Dark Angel
Chapter 7
Jealousy

Delicious. That was the only word he could describe this pulsing as. It sustained him. As long as it kept calling to him, murmuring to him through vibrations he'd live forever...if this is what one could call living. But this was fine. It was a fine existance, right? Yes. Yes it was. It was perfect. That's what the darkness whispered. It was perfect.

"Ok," Hammer said to himself, wipping sweat from brow and straightening his glasses.

He had almost fully repaired the ship. He'd already replaced the roof from the inside with Tony's help, but now that the heavy lifting was done and Tony had run off to the bar at ten o'clock in the morning to get drunk and grab a bar whore, Hammer could relax and fix some of the broken wiring from the ship's external structure. There was only a little bit left, only a little square of wires to be mended. He easily balanced himself on his heals and made sure the ladder wasn't going to fall of along with him. He loved working with his hands anytime he got that chance and wondered silently why the captain never trusted him enough to let him fix the ship instead of getting deeper into debt with Master Gaignun.

I mean come on! I build an entire A.W.G.S. by myself! He thought, pouting.

Gently, using a heated tool he twisted frayed ends and cracked plastic. It didn't matter anyway. What really mattered was getting the ship fixed before the captain returned. He had been gone a good week and a half now at a Seraphim Sisters memorial and wouldn't be back for a good four more days so he hadn't been there to see the crash that the Little Master's bullets had caused and wouldn't be there to see Hammer fixing it and most importantly, wouldn't know that there had ever been a gigantic hole in the side of his precious Elsa.

"This is the kind of thing I love," Hammer said to himself. "A relaxing day, working on a ship."

He chipped away at a jagged piece of broken ship to find a red wire.

"And no Tony to ruin anything." he sighed happily.

He was almost done repairing a length of blue wire when he heard a loud,

"Oh hi, Hammer!" behind him.

"Hi, Tony." Hammer grumbled, hearing his footsteps up the ladder.

"Hey, Hammer, you'll never guess what happened to me today," He started.

He made his way up the top of the ladder and leaned his upper body against the ship. He stood there and stared at Hammer's back while he talked. "I was in the bar, right? Well this girl was talking to me and smilling at me."

"That's very interesting." Hammer said, sarcastically.

"She was being very friendly, but then I realized she wasn't a girl, she was guy! A drag queen! I think he thought that I was gay!"

Hammer squirmed, "Ahem," he started, clearing his throat, " So, uh, why are you telling me this? Why should I care? I don't care." he pulled at the blue wire.

"What did you have for lunch today?" he asked, trying to change the subject.

"Oh, you don't have to get defensive about it, Hammer..."

"I'm NOT being defensive! What do I care about some gay guy you met, ok? I'm trying to work."

He pushed up his glasses and pressed the tools against the wire.

Tony shrugged, "Oh, I don't mean anything by it, Hammer. I just think it's something we should be able to talk about."

"I dont want to talk about it!" Hammer yelled, exasperated, " Tony, this conversation is over!"

"Yeah but, Hammer-"

"-OVER!"

"Well, ok." Tony said, pushing himself up the rest of the way off the ladder and onto the ship.

"But you know..."

Standing straight up, it was easier to maintain balance and he walked around to the left side of Hammer, and to Hammer's surprise and annoyance, Tony started to sing.

"If you were gay," he began, singing in a goofy tone, "that'd be ok. I mean, 'cus hey, I like you anyway."

Hammer let out an aggrevated sigh, but Tony wouldn't stop.

"Because you see, if it were me, I would feel free to say that I was gay (but I'm not gay)."

"Tony, please!" Hammer begged, "I'm trying to work!"

At this Tony seemed to stop and when it was quiet for a moment, Hammer started where he had left off. He had barley begun to wind the frayed ends of a yellow piece when Tony all of a sudden slammed himself down. He landed, laying sideways and propped his head up on an elbow. Hammer kept trying to ignore him, but Tony's stare got to him and an angry "What!" escaped his throat, giving Tony the chance to start singing again.

"If you were queer,"

"Aw, Tony!"

"I'd still be here."

"Tony, I'm trying to fix these wires."

"Year after year!"

"Tony!"

"Because you're dear to me!"

"Argh!"

"And I know that you,"

"What?" Hammer asked, thrown off for a minute.

"Would accept me too,"

"...I would?"

"If I told you today, 'Hey, guess what? I'm gay!' but I'm not gay."

Hammer made a disgusted noise, but Tony kept singing.

"I'm happy, just being with you."

"I'm going to need a whole new length of wire, this one's all messed up." Hammer said, trying to drown him out.

"So what should it matter to me what you do in bed with guys?"

"Tony, that's GROSS!" Hammer said, disgusted.

"No it's not!" Tony yelled, defensively.

"If you were gay." Tony started up again. "I'd shout 'HOORAY!'"

"I'm not listening!" Hammer yelled, throwing down his tools.

"And here I'd stay!"

"La la la la la!" he screamed, covering his ears in a childlike way.

"But I wouldn't get in your way!"

"AAAAAHH!"

"You can count on me, to always be, beside you everyday! To tell you it's ok! You were just born that way and as they say it's in your DNA, you're gay!"

"BUT I'M NOT GAY!" Hammer screamed.

"If you were gay."

"AHHH!"

Hammer banged his head on the ship, angrily. He did it too hard, however on the newly fixed structure and the entire hole they'd spent all morning fixing fell in, taking Hammer with it. Tony smiled, completley satisfied and pushed himself up to get a better view of the fallen Hammer. He laughed hysterically when he saw Canaan peak his head out from under the rubble along with Hammer.

"Twice in the same week!"

Tony could hear shuffling in the rubble beneath him and he only laughed harder, picturing Canaan pulling the scraps off of Hammer to get him out. He was rolling around, dangerously close to falling off the edge of the ship when a strong hand grabbed the collar of his tank top and dragged him down into the ship.

"Come on, guys!" Tony whined, "I've been working for hours!"

He wipped a hand across his brow before going back to his work.

"I don't even know what I'm doing."

The same hand that had pulled him down only two hours earlier cuffed him on the back of the head.

"Quiet." Canaan said, smacking him upside the head one more time.

"Yeah," Hammer said.

He sat on top of the ship, barking orders to Tony who was being forced to fix the hole. Even the electrical work was being done by him, while Hammer happily called him all sorts of names and shouted instructions down to him and Canaan stood calmly behind him, occassionally "encouraging" him to work when he disobeyed Hammer. Canaan was doing just that when Hammer said,"Oh, look chaos is home."

"Wow, he was out all night?" Tony asked, afraid to look up in case Canaan was watching him.

Canaan, however was watching chaos make his way through the dock and towards the lab.

"Is that a girl with him?" Hammer asked.

"Hey hey!" Tony smiled, risking a busted head from Canaan to look up.

"Oh, is that-" Tony started, squinting.

"-KOS-MOS." Canaan answered, monotone.

chaos stopped and said something to KOS-MOS before scooping her up and into his arms and continuing towards the lab.

"KOS-MOS?" Hammer asked, surprised.

"How's that possible?" Tony asked.

"You mean, you two didn't know she was alive?" he asked, his purple eyes locked on the couple.

They both shook their heads in response.

"Where have you been." He questioned, but is sounded more like a statement.

"The bar" Tony answered.

"Making sure Tony gets home from the bar." Hammer responded.

Knowing that Canaan could easily grab him and possibly break his legs, neck, and any other choice bones he just happened to get his hands on, Tony dropped his tools and sprinted to the ladder, slid down, and ran over to chaos. Hammer waited to see what Canaan would do before he left, but when Canaan didn't make a move he got up to follow Tony.

"chaos!" he yelled, out of breath by the time he reached the two.

"Shhh!" chaos frowned. He motioned with his head towards the sleeping woman in his arms.

"How'd she fall asleep so fast?" Tony asked, amazed that it was KOS-MOS and that she was in fact asleep, and breathing, and being very...well, human.

chaos smiled down at her and shifted her up a little.

"She was practically asleep all the way here, but she wouldn't let me carry her and she kept putting off coming back. The minute I picked her up, she closed her eyes and if she's not entirely asleep she's close to it, so please, try not to yell," he whispered.

"I'm not asleep, chaos." KOS-MOS slurred.

chaos' smile feel a microscopic inch, afraid that he'd woken her up, but her eyes where closed.

"Yes you are," he said, kissing her forehead.

She smiled and snuggled into his neck. The whole scene had Tony completley freaked out, as well as Hammer who had arrived quietly behind Tony.

"How did she...?" he started, but didn't finish.

"You guys didn't know?"

"You know nobody tells us anything! We haven't even seen you for more than a few minutes at a time for the last few days, you know?"

He found it strange that the whole world didn't know about her arrival, but it had only been six days since she'd been discovered and the last three he had been by her bedside almost the entire time and they were right, he really hadn't talked to them more than a few minutes.

"I'm sorry." chaos said, smiling.

He looked up to see Canaan standing on top of the ship.

"I have to go now and take her to the lab. I'm sure Canaan can answer any questions you have before I get back..." he paused.

"What's he doing on the ship anyway?"

Hammer opened his mouth to complain about but Tony quickly slapped his hand over the big hole in his face.

"Ohh nothing. Nothing nothing nothing," then quickly added, "Wow, KOS-MOS looks tired. Better head off to that lab, don't you think?"

chaos smiled and nodded, waved to Canaan, then started on his way to the lab. Canaan watched him go in silence in partial disbelief that he was coming back so late. A million different questions buzzed around in his head, but he couldn't make so much as a move toward the couple because Tony and Hammer were already on their way to him. He sighed and shook his head. Great. Tony was the first to get up the ladder (having pushed Hammer out of the way) and reach the Realian.

"So when did she get back? How did she get back? How long has she been back? I didn't know chaos and KOS-MOS were like THAT! And all this time I thought he was going gay on me. I've been throwing women at him for like a month-"

Hammer finally managed to get up the ladder and pushed Tony out of Canaan's line of vision.

"How long have they been together like that? Is KOS-MOS really alive? Is she human? I thought she was blown up or something-"

"No, she wasn't stupid! If she was then she wouldn't be here! Duh! Canaan! Did she like survive on some kind of miraculous divine intervention? Did chaos do it? Him and his angelic powers? Huh? Di-"

"-Quiet." Canaan said, smacking him upside the head.

Tony rubbed the back of his head. There was going to be a knot there tomorrow, he was sure. Hammer switched sides and stood next to Canaan.

"Yeah, Tony shut up. We have work to do."

Tony grumbled and picked up the tools.

"But chaos said-"

"-Get done first, then we'll talk."

chaos gently carried his beloved KOS-MOS down the small hallways and stairs to the lab. A clock on the wall proudly announced to the world that it was one o'clock in the afternoon. He sighed. Joshua was going to kill him. He looked down at the woman in his arms. She had a slight smile on her lips. She murmured slightly in her sleep and he wondered if that was his name escaping from them or if he was just imagining things. He finally reached the lab door. He wished so hard that he didn't have to return her to this room, that he could just take her with him. He sighed and took a step closer. The door slid open at the action and on the other side, as if waiting up all night for their return, was Joshua.

"Where have you been!" He yelled, "It's one o'clock in the afternoon! You were supposed to bring her back! What in the world have you two been doing! Do you know that you could've seriously jeaprodized her health!"

chaos sighed and gave the young scientist a helpless smile. KOS-MOS stirred at the noise. chaos watched her yawn and rub one of her eyes with a gloved hand. She smiled lovingly up at him.

"Hello, Yeshua." she giggled.

"KOS-MOS?"

She moved her head towards the voice and blinked.

"Oh, Joshua."

He turned a shade of bright red.

"KOS-MOS, darling, are you ok?" he asked, his voice ever so gentle.

She nodded and hid her face in chaos' chest. Joshua glared daggers at chaos, who only shrugged and started walking towards the hospital bed that had been KOS-MOS' home for a while. He placed her down and slid the bag that he'd carried all night and morning off his shoulder. He handed it to an angry Joshua who snatched it away.

"What's this?" he asked, disgusted.

"It's just the clothes she got yesterday."

Joshua looked through them, shifting things around

"Um...I don't think you should be doing that, you might embarrass her." chaos warned softly.

Joshua made a noise and kept shuffling until he found a string. He pulled on it, determined to find out what kind of clothes chaos had bought for her and pulled out a black bra with pink lace around the tips. KOS-MOS made a small noise and chaos shoved the clothing back into the bag, blushing like crazy.

"S-sorry, KOS-MOS." Joshua murmured.

"Well, Joshua," chaos said, a slight scolding tone in his voice. "I guess I'll leave you to look after KOS-MOS. She really does need her rest and if I'm here," he said stepping close to her, "she won't, will you?"

"I will too!" she protested.

He placed his hands on the sides of her face and bent down to place a chaste kiss on her lips.

"You won't." he said, pulling away and soaking in the delicious delirium she was in.

"I'll be back in a few hours," He said to both of them.

He took the bag from Joshua and set it beside KOS-MOS so it'd be easier for her to get to. He turned to leave when he felt a hand grab his wrist.

"chaos, you don't have to go. I'll sleep, I promise. Just...don't leave me yet."

"Oh, KOS-MOS, I would stay," He said, turning to face her, "But Joshua probably has to get busy running tests to make sure you're ok. I don't want to get in his way."

He watched her tense up at the mention of anything that would involve pain.

"That's true." Joshua said softly, "He's going to have to leave and the sooner the better so that we can get started."

KOS-MOS frowned and held onto him tighter.

"Could...could chaos stay here, Joshua? Just until I fall asleep?"

chaos watched Joshua physically twitch, and was almost certain he'd demand that chaos leave at that instant, but KOS-MOS asked again, in the smallest, most innocent voice she could muster:

"Please, Joshua? I'm...afraid of needles."

His face dropped dramatically, changing from anger to worry and he quickly ran to her side.

"Of course, KOS-MOS, of course. I'll get started right now and it'll be over before you know it."

She beamed up at chaos.

"You will stay now, right?"

"Ok, ok, I'll stay." he chuckled and bent down to kiss her.

He found a chair and pulled it close to her bed in order to give Joshua as much room as possible so that he wouldn't have a reason to complain and force him to leave. After an awakward change into her hospital gown, KOS-MOS talked happily to him about whatever random thought came to mind, obviously nervous about needles and trying to keep her mind off the them. chaos only smiled and replied to her questions softly, teasing her and holding a hand in his for extra comfort.

"Tell me," she said, smiling up at him, "Tell me about us. About us, before all of this."

She winced at a pull from an IV she hadn't noticed.

"Well, if you'll calm down, and stay still..." he gently placed her arm back onto the bed, "...then I'll answer any questions you have..."

chaos watched Joshua work, a scowl on his face appeared whenever chaos' made the slightest noise. Clearly, he was not welcome here but KOS-MOS continued to talk and the happy sound of her voice, her beautiful smile and the fact that she was afraid kept him there. Joshua skulked about, poking useless needles into his KOS-MOS. There was a large needle in particular that upset him and when Joshua began to walk over to her, chaos asked

"Is any of this really neccessary?"

That earned him a angry frown from Joshua and a sharp response similar to

"Is keeping her alive neccessary?"

But the longer chaos was in there, watching him work the more frustrated he became. All of the things Joshua was doing seemed useless. KOS-MOS had spent and entire night without any problems and could breathe, eat, and do everything else a human does on their own. He found himself wishing Shion were there instead of Joshua. She would agree with him, wouldn't she?

"chaos, were we ever really married?" she asked.

"KOS-MOS, do you're memories not go back that far?"

"Yes, they do and I know the answer. I just want to hear you tell me."

He smiled and kissed her nose.

"No, we weren't."

There was an auidble sigh from Joshua, but chaos ignored him and continued.

"We were going to, but as you already know things didn't work out."

She winced a little at the entrance of a needle. He rubbed her hands, a glowing yellow light slowly throbbed through her veins and she relaxed. She smiled at him.

"You'll get in trouble for doing that." she mouthed.

"Does it hurt?" he replied.

"Not anymore." she said, shaking her head.

Extremely happy that he could now fully control his power, he sent another small wave through her and she giggled at the feeling.

"KOS-MOS, please stay still. I might hurt you." Joshua said, as if the very idea was going to kill him.

"You're going to get me in trouble." She mouthed again, then to Joshua she said, "I'm sorry Joshua I'll be good."

Joshua blushed and nodded at her before pulling away the needle.

"There." he said, finishing up. "Now relax, that medicine I just administered will probably make you sleepy. Don't be alarmed if the room starts spinning or anything it's just a regular symptom."

"Thank you, Joshua. chaos can stay, right?" she asked, making sure he wouldn't be made to leave until there was no doubt she was asleep.

"...yes, chaos can stay." Joshua answered.

He then left out of a side door into a different area of the lab, his stomping could be heard in the next room as he shuffled through certain things.

"chaos..."

"Yes, KOS-MOS?" he asked, his mind back on the beautiful woman in front of him.

"Tell me...tell me about the field." she said smiling.

Her lids were heavy and her voice was thick with sleep. He was glad at least for the sleep inducing medicine.

"I can do that." He answered, pulling off the trenchcoat that covered his shoulders and placing it on the chair.

"Now," he said, "Where should I start?"

She giggled in her delirium and rolled her eyes around, as if searching for something to say.

"The night...the first night..."

He smiled at the memory. "You'd probably remember that better than I would. It's been a few eternities since that night."

She frowned, "You don't remember?"

"Oh I remember." He said, kissing her hand. "I'm just afraid that I'll leave out details."

He smiled at her and started, "Well, you were nervous. Very nervous. Every second I was with you you seemed to get worse. You were clumsy." he added, his eyes sparkling with memory.

"So clumsy that you tripped over almost everything on the forest floor. You tripped really hard over a log and I caught you." he laughed here and looked down at her.

"You were so embarrassed, and I knew I wasn't supposed to be that close to you but I couldn't help myself. You were so beautiful."

She blushed and giggled, staring up at him with eager eyes as if she were listening to a fairytale and didn't know the ending.

"So I held on tighter to you and to my surprise, you relaxed. I held you like that all the way to the meadow and I made you stop."

"Stop?" she asked, trying to fight sleep.

"Yes, I made you wait." God, the smile on her face was going to kill him he just knew it.

"I wanted to surprise you."

"And I was." she smiled, "I was so excited. The insects were amazing, the flowers were like magic."

"See? I told you. You remember."

She nodded, her eyes were closed now.

"You were gorgeous, I was scared you were in love with me."

"I was." he said, smiling.

"I didn't want you to tell me, but I did, and I knew and I-"

He leaned down close to her, their lips just microscopic inches apart.

"-was afraid." she whispered.

"You loved me?" he asked.

She nodded, sleep drifting her off to that wonderful night.

"I love you." he whispered.

He leaned down and placed a small kiss on her lips and sent her off to sleep.

"You can leave now." Joshua snapped darkly from the side door.

chaos gave him a pleasant smile. "Of course."

He ran a hand through her hair, taking in the sight of her before getting up to leave. He picked up his coat and started to leave, but on his way out he couldn't shake the feeling that something dark lingered in the room behind him. He looked over to the blonde scientist. A dark smile covered his lips.

"Take care of yourself, chaos." he said in a way that was all too familiar.

"...you too." he answered and with that he left for the Elsa.

"...and then what!" Tony demanded, slamming his fist down on the table.

"How did she manage to get back in one piece!"

"No one knows," Canaan answered.

"That's not a good enough answer." Hammer said.

"chaos doesn't even know the answer to that. The only one who could possibly know is KOS-MOS. Unless chaos has asked her about it, then neither of us know. She might not even know. That's your answer. Now calm down or the ceiling will fall in again. Do you want to fix it again? Tony?"

Tony made a face. He was still nursing the gigantic bump on the back of his head. He didn't need another one. Hammer just pushed his glasses up in a frustrated way and sighed.

"Well, that was an ear full. I think my head's still spinning." he rubbed his temples.

"How did we go this long without someone telling us this story?" Tony gripped, sitting down at the table.

Canaan shrugged. He really didn't care. He wasn't surprised that they didn't know. Their life was surrounded by the Elsa, the captain, and their stops along the way. Anything that left the ship, left all it's memories and in the crew's mind, no one ever aged or changed. When they returned, the crew was assailed by new expericences and stories, new people, but never for long. No one had a past or future on the Elsa. Time stood still. Canaan's new job, it seemed was to break the reality to the small ship and her crew that there was a world outside it. Maybe thats why chaos loved it so much?

"Well all that stuff sounds extra crazy. How do I know you're not lying about it?"

Canaan sighed. "Don't ask me, ask chaos then. He'll tell you the exact same thing and you'd be wasting everyone's time but go ahead."

"That's a rude thing for you to say. You know I don't mind."

A sarcastic smile spread across Canaan's lips.

"You seem to be popping up right on time everywhere. Quite a conveniet trick you've got there."

chaos smiled, mock sadness in his voice, "Oh, tired of me already Canaan?"

Canaan's smile instantly dropped, but chaos was too distracted by a screaming Tony and Hammer to notice.

"Way to go, chaos!" Hammer cheered, pumping his fists in the air.

"Yeah, way to go, chaos! What a score, dude! So tell me all about last night."

chaos gave him a confused look, knowing what he was implying but hoping at the same time he was wrong.

"Oh, don't give me that look. I know you got some last night! How does it feel to be "deflowered"? Huh buddy?"

chaos frowned.

"Tony, I didn't do anything like that last night."

"Come on, don't be so modest," Tony said, elbowing him and winking at him. "I know you got busy. Tell me all the details, man. How's that hot little thing in bed?"

chaos bit his bottom lip and took a deep breath. "Tony, I did not do anything like that with KOS-MOS last night. Please do not press the issue." he smiled, a strained one but a smile at least, hoping Tony would get the hint. Tony, put up his hands as if in defense and backed away. Hammer just patted chaos on the back.

"I'm happy for you at least."

chaos smiled, "Thank you."

"So, I guess Canaan's been filling you two in on everything?"

They both nodded. He looked at Canaan.

"Well thank you for handling these two."

Canaan snapped out of his trance and nodded. "Whatever, it doesn't matter to me. Tony was already in trouble with me for breaking the top of the Elsa."

"He what?" chaos asked, laughing. "How in the world did you do that?"

"Well, it was originally the Little Master's fault with his chemically enhanced bullets. They weakened the ships structure. Well I was up there because the Little Master told me he'd made a hole and I might need to check it out in case it didn't stop dissolving the ship. So I went up there and started looking around. Then here comes Mister Hot Shot up the ladder and pushes me down into it. The whole thing collapsed in and I fell with it and on top of Canaan."

Tony laughed so hard he fell out of his chair. "The Little Master was like "Um...right. Hammer, clean this up. It was the greatest thing I've ever seen!"

Hammer sighed, "But that's not it!" he declared, pointing his finger in the air.

"Later, I tried to fix it and I was almost done when he comes back drunk from the bar, singing some broadway song no one's heard in five thousand years and I fall through again! On top of Canaan!"

chaos had to cover his mouth to hide the smile that spread over his lips. He loved Tony's pranks.

"Yes, so I made him fix it." Canaan added, "And he got it done."

They all looked up.

"Yeah, can't say I did a bad job, eh Canaan? Ow!" Tony recoiled from a smack to the back of his head.

"Don't touch him." Hammer said, smugly. He stuck out his tongue at his friend.

"Yeah, well what are you up to anyway, chaos?" Tony asked, checking his hand to make sure he wasn't bleeding.

"Where's your new girlfriend?"

chaos frowned and Canaan began debating on whether or not to punch Tony for making him upset.

"She's in the lab. Guys, I really don't like Joshua, there's something about him...something sinister."

Canaan raised an orange eyebrow, "Sinister? I thought you said you knew him."

chaos shook his head, "I thought I did."

Hammer made a noise, "Well, why do you leave KOS-MOS in there with him?"

"Where else do I have to take her?" he replied sadly.

"Aw, man. Look I can go down there and rough the guy up a little bit. I mean, I know you could but I also know you won't." Tony offered.

chaos smiled, "He hasn't done anything yet...but I wouldn't mind if you guys checked up on her on and off today. That'd be a big load off my mind."

Tony slammed a fist down on the table. "Done!"

"No problem," Hammer said.

Canaan sighed, "I will too, but chaos I'm supposed to take you to see Rubedo. He claims he actually had something to tell you but he didn't get to because you left to find KOS-MOS and Miyuki."

"Oh, well..."

"We don't have to. I can just tell him that you can't see him, if you want to stay close to KOS-MOS."

chaos shook his head and smiled, "Nah, let's go see what the little gunslinger has for me today."

Canaan nodded and pushed himself up. chaos waved bye to Tony and Hammer and walked towards the door. Canaan was on his way out after him when Tony yelled out.

"That's ok chaos, you can tell me the details about your sexy girlfriend later!"

chaos paused and sighed heavily, so did Canaan.

"Don't worry about it, chaos." he said, pushing his bangs out of his eyes.

"You know Tony's stupid. Let's just get up there to see Rubedo."

chaos nodded and started his way out of the ship, but he realized Canaan wasn't following him, when he turned to look Canaan said:

"Go ahead, I'll catch up in a minute."

chaos nodded and smiled. Really, would Tony ever learn? He heard the door to the men's cabin open and close behind Canaan.