Chapter Title: The workout.
Summary: Dylan wasn't the only one to survive the event horizon. Story is set three years after the event horizon. Rated for future language. AU.
Authors: Awohali, Terran
Rating: PG-13
Authors note: This has nothing to do with the plot. It's just Harper and Rhone thinking about what's happened and working out at the same time. They talk about what they're thinking, eventually. Thank you for all of the reviews. You people rock!
Disclaimer: I don't own Andromeda or it's characters.
Harper and Rhone quietly sneak out of the room. They go to the weight room. Rhone goes over to the punching bag and starts to work out.
Rhone: What are you going to do?
Harper: Tredmill.
He walks over to the tredmill and starts his work out.
Rhone: Why are you starting so slow you usually start at a run and then slow down.
Harper: I usually stretch first too.
Rhone: Oh, so you're stretching at the same time?
Harper: Yep.
Rhone: So, you still got wash board abs?
Harper: Yeah. I didn't lose my figure in two days.
Rhone: I know, just small talk.
Harper: Oh. What are you thinking about?
Rhone: I was wondering why Captain Hunt hasn't thrown Rhade off the ship yet.
Harper: Probably the last thing he's thought about, you know, too many distractions.
Rhone: Probably. Has Rhade slowly gone insane or is it a overnight thing?
Harper: I think slowly, 'cause he's been through alot. You know losing his family and friends.
Rhone: So have I. But I guess not like him.
Harper: Yeah, I mean, some of your family is still alive and you've made new friends. A really good friend.
He smiles at her. She smiles back, she stops hitting the punching bag and starts doing pushups. Harper gets off the tredmill and starts doing pushups besided her. They talk between pushups.
Harper: About... the wedding.
Rhone: What?
Harper: Are... we... going... to leave... right... after... the... ceremony?
Rhone: Yeah.
Harper: Where... are... we... going?
Rhone: Some... where... warm... and... with... a beach.
Harper: Tao?
Rhone: Sure.
Harper: Are... you... counting... how... many... pushups... you're... doing?
Rhone: No,... I... stop... when... my... arms... are... tired.
Harper: I... wondered... how... you... kept... doing... pushups... forever.
Rhone: I've... never... kept... track.
Harper: I... wonder... if... Andromeda... does?
Andromeda: I do.
Harper: How... many?
Andromeda: Today you have done fifty-four so far, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty.
They both stop at sixty.
Harper: Thanks, Andromeda.
Andromeda: No problem.
Rhone: How many have I done over the years?
Andromeda: Sixty-two thousand, four hundred, and ninety-eight.
Rhone quickly does two more pushups.
Rhone: Sixty-two thousand, five hunded.
Harper: How many have I done?
Andromeda: Thirty-two thousand, eight hundred and twenty.
Rhone: Beka told me that you didn't like to excersice, when you first showed up on the Andromeda, and then you started to following me to the weight room.
Harper: Did she? Well, apparently she was wrong.
Rhone: I think the only reason you followed me, was because you liked me.
Harper: It was. I never liked excersicing, but I do now.
He grins at her and she grins back. They go to the basketball court and start to play. Dylan walks in, in his sweats.
Rhone: Captain Hunt can you smell when a game's about to start?
She smiles.
Dylan: Yes, I can.
He grins.
Harper: We can't play, we only have three people.
Trance walks in and everyone looks at her.
Trance: Dylan, what... why is everyone looking at me?
Rhone: You wanna play?
Trance: I don't know. I need to ask Dylan a few questions.
Dylan: Ask while we play.
Trance: Oh, okay.
They start to play and Trance forgets about her questions. She and Dylan make a good team. Rhone and Harper are down two points. Harper throws the ball to Rhone and she shoots from the three point line. She misses. Andromeda tells them times up. They all stop out of breath.
Rhone: Damn! So close.
Harper: Good game, Boss.
Rhone: Yeah, good game.
Dylan: You too.
Trance: Did we win?
Dylan: Yes.
Trance: Yay!
Rhone: Me and Harper are gonna go take a shower in our quarters.
Dylan: You're going to walk around the ship when you smell terrible?
Harper: I don't smell. Do I?
Rhone: Yes, but who cares.
Harper: What she said, who cares.
Trance: Oh! Dylan I forgot about the questions. What are you going to wear? And what...
Rhone and Harper walk out of the weight room before she finishes her question.
TBC
A/N: Please review, I was leaning toward funny and serious at the same time. Did I achieve my goal? The only way I'll find out is if you review.