A/N: This isn't the best chapter, but it's something. I promise it WILL get better later. The writing in this kind of bothered me… it didn't feel like it flowed, but I just can't make it flow no matter how hard I try. Gah. Plus it's short. :-p
Three days later
She heard someone running after her, but did not care to turn around. "Hey, Beka!" Trance yelled as she ran, her purple tail dragging after her. "Beka, I need your help!"
Trance needed Beka's help with Harper, and Beka wasn't willing to give it. She'd had enough of him. "Beka, why don't you and Harper get along? Why are you fighting? You didn't tell us you were fighting!"
She realized that Trance wasn't going to give up, so she gave in. "Trance, did you ever consider that I didn't tell you because I didn't want people to know?"
The purple girl looked crushed. "Oh…"
"Look, Trance, I'm sorry. I'm just not in the best of moods. I haven't seen or talked to Harper since I got my piloting duties back, and I don't plan on it for a while."
Harper had been repairing the… well, not exactly a mess "hall", more of a mess "room" in the Maru. Firstly, the coffee pot hadn't been working. Secondly, for some reason the lights wouldn't come on. Harper decided that he should strip down the whole control panel and install a coffee machine and a Sparky machine into the wall. This seemed like a good idea… until both machines poured sparks and the lighting fixtures exploded. Apparently he had combined the jobs.
Andromeda was going to do everything possible to make sure nothing of the sort happened to her, and Beka was NOT happy with Harper for ruining anything on her precious Maru. Dylan decided the best punishment was not to let Harper alone for a few weeks; he knew how Harper loved his privacy.
"Well, Beka, I think you should talk to him. He's almost got the Maru repaired –"
"From a problem he caused in the first place."
"Beka, Harper needs you."
"The slipstream is all I need, and since I have that, I'm perfectly happy." And with that, Beka went into her quarters and engaged privacy mode.