*You can always go back to whoring around the bars . . .*

"Hey, I said leave her alone!" Harper shouted at Tyr.

"You and what army are going to acomplish that task boy?" Tyr said as he drew himself up to his full height and crossed his arms over his chest.

"I don't need an army!" he said.

"Harper!" Tranced hissed as she pulled on his arm.

"I've got it covered Trance."

"Do you now?" Tyr asked.

"There is no need for this," Rev spoke up. "Why don't we all just walk away now before someone gets hurt?"

"You should listen to the Magog, boy," Tyr countered as the two began to circle each other.

"Why don't you take his advice? Not good enough for you?"

"I'm willing to walk away, but if I do, you might do something stupid and try to jump me or what ever," Tyr said calmly.

"Hey! Leave him alone Uber!" Beka yelled as she raced in. Tyr, Harper, Trance and Rev turned to look at her.

"Do not call me Uber," he said calmly.

"Beka, they won't listen," Rev said.

"It wasn't my fault, honest!" Trance exclaimed.

"Ahhhhh!" Harper called as he jumped Tyr. The group ended up in one big maylay trying to get Harper off of Tyr before Tyr killed him. Harper stopped cold when he felt the barrel of a gun against his head.

"Get down Mr. Harper," Dylan said calmly as I rushed in behind him.

"As soon as the gun goes buh-bye," he said, still clinging to Tyr.

"Yeah, get that gun off my man!" Beka yelled.

"Boss, I never knew!"

"Shut up Harper!" Beka, Trance and I yelled. His mouth quickly shut. Trance and Rev backed away as Beka pushed Dylan out of the way, grabbed Harper and pulled him off. She walked over to me.

"You! You always drag him into this! This time he's got a gun. That's great. If something, anything, had happened, Harper woulda been a gonner. For someone with a brain the size of a planet, you sure are stupid!" she yelled.

"Beka, he's the Captain, he needs to know!" I countered. Holo Rommie showed up near by.

"She's right Beka."

"To hell with it. My crew, my problem," she said to us. "And you, stay the hell out of this!" she yelled at Dylan. I stood back and looked at things.

Rev, Trance and Harper had gathered behind Beka, myself and the hologram stood by Dylan and Tyr was just here with us, on neither side of things.

"You know what, lets take a vote here and now. All those who are willing to leave with me to find her, say I."

"I," said Harper. "I'm tired of this joint anyways."

"I will," said Trance.

"As will I," said Rev. "I do not believe the Divine would have allowed things to fall into such a state if our paths lay here." Beka got a smug look on her face.

"Well, I guess that's it then. I'd invite you Tyr, but I like Trance more than I like you. Same goes for Harper."

"Thanks boss!" he said.

"Anytime. Come on, we leave in 20 minutes. Get your stuff," she said as the three of them left. Tyr just shook his head and left and my hologram disappeared. I started to leave when I heard Dylan and Beka start again.

"You can't leave."

"Watch me Captain Hunt," she said with venom.

"Andromeda, don't let them leave."

"Docking bay sealed," I said.

"You bastard! You are unbelieveable! I ask you for one thing, to give up one planet and you won't, but you want me to stick around by your side? Grow up! You've got to give a little to get a little," she said.

"Oh, and running out on me when things get tough? Toying with the loyalties you've got to make me beg you to stay? That's mature?" he asked as he came over to her.

"And pulling a gun on Harper is? And reassuring me that you would protect Cassie and blowing it is? And guilting me into staying is the High Guard way I suppose." She sighed. "You're a relic Hunt. You don't get the way things work anymore. It's every man for himself and you don't get it. But you know

what? I just don't care anymore. Sign them, don't sign them, blow yourself up. Go for it." She turned to leave.

"Right, so you can go back to salvaging? Bar hopping? Trying to keep Harper alive and yourself ahead of the mountain of debt I know you have? I've seen the bills. They're worth more than you and your ship put together. Oh well," he said quietly, "you can always go back to whoring around the bars to get that extra cash. I mean, you didn't expect me to think you never did that? That performance with Hawkins at Pierpoint was wonderful and for that kind of reaction, you have to have practiced." He finished with a self- satisfactory smile on his face. Too bad he didn't see her coming back over and her right hook coming towards his face. It connected and he stumbled back, finally landing on the floor. She stood over him and put a foot on his chest.

"Get used to being down there, cause I'm gonna make sure you fall on your ass and never get back up from it." She left her foot on his chest and pushed a little harder as she cocked her gauss gun and pointed it at him.

"And you, open the hanger doors, or I'll fire, I really don't need or want his company anymore."

"Hanger bays open," I said quickly.

"Close them, and I'll shoot you. Track us after, I'll shoot you," she said as she took her foot off of him and left.

"Well, that went well," my hologram said after Dylan had stormed off.

"She was way out of line," the computer said.

"So was he," I said. "He did promise to protect Cassidie and he didn't need to pull the gun on Harper."

"Maybe Beka should have taken responsibility for Cassidie. Dylan did put her in charge of her," the hologram said.

"But he asked her to trust him, and she took a leap of faith and did. Look where it got her. She was right about bailing at the first true test," I said.

"This is pointless," the computer said. "We're losing more than half our crew, Dylan's going to sign the Zillians and we're going to loose Cassidie and the others if we don't at least get them to be friends. Lovers would be a nice treat, but let's start with 'don't want to kill each other' terms."

"Okay, I'll talk to Beka," I said.

"I'll talk to Dylan," the hologram said as she blinked out of existance.

"I'll just keep things under control," the computer said to an empty room.