Chapter 2
Beka sighed from her spot on the floor. She had long since given up standing in favour of pillowing her head on her jacket and kicking her feet against the wall. She could tap out beats and watch Rhade from the corner of her eye until she got bored of that. Not of watching Rhade, but from the tapping. She would never get tired of watching him...
Beka also found it slightly interesting to note that everytime her foot hit particularly hard or on an odd resonance, he'd wince just the slightest from his over-sensitive hearing. Beka guessed that being stuck in a small box with only their breathing and past bickering might have made his senses go into...whatever they do in quiet closed environments...what was she an expert on Nietzscheans?
Sighing again, she supposed she was. Hadn't she just generalized Rhade as being as conniving as the rest of his race?
But wait, he was!
It was, after all, his fault that they were stuck in the elevator in the first place, just like it was his fault that the slip fighter doors malfunctioned. Andromeda could go on and on about Harper messing up certain systems when he was bypassing some circuit to clean up from a previous battle and now that she thought about it more clearly...Rhade might have not had anything to do with that...
BUT! He did have something to do with the lack of coffee...even though he didn't drink coffee...Dylan did...maybe Dylan ordered Rhade to hoard the coffee for him...it could happen...
And the hot water on the Maru, well, he could have messed around with something the last time he took it out on a mission...or maybe with all the cold showers she had been taking lately she didn't even check the hot water...but the cold showers? Those were definitely all Rhade's fault.
And then there was yesterday. Beka bit back a half moan as she remembered what exactly it was that caused her to trip in the corridor.
She had been jogging her morning course on the lower decks of Andromeda like she always did and apparently Rhade had decided to run on the same deck that day. Which was something she didn't know until she was nearing the corner and he came around it. She managed to keep her legs from collapsing beneath her until she was twenty feet from him and tumbled.
That sexy, sweaty Nietzschean bastard.
Sleeveless T-shirt and the tightest pair of black spandex shorts she had ever seen.
He was breathtaking.
To cover up tripping over her own feet at the sight of him, she had blamed him and his voodoo powers. She honestly couldn't believe that he had bought it and started to explain to her that he didn't have "voodoo powers". She thought that his senses would have picked up her heart rate and certain other...things. She had never been more thankful for a dense Nietzschean male.
And now here they were, trapped in an elevator. Together. Alone. By forces of nature, the Divine's Will, or some sneaky maintenance man, they were stuck and she was bored.
"I'm bored," said Beka, "We've been in here for what four, five hours?"
"It's been less than an hour and a half."
"What? There's no...do you even have a watch?"
"No, but there's one built into the wall," he said pointing above the button panel.
"Oh."
"So what did you want to do?"
"What?"
"You said you were bored," said Rhade, "What do you suggest?"
"Uh...I don't know..."
"Well I suppose we could sit around and get back to 'Lets's blame Rhade for everything that's happened'."
"You know um...I was maybe, kind of...upset..."
"All week?"
"I had a bad week?" she said feebly. She watched him as he contemplated her excuse.
Rhade shrugged and sat down by her feet, back against the wall, "All right then, what do you suggest?"
Beka was surprised. She had blamed him for how many things and he just shrugged it off? He was a myestery this one. She had never met anyone like him.
"Uhhh, well how about..." Beka racked her brain for things they could do in their situation and came up with something from her younger years. She hoped he didn't laugh.
"Truth or Dare?"
He did laugh but it wasn't what she expecting. Instead of condescending it waswith amusementand his next words proved that.
"Why not? I haven't played that since I was in the Acadamy."
"Really?" she smiled.
He nodded, "Though dares are pretty much pointless in our case as there's nothing much we can do in here, but getting some truths out of you would help me get to know you better."
Beka groaned. No wonder he was so willing. After everything she had put him through, done to him, he still wanted to know her. He was persistently consistent, she'd give him that.
TBC...
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A/N: So...what kind of questions would you guys like them to ask each other? What would you like to know:P
Thanks for the reviews! Love you guys!
Christieanne-Anna: Admittedly I for got about communicators but maybe they don't have them? They're on Tarazed for vacation let's say? Communicators are back on the Andromeda ;P Thanks for pointing that out though, but they had them, no story.
sticks-and-stones123: That's what I'd like to know too. There has to be something in it...
L.C. Brotherton: Being the gentleman Rhade is he'd probably stick it out with the deranged lady. Access hatch...maybe, you know I don't think I've ever seen one of those...or maybe I haven't been paying enough attention...
Jade Rhade: Why thank you, I'm starting to piece together some longer ones. Hopefully they'll get out sometime this year.
jeff: Yup, he's clueless and beyond. Rhade as a ninja James Bond, it's not that weird.
Klinoa: I miss Rhade too, his S5 self is hot but I want the smiling, happy-go-lucky guy he was before. And voila! Beka's version of events including the Maru's hot water;) Thanks for idea to elaborate!
coldqueen: yup, there's one more chapter left after this "TBC" "To Be Continued" :)
Jamieson Z: What were you expecting? Now I'm all curious.
Donna Lynn: Exactly! It is amazing isn't it?
prin69: A lot of possibilities, I've read a lot of stuck-in-small-spaces stories and decided to do one of my own. And yeah, poor Rhade no brownie points with the lady for logic.
Fox of the Nova: Because we're real unfortunately... Beka/Trance/Rommie/Dylan/Harper/OC...they get all the fun with Rhade!
