Doubts and Treachery

[ChillerMiller]

[color=#33CC00]11th June, 819 A.S.

Planet Baden-Baden, Vivien'€™s house, 0700 SMT

Vivien stayed awake the whole night, she tried to sleep but that attempt failed. She started to walk around in her house once the sun started to shine, she had prepared her stuff in case she had to leave immediately. She always looked through the windows, she had to be cautious from now on. She checked the comm systems if there were any special messages for her, skipping through the usual spam she found a message that just came through. It was sent by her former superior. She started to read it.

'€Dear Vivien, Yesterday evening we received new orders and I have to say that I will not be able to follow them. We were being told to arrest you and we also received the permission to kill you should resist. I know you and I am damn sure that we would end up shooting you. I left the Military an hour ago, I just can'€™t do that. They even refused to tell the reason for this order.
Please, we have to meet, I'€™ll be at Station Solarius. That area is not patroled regularly these days so it should be safe, but anyhow, be careful. I will see you there.'€

She heard some noises going on in her house just after she was done reading the message. Somebody had entered the house and she had to react fast and deleted the message so they won'€™t find out that easily. She had no idea if she would get out of this alive. She had no guns in her room, the pistol was lying in her ship. The only thing she was able to find was a rusty knife, she sighed and took it with her.
She had to silently move towards the exit of her house. She saw the door already but she also heard steps nearby, seems it was only one person. He turned every room into chaos. The steps became louder, Vivien could hear his breath. He was just behind that corner, some more steps and he would see her so she took advance, stood up and used the surprise of the moment and rammed the knife into his belly. He fell on the ground and his blood slowly filled the floor of the room. She never saw that person before but he was wearing a BDM uniform, they were searching for her. She took the moment to grab some things before leaving, the time was running. When she was almost out of the house she heard a gunshot and felt incredible pain in her back. The man had used his last breath to shoot at her. The bullet went through her body, luckily it didn'€™t hit important organs. She fell on the ground and touched the wound, there was no time to fix it now nor did she had the possibilities to do so. She had no other chance but to fly with this handicap, so she crawled into her ship, it was living hell for her.

It would be the last time for her to see her home and she knew that. She realized that when she started the ship'€™s engines and it made her extremely sad, but she also knew that staying to die would be the worst mistake of her life. She programmed the waypoint to Omega-11 and navigated the ship to its direction. The system itself was hated by her, not only because of the Hessians in it but also because of the insane levels of radiation. She still struggled with her injury and noticed something strange on her scanners, but she had no idea what it was. An explosion occured in her ship out of nothing, it seemed she was not alone out there. Two Wraiths were following her and they destroyed her comm systems so she was no longer able to communicate with somebody. Some shots followed and her ship stopped, the main engines were destroyed. The two ships flew away, letting her alone to die.

Vivien stayed silent for some moments, it seemed all hope was gone for now. A tear was flowing down her left cheek. She remembered she had some special things in that ship and pressed a button which activated the emergency engines, her ship was now moving extremely slow, but at least it was moving. Her wound was still bleeding, but it was not that much so it should be alright for some time. Vivien programmed the auto-pilot and let the computer do the rest. It would take some time and she had no idea if she would be alive by the time the ship reaches the target. She started to have a terrible headache, probably because of the radiation.

She thought about her life, especially her childhood and her sisters. She remembered an old song and started to hum its melody, she grabbed the old picture she had from her sisters and looked at it and wished she had a chance to meet her family again. She just hoped that she would survive this, she felt she was about to lose her consciousness, the pain she had was just incredible. It became dark in front of her eyes and the view at the giant sun in Omega-11 was the last thing she saw before she lost her consciousness.

The ship continued its movement and reached Solarius after four hours, Vivien'€™s former superior was already waiting for her to arrive and was happy when he saw her ship landing.
But he started to worry himself when nobody left the ship, he ran to it and saw her lying inside it. He called some other guys to open the cockpit and they took Vivien out of the ship. He tried to feel her pulse, she was alive and that made him smile, but she was still in a difficult situation. They brought her to the medical station where she was examined by the doctor. He looked exhausted when he came out of the room but also a bit relieved, he walked over to her former surperior and talked with him.

<div align="right]'€Well, I managed to stop the bleeding, but she experienced a lot of radiation and I don'€™t know how the consequences will be it and I am not really sure if she will survive them. We have to keep a close eye on her. It is even quite surprising that she survived in the first place, she was flying with that injury for many hours and with the radiation it would have been a deadly combination for most persons. She has a strong will to survive and she has to fight this battle now. We can only hope that she will be victorious., there is nothing we can do now to help her.'€

They looked again into the room and decided to leave Vivien alone for now.