[Ry's Quarters]
Having just finished a report, Ry's about to lay down and get some sleep, thinking that he wouldn't be able to sleep at all. But he had fallen asleep. So soundly -- and plagued by dreams -- he hadn't heard the doors to his quarters open, and was surprised by the inquiring female's voice, "Rekkhai?"
Startled awake, Rylan suddenly sits up, "How the Areinnye did au get in?!" he exclaims, more surprised than angry, "Didn't ninte parents teach au to knock?"
"I'm sorry....the door wasn't locked....." Erien t`Meihan says apologetically, "I did na know where else to go."
Rylan rubs the sleep from his eyes and grumbles, "*Never* sneak up on people who've been to ch'Vania!" he gives her a momentary glare, "Au'rh lucky I didn't have a disruptor in my hand."
Not quite knowing what to say to that, Emni chooses to stick to the subject that brought her here instead, "It's D'Tarik.....he is....acting strange." she tried to explain.
Finally hearing her words, Ry pauses to let that statement sink in, then smirks "He's always acted strange." he shrugs off her concern, "He's D'tarik after all." Remembering his manners, Ry motions towards the chair in the room, "Have a seat....can I get au anything?" he asks, standing away from the bed to cross the room to the replicator.
"Na time for that!" she shook her head, "He's na acting himself. He...well he practically forced a kiss on me."
Ry had just opened his mouth to order a glass of water from the replicator when she stated that last. He pauses to look at her with a raised brow, then turns back to the replicator and orders in a quietly defeatist tone, "Rhennish...." he waited until the glass and it's liquid materialized to
answer her, "A kiss, eh?" he shrugs, picking up the glass to sip from it, "Isn't that what au wanted?" he crosses the room again to sit on the edge of his bead wearily.
"But na like that." She shakes her head again, "It....had na feeling to it."
"What do au mean?"
"It was like he kissed me....just so I would shut up so he could work."
Ry thinks about it, then shrugs "Ie....that sounds about like DT." He smirks, "Once he's on about io of his ...experiments...the whole world ceases to exist for him." he explains gently with a smile "He was like that at academy too."
"Au apparently don't understand...." she began with a sigh.
Ry grins at that, "I'd say au were the io that didn't understand."
"He had that look in his eyes...it just was na him...na the same 'him' I talked to in his room."
Rylan laughs jokingly at that, trying to settle the girl's fears, "Elements!! There can't be more than io DT." he chuckles and takes another sip from the glass before setting it down, "The universe isn't ready for that!"
Emni puts her hand her on hip, tapping her foot impatiently, and thinking she might have to take a different approach to this -- completely unaware that she was bringing to Ry's mind the image of another girl who had a thing for DT, "Okay Rylan," she began in that eerily-familiar-to-Rylan
manner, "Look.... things don't seem to want to work out between me and D'tarik....and I think he understands that...but I don't. But... oh..." she sighs, frustrated by the whole thing, then finishes "So I'm going to the bar for a drink, care to join me?"
Ry gives her a rather blank look, then nods with his own sigh of resignation, "Ie....if au don't mind giving me a moment too," he motions to the tee-shirt he wore, "put my jacket and boots back on at least."
Emni purposely blushes, acting as if she hadn't noticed before that he was half-undressed. Crossing over towards the closet, Rylan pulls out a fresh uniform jacket and puts it on. Once his shoes where back on his feet he stood and smoothed back his hair, "Ie....after au." he motioned towards the door. Emni nods, then turns to walk out.
[Turbolift]
Once the doors to the lift close, Emni calls out "Computer, deck 4."
Rylan raises a brow at that. "Halt lift." he turns to look at her, "The bar is on deck 3...."
"And what's ninte point?" she smirks at him, "We are going to check on D`Tarik whether au like it na. I know I'm na just making this up."
Rylan returns her smirk with one of his own, and orders the lift, "Deck 3!" he turns to her, and says gently, "I'm na saying that au are making this up....only that au are misinterpreting it." he shrugs, "I know DT better than au."
"Deck 4!!" Emni counters, annoyed.
"Halt lift!" he turns to her again.
"Look..." she interrupts, "Before au say anything..."
"Au know..." he casts an obnoxious smirk her way, "We could end up here for quite awhile..."
"Look..." Emni counters again, trying to keep her patience, "just come with me to medlab, to shut me up. Then we can go get as trashed as au want.....umm Rekkhai...." she finishes quietly, casting her eyes away from him.
"Au know," he shakes his head and grins in good humor, "I see why he likes au. Au'rh different....but the attitude is similar."
Not understanding what he was talking about, she demands, "Are we going to medlab or na? I'm actually concerned about him." she explains, "Did au ever think, that maybe that last mission of ninte-a affected him more then he lets on?"
The good-humored grin dies on Rylan's face, as he looks away from her. His features turned far too serious for a moment, before he smiles ruefully, "What makes au think that planet didn't affect all of us?" Letting that thought hang there between them for a moment more, Ry shrugs again and mumbles begrudgingly, "Deck 4."
The girl beams with happiness at that, and she suddenly hugged him with a cheery "Hann'yyo!" Feeling Rylan's posture stiffen, the frown on his face turning more sever, Emni quickly lets him go and takes a step away. A second later, the lift doors open and Emni bows her head, "After au, rekkhai..." Rylan wordlessly motions the girl to go ahead. "Okay...." she says uncertainly then walks out. Rylan grumbles something inaudible then follows.
Emni swiftly walks to the medlab, but the doors don't open as she expected they would, and she ends up running smack into the door then falls over with an "Ouch!!" as she hits the ground.
Surprised himself, Ry reaches down to help her up, "Are au alright?" as the girl takes the offered hand he adds, "Computer! Open medlab doors."
"Ie..." she answers as he pulls her up, "I'm fine." she lets go of his hand, "Is the door broke?"
Almost on the heels of that, the Computer answers Rylan's earlier request, "Medlab doors are protected by password and voice verification."
Ry frowns again, then repeats his request adding, "Priority over-ride, tanga koi pi." The doors open this time, but there is a table blocking the entrance.
Ry sighs and pushes against the table with a shoulder, but the table doesn't move. It seems to be grafted to the floor or something. "DT!!" Rylan called out after the table wouldn't budge, "Au let us in *right hnah* or I will call security!" He waited a moment more than pounded angrily against the barricade with a fist, "I *mean* it DT! Hnah!!"
"Rylan I'm busy right now....my work can *na* be interrupted!!" D`Tarik's protest shouted back, then was immediately followed by the sounds of insane laughter.
The sound of tr`Rekkohan laughing like that, sent chills down Rylan's spine, a look of disbelief mixed with worry crosses his features, as he threatens "I'll report au to the Leih!!"
"See what I told au?" Emni quietly interjects.
"I *am* the Leih of this lab!!" D`Tarik laughs back. Rylan glares at the girl, for her 'I told au so' attitude then pretends to tap the com, and asks for a security detail. That did the trick. "Okay fine!" D`Tarik yells, "Hold on a sec.!" The table slides into the floor and disappears.
Rylan, looking extremely angry, suddenly grabs tr`Rekkohan by the collar and pushes him up against the wall, quite before the startled Medical officer had realized what had happened, "Now au listen to me...." Rylan quietly states, his smoke-grey eyes narrowing in rage, "I've been kicked out of the academy.....I lost my girlfriend.....and I've been disowned by my House...."
Scared, Emni taps Rylan on the shoulder, "Umm...Rylan....?"
But Ry didn't hear her, only finished what he had been saying to the confused doctor, "I will *NA* let au get me kicked off this ship!"
"I won't let au get kicked off this ship...." D`Tarik's quiet voice states, as Emni taps Rylan's shoulder harder.
"What?!" Ry doesn't look at the girl, only keeps staring angrily at tr`Rekkohan
"Look at this....?" it had almost sounded like a question. Intrigued, Rylan glances at her out of the corner of his eye, then follows her pointing finger to the large water-filled tube with several thin cords attached to it, sitting on a table within the lab. Inside the tube, floating in the liquid, was a small, fleshy, unidentifiable thing. Ry nods to the thing on the table, "What's that then DT?"
"Her pet...." he answered quietly, "I started growing it..."
"So why lock the place up and act all crazy? Ry questions as he unhands DT's collar, looking bewildered, "What if some-io had needed to come to the medical lab and couldn't get in? What if it had been the Leih? Au can't lock the medlab, DT."
"I don't know...." D`Tarik's expression seemed to reflect Rylan's as he was just as confused by what was going on.
"D'T...." Rylan nods towards the medlab "Get in there and straighten it up...then au and I are going to talk." he turns his attention to the girl as tr`Rekkohan turns rather sadly to do as bid, "Au'rh dismissed, Erien." he says quietly, "Try to get some sleep."
"But.... what about D'Tarik....?" the girl worriedly asks. When Rylan didn't answer her, Emni walks over to help D`Tarik clean.
"Ie..." Rylan nods, when the girl started to pitch in, "That's a better idea. D`Tarik?" he motions the smaller male with a curling finger, "Word with au?"
"Ie rekkhai....?"
Rylan motions off toward the turbolift, "After au..."
[Ry's quarters]
After a short turbolift ride, DT finds himself, sitting on the chair near Rylan's desk. tr`Tuhmek hands the medical man a glass of citrus juice and sits down on the edge of the bed. "What the Areinnye is going on with au?" Ry begins.
"Nathing Rylan."
"That girl was scared."
"I'm fine."
"She said au forced a kiss on her...then acted all bizarre in the lab."
"....I what?"
"And then au locked the medlab doors." Rylan paused, noting DT's shocked expression, "Which part of all of this don't au remember DT?"
"I don't remember much when I'm in the lab." tr`Rekkohan admits.
"Oh?" Rylan raises a brow, "Why is that? Do au remember locking the lab?"
"Kind of...."
"Do au remember kissing the Erien?"
"Ie.....that kind of sticks out in my mind."
Rylan sighs, frustrated with the whole mess. After a long silence, he rubs his eyes wearily as if his head hurt, "I don't know what to do to help au DT.....if the Leih had come by when ninte lab was locked....if he had heard au laughing like that....calling ninte-self the Leih...." he shakes his head and trails off.
"I called myself Leih?" D`Tarik asks confused.
Rylan throws him a depressed look, "Ie.....that au did."
"Okay...I remember that now that we talk about it."
"If au keep....acting so strangely...." Rylan sighs and shrugs again, "I can try to find au a khensia...but it doesn't look likely that we'll get io anytime soon."
"Then I will fix it on my own." D`Tarik nods dismissively, "I remember working on the pet perfectly. I made it just as I promised."
"But au don't remember much of anything else? Other then ninte experiment?" Rylan pauses to think.
"Well I remember the kiss." D`Tarik nods with a smile.
Rylan looks frustrated as well as depressed, "Well...fvadt it....I don't know what to do. If this keeps up, sooner or later the Leih will find out....or Vyynd will."
"Don't look sad."
"Just.....try and na scare the Erien again." Rylan says, ignoring DT's statement, "Au'rh lucky she came here...and na to security or the Leih..."
"I think she likes me...." D`Tariks smiles cheerfully.
Rylan nods, looking away, "Ie. And au worried her." he waves him away, "Sorry about yelling at au.....just....try and remember what I said, okay?"
"Okay, I will..."
Rylan rubs his head again, obviously in pain, "Go on...go get some sleep then"
"Au need something for that headache?" But Rylan only shakes his head at this question, and doesn't say anything as he turns his eyes away, staring off to a far corner of the room. D`Tarik stands from the chair, and reaches into a pocket of his lab coat. Pulling out a tube of pills, he tosses them on Rylan's pillow. "Take those. They'll help au sleep." When Rylan didn't answer him, D`Tarik shrugged and walked out.
As the doors to his quarters closed once more, finally leaving him alone, Rylan picks up the container of pills, and answers tr`Rekkohan though he wasn't present, "Ie...." he tosses the pills away, "But they don't stop au from thinking, do they?" He crosses to the replicator and orders
another rhennish.
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