A/N: Yeah...another chapter...school starts for me next Tuesday so I'm trying to update as much as possible before I get buried in homework. .

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Chapter Five: Priorities

Rommie held Dylan's hand in her artificial one as her gaze washed over his body for the millionth time that hour.

"Wha..."

Rommie's head snapped up at the sound of Dylan's voice and she realized that he was coming to.

"Dylan!" she squealed, a little louder and with more emotion than she had meant it to be.

He opened his eyes and stared at her, her beautiful smile, elegant features, sparkling eyes...

"Beka?" Dylan stared at her and then asked, "Beka? Are you there?"

Rommie's mouth fell open and then she closed it while imagining all the possible ways to murder Beka...

"Beka..." Dylan cried out almost desperately.

Rommie frowned when she noticed that he was still staring straight at her and calling her Beka all at the same time.

He's still delirious, she thought, and suddenly, an idea came to her head.

"Yes Dylan," Rommie replied, tuning her voice so that it sounded like Beka's "I'm here..."

Slowly, she began to lower her face...

And then Trance walked in.

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Telemachus Rhade sat in the Maru fiddling with his fingers.

It was actually quite a humorous sight, to see a Nietzschean of his stature have nothing better to do than stare around at the hangar whilst playing with his fingers. That was the main reason that when Seamus Harper stepped into the Maru that afternoon, he burst out laughing.

Rhade nearly fell off his chair, "Harper! Don't sneak up on people like that!"

Harper stopped laughing and stared at the taller man. Since when were Nietzscheans ever snuck up on?

"You didn't hear me coming?" asked Harper, bewildered.

"No I was...busy," Rhade replied.

"With what?" Harper laughed again, "Testing the durability of your fingers?"

"Shut up," Rhade barked and crossed his arms.

"Ehh...calm down, I just came to get something for Trance," Harper replied, holding up one of her plants for him to see.

"Whatever."

Harper shrugged and began to exit the Maru, but just before he left he yelled to Rhade over his shoulder:

"Y'know, it's not long before Beka falls for all of Dylan's attention. From my experience, and it's very wide, women don't like to wait forever!"

Rhade would've yelled a retorting statement right back at Harper, but the doors to the Maru slid shut before he could say anything.

"This is ridiculous," Rhade growled, but some part of him knew that Harper was right.

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"Rommie?"

Rommie looked up, her hair falling into her face in the process, "Oh...hi Trance."

Trance, who was oblivious to Rommie's intentions, simply took a split-second glance at Rommie's fingers, intertwined with Dylan's and then noticed that the Captain was awake.

"Welcome back Dylan," Trance smiled despite the look of confusion on his face.

Dylan kept his eyes focused on Rommie, "Beka?"

Trance saw the way that Rommie's face fell, though the android tried her best to hide it.

"No Dylan," Trance said softly, "That's Rommie."

"Where's Beka then?" he asked, his voice breaking a little.

"Beka..." Trance's voice trailed off a bit, "Beka is—"

"Right here," answered a familiar voice.

Indeed she was, all three of them turned to see the tall blonde woman standing in the doorway looking slightly pitiful.

"Beka!" Dylan broke into a smile when she approached and took his other hand.

"I'm sorry," she said, "I knocked you out."

"Don't worry about it, I'm with you now," he whispered softly, gripping her hand the same way he had been gripping Rommie's a second ago.

Rommie saw this and without a word, she got up and left, but before she exited the room, she turned at stared at them for a minute. Trance looked up at her and they exchanged sad looks before Rommie fled.

Trance sighed and looked back at Dylan, who was sitting up now and stroking the side of Beka's cheek.

"You are so beautiful..." he whispered.

"Umm..." Beka looked down, unsure of what to say, "Thanks..."

Dylan smiled in response, and leaned in closer for what seemed to be obvious.

"Uh, Dylan!" Trance interrupted, "You really shouldn't be sitting up yet, you might exhaust yourself!"

Dylan didn't even notice that Trance was still sitting there.

"You know Beka...before you stepped into the room, I felt like my head was exploding...but now, all of that's gone," he leaned in further, till he and Beka were only a few centimeters apart.

"Uh..." Beka blushed and looked to Trance for help.

Trance shrugged and winced, "Sorry Beka..."

Beka didn't have time to reply, Dylan's mouth were on hers. Beka felt like her entire body had gone numb underneath the warmth of his tender lips and at the same time, her eyes widened two times their natural size.

Trance turned ten shades of crimson at seeing this. The golden goddess turned around, only to see Harper staring at Dylan and

Beka with a shocked expression on his face.

"Let's go..." Harper said quietly, nearly dropping the plant he held in his hand.

"Agreed," Trance squeaked and followed him out of the room, shutting the door behind them.

"Whoa...that was...I mean..." Harper handed the plant over to Trance.

"Strange," Trance supplied the word for him.

"I mean...I guess I knew that it would come to this but...not so soon!" Harper replied, "Do you think Beka will be safe in

there with Dylan? I mean, what if---"

"Don't!" she held up her hand, "I don't even want to think about it!"

Suddenly Andromeda's alarm sequence went off.

"Oh great," Harper cried, "Of all the freaking bad times!"

"Andromeda? What's going on?"

"Seven approaching Nietzschean ships," said Andromeda.

Trance and Harper exchanged panicked looks.

"Dylan! Beka!" Harper yelled, twisting the door knob to the room, "It's locked!"

"What? I didn't lock it!"

"Maybe Dylan wanted some uninterrupted quality with Beka!"

"Yes...that does seem like his priority these days..."

"Then let's blast the door open!"

Suddenly, the Andromeda shook, sending Trance and Harper flying into an unexpected heap against a wall.

"No time! Let's get to Command!" Trance cried and ran off with Harper in tow.

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A/N: Well. That was pretty pathetic. This is probably the shortest and the worst update yet. Sorry about that guys. I need to stop adding so much Rommie into this...seeing as she's an important, but not so much a major part of the plot. I can't help myself with all the Rommie-angst I keep putting in! She's one of my favourite characters (except for Mr. Harper of course!) and I absolutely hate how Dylan has kissed nearly every freaking woman on the show except Rommie!

Which in code, means that there's more jealous-Rommie moments to come. Oh and Rhade too. Can't for get Rhade. We all love Rhade!

I'm going to stop now, before I say something even more stupid...