[Emni's Quarters]
D`Tarik, cleanned up from the holodeck adventure gone awry, sits nervously in a chair in Emni's room. "I am *sooo* glade you understood why I was late. Sorry we had to skip dinner." he apologetically shrugs.
"It's alright." Emni smiles, "And we really don't have to skip dinner. Maybe we can get something to eat......later." she sits down on the bed.
"Later?" D`Tarik asks, confused.
"Ie...." she blushes, "later...."
"But...." he still looks confused, "if we don't eat now what will we do?" then asks almost worriedly, "Au have something au want to talk about?"
Wondering how many more signals she could possibly give off, Emni sighs and looks away, "Well....I wasn't planning on talking......right now......"
"Talking......" he tries to figure it out, "Play chess?......" suddenly he holds his index finger in the air with a look of dawning comprehension, "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh......"
"Ie...." she looks back at him and smiles.
"I see....ummmm...ok...." a little nervously, he stands and walks closer, then sits on the bed next to her. Emni, blushing now, smiles and leans closer to him, as D`Tarik leans in to kiss her.
Before their lips had a chance to meet, Rylan suddenly bursts into the room, grabs D`Tarik by the arm and yanks him towards the door, "Come on!! We've got work to do!!" Not knowing what else to do at this intrusion, Emni looks stunned, and realizes that in all likelihood, Rylan had overridden the lock on her door.
"Rylan!!!" D`Tarik struggles to set his arm free from the taller boy's grip, "What the Areinnye are au doing?!"
"What do au mean, 'what the Areinnye am I doing'?" Rylan drags the boy across the floor, "Let's go!!" As he's steadily being pulled towards the door, D`Tarik casts a look back to Emni with confusion in his eyes, as Rylan proclaims, "Seriously!! This is important!!"
"Rylan!!!" the smaller boy tries to protest, then grabs the door frame and says to Emni, "I will be *right* back!" then is yanked off down the hall.
Emni, still stunned, stares at the door as it closed behind the two males, wondering if D`Tarik had planned that somehow. Shaking her head, she rolls her eyes at that thought, crossing her arms defiantly over her chest.
Almost to the end of the corridor, D'Tarik suddenly yells "RYLAN!!!!! Au *idoit*!!" the smaller boy reaches up and lightly double-slaps tr`Tuhmek, trying to bring the boy to his senses, "I was about to get some!"
Rylan suddenly brings up a fist to pop him with, pauses only a second, then aims a finger at D`Tarik's nose, "I don't have time for that!! This is *really* important!!" then continues to drag him to the turbolift.
"Where the Areinnye are we going?!" D`Tarik's face is a mask of utter confusion, "Au could've at *least* given me time to apologize for leaving her like that!"
"We've got work to do!!" Rylan practically threw the smaller boy into the lift, and with an almost insane grin, he calls out cheerily, "HOLODECK!!" as he steps in himself. After a momentary pause, Ryan suddenly looks confused, and he looks at tr`Rekkohan with a raised brow, "Who....?"
"Who?? What do au mean *who*??"
Rylan only looks extremely puzzled by that, "What are au talking about??"
"Oh I don't *know*......THE GIRL I WAS ABOUT TO KISS WHEN AU CAME INTO
*HER* ROOM WITHOUT KNOCKING!"
Ry shrugs, "And....?" Then the turbolift doors open, and they're off again -- Rylan dragging the smaller boy behind him with a dismissive, "We don'thave time for that!! *THIS* is important!!"
Finally seeing no point in trying to resist, D`Tarik sighs rather dejectedly, "Do *au* have any idea, how much I have been wishing for a moment like that alone with her??"
Rylan practically slams a fist on the holodeck keypad to open the doors in his enthusiasm and shrugs indifferently, "Au'rh always alone with her, she's ninte assistant.....right??" he casts another confused look at him.
"In the fvadt lab! Na in her *room*!! What did au *think* I was doing in there... playing chess?" D`Tarik suddenly stops, staring down at Rylan's feet, "What are au doing running about in ninte bare feet?"
With a surprised look, Rylan glances down, pauses another moment, then shrugs as he says absently as if to himself, "Forgot my fvadt shoes....*and* my jacket......Oh well!" he shrugs again, then throws D`Tarik through the now open holodeck doors.
Stumbling into the room, D`Tarik turns to face the boy, "And why are au dragging me away form my date like this??" He pauses a moment, looking at the taller boy suspiciously, "Are au okay?"
Rylan, grinning almost madly, walks up to the holomatrix panel, "Never better!!" he casts a wink and a smirk, "And I intend to *stay* that way!!"
Alarmed by that, and wondering if the boy had managed to find the Aehk`Feh (dt's pain-killer) after all, D`Tarik grabs him by the shoulders, "*What* is going on Rylan?? "
From out of nowhere, Rylan produces the damaged holomatrix cell, and waves it in front of D`Tarik's nose. With that same, almost evilly-gleeful grin, he slides it into the panel. Punching up a few keys, he calls up the frozen image of the bartender from their last holodeck experience. "*THAT*...." Rylan, still grinning, points proudly at the Succubus, "...is what's going on!!"
D`Tarik looks at the hologram, then slowly raises a brow, "Okay, see...I don't need a holodeck for this...I was about to get the *real* thing...I think.
Apparently not hearing this, Rylan continued excietedly, pointing to the matrix keypad, "Now...I want *au*," he points a finger at DT, "To put Khensia-type-stuff into *her* head!!" he points at the hologram and grins madly.
"Wait...wait..." D`Tarik shakes his head, stunned by this unexpected twist of events, "Au want a *Khensia*??" then after a moments hesitation, he asks confused, "And what makes au think I know that kind of information?"
"Cause au'rh a *doctor*!!" Rylan very enthusiastically slaps the smaller boy on the back, making D`Tarik stumble a few steps forward, "Who better to know this stuff!!" he continues, walking towards the frozen image of the hologram, "Just call up some text books, and load her right up!!" he waves a hand around the figure's head.
"Okay...since au are going to *make* me do this...." D`Tarik raises a brow again, "First off, if au'rh actually going to *talk* to her.....she can't be nude." he shakes an angry finger at the taller boy as he approaches the matrix key pad, "I know au, Rylan!" Beginning to call up psychology texts from the ships library, he continues thoughtfully, "And I will make an office for au as well, okay?"
"Clothes?" Rylan looks almost horrified by that prospect, "Nanananana!!!" he shakes his head and smirks, "They're just gonna' distract me....." he looks at the hologram then grins, "...better to leave her be." Then suddenly frowns and seems to study her face a moment, then demands in an annoyed tone, "And put some fvadt points on her ears!"
"Na, Rylan." D`Tarik says firmly, "She's getting clothes, or I'm na helping au." he turns back to the matrix key pad, "They will be clothes to ninte liking...."
Believing he suddenly understands DT's problem with this, Rylan explains, "Oh....na! She's na just for me!!" he motions towards the hologram proudly, "She's for the whole fvadt ship!!" Then suddenly a deadly serious look overtakes his face, "This ship could use a Khensia!!"
"Well, we have women on board too." D`Tarik sighs, "She's getting clothes!" and starts to program that fact in anyway.
The taller boy thinks about that as he looks at the hologram again, "Well....maybe au should make two! Io with clothes, and io without!!" he grins and nods his head, "That would work!!" When D`Tairk's only answer to this was a shake of his head, Rylan looks serious again, "Oh come on! Wouldn't au rather talk to *that* DT??" he points to the naked hologram.
Just as Rylan finally finishes his ranting, the hologram shifts and changes. Her once long black hair is now long and green. She had little bat wings as kind of "horns". Her wings on her back are now an almost incandescent black and purple. Her upper half is covered in a rather tight and revealing black top, with white frills around the shoulders. Her forearms are covered by long, pale pink fingerless gloves. Her long legs were covered in black tights, little purple bats covered them in embellishment. Her feet encased in black boots. Making one more slight change, D`Tarik gives her a more Romulan face, to please his friend.
"Thats the only copy I made." D`Tarik says with finality, "Live with it."
Rylan nods apprecitively and smiles, "Na bad...." Hiding the sly smirk at the thought that, while the clothes were nice, he could *easily* program the image himself, and remove her clothes anyway. What he really needed D`Tarik here for, was the mind of the Khensia itself.
Recognizing that look, D`Tarik warned, "Don`t change her! She`s going to be a work of art!" he shakes another finger at Rylan "And I`m going to protect the program from change!"
Rylan's face falls at that, and he looks back to the hologram, then says hopefully, "Well...at least give her the option of *choosing* whether or na to wear clothes!" D`Tarik didn't answer, but turned back to the matrix keypad. Believing the smaller boy to be doing what he asked, Rylan walked around the image, "Okay... now..." he placed his hands on the hologram's shoulders, grinning like Frankenstein, "Load up her brain!!"
Nodding in agreement, D`Tarik says to himself, "Okay, now....her mind and office......" and sets to work. He programs her with tons of psychologist info., and because D`Tarik's doing the programming, he uploads lots of info on biology as well. He gets rid of her little 'attitude', and improves a bit on the bartender's ability to actually *listen* to and adds the ability to care about people's problems, and not just jump on the bones of the person she's talking to. But he makes sure that she keeps a little of her former seductiveness, just to make Rylan happy -- but silently refuses to give her a nude option.
Out of nowhere, Rylan suddenly has another idea as D`Tarik keys in her personality. "Hey!!" he snaps his fingers and points at the smaller Rihan, "Could au download literature? Music? Au know....give her something to relate to....teachings of S`Task...things like that...."
Nodding once more, D`Tarik turns back to the keypad, and keys in all of his own personal files; filling her mind with the words to a lot of Earth's 1980s music, the genetic make-up of *a lot* of different species. She knows the personal history of all the crew that is on file, both living and dead, and has access to all holodeck programs being run by the crew, so that she can see how the crew likes to escape reality. He keys in his files on mythology, and even combat programming so that she'll know what people are talking about.
Having all that done she starts to key in her office. The room around them shifts as he perfects it, a medevil castle takes shape around them. A fancy wood-carved desk and a chair for her, a long, black leather covered couch for those who come to talk to her. Outside of the high, gothic
arches, he programs in an almost storybook background. The office appears to be a high tower, overlooking a meadow with a forest nearby. Elaborating on this touch, he adds in other mythology creatures that can roam the lands. Flying dragons, a unicorn or two grazing in the meadow, and little farie-like creatures that fly in and out of the office proper. He looks up and sees Rylan walking around the room, quietly inspecting his work. As his fiend stops under one of the gothic arches to gaze at the scenery beyond, D`Tarik stands back proudly, "Okay. Happy Rylan?"
After a rather long, and uncomfortable silence, Rylan's quiet and almost distant voice comes back, "Na....some how....this doesn't seem right for her." he shakes his head slowly, still looking out at the scenery beyond, "It needs to be darker....candles and such....." the taller boy said almost eerily, "....Thoughts always come when its dark....."
Not really understanding what to make of his friend's last statement, D`Tarik turns back to the keypad again. He turns the bright day outside, to the middle of dark night, a perpetual full moon casting a silvery glow to the landscape. Adding a few more tapestries, and dark red candles scattered throughout the room as the only other source of light. After a moment to reflect on it, D`Tarik casts a glance at Rylan's back, then relents and programs the Succubus so that she would have the ability to choose whether or not to wear the clothes he gave her. Knowing that Rylan would, in all likelihood, attempt to change that part of the program himself anyway, if he found out she didn't have that option. And besides, if it would help Rylan get through whatever seemed to be bothering him, then why not?
Though D`Tarik couldn't see it, as Rylan's back was turned towards him, he could hear the pleased grin in the taller boy's voice, "Ie! That's better! Way to go DT!"
"Okay, done. Can I go now?" he asks, saving the program and turning it off, "It's called 'succubi help', the name of the program." he explains.
Rylan shakes his head at that, "Na....people won't know what that is....better to call her Khensia..." he shrugs, "that could be her name....."
"Actually....her name is Morrigan...." D`Tarik turns back to the keypad, and makes a compromise, "But the name of the program is now called Khensia. And she's programmed to remember what au talked about last with her....but she can't tell others what au say. If someone were to try and program that differently, or access the 'patient files' contained within her matrix, then she won't run."
Rylan nods absently, not really hearing D`Tark's explanation at all. Casting his eyes to the ground, he says quietly, "Hann'yyo.....the Leih should be pleased that we have a Khensia now....." then turns to exit the holodeck.
"Ie, I think he will be..." D`Tarik agrees, being sure that the program appeared as a selection on the small matrix keypad screen. "Glad au thought of it. Sorry I yelled at au.....earlier...." he watched, confused, as Rylan silently left.
"Are au are na going to use her?...I mean the program.....?" Rylan only kept walking, seemingly not hearing the questions put to him. Running after the taller boy, D`Tarik calls after him, "Rylan!! I didn't just make that program for na-thing!" he protested, drawing along side tr`Tuhmek, "I know au want to use it, so please do!" he shrugs then adds, "I will too.....after I go back and try to fix things with Emni....*again*."
Rylan walked the rest of the corridor in silence, finally answering the smaller Rihan as the doors to the turbolift opened, and he stepped in. "Maybe later....." that eerily quiet voice intoned, Rylan's eyes seeming not to see the smaller boy at all, "Sorry about interrupting au...."
When the doors of the lift closed, D`Tarik sighed in confusion, "Good thing I made that program... that boy needs io of those....." he shakes his head, not knowing what else he could possibly do for his friend. Summoning up his courage, D`Tarik opens a comline channel, "Emni?" he almost whispers, hoping that if she had fallen asleep, he would wake her up.
Her exasperated sigh came back through the com, "Ie?"
"I`m *really* sorry about that..." he tried to explain, through the channel, "Rylan needed my help.....he needed me to make a holodeck program." then realizing what that probably sounded like, he quickly added, "A councilor program...." then adds almost angrily, "Which he's na even using.
"A councilor program?" a short pause, "Well...why isn't he using it, then?"
"I have na idea." D`Tarik sighs through the channel, "But if he doesn't use it, I'm sure other crewmembers will get use out of it." Then he shrugs, even though she can't see it, "Should I come back?" he asks almost tentatively, "Maybe I can finally explain," he shudders, "What happened on our last mission....to mess him and I up so much. Then maybe au will understand....."
Emni smiles though he can not see it, and answers softly though the com, 'Ie....au'rh always aefvadh here, D`Tarik......and ie.... I think it's time au told some io....."
After a short turbolift ride, D`Tarik, sitting down on the edge of her bed, holding her hands in both of his, told her. The expulsion from the Academy, the planet full of monsters -- though he kept out the reasons for the monsters being there. He told of his sister, and how Rylan was disowned. He told of Rylan's apparent love for Lluinh, and how he lost her. Then he told of his own lost love. And as the first tears started to fall from his eyes, Emni smiled kindly to him then pulled him closer to embrace him, and let him cry it all away.
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