#remember no one ever really dies; tayen s'chn t'gai | post resurrection verse

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Wil lowered his sleeve, glancing at Hannah. He cleared his throat and waved a bit to Emma. "I'm... what's going on."

Tayen took a deep breath. "Once upon a time, a kid came in contact with mystical geology, and now has magical powers that they can't explain because they didn't have them before. Sounding familiar?"

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Wil sighed softly. “You say that like I’ve really got much choice.�� He stood slowly, looking over at the woman, looking her over… pausing for a moment. Those marks…

He grabbed at his right arm without thinking. That… that looked like…

“Magic rock?” he asked, slightly bluntly. Wil met her eyes, pulling his sleeve up slightly to show his own scars, though they didn’t glow like they used to.

Emma blinks, raising an eyebrow and looking over his scars before slowly holding up her hand and opening her palm, revealing the rock still embedded in it. “Though per Federation officials, I’m supposed to have some scientific way of putting things, for lack of a better word… yeah.”

She glances at Hannah, who nods. Emma nods as well. “All right, what’s going on? What happened? I don’t get called for this thing very often.”

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Muse: S’Chn T’Gai Tayen

Cleaning. Organizing. Cleaning again. Organizing again.

Sickbay was... empty, except for herself and Claire. Because Tayen was working late. Again. Way too late. For the third or fourth day in a row, she wasn’t even sure which anymore.

She couldn’t sleep. And it was starting to mess with her relationship with Duke.

So she was working. Late. Again. Trying to do anything other than think about it.

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For: @starbcrn-kids

Muse: S'Chn T'Gai Tayen

"I feel like a small child. Flashcards? Really, Kai? How do you know this'll even help?"

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For: @take-to-the-fxcking-stars​ Muse: S’Chn T’Gai Tayen Guest Stars: Aoife, Mackenzie, Jocelyn, other Orville muses

Tayen took heavy breaths, trying to calm herself. She didn’t remember. She didn’t remember being enlisted. She didn’t remember the war. She didn’t remember Rebecca coming home.

So why were they taking her to the ship she was on before she died? Did they think it would help? Nothing had jarred any memories so far. Was this just their last resort?

And what would happen if it didn’t work?

She looked up as the shuttle docked. Now or never. She almost wanted it to be never. How was she going to tell them she didn’t know any of them? Tayen stood, falling back to her seat for a moment as her knees gave out from the pure anxiety taking over. She shook her head. She needed to be calm. She needed... she hated thinking it, but she needed to think logically about the situation. It was only fair to try.

She stood up slowly, putting her hands together behind her back to keep herself from picking at her clothes as the doors opened. She stepped out carefully, looking around in confusion and fear.

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Lyssa followed along, looking around a bit. She knew what Emma was doing. Trying to give her a minute to just... breathe. Without being asked millions of questions.

It was nice, really.

Eira chuckled softly. "You can spar with Lyssa when you're both done in sickbay. Sound like a plan?" She smiled, nodding for him to follow her out.

Opal tensed as she stepped in. She didn't like it, didn't like it, didn't like-

Eve looked up, blinking, freezing, her eyes meeting the other angel's first. It took everything she had not to just yell out her name. "O-oh. Uh." She looked over at the other girl, that spark of recognition flashing in her mind. Demon. Her wings shot out from her back, one catching Tayen's shoulder. Opal's eyes flicked to black as she stepped back a little.

"Oowww!" Tayen whined as she hit the ground.

Eve squeaked. "Sorry!"

Aoife chuckled, shaking her head. "Figures it'd be Tayen's turn with the wings."

Jocelyn paused, then carefully pulled the boy into a tight hug. Compression. Compression would help. "Shhh, it's okay, it's okay, you're safe. You're safe. I promise you that."

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Emma chuckles. “Yes, yes we can. Are you all right, lovebug?” She looks worried as she walks out with the other.

Nick sighs and shakes his head. “I’m fine.” He’s not thinking about Tomilson, about the way she went down, about Wynn killing her without pausing to so much as think.

Sapphire looks over and quietly holds out her hand, not forcing her to take it, just offering it.

Owen sniffles as he sits down with her, shaking badly and trying to follow her over-exaggerated breathing, gripping at his sides.

Lyssa nodded, shrugging a little. “I’m always alright. I’ve seen hell more than once. That was nothing for me.”

Eira paused, nodding slowly. “Come on, let’s get you down to medical. I’m sure they’ll want to scan you to make sure everything’s okay, just to be sure.”

Opal glanced at Sapphire, smiling weakly and taking her hand slowly, nodding her silent thanks.

Jocelyn squeezed his shoulders a little. “You’re safe now, sweetie. You’re safe. I promise, you’re safe. Breathe with me.”

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For: @starfleets-marvels-motherfxcker​

Tayen stumbled into the city. She’d been walking for so long. Was that man sure it was only fifteen minutes? She looked around, then walked up to someone. Please, please, please... “Hello? Where can I find S’Chn T’Gai Spock?”

The person blinked at her. “What?”

“Spock,” she repeated, growing more terrified by the second. “I need to find him. I’m his niece, Tayen.”

“Impossible,” they scoffed. “She is dead.” They shook their head and walked off.

Tayen whined. No, no, please, someone had to know where she could find him. Someone had to listen to her. She walked around a bit more, making her way to a man who looked to be some type of authority. “Can you take me to S’Chn T’Gai Spock?” she asked hopefully, trying to hide the fear in her voice.

The man raised an eyebrow. “I can. He is with the High Council, but… I am sure he will not mind. Come.”

She sighed in relief. Good. She took shaky breaths, looking around frantically, trying to hold herself back from losing herself in panic. She followed him along, thinking over what V’Lyt had said again. She’d thought about it the whole walk, and she couldn’t stop thinking about it. B-970… it didn’t make sense. How could it make sense later?

After what felt like forever, the man opened a door, gesturing for her to walk inside. Tayen walked in, looking around. “Councilor? This is…”

Tayen looked up at the man and the councilor. “S’Chn T’Gai Tayen.”

Their eyes widened, and they shared a look. The Councilor turned and went through a door, clearing her throat. “Ambassadors… I am going to have to ask you to prepare yourselves. You have a visitor.” She turned back and opened the door, waving Tayen inside.

Tayen looked around as she walked in. Her eyes locked onto her uncle. She smiled, tears falling down her face. She had been so scared. “Uncle Spock?”

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“Valeris was killed by me when she attempted to attack Rebecca after Rebecca talked to the council and convinced them to stay in the Federation shortly after she killed Hailey,” Spock nods simply at that.

Saavik sighs softly. “Her son has been in the brig on the Polyhymnia since this, recovering from years of childhood trauma she inflicted upon him. Mother thinks eventually he will do better.”

"Good," Tayen said. "She deserved it. I hope she suffered." She glanced over to Spock. She really had no idea what to say to him now. No doubt he was thinking what she was thinking: why her and not his daughter? "I'm sorry." I'm sorry it was me.

She sighed heavily. She couldn't say anything about Valeris's son. Not when she still had faith in Celena. "Can't seem to get to Earth fast enough. I just want to see... everyone. How's Dad been?" Change the subject. Yes, good idea.

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“Attention, USS Orville. Reminder that she’s coming back today.” His voice is hollow. Ed leans against his chair, before looking back at comms. “She won’t remember us, and you can’t force anything. Just be gentle with her. Mercer out.”

Clicking off, Ed gets up with Kelly. They nod and Ed addresses Bortus. “Bortus, you have the conn.”

With that, he and Kelly head down to the shuttlebay to meet her as she boards. Alara looks at them as they reach the doors with her and opens them. The three head down to meet Tayen at her shuttle.

Hannah is sitting at her desk with a cup of hot tea, her fingers pressed against each other with her hands in front of her face with her elbows propped on her desk. To a passing eye, she’s working on someone’s file from today’s physical.

But she’s just sitting there, not even remotely trying to read, much less input anything she needed to for today, staring down blankly at a spot on the PADD. The door opens as someone comes in, probably for their physical, and she finally blinks and looks up.

Audrey looked up at Ed, Kelly, and Alara. She stood up, straightening her uniform. Screw it. She couldn't avoid her forever. She walked after the three, trying to keep herself as calm as she could.

Tayen felt a pit in her stomach when she saw the people. The people she didn't recognize. The people she'd been so close with, they'd been allowed at her funeral. She felt sick knowing they knew her... and she didn't know any of them. She took a deep breath, slowly stepping closer, but keeping her distance. "Um... hi... I-" She stopped herself. "You already... you know who I am." She cleared her throat. "Are you taking me to the captain?"

Audrey closed her eyes, biting her lip. Maybe coming down to the shuttle was a mistake.

Sam knew Hannah would be among the hardest hit by Tayen's return. He knew, he knew from the moment they found out she was alive again. And he knew he needed to be there for her.

So he walked down to sickbay, squeezing the scar on his hand to keep himself grounded. He stepped through the door with a small, sad smile. "Hey. Need some company?"

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"Well, this is one thing about Time Lords I don't have an answer for," Felicity hummed, wrinkling her nose at her reflection. She stood straight, grinning. "I'm hungry! Are you hungry? I'm hungry. What am I hungry for? Oh, oh, oh, what about fish fingers? I love fish fingers."

Damn. Fergus cleared his throat. "Understood, then. I'll call for him. She in sickbay?"

Tayen was, in fact, curled up under her desk, just shaking and holding herself together.

Starla laughed. "I think it's good he's scared of us. What do you think, lass?"

Wil sighed, shaking his head a little.

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Felicity tilted her head. “What’s wrong with my face? Oh, no, am I ugly?” She reached over to her mirror, spinning it around and looking into it. She stretched her face in various ways, then blinked. “Ooohhh. Oh, that’s awkward, isn’t it? Huh.”

Fergus sighed softly, closing his eyes. “I will happily send the alcoholic your way if I see him. Have you checked in with Tayen yet?”

Wil laughed, shaking his head a little. “You kinda walked into that one, Miss Lily.”

“Oh, we’re at ‘Miss’ now,” Starla chuckled, raising an eyebrow. “What happened to just Lily?”

“I’m dating her son and she scares the living hell out of me, Miss Starla,” Wil admitted with a sigh.

Lydia pauses. “Not exactly…”

She watches as the girl… interacts with her face, blinking slowly. “Sort of. It’s… unusual.”

Hannah chuckles. “I’m not asking for Duke for me, Fergus.”

“Tha’s abou’ right,” Lily smirks a bit.

Wynn reaches over and punches her arm. “Mooooooooooooom.”

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Dean opened his mouth to keep going, but Cas cleared his throat, and the former immediately shut his mouth again. Cas nodded once.

Nari sighed softly, blinking when he kissed her stomach. She laughed. "Okay, that was adorable, babe." She smiled, pulling him close. "Can we sit down?"

Tayen smiled a bit, leaning against Duke while she watched them.

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“My son makes alternate realities when he’s upset,” Dean said, crossing his arms.

“Please can we just not, just once, just one time, not challenge people unfazed by what we do?” Sam sighed heavily.

Nari squeaked quietly, melting completely into him. Oh boy. She broke away a little, reaching up and gently playing with his hair. “Pretty bad, then.”

“Back home, we’d have called him a Chambers and chalked it up to being another Tuesday. Speaking of, that time a little girl turned Haven into a snowglobe and everyone thought it was literally Christmastime in July,” Audrey shakes her head.

Willa giggles. “No, no, by all means, this is great.”

Nick cuddles her, nodding softly, playing with her hair, then kissing her stomach, then her cheek again.

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Tayen smiled softly. "I'll go finish up my paperwork." She walked off to her desk, humming and sighing as she sat down.

Sam chuckled, shaking his head. "Yeah, I get it. But I think you'll enjoy exploring the different kinds of pie." He smiled softly at her.

Mackenzie mumbled a bit, yawning. Well, she'd already been awake for a little while, she'd just known not to even try to get up. Not that she really wanted to in the first place.

James was safe. James was home.

But she sat up, prying herself away from her fiance, yawning again. "Baby, Grayson's here." She cleared her throat. "Sweetheart, c'mon in."

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Mara smiled and nodded, chuckling a little. She felt safe. And that was good enough for her.

Sam watched Kyla, smiling and laughing softly. Yeah, that was… that was pretty Dean. He’d almost missed that. “Good?”

Melina rolled her eyes a bit at Grayson, laughing a bit. “Go. You’re worried. So go.”

Kyla clears her throat a bit and shrugs it off. “Yeah, I guess. I don’t really have a baseline.” She glances between Sam and Nova again, and bristles slightly when she looks back at Tayen. She still doesn’t like any of this.

Grayson waves a very obviously sarcastic two-finger mock salute and takes off back for his quarters abruptly, worried. Once he gets in, he pauses at his parents’ door. “Mama?”

James mumbles softly, waking up a bit, still cuddling Mackenzie.

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Tayen followed Acyi out, casting a glance back at the door before hurrying along.

Mackenzie laid her head on his chest, trying to control herself. She needed to contain herself. But she was so scared. She didn't know how to do this, how to take care of a baby. It was never something she was trained for.

"I'm scared," she whispered, closing her eyes tight. "I don't know how to do this."

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Mackenzie blinked, eyebrows furrowed. She wasn’t sure she liked wherever this was go… ing… ended early? She blinked a few more times.

“But…” She shook her head. “But that doesn’t make any sense.” She cleared her throat, taking a deep breath and looking at Tayen and Elaine. “You’re sure?”

Tayen nodded. “Completely positive.”

Mackenzie paused, trying to keep her head clear and level. She shook her head, chuckling dryly, tears beginning to well up as she looked back at James. “Baby, I- I don’t know how to do this.”

James immediately scoops her up and pulls her closer, wrapping his arms around her, rubbing her back gently. “Shh. Shh-shh. It’s gonna be okay.”

He glances to Acyi and Tayen. No words needed, Elaine nods and gets up quickly, grabbing her stuff and heading back out to give the pair space to discuss this privately. He nods and focuses his attention on Mackenzie. “Hey, it’s gonna be all right. I’m right here, I’ve got you.”

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Celestia examined Isaac for a moment, forcing herself not to react to the vaccinations. Small puffs of air, exactly as she'd been told. But still, slightly jarring. She blinked. Most qualified to help her...

"Yes, sir, that is how it seems," she said, nodding once. "Thank you, sir."

Tayen buried her face in her cousin's shoulder, wrapping her arms tightly around him and hugging him as close as she could. She hated remembering. Hated remembering.

Hated remembering how broken he was looking down at her.

Hated remembering that fear that she'd barely managed to register as her eyes were closing.

Hated remembering Ziva's face at her funeral before she'd gone onto whatever afterlife she'd gone to that she just couldn't fucking remember.

"I-I'm so-sor-ry..." She sniffled, trying to control herself. "I'm s-s-sorr-sorry..."

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Celestia nodded her greetings to the adults silently. She trembled a little, then quickly reigned in her fear. No. That was weakness.

Mackenzie winced, shaking her head to herself. Yikes. Brynn stepped closer to them, keeping her eyes down.

That could’ve been her. Long ago, that could’ve then her. Her brother. Her mom. Any of them…

Alfonso tensed, completely freezing at the words. It wasn’t the first time he’d heard them, it wasn’t, but it always… always caught him off guard. It wasn’t something Burke had ever said to him. He wasn’t used to it.

Tayen stared at the PADD in front of her. How long had she been sitting there? She’d… she’d done something wrong again. Again. She was always doing something wrong. She was always finding something wrong.

There was always something new that was just wrong since she’d come back…

Grayson squeezes her hand, looking at her quickly, gently turning her to him. “Hey. Mackenzie’s like us. Came from the same thing you and I did. My mama’s one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. And…”

He looks around conspiratorially, leaning in and stage-whispering. “My dad’s really, really stupid. I promise you there is nothing intimidating or scary about him besides his height. When we get to the Orville, I’ll show you the giant dent he made in a doorway from one time he was in so much of a rush to see a guy who was flirting with his cousin, he completely forgot to duck.”

He pulls back and smiles at her, meeting her eyes, making sure she’s good first.

Hannah finishes cleaning up from the all-out anarchy of earlier, pausing, going over to check on Tayen. “Hey.”

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Mackenzie gently took James' hand, leaning against him a little. "Tonight has been... very eventful." She sighed softly. "At least the bastard's finally dead."

Tayen stuck her tongue out at Hannah, laughing. "Yeah, yeah, whatever. But I'm not sure if I should be offended that I've been compared to the 'It's Time For Angie's Opinion' incident or not."

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Mackenzie wrinkled her nose, stretching up to kiss him but wincing instead. “Ow. Not perfect, but healed enough to function.” She smiled. “Come on. Looks like they’re probably back in our quarters by now. Let’s go see how they’re doing, baby.”

“Ouch,” Aoife snickered.

“I will be the first to admit that I absolutely adore both my boyfriend and my daughter,” Tayen laughed.

James pouts when she winces like that, worried, but nodding and following her on out. Claire looks over. “Hey– HEY– and they’re gone.” She sighs. “I was going to scan them but apparently that’ll wait.”

“I mean, I love my son, but holy shit, Tayen,” Hannah laughs, rolling her eyes and shaking her head. “It’s like Angie when that whole incident with body switching happened. It’s 24/7 nonstop I-will-not-shut-up levels, and I love you to death but whoo, you do not get to complain about James and Mackenzie.”

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Mackenzie kissed the top of his head. "Anytime, sweetheart. I mean it." She smiled, chuckling softly as Momo awoke from her nap and realized they were there. The cat walked over and jumped up, pawing at Grayson's hand.

Meanwhile, in sickbay...

Tayen finally pried herself away from Duke, sniffling. She took a deep breath. "Okay. Okay, someone quiz me. I don't really trust that I do remember everything."

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Mackenzie smiled softly. “Call up your friends, dilly, dilly, set them to work… Some to the plough, dilly dilly, some to the fork…”

“Some to the hay, dilly dilly, some to thresh corn… Whilst you and I, dilly dilly, keep ourselves warm… Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly, lavender’s green… When you are King, dilly dilly, I shall be Queen…”

As she finished the song, she looked down at him, squeezing his shoulder. “Feeling any better, sweetheart?”

Grayson sniffles and nods, still cuddled close to her but smiling a little bit, taking deep breaths, calming down. “Thanks, mom.”

It’s still kind of… nice, he thinks, to say that, to mean that. It feels comforting, it feels… different, compared to so much in his life, so much that has come to happen to him, this is just… nice.

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"Oh, really?" Wil smirked at Penelope, then looked up, wrinkling his nose at Hannah. "I have enough self control. I'm not doing anything I shouldn't do. Zero strenuous physical activity until I'm healed. I know how that works, it's not my first time being seriously injured."

Tayen laughed at Hannah's reaction, shooting little finger guns at Penelope. "Sometimes it's the best medicine."

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Wil pouted. “It’s not like I meant to!” He sighed heavily, looking over at the door quickly when it opened. His eyes widened slightly.

Oh.

Oh boy.

Oh God there were way too many attractive people on this ship.

He cleared his throat, turning over slowly as not to aggravate his injury (while shooting Hannah a look that almost said “See, I’m learning”), standing up.

“Uh… hi.” Then he paused, holding up a hand. “Back up. What’d you say about your girlfriend?”

Hannah chuckles. “Not gonna lie, I expected more confusion at the sound effects.”

Penelope, who’d kinda been chewing on her finger for a moment while looking him over, blinks. “Huh? Ohhh, riiiight. Did they tell ya yet that a number of different alternate universes know each other’s universes as TV shows? Including you and me. Well, mine’s from a movie, but I digress. Anyways, my girlfriend knows lots about you, but she left off that you’re cute.”