Chapter 3
As Arius strolled through the crew quarters, glancing in open doors and seeing people getting ready for their day, some half dressed, some in towels, some in nothing.
This didn't surprise him, most of the crew had no qualms with being seen naked, as had been proved many times at the crazy parties they sometimes had where nearly all the crew would end up with very little or no clothes on by the end of the night and they would all wake up in random dorms.
The crew quarters weren't exactly a large area, there was only about fifty crew members for the whole station so they all knew each other, and there wasn't much hiding of relationships or anything with such a small group.
There were a few relationships going on at the minute, mainly between the engineers, all that time in pairs in remote parts of the station, who knows what happens.
Arius smiled to himself as he rounded the final corner, there in front of him was his elusive companion.
"You left very quietly this morning major" Arius said walking up behind the blonde
"Well unlike you i've got alot of work to do this morning" Came the sarcastic reply
"Yes but i never gave you permission to leave" Arius whispered through the long mop of hair covering the majors ear
"Considering i was the one in charge last night i didn't think i needed your permission" the major replied flirtily spinning to lock eyes with Arius
The majors soft amber eyes were set fairly deep in a face wrought with the marks left by work and emotional stress, the two types or marks merging together on a face that belied the majors young age.
"To think you're only twenty-five" Arius said softly, smiling
"To think you're a captain at only thirty" The major retorted
"I suppose you have a point" Arius replied softly, taking the major's hands in his own
The pair stood locked in each others gaze for a minute or two, they weren't sure. But the romanticness if the situation was blown apart when Arius's sister Linera wolf whistled down the corridor to the pair.
"Get a room lovebirds!" she shouted playfully down the metal hall
Arius chuckled slightly before looking down the corridor at his younger sibling laughing. "I'm gonna kill her" he said jokingly then turned back to the major "I'll see you later".
With that he released the majors soft hands planted a kiss on the warm cheek and ran off after his sister who had started to sprint off in the opposite direction.
The major turned round looking at the Captain run, he was so graceful as he ran looking back one last time and slamming into the door his sister had closed behind her.
The major chuckled before heading back to the dorm thinking all the time of Arius that silly blonde, insanely attractive man, HIS insanely attractive man.