-1Chapter 4
"Anything take your fancy Rei?" Felix asked.
"I aint sure, doesn't look like anything's worth our money. I mean, look at that piece a gosa!". He pointed to a ship that looked like it wouldn't fly two feet without crashing and burning.
"Do you really think this was the place to look?".
She had a valid point. This place didn't deserve the title shipyard. It was more like scrap yard, with pieces of dead ship and rusting shuttles all over the place.
"This place is a goldmine, Flick, Just trust me". He grabbed her softly from behind with his hands on her hips. He pulled her close and kissed her cheek.
"I do trust you, I just don't know what you expect to find". He smiled and added wink.
"We'll find somthin' pretty girl, you can count on it."
After another hour of searching the "salesmen" came up to them.
"Find anything you like, sir?."
"Nope. It aint like you got a huge selection.", Reign said, disappointment in his voice.
"If you tell me what your looking for, perhaps I could help you young man". The man had no right to call him young man, he wasn't much older than Reign, or he could have been but looked really good for his age.
"We lookin' for a ship. A bonafide flying spaceship and everything, not spare parts."
"Why didn't you say so, I got the perfect thing.", The salesman reached into his jacket, Felix and Reign both instinctively went for their guns but were relieved to see the man pull out a radio. "Why so nervous?", he wasn't expecting an answer. He pressed the button on the side of the radio. "Gee, get the cart out here, I'm in section 4." He let go of the button and gave the couple a smile, "He'll be here in a minute".
"What's the need of this cart?, Felix asked.
"Well, I've got one ship, fully loaded, shuttles and everything. It's just it's a bit of a drive though. About five or ten minutes away." Felix added a nod of acceptance. A few minutes later a quad bike arrived with a small metallic trailer.
"Oh you have got to be joking!", Reign shouted over the spluttering of the bikes engine. He turned the salesman." Please say you're joking." The salesmen shook his head.
"After you", he said. Felix and Reign got into the trailer. It was extremely uncomfortable. Felix hung onto Reigns leg, trying not to fly out of the cart. Reign was very annoyed at the salesman sat behind the man driving the vehicle and was obviously more comfortable than Reign and Felix. It took ten minutes or so to get to the ship, and what a ship she was.
"Oh my…… Look at her!", Reign looked at Felix. She was silent, she couldn't take her eyes of the ship. "She's a beauty aint she Flick". Felix gave a nod, she was completely in awe of the ship.
"She's a firefly class, she isn't big or strong. But she's fast so she'll get you where you need to go. Care to take a look inside".
The salesman didn't need an answer, Reign and Felix started walking toward her. They had both fallen in love for the second time that week.
Inside she wasn't huge, but there was space for cargo. Six crew quarters and space for ten guests. Reign didn't hang around with the salesman, as soon as he got into the ship he made his way straight to the cockpit, like any loving pilot, he knew where it was without actually knowing where it was. As soon as he got into the cockpit he jumped into the pilots seat. The controls to him looked extremely inviting. The ships function controls where placed all around him on a console that Reign could only describe as "cool".
"What do you think Mr. Reid?" The salesman had just come through the door behind him. Reign didn't look at him. He had already made his decision, he made it the first moment he saw her. He stood up, walked to the door and leaned through it shouting; "Flick, could you come to the cockpit a second!". Reign looked at the Salesman and smiled, waiting for Felix to arrive. A minuet later she came through the door.
"What's up, Rei."
"It's not Mr. Reid anymore guy. You lookin' at Captain Reid now." He quickly looked around at Felix and saw her positively beaming at him. He added quickly, "If that's O.K with you Flick". She jumped at him and wrapped her arms around him, kissing him for so long, the salesman was starting to feel uncomfortable.
"Is that a deal then?", The salesman added, with a fake cough afterwards. Felix pulled away from Reign and laughed.
"Of course it is". She giggled.
"Great! Excellent!. How much are you willing to pay?" Reign put his hand into his coat pocket and pulled a heavy bag of gold pieces then threw it to the salesman. He looked inside, then looked up smiling throwing out a hand for Reign to shake, which he did. "Congratulations Captain, I hope your very happy together." Felix piped up.
"Thank- you, we will". The Salesman went for the door but pulled himself back.
"The fuel tank is full, all she needs now is a name. Goodbye". The pair chorused their goodbyes glad that the salesman had left.
"Have you checked our quarters yet Flick?".
"Nope, wanna check?" She said Provocatively. Reign got himself up from the seats and left the cockpit, grabbing Felix' hand on the way. Just outside the cockpit there were six ladders, three on each side of the corridor. But these ladders didn't go up, they went down, and as far as Reign could tell, through the floor.
"What in the chin sha dah? How the hell do these work?". Felix sighed and went to the first on the left. She pushed the ladder inwards, revealing a large, square hole in the floor and the rest of the ladder. She climbed down.
"Reign, come look at this!".
He climbed down, inside was a large bedroom, there was space for a king size bed, lockers and anything else you could think of in a bedroom.
"This is huge, I thought we would have to share a single bunk again, but this, this is….. Wow." They stood there for a minuet or two, both wondering about what the finished room would be like. Reign was thinking of simple elegance, Felix was tending towards pink plushies, lamps and hooks on the wall for her guns.
"Well captain, shall we get this bird into the air". Felix said after a while, turning toward the ladder and started climbing. Reign followed her, looking up he stared at her shapely behind. "Are you looking at my ass?". Reign saw no reason to lie.
"Course Flick". He said, unashamedly.
"Ok", she mused.
In the cockpit Reign sat down in the pilots ship. He felt a wave of excitement. He swivelled his chair to face Felix in the co- pilots seat and said;
"Ready?"
"Go for it honey." she replied with a smile. Reign turned back to face the controls. He pressed a sequence of buttons and a low rumbling came from the ships engines. Reign felt his heartbeat, he thought his heart was going to break through his chest, it was a very exiting time for him. "Our own ship" he kept thinking to himself. He tugged at the controls and the ship slowly started to raise herself of the ground.
"Where to first Flick?"
"How about back to the city, I'm sure we could find a crew there.", She replied.
------------------------------------------
The ship was docked at Persephone space dock. Reign had gone looking for crew members. Felix was going to buy the furniture for the bunk. She was looking around the city's shops for the perfect items. She had found a bed, a wardrobe all she needed now was somewhere to put her collection of guns. Well the collection of guns she was planning to get. Reign, meanwhile, wasn't looking too hard for new crew members. What he was looking out for was a ring. A ring for Felix. He had looked around all the jewellery stores and came to the last one in the city. He saw it in the window, it was perfect. Silver ring with an average size diamond. Felix would have killed him if it was too big. She doesn't like to show off. Except her gun skills.
Reign was walking back up the cargo bay door into the ship. Felix was in the cargo bay directing a few deliverymen to their quarters where they would assemble the furniture. She saw him and said; "Rei! Look, the furniture's here.". He didn't say anything, he simply kept smiling and walked toward her, hugged her and kissed her soft cheek. He waited a moment or so for the last of the delivery men to disappear and got down onto one knee. He grabbed her hand gently, and started to speak. "Flick, I know we haven't known each other long, but I really think this is the right thing to do." She had a look of amazement on her face. There eyes were connected, neither could look away. Both of their hearts where beating very fast. Reign reached into his pocket and took the case out and opened it. Showing it to Felix. It was the most beautiful thing in the world, second to only Reign in her opinion. "Will ya do me the pleasure of being my Beautiful wife?". He waited for her to reply, she couldn't reply. A tear crept from her eye and down her cheek. She found her voice.
"Of course Rei!". Reign couldn't believe it, he removed the ring from it case and placed it on her finger and looked up, more tears had escaped. She hauled him to his feet and flung her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply. Neither of them noticed the people stood outside watching and applauding. After a moment or two they withdrew, but kept holding and looking at each other.
"Oh Reign, Thank- you". She said, tearfully, but extremely happy.
"My pleasure Darlin'", He replied, grinning. They both knew it was the right thing to do. There seemed to be a deep connection between them both. If they both weren't so hard they would have called each other there soul mates. They were in love, there was no other words for it.
A thought hit Felix's mind. "My god, there's so much to do. What about the wedding?, who'll come?. Where will it be?. What'll I wear?".
"Don't worry Flick, we'll sort everythin'", He said laughing. "Don't panic pretty girl, there's plenty of time".
-4-