Chapter 3

Rating: PG

Summery: How Beka deals after Tyr leaves

Disclaimer: I don't own them, I'm just playing with them. Besides if I owned them they'd be shagging like bunnies already.

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Dylan watched his crew mate punch the buttons on the console. She had refused to talk to him, to anybody really. He had hoped that this wouldn't happen, but it did. He should have told them from the beginning that he didn't want his crew getting overly friendly, but he could never really tell where their relationship stood. Some days they seemed like lovers, others like friends and others like enemies. He just hoped Beka wouldn't become dependent on Tyr, after all he was Nietszchean. Though they had been friends in away, it was still in Tyr to look out for himself.

" Is she still not talking to you?" Rommie asked as she stopped and stood next to Dylan. He gave a small smile, " She's not talking to anybody." He turned and walked into the hallways and took the one that led to the mess hall. " I didn't think that she would take his 'leaving 'so hard." Dylan made quotation marks around the word leaving. Rommie sat down next to him as he got a Sparky cola. " Well, Beka has a tendency to give herself freely to people who she thinks of as friends or family. And her and Tyr had never really defined their relationship, so I guess she feels cheated in a way."

Dylan looked at Rommie, " You guess?" he said disbelieving. Rommie shrugged her shoulders. " I deal with facts, not speculations. Besides, Harper gave me emotions and right now I am feeling really angry at Tyr. It feels weird." As she pouted, Dylan gave a laugh and put an arm around Rommie and pulled her into a hug.

Later that night

Beka lay curled in her bed. She had been lying awake for hours, just staring at the ceiling of her quarters. She had overheard Dylan and Rommie's conversation and it had her mind reeling. Rommie was right, her and Tyr always had this dance going on, and they never really talked what they were to each other. 'I guess he knew where he stood' she thought bitterly. Her eyes made a quick dart to the nightstand that held the helix. ' Not that it helps because I am still wandering if he was serious and if I was NIETSZCHEAN,' that thought came out furious, ' he might have thought about it, and maybe acted on it.' Beka turned over and punched her pillow a few times before settling back into bed. That small act for some reason was enough to take away some of the anger, 'Its only been two months and I feel like he's been gone years....' was her last thought as she fell into a restless sleep.

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Tyr watched the security footage from his chair. He stared at the screen and moved forward in his chair as Beka showed up on the screen. He could see that she was still working out and that she looked tired. Even from the distance the camera was he could make out the dark circles under her eyes. He saw a man come up to her and watched as her eyes narrowed and the next thing he knew, Beka had the guy up against the wall and, he gave a snort, of all things a knife against his neck. For the fist time Tyr wished the damn video had sound. But Tyr gave a chuckle as he watched the man soil himself and Beka walk off her face in a cold mask. " Just like a..." he stopped that thought and for the first time he wandered if it was a good idea to teach her the way Nietcheans were taught. Her being a normal human was what made him partly fall in love with her. Tyr swore under his breath as he realized he had used the word love.