Title: When a man's in love

Author By Mark Sherstone marks@caverock.net.nz
feedback? What a silly question! Of course!

Archiving anywhere I don't mind

Notes: I wrote this in responce to Anthony Docimo's challange
Thanks to Anthony for beta reading it for me!

Rating: G

John sat on the terrace he still couldn't believe she was gone. His constant
companion for almost the past two cycles and now she was gone, undeniably gone.
Gilina Renaez was dead. He could recall first meeting her on the Zelbinion.
The fact thatthey had hit it off right away probably had more to do with them both
being Techs.  And she kind of reminded him of Alex. But was Aeryn pissed
when she court them getting cozy. Never like two women it's not good for your
health. Still it hurt to say goodbye. So he had gone back to his favorite pastime
hitting on Aeryn Sun. He was finally getting somewhere when the unthinkable
had happened. They had met Gilina again! Turned out that Crais had questioned
her something bad and she had finally cracked and was sentenced to the Living
Death. Not surprisingly she had made a run for it and had been looking for Moya.
And what had he done?  Almost dumped Aeryn to chase Gilina!
Stupid! How stupid can one man be?

Aeryn stood at the entrance to the terrace. John sat, staring into space.
She knew why he was here and who he was thinking about.
In a word: Gilina. Aeryn had thought John was hers.
She should have seen it coming though: why he would spend more time
with Gilina instead of her. The night she had walked passed John's room
and heard Gilina say "I love you John," and then hearing his reply
"I love you too," had hurt so much that Aeryn just made it to her own room
before she started to cry, something she had not done in a very long time.
Aeryn had made up her mind that she would win John back anyway
she could. Short of killing or hurting Gilina for they had become friends.
John and Aeryn were still good friends so that had been a start.
So Aeryn, for the past two cycles, had been doing her utmost to win John's
affectations, which now lead to this.

"How do you feel, John?" Aeryn asked as she walked to where he sat

"Like dren." John replied

"You sound it too. It's not your fault, what happened to Gilina." Aeryn said
as she sat next to him. Maybe a little closer than was really necessary, but
John didn't move away.

"Yeah? Tell that to Gilina." John said bitterly.

"If you recall she took that pulse blast that was meant for you." Aeryn
reminded him.

"Why?" John asked.

"Because she loved you, you yutz!" Aeryn replied, getting mad.

"And how may I ask does that one work?" John inquired.

"Do you remember what she said just before she died?" Aeryn said trying to
make him answer his own question.

"Yeah, how could I not forget. 'I love you John but I did this because
someone loves you more than me'. That still hurts." he looked at Aeryn.
"She meant you didn't she?"

"Yes." Aeryn said simply "But she was my friend too."

They both sat in silence on the terrace wondering who would make the first
move.

--
Mark Sherstone
(Aka Officer Don)
marks@caverock.net.nz
 
 
 

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