Part 2.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS SHIP HAS STOPPED!" yelled Scorpius. The officer who was standing before Scorpius was trying not to show the fear that had taken over his very own body. He did not know why he had to be the one to inform the Sebeccen-Scarren Hybrid, Scorpius. The officer who stood before Scorpius, deeply wished he was not there, but someone else. The officer took a breath before he tried to convince Scorpius why his command carrier stopped, and what would be done about it. "Scorpius, Sir. The techs are finding..." Scorpius put up his hand up and stopping the officer in mid sentence. "You will get this ship going before this arn is up." Scorpius moved his head just a little to the right, as though Scorpius was trying to read off the officer. "Or I'll have your head planted and placed upon my wall!" Before Scorpius walked away, Scorpius noticed he had scared the living dren out of the officer and Scorpius smiled to himself. Scorpius walked away with his assistant tailing from behind. Scorpius breathed in deeply when he saw another officer running up towards him. "Scorpius." Scorpius growled and turned back around to look at the officer who called his name. "What?" Scorpius snapped. The female officer didn't flinch, but smiled instead. Scorpius not giving any thought, turned his back towards her and began to walk away again. "Sir, I do believe you will be pleased." Scorpius stopped and turned back around and looked at her with a puzzled look. "We have the Leviathan in our sights." The anger that was written all over his face disappeared and a smile replaced it.
(On the Commerce Planet)
The group had broken up to see what they could bring back to Moya. Zhaan and D'argo, Chiana, and Rygel decided to go their own separate ways. John and Aeryn decided to stay with each other and just look around. "You have to get a hold of yourself John." John rolled his eyes when he recognized the voice. John let his eyes search the area, and landed on Scorpius not to far away, well the cheap version of the real Scorpius. John laughed at this little joke he had made. "What are you laughing at?" said the clone Scorpy. John smirked and then said "mind your own bee's wax." He then stuck out his tongue in a very childish manner. He caught sight of Aeryn giving him a "What the frell are you doing now?" look. He then pretended to be wetting his lips.
Aeryn started to walk away so John followed ignoring the fake clone Scorpy. John and Aeryn were walking with the crowd of beings and aliens, and just looking at stuff as they passed by. Then all of a sudden John stopped in the middle of the dusty street, causing everybody behind him to slam into his back. He didn't know why he had stopped but something was telling him that something was very wrong and something was going to happen. He didn't notice that one of the beings, or aliens as you would call it, did not like him stopping in the middle of the street. The alien lost his temper and decided to go after John. "You stupid piece of Dren. WATCH where you are going." He then picked up John as though he was a feather and threw him a good 10 feet away.
John was standing there one sec, the next second he was FLYING? He saw the ground coming up fast and he knew this was going to hurt. He put his hands up to protect anything that might cause serious injury. He landed very hard on his stomach right on top of some alien's commerce stand. The alien yelled and yipped at him to get off his stand. John shook his head and rolled off hitting the ground with a thud. The alien that had thrown him looked at him and turned his head and began to blend into the other aliens as he was walking away. When he did that, something had snapped inside of John making him lose his temper and all sense of the word, calm. John scrambled up to his feet, kicking dust and rocks up in the air. He moved side to side trying to avoid the others and just trying to get to the alien being. He went full speed, charging into him like he was a linebacker. The alien was not expecting this at all and crumpled at John's weight. There were legs and arms flying about as they rolled around trying to get the upper hand. John finally rolled on top; he began to hit him with as much force he could muster. He could not stop hitting him; he would not stop hitting him. He wanted this thing to suffer; for it was not he this time who was suffering it was this alien.
Aeryn had heard the commotion and looked behind her. She saw John tackle a Moulvaken and began to hit him. She ran back and grabbed John by the shoulders and heaved him off. John was still trying to get at the Moulvaken, kicking and screaming, yelling stuff her translator microbes could not pronounce. The Moulvaken lying unconscious in the dusty street, the aliens or beings would just walk over him like he was nothing. Aeryn led John to one of the alleys and then began to lay it on him. "What the FRELL is your PROBLEM?" John gave her a disgusted look. "Oh Miss Tuff Chick of the Universe! You always beat the shit out of everything that comes in sight. So, ol' Johnny Boy decided to take a smack at it. So I would not be talking, Princess" John then turned around and started to walk away, Aeryn did not think this conversation was over. She grabbed onto his arm, in order to stop him but he did not like this. He jerked his arm away as roughly as possible. He turned around, with a dark tone about him he said. "Don't you DARE touch me without permission." He then turned back around and left her. She looked at his back with hatred. She then yelled as loud as she could muster. "FRELL YOU CRICHTON!" Tears began to well up in her eyes, but she angrily wiped them away with the back of her hand, trying not to show that she had been hurt. She turned the opposite way that he had and left hoping that she wouldn't see him for a long time. But luck or fates wouldn't let this happen, for she would see him within a mater of microts.
Aeryn was sulking and being pissed off at the same time. She looked around a bit but she couldn't stop thinking about John. How dare he get angry with her? She tried not to think about it for she didn't want to get more pissed off. She decided that she wanted off this planet so she hit her comm, Pilot always listened to her. "Pilot?" She waited to hear his calming voice. But nothing, no voice, just dead air. She tried again. "Pilot, can you hear me?" Nothing "Dren." She then tried contacting anyone who might be able to hear her. But nobody would answer her. She tried John, but he would not talk. She knew he would either have switched it off or just didn't want to answer. She knew where he was so she turned back around and ran in the same direction from which she had come. She got to where she last saw him and then turned in the direction she had seen him go. She stopped dead in her tracks when she came to an intersection. She looked both ways but she could not see John. She was just to short to look pass the body parts and heads. She bit her lip and then she smiled. She unhooked her pulse rifle and charged it up. She looked around one last time then pointed to the sky and proceeded to shoot it three times. Everybody who was close hit the ground or ducked for cover. John, hearing the pulse rifle. did not duck for cover and was looking for whoever had shot it. He was the only one still standing so Aeryn was able to see him right away. She put her pulse rifle back and jogged over to where John was. She noticed that he was going to say something, and that it probably would not be very kind so she beat him to it. "You would not answer your comm so that was the only thought that came to my mind. It worked and nobody was hurt, OK?" She saw that he was satisfied and began to tell him why she was there. "I needed to find you for we have a problem. Pilot's not answering." He looked at her, and then with his hand he wiped his mouth. He then said, "well maybe we should try mine. It could just be something wrong with your comm." He unhooked his comm and gave it to her. She pressed the button and called out to Pilot once more. "Pilot. Pilot, why are you not answering?" called Aeryn. Still no answer, it had to be Pilot and not the coms, right? Aeryn looked over at John who to had a worried look on his face. John reached over and took his badge again and called out to his fellow crewmates, "You guys we have a problem. Pilot will not, or cannot answer our calls. We better get back up to Moya, and I mean right now." John waited for anyone of them to reply to him. He then heard Rygel's protesting and huffy voice. "Why can't you and Aeryn DO it? I'm in the middle of a deal with a Karvaven. Do you have any idea what will happen if I leave now, NO you don't!" John rolled his eyes. "Fine Guido. Do whatever you want." He then said under his breath "for all I care you can throw yourself off a frelling cliff." John turned of his badge, and left it at that.
Chiana had heard Aeryn's and John's conversation over the coms and decided she would go with them. She hated this planet; she couldn't get anyone to notice her. Well, she did get some of them to notice her, but they were just to dull for her. She has had a better time kicking around Rygel then she did on this little planet. So when she found out John and Aeryn wanted to leave and check on Pilot, she had made her decision that she wanted off this planet and off it right NOW!!!!
Chiana walked along the dusty streets, not looking at her surroundings. She looked up a ways to see John and Aeryn standing in the middle of the street, letting the other species go around them. Neither John nor Aeryn noticed Chiana coming up towards them. She came closer to them and they still hadn't seen her, so she decided to scare John. The only thing she didn't expect from him was his reaction: having Wynona being aimed and charged right at her head. When she had tapped him on the shoulder and said "I gottcha Crichton" he had turned around with anger and a hint of fear in his icy blue eyes, drew his pulse rifle in a quick motion and had it charged and ready to shoot. Chiana didn't move for fear of him not snapping out of it and just blowing her away. But then she saw it dawn on him and he became very quickly ashamed at his actions and at himself. "Oh God. Pip, I'm soooo sorry!" Chiana was not sure what to say, until she saw the guilt smothering his features, she gave him a little smile and said, "It's all right old man. Just don't let it happened again."
John didn't know what was happening to himself. He never in his life believed he would pull a gun on someone, ever. He would rather kill himself then do that to another living thing. But here he was pulling his gun out without so much as a slight hesitation. He had become a psychotic, trigger-happy, frelling maniac, and it almost scared him that he liked it. He really wasn't sure what truly happened with the pulling a gun on Chiana thing. He was standing there with Aeryn in the middle of the street, and Scorpy had finally left him alone. Well then out of nowhere he heard, too close for comfort, "I got you Crichton." He had turned around drawing his weapon and ready to kill Scorpius on the spot, for it was Scorpius's voice John had heard. He saw him right in front of him he wanted to shoot, but then he disappeared on him and Chiana's face replaced Scorpius's. He felt so terrible, how could he have gotten to the point where he thought everything was Scorpius? He just wanted to take that gun and point it to his temple and just end it right there. But he couldn't, especially with Aeryn and Chiana standing right there. He would have to find a way to make it up to her. She had made it sound like she was all right in what he had done but he knew deep down inside that she was scared and worried that one of these days he was just going to kill one of them.
He looked at Chiana again, but then he saw it. He saw his very own live Scorpy standing a little ways from Chiana. He knew it was the fake one again, but still, it still seemed so real. He tried to understand why he was seeing more of Scorpy in the same day. Usually Scorpy would talk to him on a regular basis, just nagging and doing his usual Scorpy talk. But today Scorpy kept popping up everywhere he turned, and then he would just vanish, and go back into his little confused mind. The more Scorpy kept appearing the more he got paranoid and skittish, and the more he did that, the more his body would fill with that gut-wrenching feeling of fear. Then when Pilot would not answer them that was just adding on to all his other emotions and it was becoming too much for him to handle.
He turned away from the grinning Scorpy and said "Let's get back to Moya." Chiana and Aeryn nodded. "What about everybody else, shouldn't they come with us?" questioned Chiana. Aeryn was about to say something but John had beaten her to the punch. "Why bother, if they didn't want to answer us in the first place, their not going to go now." Aeryn bit her lip and then said "All right then, let's go." Aeryn leading the way, with Chiana in the middle and John tailing them from behind.
John looked back to see if Scorpy was following. But he was no longer there. John shook his head and turned back around to see how far Chiana and Aeryn had gotten. But instead of the little black and gray Chiana and the Radiant Aeryn Sun he saw the black pale, rotten and decaying teeth, and the piercing black eyes of Scorpius. He was so shocked to see him that close that his reaction was to back up. But instead of just backing up, he tripped and went flying backwards. He landed hard on his already aching back and ended up knocking the wind out of himself. He did manage, when he was falling, to bring his pulse rifle to bare. His pulse rifle now on Scorpius' head, he tried to shoot it. That would end his misery and suffering and his agonizing pain, but his sweaty finger would no longer pull the trigger. John felt the heat as it seemed to crank up a couple of notches; he then began to notice the hot sweaty beads roll down his already sunburned face. Scorpius in his leather and dark outfit, scrunched up and he could hear it as well as he bent down to lower himself so he would be face to face with John. "John, you can't get rid of me that easy." John, not knowing what he was truly doing, began to lower his weapon. He looked into Scorpius's eyes and was paralyzed with fear and hatred. Scorpius smiled and whispered as though someone would overhear him. "Trust me John, everything will work out for the both of us." John then heard an angel's voice from up above him. "John?" The angel's voice sounded worried and not too sure what had happened. John looked up to see this angel but saw Aeryn instead and Chiana as well. Aeryn again then asked in her worried voice. "John, what happened? Are you all right?" John moved his head around to look for Scorpius but he was not there. He was nowhere, it wasn't real. John had believed so much that this time it was real, and that Scorpius was really beside him. But it was his mind AGAIN playing its usual tricks on him. John looked back up at Chiana and Aeryn, and pretended as though nothing had occurred just seconds ago. He took Aeryn's hand and got up with a little grunt escaping from his lips. "I'm fine Aeryn, must have tripped on my own clumsy feet." John began to dust himself from when he was on the dusty street. He put his pulse rifle back into its safe little haven. Chiana began to talk again, but Scorpy's voice drowned her out. "Trust me, everything will work out, for me. that is."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS SHIP HAS STOPPED!" yelled Scorpius. The officer who was standing before Scorpius was trying not to show the fear that had taken over his very own body. He did not know why he had to be the one to inform the Sebeccen-Scarren Hybrid, Scorpius. The officer who stood before Scorpius, deeply wished he was not there, but someone else. The officer took a breath before he tried to convince Scorpius why his command carrier stopped, and what would be done about it. "Scorpius, Sir. The techs are finding..." Scorpius put up his hand up and stopping the officer in mid sentence. "You will get this ship going before this arn is up." Scorpius moved his head just a little to the right, as though Scorpius was trying to read off the officer. "Or I'll have your head planted and placed upon my wall!" Before Scorpius walked away, Scorpius noticed he had scared the living dren out of the officer and Scorpius smiled to himself. Scorpius walked away with his assistant tailing from behind. Scorpius breathed in deeply when he saw another officer running up towards him. "Scorpius." Scorpius growled and turned back around to look at the officer who called his name. "What?" Scorpius snapped. The female officer didn't flinch, but smiled instead. Scorpius not giving any thought, turned his back towards her and began to walk away again. "Sir, I do believe you will be pleased." Scorpius stopped and turned back around and looked at her with a puzzled look. "We have the Leviathan in our sights." The anger that was written all over his face disappeared and a smile replaced it.
(On the Commerce Planet)
The group had broken up to see what they could bring back to Moya. Zhaan and D'argo, Chiana, and Rygel decided to go their own separate ways. John and Aeryn decided to stay with each other and just look around. "You have to get a hold of yourself John." John rolled his eyes when he recognized the voice. John let his eyes search the area, and landed on Scorpius not to far away, well the cheap version of the real Scorpius. John laughed at this little joke he had made. "What are you laughing at?" said the clone Scorpy. John smirked and then said "mind your own bee's wax." He then stuck out his tongue in a very childish manner. He caught sight of Aeryn giving him a "What the frell are you doing now?" look. He then pretended to be wetting his lips.
Aeryn started to walk away so John followed ignoring the fake clone Scorpy. John and Aeryn were walking with the crowd of beings and aliens, and just looking at stuff as they passed by. Then all of a sudden John stopped in the middle of the dusty street, causing everybody behind him to slam into his back. He didn't know why he had stopped but something was telling him that something was very wrong and something was going to happen. He didn't notice that one of the beings, or aliens as you would call it, did not like him stopping in the middle of the street. The alien lost his temper and decided to go after John. "You stupid piece of Dren. WATCH where you are going." He then picked up John as though he was a feather and threw him a good 10 feet away.
John was standing there one sec, the next second he was FLYING? He saw the ground coming up fast and he knew this was going to hurt. He put his hands up to protect anything that might cause serious injury. He landed very hard on his stomach right on top of some alien's commerce stand. The alien yelled and yipped at him to get off his stand. John shook his head and rolled off hitting the ground with a thud. The alien that had thrown him looked at him and turned his head and began to blend into the other aliens as he was walking away. When he did that, something had snapped inside of John making him lose his temper and all sense of the word, calm. John scrambled up to his feet, kicking dust and rocks up in the air. He moved side to side trying to avoid the others and just trying to get to the alien being. He went full speed, charging into him like he was a linebacker. The alien was not expecting this at all and crumpled at John's weight. There were legs and arms flying about as they rolled around trying to get the upper hand. John finally rolled on top; he began to hit him with as much force he could muster. He could not stop hitting him; he would not stop hitting him. He wanted this thing to suffer; for it was not he this time who was suffering it was this alien.
Aeryn had heard the commotion and looked behind her. She saw John tackle a Moulvaken and began to hit him. She ran back and grabbed John by the shoulders and heaved him off. John was still trying to get at the Moulvaken, kicking and screaming, yelling stuff her translator microbes could not pronounce. The Moulvaken lying unconscious in the dusty street, the aliens or beings would just walk over him like he was nothing. Aeryn led John to one of the alleys and then began to lay it on him. "What the FRELL is your PROBLEM?" John gave her a disgusted look. "Oh Miss Tuff Chick of the Universe! You always beat the shit out of everything that comes in sight. So, ol' Johnny Boy decided to take a smack at it. So I would not be talking, Princess" John then turned around and started to walk away, Aeryn did not think this conversation was over. She grabbed onto his arm, in order to stop him but he did not like this. He jerked his arm away as roughly as possible. He turned around, with a dark tone about him he said. "Don't you DARE touch me without permission." He then turned back around and left her. She looked at his back with hatred. She then yelled as loud as she could muster. "FRELL YOU CRICHTON!" Tears began to well up in her eyes, but she angrily wiped them away with the back of her hand, trying not to show that she had been hurt. She turned the opposite way that he had and left hoping that she wouldn't see him for a long time. But luck or fates wouldn't let this happen, for she would see him within a mater of microts.
Aeryn was sulking and being pissed off at the same time. She looked around a bit but she couldn't stop thinking about John. How dare he get angry with her? She tried not to think about it for she didn't want to get more pissed off. She decided that she wanted off this planet so she hit her comm, Pilot always listened to her. "Pilot?" She waited to hear his calming voice. But nothing, no voice, just dead air. She tried again. "Pilot, can you hear me?" Nothing "Dren." She then tried contacting anyone who might be able to hear her. But nobody would answer her. She tried John, but he would not talk. She knew he would either have switched it off or just didn't want to answer. She knew where he was so she turned back around and ran in the same direction from which she had come. She got to where she last saw him and then turned in the direction she had seen him go. She stopped dead in her tracks when she came to an intersection. She looked both ways but she could not see John. She was just to short to look pass the body parts and heads. She bit her lip and then she smiled. She unhooked her pulse rifle and charged it up. She looked around one last time then pointed to the sky and proceeded to shoot it three times. Everybody who was close hit the ground or ducked for cover. John, hearing the pulse rifle. did not duck for cover and was looking for whoever had shot it. He was the only one still standing so Aeryn was able to see him right away. She put her pulse rifle back and jogged over to where John was. She noticed that he was going to say something, and that it probably would not be very kind so she beat him to it. "You would not answer your comm so that was the only thought that came to my mind. It worked and nobody was hurt, OK?" She saw that he was satisfied and began to tell him why she was there. "I needed to find you for we have a problem. Pilot's not answering." He looked at her, and then with his hand he wiped his mouth. He then said, "well maybe we should try mine. It could just be something wrong with your comm." He unhooked his comm and gave it to her. She pressed the button and called out to Pilot once more. "Pilot. Pilot, why are you not answering?" called Aeryn. Still no answer, it had to be Pilot and not the coms, right? Aeryn looked over at John who to had a worried look on his face. John reached over and took his badge again and called out to his fellow crewmates, "You guys we have a problem. Pilot will not, or cannot answer our calls. We better get back up to Moya, and I mean right now." John waited for anyone of them to reply to him. He then heard Rygel's protesting and huffy voice. "Why can't you and Aeryn DO it? I'm in the middle of a deal with a Karvaven. Do you have any idea what will happen if I leave now, NO you don't!" John rolled his eyes. "Fine Guido. Do whatever you want." He then said under his breath "for all I care you can throw yourself off a frelling cliff." John turned of his badge, and left it at that.
Chiana had heard Aeryn's and John's conversation over the coms and decided she would go with them. She hated this planet; she couldn't get anyone to notice her. Well, she did get some of them to notice her, but they were just to dull for her. She has had a better time kicking around Rygel then she did on this little planet. So when she found out John and Aeryn wanted to leave and check on Pilot, she had made her decision that she wanted off this planet and off it right NOW!!!!
Chiana walked along the dusty streets, not looking at her surroundings. She looked up a ways to see John and Aeryn standing in the middle of the street, letting the other species go around them. Neither John nor Aeryn noticed Chiana coming up towards them. She came closer to them and they still hadn't seen her, so she decided to scare John. The only thing she didn't expect from him was his reaction: having Wynona being aimed and charged right at her head. When she had tapped him on the shoulder and said "I gottcha Crichton" he had turned around with anger and a hint of fear in his icy blue eyes, drew his pulse rifle in a quick motion and had it charged and ready to shoot. Chiana didn't move for fear of him not snapping out of it and just blowing her away. But then she saw it dawn on him and he became very quickly ashamed at his actions and at himself. "Oh God. Pip, I'm soooo sorry!" Chiana was not sure what to say, until she saw the guilt smothering his features, she gave him a little smile and said, "It's all right old man. Just don't let it happened again."
John didn't know what was happening to himself. He never in his life believed he would pull a gun on someone, ever. He would rather kill himself then do that to another living thing. But here he was pulling his gun out without so much as a slight hesitation. He had become a psychotic, trigger-happy, frelling maniac, and it almost scared him that he liked it. He really wasn't sure what truly happened with the pulling a gun on Chiana thing. He was standing there with Aeryn in the middle of the street, and Scorpy had finally left him alone. Well then out of nowhere he heard, too close for comfort, "I got you Crichton." He had turned around drawing his weapon and ready to kill Scorpius on the spot, for it was Scorpius's voice John had heard. He saw him right in front of him he wanted to shoot, but then he disappeared on him and Chiana's face replaced Scorpius's. He felt so terrible, how could he have gotten to the point where he thought everything was Scorpius? He just wanted to take that gun and point it to his temple and just end it right there. But he couldn't, especially with Aeryn and Chiana standing right there. He would have to find a way to make it up to her. She had made it sound like she was all right in what he had done but he knew deep down inside that she was scared and worried that one of these days he was just going to kill one of them.
He looked at Chiana again, but then he saw it. He saw his very own live Scorpy standing a little ways from Chiana. He knew it was the fake one again, but still, it still seemed so real. He tried to understand why he was seeing more of Scorpy in the same day. Usually Scorpy would talk to him on a regular basis, just nagging and doing his usual Scorpy talk. But today Scorpy kept popping up everywhere he turned, and then he would just vanish, and go back into his little confused mind. The more Scorpy kept appearing the more he got paranoid and skittish, and the more he did that, the more his body would fill with that gut-wrenching feeling of fear. Then when Pilot would not answer them that was just adding on to all his other emotions and it was becoming too much for him to handle.
He turned away from the grinning Scorpy and said "Let's get back to Moya." Chiana and Aeryn nodded. "What about everybody else, shouldn't they come with us?" questioned Chiana. Aeryn was about to say something but John had beaten her to the punch. "Why bother, if they didn't want to answer us in the first place, their not going to go now." Aeryn bit her lip and then said "All right then, let's go." Aeryn leading the way, with Chiana in the middle and John tailing them from behind.
John looked back to see if Scorpy was following. But he was no longer there. John shook his head and turned back around to see how far Chiana and Aeryn had gotten. But instead of the little black and gray Chiana and the Radiant Aeryn Sun he saw the black pale, rotten and decaying teeth, and the piercing black eyes of Scorpius. He was so shocked to see him that close that his reaction was to back up. But instead of just backing up, he tripped and went flying backwards. He landed hard on his already aching back and ended up knocking the wind out of himself. He did manage, when he was falling, to bring his pulse rifle to bare. His pulse rifle now on Scorpius' head, he tried to shoot it. That would end his misery and suffering and his agonizing pain, but his sweaty finger would no longer pull the trigger. John felt the heat as it seemed to crank up a couple of notches; he then began to notice the hot sweaty beads roll down his already sunburned face. Scorpius in his leather and dark outfit, scrunched up and he could hear it as well as he bent down to lower himself so he would be face to face with John. "John, you can't get rid of me that easy." John, not knowing what he was truly doing, began to lower his weapon. He looked into Scorpius's eyes and was paralyzed with fear and hatred. Scorpius smiled and whispered as though someone would overhear him. "Trust me John, everything will work out for the both of us." John then heard an angel's voice from up above him. "John?" The angel's voice sounded worried and not too sure what had happened. John looked up to see this angel but saw Aeryn instead and Chiana as well. Aeryn again then asked in her worried voice. "John, what happened? Are you all right?" John moved his head around to look for Scorpius but he was not there. He was nowhere, it wasn't real. John had believed so much that this time it was real, and that Scorpius was really beside him. But it was his mind AGAIN playing its usual tricks on him. John looked back up at Chiana and Aeryn, and pretended as though nothing had occurred just seconds ago. He took Aeryn's hand and got up with a little grunt escaping from his lips. "I'm fine Aeryn, must have tripped on my own clumsy feet." John began to dust himself from when he was on the dusty street. He put his pulse rifle back into its safe little haven. Chiana began to talk again, but Scorpy's voice drowned her out. "Trust me, everything will work out, for me. that is."
