe she’d offered to replace numerous times but to no avail. Like a child’s favorite blanket, Willem had insisted on keeping it. It was his attire of choice for sitting around the house.

She almost gasped in alarm when he stepped far enough into the room’s dim lighting for her to see the haggard, drawn expression he wore.

“You look like hell,” she said involuntarily, and with more compassion than she’d intended.

He offered her a wan smile before setting himself down gingerly on the sofa.

“And you look angrier than one of hell’s demons,” he replied wearily.

If Afsarah had truly hated him, this might have been all the impetus she would have needed to launch her attack. But she didn’t hate him. Eden no longer missed or needed him, but she could never hate him. Even loathing might not have been enough to counter the concern she found welling inside her at the sight of his feverish face and lethargic limbs.

“What’s wrong?” she asked, seating herself on the arm of the chair angled to the far side of the sofa.

“Nothing a few days’ rest won’t cure,” he replied dismissively.

“Have you seen a doctor?”

“I have.” He nodded.

“And?”

“And he has seen me.”

“Willem!”

“And he said I’m going to be fine if I take it easy for a few days,” he replied a bit testily.

Eden didn’t believe him. But she also knew she could sit here and grow old before he’d tell her more. Willem avoided doctors as though he was allergic to them. If he had gone to Starfleet Medical, it could only mean that whatever ailed him was too frightening or painful to ignore.

“Now why don’t you tell me what made you storm over here at this hour,” he said.

Eden tried to summon some of her frustration, along with the choice words she’d planned to express it with, but found instead only a resigned sigh.

“Why didn’t you tell me what you were planning to propose to Command?” she asked.

“Would it have made a difference in the contents of your report, or the speed with which you completed it?”

Eden considered the question. Finally she uttered her disquieting but honest response.

“It might have.”

A sad smile traipsed across Willem’s lips.

“I guess I wanted the proposal to be considered on its merits. I felt that the potential for discovery, bolstered by your objective analysis, would be sufficient to win the day,” Batiste said.

Eden shook her head. “You didn’t make admiral with that much of your naïveté still intact.”

“All right,” he admitted. “I didn’t count on the strenuousness of Admiral Janeway’s objections.”

“You want to send her former crew back to the Delta quadrant,” Eden said in exasperation. “She risked everything to bring them home safely. She overcame impossible odds and ridiculous obstacles for seven years straight. More times than I care to count, any sane person would have turned back, found a nice little planet to settle down on, and cut their losses, and every single time she was faced with that choice she flat-out refused.

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