The BLTS Archive - Crossroads: Ezri
by Katrine Myra (kat@saers.com)

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Disclaimer: If I owned Trek, would Data still be dead? 'Nuff said. I
make no money off of this. Wish I did, etc.

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"NO! I can't! I don't want to!" Ezri screamed, knocking the hypo-spray
out of the surgeon's hands. "You can't force me!"

The surgeon smiled weakly. "No," he said, "we can't. But if Dax
dies..." He indicated the symbiont, spasming in its clammy glass cage
"there will be a trial."

Ezri swallowed, her eyes drawn to the slug-like creature with no eyes,
somehow watching her still. Were there words, softly spoken in her
head? She heard no pleading. Only this - the image that remained with
her, in later nightmares - the cool darkness of the shuttle, and Dax,
slowly dying.

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The End