Retrieval-Ch. 11

Retrieval

By zealousgirl

Rating: PG-13, general
Disclaimers in Chapter One

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CHAPTER 11

Surfacing

T'pol could hear muffled voices around her. She was no longer in the wooden chair. Her wrists and ankles were still bound but now she lay prone on what felt like a mattress. She cracked her eyes open just enough to see that she was in the same room as before. In order to delay her being noticed by the other occupants in the room, she continued to breathe in a slow deep rhythm, feigning still being asleep. She could see Koss standing next to the wooden chair that she had been confined in previously. He was speaking to 2 young Scaniran men. She strained to hear what was being said.

"Where did he go? I told you to go back for him."

"He was not in the alley. We did check their room. Do not fret, our friends will find him. We can--." The man who was speaking stopped. He seemed to have sensed that she was awake and promptly pointed this out to Koss.

He approached her. "My love, you have finally decided to wake up. That injection should have lasted only half that long." He pulled the gag out of her mouth.

T'pol twisted her mouth, trying to alleviate the tightness that resulted from it having been stretched by the gag. She was trying to find the words to say to him, but found that her mind was still quite foggy.

"Cat got your tongue? That's what the humans would say, right?" He laughed. Then his expression was serious again. He paced back and forth, never removing his eyes from hers. "I read up on these humans after you decided to go to Earth. I thought that I was being a good 'husband-to-be', learning more about where you were and who you would be working with." His tone revealed an increasing amount of anger.

T'pol was still unable to reply.

"And then, you decide to go on the maiden voyage of this Earth vessel, Enterprise. Yet, I was still very pleased for you, knowing how important it was for you to try new things." He stopped pacing and knelt down so that he was now at her level. "I thought that once you were around these inferior beings for a few weeks or months, you would become impatient with their deficiencies and return to Vulcan to be with me."

Finally able to formulate a response, she whispered, "Koss. I had every intention of -"

"Enough lies! You never had any intention of honoring your agreement with me or my family. You are selfish. I have had great affection for you since childhood. Did you not think about how I would be affected by your decisions? That I would bring shame to my family?"

"Koss, I would apologize for-"

"For what!" Suddenly his mood seemed to change, again. He smiled almost lovingly, and then began to caress her face.

T'pol instinctively turned her head away from him. She did not want him to touch her, ever.

He was now infuriated, again. "It is this Commander Tucker who has taken you away from me! He will come to regret ever having convinced you to turn your back on me and on our culture."

"Commander Tucker is not responsible for --. " Her rebuttal was stopped by his placement of the gag back into her mouth.

"You will soon understand what it feels like to lose someone you care for. And then, you will have no choice but to come back to Vulcan with me, and live the life that promised." Koss immediately left the room, with the 2 other men following him.

T'pol was unable to fathom what she could do to escape. She had to get out of here. She had to find Trip. He was in danger because of her. Had Koss really sensed her attraction to the commander, or had he used one of his Scaniran hunch-men to determine that?

Since she was unable to free herself from the restraints, she decided to attempt meditation. She was finding it difficult to control her emotions, and thus could not function properly. If only she could keep all of those feelings from surfacing, she could figure out how to convince Koss to allow her to leave, and to not harm Trip.

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