Where's My Toolbelt?
Title: Where's My Toolbelt?
Author: Ivy
Rating: PG
Summary: Harper loses his toolbelt. Challenge Response.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Notes: This was written as a response to Mari's Challenge to use, Trance, Harper, and 3 of the following The song 'I'm to Sexy', Dylan in the shower, The line 'Egyptian style, girl.', Rommie in hot pink spandex, Kissing in the med bay, Tyr in a tutu, Marsh-mallows, Rev and Beka playing hop scotch, A utility closet, The line 'Have you seen my force lance?', Sparkey Cola.
Harper was in a bad mood. Dylan was getting on his case, urging him to finish the repairs in THIS millennia, Tyr seemed like he's going to snap his head off for no reason and to top that-he lost his tool belt! He was heading to med bay to see if he left it there, when a familiar voice stopped him.
"Mr. Harper!"
Harper sighed and turned around to face his captain. "What?" He asked annoyed.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"I don't know-I was thinking of going ski diving in space."
Dylan gave him a stern look.
"Okay ok-relax. I'm just going to med bay to see if I left my belt there. Sheesh-you gotta lighten up a bit."
"I can't 'lighten up' while my ship is not 100%, Mr. Harper-so go get your belt and fix my ship!" He said and stormed down the hall. Harper just shrugged and continued.
"Hi Trance'' He said as he entered. He jumped on the operating table and smiled at her.
"Hi Harper", she said distractedly as she messed around with some medicines. "I'm a bit busy right now sorting this out-are you ok?" She asked concerned, afraid he was ill.
"Never been better babe" He said, jumping off the table." I was just wondering-have you seen my tool belt?"
"No, it's not here" She said looking around. I'll tell you if I see it." She smiled faintly at him.
"Is everything ok?" He asked her, noting the fact that she wasn't her perky self.
"Hmmm?" She asked turning to him "Yeah fine, fine-why?"
"No reason" He said and left med bay, heading down the corridor.
Trance shrugged, she's been working on this antibiotics for a while now-and she was really getting tired. She picked up another bottle, when her tail accidentally snapped one to the floor-shattering it to pieces."Oh no!" She cried, irritated with her clumsiness, and picked up the big pieces. She was about to call One of Rommie's droids when she remembered that Andromeda was conserving energy-until Harper gets her running.So she decided to clean it by herself. She remembered an old earth story of witches and remembered that they rode 'brooms'. She wondered if the utility closet had any-they would certainly do the trick. So she left med bay and headed down the hall.
****
Dylan was in an even worse mood than he was to begin with. For starters-Rommie was still out, Harper wasn't getting her running in time and it seems he has misplaced his force lance. No-not misplaced lost-no someone must have stolen it. But who?
He was going to question every single member of this crew-starting with Tyr-which shouldn't be a problem considering there were only 6 members! Sometimes he wondered how they ever manage to hold this ship together! He chuckled and headed to Tyr's quarters. It was so good the crew got along so well and were able to trust each other with their lives....
*****
Trance reached the utility closet to find it was already open.
"Uhh" She said entering the closet. "I wasn't aware anyone was here."
Harper looked up and smiled. "Don't worry Trance babe, I won't bite-and there's enough room in here for the both of us"
"What are you looking for?" She asked stepping closer.
"Tools" He said absorbed in his search."Damnit-where's my tool belt!"
"Have you checked over here?" She asked turning-as she did her tail hit the panel and the door closed shut. Harper walked to the panel and tried to unlock it. It wouldn't budge. He turned to Trance and sighed. "I'm so sorry!" she said defensively, sitting on a pile of boxes. "I didn't mean to!"
"It ok Trance-relax, it could happen to anyone"
"Yeah? So why does it always happen to me?" She started sobbing. Harper sat next to her and hugged her. "It ok Trance, shhhhh.... We'll get out of here, don't worry." Changing the subject he got curious. "So-why are you here?"
The question only got her to sob some more, before she pulled herself together. "I-I bbroke a bottle of antibiotics and wwwas ggoing to find 'broom' to clean it" She said wiping her tears.
"Here" Harper said getting up. He went to the other corner and picked something up from behind some boxes. He handed it to her. She smiled as she recognized the broom. "Thanks Harper" She said holding on to the broom. "Don't mention it" He said heading to the pannel. He examined it closely."Can you fix it?" She asked hopefully. Harper sighed. "I could.... If I had my tools" He said and they both set out to find some tools.
*****
Dylan reached Tyr's quarters, just as Tyr headed out, almost bumping into him. "Tyr-just the person I wanted to see."
"Ohh?"Tyr asked suspiciously. "Why?"
"Well" Dylan started wondering how to aproach the matter. "It appears that I have.... misplaced my force lance"
"And what does that have to do with me?"
"I was just wondering if you saw it somewhere"
"No, I haven't"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I am sure! Are you accusing me of theft? Because I have not taken your force lance-why should I? I have my own." He paused before adding. "However, if you are thinking of theft there is someone on board who has some expertis in the matter."
"Trance?" Dylan asked out loud. He decided that although he trusted her-he would ask her next. He then noticed something in Tyr's hand. "That's Harper's tool belt"
Tyr glanced at it and said. "I found it in one of the corridors and 'borrowed' it for a while. Now that I am done I shall return it to him." He said and headed down one of the corridors.
******
Harper was going through some boxes when he came across something interesting. "Hey Trance-check this out!" She came over and he showed her a can. She examined the label. "Sparky cola? I wouldn't drink it if I were you, it was probably here a while" She said and got back to work. He shrugged and tossed the can behind his back. "Ohh well"
*******
Dylan was getting tired. Trance wasn't in her quarters or in med bay or in hydropolics. So he decided to ask the computer. "Rommie-where's Trance?"
"In the utility closet deck 9" The voice said, not wasting energy for a hologram.
He reached deck 9, when he saw Tyr coming down the hall.
"Tyr? Where are you going?"
"Andromeda said Harper was in the utility closet, so I decided to give him his tools imediatly-so he can fix the ship."
Dylan nodded thoughtfully. "Trance is in the utility closet" He said as they both headed to it.
*******
Trance was standing on some high boxes, looking on the top selves. She thought she saw something, so she leaned forward, causing the boxes to fall.
"Ahhhh!" She cried as she fell down. Harper rushed to her and caught her, holding her in his arm. She silently thanked him, and they looked at each other's eyes. Harper leaned in closer, searching for her reaction. She smiled at him, and he kissed her lips gently.
Suddenly the door opened and they both stared at the intruders.Harper lowering Trance to the ground.
"Umm:" Dylan said confused "Have either of you seen my force lance?" They said no, and they hurried to get out of the closet. They was an awakward moment of silence before Tyr handed Harper his belt. Harper took it and excused himself to go repair the ship. Trance excused herself and her broom and went to med bay, leaving the two stunned officers standing in the hall
******
Harper fixed almost everything on board, as he tried to ignore Trance. Atleast until he understood where they stand. It was just weird.
He got to the bridge and Beka greeted him.
"Hi there" She said smiling. "What have you been up to? Haven't seen you around for days."
"Nothing" He simply said as he adjusted something on one of the pannels.
"Nothing?" Tyr asked. "I supose if you call making out with Trance in a closet nothing..." He smiled smugly.
Harper finished what he was doing and headed off the bridge, trying to not show how red his face got. He was so furious, that for the first time in his life he was speachless. And he vowed revenge. Tyr laughed when the doors closed and met an angry Beka. "What?" He asked her. She simply rolled her eyes. She ignored Tyr as he stared at her intently, trying to feel mad at him. But there was something.... that just melted her about the way he looked at her. She shrugged it away and continued to work.
*****
Harper entered med bay with a cut on his head. Trance greeted him and told him to sit on the bed. He did. There was a moment of silence as she examined his wound. "How did you get this?" She asked cleaning the blood.
"Hit my head on something sharp in the air shaft"
"What were you doing there?"
"Fixing" He said simply avoiding her eyes.
"Look Harper" "Look Trance" They said at the same time. She smiled. "You first.''
"About what happened in the utility closet-"
"It was an accident" She added
"Right-shouldn't have happened. So we're agreed?" She nodded."Good", he continued. "Cause I'd hate for it to ruin our friendship"
"Me too" She said and adressed his cut. She was almost done, and she was leaning in fr a final inspection. She smelled so good..... He thought, trying to ignore what this proximity to her does to his heart. He looked her in the eyes.
She tried to ignore the emotions that he caused her and finished medding to him. Her eyes rested on his, and she smiled warmly, unable to remove her eyes from his blue sweet eyes.He wondered what she would do if he kissed her, but decided against it.
It was now or never, she thought and she came closer and brushed her lips across his, hoping he'd react. And he did. He came in closer and heald her in his arms and kissed her passionately. Now was no accident, no swept up in the moment. There was no turning back as the couple embraced kissing each other. They were in pure utopia.
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