Your Reality

Writers: Dana, Eimi
Date Posted: 12th September 2006

Characters: Traelyn, U'kaiah
Description: Traelyn calls U'kaiah up to her weyr, and they fight
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 13, day 7 of Turn 3
Notes: Follows "Completely and Utterly Irrational"

Kalamath backwinged and landed on the Weyrwoman's ledge next to the gold dragon. He reached out to touch his nose to hers lightly in greeting as his rider slid off of his neck, pulling off his gloves and heavy riding jacket as he went. **Don't get too comfortable, boy. We have to get back to Dragonsfall before too long.**

"Trae?" he called, walking into the large main room. "Is everything all right?"

"So. You decided to show up." She was leaning against the doorway to the sleeping room, wearing nothing but her sleeping clothes, long hair tangled, dark circles under her eyes and an equally dark look on her face.

"Why, was I expected?" U'kaiah asked, rather confused by her sudden ill temper. "We didn't make any plans, did we?" He searched his brain and couldn't _remember_ anything he had missed...

Her jaw tightened. Since when had they really ever made "plans" to see each other? Most of the time their visits were played by sharding ear!
They
usually took advantage whenever they were at the Weyrs to drop by, because who knew when they'd be able to see each other again? "No."

"Are you mad at me?" U'kaiah could get the general sense that she was upset, and that it was because of something he had done, but he was at a total loss.

"You were going to leave without saying a _word_ to me, weren't you?"

"Well... Was I supposed to?"

Stung, she crossed her arms over her chest and advanced on him. "Were you _supposed_ to?" she snarled, hardly believing her ears. "Shard it, U'kaiah, didn't you _want_ to?"

"I would have thought I was bothering you. I mean, you might not have been alone. Or you might have been nursing a hang over," he said defensinvely. Shards, why was she so angry about this? He didn't do anything wrong! "How was I supposed to know you were expecting me?"

"Because you're my friend!" She stopped walking then--the sofa was blocking her way. "Because I always want to sharding see you, be with you. We hardly ever _see_ each other, U'kaiah!" She glared at him. "And here you were, going to sneak off after screwing one of my riders without saying a word! I wouldn't have even known you were here if Nyith hadn't spotted Kalamath."

This was sharding ridiculous! "How was I supposed to know you even knew I was _here_? You didn't seem to be in any big hurry to talk to me last night when you and N'vanik went slinking off, now were you?"

"He came to me," she growled. "There was no 'slinking' going on. And you know something? I really didn't feel like being a part of the gaggle of women following you around with wide eyes and over-active imaginations."

"You are not even making any sense, Traelyn!"

Her eyes snapped to his. "Oh, really? How would you have me make this all the more clearer to you, U'kaiah? Because obviously you've been having trouble 'making sense of me' long before now!"

"Did you and N'vanik fight last night? Is that what this is all about?"
It was the only explanation that made sense. He could understand it if she had a hard night and she decided she needed to take her frustration out on someone. But if not... Just what was she _talking_ about?!

"No!" Where did that sharding _come_ from? "I'm not talking about him!
He has nothing to do with us!"

"Then why are you so flaming mad?" U'kaiah was getting really sick of this. He had spent a lovely evening, and it had been a sharding good morning too! What did she have to go and ruin it for? "So I slept with one of your wingriders! Big deal! Tavia was nice! We had a good time!
What is so wrong with that?!"

"Nothing! You don't have to tell _me_ sex feels good!"

"Oh, I _know_ I don't," he growled. "And don't you try to tell me that you come to find me _every_ time you come to Dragonsfall to get a N'vanik fix!"

She bristled. "So that's what you'd call it? A _fix_? Well, maybe you wouldn't know any better, would you? Because that's all you get out of your ladies, isn't it? Just a fix?"

Faranth but that stung. "That's not true," U'kaiah growled.

Seeing the weakness she uncovered, she dove at it like predator on prey before she could even think twice about it. "Oh no? You just can't help yourself, can you, U'kaiah? Stick it wherever it points, in any willing woman who flings herself your way."

The bronzerider might as well have been slapped in the face. "That's not how it is!" No, he was not like that. He was never like that, despite what Jaela said.

A brow rose, her expression condescending--hardly recognizable. "Prove me wrong, then."

"What do you mean?" he asked, throwing his hands in the air in exhasperation. "How can I prove it to you?" Shards, he thought he was _through_ proving he was more than just some bronze boytoy.

"You tell me."

"I don't want to play this game, Trae. Not with you." Not _ever_ again...

"What _game_? I thought this was your reality."

His jaw clenched as her jab landed true. "There is more to me than that," he hissed through clenched teeth. "I am not just some proddy bronzerider. I'm _more_ than that, Trae!"

Her lips curled. "The way you say it makes me wonder if your really trying to convince me or yourself, U'kaiah."

Enough. He didn't want to hear any more. U'kaiah didn't want to see the condescension in her eyes, the accusations anymore. She sounded too familiar. She sounded too much like Jaela. The bronzerider had to get out of there. Turning around he stormed back to the ledge where his dragon awaited, eyes whirling in concern. He had to get out of there before he believed every word she said was true. Because it _wasn't_ true. Was it?

Last updated on the September 17th 2006

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