After several minutes of trying unsuccessfully to console Rommie and get
her to stop head banging the bed, Beka and Trance decided she was fine
right where she was.
"Trance, there is something I don't understand." Beka said. "Dylan started acting all lovey-dovey almost immediately. If Tyr was bitten and saw Rommie yesterday, why didn't he start showing symptoms sooner?"
"Well, I am not really sure. If I had to guess though I would say it was one of two things."
"And those things would be?" Beka asked exasperated. 'Really,' she thought, 'it is almost as hard to get an answer from Trance, as it is to get Harper to stop chasing women.'
"Well, the first reason could simply be that since Tyr is a Nietzschean, he reacted differently to the bug's venom. However, since Dylan is also genetically enhanced that probably isn't the reason." She said.
"And the second guess would be?" Beka prompted.
"Oh, I figure that since the venom enhances a person's emotions, then the more real the feelings are, the quicker the reaction." Trance said with a smug grin.
"But that would mean Dylan…" Beka trailed off. "Nope, wrong Trance. I suggest you come up with guess number three real quick." Beka said moving toward Trance.
"Yipes!" Trance yelped backing away.
"Actually," Rommie said looking up at the two ladies, "Tyr spent all night in his room, writing a ballad extolling his many wondrous virtues as to why he is fit to make me his mate. He then spent three hours this morning, reciting it to me. ALL forty nine and a half pages." She said with a sigh.
"Oh man." Beka said. "And here I thought I had it bad with Dylan's sappy love songs." She couldn't help the grin that crept up on her face at the thought of what Tyr's ballad contained.
Ignoring Beka, Rommie continued. "I didn't mind the parts up to his ninth birthday, but after he finished vividly describing how he killed his fifteenth victim, I was ready to vomit."
"Uhm, Rommie." Trance said timidly. "You're an android. You don't eat so that really would have been impossible."
Standing up so quickly she caught them by surprise, Rommie shook her finger in Trance's face and said, "Make me listen to Tyr reciting his life story one more time and you just may witness the impossible happening."
Trance was saved from having to make a comment by the doors to medical opening. Everyone groaned when they saw Dylan and Tyr enter arm in arm. Both men wore large grins on their faces and all three women thought it made them look like clowns.
"Hey, guess what everyone?" Dylan asked excitedly.
"The Devine has come to take me now and put me out of my misery." Beka muttered under her breathe.
Ignoring the fact that no one seemed in the mood to guess Dylan continued on. "We have a great big surprise for you."
Rommie closed her eyes while listening to the records of what Dylan and Tyr had been up to while she was distracted. She opened her eyes with a look of utter horror etched on her face.
"You can't be serious?" she said, looking from one man to the other.
"What the hell is it?" Beka demanded.
"Tyr and I have booked a double wedding for us at the Chapel of Galaxy-wide Love on New Vegas drift! Isn't that great?" he asked.
"Yes," Tyr added. "They were having a two for the price of one special."
Their announcement was met with stunned silence and then the sound of two bodies hitting the floor in a dead faint.
"Wow!" Tyr exclaimed. "They were so overcome with happiness that they swooned with delight."
Trance just sighed. "Help me put them on the beds guys."
"Trance, there is something I don't understand." Beka said. "Dylan started acting all lovey-dovey almost immediately. If Tyr was bitten and saw Rommie yesterday, why didn't he start showing symptoms sooner?"
"Well, I am not really sure. If I had to guess though I would say it was one of two things."
"And those things would be?" Beka asked exasperated. 'Really,' she thought, 'it is almost as hard to get an answer from Trance, as it is to get Harper to stop chasing women.'
"Well, the first reason could simply be that since Tyr is a Nietzschean, he reacted differently to the bug's venom. However, since Dylan is also genetically enhanced that probably isn't the reason." She said.
"And the second guess would be?" Beka prompted.
"Oh, I figure that since the venom enhances a person's emotions, then the more real the feelings are, the quicker the reaction." Trance said with a smug grin.
"But that would mean Dylan…" Beka trailed off. "Nope, wrong Trance. I suggest you come up with guess number three real quick." Beka said moving toward Trance.
"Yipes!" Trance yelped backing away.
"Actually," Rommie said looking up at the two ladies, "Tyr spent all night in his room, writing a ballad extolling his many wondrous virtues as to why he is fit to make me his mate. He then spent three hours this morning, reciting it to me. ALL forty nine and a half pages." She said with a sigh.
"Oh man." Beka said. "And here I thought I had it bad with Dylan's sappy love songs." She couldn't help the grin that crept up on her face at the thought of what Tyr's ballad contained.
Ignoring Beka, Rommie continued. "I didn't mind the parts up to his ninth birthday, but after he finished vividly describing how he killed his fifteenth victim, I was ready to vomit."
"Uhm, Rommie." Trance said timidly. "You're an android. You don't eat so that really would have been impossible."
Standing up so quickly she caught them by surprise, Rommie shook her finger in Trance's face and said, "Make me listen to Tyr reciting his life story one more time and you just may witness the impossible happening."
Trance was saved from having to make a comment by the doors to medical opening. Everyone groaned when they saw Dylan and Tyr enter arm in arm. Both men wore large grins on their faces and all three women thought it made them look like clowns.
"Hey, guess what everyone?" Dylan asked excitedly.
"The Devine has come to take me now and put me out of my misery." Beka muttered under her breathe.
Ignoring the fact that no one seemed in the mood to guess Dylan continued on. "We have a great big surprise for you."
Rommie closed her eyes while listening to the records of what Dylan and Tyr had been up to while she was distracted. She opened her eyes with a look of utter horror etched on her face.
"You can't be serious?" she said, looking from one man to the other.
"What the hell is it?" Beka demanded.
"Tyr and I have booked a double wedding for us at the Chapel of Galaxy-wide Love on New Vegas drift! Isn't that great?" he asked.
"Yes," Tyr added. "They were having a two for the price of one special."
Their announcement was met with stunned silence and then the sound of two bodies hitting the floor in a dead faint.
"Wow!" Tyr exclaimed. "They were so overcome with happiness that they swooned with delight."
Trance just sighed. "Help me put them on the beds guys."