Author's note: I blended this chapter with the episode "Last call at the broken hammer" from Season 2. Enjoy!

Rommie watched her every move as she ate and trained. Lexa started to feel a bit annoyed by the constant burn she felt whenever she turned away from the avatar. After a few hours of heavy lifting (nothing more that her wings), she burst.

'Would you stop that? It's becoming really annoying.' Rommie looked confused at her. 'You keep staring at me, you watch my every move like I'm about to explode or something. It's driving me crazy!'

'Dylan said...'

'Yeah, to keep an eye on me, I know. I'm perfectly capable of doing things like a normal human being!' Lexa interrupted Rommie, raising her voice in the process.

'I'm sorry, I didn't know it would bother you. I can just leave...' Rommie gestured to the door, but Lexa stopped her.

'No, no... Sorry.' The winged girl tried to apologize, but couldn't find her words. 'It's just... Hard for me, in more ways than one, to be like this...' Rommie smiled and sat on a bench, patting the space next to her.

'How about a break? You've been doing this for a couple of hours.' Lexa looked at her and sat next to the robot, sighing heavily.

'I'm not used to not having any physical or mental powers. It's confusing for me. It's like learning to walk all over again. I feel so useless...' Rommie listened without interrupting her. 'I can't even control these anymore!' Lexa gestured to her wings. 'It's so frustrating!' Two things happened as she said those words. She lifted her hands in exasperation and her wings followed her hands. 'Oh my God!' She looked perplexed at her hands still in the air, not daring to put them back down, fearing she couldn't move her wings again.

'I still have it! I can still move them!' Her hands trembled in the air because of the effort, but she didn't dare to put them down just yet, smiling widely.

'By the looks of it, it's taking a great effort from you to just hold them like that, maybe you should put your hands down and rest?' Rommie asked her, seeing beads of sweat covering her forehead. Lexa stubbornly kept her hands in the air, visibly trembling. Her hands dropped at the same time with her wings, huffing.

'What's with this attitude?' Rommie was taken by surprise with her annoyed tone. She merely raised an eyebrow. 'Oh, you know, the look. It's like you're waiting for me to die in front of your eyes.' Lexa smiled, but it didn't reach her eyes.

'I'm not looking at you like that.' Rommie tried her best to keep her tone even, but she was taken by surprise by Lexa's perception.

"The gig is up, who's behind all of this?" Lexa gestured to the android.

"And what exactly might that be?" Rommie played her part.

"Oh, come on! Who made you babysit me and why?" Lexa was no longer smiling and was getting pissed. Rommie turned to look at the wall, avoiding any eye-camera contact. "Did Trance put you up to this? Rommie!" Lexa placed a hand on the robot, subconsciously trying to make the olive-skin girl talk, with no success.

"You should get some food, it's getting late and you need lunch." Rommie stood and started for the further corner of the room.

"No! I think you should answer my question!" Lexa followed her heavily.

"Don't bring this up, please! Let's get lunch."

"Robots don't eat." Lexa looked suspiciously at Andromeda's avatar.

"I am an android, not a robot." Rommie said a-matter-of-factly.

"Ugh! That's it! I'm going to talk to Seamus about this!" Lexa stomped out of the training room, with Rommie on her tail. She was fuming, feeling like a trapped child inside such a huge ship.

"Harper is not in the Machine Shop." Rommie said calmly. She didn't wait for the winged girl to ask for his whereabouts and continued. "He's in Slipstream Core."

Lexa stomped her way to the Slipstream Core, followed silently by Andromeda's avatar, which made Lexa even more furious. She went through the automatic doors and stopped in front of Harper, who seemed surprised to see them there.

"Rommie, is everything alright?" Harper looked concerned at a fuming Lexa.

"So you're behind all of this!" Lexa's angry voice echoed across the room.

"Behind what?" Harper turned away from his girlfriend, continuing his work and trying to avoid any eye contact.

"Do you think I was really that stupid not to notice when you're trying to control my every move? It's not nice, you know!" Lexa approached Harper, and Rommie followed. "I'd prefer you'd stay away, if you don't mind." Lexa said with her back on Rommie. The avatar looked at Harper and, when he nodded, she backed away. Lexa looked incredulous at the engineer.

"I can explain…" Harper started, but was interrupted by Lexa.

"Oh, really? Explain what, exactly? That you treat me like a sick child, who needs constant company? Or, maybe, I need diaper changing?" Lexa folded her arms.

"Come on, you're being silly now."

"Silly, them why is SHE following me around like a puppy?" Lexa gestured behind her back to Rommie, who merely shrugged.

"She's just making sure you're alright, that's all…" Harper tried calming his lover.

"Alright? I'm perfectly fine! Trance said so! She knows her stuff!" Harper smiled awkwardly, giving himself away. "Is there something you're not telling me?" Lexa eyes him suspiciously.

"No, no! You're as healthy as a horse!" Harper looked flustered. "But we decided the best thing for you would be…" Lexa cut him midsentence.

"WE? Who's WE? 'Cuz you sure as hell didn't ask ME anything!" Lexa looked outrageous at her boyfriend. "You take advantage of my situation and go against my back?"

"C'mon, don't be like that… I just wanted to make sure you're safe even when you're alone…" Harper pleaded for her understanding.

"And decided to take advantage of me and plot."

"Trance suggested you'd be better off if you were under surveillance for a couple of days, OK?" Lexa jabbed a finger under Harper's nose.

"She saw something, didn't she? Tell me what she saw!" Lexa took a menacing step to Harper.

"She didn't tell me anything, she just gave me the puppy-eyes attack and asked me to look out for you while they're gone." Harper drew a cross over his heart with his finger, trying to convince Lexa it was all he knew. She looked at him through narrowed eyes and turned on the spot, clearly not satisfied with the situation.

"Where are you going?" Harper asked her, full of concern.

"Back to my room. And I don't need company!" She addressed Rommie, who was getting ready to follow her. Rommie stopped, looked at Lexa as she was exiting the Slipstream Core, and shrugged.

"Maybe I should give her some space. I'll keep a mechanical eye on her." Rommie proceeded to pat a glum looking Harper.

"I'm a bad boyfriend…" Harper whispered, lying next to the Slipstream console.

"Why would you say that?" Rommie looked at him puzzled.

"I keep upsetting her… I don't know what to do to keep her safe AND happy…" Harper slid down and rested his arms on a metal bar, sulking.

"I can't give advice on the love part, but what I can say is that making her mad did wonders for her." The engineer look puzzled at his creation. "She walked, well stomped, pretty normal. She didn't seem to feel the weight of her wings anymore." Harper stared a moment too long to process everything and smiled widely.

"I'm a genius!" Rommie looked slightly offended at him. "For making you so gorgeous and smart, I mean." Harper gave her a one-dimpled smile.

"Of course."

TBC

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