Just a look

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

Loren had been on the meatship for a long time and there were still some places she hadn't been to. Take Engineering, for example. Which was why she was down here for a visit, just a look around really.

And if she happened to see anyone, well she was always up for making new friends. Provided they weren't Yeerks.

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[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

One of the people down there definitely wasn't a Yeerk.

...Well, except for once, for a few minutes while he was having brain surgery performed on him in a barn, but that didn't count.

Ax was working on one of the ever-present, on-going projects that were scattered around Engineering. His main eyes were focused on his work, but his stalk eyes spotted his brother's fiancée wandering into the room.

< Loren, > he greeted her politely.

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

"Ax, hey." She waved. "What are you up to?"

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< Currently attempting to build the parts I need from scratch, > Ax said, holding up a piece of metal that he had been carefully scratching at with a laser. It didn't look quite right yet, but it had been looking not-quite-right for what Ax was fairly certain was the last half-hour.

< Yourself? >

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

"Oh I just wanted to take a look around. I didn't want to interrupt anything. We haven't really gotten to talk much, have we?"

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< You're right, we haven't, > Ax agreed. He set down the piece of metal and turned to look at her with his main eyes. This seemed like it would be an extended conversation, and splitting his attention would be both rude and inefficient < I assume you've been well, or at least as well as one can be on board this ship? >

Yeerks aside, of course.

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I have. I assume it's safe to talk here?" She didn't want to screw up again the way she had before.

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

Ax looked around before going over to some little and pressing a few buttons. The door slid shut and the transparent portion became opaque.

< It is now, > Ax said, giving her an Andalite smile.

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

Loren smiled back. "Smart. Anyway, I figured that we should actually talk some time now that- you know, I'm marrying your brother... again." Weird, that.

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< Elfangor mentioned it, after you accepted, > Ax said. He had never seen his brother so happy, and for some reason he couldn't quite name, that made him feel a little melancholy. He wasn't about to let Loren know that, though. < Congratulations. I hope that it works out better for you both than it did in my timeline. >

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

A tall man cranking away on a large machine looks up from his work long enough to stare at her piercingly before smiling a greeting.

"Hey. Loren, right? What brings you here?"

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

"I just wanted to take a look, I hope that's all right. I won't touch anything or go anywhere."

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry about it. I consider this a teaching department more so than most. Have a poke around and if anything starts smoking too much, gimme a holler."

He kicks whatever he's been working on. It smokes a little bit.

"How's Stacy treating you?" He hasn't really talked much to Loren before, and now's a good enough time to change that.

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

One of Loren's eyebrows went up at the sight of a mechanical bit actually smoking but he seemed to have everything in hand. She assumed.

"Great, actually." As evidenced by the shiny ring on her finger.

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"Are congratulations in order?" Allen doesn't miss much.

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

Loren beamed. "I guess it is. Thanks." And now that he had mentioned it Loren caught herself toying with the ring. She made herself stop before it accidentally fell off or something. "Good eyes."

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"Then consider them offered." He lifts his sonic screwdriver like a champagne glass. "Mazel tov! Who's officiating?"

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." Loren couldn't help but grin. "We haven't really talked about the ceremony. But I think on a ship it's traditional for the Captain to do it. Well, at least in my world."

[escapednothlit.livejournal.com]

Elfangor, at the moment, was just leaving the mess hall after eating when he suddenly got a message.

< Yes, Aximili? What is it? >

He did not know the doom that was fast approaching him.

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< Loren is looking for you, and she is... > Ax paused and considered his words. < We were speaking just now and I told her the story about your return to the Andalite military. She seems very angry and depending on your method of dealing with such situations, you should either make yourself scarce or locate her with that in mind. >

He shuffled his hooves apologetically, although Elfangor probably couldn't hear that over the comms. < I didn't realize it was going to upset her that much. My apologies. >

[escapednothlit.livejournal.com]

Ax might notice that Elfangor is silent for several beats far too long for this to be anything, but an 'oh shit' moment.

< ...no, I imagine she isn't happy right now. > His thought speak is remarkably even. Probably a bit too much. < I will ask that you do not tell her anymore stories where I might have, ah, been acting for the 'greater good' in the future. >

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< I will refrain from doing so, > Ax said. < ...Good luck. >

[escapednothlit.livejournal.com]

< Thank you. I'm going to find her now. > In hopes she hadn't gotten any creative ideas with that bat of hers.

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

Elfangor's doom was close at hand. It didn't take very long for the pair to find each other. Fortunately for Elfangor, Loren hadn't brought out her bat. Yet.

"Of all the stupid, crazy things to do you had to RAM your SHIP the second you left Earth, didn't you!"

Not happy at all.

[escapednothlit.livejournal.com]

Elfangor had told the stories many times before. He could tell it quite well. Though it was all in the hopes to set a solid base for the image he portrayed. He didn't really talk about it unprompted after that base had formed mostly because he didn't want to think about what caused himm to act that way.

Of course, he could have told this version to Loren.

But he was already in enough trouble and he didn't want to lie by making it seem different from what it was.

< ...yes. I did. >

[visserbasher.livejournal.com]

"How could you do that!" Loren threw up her hands and made a motion like she was shaking some invisible person. "How could you be so- so- stupid!" Because she couldn't think of any other word for it. In fact, she couldn't think much of anything while she had this image in her head of Elfangor trying to kill himself.