Chiana has hope that John will return. She decides to land at the hidden Nabari base, waiting for Setig's recognizance. She paces nervously. It has only been a few Microts, they stretch into an eternity. She tries to stop her mind from turning.

"If he were alright he would have Commed us. Why didn't he come straight to Moya?" she finds herself gasping for her breath wishing, hoping for his return. "The prowler could be the Peacekeepers on a stealth mission." She tells herself. suddenly she gets a headache from all the thinking. She knows what she has to do.

Chiana leaves command and walks to base Command. The resistance has taken up residence. Finally able to reorganize after the blow they felt from Peacekeeper presence. Still much has to be done. Tec's scurry about to panels that are half constructed. Wires hang loose. Sparks fly from some of the ancient abandoned equipment.

She waits here. Amidst the chaos, she finds her mind has stopped worrying. She sighs with relief that soon she may see John. At least if he Comms it will be monitored from this new local. She will know.

As she leans against a wall looking at the activity, she suddenly sees Setig enter Command. "Setig!" She quickly goes to him and places her hand on his arm. "John! What did you find out?" She says anxiously.

"Ah." Setig answers. "I did not know you had landed here. I was coming to Comm you."

"Setig! What happened? Did you find him?" She is near tears asking.

"I just brought him here." He begins to answer.

"Where?" She says anxiously.

"He crashed his prowler. He is injured, in the Med bay." He isn't finished speaking to her. She is already gone. "Wait Lady Chiana!"

Chiana has already run down the long passageway. Her heart and her breath take over her being, propelling her to him. When she sees him on the gurney, her heart leaps.

As she approaches him, her heart stops. "John!" She gasps. She moves to embrace him. He is covered in blood, his head, his neck. A Peacekeeper suit of battle armor lies in the corner.

The Med tech stops her. "Lady Chiana." His injuries are serious. The Med tech runs a scan.

"Setig said he crashed." She says solemnly looking down at him.

"More than that. He has been tortured. The cut on his neck. And he has been struck with something here." The Med tech points to John's temple. "Besides, Setig found him tied to his crashed prowler."

She takes John's hand, kisses it then holds it to her cheek. "Who could have done this?" She begins to cry at his condition.

"I don't know Lady Chiana. Setig is returning to where he was found. Perhaps he will learn." The Med tech tells her.

Chiana stands by John while the Med tech treats his wounds. Finally, the Med tech brings her a chair. Many long hours pass. Still John lies unconscious. She falls asleep in the chair and passes the night there. The Med tech comes to her in the morning and places his hand on her shoulder waking her.

"Please Lady Chiana." He says caringly. "we must accept that he is in a coma. You can do nothing for him here. Please go back to your quarters. I will tell you as soon as he wakes."

Chiana kisses John and holds his hand to her breast. "I'll be back as soon as I eat something John." Her tears trickle down her face. She no longer notices them, as though they are normal.

She leaves the med bay and walks slowly back to Mokan's ship. As she reaches it, her heart is heavy. She stops in the passageway before the hatch. She tries not to think of her life without John. Who would have thought he would be taken from her in a prowler crash then tortured.

"Damn bastard!" She yells and hits her hand on the wall. "When I find out who did this to him! He's dead!"

She enters Mokan's ship then remembers the other bastard that tried to destroy John. Chiana walks down the passageway to Captain Shelan's cell. She is suddenly motivated to question him. It will keep her mind from thinking what may be John's fate. Here is the man who has tried to destroy him. He will pay!

She suddenly stops when she sees him. She hesitates. Phillip is still unaware of her standing there. His head is lowered, eyes closed. His hand is held out to something unseen. She wonders what it means.

"What are you doing?" she asks.

Phillip sighs and looks up at her. She can see his tearstained eyes. She hadn't noticed before the sadness behind his eyes. He sniffs and wipes his face with his hand.

"I was uh, I was asking for forgiveness for hurting you and Crichton." His voice cracks. He looks up at her with sad eyes.

She is taken aback. She holds back the gasp that would show her reaction. She swallows. "Asking forgiveness? From who?"

Phillip stands and moves toward the bars. He grasps the bars with his cuffed hands and leans his head wearily against them. "When I accused Crichton of tricking you into your marriage, when I told him Aeryn Sun was still alive, he called on his god that it were still true."

Chiana's heart feels a dagger of ice pierce it. Her heart beats slowly as though trying to cease. Her breathing stops as she hears what Phillip is saying. She feels numb from the revelation. She tries to breathe to ask another question, but cannot.

"I went to Mokan's healer to ask her where Crichton was hiding. A poisonous animal bit me. I died." He shows her the mark on his hand.

She looks to see the bite. She can barely focus on it.

"When I died, I traveled to a place where I saw an evil that would imprison me. I experienced something there, I can't describe. Only know that I made the decision that I wanted to live." Phillip looks at Chiana, her life he wishes to be with his. His desire is to cleanse himself from the evil that is his life. If he can only be worthy of her. "I called on the name of Crichton's god." He lowers his head.

Chiana looks at him curiously. She looks at the bite again then at him, his eyes. She suddenly sees that his life has seen nothing but misery. This is a side of him that she never would have thought existed. "You died?" She asks. "The healer woman, she brought you back?"

"No." Phillip knows that whatever fate is his, he deserves death. He places no blame. He knows it is his comeuppance. "She left me to die on her floor." He swallows. He cannot hold his tears. They fall silently as he speaks. "But when I called on Lord Crichton's god, he brought me back!"

Phillip sobs and turns from her, no longer able to stand the pain he is feeling. To love her so much yet harboring such evil within himself that it would destroy her. He has lost all hope of ever being worthy of her.

Chiana is dumbstruck by his pain. That this could be happening to him. It catches her off guard. She feels drawn to him. She opens the bars and enters. She takes the keys and removes his cuffs then softly puts her hands around his waist. She rests her head on his chest.

Phillip embraces her. He lowers his head to her shoulder and sobs. All that he ever could be, ever hope to be is contained in this woman. He prays again in earnest. This time for healing.