Friends Reunited

It started as two long, but narrow slits.
 
White, burning light seeped in, and the slits were closed. A loud groaning noise followed, and the slits re-opened, this time widening, merging into one and flooding the place with the same white light, but this time more intense and hotter, more painful. Gradually the whiteness faded, and two pillars came into view, in silhouette against the white background. The whiteness faded and was slowly, blearily replaced by a drab, gun-metal grey corridor. That was disappointing.
 
What was less disappointing was the fact that the two pillars had suddenly become a pair of shapely legs. Clad in long, high-heeled boots up til just below the knee then nothing further until the hem of a knee length skirt. Jay gave out a pleased murmer as his hungover head groggily lifted itself upwards, following the just-as-shapely stomach, breasts and neck of this woman. Then he saw her face.
 
It was NOT a happy face.
 
Katrina Salter scowled angrily back at her boyfriend. Who was slumped in the science corridor.
"Rough night?" she spat.
"Where are my shoes?" Jay said, glancing down at his bare feet.
"For heavens sake, Jay!" Katrina snapped "Is this how it's going to be every time I take some shore leave without you?!"
Katrina had been off the ship during the miniaturisation crisis visiting her mother on Earth.
"What the hell am I doing in the decks?" Jay asked, standing up blearily and looking around.
"You passed out drunk!"
"I did? Damn...haven't done that in a while"
"And don't think I don't know who you were with!" Katrina continued. "Sam told me you were in Parrotts with Efof and that....that..STRIPPER!"
Jay rolled his eyes. Jenny was Katrina's best friend. They'd been to school, college, and the academy together, and now served on the Blue Dwarf. Samantha Roberts, worked in the IT department and was the biggest smeg-hole this side of Mollopod space. She was one of those clingy friends who has no life of her own and so tries to emulate her best friend, gets insanely jealous of any boyfriends' their friends might meet who might take up time that they could be spending with her, slagging off any man her friend might be with, whether she'd ever met them or not, and never finding a boyfriend or a life of her own. Hell, she was probably a lesbian too.
"Cassandra helped save the ship and the crew. The crew had been in Parrotts the night before, but we got interrupted but the latest crisis, it only seemed fair to let her join in the following night in gratitude! She's not gonna be there tonight!"
"TONIGHT? You plan on going drinking three nights in a row?"
"Tonight I'm going out with Dean! Last night, and the night before were...business events.."
"Sam said you were buying her drinks all night! That you and her barely left each others side all night, how is that business?!!" she made air-quotes with her fingers as she said the last word.
"To be fair. Sam's a crazy whore"
"Don't talk about her like that!"
"I'm allowed to have a good time once in a while! Cassandra's a member of this crew as much as anyone else, she deserves to be involved just as much as Dean, or Callum, or anyone! You've gotta stop being so jealous, and start taking everything Sam says with a pinch of salt!"
"Look.." Katrina said, sighing "I just got off a 6 hour shuttle flight back here, I'm tired, I don't wanna argue. I trust you, I'm sorry."
"Meh, it's ok, if it's any consolation I'll steer clear of Cass's club for a few days!"
Katrina glared menacingly at Jay.
"Joke..."
"Look, do me a favour" Katrina said "I've missed you, spend some time with me for a change instead of going out drinking every night just because we're not on a mission. I know you don't get much time to do it anymore now that you're the Captain, but try to think of me sometimes Ok?"
"You want me to stop going out with my friends?"
"No, just not tonight!"
"Even if my best friend comes back from the dead and wants to go drinking?"
Katrina just shook her head "Jay, I'm serious..."
"So am I!" Jay said "You don't know Phil like I do. He dies and comes back more often than you breathe in and out.....hey wait do you hear something?"
"what?"
"There..a muffled... sort of...scream?"
"Yeah..actually I do..It's coming from Rufus' lab..."
Jay tapped in his command override code and the locked door swung open.
"There!" said Katrina "That fridge!"
"That's the Time Fridge!" Jay said "It hasn't been used in years!"
The fridge rattled and a muffled cry was heard again. Jay opened the door and a man fell out. He stood up and looked around.
"Cor, bloody hell" he said "You took your time! I've been in there for weeks! Oh, it's you Jay! ...well...a parallel version of my Jay anyway..Hi!"
Jay looked at Katrina, a huge grin on his face.
"OH ALRIGHT!" she snapped "GO TO THE BLOODY PUB!"
 
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