Ok since Cat was so freaking nice and said please, I've decided to work in her pairing request. That is why I've been taking so long. Cat you picked the perfect time for me to fit the pairing in too. It may take a few chapters to get the ball rolling on Rhade and Trance, but I can make it work, I think.

Note people that Harper (Who I refuse to put with Rommie) is still open for pairing as well as Rommie, Tyr (even though I have plans for him.,) Beka (in the future is I feel devious), Tamerlane (Again with the deviousness) and Anjel (but I have plans for her too.) we have to leave Dylan alone through, if beka leave him he gets no one, because I am just that mean. Note I will not make anyone gay, have a sex change, or inhabit other peoples bodies (with the exception of Anjel, but you will see what that is about later.)

So if you guys can come up with any wacky or wonderful pairings using these people, I would love to hear about them and I will try and fit them into the story.

Ok enough with my bitching; let's get back to the good stuff shall we?
"Your neural scans seem fine, Lieutenant." Trance smiled as the dark haired man sitting on the bed next to her.

"Thank you, Dr. Gemini." Rhade smiled.

Trance was caught by his chocolate eyes, and his cute little bearded which made his chin look bigger. I wonder what he looks like without the beard. Trance stared and she let her thoughts wonder.

"Doctor?" Rhade asked questioningly. He wasn't used to someone staring at him like that.

Trance snapped back to reality and laughed, "Please Lieutenant, my name is Trance." she said as she put down the flexi that held his neural read out.

Rhades smile widened, flashing Trance his full set of perfectly white teeth. "Well in that case, Trance, my name is Telemachus." He reached out his right hand.

Trance took it with her own and shook it. "It is very nice to meet you again Telemachus." She smiled warmly. "Your injuries are healed. However I don't want you doing any weightlifting (like you need it) or strenuous activity for the next 24 hours. And apply this salve to that acid burn 3 times a day, preferably at meal time so you don't forget."

Rhade listened diligently to her instructions nodding his understanding. "Thank you." He said again. He watched as she tuned away from him and looked over at his plexi. He was able to run his eyes over her golden skin, perfect skin, before she turned back to him.

"The Captain would like to see you now. He is waiting in Command." Trance said. She had caught his Eyes traveling over her, but she wasn't going to kid herself. Just because she was attracted to him didn't mean that he felt the same way. He was nietzschean, and while a future with them being together was possible, it was probably not probable.

"Um, right." Rhade coughed and leapt from the table. "Thank you once again Trance." He smiled warmly and left.

Trance watched him go, not happy to see him leave, but at least now her thoughts were clear. She placed the flexi into Andromeda's data receiver and filed it under Rhade, Telemachus. Then she turned to her other patient, who up until now she thought was fast asleep.

Anjel smiles coyly at the golden woman, "Your right, he's hot."

Trance turned away quickly as the blood rushed to her face. "I have no such thoughts of the Lieutenant, perhaps I need to scan your brain as well."

"No, but I think Beka tried to kill me, could you check out my ribs, I think she drove one into my lungs." she said a mater of factly.

"You would be coughing blood, and you know it. "Trance scowled., checking Anjel's Vitals to see what to do first.

"It was an exaggeration. But seriously now, Rhade is Hot, or should I say Telemachus." She teased.

Trance wasn't used to being teased, especially about romance, and she didn't like it. She walked over and placed the restraining straps on Anjel's body and brought out the electrodes. "These are just so your reflexes don't hurt one of us."

Anjel didn't like it, "Okay." She said shakily.
Beka and Dylan lay in his bed a few hours later. She lay naked, curled up against him, with her head lying on his sweaty chest. He was already asleep, and she didn't blame him, she had put him to the test. She smiled as she looked up at him, the high and mighty captain, spent and past out.

She closed her eyes, letting his musky scent full her as she tried to drift off to sleep.

"Beka" Rommie suddenly appeared in front of the bed.

She looked up surprised, "Isn't privacy mode still engaged!?" She whispered harshly.

Rommie smiled, "It never was. You have an emergency transmission. Would you like me to play it for you?"

Beka gently disengaged herself from Dylan and put on one of his long high guard jackets. It totally engulfed her body, she suddenly felt like a little girl rummaging through her parents closet playing dress up.

She glanced back at Dylan, who looked so peaceful, handsome and secure. She smiled down at him. After so many bad relationships and so many complications, she was in a relationship that just might work. She knew that Dylan would never betray her, cheat on her, or leave her, well, unless the common wealth needed him. Or the Magog could eat them both, and then Harper would run the ship, but Rhade would probably kill them, and then Anjel and Tamerlane would take over, and Tammers and Rhade would fight over Anjel, and they would die, and it would be only Anjel, Trance and Rommie, who would start a lesbian colony somewhere and the universe would be doomed.

GOOD LORD BEKA, STOP THINKING! Beka shook her head of her little ramble and glanced back up at Andromeda, who was still there.

"I will take it in the bathroom." She said quietly, heading towards the bathroom and shutting the door behind her.

Andromeda appeared on top of the sink smiling up at Beka. "Playing Transmission." she said, and then disappeared.

Beka sat easily on the counter and waited for the transmission. She gazed in the mirror at her sweat matted hair, and the red mark on her collar where Dylan had gotten a little carried away. It was a good look for her.

"Greetings powerful woman"

Beka's head flew down to the sink to see a mini hologram of Tyr standing where Rommie was. "Rommie, Privacy Mode" she ordered quickly.

"Privacy mode engaged" andromeda said from above.

"What do you want Tyr?" Beka asked, but mostly to her self because she knew that Tyr wouldn't respond.

"You are not safe on Andromeda, Beka. I cannot save the others, but I at least can protect you." he said, answering her question. Leave it to Tyr to know her thoughts before she thought them.

"The Abyss is powerful, more powerful than anyone imagined, and its wants the Andromeda. Here are my coordinates; I will explain everything upon your arrival. Please Beka, I only wish to save you." Tyr said and cut out. Beka had never in her life heard him ask for anything (other than for Harper to shut up).

Something urged for her to go. She couldn't understand it, but she needed to go to Tyr. She needed to see him again; those old feelings had suddenly come alive again.

She silently exited the bathroom, seeing Dylan still peacefully asleep. She scribbled a note and left it on the pillow. Then put her clothes on and absentmindedly took Dylan's jacket and left. She walked down the corridor to the Maru, telling Andromeda to prep it for launch.

"May I ask where you are going Captain Valentine?" Andromeda appeared in front of her.

"I have some debts I need to take care of." it was partially true, so it wasn't really lying.

"I thought you had repaid your debts."

"Not this one," she said as she walked into the hanger. The Maru was there along with the Dovolo, and surprisingly, Tamerlane.

"Going somewhere?" he asked lightly as he stood by the Maru.

"What if I am?" She snapped back.

"You know his tricks almost as well as I, and yet you are still going." He said a little more authoritatively.

"Who said I was going to see Tyr?" she snapped, and then cursed herself.

"No one, except yourself, although I would control your words around him if I were you, he is planning something, and it's not good." he warned.

"I am perfectly able to take care of myself." beka said as she tried to step around him.

He wouldn't let her. "Oh I don't doubt that, but I would like you to take this." she said holding a small green pill out in the palm of his hand.

"Sorry, I don't take pills from Nietzscheans I hardly know." she said with a flair

He laughed, just like his father, "And yet you are going to set coordinates without anyone else, in a bucket of bolts, to meet one. Look, it's a bio recorder, if your bodily signs show your in danger, or I hear something, I can come help you. Take the pill, or you're not getting on the ship." then he smiled, "and I won't cover for you with Dylan."

Beka Grudgingly took the pill, "Is black mail in your genetics?"

"No, but I think it's in Anjel's, and it's rubbed off on me." he smiled triumphantly. Then he stepped out of her way, "just be careful, aright?

Beka nodded and stepped on board the Maru. She walked to the pilots chair and prepared for launch.