Call me Tori.

[Crystal]

Tori enters the bar again, making her way up to the counter to order a coffee. She glances across to the table Jason was at before, seeing he wasn't there she relaxed a little more. She takes her drink and goes to the corner table, avoiding the group of people already in the bar. She didn't want to talk to anyone, the only reason she was there was so she could have a drink to stay awake longer.

Jason walks into the bar quietly and looks around. He notices Tori at a corner table looking pretty sad and lonely by herself. He still didn't like seeing her like that. Even after everything, he still couldn't get her fully out of her head. Not after seeing her cry yesterday. He wondered if she felt even a little bit the same back. He had to know though. He had to know if what he was doing was right... or if he was making a big mistake. He goes to the counter and orders a coffee. The kind he knew Tori liked but added his own little touches to it, with some whipped cream and some syrup in it for extra taste. He takes it and walks over to her, inviting himself to the table even though he saw her look at him and half thought to turn back. Sitting down he switches her coffee with the one he got and takes a sip of hers, making a face regretting to drink since he didn't like coffee much. "I dont know how you drink this stuff."

She doesn't look up at him. "It's supposed to keep me awake." She mumbles, shaking her head "I am happy with the other coffee, you didn't have to come over here with this....."

"I know I don't have to..." he says interrupting her quietly "Doesn't mean don't want to." She shakes her head slightly, still not looking at him, hoping he wont see how much it hurt her "I'm sure Heidi won't like this....."

"Well she didn't at first... but I told her I needed time to think. Haven't seen her since yesterday." She finally looks up, a tear running down her cheek. "Time to think about what, Jason. You two looked happy, why not just go with it?" Heidi Leans against the door of the bar watching them. She notices them talking she smiles. Knowing what he was talking about without even hearing him. she turns around and leaves before being seen. He was heartbroken seeing her cry. He reaches and attempts to whip the tear from her cheek. "Because... because your not happy... I thought you were happy with Sorrin..."

Tori looks away, moving out of his reach, she didn't want him to touch her. "I was helping him....." She mumbles. He retracts his hand sitting back down. "I mean... at least tell me where I went wrong... why I almost didnt see you at all after I got better from Kusari... I.... I missed you Tori... and when I saw you were with him..."

"I've been looking after So... After him." She shakes her head "You saw what he did to himself..... And then Pita too.... I couldn't leave her with him alone." She shakes her head "I messed up.... I know that. You don't have to sit here pretending to be nice about it all...."

"Tori... look at me..." He interupts her again. "Just .....just look." She reluctantly does what he says and look across at him, biting her lip, trying to put on a brave face. "I don't need your pity, Jason...."

"Don't even... all I wana know is one thing. Did you mean what you said to me before? Do you..." he sighs "do you love Sorrin over me?" She shakes her head speaking quietly, just loud enough for him to hear her "I... I didn't mean that.... I'm sorry I said it..... And I couldn't possibly love anyone more then you....." She picks up the coffee mug and has a sip of the drink, smiling slightly, he always did make the best coffees. He sits for a second slightly stunned kinda not knowing what to say before getting up off his chair, going to the other end out the table, and as he slides over kissing her. "And im not pretending either..." She kisses him back before looking at him, confused. She was studying his face, trying to find something to explain this "I.... Why are you doing this, Jason.... What about Heidi....?"

"Because I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if I kept seeing you like this... and Heidi understood..." Tori shakes her head "You wouldn't be able to forgive yourself..... Jason, that's not a good reason to give her up.... especially if you're happy..... I mean, thats all I ever wanted for you."

"Tori... the only reason I went to look for someone else... I thought you hated me... I don't like seeing you not happy either... and yesterday I realized I might have been wrong... I still love you Tori..." He gives her a quick kiss saying this. "your more important to me than anyone else..."

"You're... I'm not going to pretend I understand why." She moves closer to him. Sounding hesitant, she asked "Are you sure you want to do this...?" He tilts his head a little slightly confused. "I've done a lot of thinking Tori..." He smirks a bit "Why so hesitant?"

"You looked happy with her....." She says simply, shrugging slightly. "I just don't understand why you'd give that up...." He smiles slightly, placing his hand on her cheek and with his thumb finally wiping some of her tears off. Tori smiles slightly, letting him do that this time. He sighs "Nothing makes me more happy than seeing you smile ,Tori. I love being with you... more than anyone ... more than her..."

"I really didn't mean what I said....." Moving gently her hair to the side kisses her again. ".... forget about it." Tori kisses him back before she cuddles into him, making herself comfortable. "I really did miss you...." She smiles, feeling happier then she had been for days. He cuddles back, squeezing her a bit in the embrace but gently. "I missed you too... and your snuggles... sorry about the um........ door thing." She frowns slightly, but shrugs "Yeah..... Its alright....."

Heidi and Sorrin are seen walking past the bar. However the pair of them aren't wearing their normal colors. Sorrin has his full LSF uniform on and Heidi has Navy style suit on. She also has Katana that Sorrin normally keeps in his ship on her back. Although the 2 in the bar only see them walk past they can tell they will be gone for some time judging by the equipment they had. Tori watches them "You.... Do you want to go and see what she's doing?"

"And give up this moment?" He smirks "Not on your life." He cuddles more and kisses her forehead. She grins and seems to relax more. Eventually she puts on a playful pout "I can't reach my coffee...." He almost laughs and reaches for the cup, handing her it. "I still dont know how you can drink that stuff." He says teasingly.

Siren walks in looking a bit shaken, her hand clasped tightly on the butt of her gun. She shrugs slightly, taking a sip of the drink "I dunno.... I like it." she looks up and sees Siren, frowning slightly, wondering what happened. Siren looks around quickly, her eyes actually glowing a golden color as she scans the room. Tori had to keep reminding herself Siren wasn't human. Siren sees Tori and Jason. She seems to calm down a bit, closing her eyes, then as they open once again, her usual bright green eyes have returned. She moves over to Tori and Jason in a quick smooth motion. "Tori, did you see... what the hell are Navy personnel doing on the station?" Jason starts to say something but stops not bothering. Tori shrugs "They're fine..... They know what they are doing....."

"Huh?? But.. Navy.. and LSF.. and.. they.. I... " She lowers her head with a deep sigh. "I need a drink..."

"Trust me.... We know who they are...." She glances across at Jason. Siren looks up a bit, "Rogue spies?" she asks with a hopefull hint to her voice. Jason finally decided to say what was on his mind. "If you feel like it Siren, feel free to kill off the LSF guy-" Tori turns and slaps Jason across the face, just hard enough to cut his sentence short. "You won't kill the LSF guy", she muttered. "At the end of the day, hes still one of us....." Although she was speaking quietly, Jason hears her well enough and rubs his cheek a little. "Alright alright..."

After a few minutes Heidi walks into the bar quickly, she was going to say goodbye to Jason but noticing everyone there she just orders a few drinks to take on her trip with her instead. She stands at the counter for a moment ordering. Siren hadn't even looked though her hand was already firmly gripping her pistol. "If this goes any other way than pleasant, then there will be blood all over this room." She says quietly, before taking a deep breath, turning and with a smile, walking up to and around the bar. "There anything I can get you officer?" She asks with a slight evil to her voice, a tone that had only ever been heard once before by Jason back on Jacksons Scylla. "Officer eh... I could get used to that.... Two bottles of unopened whisky please. ya know... The un-made stuff..."

Jason kisses Tori and squeezes her a bit before getting up, seeing the hostility in Siren, he was fearing things were going to get a bit ugly. He walks over to the counter next to Heidi. "Siren allow me alright?" He jump up on the counter, sliding across to the other side and goes under the counter. Watching Jason from the corner of her eye for a moment, Siren then turns her full attention to Heidi "So... Fleet Admiral Sanders still in command... or has Polstari finaly got his job?"

"Classified..." Heidi says with a grudge and stares at Siren. Tori watches what was happening from where she was sitting, sipping away at her coffee, a part of her wished Jason was there with her still, but she knew he had things to be done. Jason takes out four bottles of a whiskey with non-libertonian letters on them and puts them on the table. "You wont find these in liberty... its on me." He smirks a bit. "and thanks..." She looks at Jason for a moment, not paying the slightest bit of attention to the bottles. "Thanks for what?" She asks, her fist gripped tightly on the counter, wanting to know exactly what he was thanking the navy officer for.

"Corsairs finest... I owe you one." She smiles at him while she puts the bottles in a small shoulder back. She goes to hand over some money anway to Siren but changes her mind. She digs into her pocket and pull out some notes underneath the notes is her door card she puts it in Jason's hand and closes it so no one else can see it. "It's been a blast Jason, but times have changed. You rogues do me proud okay?" she sounded a little upset as if she won't see them again. She turn back to Siren and tosses a coin at her face. "That's captain when you address and officer of the law." She says in a stern voice. She turns to leave when a slight tear in her eye. Jason pockets what she gave him and watches her leave. He smirks to himself but nods slightly a tad saddened himself.

Siren watches Heidi move across the room. She looks down at the coin Heidi ahd thrown at her, glimpsing the face of one of Liberty's ex-presidents, it happens. Without a single noise, Siren springs over the counter and is at Heidi's back in less than a second. She grabs the back of her uniform, pulls and spins Heidi around and pinns her to the ground, back to the floor. she swings her fist towards the womans face, though as she gets close, an inch wide, foot long blade slices out of her arm and impales the steel deck plating, barely cutting her cheek. "YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!?!?" Seeing how Heidi fought before, Jason gets near them but keeps his distance. He knows whats gonna happen soon...

Heidi Takes a deep breath in... and starts clenching her fist on near the ground she does it so hard a little bit of her blood trickles through her knuckles... Taking her time to to gather energy. "You don't want to this..." She stares directly into Siren's eyes. "Oooh I'm sure I do... its been 4 years since I got to kill a navy with what you people gave me." She leans the blade a bit closer to her face, the strange metal actually cutting the deck as easily as butter. With the hand that has the blood on it she quickly grabs Sirens wrist and shoves it away. The blood coming into contact with Sirens starts to burn and fizzle. Whilst gripping her wrist she musters up the strength to punch Siren in the chest sending her into the counter a little. This creates enough time for Heidi to stand up. "I'm Telling you... Don't..." she stretches her arm out with the bloodied and open palmed she shows Siren the blood. She can sense something about Siren is like her but doesn't know what. "An besides.... I'm not from the navy...". She sounds a bit angry now.

Shaking her head from the shock of hitting the counter, Siren quickly regains her balance and moves to swing at Heidi, though where she strikes is at least a meter to the left. "Huh??" Heidi notices Siren is having a reaction to the blood she's seen this happen before. She picks Siren up by the collar with one hand and runs a bit of blood down her face. "Drop it... I have places to be now..." She says as her anger builds up. She put Siren back on the ground however Siren still isnt seeing things right. She turns away from Siren and heads for the door but not before picking up her bag. Jason just shakes his head, remembering how the burns felt from the blood. Siren falls to the floor, grasping at her face as her skin sizzles, she goes to scream at Heidi, though what happens is something she didn't expect.

Heidi turns around noticing her with more attention this time she backs to her seeing her on the floor she picks up one of Siren's hands with her clean hand and inspects it "Looks like you're one of us after all... Heh. Who would have figured". She says to siren in her mind. before chucking the hand back down. She walks out. Jason offers Siren a hand "Oh and um by the way... that's LR-'s second in command, Siren...." He smirks a tad. Siren watches Heidi walk out, her vision a bit blurred with a strange purple hue around everything she sees. "Wha... what was... that..." she asks aloud. She drops her hand from her face as the burned skin can be seen actually reforming, healing itself on the spot.

Heidi gets to the door, Sorrin is standing there watching her, he looks a bit surprised but keep his calm. The 2 of them look back into the bar watching Siren for a moment. Sorrin's eyes the deepest Red they been in a long time. "Take a last look Sorrin. It will be the last you see of them for some time..." After a minute or so she turn back to Sorrin "Lets go.." They dissappear to the hanger The roar of Heidi's ship rumbles throughout the base. Modififed again to perfection they leave the base seemingly for good. Shaking his head a bit, Jason walks back to where Tori is and goes to sit next to her again, letting her cuddle into him once more.

Tori cuddles into Jason again, not saying anything about what had just happened. He stays quiet a while enjoying the small silence and their embrace. He notices her coffee is almost done. "Did you like the syrup I added?" he asks, trying to divert the topic from what happened moments before. She nods "It tastes a lot better then the normal coffee.... Thanks." He sees a bit of whipped cream on her the tip of her nose and kisses it gently. "mmm.. much better yeah." She grins. Before looking serious again, "I don't want to lose you again..."

Jason nods slowly "Neither do I..." Tori's PDA beeps from her pocket and she sighs, pulling it out, quickly reading the message, she tenses up. "They can wait...." She mutters. He grins a bit to himself. "How about we go over my room. You look a bit tired and tense..." He leans in closer and whispers quietly in her ear. "Maybe a little message can fix that." She smiles, and puts the mug back on the table "Sure.... If your offering."

"I'm offering." He lifts her chin up just a bit and kisses her with a more longing kiss. She kisses him back, and eventually stands up. "You're room.... or mine?" She asks, looking around the bar to see who else was there. Ivan was drifting in and out of sleep in the corner. Jason stands up after her. "We could go to mine if you want. Either way I dont mine. Whichever your more comfortable with." He stretches a bit too, feeling a bit tired as well. "Your's is better." She nods, She had spent most of the last 12 hours in her room in tears, she didn't want to go back there quite yet. She nods, and takes his hand, leading him out of the bar.

Walking out he could feel her hands a bit tense. "You need to relax a little." At the door he picks her up, surprising her a bit by it but hears her laugh while he did it so swiftly. He smiles as the two make their way back to his room.