Title: Geek-Out!
Author: Aphedas (aphedas@yahoo.com)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Dude. Don't be a geek.
Disclaimer: Joss, not me.
Warren wandered up behind Andrew, who was scribbling concentratedly,
his tongue held between his lips. Warren read aloud.
"His face translucent, beaconlike." He stared.
"Translucent. Dude, you've got to be kidding me. How do you even know
the Klingon for translucent?"
"How do you?" Andrew objected.
"That's so not relevant, man. How is my face translucent? Does it
diffract light? No." He read a bit further.
"Like dilithium. Really? My face extends into the fourth dimension?"
"Shut up, Warren. I hate you." Warren grinned mockingly at him.
"Nah, you don't. You wouldn't be writing poetry to my stunningly
handsome, yet time-travelling, frosted-glass face if ya did."
"It might be to Jonathan." Andrew pouted. Warren looked rather smug. At
least Andrew hadn't claimed it was to a girl. It'd be a very strange
girl that could be described as loD'IH.1
"Sure Andrew. If you didn't have my name written all over it." Andrew
was looking very sulky by now, but Warren never had known when to quit.
"Besides, dude, in that type of complex sentence, the second verb never
takes on an aspect suffix. You have got to read Okrand properly."
Andrew covered the paper with his hand.
"You're not supposed to read someone's private poetry. It's not fair. I
bet Jonathan wouldn't." Why, the little turncoat. What, he wanted to
become the munchkin's minion?
"Aw, don't cover it up. Even with such a pretty hand." Andrew blushed?
Sheesh.
"Wow. Do you really think my hand's pretty?" Warren blinked. He hadn't
actually expected to be taken seriously. But, hey, he could work with
that.
"Totally. If they were making a composite being, they'd totally use
your hands, Number One." Andrew looked half-hopeful, half still petulant.
Ah, damn. Keeping the underlings happy, 101. What the hell. He kissed
Andrew. A few kisses were a small price to pay for unquestioning
loyalty. Besides, Andrew was a tiger in bed. Rowr!
1Klingon2 for beautiful man.
2Using a transliteration of the Klingon language from the
English alphabet.3
3Dude, don't be a geek.4
4As said by Warren to Andrew in the episode, whatever it
is.5
5Hey, you said not to be a geek.6
6Yeah, but you're only pretending not to remember. That
doesn't count, and I meant stop using7 footnotes.8
7(mis)using
8Why?9
9Because you're10 annoying the
readers.11
10Hey, so I have a split personality. Is anyone
surprised?12
11What readers?13
12Don't answer this.
13Anyone daft14 enough to still be
reading.15
14Note: Insulting your audience isn't nice.
15If you are still reading this, the episode was
Flooded and Warren was responding to Andrew saying "But, everyone knows if
the width of a wormhole cavity is a whole number of wavelengths, plus a
fraction of that wavelength the coinciding particle activity collapses
the infrastructure."16
16Dude, don't be a geek.17
17Oh bugger, time loop.18
18I only hope she solves it faster than Data did on that
episode19 of TNG where the Enterprise kept blowing up.
19Cause and Effect, IIRC.20
20I did. And if I don't stop now, I really will annoy the
readers.21
21What readers?22
22Oops, back into it. Stopping now. Really. These are
ex-footnotes. They have ceased to be. If they weren't nailed to the post
they'd be pushing up the daisies. The End. (Hopefully).23
23:P