Amelia was dropped off at her small town house by Delbert. As he stood at her door, she felt guilty, knowing that she did not have the energy to invite him in and watched him walk back to his carriage with drooping shoulders. She sighed and closed the door. Her house was simple and neat, even though she had many odd pieces of furniture and art from all over the galaxy. She instantly noticed a pair of boots at the door that weren't hers. She instantly thought of all the people who could get into her house.

"Sarah?" There was no response to the call. Amelia sighed, the little hope she had fading. She knew Sarah would have come running to the door the second it opened and would have already made tea.

A small figure appeared at the top of the stairs. Amelia smiled as her sky blue cat, Loki, wandered down the stairs and meowed to be picked up. She had been a gift from Sarah who insisted that Amelia couldn't live in a house by herself. Amelia had tried to insist she had been doing that for years, but of course Sarah took no notice of that.

"So who is in our domain today Loki?" Loki meowed in response and ran off towards the kitchen. Amelia followed inquisitively and as she walked through the doorway, she saw the culprit curled up fast asleep on the couch. She smiled and set about making herself a cup of tea. She poured a saucer of milk for Loki, set it on the floor and picked up the newspaper.

"Amelia?" Amelia grinned as she sat down with her teacup.

"I take it you still haven't managed the ability to fall asleep on shuttles?"

"Until they have competent security guards, the answer will remain no." Fae sat up and stretched.

"I would love to know how you got into my house without unlocking any doors." Amelia commented.

"Couldn't be bothered to find the key in my bag." Fae indicated her duffel bag by nudging it with her foot. "Used my board and flew in threw the upstairs window. Then I ran downstairs and remembered your alarm code. Luckily it still recognized me."

"I'm still confused as to why you are here. You previously stated, rather forcefully I may add, that you had somewhere to stay and ignored my offer of hospitality yet here you are. Apparently you have now taken me up on the offer?" Fae frowned.

"Why do you always have to talk as if you were on a ship?"

"You are avoiding the question."

"Fine. My aunt and her family went off on some vacation. I found a note in the mailbox with her apology, I will never know why my mother tries to stay in contact with her all the time. So yes, I will now take you up on the offer as you put it. You know I would have preferred to stay here any ways. Where were you?" Amelia picked up her tea cup slowly, stared at the tea, and put it down.

"Complications with the voyage." Fae stood up, wandered over to the fridge, and pulled out a perp.

"Complications? I thought it was settled. Your Hawkins boy as First Mate, me as the navigator." Amelia's dropped guiltily. Fae exploded.

"What?! I don't get to be navigator! You promised Amelia!" Amelia didn't react to Fae's outburst.

"Sit down Fae, you are still navigator. No, they are sending an inspector with us. So we must follow all protocol and regulations." Fae sat down and bit into the perp.

"That's almost worse, but who cares, Amelia? We've always followed rules. He'll try to throw you out but he won't be able to."

"Yes, but he will be the one in control." Fae opened her mouth to object. "No Fae. He will be. We'll just have to deal with it." Loki jumped into Amelia's lap and curled up. Fae nodded, and paused thinking.

"Let's go out!" Amelia stared at her. "Come on, let's go to some bar and hit on weird species and have some fun! Some of the crew might be there, I haven't seen them forever, let's go."

"You go. I have no interest in that sort of thing." Fae grinned evilly.

"Then you don't remember that one time, in spaceport Kyjash, that you got so." Amelia jumped up and covered Fae's mouth with her hand.

"Stop. Never again. Fine, we'll go out but only if you behave yourself."

"Sure, if you behave yourself." Amelia rolled her eyes.

Jim had been waiting in the carriage for the Doctor when he had walked Amelia to her door. He noticed the Doc's depressive mood instantly.

"Lighten up, Doc. What's wrong?" Delbert glanced at Jim and climbed into the carriage.

"I don't know how many times I've invited Amelia out, to concerts, coffee, all those things and the few times she has agreed I've walked her to her door and she's never invited me in."

"I don't know why you want in there, Doc. She has some pretty eclectic furniture." Jim noticed the Doc's face darken and realized he was overstepping. "But seriously Doc, maybe you are going about this the wrong way. You're coming on the voyage aren't you?"

"Yes. I suppose she did ask for me to be her navigator. That's got to count for something." Jim nodded and then his face became thoughtful.

"You know what Doc? I think you need to go out, just hit the town and have some fun." The Doctor looked a bit horrified.

"No, Jim. I have some books I've been meaning to get to and.." Jim laughed.

'Which means you can go out. Come on, the voyage to Treasure Planet took forever you'll have plenty of time to read then. Beside, women like a man who knows how to party." Jim knew that Amelia probably wasn't into a man that liked to party, but he needed to convince Delbert,

"You know what Jim? I think I will, let's hit the town."

"Excellent."