Let It Be Author's Note: Okay, somehow all the cliches in the galaxy managed to work their way in here, but hey, I'm too tired to fix them. And this is has demanded that some Beka/Tyr must be written in somewhere.... Sorry this hasn't been updated lately, but real life is worse than hell right now...Please read and review, and tell me what's wrong if ya can!

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Chapter 13:



The room was silent. All Beka could hear was Andy's labored breathing, and even that was gradually fading away to more even, quiet breaths. She supposed that was a good thing, but even so, the silence in the room was far too loud.

"Her fever's down to 100 degrees farenheit," Trance said suddenly, making Beka jump and release a breath she hadn't known she was holding.

"That's good?" Beka asked tentatively.

"That's better," the Purple One clarified. "It looks like it's going to come down further, and she's showing no signs of an allergic reaction. The drug worked."

"Thank goodness," Harper said with a sigh of relief, although they weren't quite out of the woods yet.

Andy's eyes fluttered open, more coherent than they had been since she had closed them to enter into the Andromeda's matrix. "Where am I?" she murmured tiredly.

"You're on Med Deck," Harper told her quietly, gently, brushing her hair back from her face. He was far too calm. "There was some trouble with the baby, do you remember?"

"A little. Is the baby okay?" Andy asked worriedly.

As Harper reassured her, and they talked in hushed voices and the situation was explained, Beka couldn't go over there and join in the conversation, no matter how much she wanted to. The Med Deck was beginning to feel constricted.

"Beka?" Trance touched her hand, but Beka barely felt it. "Are you all right? You look a little pale."

"I-I need to get out of this room," Beka mumbled, then jumped up and practically ran out, not hearing Andy cry her name.

Once she had cleared the door and it had shut firmly behind her, Beka did run, as fast as she could, to the workout room. Andromeda's concerned inquiries fell on deaf ears. The workout room was empty. She proceeded to try and kill the punching bag. Left right right right left kick right right kick left left right left don't think.

An indeterminable amount of time later, the door opened, and a tall figure entered the room. It was ignored. When the figure touched Beka's shoulder, she whirled on it and fought as hard as she could. Her arms were pinned firmly to her side by two dark arms which encircled her body. She fought for heartbeats longer, then gave up and went limp. Gasping and not really paying attention to much, she felt herself being lowered to the floor, still enclosed in those arms.

"Breathe, Rebecca," a calm voice advised, and she did just that.

When she no longer felt like she was going to pass out from lack of air, and realized that she had probably made a fool of herself, and finally opened her eyes to see who she was lying on, her look of surprise must have been apparent, for Tyr Anasazi out of Victoria by Barbarossa felt the need to explain himself.

"The ship told me you were attempting to hurt yourself, and as I am currently the only one who has the ability to contain you...here I am," he said awkwardly. Beka noted that he still didn't release her.

"Hi Tyr," she said, in a voice that was too calm and far too controlled. "Guess I just lost all that non-existent respect you had for me." She didn't move away from him.

"Rebecca..." He shook his head and didn't comment. He was right; it didn't deserve a comment and she shouldn't have said it. "Would you like to tell me why you attacked the punching bag?"

"It started it."

"Rebecca."

"No one here by that name."

"Beka."

"That would be me."

He started to stroke her hair and, in a gentle voice that she never expected, said, "Beka, the reason you acted that way is important to me. You are an essential part of the crew, and your emotional well-being is currently a matter of concern. I will listen to anything you have to tell me, or, if you like, I will find someone else for you to talk to."

If he hadn't been stroking her hair, she might have stayed strong and tough, and refrained from talking to him. But once he did that, and she started talking, she couldn't stop.

She told him about Andy. How much she loved Andy, how much it had irrationally hurt when Andy had fallen in love with Harper behind her back and then how it had hurt more when Beka realized that she had been the only one wrong when she pushed Andy away. How she had gone through her life in pain and her nights in nightmares thinking about what could have happened to Andy and playing what if with herself, and deciding time after time to go find Andy only to stop just before entering slipstream because she knew with absolute certainty that Andy wouldn't want to see her or talk to her. What it had been like to see Andy again, to touch her, to hug her and assure herself that Andy was all right, that Rafe hadn't killed her even though he'd tried. What it had been like to see the joy on Andy's face when she had been given the okay to marry Harper. What it had been like to receive the news that Andy was pregnant, and listening to Andy and Harper plan everything. And finally, what it had been like to feel that castle of joy come tumbling down when the whole mess had started.

Tyr listened, did not judge, said nothing, and continued holding Beka when she started to cry.

When she had quieted, he whispered into her ear, "You are not weak, Rebecca. You are quite possibly the strongest female I have had the privilege to meet, and this only makes you stronger. You have weathered the situation. Now go speak to your cousin."

She was helped up, and she washed her face. Head held high and fists clenched tightly at her side, she marched impassively to Med Deck. She gently took Andy's hand in hers, not noticing the exit of Trance and Harper, and said,

"So, Andy sweetie, how are you feeling?"