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    Open Thread Brave New Worlds: Visiting Hours (Sanis, Rebels)

    I don't know how long I was out for. Opening my eyes was difficult, but the greenish goo I found myself suspended in did not alter my vision too much. There were people outside the tank, standing, looking at me. Before I could get my bearings I started floating upwards.

    At the top of the tank hands pulled me out of the bacta, carefully pulling me on to a padded grate that nearly covered the tank. I gagged as the breathing tube was carefully extricated from my throat, and found my muscles to be completely unresponsive. "Don't try to stand," a calm male voice said, and the excess bacta was efficiently removed from my body, dripping back into the tank below. I shivered, but was powerless to help myself as I was moved again.

    Down from the tank, I was put on a table. A bright light was shining in my eyes, and they teared up in defense. I closed them, trying to ask what was going on, but the breathing tube had left me unable to speak.

    "Your voice will come back, just give it some time." Someone was washing my hair, using water. "In your condition we cannot use a traditional ion shower to remove the rest of the bacta," the male voice continued to explain. "You have suffered burns over about twenty-five percent of your body. You are a very lucky lady - we got you just in time to prevent permanent scarring."

    I didn't feel lucky. At his words the memories flooded back, and tears welled up. While I was washed, my wounds bandaged with ryll enhanced bacta paste, and dressed, I cried.
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    I worked up the nerve to go see her a few hours after she'd been admitted to the medical ward. The guard held me up briefly, but I was allowed in. Inside, I saw James laying on a cot, draped in a comforter up to her neck. A med droid stood nearby, as did an intravenous stand adjacent to the bed. Her hair had been trimmed up short, probably to make her easier to manage for the doctors.

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    I opened my eyes, turning my head slightly so I could see my visitor better. "Hi Sanis." My voice was scratchy from the smoke and the breathing tube for my dip in the tank.

    I smiled, glad to see a familiar face. "Guess I've been a lotta trouble for you."

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    "Well..."

    I sat at the foot of her cot, mindful not to touch anywhere that may be sensitive.

    "I'm not the one fresh out of the bacta. Who cares about my trouble?"

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    I chuckled, but it was a bad idea. I coughed, my eyes tearing up from the pain in my chest. The medical droid came over, helping me drink a little water, and settled me back into my bed.

    Sanis looked worried, but he was trying to hide it. I smiled, attempting to make him feel better. "Well, I care about your trouble. Stopping... its expensive for you not to be... working."

    I wished I could move my arms, but they were immobilized until my skin could heal. "I... I have an itch on my nose..."

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    "It's more expensive to be out a navigator."

    I leaned forward, gingerly scratching at the tip of her nose with my thumb.

    "And we'll have better jobs come around. Sometimes I can't see the galaxy for the stars, and I get mad at the little things."

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    I smiled wryly, "I didn't do much navigating and you know it." I sighed, resting my head on the pillows and closing my eyes briefly. "But, thank you."

    He seemed to be fiddling with something in his hands, and I raised an eyebrow. "Whatcha got there?"

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    My eyes looked down, and after a few seconds of hesitation, I passed the flimsy to her.

    "Something you dropped back on the ship when you left."

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    He stuck it between my wrapped fingers - the hologram of my father. "You kept it for me?" I smiled, almost crying again. Gods but I was emotional. "Its my father. When my mother died her friends gave this to my social worker."

    I looked up from it, not noticing the change in his expression. "Thank you, Sanis. Really. For everything."

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    "Did you know your dad?"

    I glanced back at her as I leaned forward, resting my elbows on my knees.

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    I shook my head slowly. Carefully. My muscles were sore. "No. I never met him."

    The holo slipped between my bandaged fingers, resting on my palm. "This flimsy is all I have to connect me with him." I bit my lip, "My mom died in childbirth. She was a prostitute, he was a john. At least, that's what I think he was to her. Good riddance to them both, right?"

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    "Yeah."

    I replied to her without any zeal. Then again, I'd had a little more insight into dad than she did, and so far in my life, I'd made sure the apple hadn't fallen far from the tree.

    Old Man Prent was a space addict, a drifter, and a rolling stone. He'd bedded probably as many people as he'd visited planets, and he'd probably killed a few people along the way. And for what? The only thing he'd left me was a name, and half of a reputation.

    How far from the mark was I, then?

    "Good riddance."

    Was I melancholy that my dad was a no-show in my life, and that I was more or less the same kind of person. At times, yeah. I really couldn't get that worked up about it. Where else was there to go but straight ahead anyway?

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    I closed my eyes, resting. "Sometimes I wonder what he was like. What they both were like."

    I opened one eye, "When I was little I pretended they were a king and queen of some faraway planet and I was a lost princess." I blushed, "Silly kid stuff, really. Helped me get through some rough foster homes though."

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    "I knew exactly what my dad was. I just thought that he'd come back."

    I didn't even know why I was talking about this. I didn't even know if I wanted to yank her out of her own ignorance. Then she'd just be like me.

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    I sighed, "People like us, we know that people don't always come back. Makes us stronger." I turned my head to look more directly at him.

    "Sanis, what's wrong?" I'd never seen a look on his face like the one he was giving me.

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    "I know the guy in that picture."

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    My eyes widened. "You do? How? Who is he? Where is he?"

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    "He's my father."

    My eyes met hers and my expression was blank.

    "And I haven't seen him in fifteen years."

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    "Your father..?" I fumbled for words, my mind reeling. "But he's my father. He can't be your..."

    My voice trailed off and the gravity of what he said sank in. "But... I... I mean ...we... you know..."

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    Somehow, I'd completely forgotten about that.

    My face slowly changed, from grim understanding, to confusion, and suddenly to shocked disgust.

    "Oh GOD!"

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