[Emni's quarters...]
As the door to Emni's quarters open, D`Tarik announces, "Okay, Sprinkles is
all taken care of..."
Emni smiles shyly, asking a little hopefully, "How long can she watch him for
au?"
"She's got him all night." he nods, then adds in a serious manner, clearly
not jokeing, "I gave her the instructions."
"All night?" she repeats happily, then pauses before adding with a
questioning raise of her brow "Instructions? Au didn't give me instructon's
when I watched him earlier...."
Still standing in the door for the official invite to enter the room, D`Tarik
shrugs, "Ie, well...au knew more about what au were doing. Au want a copy?"
He pulls out a little booklet from one of his labcoat pockets, "I got a ton
of them."
Emni suddenly realizes he's not moving into the room and grins, shaking her
head, "Um...I think by now au wouldn't need an invite, e'lev." She takes the
booklet from his hand and tosses it on the small table behind her, motioning
him into the room beyond.
"E'l.....what was that?" he looks at her startled.
Emni pauses, then repeats the word a little hesitantly, "E`lev..." silently
wondering why he was looking at her the way he was.
"Oh. Okay...." D`Tarik grows silent a moment, his mind turning that word over
and over, thinking to himself. After an awkward moment passed between the
two, a rather proud expression crosses his features as he walks into the
room, "Ie, e`lev. I guess I don't have to be invited." He takes a seat on
the bed, smiling at her as she approaches closer to sit next to him.
"Does it bother au that I said that?" she asks quietly, confused.
"It's just nobody has said that to me since....well....au know the story." he
shrugs, then looks her in the eyes, "But I'm okay...really."
A little hurt by this, feeling like she was competing with another woman --
though she knew it was ridiculous to feel that way, Emni shrugs and looks
away, "I won't call au that then, I guess." a sad little sigh escaped her
before she could prevent it from doing so.
"Na. I au to, e`lev." he has no trouble saying it this time, "Au just
startled me is all. I don't mind." he puts his arm around her, pulling her
closer to him. Emni smiles, pleased and reassured by that, and allows herself
to be pulled a little closer. Just as she leans in to kiss him, the
replicator within the room turns traitor, and shoots out an ice cube --
nailing DT upside the head. "OW!" At the pain, he immediately throws
himself on top of Emni in a protective fashion. He does this without
thinking about it at all.
An impossible number of ice cubes hurls themselves out of the replicator
pelting the pair, breaking a few things within her room....then as suddenly
as the assult started, it stopped. The room now covered in a layer of the
small, cold and *hard* cubics. The pair paused a moment, the both of them
looking at each other. At the exact same instant they tenetively ask, "Are
au alright?" putting the question in stereo.
Emni smiles, looking into his eyes, "Ie...I'm fine. Just startled. What
happened?" she peeks out from under DT, looking over at the rebellious
replicator, and suddenly shudders, remembering the shower incident.
"I have na clue..." he answers, rubbing the huge red-mark on the side of his
head where the first cube had pelted him.
"Maybe we should get out of here now..."
"Ie. Let's make a run for ninte door. Au go first incase that starts again,
I'll sheild au." he says protectively, sitting up and allowing Emni to stand.
The girl slowly gains her feet, trying not to fall on the slippery cubes.
As D`Tarik stands, positioning himself between her and the replicator, the
two start forward. The replicator allowed them all of two steps before it
attacked again. A river of Rhennish gushes out, drenching the pair and
soaking the room. Food starts flying wildly; hitting the walls, the bed, the
ceiling...making her room resemble a bizarre jr. high caffeteria in the
aftermath of a glorious end-of-the-year food fight. D`Tarik pushes Emni out
of the room, then runs out himself, dodging flying food-particals as best he
can. As soon as the doors to her room close, the replicator stops it's
attack.
D`Tarik rushes over to poor Emni, who's now drenched and sitting on the floor
of the corridor as she had lost her ballance when he pushed her out of the
room, "Au okay?"
"Ie..." she pauses to look down at herself, "I think so...."
"We are never going to get another uninterupted moment alone." he sighs
disappointed, and leans against the wall.
Emni stands, shaking her arms a little to get rid of the Rhennish that soaked
her, "Ie. It would seem that way." She sighs, then mumbles to herself,
"First ninte shower....now my replicator. This ship hates me lately."
D`Tarik frowns a bit at her unhappiness, but that quickly turns into a smile
of ammusement. He had inadvertantly swallowed some of the Rhennish durring
the replicator's attack, and now his semi-long hair has the liquid dripping
into his face and mouth. His low alcohol tolerance is beginning to show.
>From down the hall, a turbolift door opens....pauses.....then suddenly shuts
itself again. It does this several times. "What's with that door?" Emni
asked curiously, then turns to look at him when he didn't answer and notices
the odd smile. "Are au alright?" she asks as the lights in the corridor
dim...turn too bright....black out....the return to normal again.
"Ie!" DT answers a bit too gleefully, "I'm fine....! WOW!!" he pauses to
look at the corridor's light show, "That was cool!" He stands away from the
wall, kind of tipsy, and rings out the cuff of his jacket sleeve into his
mouth.
"Okay...see...I thought everything had been fixed..." she looks around
herself a little worridly, then turns to see what D`Tarik is currently
occupying himself with. Her jaw drops open in surprise, "What are au
*doing*?!"
"Enjoying myself, babe!" he answers with a shrug, then does it again.
"I knew it!" she declairs extrememly angry by that, heading off down the
hall, "I *knew* that friend of ninte-a was a bad influence!"
"Na! It's na Rylan! It's ninte replicator! It's messed up man! It's
like...all out there...Ie!" he explains, drunkenly running after her.
Emni turns to give him a glare, "Na! Au just stay away from me until au
sober up! If I wanted to be with a drunken verrul, I would've slept with
Rylan!" she heads off down the hall again.
"Au slept with Rylan?!?!" he asks shocked, "I'll kick his ahz!!" D`Tarik
spins around, and trips over his own feet. Now on the floor, he sees the
other cuff of his jacket, and rings this one into his mouth.
"Of course *na* au verrul!" Emni protests then sees what DT's doing. Still
furious, she shakes her head, "Oh, just forget it! I don't want anything to
do with au!"
"Au *did*! I can't believe it! Au *did*!" his hand searches his chest
angrily for his com, and finally finding it, he opens the channel, "RYLAN!!
Au..." *burp* "..and me are going to have words!!"
Rylan, on his way out of the holodeck and the 'session' with the Khensia,
raises a brow at not only the slured, angry speech through the comline, but
the loud and obnoxious burb of someone who's had just a bit too much, and
smirks as he taps to answer. "Uh huh...and au say *I* have a problem! Maybe
au should put an order out that *au* can't have any Rhennish! At least *I*
can handle it -- *au* obviously can't!!"
DT's enraged accusation flies through the open channel, "Au *bastard*!!
Going behind my back with Emni!" he pauses a second, "Like that! How could
au?!"
Totally confused by this, Ry asks "What the Areinnye are au talking about?"
"Au can come lick the walls of her room! It's covered in the stuff! But I
bet au already did that!" D`Tarik pauses another moment, then yells again,
"Au slept with her!!"
"Lick the walls? What are au......WHAT?!?! I did na!!"
If D`Tarik was sober, he'd be thinking this was why he never touches the
stuff; because after like half a glass, he is like this. Removing his jacket
altogether, he starts ringing the thing out into his mouth as Rylan's protest
comes over the com. "She told me so!!" D`Tarik shouts back, beyond noticing
that he'd actually need to tap his com to allow Rylan to hear it.
After such a long silence, Rylan tries again, "DT?" he pauses, "Who told au
I did?" then sounds more angry then confused, "And where the Areinnye are
au?!"
D`Tarik finally taps his com open again, "I'm in the lab making sea monkies!
And *she* told me so! What will Katara think?!"
Rylan heads off to the lab, mumbling angrily to himself, "Sea Monkies? What
the Areinnye are Sea Monkies?" then taps his own line open again, "Au'rh
drunk, DT! Au probably imagined the whole thing! I never slept with Emni!"
then he pauses again as he realized the last thing that the medical officer
yelled, "And if au go telling Katara that, I'll *kill* au!!"
"She said au did! -- Right, honey?!!" He yells down the hallway, "This...."
*burp* "Is why I don't drink! I find out the truth! It's all so clear to
me....!!!" he yells, then prompty passes out, hitting the floor with a lound
'thump!'
From around the corner, Emni yells back at his question, "Go sleep it off,
D`Tarik!! I don't want to talk to...." then turns around at the sound of him
hitting the floor. She sighs, shaking her head angrily she heads over to
him, and pulls him up, then opens her own com to request for her and DT to be
beamed to the bar. The moment the pair appear, she leans him against the bar
and yells at a startled Katara, "Here! Au know how to deal with things like
this!" and storms out, just as Rylan's voice angerly yells from her com.
[In different corridors of the Wildstrike]
"EMNI!!!" Rylan's angry shout came over the comline, "What the *Areinnye*
did au tell DTarik!!!"
"What the Areinnye are au talking about??" she yelled furiously back after
taping her badge, "I did na tell him anything! He's drunk off his ahz
because of ninte influance!"
"MY influence?? Oh, au've got to be kidding!" heading into medlab, Ry taps
off the com, and shouts angrily, "D`TARIK!!!"
tr`Rogel, the assistant medical officer on duty, jumps a foot in the air at
the furious shout, "Rekkhai?" the Farien looks around himself a bit
nerviously, "The Daise isn't here. He's off duty....I think he was going
off with Em....I mean, the Erien t`Meihan...."
Rylan is now totally confused, "But....he just told me..." he stops then
shakes his head, grumbling angrily, and heads back out of the lab. Trying
to put a patient tone in his voice, he opens the com once again, "Emni?
Where's DT?"
Still furious, Emni yells back through the channel, "He's in the bar where
he belongs! The replicator in my room went nuts...soaked him in Rhennish!"
"Oh...well that expla...." then he realizes DT's location, "Au put him in
the BAR?! Are au insane??" he runs off to the nearest turbolift and jumps
in, "Deck 3!"
Emni, who had been intent on heading down to medbay to keep herself busy,
gets into the lift as the doors open and runs into Rylan. He shoots her an
angry glare, and protests, "This wasn't *my* doing! And hann'yyo for
putting him in the bar!" he adds sarcastically.
"I figured he belonged there! He's drunk!"
"Just great! DT thinks I've slept with au...now he's going to tell that to
Katara!" he grumbles, more then slightly po'd by the whole thing, and heads
towards the doors, "And after I went to the Khensia too!" He halts a little
uncertainly as the doors refused to open. "Lift! Open the fvadt doors!"
This stops Emni, as she looks at the door in confusion. She hadn't realized
that she had stepped into the lift fully prepaired to jump into Rylan's
face. Starting to look a bit scared, she repeats his order, "Doors open!"
The computer says something garbled and unintelligible back, and Rylan
sighs, making a list of names in his head of people to harrass later, "Oh,
just great!"
Looking like a trapped dear, Emni's eyes dart around the small space, "We
need to get out of here..."
Ry paused to look over at her, then shakes his head, "What was ninte first
clue?" he opens the channel again, "tr`Tuhmek to ops..turbolift 5 is stuck
on deck 3 and won't open the doors. Send someone to pry it open." then
opens the keypad control pannel to try and open it himself in the meantime.
"I don't like small spaces...." Emni, beginning to panic, starts to breath a
bit heavily.
"Yeah, well I don't much like the thought of being stuck in here with au
either." Rylan grumbles back, then notices she's scared and changes his
tone, "We'll get out soon....it's just a malfunction is all. Easily
correctable."
"Can we beam out of here?? Please tell me we can beam out of here...!" she
starts to have flash backs of the little shower incident, which apparently
has made a big impact on the poor girl. "What about the tunnels? Or a
maintencance floor? Anything!" she starts to tremble now, her arms crossing
protectively in front of her, her eyes still darting about the enclosed
space that seeemed to narrow in on her.
Rylan, with a patience he really didn't feel, turns away from what he was
doing and explains gently, "The replicator in ninte room malfunctioned, the
turbolift malfunctioned; I don't think it wise to beam out right now.
This..." he points to the pannel, "Is the only way we're going to get out of
here...so just calm ninte-self and take a deep breath..." he turns back to
the wireing again; wondering why no one at the ops station has acknowelged
his request yet.
Emni sits on the floor, wrapping her arms around her knees, her eyes still
darting from one wall to the next. She starts rocking back and forth,
repeating over and over, "We really need to get out of here...we really
do...we really do....hnah!"
"I'm going to get us out of here. I promise." Ry glances at her a bit
worridly, and shrugs, "It's only a turbolift, Emni. Au'rh going to be
fine."
"But what if it falls...or what if the doors close in...or the walls....What
if the Water comes on?" she shudders at that last thought her eyes
squeezing tightly shut.
Shaking his head, and smiling kindly to her, Ry explains, "It's na going to
fall...the walls and doors are solid, so they can't cave in..." he pauses to
raise a brow, "And water doesn't come into a turbolift, Emni. We're okay.
We're just stuck here for a moment is all."
She apparently didn't hear any of that. Emni, her eyes still shut, still
rocking back and forth, chants, "Get us out. Get us out. Out. Out. Out.
Hnah. Hnah. Hnah.....Out PLEASE!! I don't like this....all kinds of stuff
could happen...." and then prompty babbles on more about any horrible thing
she could imagine.
Alarmed at her behavior, Rylan draws closer to her and -- fully expecting a
slap in the face -- tries to put an arm around her in comfort, "Why don't au
help me with the pannel then. Au will at least be doing something to get
ninte-self out of here...."
Emni doesn't seem to notice Ry's arm around her at all. "I don't want to
move....it could shake the lift...just get...ME....OUT!!" she screams.
Trying to pull the girl to her feet, he tells her, "Stand Emni. Au will na
shake the lift. The lift is solid. Walk over to the pannel and help me
open the doors...."
"Let GO of me!" she slaps his hands away and immediately sits back down,
wrapping her arms around her knees once more, slowly rocking herself back
and forth. The poor girl's nearly in tears by this time, "It's too small to
move! Just let me be and GET ME OUT!!" Rylan, not knowing what else he
could possibly do for her, grumbles to himself then turns back to the
pannel, just as D`Tarik opens the com again.
"Umm...Rylan?" D`Tarik's hesitant voice comes over the com. Unknown to
Rylan or Emni, tr`Rekkohan had taken detox to get rid of the intoxicating
effects of the alcohol, and is feeling more like himself again.
"Oh, Ie! I really need this now!" Rylan sighs then taps his badge, "Ie?"
At the sound of his voice, Emni seems to perk up, "D`Tarik?! Is he here?"
she loks around at the small confinement; not seeing him, she curls herself
back up again.
Rylan had shut off his end of the com, but not it time to prevent Emni's
voice, "Fvadt...." he almost glares at the girl, "That was perfect timing
for au to snap out of it."
"I'm na sure what I said, but I'm sorry Rylan. Have au seen....Oh! Is she
there?" D`Tarik's apologetic tone mixed with hope and regret as he asked
after Emni.
"Ie. She's trapped in lift 5 with me." Rylan explains, adding mockingly,
"Oh, the horror! Don't worry, DT. I'm na putting the moves on her or
anything."
D`Tarik's confused sounding voice floats back, "Why would I be worried
abou....she's trapped in a lift? Oh, na! Just so au know, recently she's
had had this thing about small spaces...so au may want to be sensitive to
that.
"Ie...I tried that." Ry shrugs indifferently, still working on the pannel,
"She's na going to listen
to anything I say and au know it. Better to just let her be." he gets a
shock, and suddenly steps back, shaking his hand painfully, "OW!! FVADT!!"
"Au okay?" D`Tarik asks through the com, then in not getting an answer he
continues, "Okay, well I'm going to try and get some help for au guys.
Tell Emni I'm sorry for anything I might of said or did...."
"Ie, ie...." Rylan goes back to working, "Ie, she can hear au. She is right
here!" pauses "What did au say to Katara...just so I know what I'm up
against later."
"I thanked her for bringing me out of my little drunken madness." D`Tarik
admitted with an embarassed air, "Anyway I'm going to get au guys help!
See ya' in a few!"
Ry turns to look at the girl briefly, "Hear that?" he asks her, turning
back to the circutry again. He crosses the wires once more....no luck.
Emni, having lost the sound of D`Tarik's voice again, is lost in her own
little world, crying and mumbling to herself. Ry sighs and turns towards
her again, feeling awkward about the whole thing. "Emni? Can au hear me at
all?" Emni doesn't respond. Sighing, feeling an odd moment of deja`vu --
only with the tables turned on himself this time -- Rylan tries again, "Why
don't au focus on something else then." he shrugs, "Close ninte eyes, and
see ninte-self somewhere au like to be. Just...put the fear aside a moment,
lock it up if au have to. Au don't need it."
"Locking things up is bad...." she mumbled back. "I want to be with
D`Tarik...."
Woohoo, she answered! "Sometimes locking things up is good." he shrugged,
speaking from experience -- the King of Locking up the Bad Stuff -- "It
allows au to focus on the things truely important. Au want to be with DT.
Then think about him, don't think about where au are now." he paused a
moment, then added, "DT's worried about au. What's the first thing au
rather he see? Ninte sad face...or one that's happy to see him?"
Her teary eyes looked up at him. Still shaking all over, she stammers,
"I...I...can try to....for him...."
Ry nods, giving the girl an encourageing smile, "That's better..." in an
effort to help her focus, he asks, "What's the first thing au remember that
drew au to DT?"
"His careing...and protective way. And his passion for his work...." she
had started to smile in return, but a thud at the door caused her panic to
return. She jumped up, throwing her self into Rylan's arms as the doors
were slowly pried open, with a lot of huffing and puffing on D`Tarik's part
as he apparently has no help with him. Rylan is startled by the girl
suddenly throwing herslef at him, and looks at DT a little guiltily, his
arms remaining at his side.
As soon as the doors opened far enough to reveal D`Tarik, the girl runs at
him and latches herself onto him, knocking him over to the floor, laying on
top of him. A little confused, but more than a little pleased, D`Tarik
grins up at her, "Nice to see au too..." He sees Ry quietly step over the
pair and head off down the corridore. "Rylan...hann'yyo for looking after
her for me. Seems like au two actually got along for once..." D`Tarik
begins, but before he can say anything further, he was interrupted as Emni
plants a kiss on him. Rylan doesn't reply, just keeps his quiet pace down
the hall, heading towards the bar.
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