Current Title: They
Rating: T (Note: no language or nudity)
Summary: Rommie vanishes for a month and refuses to tell anyone where she was, even her captain. (Rommie/Dylan)
Disclaimer: I am merely playing with the show. Don't own it. Thanks for not sueing. :)
Author's Note:
I'll try to update with some regularity, but I can't promise that. A little thing called life has been yanking me around lately, most recently with a rather painful virus.
I specify "current title" for a reason; feel free to offer suggestions.
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Enjoy!
-MistiWhitesun
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Captain Dylan Hunt paced his briefing room. "Where in the galaxy have you been?"
Rommie's expression was strangely grave; strained. "I have been… incapacitated. I've returned as soon as I became able, Sir."
"What happened!"
She stiffened. "Please don't make that an order, Dylan. I'm not ready…"
Even the avatar's voice wasn't quite right. It was… pained, somehow. He knew that only something major could keep Rommie AWOL for a month.
That she refused to tell him that something major worried him.
"Is it a danger to Andromeda?"
She blinked slowly, then shook her head. "No."
He sighed in frustration. "Fine. Keep your secret for now—but I won't hold off forever. Got it?"
Rommie nodded. Her actions had a slowness about them that bothered him, far different from her normal High Guard promptness.
"Dismissed."
Still oddly slowed, she obeyed. He waited till the door closed behind her. "Andromeda, what's wrong with your avatar?"
The mainframe appeared on a nearby viewscreen. "I'm not sure, Dylan. She is my avatar, but she's keeping whatever happened to herself. And whatever happened, it's done something to her that separates her from the rest of me." The AI hesitated. "She won't let me get a complete scan, either."
"This isn't right," he muttered, standing and staring at the wall. "What the heck happened to you, Rommie?"
"I don't know, Sir."
He sighed again. "Thank you, Andromeda. That will be all."
The mainframe vanished, but Dylan knew she watched him still, as she watched and was every part of herself, this ship. His ship.
And something had scarred his ship's avatar.
Captain Hunt struck the wall.