[Medlab]
t`Bahyk comes into the medlab looking like she's been in a fight...which she had been...as D`Tarik looks up from the bio-bed he was attending to, where Aehmig lay, to see the young girl. "Oh my...what happened to au?" he asked as he headed over, trying to remember her name.
"Some stupid girl had a jealousy problem, apparently." Bahyk only shrugs the matter off, "I didn't think they were that serious..."
Knowing that the girl whose name he couldn't remember was assistant operations, D`Tarik states without thinking about it, "Rylan and Katara." he nods as he walks over to her, "And which io did this? Her...or him?" He felt kinda bad to ask that, but figured he had known Rylan too long not to know that the possibility did exist for him to hit a girl.
Looking slightly confused over that question, Bahyk shakes her head, "The rekkhai didn't do this..." she shrugs, looking a little ashamed of the whole thing, "He pulled her off me."
"Oh, okay." D`Tarik gives the girl a little smile, and rubs a dermal regenerator over the her black eye. "Here's some good advice for au...don't get involved." he warns her gently, "They both have....issues." he smirks, then smiles warmly as he asks as casually as he could. "Are au going to report this?"
"I would if I thought...." she interrupts herself and looks away, "Never mind. He pushed me away, so I guess I know who he wants to be with." she finishes quietly.
"Rylan doesn't know who or what he wants." D`Tarik shrugs, putting the re-generator away once more. "Now...are au going to report this or na? I need to know if I should put in my records that au were here." he winks at her, then smiles.
"Na...why bother." Bahyk hops off the biobed and heads for the door, "I'd only end up embarrassing myself anyway."
"Wait a second..." D`Tarik walks over to her and turns her around.
"What." she asked coldly, looking at the male with an irritated raise of a brow.
"I'm sorry au had to get caught up in some kind of mess...." D`Tarik looks into her eyes and smiles warmly. After a few seconds, he suddenly asks as kindly as he could, "Au have very pretty eyes...can I clone them?" The warm smile he sported suddenly taking on an almost creepy quality.
"Au know something....*doctor*...." Bahyk pauses a moment, fixing the boy with an odd look, "I'd be careful if I were au, about saying who has 'issues' so freely..." she pulls out of his grip and exits.
"What's wrong with asking to clone her eyes?" D`Tarik asks himself out loud, "It's na like I asked to have her impregnated by Sprinkles...." His mind seizes on that idea a moment, before he shakes his head, "Na, na...probably a bad idea..." he says to himself as he goes back to the only biobed with a patient left in it.
[A little later...back in the corridor]
Wanting to retrieve the ladder so she could get back to what she was supposed to be doing, Bahyk finds the ladder further down the corridor then she had remembered leaving it, and fvadt if the ceiling panel hadn't fallen again. Sighing in resignation, she brings the ladder back to it's place and goes about fixing it again...this time without Rylan's help....and finds that the panel keeps falling to the floor as it had before the whole incident had happened.
On the third attempt at ascending the ladder dragging the panel along, Bahyk's stopped by the sound of Katara's hesitant voice. "Umm....t`Bahyk?"
"What." the girl looks down at the barmaid from her vantage point on the ladder with a sour look on her face.
"I'm sorry for the way I acted." Katara says quietly, looking very ashamed of herself, "Um...I hope au are okay. I just realized he's na worth it....So...I'm sorry for what happened...." she paused to look up at the other girl, then offered with an awkward smile, "Au look like au could still use some help with that..."
"Are au serious?" t`Bahyk looks blankly at the barmaid a moment, then looks down the hallway, biting her lower lip in thought. "Um...na, hann`yyo..." she comes back down the ladder and sets the panel to lean against it, "I'll fix it later." she walks past the other girl.
Seeing how this whole thing wasn't going exactly the way she expected, Katara calls out to her, "Wait a second, please."
t`Bahyk sighs and turns around, "Ie?" she asked impatiently.
"I know what au`rh thinking...'he's free now'..right? Please don't. He's na worth it." At the other's skeptical look, Katara added, "He seems to have a habit of going from woman to woman... but do what au want." she shakes her head then looks away as she lowers her head, "Just fair warning..."
Tossing a sarcastic smile at the barmaid, Bahyk shook her head, "If au don't want him, I do. At least I wouldn't hound him the way au do. I'm surprised he's put up with it this long." she heads off to find the rekkhai. "And to think," she laughs over her shoulder, "that he actually pushed me away earlier! Au really don't know him at all."
[Moments later in medlab again...]
Still rather depressed over the whole thing, Katara heads into medbay looking for D`Tarik, under the guise of having him take a look at her side where the other girl had managed to punch her during the fight. She spies the Chief Medical officer sitting at a computer console, working hard on trying to figure out how to help the Tal`Shiar agent who lay unconscious. Walking up in her quiet way, Katara startles him with, "Um...D`Tarik?"
"ACK!!" the boy jumps a foot, "I told au I would take au to the bar later to get au a soda, Spri...." he turns around to see who was there, "OH!" he smiles, feeling rather stupid, "Katara..."
Katara doesn't smile back, "Sorry to startle au, rekkhai..." she looks away, "I was wondering if au'd look at my side?"
"It would be a pleasu....I mean...I would love too...I mean..." Suddenly feeling and acting like a total dufus, he waves a hand, "Ah, au get it. Go ahead and have a seat..." he walks over to Aehmig's biobed a moment, "Just let me check vitals here..." he added absently, peeved and intrigued that the Tal`Shiar woman was suffering from something he had never seen or heard of before. Without a word, Katara hops up on an available biobed, and waits patiently for him to finish what he was doing. "Okay..." D`Tarik turns back around, still looking deep in thought, then suddenly smiles at the barmaid, "So, let me guess...au got hurt in that fight?"
"Ie..." she nods, then looks back at D`Tarik as he approached closer, "Guess I should've listened to au in the first place."
"The lady...and I use the term loosely....was here earlier." D`Tarik continues, "Au did quite a number on her eye, Katara." He pauses as her words finally caught up to him. Even though he suspected the answer, he asked anyway, "What do au mean?"
"That I shouldn't have gotten involved with him." she answered quietly.
"Don't worry about it, Katara...." he offers gently, then suddenly blushes a bit, "Um...I have to ask au to remove ninte shirt...."
She shrugs, trying to remain as dignified as she could under the circumstances, "I'm na going to worry about it. Na anymore." she nods as if that's final, then lifts up her shirt to expose where she'd been hit, but doesn't remove the garment completely.
"Okay...ummm...." he seems distracted for a moment, then takes a look at her side. "It's just a bruised rib. Here..." he reaches into a lab coat pocket to retrieve a pill and hands it to her. "That will take care of that. And ... umm... au can bring ninte shirt back down." DT looks away then adds, "Might be a good idea na to worry about it. Au`rh a good kid. I hope this does na effect our friendship?" he smiles.
"Na...of course na." she tries to return a smile, but fails. Realizing this, she hops off the bio-bed and heads out the door.
"Wait, Katara...." he puts a hand on her shoulder to stop her, "If we're still friends, maybe au should stay here...or we can go to the bar or something. Au look like au could use a friend right about now..."
"Na, hann`yyo..." she looks from the unconscious form of Aehmig to the computer she found D`Tarik at, then back to him again, "Au have too much to do..."
"Actually, I'm only looking for something I'm na going to find..." he frowns slightly, then cheers back up, "Emni and tr`Rogel are going around taking care of people on the ship. I could use a break..." he shrugs.
"All right then." she nods.
"Okay...so shall we stay here, or go somewhere more relaxing. Well.." he pauses to cast a glance around himself, "This is relaxing to me...but to au, I bet na."
"This is fine." she sighs, "I don't feel like going to the bar right now..."
D`Tarik frowns again, then offers a smile as he motions to his office door. "Well...let's at least go into my office in the back of the lab." The pair step into the office, and D`Tarik takes a seat in the very non-official looking battered easy-chair behind his desk. Putting both feet on the desk before him, he leans back in the overstuffed chair. "Oh! Sorry...have a seat Katara." he smiles again, motioning towards the two newer-looking overstuffed easy-chairs sitting on the opposite side of the desk.
"Hann`yyo..." she nods distractedly, taking a seat as she looks around at all the apparatuses of the mini-lab that made up D`Tarik's office.
"Okay, so...um...au seem upset." D`Tarik nods, trying to bring the subject around gently, "I just wanted to make sure au were going to be okay. Don't want anything happening to a future medical officer!" he laughs insecurely, trying to lighten her mood somewhat.
"Na. I'll be fine." she answered after a rather long and awkward silence settled between them.
"Are au sure, Katara?" he asked concerned, "I'm rather unhappy with Rylan right now for doing this to au...I mean, all au did was try to help and he gets angry." he paused, then added in a resentful mumble, "He does the same thing to me."
Katara thinks about that a moment, then shakes her head and admits, "Na. I wasn't trying to help at all. I got angry because I saw them ki...." She suddenly stands up, "Sorry. I don't think I want to talk about this anymore."
The frown returned to D`Tarik's features, "I'm sorry...just trying to help, Katara." he shrugs and offers again, "If au need to talk, please come to me..." he stands up and crosses over to her. Not really thinking about what he's doing, he hugs her, "I'm sorry...." he lets her go again, then returns to his chair.
Not quite knowing what to make of that, Katara turns and heads out the door. Only to suddenly return a moment later, yelling angrily, "And to top it all off, he accused me of trying to turn him into some kind of monster! What the Areinnye does that mean?!"
Startled by this sudden outburst, D`Tarik shrugs. "Sounds like something he'd blame me of doing... just because I tried to do it. Once." he looks away a moment, then answers, "But anyway...he means au tried to help him, and he doesn't want help." he nods.
Katara only looks confused. "Au tried to change him into a monster...? she shakes her head and holds up a hand to stop him, "Forget it. I don't want to know." she pauses a moment, then asks, "And why wouldn't he want help? If he has a prob....ugh! Just forget it!" she heads back out the door again.
D`Tarik runs after her this time, "Katara, wait!" he catches up to her, and continues when she had turned to face him again, "He just thinks that au should love him for who he is, and na try to change him. He thinks...that when au`rh helping...au`rh really trying to change him." D`Tarik pauses to mull those words over a moment, then nods his head in conviction, "It's probably for the best that au got out of it now." he shrugs, "I've only ever seen him truly happy with io woman...and she's now gone." he puts a hand on her shoulder by way of condolences, "Au deserve some-io who will treat au right...and unfortunately, that's na Rylan. At least, na right now anyway. I don't think it's good for either of au...."
Most of that conversation had been lost on the barmaid, as her own mind kept hearing a particular sentence. "He still loves her...this girl from ch`Vania...." she pauses to look away again, "Well... I guess I never really mattered to him at all then." she turns and heads for the door again, "Hann`yyo...." she calls back absently, out of habit of being polite.
"Na! Katara....au got the wrong idea!" D`Tarik stops her again, "Ie...he still loves her...but if he never loved au - and I know this is true of Rylan - he never would have done anything more than just...sleep with au." he pauses to think out loud to himself, "Which, I don't even know if au did...." he snaps back to the conversation with her, "He's just na good at....long term commitments. But I think, he did love au. Maybe just did na know how to handle it....or express it....and probably won't anytime soon." Feeling bad about having said all that, he offers with a shrug, "I hate doing this to Rylan, but I have to keep ninte happiness in mind. Sorry...." he hangs his head, "I'm just na good at this...."
"D`Tarik..." she asked curiously, "out of all the girls au knew him to be with...was there io that he stayed with longer then me?"
He thought about that for a moment, then admitted, "Na. Na there was not..."
"Then au`rh wrong." Katara nods to herself. "The only time he gets angry or distant with me, is when I try to... help him." she shrugs, "I'll just let him be then."
"I'm sorry I'm na much help..." D`Tarik offers, slightly confused, "I'm na exactly a khensia... but it may be best to let him be for now." he agrees, misunderstanding what she had meant, "He's been confusing me lately...." he stops to think this over, "Maybe I don't know him as well as I thought I did...."
Smiling kindly to him, Katara shakes her head, "Na. I don't think au do. Or at least, what au do know, is only a part of who he is. But I've talked with him....some. I know him better." She looks back to the medlab doors, "And he was right....I didn't trust him." She heads off towards the doors again, "I guess I'll just wait and see what happens." she nods to herself again.
Feeling like he has failed somehow, and feeling bad he apparently didn't know his friend as well as he thought he did, D`Tarik retakes his seat again to mull his own thoughts over. As the girl leaves, he throws a smile in her direction, "Katara....umm...be well."
Katara smiles back, "Au too."
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