Part 5: Bajoran Gods

Posted on 25 Aug 2016 @ 6:27pm by Lieutenant JG Eelim Galan
Edited on on 25 Aug 2016 @ 10:39pm

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Mission: Episode 12 - Recluse
Location: Mind of Eelim
Timeline: MD -06 0330 hours

OLD:

Nilani sobbed. “Derat! What are we going to do?”

Helpless and angry Derat threw a glass of Canar across the room. The glass shattering sounding like thunder and making the little Eelim jump.

Derat then noticed him. He ran up the stairs taking two at a time and looked at the confused child. “Don’t be frightened little one. Your father won’t hurt you.”

The adult Eelim stepped back. His eyes widening. He was remembering a time when those same words were said to him. Just like that he was again struck with the blinding white light and the scene faded. He was back in the bosom of nothingness. He felt another presence and turned…..

[ON]

“Derat!” Eelim gasped but he knew this was not Derat just as the other had not been Teprin. He bowed.

The worm whole alien as some called them shook his head. “There is not much time. You will remember.” The light flashed blinding him and then he was in a sickbay…on Derat’s ship. Eelim was asleep on the bio bed. There standing above him were his mentors Kalar, the Romulan, Derat, a man who was like a father to him, and Teprin, the Bajoran who’d taken him in. They were talking. Eelim hadn’t recalled this but then again he’d been unconscious. He listened. Derat had been asking the other two not to tell Eelim something. Derat was afraid he’d loose Eelim if he knew.

Then he saw the unconscious figure of himself open his eyes. Derat smiled at him. “Good morning sunshine.”

He listened to himself rasp. “You stunned me…I told you to kill me and leave me on Cardassia.”

Derat seemed distressed by this. “A father cannot live without his son.”

There it was again. Suddenly the blinding light came back and then he was back floating in nothingness. He was getting sick of that light. He was just feeling nauseous. Was it possible to be dead and nauseous? He sighed as memories started flying through his mind. Phrases that Derat had uttered.

“It takes more the a biological deposit to make a father.”

“A father always remembers his son’s birth.”

“A father does what is best.”

“A father’s love gives strength and shelter.”

“Of course I helped you with your art. A father always wants his son to succeed.”

And Derat had been like a father….there were times when he….No! He shook his head. “NO!” He cried out.

The Bajoran God that was in Derat’s form appeard again. “You refuse to face the truth. You prefer the lie so you can punish yourself for that which is not your doing.”

Eelim would not accept what in his heart he knew or thought he knew. “I ….I cannot.”

“You prefer the lie,” said the Derat figure. “You prefer to punish yourself to live in purgatory because it’s what you have known for your life. You fear stepping into the light. You seek our help yet you refuse it. It is not logical.

“Eelim closed his eyes.”

The Derat figure went on. “You sentence yourself to purgatory, you fill your soul with self-hate. You exist yet do not live. You ask for help to live yet you prefer to exist. You feel loneliness yet you refuse to accept hands of help.

“Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!” Eelim screamed.

“You punish yourself.”

He opened his eyes to find Derat and Teprin standing in front of him. “He refuses to live. He wishes it yet he merely exists. His soul is exhausted.” They both looked at him and continued in unison. “Your heart beats reluctantly yet nevertheless it beats. You must find the spark of life. You ask for help we give help. You will see through their eyes….their pain and how they find a spark to live. You will see yourself through their eyes as well.”

An image of Tuula popped into his head before the blinding light took him and all Eelim could do was sob….

To be Continued…

[OFF]

Lt. JG Eelim Galan
Security Officer
USS Galileo
[PNPC MacKenzie]

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