Electra walked down the corridor toward the chamber she shared with her little sister when she wasn't technically on-duty, and running her hand through her long, dark brown hair and rubbing the exhaustion from her eyes. She was happy that she would have an entire sec-end off to laze-about . . . Unless an emergency arrived. But  as she reached her chamber she could hear a faint murmuring and recognized it as screams distorted by the metal door. Without thought, she drew her blaster and entered.
     "No! No-Stop! Stop! PLEASE!!!" came the screams.
     Electra turned on the chamber lights and realized that Noel was again having a nightmare. Holstering her blaster, she went to her thirteen year old sister and gently touched her exposed shoulder.
     "Noel . . ." she whispered softly.
     Noel turned toward Electra, eyes filled with tears, fears and troubled sleep. Electra brushed a strand of dark brown hair away from her sister's troubled brow.
     "I saw him again!" she began to cry, "Randye was here tearing at my clothes, forcing me to the ground and . . ."
     "I know, honey, it's all right."
     Noel sat up and embraced Electra. "Why won't the memories go away? We're not on Hadesonia anymore . . . But they won't go away! I keep reliving that night - and I keep seeing father and being at his funeral Pyre. I sometimes see mother and Taberan Lork punishing us . . . When will it all go away?"
     Gently, Electra took her sister's hands in her own, and looked into her green eyes. "I don't know if it'll ever go away, but I want you to realize that Randye can never hurt you again."
        "You've said that before and I understand that he couldn't find us out here with this Fleet, but he's out there somewhere . . . and as long as he's alive I'll always feel like he's right around the corner waiting to jump me again . . ." Once again her tears came.
     "Noel . . ." Electra whispered, again embracing her little sister and sighing fearfully, "There's something I never told you . . . There is a reason why Randye can never hurt you again . . . I . . ." She stopped for a moment before her next words . . . The truth she had never told . . . "I killed him . . ."
     Noel pulled away to look into her sister's face -  and older mirror image of herself. "You what?" she asked in disbelief.
     The look of shock that crossed Noel face stunned Electra. What would her sister think of her now?
     "You killed him?" Noel echoed just above a whisper. "You did that to protect me?" she asked, her sparkling, green eyes wide with admiration and love.
     "You're my little sister," Electra replied, "I wasn't going to let anyone hurt you and get away with it."
 "    Oh-Electra, thank you . . . thank you . . . "Tears were again glimmering in Noel's eyes as she threw herself into Electra's arms.
     Electra knew it wouldn't stop the memories, but she had the hope that her reluctant revelation would help Noel eventually overcome her fear of strangers -  now that she knew to what extent her sister would go to protect her.
     "Now," began Electra as she guided her sister back to her bed and laying her down, "I want you to try to go back to sleep, okay?"
     "Okay," she replied with a peaceful smile.
     Electra took one more look at her little angel before leaving to get ready for bed herself and wondered how her mother could have rejected such a sweet, loving child as Noel . . . All Electra knew was that Noel was her child since birth and she would do anything to keep her happy and safe. There would be no more Randyes, or Phillidias, or Taberans in her life . . . The only thing missing was a father . . . Sadly, she gazed out the portal. Nico was out there somewhere and one day they'd be together again as the family they were meant to be . . . She had to believe that . . . If only that day were tomorrow, she thought, tears misting her own eyes.