Learning to Dance

person since it’s my first mission and all, but I guess he’s
not here. I’ll just be off then, I’ve got a meeting with this
G.L.E.E. Ambassador guy Junior anyway. I’ll let you two
continue your little moment! Don’t mind me! Just pretend I
was never here!”
She gave them an overly obvious wink and skipped
down the hallway.
“She still thinks-” said Taz.
“Yup,” said Up. “Looks that way.”
She shook her head and almost smiled, and his heart’s
reaction was far greater than it should have been. He should
be angry, he should be upset that she’d left, but he’d never
been able to bring himself to hate her. How could he blame
her for seeking freedom when all he could offer her were
chains?
He was going to have to pull out the mirror soon if his
thoughts went any farther in this direction. He could feel his
breathing getting shallow. “Have you ever used a holodeck
before?” he asked, gesturing at the door to the room
adjacent.
“No,” she said. “Can it really be programmed to look
like anywhere?”
“If you have the know-how, it can be anywhere,” he
said, pressing a few buttons on the panel next to the door.
“Where would you like to go?”
“I – I don’t know,” she said, watching him work the
panel and frowning.
“I can make it into Europa,” he said, “If you feel like
dancing. Or that Graali moon if you’re in the mood for
battling giant snakes. Or I can even make it look like the
Cazadora -”
“Or Qo’noS?” she said, and then immediately clapped a
hand over her mouth.
His body reacted to her words before anything else – it