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If I Could Have Time in a Half-empty Bottle

If I Could Have Time in a Half-empty Bottle

 

Jylliene lay in bed, staring at the ceiling. Every part of her body ached for sleep, but she could not stop thinking of what had transpired on the mission - not to mention coming back and hearing about Annisha, and wondering how she and Nijil could really keep an eye on Annisha in the manner she seemed to require to stay out of trouble, and whether she really WAS cut out to be parenting an adolescent, and what else might happen before their wedding, and whether they WOULD end up married or if one or the other of them would be zapped out of existence or killed or what-have-you beforehand…

 

Deep breath in, and release.

 

“It will be okay, right?” she murmured to Nijil.

 

"Wha? Au mean the station? I would imagine it is structurally sound at the moment." He looked into her eyes, a gaze he'd not been allowed for what felt like months. It was merely days. "Au mean something else do au not?"

 

“Everything. The station. Annisha. The wedding. Elements…”

 

Nijil sighed. "The wedding. It's been a few days since I, or we worked on it." He traced a finger along her cheek, then his eyes went wide. "I think Annisha has been working on it... oh if she has access to my account." He had a look of panic.

 

“We’ll have a very interesting wedding indeed if she’s been at it.” Pausing, the woman added, “You are probably more at risk for a lot of Blubby’s charges to your account than anything else.”

 

"Mmm," muttered Nijil. They both remained silent, brooding at the thought.

 

“I’ve wondered if we shouldn’t just go ahead and get married quickly and quietly." she piped up. "Still have the ceremony as planned, but ask the captain to take care of the legal bonding in her office. Before something happens.”

 

"Au really wish to do that? Life has found itself compressed. Hope it's not going stellar neutronic." He looked at her with intent. "By the elements do not change the ceremony. I'd be disowned," he said with a smirk.

 

She chuckled. “No, I wouldn’t change anything of the ceremony. Wouldn’t tell anyone anything about the private one. Not even Annisha.” Especially not Annisha. It wouldn’t be private for long. “I’m not sure. The first time the idea came to mind, it was in jest. It’s looking more and more serious as time passes.”

 

"Time is the fire in which we burn." He said, wondering where he'd heard that. "The question is how long is our wick?" He laughed at the double entendre he felt he made. He laughed some more, enough to wake a sleeping ten-year old.

 

Jylliene smiled slightly, eyes back to the ceiling. “Would you want to know, if you could?”

 

"I don't think we were meant to know either the time or method of our demise. Even viewing it in some temporal mirror can change the outcome. An uncertainty principle. Au would know, Starfleet has temporal mechanics classes right?"

 

“Of course. And they have regulations, and they go over what has happened in the past when those regulations were broken - well, what happened that brought about the regulations. But it was just a question of curiosity. I don’t think I’d want to know.”

 

Nijil pulled himself forward and gave his e'lev a simple kiss on the lips. "There's only one timeline I am concerned about. Our future."

 

Jylliene tapped a button just above her on the headboard and turned off the lights. “Let’s work on wedding plans tomorrow night.”

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