Artemis worried that Azdrei’in wouldn’t be there when she woke up, and that seemed to be a worse fate than ending up dead when his kind found out. Wondering if she had made the right choice to talk to him and tell him about the fertility program. She was by no means an expert and she wondered if he had even understood what she had been trying to say. It was hard to explain things with simple words and she wondered if there was a way to make it better. Stretching before she got out of the bed and went to clean herself a bit more.

Deciding to wear a blue dress, the weather was going to be nice after all and she just wanted to show that she didn’t just wear pants and oversized t-shirts. Making sure to brush her hair and teeth before she moved into the living room. Realizing that her tablet wasn’t on the table. Did that mean that Azdrei’in was still there? Relief washed over her as she seemed to hear him snore. At least she wasn’t alone anymore. Moving to the rabbit and making sure it was fed before she went to work on her own food.

She put some oatmeal in a bowl, poured some fresh milk with it and heated it up at the microwave.  It would take a few minutes and she still was very sleepy, what was that dream even about? She remembered waking up in a spaceship and a man would wake her. Realizing that it was none other than Spock. “I dreamt about you Spock” she said to the statue of the dog that stood next to the cat. “Not you you, but you know from Star Trek.” She said as she then just turned on the TV and went for another viewing of Star Trek Discovery, the first episode. 

How sad what it that she didn’t even need the subtitles to understand Klingon these days. “They are coming. Atom by atom they will coil around us and take all that we are.” She said along with the Klingon on the screen. Chuckling at the screen “That are humans for you. Though your race is based on violence.” She told the screen. Realizing that she was indeed going insane. She couldn’t stop talking to herself and she wondered what Azdre would think of that. She wondered if he even was planning to keep her alive. She knew that his superiors wanted all the humans gone. But who could even blame them for that. Humankind was nothing like the Federation.  

She had to admit that she always had loved the way the Klingons looked in discovery. They were dark skinned and looked like predators. Somehow she found that his species looked like that, they had the same feeling of belonging together. They were nothing like humans, who thought they were better just because of the color of their skin. It was an idiotic notion. Ever since she was little, she was the type of girl that watched Stargate SG1, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek… Hell anything that had to do with space exploration. She even had wanted to call her first daughter Michael or Samantha because of her love for those shows.

And now? There was a peaceful alien in her own home. It still felt like a dream, like she would wake up at any moment and be back at the horrible world that the humans had created. It wouldn’t be long before they had destroyed the earth after all. If Azdrei’in would walk in at that point. She was sitting on a barstool, eating the oatmeal and watching a show that was all about spaceships and space itself. The beginning music of the show playing as she looked at it with wondrous eyes. For over a year, that had been her sole source of human voices. Acting as if they were talking back at her, she wondered briefly if there were others like her. Surviving on this planet. A shudder moving over her back as she realized that the outside world was horrible. 

When the ship moved to warp speed, she wondered if that was even possible.  She wanted to get on that ship. She wanted to see others of his kind and touch the metal that was his ship. A childlike glee forming inside her body as she realized that maybe she would be able to get into space. To watch the earth from above in the vacuum of space. To see other planets and stardust. I was a dream come though.

What was the worst that would happen to her? That Azdre would take her as his pet. That she had to do anything he would ask of her? She wouldn’t even mind to be his servant. She just didn’t want to be on her own anymore. Swallowing the oatmeal as her mind wandered back to the moment that she talked to him about the surrogates. Would her body be able to carry their babies? Would she be willing to pay that price to stay alive?

But she would have to carry a child to term, she would have to feed it right? Or would they take that away from her? She then shook her head once more. Deciding that it was horrible to think about, no matter what happened. It could be worth it, yet they would be mistaken if they thought they could just take her child away. 

It was in that said moment that the dream came back to her. It was a dream where she met the man that was sleeping in her parent’s room. Yet the next thing she knew, was that she was carrying his child. How insane was that? The human mind could do strange things when it was overworked after all. She still was human after all, when she was still in school, she never had wanted a child. But now that she was locked in the bunker. She often had wished for a man and a baby in her life. At least then she wouldn’t have to be alone. She would be able to be distracted by the child, teach it how to walk and talk and being able to touch them.

Would he take her to space? Would he even care to show her that? Or was she just going to be examined by the others of his race? She had no idea, but for now. All she cared about was to see the man again when he woke up. If he would show, she would be sitting there, watching the TV that was playing softly. Their interpretation of space travel on the screen and her bowl empty. She wouldn’t even notice him that easy, humans weren’t the ones that were hunted after all.