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It was just last night. You told me because you stay with him every night.

[ Slowly, as you would with a friend going through a psychotic break with no grasp on reality, ]

Eugene. I wasn't at Cirrus last night. Or any other night.

You were. Ask anyone at Cirrus. You gave Tali a plant.

[ His brow furrows ]

I remember giving him the plant, but that wasn't at Cirrus...

[ Something unsettled slips into his expression for the first time, though ]

It was at Cirrus.

If this is your way of trying to take back telling me, just--don't. It's too late. I don't want to talk about it, and I'd prefer it if you'd leave me alone.

I'm not-- I really don't remember what you're talking about!

Then at least have the decency to ask later!

[he chokes up on the last word and then fully submerges himself, mortified]

Eugene...?

[ Oh no...,,

Peers over the lip of the pool ]

Is this why you're so pissed at me? You think I'm stealing your man?

I'm not.

[emerges from the water just to splash him in the face]

What part of "I don't want to talk about it" is hard to understand for you?

[ Is wet now. Drips pathetically. ]

Sorry.

[closes his eyes and leans his cheek against the edge of the pool]

If you aren't going to leave, then at least talk about something else.

[ Reaches out to smoosh some of Eugene's wet hair out of his eyes ]

Does any of that crazy shit I said before seem less crazy now?

[keeps his eyes closed, tense and unhappy]

It didn't sound crazy when you said it. I believed you. You're the one who was acting like I wouldn't.

Hahaha... I'm sorry. Maybe it's projecting.

I wouldn't have believed me. And I didn't believe it myself at first, either. When they told me about the... dying.

[lets some of the tension ease away; it's easier, when they're just talking]

Someone mentioned a "newbie haze". Like you don't believe what's happening on the ship until you've seen it for yourself. I don't remember having that though...