Disclaimer I don't own anything in this story except the character mat everything else belongs to Tribune and whoever else. I'm not making any money from this so please don't sue me
A/N : this is the first time i have ever written a story of any kind. Also this is set after the season 3 opener so everything that has happened up until then has happened in my story with the exception of Trance being purple instead of gold
"What?" I asked as I tried to absorb what I had just been told
"You heard me... He's gone. He took a slip-fighter and left after asking us not to follow him" replied Hologram Andromeda with a slightly angry look on her face.
"Why would he leave? Did he give you any explanation?"
"Yes he came back told me what happened went to his room packed a few things and left"
"Well what did he say the problem was?" I was getting worried he had never done anything like this before.
"You know damn well what the problem is." She spat out her reply with such vehemence it caught me off guard and I flinched.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked timidly
"Think back to all the things you did on the drift and tell me if any of it might warrant such a response from him" She replied giving me a scathing look before flickering out of existence.
I stared at the place where she just was and started thinking about all the things that had happened in the past eight hours; nothing seemed too out of place. Then all of a sudden it hit me...
Four Hours Ago
I was sitting in a bar waiting for Dylan to turn up for our date. It had taken me three years of trying until I finally got him to admit what he felt for me and this was our first date. We were going to have a nice dinner and talk until everyone was finished and met up with us here. As I glanced around the room my android sensors registered another AI as I looked at him I realized he look alot like Gabriel 'Now there's a name I haven't thought of in a long time' he looked back at me and started to move towards me. I remained where I was and he eventually reached me and sat down next to me.
"Hi my name is Mat, what's yours?" He said
"Rommie ... My name is Rommie" I replied stuttering a little as I got a good look at him.
"That is a beautiful name" he replied smiling
"Thank you" I said returning his smile
"Tell me what is a beautiful android like you doing sitting at a bar alone?" He asked as he thoroughly examined me and what I was wearing
"Nothing really just waiting for a friend" I said then thought 'Friend... Dylan is more then just a friend why didn't I tell him the truth'
"Really well then do you mind if I join you while you wait for this 'Friend'?" He said with a little smile once again playing along his face
"No not at all" I replied. 'What the hell are you doing you're flirting with an AI while waiting for your man to arrive' I thought.
"Very good now what would you like to order?" He asked as he pulled up a menu with android friendly meals and beverages.
"What ever you're having will be fine" I replied
"Ok then" he said as he signalled for a waiter to come and take his order.
We made small talk for about twenty minutes while waiting for our meals to be served. During this time I found out that he was a teacher on the drift and also the babysitter for parents who wanted to go into the casino and had nowhere to leave their children. He didn't ask me any questions, which was good because I liked hearing all about what he did here. We sat in silence whilst eating, at the end of the meal we got up and started to leave then all of a sudden he kissed me. I just stood there for a few seconds then I started to respond when we finally broke the kiss he whispered "Let's go back to my house" and started to lead me down the street towards a big cluster of apartments. I was about to agree when I caught sight of Trance leading Harper into a flower shop, the sight of them made me remember I was meant to be waiting for them here.
"I can't I have to wait here for my friends to arrive" I said in a slightly husky voice
"That's ok I will wait here with you then if that's ok?"
"Sure no problem" I said as I took his hand and we went back into the bar as we were entering I noticed a bunch of flowers thrown against the ground just on the other side of the door 'Somebody did something bad to their partner for them to just throw those expensive flowers away like that' I thought as we entered the bar
"So you haven't told me anything about yourself yet" he said as we sat down
"Well what would you like to know?" I asked coming out of my reverie
"For starters who are you? And what are you doing at this drift?"
"I'm a Ships Avatar and we just stopped at this drift for some shore leave"
"Really a Ships Avatar? What ship is lucky enough to have such a beautiful personae?" He asked with a smile
"The Andromeda Ascendant" I replied
"The ANDROMEDA ASCENDANT?" He let out a startled breath
"Yes why?" I asked curious as to why he reacted that way
"Because I've heard all about what you and your crew have done and I would really like to meet your captain Dylan Hunt..." he trailed off when he saw the horror on my face
"What's wrong? What did I say?" He was now totally confused
"Dylan... Oh My God.... I have to leave now" I said as I got up and ran from the bar leaving a bewildered Mat behind.
I ran as fast as I could away from the bar thinking to myself 'I wont tell Dylan what happened at the bar as it didn't mean anything and I would just pretend that I thought that he meant to meet him at a different bar'. So I made my way to the bar furthest from the one I was just at and sat and waited for three hours before deciding to return to the Andromeda and apologizing to him for the mix up with the bars and to try and make it up to him.
Back to the Present
I gasped when the thought returned and wondered how he'd found out
"Andromeda" I called and waited for the Hologram to appear
"What do you want?" She asked as she appeared in front of me scowling
"What did he tell you happened?" I asked not really wanting to hear the answer
"He told me he was on his way towards the bar when he saw you coming out of it with another man next to you. He said he didn't think much of it until he kissed you and YOU RESPONDED TO IT" the last few words came out so loud I thought all the consoles on the command deck would shatter
"Oh nonononono" I said as I dropped to the deck with my face in my hands
"How could you do that to him? You had finally got him to look past protocol and admit what he felt for you. Then on your VERY FIRST DATE you decided not to wait for him and just pick up some guy standing around? What wasn't Dylan going to be enough for you?" I was shocked as the triad of words continued, too shocked to reply right away but when I did it was through tear filled eyes
"That's not how it was at all. He was an Android and we started talking then we had some food and as we where walking out he kissed me. I didn't want to respond but my body had a mind of it's own and I couldn't stop myself." I cried out looking up at her
"That's a lovely excuse...'I couldn't stop myself'" she replied sarcastically "I guess you think that makes it all better?"
"No that's not what I meant, it wasn't meant to be an excuse" I said trying to get a hold of myself but failing
"You know that you broke his heart when you did that" she said in a soft tone of voice, to which I just dumbly nodded
"But you know what's even worse?" She asked me so quietly that I was afraid to reply
"He feels like you BETRAYED him." She said after a few minutes of silence, I just looked up at her dumbfounded betrayed him? I would never betray him... and yet I did.
"Did he tell you that?" I asked in a mouse like voice
"No but I saw it in his eyes and I have only ever seen that look in his eyes once before" she replied, she didn't need to elaborate on that as we both knew when that one time was. It was right after his best friend Gaheris Rahde betrayed him at the opening battle of the Commonwealth Civil War.
"Oh no so now I'm on the same page as Rahde in Dylan's book" I asked
"Most likely" she replied and with those last words she flickered out of existence leaving me to my tears and uncontrollable sobbing. That was how the rest of the crew found me one hour later.
"Rom-Doll what's wrong?" Asked Harper worriedly as he came running over to me but I didn't reply, I couldn't I was still too upset and nothing he could say would fix it
"Andromeda what's wrong with Rommie?" Asked Beka as she too came to stand in front of me wondering what could have made me this upset
"My Avatar did something very stupid on the drift and as a result Dylan has left the ship" replied Andromeda as she appeared on the VDU glaring at me
"What do you mean Dylan has left the ship? Where did he go?" Beka asked to startled to notice how Andromeda had looked at me
"I mean exactly what I said Dylan has left the ship, I do not know where he went and he has asked us not to follow him." She replied "and I unlike my Avatar RESPECT Dylan enough not to disobey him" and with that she vanished from the VDU leaving a stunned crew looking to me for answers. I looked up gathered myself and then started to explain what was going on, by the time I had concluded my story there where mixed reactions from the crew. Trance was sad that Dylan left, Harper was upset because I was upset, Beka was furious at me for how I had treated Dylan and Tyr.... Well Tyr hardly ever let his emotions surface but I could see a tightening around his eyes which showed that any respect he had for me had just went out the window as I did the one thing a woman should never do in the eyes of a Nieztschean which was I had chosen a male and then went behind his back and started a relationship with another male. But I didn't really care what the crew thought or felt about me at that moment because the only person that mattered in my life I had just betrayed.
A/N : this is the first time i have ever written a story of any kind. Also this is set after the season 3 opener so everything that has happened up until then has happened in my story with the exception of Trance being purple instead of gold
"What?" I asked as I tried to absorb what I had just been told
"You heard me... He's gone. He took a slip-fighter and left after asking us not to follow him" replied Hologram Andromeda with a slightly angry look on her face.
"Why would he leave? Did he give you any explanation?"
"Yes he came back told me what happened went to his room packed a few things and left"
"Well what did he say the problem was?" I was getting worried he had never done anything like this before.
"You know damn well what the problem is." She spat out her reply with such vehemence it caught me off guard and I flinched.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked timidly
"Think back to all the things you did on the drift and tell me if any of it might warrant such a response from him" She replied giving me a scathing look before flickering out of existence.
I stared at the place where she just was and started thinking about all the things that had happened in the past eight hours; nothing seemed too out of place. Then all of a sudden it hit me...
Four Hours Ago
I was sitting in a bar waiting for Dylan to turn up for our date. It had taken me three years of trying until I finally got him to admit what he felt for me and this was our first date. We were going to have a nice dinner and talk until everyone was finished and met up with us here. As I glanced around the room my android sensors registered another AI as I looked at him I realized he look alot like Gabriel 'Now there's a name I haven't thought of in a long time' he looked back at me and started to move towards me. I remained where I was and he eventually reached me and sat down next to me.
"Hi my name is Mat, what's yours?" He said
"Rommie ... My name is Rommie" I replied stuttering a little as I got a good look at him.
"That is a beautiful name" he replied smiling
"Thank you" I said returning his smile
"Tell me what is a beautiful android like you doing sitting at a bar alone?" He asked as he thoroughly examined me and what I was wearing
"Nothing really just waiting for a friend" I said then thought 'Friend... Dylan is more then just a friend why didn't I tell him the truth'
"Really well then do you mind if I join you while you wait for this 'Friend'?" He said with a little smile once again playing along his face
"No not at all" I replied. 'What the hell are you doing you're flirting with an AI while waiting for your man to arrive' I thought.
"Very good now what would you like to order?" He asked as he pulled up a menu with android friendly meals and beverages.
"What ever you're having will be fine" I replied
"Ok then" he said as he signalled for a waiter to come and take his order.
We made small talk for about twenty minutes while waiting for our meals to be served. During this time I found out that he was a teacher on the drift and also the babysitter for parents who wanted to go into the casino and had nowhere to leave their children. He didn't ask me any questions, which was good because I liked hearing all about what he did here. We sat in silence whilst eating, at the end of the meal we got up and started to leave then all of a sudden he kissed me. I just stood there for a few seconds then I started to respond when we finally broke the kiss he whispered "Let's go back to my house" and started to lead me down the street towards a big cluster of apartments. I was about to agree when I caught sight of Trance leading Harper into a flower shop, the sight of them made me remember I was meant to be waiting for them here.
"I can't I have to wait here for my friends to arrive" I said in a slightly husky voice
"That's ok I will wait here with you then if that's ok?"
"Sure no problem" I said as I took his hand and we went back into the bar as we were entering I noticed a bunch of flowers thrown against the ground just on the other side of the door 'Somebody did something bad to their partner for them to just throw those expensive flowers away like that' I thought as we entered the bar
"So you haven't told me anything about yourself yet" he said as we sat down
"Well what would you like to know?" I asked coming out of my reverie
"For starters who are you? And what are you doing at this drift?"
"I'm a Ships Avatar and we just stopped at this drift for some shore leave"
"Really a Ships Avatar? What ship is lucky enough to have such a beautiful personae?" He asked with a smile
"The Andromeda Ascendant" I replied
"The ANDROMEDA ASCENDANT?" He let out a startled breath
"Yes why?" I asked curious as to why he reacted that way
"Because I've heard all about what you and your crew have done and I would really like to meet your captain Dylan Hunt..." he trailed off when he saw the horror on my face
"What's wrong? What did I say?" He was now totally confused
"Dylan... Oh My God.... I have to leave now" I said as I got up and ran from the bar leaving a bewildered Mat behind.
I ran as fast as I could away from the bar thinking to myself 'I wont tell Dylan what happened at the bar as it didn't mean anything and I would just pretend that I thought that he meant to meet him at a different bar'. So I made my way to the bar furthest from the one I was just at and sat and waited for three hours before deciding to return to the Andromeda and apologizing to him for the mix up with the bars and to try and make it up to him.
Back to the Present
I gasped when the thought returned and wondered how he'd found out
"Andromeda" I called and waited for the Hologram to appear
"What do you want?" She asked as she appeared in front of me scowling
"What did he tell you happened?" I asked not really wanting to hear the answer
"He told me he was on his way towards the bar when he saw you coming out of it with another man next to you. He said he didn't think much of it until he kissed you and YOU RESPONDED TO IT" the last few words came out so loud I thought all the consoles on the command deck would shatter
"Oh nonononono" I said as I dropped to the deck with my face in my hands
"How could you do that to him? You had finally got him to look past protocol and admit what he felt for you. Then on your VERY FIRST DATE you decided not to wait for him and just pick up some guy standing around? What wasn't Dylan going to be enough for you?" I was shocked as the triad of words continued, too shocked to reply right away but when I did it was through tear filled eyes
"That's not how it was at all. He was an Android and we started talking then we had some food and as we where walking out he kissed me. I didn't want to respond but my body had a mind of it's own and I couldn't stop myself." I cried out looking up at her
"That's a lovely excuse...'I couldn't stop myself'" she replied sarcastically "I guess you think that makes it all better?"
"No that's not what I meant, it wasn't meant to be an excuse" I said trying to get a hold of myself but failing
"You know that you broke his heart when you did that" she said in a soft tone of voice, to which I just dumbly nodded
"But you know what's even worse?" She asked me so quietly that I was afraid to reply
"He feels like you BETRAYED him." She said after a few minutes of silence, I just looked up at her dumbfounded betrayed him? I would never betray him... and yet I did.
"Did he tell you that?" I asked in a mouse like voice
"No but I saw it in his eyes and I have only ever seen that look in his eyes once before" she replied, she didn't need to elaborate on that as we both knew when that one time was. It was right after his best friend Gaheris Rahde betrayed him at the opening battle of the Commonwealth Civil War.
"Oh no so now I'm on the same page as Rahde in Dylan's book" I asked
"Most likely" she replied and with those last words she flickered out of existence leaving me to my tears and uncontrollable sobbing. That was how the rest of the crew found me one hour later.
"Rom-Doll what's wrong?" Asked Harper worriedly as he came running over to me but I didn't reply, I couldn't I was still too upset and nothing he could say would fix it
"Andromeda what's wrong with Rommie?" Asked Beka as she too came to stand in front of me wondering what could have made me this upset
"My Avatar did something very stupid on the drift and as a result Dylan has left the ship" replied Andromeda as she appeared on the VDU glaring at me
"What do you mean Dylan has left the ship? Where did he go?" Beka asked to startled to notice how Andromeda had looked at me
"I mean exactly what I said Dylan has left the ship, I do not know where he went and he has asked us not to follow him." She replied "and I unlike my Avatar RESPECT Dylan enough not to disobey him" and with that she vanished from the VDU leaving a stunned crew looking to me for answers. I looked up gathered myself and then started to explain what was going on, by the time I had concluded my story there where mixed reactions from the crew. Trance was sad that Dylan left, Harper was upset because I was upset, Beka was furious at me for how I had treated Dylan and Tyr.... Well Tyr hardly ever let his emotions surface but I could see a tightening around his eyes which showed that any respect he had for me had just went out the window as I did the one thing a woman should never do in the eyes of a Nieztschean which was I had chosen a male and then went behind his back and started a relationship with another male. But I didn't really care what the crew thought or felt about me at that moment because the only person that mattered in my life I had just betrayed.
