[D`Tarik's Quarters...]
Emni, figuring that Sprink would prefer to be in D`Tarik's room instead of
hers, had taken the Tribble to the Chief Medical Officer's quarters instead.
While waiting for D`Tarik to come back as he promised, she had fallen asleep.
After waking up some time later, she thought she'd might as well take a
shower, and freshen up. But since D`Tarik had specifically told her to stay
with the Tribble -- though why she was Tribble-sitting was beyond her -- she
decided to use the shower in his room instead of leaving to use her own.
Now, an hour later, poor Emni is crouched down in the corner of the shower
stall; freezing and with bruises on her hands from where she had beaten them
against the door, trying to get someone to come and let her out, and looking
as angry as a wet cat. Sprink had tried a dozen times or more to open the
bathroom door, but the computer had repeatedly shut it again, preventing the
Tribble of coming to Emni's rescue. The condensending voice of the computer
once more mocked her, "I will let au out when au stop looking at me like
that."
Emni pouts all the more at that, and with teeth chattering she angrily
retorts, "Oh, shut the hell up already! Just open the door!"
"Stop it!" the computer demanded, just before cold water shoots out of the
shower head again, and won't shut off.
"AHH!!" the poor girl shrieks as the ice-cold water hits her, and she pushes
herself up against the wall, trying to get away from the spray. The sound of
the door's chime made Emni pick up her ears.
>From the room beyond came a faint and hesitant, "Any io here?"
Emni practically throws herself at the shower door again, beating against it
maddly, "GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!"
>From out in the other room, Katara hears the water running and the strange
pounding, "Who the....?" Curious, she walked to the bathroom. The door
opened up easily enough for her, and still standing in the open doorway, she
saw the vauge outline of someone apparently locked in the shower. Thinking
to herself, *This is WAY more than I wanted to know about D`Tarik....* she
tries to think of something to say, but all that came out was, "Umm.....?"
"The fvadt computer won't turn off the cold water OR open the door!!" Emni
shouts from within her confinement, making Katara realize that she had
completely misunderstood the situation at first.
"Oh!" then after a moment's pause, "Umm...are au okay?"
"NA... I'm NA okay!!" Emni yells back, her teeth still chattering together,
"Open the door! PLEASE!!"
Katara draws the disruptor that she had filched before, then pauses a moment,
staring at it. *That must have been a real room, and not a holographic
io....* she thought curiously, remembering that she had stolen the weapon
from someone's quarters when the rharit had been chasing them. *Either
that....or this is still a hologram....* Shrugging that thought away she
adjusts the weapon to it's lowest setting, then levels it at the shower door.
"Stand back!" she warns, and waits until the vauge shape grew dimmer before
she shoots the shower's door, vaporizing it.
Emni stands there with her arms crossed over her chest. Pale and shivering,
her lips cast a faint grey color from the cold, she asks with teeth still
chattering, "Hann'yyo....can au hand me that towel...?" she glances to the
object sitting on the stand just behind the other girl.
"Oh, au poor thing!" Katara sympathizes as she grabs the towel and tosses it
to her. Turning back to the bedroom, she takes the blanket from D`Tarik's
bed. Emni quickly wraps the towel around herself, and hurridly steps out of
the shower, turning to give an angry pout to the now empty shower stall.
Katara had come back, and she wrapped the blanket around poor Emni, then led
her back to the next room. "We need to get au warm before au catch pnemonia."
Emni, suddenly confused as to just who this stranger is, asks "Who are au,
and what are au doing in D`Tarik's room.....?"
"I'm Katara.....the barmaid." she shrugged her shoulders slightly at that,
then hurried on, "D'Tarik and Rylan are hurt, and Rylan told me to come here
to get what they needed....but I don't know what that would be....I'm
guessing au are Emni?" at the medical assistant's nod, Katara explained
further, "Oh, good. I was told au would know what to get."
Emni looked stunned by that whole speach, "Ie....What did Rylan manage to do
now?" she asked, baffled, crossing the room to DT's closet.
"We got stuck in a holoprogram in the bar..." Katara begins, then suddenly
becomes offended, "And *Rylan* was in the middle of trying to save us when
the program shut down! And don't start talking bad about D`Tarik either,
because he saved me, like three times, and....Why were au in his shower,
anyway??"
Emni pauses a moment in her search for medical equipment from D`Tarik's
labcoats to look at the girl curiously, "I wasn't going to say anything bad
about D`Tarik." she shook her head, then asked in a professional tone, "How
bad are they hurt?"
"Well...Rylan's leg is practically snapped in half, and he's badly beat up.
And D'Tarik...his face is scarred....and he has five holes in his leg......."
she paused to watch Emni take a few items out from the wall of labcoats
within the closet, to lay them on the bed, then cross the room again heading
back to the bathroom. Confused by that, Katara demands, "How do I know au
are na some crazy girl who was just using his shower? Why were au in there?
Since when do assistants go around using their bosses showers?"
After a few moments, Emni steps out of the bathroom again, dressed now.
Fixing the other girl with an almost annoyed look, she crosses the room to
pick up the equipment she had chosen. "I have every right to be here..." she
insists, then looks to the tribble for confirmation, "Don't I, Sprink?"
"Ie!" the tribble practically coo'd at that, "Au...are.....D'Tarik's
woman!....That's what he says!"
Emni casts a smug little smile to the other girl, "See. Who are au to
question me, anyway?" she turns and heads towards the doors.
"Au are his woman.....? Ohhhh....I'm sorry." Katara smiled apoligetically,
"I was only worried about D`Tarik...Anyway do we need to go to medlab or
what....or are we going right to them?"
"I...." Sprink announced to the girls, though they were paying him no
attention now, "...will....be here...." then he squeeks for good measure.
Emni walks out and waits for the other girl to follow, "Ie. Medlab's still
closed....I have everything he'll want..." she glances down at the stuff she
carried, then back to the barmaid. "So...where are they, exactly?"
"Do au want some help carrying that?" Katara questioned, folowing along, then
pauses to say almost suspiciously, "And as for being 'his woman' au don't
seem very worried about him." she shakes her head, and motions down the hall,
"They're in the bar...."
Emni grumbles angerly at that as she heads off down the hallway, "Might've
known they'd be in the Bar...seeing how it's *Rylan* he's with!" then she
shot another annoyed look to the stranger walking along side of her, "And I'm
*plenty* concerned for him too! I'm just too fvadt cold to think straight!"
Not having any comment for the crack against Rylan, Katara doesn't say
anything. After a moment of awkward silence, she says quietly, "I'm sorry
if we got off to a bad start. Na many women on this ship go to the bar, so I
don't get the chance to talk to them....I don't deal with them as easily."
she shrugs again, "The few who go in there just order something, the men
just hit on me...." she casts an awkward look in the assistant's direction.
"It's okay...." Emni shakes her head dismissively, a worried expression on
her face as she continues down the corridor. "Forget it. We didn't exactly
get off on the wrong foot or anything, anyway. I mean, au got me out of that
stupid shower! I'm greatful for that, really!" she smiles at her.
"Okay, good then." Katara smiles back, relieved that she hadn't offended.
"Now we need to go take care of the men....."
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