Standard Disclaimer: I don't own SeaQuest and make no profit from writing fanficiton.

SCENE ONE

The Seaquest cruised through the water at a regular speed. As it was late in the evening, the majority of the crew were asleep.

At this time the boat was usually peaceful. But tonight the halls had become eerie with the haunting sounds of painful moaning which escaped many of the rooms.

In the cabin that belonged to Lucas and Tony, an onlooker would be suprised to notice that both of them were tossing and turning feverishly, neither waking the other up.

Lucas' face was wet with tears as he lay on his back, hands raised, silently attempting to fend off an unseen attacker.

SCENE TWO

The crew ate in the mess hall quietly. Lucas walked toward Tony, Brody, Lonnie and Tim, holding a tray of food. Tony looked up at him and noticed how tired he looked.

"You not sleeping too well either, kid?" he commented through a mouth full of food.

Lucas sighed and sat down heavily, noticing the somber looks from his friends. They all chewed silently and glumly.

"I had the worst nightmare last night," Lucas almost whispered.

"Yeah? What was yours about?" Tim asked him.

Lucas stared at him for a few seconds, suprised and a bit upset by the question. He swallowed heavily.

He opened his mouth to give a response but instead it resulted in his jaw opening up and down.

"It's alright," Lonnie assured him, "We all had nightmares too."

"Doctor Smith said its something to do with where we are in the ocean," Brody said unexcitedly as he chewed on his noodles, "Something about left over energies filtering into the boat."

"Sounds kinda cool," Lucas commented.

"Sounds kinda creepy," Tony stated, "I just can't wait 'til we get out of here."

With that, Tony threw down his fork and got up with his plate. Lucas watched him leave and then got up too.

"Yeah, I'm not hungry either. I'll see you guys later,"

Lucas walked slowly over to the mess bin and chucked out the containers for his food before leaving the mess hall.

SCENE THREE

Lucas sat quietly on the edge of the moonpool to talk to Darwin.

"You having nightmares too, Darwin?" Lucas asked.

"Bad energy. Hurt people sleeping." Darwin told him.

"It's gunna hurt us, Darwin?" Lucas asked.

"Not physically," Lucas spun around at the voice behind him. It was Dr Smith.

"Well then how will it hurt us?" Lucas asked her.

She pulled her shoulders right up to her cheakbones in a typical shrug, "Its hard to say. It seems like there are spirits on the boat."

"You mean like this place is haunted now?" Lucas gave her a half grin.

"Well, it was," she told him.

"So... it's not anymore."

"Well, Captain Bridger ordered energy readings to be taken throughout the boat."

Lucas looked hurt, "How come I didnt know about this?"

"Well, Lucas you havent exactly been on the planet lately."

Lucas stood up completly, "I've been tired. I havent been sleeping."

"I know," she said gently, trying to calm him, "I didnt say it was your fault."

Lucas looked away, upset, "But, Lucas, he's been worried about you."

"Well he hasnt come to see me about it," Lucas grumbled, sitting back down onto the edge of the moonpool."

"He's been busy," Wendy tried to defend him.

"Bridger love Lucas," Darwin told him.

Lucas smiled softly at Darwin, "Thanks Darwin."

"Were passing through the area where the energy was coming from." Wendy told him, "So hopefully things will start improving."

SCENE FOUR

Lucas sat up with a start crying hysterically and sweating profusely.

"Lucas! It's alright. Its alright. Calm down." Captain Bridger grabbed Lucas' shoulders tightly to steady him and calm him as his hysteria slowly ebbed away.

Lucas' crying slowly reduced to heavy gasps. He was still white and his face was a mask of desperate fear.

"It's okay, It's okay." Bridger kept saying.

"She's hurting me." Lucas sobbed.

"She's not here Lucas," Wendy's gentle voice drifted over to him.

Bridger gave her a funny look but then got the hint and focused back on Lucas, "Thats right Lucas. No ones going to hurt you."

Lucas looked around and realised that he was in a well light area of med bay, sitting up on a cot with his legs stretched out straight in front of him. Wendy stood behind Bridger as he comforted Lucas.

Once Bridger was certain that Lucas was completely awake, he let go of his shoulders and brushed his wet hair off his face. Lucas put his hands behind him to keep himself propped up.

"What am I doing here?" Lucas asked.

"You wouldnt wake up," Bridger told him.

"Weren't you guys busy having nightmares?" Lucas asked.

Bridger and Wendy looked at each other. It was Wendy who answered, "No." she said simply.

"No," she said, then quickly, "But we're sure there's nothing wrong with you, its probably because your over tired."

Lucas looked quite frightened, "But isnt everyone else over tired?"

"You're still very young, Lucas." she answered. "It probably affects you more so."

"Well when will I stop having nightmares?" Lucas asked.

"They should stop quickly but we can help you get rid of them straight away if you tell us what they're about." Wendy told him.

Lucas looked at her, trying to speak. Wendy walked closer. "Why dont you tell us how these got here?"

She gestered to a series of odd looking bruises covering Lucas' thighs.

Lucas looked down at his legs and jerked his head back, beginning to panic.

"Oh my God! She's real! She's real!" Lucas started wailing and hyperventalating severly.

Bridger grabbed him again, "Lucas! She's not going to hurt you I promise."

But Lucas continued to hyperventilate and panic. Bridger lay him down on the cot properly. Wendy came around to Lucas with a syringe.

"No! No!" he cried, "Please don't" he started crying, "Please I dont want to go to sleep,"

"This wont put you to sleep," she assured him.

Lucas jerked around anyway as she put the needle into his vein and Bridger had to hold him still. The Captain stroked his sweaty hair gently until Lucas stopped hyperventilating.

"It's all going to be okay," Bridger assured him.

SCENE FIVE

The bridge crew was in a panic as everyone rushed to their stations.

"Darnlin!" A man called as he walked up to the centre of the bridge.

"Yes, sir!" another man we've never seen before answered.

"Have you found the problem?"

"Ah, no sir. But it looks like our systems are malfunctioning from the torpedo hit."

As the camera pans around the bridge it becomes apparent that none of the crew are the typical SeaQuest crew. Yet it is the SeaQuest bridge.

"Captain!" A women called to him. The man in the centre of the bridge turned around.

"We've got a call from engineering. This systems are fixing themselves."

"The systems dont fix themselves, Commander. Get our engineer up here."

The engineer hurried up to the bridge. She is also another woman we have never seen before.

"Sir," she said relieved, "The systems are fixed. There was just an error in one of the drives."

The Captain nodded. "Good work. How did you find the problem."

"That, ah, young boy that works down there helped me fix it."

The crew went silent. The Captain turned and stared at her.

"What young boy?"

She looked to the side, a bit worried and hoping she hadnt given away a stowaway, "Um, he said his name was Lucas."

Some of the crews mouths dropped opnen.

The Captain looked shell shocked. "Alright, thankyou."

She nodded slowly and left. The Captain stayed quiet.

"Sir," the Commander came up to him, "You dont think she means Lucas Wolenczak. One of the original crew? I mean I knew there were rumours about him haunting the ship after all this time but.."

"Its absurd," the Captain said.

The crew looked at him. "But I guess we can thank Lucas for helping out again. Even though he hasnt lived on this ship for nearly fifty years."

SCENE SIX

Tony walked towards Lucas slowly, watching him carefully. He had seen Lucas' hysteria earlier and was growing increasingly concerned.

Lucas lay quitely on the bed, his muscles were still very tense and none of his usual colour had returned to his face.

Bridger still sat with him. But Wendy had left to do some more work.

"How's he doing, Captain?"

Bridger looked up quickly. "He's frightened." He looked down at Lucas hoping that he wasn't too humiliated by the statement. But it looked as though Lucas was too petrified to care.

As Tony moved closer to Lucas he jumped slightly but quickly greeted Tony with relief, "Tony!" Lucas exclaimed.

To Tony's absolute surprised Lucas sat up and darted forwards to grab Tony around the waist.

"Whoa," he looked at Lucas who was still shaking and realised how badly frightened his friend really was. He slowly put his arms around Lucas to hug him back.

"You're safe. Okay?" he told Lucas. Lucas kept holding onto him. Tony was getting quite worried by how much Lucas was shaking.

He looked at Bridger with a completely miffed look in his eye. But Bridger just returned his stare with a concerned look.

Wendy walked back in, wearing her white coat. Tony looked at her for an explanation for Lucas' behaviour but received none. Neither Bridger nor Wendy even seemed surprised to see Lucas acting so strange.

"Doc," Tony called to her.

She looked up at him, scanning his mind to find his question, "I guess you could say there is something physically wrong with him."

The two men in the room looked at her oddly, "That was your question wasn't it?" she asked Tony, "Is there anything physically wrong?"

She continued as their confused expressions faded, "Fear can cause physical side effects," she explained, "I gave something to try to ease the excessive levels of adrenalin in Lucas' blood but its taking affect very slowly."

Tony began to catch on to what was happening, "He's still having the nightmares?"

Wendy nodded, "And it seems their getting more..."

"Real..." Lucas' voice shook.

"No." Wendy told him firmly, "Just more physical."

Lucas pulled away from Tony and looked behind him fearfully. The cot was out in the center of med bay.

"Would you like the bed pushed up against a wall?" Wendy asked sensing his fear.

Lucas nodded. He felt like he had just seen a really scary film and couldn't get the images out of his head. Only this time it was real. He couldn't remember being more afraid in his life.

Tony stepped back as Bridger and Wendy pushed the head of his cot towards a nearby wall.

Bridger stepped back a bit. "No!" Lucas cried, "Don't leave me!"

The Captain came forward again to hug Lucas, "It's alright I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere."

Lucas kept holding the Captain so tightly that he couldn't turn around to look at Wendy. Eventually he loosened himself enough to turn and ask the question on his lips.

"Do you know what's happening?"

"Yeah," Tony added, "How come this is happening to Lucas and no one else?"

Wendy shook her head, "It seems like one of the spirits.. or whatever it is has latched on to Lucas and doesn't want to let go. I guess it'll need a bit more persuasion."

Lucas shivered slightly, "That's so creepy."

"So how we going to do that?" Tony asked.

Wendy turned to Lucas who was still sitting next to Captain Bridger, "Can you tell us about what's happening Lucas."

Lucas pushed his lips together to try to keep from crying. But tears leaked out from under his eyes anyway. So he took a deep breath to control himself, "It's a monster." He told her, his voice stronger than expected.

"There's a monster, who... comes into me, at night.. and attacks me."

"Attacks you?" Wendy asked. "How?"

"She... she gets on top of me.." Lucas voice started to waiver.

"She? How do you know it's a she?" Wendy asked.

Lucas squeezed his eyes shut, getting close to hysteria again. Bridger put another arm around him. "I don't want to think about this.."

"Lucas.."

"No! I can't!"

Wendy went to push him further but Tony interrupted, "I think he's too scared," he told her sympathetically.

In spite of himself, Lucas didn't want to admit that he was scared, "I.." he sighed heavily, and pushed a hand up against his face.

Wendy sighed. "Alright," she conceded, "We'll wait until the morning."

They all nodded in agreement.

"You.. are you.." Lucas started to ask, "I don't want to be alone."

"That's alright." Bridger told him, "I'll stay with you."

Lucas nodded, "But I don't want to go to sleep."

"Its alright, " Bridger told him gently, "You don't have to sleep."

"I guess I'll stay too," Tony said. Bridger looked up at him, "Well its not like I'm going to be able to sleep anyway."

Lucas looked up and smiled at him, happy that there was going to be more than one person with him. It made him feel that little bit safer.

Wendy walked back over with some blankets and gave them to Lucas. "I'll see you all in the morning." she told them.

SCENE SEVEN

"So where is Lucas Wolenczak now?" the young Ensign tagged behind the Commander while she set up the ward room for a debriefing on the boats near sinking.

"I assume he's living his life somewhere.. probably retired by now," she answered.

"He's not dead?" the younger woman asked in surprise.

"Oh no. I don't think so. I guess we could find out though," the friendly Commander told her.

"I don't get it. How can he be haunting the boat if he's not dead?"

"They don't have to be dead," the Captain told her as he walked in, "A lot of spirits are just left over energies. This place probably made a hell of an impact on him as a young boy, and he was... never able to leave. So to speak."

"Okay, let me get this straight."

The Captain and Commander both waited patiently.

"He didn't die on the boat," she confirmed.

"No."

"He didn't even die at the age that he's been seen as," she confirmed

"No," the Commander said.

"He died in his mid-twenties," the Captain told her. The Commander looked at him in surprise.

"It's on record," he explained

"So his *is* dead." the Ensign said.

"Yeah.. but he died as a man. The Lucas Wolenczak haunting SeaQuest is still a teenage boy," the Commander pointed out.

"Look," the Captain sighed, "I wouldn't get so freaked out about this. Firstly, its just a folktale anyway."

"Captain he's saved the boat on several occasions! People have *seen* him!" the young Ensign protested.

The Captain held his hand up to shut her up. "And secondly, this is a professional navy vessel. I don't want to hear anymore about it."

SCENE EIGHT

The entire crew filed onto the bridge. The Bridge was large but it was fairly packed as the entire two hundred crewmembers gathered around.

Wendy stood aside near the Captain's chair, whilst Captain Bridger stood up and leaned against a consul. Lucas was standing quietly in the corner. He looked young, pale and exhausted. Nathan walked over to him and patted his back affectionately as he sat down amongst the crew.

Once everyone had arrived, Captain Bridger addressed them, "You've all been through a very difficult and unusual time lately. Dr Smith tells us that it seems like it should be over permanently," he looked at Lucas, "For those of us that have been relieved of this already."

He continued, turning around to begin pacing, "If you wish to partake in individual counseling you are most welcome. Talk to each other. Do whatever you need to do."

He paused for a few minutes, "Unfortunately, we need you to talk about what sought of dreams you had, so that we can, uh, expel any left over energy that may still be on the boat."

He continued, "Mr O'Neill has been able to draw up information on where the SeaQuest was when this began."

He turned around and paced back the other way, "Four days ago, the SeaQuest crossed over the remains of a very old prison. Folktale says that it contained a lot of angry spirits, which came onto the boat and invaded our dreams."

He looked up at his crew, "We are now over three thousand miles away from that location. It appears that the... 'spiritual residue'.." he looked at Dr Smith for confirmation and she nodded, "Has left us because they have no spiritual connection with the boat or its people."

He looked at Wendy as she stood up, and turned back to the crew, "In the meantime, lets get back to work and try to put this behind us."

That signaled the end of his speech and the crew slowly began to leave. Lucas still stood in the corner, looking unhappy.

"Dr Smith," Tim came up to the head of the bridge, "What about Lucas?"

"We're taking care of him," Bridger assured him.

Wendy took a deep breath, "Lets meet in the ward room. We'll discuss Lucas there."

Bridger walked over to Lucas and put his arm around his shoulders, "Come on, kid. Let's get this sorted out."

SCENE NINE

Selected members of the senior crew who regard themselves as Lucas' friends are seated in the ward room are listening to Dr Smith speak.

"I figure that Lucas has a spiritual connection with the boat, and that's why the spirit that was attracted to him has stayed."

"Um, so why does Lucas have a, ah... 'spiritual connection' with the boat?" Tony asked.

Lucas looked at her as well, "Yeah. I don't get it."

She looked around at the crew. They didn't seem to be accepting what she told them.

"I don't really get it either, Lucas," but you for some reason feel very at home here." she explained.

"So does everyone else," Lucas told her.

"Yeah, we live here of course we feel at home here," Lonnie told her.

"What I'm interested in is why this particular spirit was connected to Lucas," Tim queried.

"I think only Lucas can tell us that," Wendy said gently.

Lucas screwed his face up, "But I don't know that either!"

...TBC (still have to convert from script format)

Also, I think the entire story needs to be cleaned up..