Hello everybody. A new chapter is ready after my little break. I wish all of you a lot of fun with it.

Acxa tries to clear her mind. And she tries to make some breakfast for Veronica in order to say sorry.

What Is Cooking

Acxa wandered through the corridors of the Atlas. Her face was dark and worried. But she couldn't get her thoughts in line. First she ended up in the cafeteria, writing down her report for Shiro. It helped her to memorize the things, which had happened down on the planet. But Ronan and his shown hate, remained a secret for her. She finally found herself in the kitchen of the ship. It was empty. The staff wouldn't return to their work within the next two or three hours and the cleaning crew was finished with their work some time ago. She didn't know, why she had entered. Maybe Hunk was the reason. He had told her, that working in the kitchen and cooking meals helped him to clear his mind. She hadn't tried it before, but now she decided to give it a try. She let her look circling around the equipment. She wasn't really hungry and she wanted to try something simple first.

Small steps.

This general plan had helped her to get used to the team, to the new surrounding and to Veronica. Acxa bit her bottom lip. She already regretted, that she had stormed away. Maybe she could cook something, Veronica liked as well. Hunk had told her, that the right meal could heal almost everything. She wasn't sure, how to start. The Galra checked some closets and drawers for knifes, a cutting board and a frying pan. She placed everything beside one stove on a working plate and checked her setup, but shook her head annoyed. She already wasn't sure, what she wanted to cook. Maybe she should have started with the ingredients and then with the tools she needed. So Acxa leaved the working place and headed to the storage and cooling rooms, where the food was stocked.

The Galra groaned many times during her visit. So much ingredients. It dawned on her, that choosing the right meal wouldn't become a piece of cake. She closed her eyes and sighed, while she started to rub her forehead. And she had no idea, how to mix them right. But suddenly a sparkle came to the woman's eyes, as she opened them up, suddenly.

A breakfast.

It seemed to be a perfect start for a first try. Acxa would try to bring Veronica breakfast to the quarter. She would try to cook something fitting for a breakfast and had only to take and prepare the rest, like milk, cereals, fruits, jam, cheese, butter, crispy buns and so on. There it was. A starting plan. But what to cook for Veronica. She decided, that simply baking up some of the buns, the staff had prepared for tomorrow, wasn't real cooking in her opinion, even for a first try. Her look felt on the eggs in one stocking shelf.

Scrambled eggs!

This sounded manageable for her. Maybe with some tomatoes. And something green in it. Acxa had seen sometimes green parts of an unknown plant in scrambled eggs, when she had tried them and she had liked it.

And a smoothie.

Acxa knew, that Veronica liked smoothies. Strawberry and black currant. She liked the sound of the word. Smoothie. The way it felt on her tongue and the sound, the word created during speaking was somehow fitting for the texture of the drink, in her opinion. She pulled a transport wagon over to her and started to collect the ingredients. She had a plan.

And this plan was about to going down, horribly.

The second frying pan was resting in the kitchen sink, covered with a hard backed black crust of eggs. The biting smell of the burned mass was laying heavy on the kitchen. Thick clouds of dark smoke came out of the oven. Acxa was sweating. The working place and the floor around the stove was a freaking mess, covered with eggshells, yolk, rests of frying fat - Acxa had decided, that her first try went wrong, because she had forgotten to put some fat in the pan - and accidentally squished tomatoes. The stove, the knifes, the working plate and also Acxa were disgustingly sticky. It was a disaster.

"NoNoNoNoNo…!"

She left the mixer, where she had already put in the fruits and some milk for the smoothie and sprinted over to the oven. She grabbed an already messed oven glove and ripped the door open.

The clouds swallowed the Galra. She coughed dry and tried helplessly to wave away the big biting smoke of the burned buns, the oven was about to spew out, as soon, as its front door was opened by Acxa. She tried to get a blind grip on the baking sheet and winced back in pain, as she burned her finger on the first try with a curse. She got it with a second attempt and managed to bring the smoking black rests of the buns to the sink as well. She rested there for a second. This went all wrong. But she wouldn't give up. At least the smoothie wasn't ruined yet. It was the last ray of hope for her breakfast. The last side goal, which could prevent this mission to end in a total loss. She took a deep breath and walked back to the mixer. Acxa placed the cover on the mixer and turned the button.

Nothing.

She felt her anger and frustration finally rising. She checked the cable, everything was in place. So she tried it a second time.

Quiet.

"Oh come on!"

She groaned angry and started to rattle on the glass bowl with the mixing knifes and the fruits in it. She also turned the cover once or twice. Then she tried the button for the third time.

"NOOOO!"

Acxa's frustrated and desperate scream filled the kitchen as well as a short and loud mixing sound. Turning the cover had unlocked the blocking mechanism of the mixer, but in her rotten luck, it wasn't completely in place. And the mixer was filled up way to high with fruits and milk. As soon as she had turned the button, the machine had started to spit out the half-mixed smoothie all over the kitchen.

And all over Acxa. The mass was covering her head and clothes, dipping from her hair and horns. She kept standing, still with her hands on the mixer and started to tremble slightly. Her breathing became faster and harder and her face changed in a mask of pure anger. With an earsplitting scream on her lips, she ripped up the mixer from the working plate and was about to throw it through the whole kitchen, but she stopped in motion. The Galra turned back to observe the mess, she had created. A total defeat.

Suddenly a hand appeared beside her, offering her a kitchen towel. Acxa turned back around and watched in the warm eyes of Veronica. No blame, no question was in them, only a warm and comforting shine.

"Let me help you to clean up this mess."

Acxa blushed deep. She was nearly happy, that her face was covered with the smoothie. She placed the mixer back on the working plate.

"I wanted to make a breakfast for you."

Her embarrassed muttering let Veronicas smile grew. She threw the towel over her shoulder and placed her hands on the sticky cheeks of the Galra and pulled her in a gentle kiss. Acxa's eyes widened in surprise. She tried best to avoid her smoothie-covered hands get in contact with Veronica but she returned and deepened the kiss, Veronica had started and so Acxa rested finally her elbows on the womans shoulders. Veronica started to giggle during the kisses.

"This tastes really good."

She pushed Acxa's face gently back a bit and shared an impish smile with her.

"I could get used to take my smoothies this way."

She leaned forward again, started to gently kiss away the smoothie from Acxa's cheeks, chin and lips, slowly but with more and more passion with every following kiss, until both shared deep kisses again, holding themselves as tight as they could. Acxa gasped, trying to catch breath again after a while. Both were breathing heavily, pushing their foreheads against each other. They smiled.

"Come, let's clean up here and then we can clean up ourselves."

Acxa nodded, with a smile. Her body was screaming for a bath and even more for a one with her girlfriend.

"And next time, we can make breakfast together. I think this could be fun."

Acxa nodded again. Maybe Veronica could help her with finding the right green plants for the eggs.