<USS Avalon> "AWOL" by Steven Striker

"Hey bud!" Steven called as he bopped into their shared quarters.  When no one 
answered, he frowned.  Stepping into John's bedroom, he felt a crunch under his 
feet and when he stooped to look, he saw the remains of a comm-badge.  "What've 
you done, Johnny?" he murmured.

A quick search of the cabin showed that most of John's things were gone, as was 
the picture of him and Steven at their last night out.  "Fuck, man, and without 
me," he sighed.

Grabbing a few clothes, he sent a note to Mary that he needed to disappear for 
a while.  He loved her but John was like his brother.  He couldn't turn his 
back on him.

With his mind set, he stared around their shared quarters, tossed his own badge 
to the ground and stamped on it.  "In for a penny," he whispered, "in for a 
pound."  Marching out, he turned in the vague direction he hoped John would and 
simply kept going.


"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can 
imagine."
 
 ~~ Sir Arthur Eddington

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