From Harsh Beginnings

[Szerano]

*Hersin looked down at his small room....just nice...a bed and what might have been a small mirror...nice, Hersin never really liked mirrors anyway...looking around his first job was realized....cleaning and A LOT of it.* "Damn, you think it would be hard to clean up such a small room, damn bastards...but they do have a lot of tenants...ah well let's get started..." *Hersin looked around for his case....nope not in here...probably being unloaded from the dock or something...just nice..* "Ugh I cannot stay here for long...I'll head out and wait for my case..." *Hersin took his key and placed it in his back pocket then headed out. After almost getting lost and with the help of a resident, he found his way to the cafeteria. Just one more corridor to the...there sitting alone was Escuarde, a small plate of food sitting in front of him. He was carelessly playing around with the stuff, whatever it was. Yeah time to make up for lost time...and by time I mean apologies...Hersin moved up to the cafeteria's serving counter and helped himself to what escuarde was having. Hersin sat down on the opposite side of the table and began to chow down with Escuarde giving him a hard stare...yeah...let's get this over with...*


*Yhanu had done it, bathrooms! finally! wait....oh HELL NO! Looking around at the horrid place, dirt seemed only a foot step away for both mens and women's showers. Yeeaaah...someone needs to fix this...someone like...Hersin! Yeah the guy is a clean freak, once he sees this place he wouldn't want to do anything else but clean it! Yeah I need to go see him. Yhanu took the fastest route back she could remember. Upon arrival she knocked on Hersin's door.....no answer...she tried again...* "OI! Keep it down over there!" *A new "neighbor" trying to get some sleep...wonderful. Oh well, Yhanu decided to go talk with the GMG guild master on a personal level...yeah this was just an injustice that needed to be fixed. BUT! She had to go check on Dere'l first....taking a quick peek inside she didn't she her in the room. This meant one thing...the boss, everyone in the group knew she had a thing for him, and everyone was sure the boss knew it too...the lucky girl...* "Now where was that guild master..."

*Escuarde stared at Hersin. He purposefully sat in front of him. It was obvious what he was doing...he wanted to apologize...but...then again it had taken the bastard atleast five months to come up with something to say...long enough for him considering who he was and what he did. Escuarde didn't say a word, he just sat there and waited. He was very patient, after all he has been waiting for this for months-oh screw it.* "Well? You have something to say to me?" *Hersin finished his food, wipe his mouth and then looked Escuarde right in the eye.* "I'm...sorry, if I had only known...I...I...things...they wouldn't have been like this. Again I'm sorry." *Escuarde stood up and walked away from the table, he didn't bother to look Hersin in the eye anymore, he didn't deserve it.* "Yeah, apology accepted...for now..." *Just as he was about to leave, Yhanu came from the corridor, a serious face obviously present.* "Out of my way.." *Yhanu stepped aside, she probably noticed Hersin and guessed what had gone down. Escuarde took his time getting back to his room, it annoyed him he had to squeeze past sometimes in the cramped corridor. He just couldn't take it, he lost his sister due to Hersin..the fool had made one mistake...just one...and his sister was lost forever...why...he knew what he was doing...why would he purposefully make a mistake like that...Escuarde looked at the bleak wall of the corridor, with no one around to see him, Escuarde punched the wall, furious of the life fate had given him. With tears going down his cheeks, he punched the wall until his knuckles bleed...*

*Back at the medical wing, Faust was having bandages wrapped around his uncovered head. With no hair on his head at all and one eye working, he must have looked like a freak and he knew it. The nurse had done her best to keep her composure but let's face it, he wasn't a pretty sight. There was some bleeding one his face or something, but he hadn't felt it. He did now, it hurt like a...a...snail being crushed by a human foot. Yeah that makes it obvious...but Faust kept his cool easily, partially because of his "fix" which was now wearing off. He really needed to get to his backpack. He hated anyone who knew about his fix and so far only Derilos knew and that was because Derilos was the one who introduced him to it.* "Nurse? How much longer?" *The nurse gave him a smile...ugh...* "Just a moment sir, almost done.....ah! There we go!" *She took a step back and was probably feeling better, it seems as if the bandages had covered more then just the wound...which explains why she seemed comfortable around him...* "Am I allowed to leave?" *She nodded quickly, she seemed to blush slightly when she looked at him....weirdo...* "You are allowed to leave, but first please allow someone to help you get there? It would be terrible for you to come back here.." *Faust was about to put his bag back over his head when he noticed the blood stains...yeah not happening...it's a good thing it's not just one bag though...slipping one of the bags from the multi-bag...thing...a new brown bag was revealed fresh as a new day. Slipping it on, Faust stood up and made sure the thing got settled in right* "Yeah ok, but please hurry up. I am tired and would like to get some rest." *The nurse bowed and took off almost running into someone, she shouted back:* "Be right back sir! Please hold on!" *Yeah...weirdo....*

*Derilos was starting to feel a lot better. He was hoping Dere'l was feeling better too. They both had it rough over the last few days. When Dere'l finally let go of him, he patted her on the shoulder and went for his writing pad again.* "You write?" *Derilos flipped it back to the page he was writing it on.* "Yeah I have to record our battle and everything, once we get a computer or something else...this is all we can use..." *Dere'l sat next to him, clearly focused on the pad as if replaying what happened.* "Can I....stay with you? For a while?" *Derilos picked up his pencil and continued his work, most of his attention diverted he didn't look at her...he often never did...* "Yeah you can stay...now where was I? Oh yeah, With our "treason" sent to the corsair empire we knew we had to act fast. We packed up everything we could carry and split into two groups. We had a small compact asteroid base at our disposal, at most only twelve people were on the base at any time, and usually 2 people would patrol around and be switched out. We covered up everything we could and erased any information we had. With the ships intact and the base secured, we headed out. Only 15k out from the base and we came under fire from a large corsair patrol. Around seven titans and-" "Eight..." *Derilos looked up at Dere'l.* "Excuse me?" *Dere'l backed away, probably scared.* "No no seriously you saw eight?" *Dere'l nodded, she seemed too scared to speak for some reason- oh that's it. She never went against his word...yeah difficult time for her.* " Dere'l go get some sleep ok? You seem really tired..." *Dere'l got up slowly and walked out of the room, it seemed as if the feel of the room got darker but Derilos didn't care. He knew he was doing the right thing...*

*Hersin watched Escuarde leave the cafeteria, he seemed either mad or sad. Hard to tell he was good at hiding it. Just as he got to the door Yhanu showed up...even better. Standing up Hersin gave his plate over to the trash bin. It was plastic anyway. Yhanu rushed over to him, she seemed pissed-oh yeah she was.* "What the hell?! What happened?!" *Hersin wiped his mouth with a napkin and threw the thing into the trash too...talk about really low tech...hopefully they get better stuff soon...* "I....apologized...for what happened..." *Pushing past her he headed for the docking bays, but Yhanu was closing in on him...* "Oh really, you apologized, yeah that's and it only took what seven months?! Don't lie to me what did you do!" *Hersin stopped and looked her dead in the eye.* "I...apologized...ask me what I did again and I will just ignore you..." *That must have worked because she was silent for the rest of the trip. Since the corridor was small she couldn't stand next to him either, that was nice too. Once they exited the"tunnel" Hersin looked at her, standing right next to him....she looked better then when the argument first started...* "I'm going to get some cleaning supplies..." *Yhanu looked at him, a near shocked expression...*"I was just going to talk to the guild master, the showers are really filthy!" *At that time due to the amount of people on the station they were overheard, there just HAS to be a nosey bastard doesn't it? Ah well at least he was helpful and spoke up.* "Filthy showers huh? I can take you to the Quarter master. He deals with this kind of stuff...and you are...." *Yhanu looked at him funny, a kind of 'What the hell are you doing listening in on my conversation' type of look...* "You can call me Yhanu, and this is Hersin..." "Umm do you know where my luggage is? A medium sized case that should be on the Itchuno vessel...." *The guy nodded quickly.* "Yup yup, I can help you with that...."

*Dere'l left the boss' room with a sad emotion in her belly. She entered her room and...yeah Yhanu was no where to be found...just great...just great. All alone in the tiny room. As her stomach rumbled with hunger she couldn't be bothered to try and explore her new surroundings. She laid down on the bed...it has a certain...softness to it. Not a lot, not too little...actually it was too little...Dere'l had a hard time getting to sleep. Flashes of the battle playing back in her mind...but eventually...she drifted off to sleep...and immediately she wished she hadn't. Caught in her worse nightmare possible, she relived the battle. Two corsair cruiser were at the main source of the battle, but they wasn't shooting, they wanted their targets alive...fighters here and there shooting each other. Dere'l tried to climb out of her cockpit or something but as if on auto-pilot, the Unioner fighter banked left, avoiding a titan's "rain of death". To make it worse her straps to hold her in the seat seemed to have tightened up, locking her into the seat. Her ship banked right this time and opened fire on the titan. He was a god pilot, dodging her shots, but unfortunately as if by fate, his ship couldn't handle it and the shield was dropped then....boom...Dere'l was still scared as ever watching her ship drop titan after titan until only a few remained, she tried to run away again but it was too late into the nightmare....the cruisers had started to shoot at the transports....scared at what would happen next, she thrashed around frantically trying to escape..and then...she was woken up...*

*Yhanu was taken to the Quarter master and explained to him the situation in the showers area. The quarter master informed her that the showers would be fixed up and ready to use in half an hour and would be contacted. He asked Yhanu to go wait at her sleeping quarters and she would be contacted. On her way back she wondered...just what was wrong? With the hygiene standards on this station the showers shouldn't look like that...As Yhanu opened the door to her room, she saw Dere'l thrashing about on the bed, obviously sleep, Yhanu rushed next to her and tried to wake her up.* "Dere'l, Dere'l! Wake up please!" *As Dere'l's eyes fluttered open she nearly screamed.* "Yhanu! Is that you? Oh Yhanu I had a terrible dream!" *Yhanu let her rest on her shoulder and Dere'l let her tears flow more. Yhanu herself started to shed tears but she kept most of her composure. It was a few seconds later that Yhanu noticed the door was still open. Faust was standing in the door, his clothes the same as when he left.* "What happened to you?" *Faust scratched his head, then winced a bit.* "Yeah it was just some minor bleeding, I'll be fine...what about you two?" *Yhanu looked at Dere'l still shaken from her nightmare.* "We are ok...Nothing to worry about." *Yhanu gave Faust a smile. Faust took the door handle and slowly closed the door.* "I'll be in my room if you need anything, don't tell the boss, it's thing for him to worry about..." *Once the door was closed Faust went into his room. Closing his door, he opened his backpack and took out the cardi...yeah it's about time...*

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