Disclaimer: Yes I own Rhade, he is my personal slave ;)
Chapter 7
Rhade was walking with Beka back to her quarters (A/N stop thinking nasty he was just walking her back).
"You know it still isn't too late to get in on the deal."
"What deal?" Rhade asked.
"Oh, Harper and I have it all figured out. First, Harper totally cuts off Talia's connection to anyone outside her room. Overrides the systems so doors won't open, comms won't work the whole shebang."
"Beka…"
"Then, we leave her there for a few hours. And conveniently mess with her environmental systems. Hey, she has blankets she won't be too cold."
"Beka…"
"And when she takes a shower, Harper will have totally upped the cold water and taken away all the hot and…."
"Beka! I have told you three times, I will not help you sabotage Talia."
"C'mon, why?"
"I told you! As much as I may hate her, she is a ranking member of the commonwealth senate and she, unbelievably, would be missed."
"We could say Andromeda had a malfunction…"
"You will not." Holo-Andromeda popped up. "I have not ever had a fatal malfunction. The worst was when I gave private O-Harra a 2nd degree burn for trying to peek into a room while privacy mode was engaged and two officers were…engaged in an activity. But that wasn't a malfunction, I burnt him on purpose."
Beka and Rhade just looked at her. "Are you always listening?" Beka asked.
"Yes."
"Ah, so that is why Dylan seems to know everything bad I say about him."
"I would never tell anything if someone asked me specifically not to tell land it doesn't involve putting my crew or that person in danger."
"Noted." Rhade said thoughtfully.
"I am assuming you would never really do this to the senator?" Andromeda asked a gleam in her eye.
"Nah, I need to be sneakier. You'd catch me." Beka said winking.
"well, we were recently in a battle. Maybe my shower systems in the guest quarters aren't fully operational yet."
Beka grinned "Andromeda, have I ever told you how beautiful you look."
"No you haven't Beka but thank you." Andromeda said and faded.
Beka turned to see Rhade looking at her with his eyebrow raised.
"So you enlisted the help of Andromeda already."
"Yeah, I wonder what she did to piss Andromeda off already."
Rommie then walked around the corner.
"That would be partially what she did to me. As soon as she saw me, she said "You, android, get down to the cargo bay and pick up my bags like you are supposed to.'"
"How did she know you were an android?" Rhade asked.
"Beka, I look like the main AI." Rommie said, somewhat annoyed.
"Them, when I offered to take her to her room again, she turned to Dylan and said "Oh My, Captain. It talks!""
Beka tried not to laugh.
"She also kicked me many times." Andromeda said on screen.
"I see." At this point, Rhade and Beka and Rommie had all taken a detour to the mess hall where Trance and Harper were sitting.
"Beka! Just the person I wanted to see!" Harper said.
"Shit." Beka said and tried to turn around but Harper had bounded up and grabbed her arm.
"About this Talia chica…"
"Harper…"Beka said dangerously.
"I was wondering, why didn't you tell us?"
Beka closed her eyes. "One, I was ashamed. Two, I was thinking you would want me to find her and three, you really don't need to know."
"I'm just saying, it would be a lot easier to sabotage a place that has never had the Harper hack into it and screw with their systems." Harper said grinning.
Beka grinned right back and pulled Harper into a bear hug.
"Beka?! What the hell?!"
Beka, as if realizing for the first time that she was hugging Harper jumped away like he was in fire.
"Sorry."
"I liked it, do it again…"
"Harper…." Rhade growled.
Harper looked at Rhade and said, "Sheesh Rhade, no need to get your pants in a twist (A/N Sorry, couldn't help it. Anyone else notice in season 5 Harper is obsessed with Rhade's pants?!? I am too but that is a whole other story ;) did I say that?).
"Beka…" Trance began.
"Let me guess you knew all along?"
Trance smirked. "No, I just wanted to say that I think that you couldn't have gotten your good looks from your mother."
Beka smiled "Yea, good looks skip a few generations. I'm just lucky to get 'em."
Rhade pulled Beka into a hug and kissed her .
"Yes you did." He said while Harper and Trance just stood there stunned.
