Learning to Dance
“What is it, doctor?” “Her vitals are improving. Keep an eye on her tonight – if she wakes, I want to know. Before the Admiral d ...
the second drop pod showed up when they did, or you wouldn’t have stood a chance.” The smoking remains of a hulking metal tank - ...
black. As her eyes began to focus, they drifted down to the shiny metal gloves he seemed to be wearing where he should have had ...
the one that would have been written that day.” Taz stared at him, trying to understand what he was saying. Her head was poundin ...
“The Commander of course.” A pause. “They say he rescued her from the robots when she was a young girl – and they’ve been togeth ...
aren’t you sure? The door opened. A woman in a white G.L.E.E. lab coat stood there, a tall woman with kind eyes and long, reddis ...
was foul, “shouldn’t have dropped the news on you the way he did, and his stimulants nearly killed you. I wasn’t on duty, or I w ...
Lieutenant. All I know is that since Up doesn’t have any family, there was no one to speak for him when he was lying there on th ...
he saw her again. She looked up at the observation room above. A number of doctors and scientists had gathered, no doubt out of ...
She stepped shakily up to the table and looked at the man she loved. ...
Up. She couldn’t tell at first where the man ended and the metal began – his skin fading seamlessly into silicone across his che ...
His chest rose, suddenly, and there a flurry of stifled cheers and gasps from the observation room. She ignored them and bent cl ...
Chapter Twenty Shame The man who once was Commander Up sat in a bath, looking at his hands. The water was as hot as he could sta ...
somehow older too, shrunken, a ghost of the man he’d been before. He was losing muscle mass. He struggled just to walk from his ...
He could feel her watching his laboured movements, and his shame, his constant shame, grew a little more. He sought a distractio ...
“You should get some rest. We’re going to try something new for your physio session tomorrow.” He eyed her warily. “It's not fin ...
Rosie came to check on Taz just as she’d climbed wearily into her own hospital bed. The mattresses here made the ones on starshi ...
was.” “I know,” said Taz. I tell myself that every day. It didn’t make it any easier to see it. Rosie was watching her with an i ...
“I told the doc you’d be more comfortable if he wasn’t here today,” she said, hands on her hips. She wore sweats to match his an ...
“Hey y’all, the nurses told me I would find you here – dead God, woman, what have you done to your hair?” Aw, shit. Taz froze mi ...
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