Disclaimer: I don't own Vandread I own only my characters. Jack is from dmv128's series. This is like an alternate universe from that story.
Back in Camina's room
"Why did I do that? I went there to smack him but instead I kissed him. Not that I didn't want to. What am I saying? I was his babysitter! But he is not a kid anymore. Oh, I don't know what to do! Why am I the only one who feels this indecision?"
In Meia's room
"How does he do that? I always get nervous around him. But why? And why did I save him that first time? Do I care for him? I just don't know. Does he feel this way? That was the first time we actually met and I screwed it up. What is it about him that softens me? He acts like Hibiki, but he is different, less cocky, more serious in battle, and a way better tactician than Hibiki will ever be. Is that why I like him? Because he is like Hibiki, but should I dare say… better? I think all this might be fatigue. I need to get some sleep."
In Jura's room
"Why did I have to choose him? Why do I like him so much? Why do I have to change? I like myself the way I am. Well I guess I would eventually have to change so that I could be a good parent and I kind of understand that he wouldn't want to just give me his seed and leave the baby with me. Well I've gotten myself in quite the mess. How am I going to tell Barnette? She will be so pissed at me because I didn't ask her first."
In the lounge
Barnette sits at a table and looks around nervously as a guy suddenly pops up and says,
"Boo!"
Barnette jumps about a foot off her chair and lands in the guy's arms saying,
"I really wish you wouldn't do that."
"And I wish that I didn't enjoy it so much"
Barnette slaps him and gets out of his grasp.
"I owed you that much for scaring me in the first place."
"I'm sorry."
Barnette kicks him in the shin and punches him in the gut.
He just says, "Damn, I thought they were joking when they said love hurts." He then passes out after Barnette hits him a few more times.
"Opps, I didn't mean to go that far." She states as she examines the damage she did to him.
"I had better get him to sickbay." She finds a hover-cart and orders it to take Jack to the infirmary.
"He didn't fight me at all. Why did I beat him up?" She says regretting beating him up.
"Agh! It was because he was a man that's why." She sends the cart on its way with a frustrated push, and walks off down the hallway.
The next morning
Duero walks in and finds the hover-cart and immediately starts to treat him. While Duero tends to his wounds, Kagen gets up and checks the cart to see who sent it; Laughing when he gets his answer,
"Barnette sent him to sickbay in more than one way." He said, still chuckling.
Duero looks up and asks,
"What do you mean Kagen?"
"Barnette put him in this condition, and programmed this cart to take him here because she felt sorry for him."
"How do you know?"
"The cart recorded her beating the crap out of him, and she is the one who programmed the cart to bring him here. Therefore she sent him to the sickbay in two ways."
Duero finally gets the joke and laughs for a minute then he says,
"But this needs to be reported anyway so I'll relay the joke on to the Captain." Duero quickly checks on Kagen's readings and says,
"I see that Camina visited you last night."
"How do you know that?" Kagen asks without confirming that she did.
"Well your heart beat rose just like it did when you first saw her, with one difference."
"And what would the difference be?"
"Hm, no fear wavelength this time."
"Oh."
"Well, what exactly did she do while she was here?"
"I'll tell you that, if you tell me what Parfait wanted with you right after she got off her shift."
Duero quickly checks Kagen over and says,
"Well I think that you are well enough to go and straighten out your room. No strenuous activities though, not for another week at least."
"Ok, Doc." Kagen says as he walks out the door and down the hall.
At Kagen's room
"Damn this place is empty! I need some stuff to put in here. Where am I going to get the stuff though?" He thinks for a few minutes.
"If I'm from the first generation then my family must've had a storage room on this ship!"
Kagen sits down at the desk and activates the terminal. He searches and finds nothing about storage rooms.
"Damn, I didn't think it would be this hard. Hmm, I wonder." Kagen sticks his ID in a slot. The computer reads the card. Then the computer asks for secondary identification. "What the heck?" Then he notices a pad shaped like a hand.
"Hmm, a palm print pad. Ok, it is worth a try."
Kagen puts his hand on the pad. The pad scans his hand and the file he is searching for opens as the system recognizes him.
"Ok, it seems one has been opened and another remains locked." Kagen activates the comm. panel and dials Engineering.
"Engineering here."
"I need a hover-cart at these coordinates." Kagen types in the coordinates.
"What? Who is this? Why do you need a hover cart?"
"This is Kagen. I was just released from the sickbay and told not to do any strenuous activities so I need the hover-cart so I can get some things for my room that might be heavy."
"Ok, it will be there in a minute."
"Thanks." Kagen cuts the link and says, "Hey that was Parfait! Oh well."
Kagen gets up and walks toward the storage room as he passes the lounge he looks in. He sees Camina surrounded by 3 guys.
The fact was they were seeing how many compliments they could throw at her before she passed out from blushing too much. Kagen clears his throat and says,
"What is going on here?"
The three guys suddenly turn and salute Kagen thinking that he was their commanding officer. They then realize that they weren't in the military anymore and they had just saluted their equal. They realize that they had been outwitted and quickly leave muttering to themselves. Camina says to Kagen,
"Thanks, I don't know how much more of that I could've taken. But why did they salute you?"
"I fooled them with my 'Commander' voice; I can't believe they actually fell for it."
"Shows how stupid they are." Camina says as she laughs.
"So how have you been doing Mina?"
"I'm doing fine. What are you doing out of sickbay? Did you sneak out?"
"No, Duero released me this morning saying not to do any strenuous activity."
"Like this?" Camina kisses him passionately.
"No, I don't think he meant that."
"Well I think you are tired. You need a nap. My room is a lot closer than yours. You can sleep there if you want."
"I think that would be a good idea. But I have some things to do first."
Kagen leaves the room and goes quickly to the storage room he selected. What he sees surprises him. Parfait is trying to get the door open for him. He shakes his head and pulls her away from the door. He says,
"Let me do this."
"But you said you weren't supposed to do anything strenuous!"
Kagen slips his ID card into the door and it opens as he pulls it back out.
"That was hardly strenuous. Thanks, you can leave now." Kagen walks in pulling the hover-cart behind him.
"Well, I never thought of that. Oh well." Parfait says as she walks off in the direction of Engineering.
This is where I stop this chapter. Tell me how I did. I know that you want to know what he found in the room, but I don't even know yet. So please show some patience. Oh and Jura is talking about the third guy mentioned in Chapter 6. Please bear with me I have no talent with naming characters. I inserted dmv128's main character and with permission I make some changes.
