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No, no, no, no, no!
"Beka, are you alright?"
Beka hadn't realized she had spoken aloud until she heard Rommie's voice. Grateful for any distraction, she replied, "Yeah, I'm fine, thanks."
A little hologram of Rommie appeared next to Beka's head, so she only had to turn her head to talk to her. "How are you feeling?" Rommie asked. "We were all worried about you."
"I feel a lot better, just a bit tired," Beka replied.
"That's good. I think Dylan will be happier having his first officer back and not having Tyr distracted," Rommie told Beka with a smile.
"What's that supposed to mean? Why would Tyr be distracted? I mean, it's kinda nice having him here now, but I'm sure that's only because Dylan threatened him with several different types of torture unless he was nice," Beka said, smiling slightly. Dylan would do that.
"Dylan wouldn't torture anyone!" Rommie defended her captain. "And besides, Tyr is here of his own free will. Trance offered to stay, but he wouldn't let her. Since you became ill, Tyr hasn't left the Med Deck until just now. He hasn't slept, he hasn't trained, he wouldn't even had eaten if Trance hadn't brought him something."
"Are you serious?" Beka exclaimed. "C'mon, Rom, you're pulling my leg."
"No, I'm not. He really was here the whole time you were."
"Tyr would never do that," Beka insisted.
"I would never do what?" Tyr asked as he entered the room carrying a bowl.
Rommie's hologram winked out of existence, leaving Beka to fend for herself. "Oh, nothing, we were just...discussing something," she told him nonchalantly, but blushing all the same.
"Are you okay?" he asked, putting the bowl down. "You looked flushed, it might be a fever." He put his hand on her forehead.
Beka liked the sensation, hated the fact that she liked it, and was annoyed that he was doing it. Irritably pushing Tyr's hand away, she assured him that she was fine. He raised an eyebrow, but made no comment and helped her sit up.
"I made soup," he announced, giving her the bowl and a spoon. Noticing her somewhat shaky hand, he asked, " Can you feed yourself?"
He received a glare for his troubles. Ah, well, at least she's feeling better.
"This is good! I forgot how well you cook. How 'bout you teach me how sometime," Beka requested, smiling. She didn't really have any desire to learn, but she needed to make some kind of conversation. It unnerved her when he stared at her like that. At least he's looking at your front...
"I think you should take a bit more time to recover first; you don't want to pass your illness to any of the crew. However, once you are completely well, I would enjoy teaching you," Tyr agreed.
"Sounds like fun," Beka replied. I think I could awaken that desire somehow...woah, where did that come from? All of a sudden, she felt very tired, and she couldn't keep her eyes open, not even to look at Tyr. "What did you put in here?" she asked faintly.
"A mild sedative to help you sleep. Don't worry, I want you dead about as much as you do," Tyr assured her, taking the bowl and spoon from her hands and making her lie down.
"Don' wanna go t' sleep," Beka mumbled. "Wha' gives you th' right t' put sommin' in...in my..." Beka trailed off as she fell fast asleep.
Tyr brushed a lock of hair off of her face. He was dreading the morning. He had something he needed to do when Beka woke up, something he needed to do before Dylan and the others.
He needed to talk to Beka about what had happened in those two days she had been locked on the Maru.
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Please, please, please review! I'll even take flames! The
next part should be up tomorrow since I have to write an English paper...and
that's just so much fun.