Don't yell 'Boo'...It's part II
Galen gently piloted his ship into the docking bay of the Excalibur. He and Dureena barely had time to step out of the sleek black ship before Mathew greeted them.
"So, how was your trip?" Mathew asked, a little too chipper. Galen studied the captain.
"Why?" Galen questioned him. "You've never really cared before." Galen started down the hall. Dureena looked to the captain and mouthed that 'it was very boring'. Mathew nodded then followed Galen down the hall.
"You showed up in record time, ya know," Mathew called after Galen as he chased after the somewhat annoyed mage. When Galen didn't respond, Mathew continued. "We received a message that you may find kind of interesting." Still the mage showed no sign of stopping; in fact he seemed step up the pace. Mathew finally got up behind the bald man. "Galen would you stop for a minute?" The mage turned on the captain like spider would turn to a trapped fly.
"Mathew," he started, angrily, "Let's say you go on vacation. Right in the middle of it, you are called back home because a child got lonely." Galen glared as he said the last few venom filled words. Mathew was stunned. He stood; mouth agape for a few moments before he remembered there was a reason for calling the oh-so-unpredictable man back.
"Well, since you feel I am such a bother," Mathew said as he pulled a data pad from his uniform pocket, "I'll give you what I called you back for and be done with it." He held the pad out for Galen and the other man took it. Mathew walked away angrily but it was obvious that he was a bit hurt by the encounter.
"That went well," Dureena established sarcastically. She looked at Galen; he stared at the document. The edge of his mouth twitched up then went back to its grim line. "What? Who's it from?" Galen looked at her then smiled.
"It's from Susan and Marcus."
"What do they say?" Dureena asked excitedly as she tried to look over Galen's shoulder.
"They say that they would like for us to visit them and travel with them for a little while," Galen said as he looked over the letter. "They want us to meet them at Babylon 5 in a couple of weeks."
"Does it say why?" Dureena asked, somewhat confused.
"Well," he started, "It says here that they have someone they want us to meet and..." He trailed off.
"What?" Dureena got a slightly worried undertone. Galen looked up from the letter with a slightly confused but mostly happy look splayed over his features.
"It appears that they are finally getting married."