A/N In the original series the war between the humans and Cylons had lasted for more the thousand years; however, I've never heard as to how long it had lasted in the present series so I'm going to assume that the war had gone on for several decades before the armistice.
The United States government had shared as to who were the twelve Cylons with their allied nations. The nations that weren't allied with United States just received a wanted bulletin of twelve extremely dangerous individuals with a cover story as to why they were to be apprehended and taken to the United Nation embassy. The reward for each one brought in alive was equivalent to a hundred thousand U.S dollars, but to bring in one dead was only worth the equivalent to ten thousand U.S dollars.
5:00 A.M. Christmas morning in London, the Royal Army with the help of the local law enforcement began doing what they could to arrest the twelve Cylons in their area. Their orders were to bring them alive.
The Number-Six who was in London was in a meeting with Ryan, Neil, Martin and several others. Number-Six was in the middle of pitching her ideas when Rose, Neil's secretary, entered the conference room and said, "I'm sorry for the intrusion…"
Rose wasn't able to get out all her words when five soldiers walked passed her. The leader of the five exclaimed in a demanding tone, "Cassandra Chadwick, you are to come with us."
Number-Six looked at the five soldiers as if they had lost their minds and asked, "And why am I to do that?"
"My orders are to apprehend you, Ma'am," said the leader.
Before Number-Six had a chance to react, Neil stood up and blurted out, "I demand to know why you are arresting her."
"Back off, sir, or we'll arrest you too for interfering with our orders," said the leader.
"It's fine, Neil," said Number-Six. "Obviously there's been a mistake and I'll go with them to straighten it out."
Ryan looked at his watch as Number-Six was being escorted for the room.
During the passing hours around the globe, most of the Cylons had resisted arrest and three were killed while trying to escape. The whereabouts of the Cylons in the third world countries were unknown and soldiers from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and France were sent to search them out.
3:40 A. M. at Peterson Air Force Base, Richard and Number-Three were awaken by the military police. Once Richard let the MP's in they arrested Number-Three. Richard demanded to know what was going on, but he couldn't get an adequate explanation.
5:20 A. M. local time in Beth's hometown, Beth was in bed lying on her back. She was awake, but had her eyes closed. Spence was using Beth's shower to get ready for his shift. Beth abruptly opened her eyes and turned towards the phone. As she reached for it, it began to ring.
"Hey, Beth, it's me, Ryan," Beth heard after picking up.
In a calm voice, Beth replied, "Ryan, it might be close to lunchtime in London, but here it's 5:23 A. M. So I hope you have a good reason to be calling me."
"The British military apprehended Cassandra Chadwick," said Ryan.
"And who is Cassandra Chadwick?" asked Beth.
"She's the woman that I'd fax you about and ask if she was a Cylon," said Ryan. "It's all over the British television that Audrey Butler, a British movie star, was taken into custody in the same manner. Her agent and the director who's directing a show she's been cast for are furious. Do you know anything about it?"
"Yes, Ryan, I filed criminal charges against them and had them arrested," Beth said in a sarcastic tone.
"That's not what I meant," said Ryan.
"Well, what did you mean then?" asked Beth.
"Were they both Cylons and are the military finally arresting the Cylons now?" asked Ryan.
"I signed a non-disclosure agreement with the CIA, so I can't confirm any suspensions that you have, so you should just follow your hunches," said Beth.
Beth heard the pleasant tone in Ryan's voice as he said, "Okay. Oh and I'm sorry that I woke you."
"I was in bed, but I've been awake for about an hour while debating to get up or try to go back to sleep," said Beth.
"Well, I'll let you get back to your inner debate and say goodbye," said Ryan.
Spence was walking towards the bedroom and in hearing distance as Beth blurted out, "Don't you hang up just yet, Ryan Daniels. I want to know how you got my phone number."
Beth saw Spence walking in and she knew that he was extremely jealous by the expression on his face as Ryan answered, "Your mom gave it to me the night of the Cylon invasion."
"I thought as much," said Beth. "Now please forget that you have ever seen my phone number, and now you can say goodbye."
As Beth was hanging up the phone, Spence asked in almost a demanding tone, "Why was Ryan calling here?"
Beth grinned and said, "Oh I asked him to call just to make you jealous and I see that it totally worked."
Spence grinned and as he sat on the edge of the bed he said, "Okay, I'll admit that I did feel jealousy when I heard you mentioning his name."
Beth took Spence's hand and said, "Well, you have absolutely no reason to feel jealousy over anyone. I'm with you and I'm happy. You make me happy."
Spence showed a pleasant smile just before giving Beth a passionate kiss. When the kiss ended, Spence commented, "I have no concerns about Ryan calling again. I know you two are only friends now."
"You heard me telling him for him to forget my number, so hopefully he won't call again," said Beth. "He only called this time because he was inquiring about the Cylons around him being arrested. Oh and my mom gave him my number the night he was in town."
"Well, if he does call again, I won't question you about it again," said Spence.
Beth gave Spence a pleasant grinned just before kissing him. When the kiss ended Beth looked at the clock and said, "Okay, you have to get dress before you're late for work."
"I could always go in late." Beth looked at him as if he had lost his mind and before she was able to say something Spence continued to say, "And I forgot that I was talking to someone who's a stickler for being on time."
Beth just grinned and said, "I just don't want my brother blaming me for you being late that's all."
Spence grinned and said, "Yeah-yeah-yeah." He then gave Beth a quick kiss before getting dressed. Beth just watched him for a short time before shutting her eyes. Her eyes were shut for about six minutes before Spence spoke again. "If you haven't fallen asleep, I'm leaving for the station."
Beth slightly grinned. As she opened her eyes she said, "I'm just lying here thinking about how I really need to do laundry."
Beth saw that an idea had popped into Spence's head just before he disregarded it and saying, "Well, I better get going."
Spence gave Beth a quick kiss and before he had a chance to step away, Beth sat up and said, "I saw that light bulb coming on inside your head when I mentioned that I was needing to do some laundry. You were about to ask me if I could do some of yours too, weren't you?"
"I'll admit that the thought had crossed my mind, but then I thought it would be too much of an imposition for you," said Spence.
"Are your dirty clothes gathered up in a basket or in a hamper?" asked Beth. Beth knew that Spence wanted to grin, but he was uncertain if he should allow it to creep across his face. "As long as I don't have to gather up your clothes from all over, I have no problem with doing your laundry when I do mine."
Spence finally grinned and said, "My laundry is in the laundry room on the floor by the washer and dryer."
Beth held out her hand and said, "Give me your house key so I can go get your laundry."
Spence pulled out his keys and as he was removing the house key from his key ring, he said, "You can use my washer and dryer if you want."
"Honey, I've seen how small your washer and dryer are and I really don't want to be all day doing a lot of small loads of laundry so I'm bringing them back here to do," said Beth.
"There's no washer or dyer in this apartment," said Spence as he was dropping the key in her hand.
"There are several large capacity washers and dryers in the basement for the residents in the building," said Beth. "Of course those machines take coins, but it's worth not taking all day to do laundry."
"Well, thanks for doing my laundry," said Spence.
Beth politely grinned and said in a patient tone, "No problem." Spence grinned and again gave Beth a quick kiss. "Honey, you're going to be late and I know Brandon is going to blame me when you are."
"I did tell you not to call Brandon when we got back in town," said Spence.
"Well, we needed a ride from the airport and I knew Brandon would still be awake while putting together toys," said Beth. "Anyway, you've better get going."
"Okay, I'm going," said Spence. "Bye."
"Bye," said Beth.
Beth lay down as Spence was walking out of the bedroom. Spence's cell phone was on the kitchen table while set to vibrate and he didn't think to grab it as he was leaving Beth's apartment.
After Beth heard the front door shutting, she took a deep breath and got out of bed. Once she grabbed what she needed, she went to take a shower.
Beth took a hot twenty minute shower and once she began to dry off, she paused for a moment while looking at the bathroom door. She gave a curious look when she heard nothing. With wet hair, she quickly put her bathrobe on and left the bathroom. Just as she was entering the living room, she paused again just as she faced the front door. She stared at it for only a second when there was a knock on the door.
Beth opened the door. When she saw Alicia standing there, she turned and walked towards the kitchen without saying a word or shutting the door.
Alicia walked in and as she shut the door behind her, she asked, "What? I don't get a Merry Christmas or at least a good morning from you?"
"Good morning and Merry Christmas," said Beth as she was stepping into the kitchen.
"Are you okay?" asked Alicia.
Beth saw Spence's cell phone and as she was picking it up she said, "I'm fine. I felt this thing ringing a minute before you knock, but at the time I didn't know what I was feeling." Alicia just slightly grinned and shook her head. "I guess I should call the precinct and let him know it's here."
Beth picked up the kitchen phone and as she dialing the phone, Alicia said, "When you get done on the phone, I want the scoop about your visit to D.C."
Just as Beth pressed the last button, she said, "There's actually no scoop."
"And why don't I believe that?" asked Alicia.
Beth grinned and before she was able to respond to Alicia, Officer Lawrence Allen picked up. She then said, "Hey, Larry, this is Beth… Oh, I'm doing good… Hey, let… what?" Alicia saw in Beth's face that she was trying to keep her patients before she spoke again. "I'm happy to hear that you had a good two-week-vacation in Central America and yes it's true. Spence and I are a couple. In fact that kind of why I'm calling…. yes, that is kind of weird." Beth saw the curious look that Alicia gave her. "Hey, Larry, let Spence know that I have his cell phone… okay. Thanks. Bye."
As Beth was hanging up, Alicia asked, "What was weird?"
As Beth was putting Spence's phone back down, she said, "Larry knew Spence from high school and two days ago, Larry's first day back to work since his vacation, he learned of Spence working at his precinct along with Spence and me dating. Larry just thought it was weird."
"I know Larry and he's actually weird," said Alicia.
Beth slightly grinned and said, "He's an okay person. He's just, uh…"
When Beth paused for the proper word, Alicia quickly said, "The word you're searching for is weird." Beth just grinned and shook her head. "Anyway, I'm not here to discuss Larry."
"Alicia, I'm standing here with wet hair while wearing nothing, but a bathrobe," said Beth. "So if you don't mind, I would like to get dress and dry my hair."
"Go for it and when you come back you can give me the complete scoop from last night," said Alicia. She then gave Beth a cocky grinned.
As Beth was walking away, she said, "There's no scoop."
"It's going to take some doing on your part to convince me of that," said Alicia.
Beth looked back and just gave Alicia a big grinned. After facing forward again, she entered her bedroom.
Alicia sat on the couch and turned on the TV. As she searched for something to watch while flipping through the channels in a slow manner, she paused on the CNN channel when she heard, "... These are the subterranean x-ray images of one of the large snow mounds near the northern part of Alaska that was taken an hour ago by using the features of the newly designed Hawkeye Satellite." Alicia's eyes had widened from the sight of the satellite images. "Whatever is buried under the snow is thought to be a few miles long and about a mile and a half across. From the depth it's buried at, it is believed to have been there for no more than a hundred and fifty years…"
Alicia quickly blurted out, "Beth! Beth, get out here and look at this!"
Before Beth was able to leave the room, Alicia continued to hear from the TV, "…an expedition to learn what is hidden under the snow mound won't be sent out until late May. In other news…"
Beth was leaving her room just after the news subject had changed. Alicia looked at Beth and said, "You missed what I wanted you to see."
"What was it that you wanted me to see?" asked Beth.
"The news just showed images from the Hawkeye Satellite that was taken at the subterranean level of a snow mound from the Arctic," said Alicia.
Beth looked at Alicia as if she had lost her mind and asked, "And why did you want me to see that?"
"Because the images shown had greatly reminded me of a silhouette image of that drawing you did of the Battlestar Galactica," said Alicia.
"The Galactica had crashed in the Arctic?" Beth questioned.
"No; it's not the Galactica because whatever is buried there had been there for over a hundred and twenty years," said Alicia. "But what if it's a sister ship to the Galactica… or-or an earlier version of a battlestar."
"Then that would indicate that people from the twelve colonies had found Earth in the late eighteen hundreds," said Beth. "But they weren't even looking for Earth until six years ago."
"The ship's crew could've been lost and looking for their way home… or the battlestar could've been severely damage from a battle and the crew didn't know which way to hobble home," said Alicia. "The fact is that there could be a number of reasons as to why it ended up here and I very much believe that the silhouette satellite images I just saw are of a type of battlestar."
"If you're right, then there's a good chance that descendants of the survivors are living among us," said Beth.
"I was thinking the same thing," said Alicia. "And I'm wondering if those descendants know the truth of their origin."
"Austin told me about how a Kobol web-site had sprouted when the local news began talking about the messages that we were relaying to the military," said Beth. "If there are descendants of the twelve colonies on Earth then they could have visited that site."
"Didn't you tell me that you get the wireless internet service?" asked Alicia.
Beth grinned and said, "I do. My laptop is in my bedroom and I'll get it for you. You can plug it up in the kitchen and search the site while I'm getting dressed."
Alicia just grinned as Beth walked away.
Within ten minutes Beth was dressed and was putting on make-up as Alicia searched the web for the site on Kobol. Once Beth was done with her make-up, she stuck Spence's house key in her pocket and left the bedroom.
When Alicia saw Beth stepping into the Kitchen, she said, "There are several discussion boards about the twelve colonies of Kobol, but no hints about if anyone is a descendant of Kobol. There are a few threads requesting that the friendly voice to respond though."
Beth stood over Alicia's shoulder and said, "Show me those threads."
Alicia flipped through three threads that wanted the friendly voice to respond before Beth said, "That one shows a slight hint of it being placed by a descendant."
Alicia read allowed, "Friendly voice of Kobol, if you are from the colonies of Kobol, please respond and tell me as to which colony you are from. My Great-great-great grandfather was a Taurus." Alicia looked up at Beth. "Why is that a hint?"
"Kim had told me the name of each colony," said Beth. "Those names are Aerilon, Aquaria, Canceron, Caprica, Gemenon, Leonis, Libran, Picon, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Tauron, and Virgon." (Forgive me if I got the names wrong.)
"The names of their tribes are a variation of the names of our horoscope signs?" Alicia questioned.
"They are," said Beth. "I'm going to respond to this and then we're going."
As Alicia was getting up from the table, she asked, "And where are we going?"
"To Spence's apartment to get his dirty laundry," said Beth.
"You're going to do his laundry?" asked Alicia.
As Beth was sitting down, she said, "I told him that I'll do his since I had to do mine anyway."
"Aren't you a nice girlfriend," Alicia commented. Beth just gave Alicia a grin. "Perhaps, I should go get my dirty laundry."
Beth said in a joking tone, "Sure. Go get it." She then clicked on to respond to the thread. A username and password screen appeared. "And I have to create a screen name and password." Beth clicked on to create a screen name. "I'm definitely not going to use the friendly voice of Kobol though. So any suggestions of what my screen… actually I know what to use for a screen name."
Alicia watched as Beth created her screen name. When Beth was moving on to create password, Alicia asked, "Is there a reason that you're using PureZodia as your screen name?"
"According to Kim, Zodia is the proper name of the thirteenth tribe," said Beth as she was filling out the required fields with her actual name, address and email address. "I doubt any of the descendants of that maroon battlestar crew would know that though, but if they know anything of their ancestors' true origin then they should understand my response." Beth had to go to her emails to activate her screen name. Once that was done, she went back to the thread and typed out the proper name of each of the twelve tribes with the word 'Zodia' added to the end of the list.
Once Beth submitted her response, Alicia said, "You just told them that you're from the thirteenth tribe and that you know of them without actually stating it."
"That's what I wanted," said Beth as she closed out from the internet. She then went to turn off on the computer. The computer took a minute for it to power off. "Well, I'm ready to go."
"Okay," said Alicia as Beth was standing up. "You can give me the scoop of your visit to D.C. on the way to Spence's apartment."
"Alicia, I'd signed a non-discloser agreement, so I can get into trouble if I told you anything," Beth reminded her.
As Beth went to get her coat and purse, Alicia asked, "So you're not going to tell me anything?"
"By you being my best friend, I would love to tell you every detail, but that non-disclosure agreement is a written promise and I won't even break a verbal promise," said Beth. "I'm sorry."
As Beth was putting on her coat, Alicia said, "Fine. Don't tell me, but if the situation was reversed I would tell you."
"Well, I'm leaving," said Beth as she was moving towards the door while carrying her purse. "Are coming with me to Spence's apartment?"
"Sure, I'll go with you in spite that you won't tell about your D.C. adventure," said Alicia. Beth just grinned as she opened the door to walk out. Once Beth had locked her door, she and Alicia walked towards the stairs. "I wonder how many survivors made it off that battlestar after it crashed in the arctic."
"That's a good question," said Beth as she was putting her purse over her shoulder.
"What's the complement of a battlestar?" asked Alicia.
"That's also a good question that I don't know the answer to," said Beth. "Later on, I'll astral project to Kim and see if I can get that answer though."
On June 25, 1876, the arrogant Gen. George Armstrong Custer and his men were advancing on the overwhelming number of the Sioux. Meanwhile, at the precise moment on a galactic battlefield across the galaxy, the arrogant Cmdr. Preston Armstrong, the commander of the Battlestar Exes was taking on two Cylon Base Stars. During the forty-five minute long battle, the crew of the Exes and her vipers were able to destroy one of the base stars and moderately damaging the second. The Exes had also sustained moderate damages in the fears battle. As the surviving Base Star attempted to flee, Cmdr. Armstrong ordered a pursuit; however, before the crew complied, Cmdr. Armstrong and his XO argued for five minutes whether or not they should withdraw for repairs.
As the days faded into weeks and the weeks faded into months, the crew of the Exes had relentlessly chased the base star in a direction away from the colonies. They had exchanged volleys more than fifty times that lasted no more than ten minutes before the base star was able to make a FTL jump to escape.
On the hundred and tenth day of the chase, the Cylons hadn't seen the Exes for twenty days and the Cylons felt that it was safe to enter an asteroid field to mine for fuel.
On board the Exes, provisions, fuel and morale were rapidly dwindling while the talks of mutiny against Cmdr. Armstrong were on the rise.
On the hundred and eleventh day, a group of twenty-two armed mutineers were about to put their plans into motion, when the base star appeared on the Exes' sensors. When the call to battle stations was signaled, the mutineers had halted their plan to take over the ship and went to their respective stations.
The XO, Col. Starling, realized that the Cylons were refining fuel as they were approaching the base star with caution. They too needed the fuel and Col. Starling had a plan to take the fuel from them.
Cmdr. Armstrong had approved Col. Starling's plan and it took more than thirty hours to execute. The Cylons were taken completely by surprise as the last of the twenty vipers swarm on them from around a large asteroid. The Exes came at them from an opposite direction. For fifteen minutes the Exes and the base star had exchanged fire. The twenty vipers and six Raptors dwindled to two surviving Raptors. While the crew of the Exes was attempting to keep from destroying the base star until they had obtained the Cylons' fuel, the Exes had sustained damages to several systems. Navigation system was irreparably damaged. Once the fuel was secured for the colonial use, Cmdr. Armstrong had ordered the destruction of the base star.
The crew of the Exes had wandered further from the colonies than any other known crew before them and because of the damages to the navigation system they set off in a random direction in search for food on a planet that can sustain life.
Not wanting to risk destroying the final two Raptors in a mishap, they stayed on the hanger deck while the crew of the Exes made FTL jumps one after another. Cmdr. Armstrong's science officer had poorly calculated as to which type of star would have a planet that could support life and Cmdr. Armstrong made his choices of which solar system was searched from that.
The crew of Exes had made jumps into several systems each day for fifty days with no luck. With the belief of them unable to get back to the colonies their objectives had changed to looking for a habitable planet to settle on. With less than one hundred and ten days of half rations left, Cmdr. Armstrong had pushed his crew into making more FTL jumps a day without verifying the data for a safe jump.
One hundred and five days and over two hundred FTL jumps later, the crew of the Exes jumped into the edge of the asteroid belt just beyond Mars. Before the crew was able to move out of the belt the Exes took heavy pounding from moderate to large asteroids. System failures and hull breaches in several sections of the ship were reported due to asteroid strikes. Seconds before losing sensors, an officer scanning the system saw that the third planet supported life. Unable to verify the report, Cmdr. Armstrong ordered his crew to maneuver towards the third planet before what little helms control they had was gone.
Once out of the asteroid belt, the two raptors were launched to verify that the third planet was able to support life, while they were still capable of slight maneuverability."
The crew of both raptors made flyby at an altitude that made them look like a shooting star in broad daylight to the people on the ground.
The ECO who was in the Raptor flying over Europe towards China couldn't believe the readings that he was getting and blurted out, "Frak me."
"What is it?" asked the pilot.
"There're humans down there," said the ECO. "However, the only type of pollution I'm reading is from a carbon base fuel."
"I've heard of small groups from the colonies striking out on their own," said the pilot.
"The people on this planet are no small groups striking out on their own," said the ECO. "These people are a large thriving civilization."
The pilot's eyes had widened when he saw the Great Wall of China and blurted out, "Look at this."
When the ECO looked, he said, "Okay, that wall has been there for a while, so there is no way that these people are small groups striking out on their own."
"Oh Gods," the pilot said in an eerie tone. "What if this is Earth?"
"Earth?" the ECO blurted out. "Get serious. Earth is only a myth."
"There are a lot of people who believe that the thirteenth colony is real," said the pilot. "And if the people on this planet aren't small groups striking out on there own from the twelve colonies than what other explanation do you have for these people?"
"I don't have one," said ECO. "We should report back to Cmdr. Armstrong."
As the Raptor pulled away from Earth, an individual on the surface saw as it changed directions.
The present time, Alicia was following Beth into Spence's apartment. The apartment was larger than Beth's apartment and was nicely laid out. Alicia gazed over the room and saw only one picture of Spence's son. As Alicia stepped into the living room, she said, "I see that Spence is not big on displaying pictures."
"If it wasn't for Kristi, there wouldn't be any pictures hung in her and Brandon's home either," said Beth. "I think Keith and LeAnn will be same way. LeAnn will be the one hanging the pictures."
"You haven't met Spence's parents yet and you have no clue to what they look like, do you?" asked Alicia.
"Not yet, but I'm going to Spence's parents' house tonight for dinner," said Beth. "I'll meet his parents and brother then. Oh, and like you, Spence is a Dr. Pepper drinker, so most likely he has some in his fridge and I don't think he'll mind if you helped yourself to a can."
"I need a bathroom more than I need a soda," said Alicia. "So where is it?"
Beth pointed out where the bathroom was and while Alicia walked to the bathroom, Beth went to gather Spence's dirty laundry.
Beth was done a few seconds before Alicia was and as Alicia was returning, Beth said as she was holding a basket of dirty clothes, "I'm ready to go."
"I want to get that soda first," said Alicia.
Beth pointed and said, "The kitchen is that way."
"This apartment is actually a nice place," said Alicia as she walked towards the kitchen. "This place is certainly bigger than yours, so when you and Spence are at the point to move in together, I strongly suggestion for you to give up your place."
"Well, I wasn't after size when I moved into my apartment…" Beth was able to get out.
"You were after convenience," Alicia finished Beth's sentence. "I know and I agree with your reasons as to why you took that apartment, and presently it takes care of your needs, but in the very near future you are going to need a bigger place."
"Well, my one year lease is up in five months and I'll worry about if I need a bigger place then," said Beth as Alicia was getting a soda. "However, if or when Spence and I move in together, I think that Spence and I should give up both of our apartments and find one together."
"What if Spence doesn't want to give up this place?" asked Alicia as she shut the refrigerator door.
"If for some reason Spence insists that we live here then most likely I will move in," said Beth. "It's not a big deal of where I live as long as it is in this city or at least on the outskirts. Now can we go?"
Alicia just gestured for Beth to go.
Fifteen minutes later, Beth parked her jeep in front of her apartment building. As she and Alicia were getting out of the vehicle, Beth noticed a suspicious twenty-nine-year-old man in front of the apartment building staring at her as she was putting her purse over her shoulder. Alicia saw Beth looking at something and turned to look.
After a couple of seconds Beth turned away and continued about her business by getting the basket of clothes from the back seat.
As Beth and Alicia walked towards the apartment building, the man stepped up to Beth and said, "By you being a beautiful woman with long red hair, you must be Beth."
Beth looked at the man as if he had lost his mind and asked, "And you are?"
"I'm Wyatt Westcott and now that I met you, you're way too pretty for my brother," he said. Beth just gave Wyatt a curious look. "How about you dump him, and you and me run off together? I bet sex between us would be heaven on Earth."
Alicia gave Wyatt a worried looked as if he had breathed his last breath just before Beth spouted, "You will never speak to me in that manner again, and if you do, I'll kick you in an attempt to do permanent damage. So if you're planning to father any kids or more kids, whichever the case might be, then you had better etch my warning in your memory."
"Beth doesn't give warnings as a rule, so you're actually lucking to get one," Alicia added.
"Obviously I offended you…" Wyatt was only able to get out.
"I know how to handle guys like you, so I wasn't offended, but I am outraged that you would have very little respect and consideration for your brother which by the way doesn't sit well with me at all," said Beth.
"I love my brother and I wouldn't…" Wyatt again was able to get out.
"Wyatt, why are you here?" Beth demanded to know.
"Spence haven't been answering his phone and since he always answers my calls or calls me back within a reasonable time, I thought he might have been in trouble, so I tracked his phone within this area," said Wyatt. "I didn't know you live around here. Well, I'm guessing that you live around here since you parked your…"
"Spence had accidentally left his phone on my kitchen table when he left for work this morning," said Beth. "Now with that thought in mind, may I suggest that the next time you get worried about your brother's well being that you call the precinct and inquire about him rather than tracking down his phone?"
"That suggestion is worth considering," said Wyatt. "You know, I hear that bad first impressions are the hardest to overcome and out of not wanting you to walk away while thinking badly of me, I would like to know what I could do to prove to you that I'm sorry for approaching you the way I did."
"To be sincerely apologetic as you just was," said Beth.
"Oh, so are we good?" Wyatt questioned.
"I accept your apology, but the verdict of me forgiving you is still out," said Beth. Beth indicated to the basket of clothes that she was carrying. "Now if you'll excuse me. I have things to do."
"Of course, and I'll see you around," said Wyatt.
Beth politely grinned and said, "Bye, Wyatt."
Wyatt just watched Beth and Alicia for a second as they were walking towards the entrance.
(For anyone who is interested, I'm posting chapters to an original story of mine on the fictionpress site. I'm using the same username. The story name is Terenzia's Storm. It's a science fiction story that I wrote it a few years ago and I'm posting the chapters a little at a time.)