[Medlab]
With an air of just not giving a fvadt about anything anymore, D`Tarik tr`Rekkohan walks into the medlab and looks up to see Rylan standing near the office door, tapping his foot impatiently. Care to explain the mess? the erie`Arrian asks nodding his head to indicate the medlab in general. The 'mess' in question consisted of a few tables that had overturned, scattering instruments on the floor, a few empty beakers and specimen jars that had fallen from their shelves, and the office behind Rylan was similarly littered with ISD's, as if they had been brushed off the desk.
D`Tarik only glances about the lab and states matter-of-factly, "Sprinkles did na do this."
"Then where is he?" Rylan nods towards the pen, "And why did he call me for?" he asks in a confused note.
"Call *au*?" D`Tarik's own voice echoed the confusion.
Ry nods impatiently. "Ie...that's what I'm doing here. He called over my com...squeaking all over the place..." he shrugged, "I thought something had happened to au, but when I got here this is what I found." he motions to indicate the room in general.
Picking up the scattered instruments, Emni quietly accuses, "I thought au said that creature wasn't dangerous....?"
"Well the damage is na *that* bad." D`Tarik protests defensively, "Knocking over a table and scattering some tools about is na very dangerous....now is it?" sighing, he looks away from her again, glancing over the rest of the room, "More like....something a crew member might do if angered....." he trails off, looking as if he had finally figured out the problem.
"Ie..." Rylan nods, "that's the way he sounded. Angry."
"Exactly." D`Tarik nods absently, "Sprink?" his voice turns stern, "Come out...hnah!"
Ry shakes his head, "Na...he's na here. That's the first thing I tried. The second was to call au.
And while I waited...I searched the medlab."
D`Tarik ignores this last, and taps his foot impatiently, "Sprink!!" he waited a moment, but when still no answer was forthcoming, he supplied touchily, "He will be at my quarters...."
"Well then...au better go get him," Rylan smirks, "before he takes a leak on ninte pillow or something." he quickly turns away, holding back a fit of laughter. He casts a good humored grin at Emni, "Au sure au want a pet now?
"Na rush for the moment, I took precautions." tr`Rekkohan explains, taking out that same red button from before. "I fixed the 'off switch', so it could na be turned off without shutting down his leg. which means he would na be able to go anywhere. So....we know it's safe." He pushes the button, "So, if we go to my quarters we'll find him fast asleep. And he'll stay that way, until I figure out what's wrong with him."
Rylan tries to look serious, "Alright....and how long has he been in here without au watching him?" he shrugs, "I mean... he upgraded himself before, right?" he nudged a fallen instrument with a toe of a boot to illustrate his point, "What's to say he didn't do it again?"
D'Tarik shrugged this time, "I don't know what to do....au guys can go...I'm sure au want nothing to do with me..." he starts to walk out, but stops at the medbay doors to explain it yet again, "And Rylan, I made it so he can't change himself anymore without shutting down the power to his leg." he shook his head, his expression one of frustration and hurt, "Au don't
understand...." he walks out.
That killed the humor, and only leaves Rylan looking stunned. Glancing at the girl, who shares a similar expression of disbelief, he goes after his friend, "DT? What do mean 'I don't
understand'?"
"Na thing Rylan...I don't want to talk about it." D`Tarik continues his walk to the turbolift without looking back, "I'm going to bring Sprink back down to lab, then I'm going to sleep." he paused before the open turbolift door, "Tell Emni I said good night." he tossed back before stepping into the lift, leaving Rylan behind.
Confused by the whole thing, Ry heads back into medlab to question the girl, "Um...." he points towards the corridor, "Want to tell me what that was all about?"
"Na. I don't think so..." she stated quietly, picking up the mess in the medlab.
"What did you say to him?"
Emni paused, then admitted, "Well, we were having dinner...and then au called at kind of an awkward moment...."
Ry looks amused and guilty at once, "Oh...sorry...." he shakes head, "But that's na enough to upset DT." he crosses the room to help her finish picking up the instruments that got scattered.
"Some things were said....and we were trying to work it out..." she explains, "and he was upset about that." she paused a moment, then shrugged, "And I might of said something to up set him...or did something....I don't know." She picked up the other knocked over table in the room, "He's a lot more emotional then he seems...and a lot nicer too....." she trails off, blushing a bit.
"Ie....and au like him..." Rylan smirked.
"Na..na...." she shakes her head, not knowing quite what to say, blushing furiously all the more, "Ummm....na...."
"Ah!" a momentary pause as the smirk dies, "Au don't like him then...." he nods and heads towards the doors again, "That explained it."
"Are au going to make me say it?" she sighs, standing again to put the instruments in her hands down on the upright table.
Rylan stops, silently counts to ten, then turns around, "What's to say? Au led him on...and when he acted like he liked au, au ripped his heart out and splattered it on the floor."
Emni's open shocked by that, "I did na! Au are na being fair here!....umm..rekkhai..."
"Then what exactly did happen?" Rylan leans casually against the edge of a bio bed.
"Okay.....he does have something about him.....I don't know....what's the word...?" She looked up to Rylan hoping for help with what she wanted to say, but only saw him looking at her with an almost bored expression, one brow rising slowly in impatience, and so she hurried on, "Maybe I'm a bit attracted to him...but I'm confused...I don't know why he acted like that....I thought he did na like me....so I was a little...annoyed....by that. He seemed frustrated.....and I'm sure this thing with...that *thing*..." referring to Sprink, "is na helping at all." she pauses, then adds quietly, "The poor guy."
Rylan looks confused a moment, then suddenly smirks, "Ah! I get it! Au like him...but he's shy...and au'rh shy...and neither io of au know how to talk to the other." he rubs his eyes and shakes his head, "Okay....well...." he stands straight again, "Why don't au just go up there....and tell him au like him then. That should at least help improve the situation."
"Look, just forget it..." Emni shakes her head, turning away, "It's probably a mistake anyway.... since we work together, I mean."
Ry smirks and shakes his head again, "Na...I know DT better than that. If he didn't want to be with au, he would've said so." he nods towards the door, "That was a man who's heart was busted io too many times. If au misunderstood each other, and au want it fixed...*au* are going to have to be the io to try and fix it first."
Emni looks guiltily down to her feet, "Well....I did na know that. He was...reluctant to talk about his past...."
"Ie...." Rylan nods, "some io he cared about just died. Au can't blame him for na wanting to talk about that."
"I see..."
"Na....au don't see." Rylan shook his head, but didn't elaborate on what he meant.
"Well...I don't know how to handle anything this heavy..." she says apologetically, "I have had a pretty boring life."
"Then I'd say ninte life just got a bit more interesting, na?" he smirks.
"Ie...I guess so. Maybe au can talk to him first?" she asks hopefully, "He seems down about more then just me....looks like he needs a friend...then maybe au can send him my way? I really don't know how to handle him in this kind mood. I bet au do..?"
Rylan gives her a 'what me' look, then sighs and heads towards the doors. "Ie...I'll try...." he pauses to cast a sarcastic smirk her way before exiting the lab, "Oh! And if au expect to have a relationship with DT...au better learn to like Sprink! I bet that's half the reason he caused such an uproar! He's jealous! his almost-obnoxious laughter fills the corridor as he heads to the turbolift.
[DT's Quarters]
Coming to a stop in front of D`Tarik's quarters, Rylan rings the chime. Almost immediately, the doors open, Allowing Rylan a clear view of DT and Sprink sitting at his chessboard. It looked like the sad little Med Officer was trying to teach the Tribble how to play the game. "...Ie...?" Could be heard from within the room. Rylan took this as his queue, and stepped in.
Rylan smirks, then announces bluntly, "The girl likes au, but she thinks au don't like her, and she's too shy to say anything." he grins.
D`Tarik only waves him away with an almost impatient "Shh..." too absorbed in the game he was playing against the Tribble. After a stunned silence from Rylan, D`Tarik suddenly supplies, "I figured out what was wrong with Sprink, by the way."
Rylan looks taken aback at having just been shushed, and casts a glance back to the door, "Well, Ie....he's probably jealous....." he smirks again.
"...Na...." answered him on this, in a strange, totally-unlike D`Tarik- voice.
Tossing a brow up in confusion, Rylan nods his head toward the door and
explains, "Au've got a girl waiting to talk to au....what's the hold up?" Before he could say anything further, D`Tarik suddenly jumps up from his seat, runs into the bathroom, and locks the door. Sighing, Rylan shakes his head, and calls out after a few moments passed, "Come on, DT! What's the hold up?" When there was no answer, he mumbles to Sprink in an off-hand way, "Is this guy socially crippled, or what?"
"...ie..."
There was a long pause as Rylan glances around the room, "What the Areinnye was that?"
"Squeak!"
Rylan glances at the Tribble at that last squeak and grins, "Great! I really am crazy....I'm hearing voices now....." he looks back to the bathroom door. But before he could call out to D`Tarik again, that strange little voice spoke up once more.
"....ie...."
Rylan looks at the Tribble once again, then says jokingly with a shake of his head, "Did au hear that too?"
"....maybe...."
That caused a brow to raise, then suddenly Rylan's eyes got wider as he stared at the Tribble in disbelief, "Au did *na* just say that...."
The Tribble shakes his hole body, ".....na....."
Rylan backs up a step or two, "Elements!! I hope there's a khensia on this ship....."
".....maybe?....."
Rylan takes a cautious step nearer the bathroom door, still keeping a startled eye on the Tribble. "Um.....DT?" Have au learned to throw ninte voice or something?" he tries to laugh, "Good trick that....stop it now!"
D`Tarik, who had tried to warn Rylan earlier about Sprink's ability but hadn't been heard, puts his mouth nearer the locked door and says loudly, "He can talk!!! He can say 'ie', 'na', and 'maybe'. That's it so far....."
Rylan pounds on the door annoyed with the whole thing by now, "Alright...fun's over! Stop with the joke and come out here!"
A small little "....ie?..." came from behind him, and tr`Tuhmek cast another glance back over his shoulder.
"I'm na coming out!" D`Tarik answers defiantly, "Ummm....*never*!!"
"...na?....maybe?...." Sprink scratches his 'head' with his claw.
Rylan, looks at Spink with an 'this should simply not be' expression plastered to his face, then amazingly enough -- grins, "Well then...." he addresses the bathroom door, "If au don't come out, I'm going to believe that it's really *au* making Sprink talk." he smirks.
D`Tarik immediately storms out, insulted that Rylan wouldn't believe him, "Hey! It's na me! It's my creation doing it Rylan!" he addresses the Tribble proudly, "Right Sprink?"
"....ie!....squeak!!"
Rylan looks from one to the other as he backs himself into a chair, "Well...when the Areinnye did this happen?"
"From what I can tell....when we got on the ship...or maybe longer." D`Tarik shrugged, "Sprink won't say....I think he's kind of evolved." he says in a note of pride, then added quickly, "He's na dangerous!"
"Na...he's na dangerous..." Rylan waves that statement away then says sarcastically, "Only to my sanity!" he pauses, then grumbles, "For a minute there...I thought I was having hallucinations." he smirks, and looks back up to D`Tarik, "I was this close," he holds up two fingers narrowly apart, "to swearing off alcohol!" he bursts into laughter.
"If anyone asks....au did, okay?" D`Tarik nods hopefully, "Me and Sprink don't want anyone knowing about this....okay? Well....maybe Emni...." he relents, "because she can help me figure out what's causing it...ie!!" he nods again, "But that's it!"
"That I did what?" Rylan looks confused, "Have hallucinations, or swore off drinking?" He shakes his head, and mumbles, "Bad thing either way....." he looks from the Tribble to D`Tarik again, and explains, "Au'rh na gonna' be able to keep that a secret, DT." he points towards Sprink, "Someone's bound to hear him talk at some point."
"Na if he stays in my room."
Rylan shakes his head again, then looks at the Tribble, "Is that what au want Sprink? To always stay locked up in here?"
"....ie?...maybe?...na?....ie?...."
"He still has na figured out the meaning of the words fully..." D`Tarik shrugged apologetically, "He gets confused...."
Rylan smirks as he looks back to DT but address the Tribble, "Squeak for ie, coo for na."
"....ie...."
"Do au always want to be lock up in here...never to go out again Sprink?"
"...na...coo!"
Rylan raises a brow at D`Tarik, and addresses him this time, "If he's evolving, he should have a say...na?"
"Okay, fine." D`Tarik cast his eyes down, "But the crew won't take well to this... I just know it." Then suddenly, D`Tarik looked back to Rylan, and actually cast a smirk of his own, "Did au just come up here to talk to Sprink, Rylan?"
Rylan chuckles at that, "Areinnye.....I didn't even know he talked!" he grins, "But na....I came up here to tell au to go talk to that girl."
"Her name is Emni." D'Tarik stated quietly, turning away.
Rylan quickly moves to the bathroom door so he can't run into it and lock himself up again, "Ie....?" he casually leans up against the bathroom door-frame and motions toward the entrance of DT's quarters, "Then go talk to her." he smirks.
"I don't think I will be doing that Rylan..."
"And why na?"
"Well for one....she thinks I'm insane. And two....." he pauses and his shoulders dropped, "Everybody I care about.....dies."
Rylan shakes his head, "One: she doesn't think au insane...*I'm* the io that thinks that." he smirks again to let him know he's joking. "And two: ie...everything dies DT. What are au going to do...go through life without ever getting close to any io again?" he shrugs, "Wouldn't that mean that au would have to stop caring about Sprink cause he might die....or me, because I will?" He gave tr`Rekkohan a chance to answer. But only silence followed. So he tried again, "Would *she* want au to go through life being lonely, DT?"
"I don't know, Rylan."
"Well..." Rylan stands with a shrug, "There's a girl in medbay who seems to like au. Be a shame to hurt her just because au are afraid of getting close enough to love her."
"That's na exactly fair, Rylan." D`Tarik sits down on his bed, "Sprink come here..." The Tribble immediately hops over and jumps on his customary perch on D`Tarik's shoulder.
"May na be fair...." Rylan answers, "but it's the truth. Au'rh afraid."
"Yeah....afraid of her getting hurt."
"DT....au can't stop death. Au were never meant to. That sucks...but it's a fact. Au can go through life being a scared little kid.....or au can grow up, and learn to take chances. That's up to au." Rylan shrugs with an air of indifference, "Emni, eventually, will find some io else who's more than willing to take a chance on her. But *au* are always going to be lonely unless au learn to deal with it." Rylan turns towards the door.
"I'm na a kid Rylan." D`Tarik quietly protests, "......where is she?"
Rylan pauses in the open door way and turns back to smile, "She's waiting in the medlab." he tosses a wave over his shoulder as he exits, heading off to his own quarters.
D'Tarik sat for a few moments more, then moved the Tribble from his shoulder, and gently put him in his pet bed, "Sprink wait here....."
"....ie..."
D`Tarik gave the Tribble a little pat, then headed off to medbay.
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