Guilty Fists

[Manic Q]

The Black Errand had gone by for nearly a month without incident, after finishing their job on Nar Ser the ship and her crew would arrive at the Metropolis planet of Zeus. The captain and a few select others would meet their contact one of the planets moons, Posieden, while the rest of the crew were free to do as they wished on the surface. Bosco had become fond of the doctor, even if his signals became a bit mixed up he was attracted to her very much. He planned on using their off time and his part of the pay cut to take Myca out to Zeus for a night on the town.

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Jones patted his pocket where his capital card still sat with what money he had left from his old life and his latest pay from the Nar Ser dumping. As of now Bosco was looking for Myca who wasn't in her usual places, he had a chance to take her on a real date this week and he didn't want to blow it.

[WhiteLily]

Down in the cargo hold Myca was taking careful inventory of all the medical supplies left on the ship and putting together a list of things she would need to pick up on Zeus. It was tiring, boring work, but Myca didn't want to be caught without the things she would need for her people if the time came for it. Sitting on the floor with her legs crossed Myca pulled her long hair into a loose ponytail at the base of her neck as she counted gauze pads one by one. Before she could help herself her mind wandered to Bosco. Myca smiled and wondered if they could go for drinks sometime before the crew headed out again. "Damn it," Myca whispered, realizing she'd lost count. Sighing she began again.

[Manic Q]

Of all place that Bosco could find Myca it was in the cargo hold. Most of the usual gorillas weren't about as they had gone off with the captain on his special trip to Poseidon. She was counting pieces of gauze, one look at the stack and his internal calculator figured the numbers based on the size of one gauze pad and compared it to the size of her pile.

"One hundred and thirty four" He blurted out, hardly able to control himself "About... uhm... Are you busy today?"

He did his best to segway into going to the planet as best he could after his rainman moment.

[WhiteLily]

"Oh!" Myca jumped, surprised by Bosco's sudden appearance. She was sure she wouldn't have been found in the cargo bay. The regular guys were gone with the captain or already on Zeus and the others liked to avoid the bay as much as possible. She smiled and stood, brushing off her pants, "Umm... I was planning on going down to Zeus to get a refill on supplies. We're getting low." Leaning back against a shelf Myca grinned at Bosco, unable to help the little flutter of butterflies in her stomach. She hoped this was going somewhere she liked, "Why?"

[Manic Q]

The pause before he response could have been for any reason from thinking of the right words to taking a breath before taking the plunge, even some trace of fear may have held him up for that moment before the words scrambled out of his mouth, but Bosco wouldn't know what to tell anyone if they ever asked.

"Well with everyone free to do what they want, wouldn't going out to do chores be the last thing on any ones mind. I mean not that it is a bad thing, I mean you probably forget to do these sort of things all the time and never get the chance to when they have the opportunity. But it isn't cause your forgetful, you are busy being the ships doctor and probably don't get a minute to yourself, but just a better reason to take this chance to..." while clumsy in reaching his goal, he found himself at the peak of his plan and once he crossed over there was no going back.

Suddenly he swelled with doubt, he glanced elsewhere for an escape but found himself looking back to Myca and the doubt deflated. This bit of courage didn't retract from the fact he hadn't any plans besides going to Zeus for a trip.

"To... come with me... to Zeus. We could get a bite to... eat or... something.... dancing..." He had planned out political assassinations better than this, he hadn't even thought of where they would go even if she said yes after all this.

[WhiteLily]

Myca could feel the happiness bubble up inside of her, and she wanted to explode. She wanted to run to Bocso and throw her arms around his neck all the while squealing and shouting "Yes! Yes! Yes!" She'd been waiting for them to have time to themselves for weeks now but, as Bosco had so eloquently stated, she'd been busy as ever with injuries and emergencies. Those were the days Myca wanted to ask the captain to hire a nurse or someone to help lighten the load Instead of freaking out though, Myca let him have a happy smile, holding back her elation and excitement,
"I would really like that, Bosco,"
She said, cool as anything. In reality her heart was going to burst out of her chest and tapdance its way out the door, but Bosco would never know. Years of being in emergency situations had given Myca the ability to mask her emotions well,
"I'll meet you at the shuttle bay in two hours. Is that okay?"

[Manic Q]

"That's perfect, I will see you in two hours then." Bosco didn't want the meaning behind this trip to be obscure, so before he made his leave he gave Myca a kiss on the cheek. He left her cheek slowly, beaming with joy. Bosco headed out to find some decent clothing he could trade from the crew. He found himself 2 hours later at the shuttle bay in the best he could find... which wasn't that great in hind sight. He wasn't paying attention to how badly the shades mismatched each other; the blues all barely matching and the white undershirt stained in a few places that could only make someone wonder what had happened. His attention was more so on if he was going to make a fool out of himself or if he was going to be caught on Zeus and have a firefight ruin his date... it could spoil the mood, he joked to himself.