I went to ask jeeves dot com and it told me that a protostar is a BABY star, like one of the early stages. So if I'm wrong on that, blames Jeeves.
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Harper gulped.
Family? Yeah, sure he wanted a family. But they just started whatever it was that they started. And yeah, Rommie was his dream girl, the lady he has been in love with for years.
But kids?
Holy crap.
Okay, just don't hyperventilate. Can not pass out without hiding evidence that you broke into her private thoughts first.
Must. Destroy. Evidence.
Poor Rommie, I'm sure I can build us a kid. Yeah, that would work. But it wouldn't grow. But hey, I'm a genus; I could make an android age. But then it would die and leave Rommie alone.
I'm going to age and die and Rommie will stay that same. But hey, how is that bad for me? I'll be the old guy with the young hot babe of a wife! Wife? Oh crap. But wait, Mrs. Rommie Harper. That doesn't sound so bad.
Focus Harper, if you don't destroy evidence you'll be the pile of ash formerly known as love god and genus extraordinaire!
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"Andromeda."
"Yes captain."
"Can you find Nadine's files for me."
"Yes Captain."
The hologram blinked out a moment later the computer on Dylan's desk had the young lady's information on it. He figured that if was going to date her, he might as well know something about her.
Scanning the words his face filled with confusion. Something on it was wrong, like it was tampered with. Parts of it were encrypted and locked. He would Harper look at it later, but why would her family and DNA be hidden? What was she hiding?
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Trance stared at the man gazing out her window, looking at the stars. "So you like to do that as well?"
He turned to face her. "Do what?"
She walked toward him, wringing her hands. She stopped beside him and looked out the window, trying not to blush under his heavy gaze. Why was she so nervous and acting like such a protostar?
"Looking at the stars. When I see them, I look for the ones that I know or that I'm related to. It makes me sad when I see the faint glow of a dear friend who has died. But I know that their ashes turn into something new, so it gives me hope. Like that old Earth saying, 'ashes to ashes, dust to dust'. When we die, our kind is never really gone." She giggled and pointed at an empty space. "Look, a new star will form there soon. I wonder who it will be and whom it belongs to."
He scanned the area that she pointed to, but didn't really seem to be looking at it, merely past it.
On a subdued tone she added, "Our child will most likely be the avatar to a planet. Since both of our suns guard over planets, it seems the most likely."
Their gazes looked and he took her hand in his.
She suppressed the chill that ran down her spine at his touch.
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Rhade paced his quarters as he waited for Andromeda to deliver his message from Rebecca. If she even has a reply that was. He had taken privacy mode off a few minutes earlier. And his impatience for a reply was wearing thin.
A hologram of Andromeda appeared and stared at his back as he strode away from her. She smirked at his worried expression. He should be, men who hurt Beka should fear for their lives.
As he turned and went to pace in the opposite direction he saw the hologram and nearly fell over in shock. Just then a hologram of Rommie appeared by the other's side.
"Beka says that she will join you tonight." Rommie's hologram stated to him, hands clasped behind her back.
Andromeda's hologram, posing the same way, added in "She requests some sort of aquatic life form as dinner." And they both blinked out.
"Great, the Ai's are mad at me. And wait, did you say seafood?"
No one answered him.
Swearing under his breathe about how he always thought Beka was going to be the death of him he made his way to the Kitchens next to the mess hall to try to find some way to comply to her request, and make something that wouldn't turn his stomach.
And he was almost in the door too, when he suddenly heard a voice screech his name.
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Allison was just leaving the mess hall when suddenly the future father of her children appeared next to her going into a room.
"Rhade!"
Oh my gosh, it's like fate. I was going to find him and ask him on a date and here he is. The gods want us to be together!
She saw him cringe and turn around slowly to face her.
"Hello…."
"Allison. But you can call me Allie, or whatever else you want really." She batted her eyelashes at him.
"Yes, well, Allie."
Oh! My! Gosh! He called me Allie!
"I'm rather busy at the moment, I have to cook some dinner in the kitchens, so…."
He makes his own food? That's so sexy!
"Oh I'd love to help!"
"What?"
She bounced over to him and grabbed his arm leading him into the kitchens. "So, what first?"
