sUMMARY::: X* Tom, Harry, B´Elanna and Seska plays pool. Set in early season 1*X



.::.How To Not Make Friends.::.



"O.k, Seska, your turn." Harry said after a total miss.

"Sure, mr Kim."

Seska was unbelievable nice today, but not to everyone.

"Paris, could you move over?"

"If you say 'please' I will."

"C´mon Tom. Do as she says, please, or else everything will fail agagin."

"What will fail?"

"The four of us being friends."

"Moi?" Seska said, stunned. "I won´t make friends with you for a lifetime of replicator rations!" She tossed her cuein a corner of Sandrine´s and made every holocharacter in there turn around hoping for a barfight.

"Then why are you playing with us ?" Harry said, tucking his head to the right.

"It´s simple. I wanted to go out and Chakotay´s working. Both Holodecks were booked and the only one open for everone was this lousy program. Unfortunaly *you* were here." She turned her heels and made her way out of there.

"Great Paris. You´re almost as ductile as a pink alephant doing the lambada."

"What´s the color of the elephant with this to do?"

"Never mind! Are you going to do that to all Maquis?"

"Do what?"

"Annoy them until they gotta ran away to not punch you out. Captain´s little pet."

"Believe me, most of them won´t run away if I´d annoy them."

"You´re a disgrase for the maquis, to Starfleet, to everybody.! I understand your father when he kicked you uot of the family!"

"B´Elanna!" Harry hissed warningly between his teeth. He knew Tom didn´t like to hear people talk about his family, to talk about it himself, or being asked to talk about it.

"Harry, it´s okay, I don´t care how much she sneers at me."

"You´ve a screw loose, Paris."

"Acually it´s several." He said, shaking his head. "Can+t you hear the rattling?"

"Ow! You´re impossible!" She yelled, also rushing out. Tom Paris just smiled. Harry looked at him.

"Do you take a perverse pleasure in annoying people?" No answer.

"Now you´ve made her upset too!"

"Klingons usually have that peculiarity ; to get upset because of the little * annoying* things in their lives."

"Aw! She´s right you know! You´re impossible! I gotta go find B´Elanna!"

Harry rushed out through the same door as Seska and B´Elanna did before him.

Tom Paris stood where he stood, still holding his cue.

After a while his usual cocky smile faded away, and instead he almost looked.. sad.

*It would be nice to once have real friends :* He thought.