Shock of Realisation

<snip> "Can one of you two Jessies please tell me what's going on?" <end snip>Both ignored Chrizla; one because she didn't hear, the other because she was racking her brain to come up with some way of avoiding simultaneously committing both suicide and murder.AlphaFinally, after what seemed like a lifetime, but in reality was more like  about ten seconds, Jessie made up her mind. There was just one option available. She had only a fifty/fifty chance of surviving, but it wasn't like she had much else to lose."Uh... Birdie..." She got no further. The other Jessie jerked as though she'd been shot, and the gun went flying out of her hand.(... into the airlock of the Wyvern, where it hit Chrizla, leaving him with a nasty bruise - an inch lower and it would've been a black eye.)BetaBirdie. No-one had called her that since before Nick died. Finally, something clicked in her memory, and Jessie stared at her other self in disbelief. This was far worse than when she'd almost killed Sandra, who had been like a sister to her and was her first officer at the time. Far, far worse.No. She couldn't have. She couldn't possibly...Overcome with horror at what she'd almost done, Jessie collapsed to the floor, screaming hysterically.<Tag Chrizla (sorry about that), Vanessa, the Pink Tree, or Jessie... no, wait, that's me>