Author's Note: i have to admit that I'M quite surprised that the next chapter's already ,don't get your hopes up!;) This is only a kind of a filling chapter...the next one should be more interesting as it'll move the storyline in the meantime I still hope you enjoy this one!;) Oh and thanks for your review!:) :) :)
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Chapter 4:
Niles' Point of View:
"What are you doing here? Waiting in the dark for some unwitting prey?", he asked beside himself. "Using humour in your situation?Sometimes I think you really are more entertaining than your brother.",she said. "I'm sorry LIlith,but I'm really not in the mood for a sarcastic intermezzo. If you will excuse me.",Niles argued weakly and turned to leave. "You must really not be feeling well.",Lilith said while catching up to him," you are usually so good at bickering." But Niles remained silent, so both of them kept walking around the ship until they were back where they had started, on the open deck at the end of the ship.
That was when Niles finally stopped."Lilith, what are you doing here following me like this?" "I'm on this cruise beause it happens to stop at Rio de Janeiro,which happens to be a wonderful place to buy lab rats." If Niles hadn't felt so bad he would've laughed."So what's this thing between you and Daphne?" "Nothing...just a minor case of infatuation." "Yes,now that you say it...I believe Frasier's already mentioned this "minor case of of infatuation"to me before.",Lilith commented dryly,"but who are you kidding?Look at yourself,it's as if the end of the world has come." Niles questiongly raised an eyebrow. "Why Lilith,I didn't know that you were capable of human emotions.",Niles growled and was surprised about the level of aggression he was feeling. "Stop projection your feelings of anger onto me, unplesant feelings towards me might qualify me for this,but you and I are psychiatrist,we both know that all of this could be avoided if you would stop repressing what has happened and started dealing with it." Niles sighed quietly."But I don't want to.",he whined. To his surprise Lilith smiled softly. "I know...", and after a minute of silence she added:" especially because it would require some sort of backbone." Niles rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Come on, lets go inside."
Frasier's Point of View:
Frasier couldn't sleep very well that one his cabin still smelled of fish-a smell he had absolutely no problem with whatsoever when he was cooking for instance, however it didn't make a very plesant room he kept thinking about Charlotte and his father's warning. Sure, as a psychiatrist he knew about ethics and about what was acceptable and what wasn' that was exactly why he knew that Ben's behaviour hadn't been acceptable and yet he knew that his dad was right-Charlotte was a married woman.
At 2 in the morning he decided he had enough of all this tossing and turning, so he grabbed his bathrobe and walked over to his brother's cabin. Softly he knocked on the door and stood and waited but nobody answered. Frasier waited patiently for another 5 minutes before he tried the handle. When he found that the door was unlocked,he quietly slid inside. "Niles?",he asked. He was just about to turn around when he heard voices coming from his brother's bedroom and then he saw that light was flooding into the corridr. He quietly snuck up to the bedroom to peer inside the opened the door a little bit more, but what he saw shocked him so much that he couldn't help but give his hiding place away. "Lilith!",he gasped. She was in bed with his brother. Well ,technically she was only sitting next to his brother in bed but none of that really mattered. "Frasier!",she exclaimed just as angry,"what do you think you're doing?" "Breaking up this hideous mistakes you're doing!Niles ,what were you thinking?"
"It isn't what it looks like." "Oh well done,Niles for choosing this appropriate phrase that is completely free of all clichés.",Lilith said dryly. "What are you even doing here?",Frasier continued asking. "God,I wish everyone would stop asking me that. Why do I need a reason to be on a cruise?" When Frasier still didn't look too impressed,Lilith added:"And I'm only helping Niles,he's having a crisis." "You're helping him how?",Frasier asked suspiciously.
In the menatime Martin was the only one who lay happily in his bed. He was on a cruise with his sons with plenty of space to avoid them both, and he had gained a few pounds enjoying the wonderful all you can eat buffet. And now while he was sleeping a smile crossed his face,for he had a dream that somehow he had managed to snuggle Eddie onboard.