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Aberrant: Stargate Universe - The Once Wild Ones [Complete]


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Vinny finished getting a couple plates of food, and turned around to survey the room, noticing SG-21 taking its normal meal together, along with some hot chick. A quick shared glance had Olivia staring at her plate as his shoulders slumped a little. He walked by and out of the eating area, seemingly content to take his food elsewhere and not wanting to cause a scene.

She have some traumatic-ass event at Nordstrom's or fuckin' what?

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Olivia missed Ari's question; a familiar form distracted her. Looking at him now, it was obvious who he was - just older and bigger. Her eyes were drawn to him just as he turned; angry to have been caught looking, she dropped her eyes. She was sure he'd take that as a challenge, but the presence of her team must have discouraged him, because he left without the expected scene.

"What?" she asked Aradia when she realized she'd said something. Her friend repeated her question, and Olivia sighed at the concern in her friend's eyes.

"Talk to your CO," Olivia said. "I'm sure there's a requisitions officer, but I don't know who it is. Captain Wright should know."

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Aradia nodded slightly, and they proceeded to eat in a bit of an uncomfortable silence for a moment. After a few minutes though, Damien glanced down at his watch, and stood up, looking apologetic.

"Well, it was a pleasure to meet you, Aradia, but I'm afraid I have to be getting back to work. I do hope we'll see you around more, though."

Aradia nodded and smiled back at him, and said her farewells to the other two men as they got up and left too. After a minute, and everyone else had gone, she glanced at Livy for a long moment.

"Look, girl - I don't know what's eating you up, cause you haven't wanted me to know. And I get that - I swear. That's your call. But look.. you ever want to talk about it, you come find me, okay? Unless I croak, or get kidnapped by some other freaky government agency, you can totally count on me. And even then, I'll do what I can. You got that?"

Her voice held a touch of playfulness, but it almost always did. It was how Ari dealt with life, it helped you take the curveballs a little easier. But she was serious, the most serious Olivia had ever seen her. Whether that was because of her own situation, or just how much she cared about Livy, the other woman couldn't tell for sure. But it was enough, and there was no pressure, no silent inquiry or pressing demand. She only wanted to know that Livy understood, and she could leave it at that. It was what she'd always liked best about Aradia.

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"Vinny is Kuwait Guy." The words would have been so simple to say, and sharing that burden might have helped. But Aradia needed to be able to depend on Vinny in the field; Olivia had a great relationship with Caine and didn't want to poison Ari's chance to have the same with her CO. So she remained silent, on that matter, anyway.

"I know, hon," Olivia said, smiling softly. "You're a solid friend." And I'm trying to be one, which is why I'm not telling you something that will damage your outlook of him forever. "You should come to Nail Night with me and Kyria. She's the other female Specialist, and she's... kinda lonely." That was possibly the understatement of the year. "She's not from this Earth, and doesn't have family or many friends."

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"Kyria.. she's that gorgeous girl on my team, right? I met her earlier. That sounds great.. I'd love to join you guys. It's hard enough being away from my family, I can't imagine how hard it would be to be a world away from them.. or just not having them at all. So when is Nail Night? You think I'll be back from this mission they're sending me on tomorrow in time? Then again, I guess if two-thirds of the Nail Night squad is gonna be gone, you'll have to wait on us, huh?"

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"I'm shipping out too," Olivia said, easily. "So we'll all be gone. Nail Night happens as needed, so we'll just plan it for the night after you come back. I want Kyria to meet you. I might even let you tell her the mule story." Olivia grinned as she said it; it was a clue to Ari about how serious she was about drawing Kyria into their circle of friendship.

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Ari grinned back, and nodded at her.

"That sounds great - I doubt we'll get much of a chance to talk on the mission anyway. So we'll plan on it.. and I look forward to getting to finally share that with someone!

She laughed, and nabbed another piece of Olivia's orange, popping it into her mouth again like the last one before Livy could protest. Then she laughed at the other woman's outraged expression, and picked up her own orange to peel and split. It was good to be around friends again.

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