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I sighed as I walked down the corridors towards the gym where I knew Tyr would be thinking all the way 'what can I say that will bring him out of this negative mood he's in?' I mean I knew what I was going to say to Rommie to break her out of her depression that would be easy but Tyr? I smiled as an idea came to me just as I was about to enter the gym 'yes that could work'. I walked around the corner and towards the doors with a smile on my face.

"Tyr... Tyr are you in here?"

"What do you want Trance?" he said not looking up from his bench still lifting weights

"Well I've just come down here to see wether or not you were in a good enough mood to do something for me"

"And what is this something that you would like me to do for you?" he asked as he glanced in my direction for a few seconds before returning his attention to the exercise equipment he was using

"Well we would like your help with trying to figure out who that Mat person was working for and what the threat meant."

"Sure... No problem I'll help you out when I finish with my exercises, you can go now" and with that he placed the dumbbells on the ground and walked over to the punching bag and started his fighting routine. I stood watching for a few minutes seeing how my last plan didn't work trying to come up with a new angle of approach. Then it hit me I know exactly what I would do now.

"Tyr look at yourself, look at how you are behaving. Is this the way that Nieztschean's deal with grief? push yourselves so hard and end up hurting yourself?"

"Where are you going with this Trance? Just spit it out already" he yelled before delivering a mighty blow to the bag that knocked it clean of it's supports

"Well what I'm saying is... Are you willing to let the Commonwealth deal with the investigation into Dylan's death and then assuming they find anything also let them think up the Punishment? Or would you rather do it yourself?"

"I'd do it myself naturally" he said

"Good I'm glad that was your answer. We need you to contact the Commonwealth Salvage Guild and get them to send all the information that they have on the wreckage, like where it was located, the scans they ran on the vessel and anything else of that type. Then you need to go through all of it and try to get an idea about what we might be facing. Do you think you can handle that?"

"And what if I do? What then? Send the information back to the Commonwealth so they can go after the people responsible?"

"Of course not, we will go after them. Do you really think that Andromeda would let anyone else deal with Dylan's murderers before she could get her hand's on them?"

"Good point... Ok I'll get right on it" with that he started to leave the gym as he was walking past me he stopped and said "Thanks for giving me something to do other then hurt myself Trance, I really appreciate it"

"That's what friends are for" I said with a smile and watched as he nodded his head and continued on his way. One down one to go. "Andromeda?"

"Yes Trance?" came the reply in a voice filled with so much sadness that it always made me hurt inside 'well hopefully I can fix that soon'

"Could you tell me where Rommie is?"

"She is currently located in her quarters"

"Thank you Andromeda" I said waiting for a reply but not getting one 'Hmmm this might be harder then I thought' and with that I hurried up to deck four where all the crew quarters were located except Harper's. I walked along the corridor still impressed after all this time as to how big the Andromeda was, it took me a good five minutes to walk from the gym to deck five. I slowed down as I approached the door that lead to Rommie's quarters and hesitated before ringing the door chime. "Rommie are you here?"

"Please just go away Trance I'm not really in the mood for talk at the moment" a muffled voice replied

"Rommie please just let me in you have to talk about this"

"No, just go away Please"

"Look I know why you're taking this so hard but you must understand that it wasn't your fault" I said hoping that would be enough for her to at least open the door and allow me in... And it was I looked up as the door opened and I saw Rommie standing there looking almost exactly the same as the last time I saw her 'of course she does she's an Android they don't age... Just like me' the only thing that was different was her eyes they had red rims as though she had done nothing but cry for the last few days.

"No Trance I don't think you do understand"

"Can I come in so we can talk in a more comfortable environment?"

"Ok. Fine. Come in but don't expect too much in the way of conversation" with that she stepped aside allowing me to enter. When I got a good look in the room it didn't look anything like I thought it would. I thought there would be things broken or damaged but that wasn't the case everything except the bed was immaculate, and the only thing wrong with the bed was that the sheets were crumpled into a heap at one end.

"That's ok you can just listen to what I have to say then" "Rommie we need you to snap out of this depression that you're in. Not only are you in it but your ship-self is also like this, look I know that you loved him but just because he's gone is no reason to be this un-responsive to the rest of the crew...." I trailed off as she glared up at me

"You think this is only because I loved him?"

"Isn't it?"

"Well yes to a certain degree but that is not what is causing me the most grief at the moment" she stopped and looked down at the ground. Ok something is going on here that I'm pretty sure no-one knows about.

"Well what is it then? you can tell me I promise that whatever you say will never leave this room" I said hoping that would be enough to get her to talk, and it was.

"The thing that has me most depressed is the fact that the last thing Dylan saw me doing was kissing another man and feeling like I had betrayed him... Which I had. And now that he's gone I will never get the opportunity to explain myself or see him again or touch him..." and with that she trailed of into tears again

"Ahhhh so that's why you've been acting this way for the past few days? You're angry at yourself."

"Basically yes" she replied through the sobs

"Ok then I'll leave you to your self pity then. Just let me ask you one question before I go"

"And what would that be?"

"How would Dylan have wanted you to react to this situation? Would he have wanted you to drown in sorrow? Or would he have wanted you to find out what you can about whoever is behind both Mat's threat and His death?" and I turned and walked out of the room leaving her to consider that knowing that she will come up with the right answer to those questions. 'That was a job well done Trance now I think it's time I got some sleep' I thought as I headed towards my quarters. When I got there I removed my clothes, jumped into the shower, washed myself, jumped out, dried myself off, put my pyjamas on, watered and said goodnight to my plant's, jumped into bed, called out for Rommie to turn the lights off and then drifted into sleep.