A/N: Here's the next day. Thanks for reading.


Day Two

Day two feels like day one because they don't bother sleeping. They stay at their computers, working. Neither felt like going to bed nor being alone. In time, Liam dozes off at his desk, Darius holding back a chuckle as the drool begins almost immediately. The young man is tired.

Eventually, Darius too falls asleep because even though he doesn't sleep, his body does.

They are both woken abruptly by Liam's shout. Liam finds himself suddenly on the floor, chair tipped over. Darius stands, immediately at alert.

"What happened," Darius asks, eyes darting about looking for danger.

"Nothing," Liam swallows and forces himself into a sitting position. "Just a dream or nightmare, maybe."

"A dream?" Darius gives him an incredulous look.

"Or a nightmare."

"Well, which was it?"

"Why do you care?" Liam can't help but fight back against Darius' pushing. It's too familiar of his early interactions with the man.

"It knocked you out of your chair. It must've upset you." Darius shrugs his shoulders. Feelings like these are tricky for him, uncomfortable but he cares about Liam.

"I think it was about Salvation, about space. You were there."

"I was?"

"You had longer hair and more of a beard and a sword, but it was electric."

"Like a lightsaber?"

"Something like that. You pronounced yourself king, the space king and kept handing out really odd rulings."

"Like?"

"I don't know." Liam shakes his head, still parsing through dream and reality. "I can't remember. It's kind of fuzzy. But then we got into a fight, a sword fight, and you nearly killed me. Then you said you were my father."

"Really?" Darius raises an eyebrow.

"I never said it made sense."

"I get the Star Wars bit. We did have it running in the background last night, but space king?"

"Oh, um…" Liam pauses. "When Grace and I found the Salvation I thought you built it to play space king." Liam looks away.

"Space king?"

"We had no idea what was going on." Liam gives a helpless shrug.

"I know but space king? Please, there's no way I'd settle for anything less than master of the universe," Darius adds with a smile.