Cally was lying on the bed in her cabin, staring at the ceiling. Like Avon, she too was thinking about the events of earlier that day. She had mixed feelings about it. On the one hand: Avon had finally kissed her! It was the moment she had been waiting for since the moment she realized that she loved Avon. On the other hand however: It didn't count because she was being possessed by an alien at the time and Avon only did it so he could kill the alien, causing everyone to go back to normal. After the whole thing ended, she and Avon had shared significant looks before resuming their normal duties. Cally had given Avon that look to silently thank him, because words could not describe how grateful she was to Avon and everything he had done since she had met him. But he knew himself to be thanked anyway.
When Cally got back to her cabin, she started to think how she felt about Avon. Once she had said: "Yes. Why do you imagine I've never gone back? Affection for him?" And while she had said it sarcastically, she meant every word as she was quite affectionate of Avon. And her terrible attempt at covering it up by leaving the flight deck in a hurry only made her look more guilty. And the only reason why nobody commented was because of the personal tragedies that occurred in the following weeks. Cally lost most of her people and Avon lost Anna. While her loss was technically greater than his, they were about the same on an emotional level.
And then of course, Cally loved Avon. Oh how she loved him. She had loved him ever since she first met him on Saurian Major a few years prior. Cally loved Avon because he was smarter then Blake, more trust-worthy then Jenna, more interesting then Gan, not obsessed with killing like Dayna, nicer then Tarrant and luckier then Vila. Cally had panicked when she thought the alien was going to reveal her love for Avon, but had calmed down when the alien only hinted at it. But, with it being hinted at, she would have to confess her love to Avon soon. It had been annoying her that she had not told Avon about it for the past few years, but now, it was starting to kill her. Not literally of course, but it was really annoying her.
But how could Cally tell Avon now? Especially after his recent tragedy with Anna. He would probably just see it as manipulation and refuse to acknowledge it. She would probably have to tell him very slowly and be 100% honest with him. With that plan in sorted out, she tried to sleep, but failed because she hadn't decided when she was going to tell Avon. She started to think about it when she felt Avon approaching. Cally could sense this because a few years prior, when Avon,Vila,Gan and Jenna were suffering from radiation exposure and they were all unconscious while Cally was examining them in the Liberator medical unit. She remembered that Aurons were born with the ability to have threads that joined them with 1 other non-Auron. Cally decided to use them on Avon for obvious reasons, all it took was for Cally to put her hand on Avon's neck to do an Auron neck pinch. And it took less then a minute before she and Avon were connected and he didn't even know it.
Cally finished that train of thought and focused on Avon approaching her room. While she could feel his heart, she could not read his mind, she could feel that he could not sleep and she knew this was the perfect time to tell him how she felt about him. So she went to the door and opened it.