About the nicknames. Some hate, some love, some don't care. But I've decided that they will use them as like an inside joke. Using the nicknames every so often, but not all the time. As sorta thing that only they have for each other.

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"Well miss Valentine, how do you like our little rock so far?" asked one of the pilots as Beka and Rhade got off of the Maru.

"Hasn't changed much."

The pilot nodded and he and the rest of the men turned and left. Leaving Beka and Rhade alone once again.

"So you've been here before? You never said that."

"I was here once. Not entirely unpleasant, but I still don't want to talk about it."

"Alright, but you know, talking about things that upset us releases our soul from torments."

"What are you Rev now?"

"What?"

"Mmm, never mind. But, you see I was 15 and Thalia decided that she wanted to 'bond' and all that. So she had me stay here for a few months. I mean, it wasn't a total waste; I made some really cool friends, who I know I can still always go to if I need to. But things got really bad between Thalia and I."

"Bad how?"

"I wasn't what she was expecting."

"What was she expecting?"

"Something like her other daughters."

"You have sisters? I didn't know that. I just thought that it was Raif and you."

"It was. Thalia got remarried when she came back here and had 3 daughters with her new husband. I never met him, but I met their kids. And she assumed that I would be like them."

"And when you weren't?"

"She tried to change me."

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The pilot that spoke to Beka walked into a room and saluted a man sitting at a desk staring at a photo frame, who quickly put the frame down and pretended to be working at the sight of the pilot.

"Sir"

"Yes, what is it?"

"Rebecca Valentine has arrived, Sir."

"Thank you, you may leave now."

The pilot however stays in the doorway with an unsure look on his face. Almost as if worried that the man might be mad at what he is about to say. Just as he is about to leave, the man at the desk looks up.

"What is it now?"

"Well Sir, Miss Valentine has a man with her. A neitzschean male, but still. I just, ah, thought that you might want to know."

The man's lip twitches. "Thank you, you may leave now."

"Yes sir." The pilot salutes and leaves closing the door.

The man sitting at the desk leans back in his chair and picks up the photo showing a beautiful red head that looked about 15.

"Becky."

He then puts the photo down and looks out of his window to see Beka and a neitzschean male speaking.

Not liking how close they are as they talk, he turns away from the window and heads down to where they are in a jog, wanting to end their intimacy.

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As Beka looked at Rhade with pained eyes, he wanted to hold her and take all the hurt away. But as he was just about to reach out to comfort her, as man came jogging up calling Beka. Rhade glared at the man as Beka turned to him smiling brightly, former anguish forgotten, and started to laugh.

As the man came to a stop, picking up Beka and swinging her around, it took all of Rhade's strength and will power not to growl at the man out of jealously for taking away the moment.

Beka, on the other hand, was glad. Just as she thought that Rhade was about to hug her, which to her surprise she found she wanted him to do, an old friend came running up. One of the old friends that she had mentioned to Telem-Rhade earlier.

"Beka!"

"Reeco!"

Beka laughed as her old friend twirled her around, and then set her on the ground again, but with his right arm still around her waist, as Rhade glared wondering who this man was.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Tel-"

But Rhade who glared at Reeco, and stuck his hand out in an old Earth handshake fashion cut off Beka.

"Telemachus Rhade"

Reeco glared at Rhade and stuck out his hand as well.

"Fredrik Reeco."

The two men continued to glare at each other, almost growling, and tightening their grips on each other's hands. Both feeling possessive of Beka. Rhade because he had recently discovered his feelings for Beka and was not willing to give her up to anyone without a fight. Even if Beka did not know that Reeco did thought of her that way, which it seemed she did not. And Reeco because he had just gotten Beka back to him and was not going to make the same mistake of letting her leave again, no matter what.

Beka for her part had no idea why the two men were acting as if they wanted to kill each other. But when she saw Rhade and Reeco's knuckles go white she decided to end the glaring contest.

Slipping out of Reeco's grasp, much to Reeco's disappointment and Rhade's pleasure, and clapping her hands together Beka brightly asked.

"So boys, want to go in the building now?"