Star Trek: Eventide 777 - ┊baumann-household

The elderly man just sit on his chair and waited for his friend, the cardassian he raised from age 16 or 17, he didn't remembered the numbers corectly. But those weren’t important right now anyways. A look on the clock told ben that Rulgan should arrive in a few minutes.

The cardassian finally entered the old house. It was really old, he remembered every room from 30 years ago or something. Nothing much changed, so he found Baumann actually fast. "Hello Ben! I am here now!" He said happy hugging the old man gently.

As the old man heard his friends voice from around the room, he smiled sofly. "Rulgan, it is great to see you again" The hug surprised him a bit, but both didn’t saw each other for a long time, so he understood where that energy came from. He pushed him slightly away. "Watch it, you will crush my bones. I am not the youngest." A little chuckle was heard.

He immidatly let go of the man. Deciding to look around the house. It was as big as he remembered it, he walked up to his room. And would you look at that, everything was still the same. Even his little, big plushie was still there. The one he had forgoten, he really had missed it. He just took it, afterall it was his. Another room he remembered was the kitchen and there were standing some nice smeling food. He inhaled the smell. It smells so tasty, he thought. Rulgan walied back to his old man. "Hey, ehm I found chuckle, can I take him with me?" He showed ben the old plushie.

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The elderly man follwed Rulgan with his eyes. It made him feel happy to see how much of a child this grown man could be. He had cooked something for Dinner, which was promptlly found by Rulgan. As the Cardassian came back he smiled, and as he asked if he could keep chuckle, he started chuckling. "Why of course. It is yours, I just keep it around, so you can pick it up again" He said calmly. Looking around, there was something he should tell him, but he couldn't not now, not when everything was so perfect. "I saw you found the food I was coocking, it will be finished in a few minutes"

The Cardassian smiled happy, he didn't expect another answer it just made him happy. Though the fact that he just looked around in the middle of their conversation, made it seem off. But he could see that the old man didn't wanted to talk about it, instead the Cardassian just answered the question with the cooking. "Sure, I am really hungry" He rubbed his belly.

He smiled as well, not knowing if the person next to him already found out that something was off. But honestlly he didn't know how he could explain to him that this might be the last time they could see each other. Alive atleast. Ben just stoo up and put the dishes on the table. "Take a seat, I will bring the food in a minute." As the man entered the kitchen, he felt sick again, he didn't even know what he had, because he just forgot what the doctors had said on porpuse. He just wanted a few nice days with his little boy. As he put the food on the table and took a seat he said. "Rulgan you can already grab some food, it will get coled otherwise"

He just smiled and got himself some of the food on the plate. It lookked really tasty and smeled so great. It made him even more hungry than he was before. A look to Ben told him that something was somewhat off, but he couldn't lay a foot on what it was that seemed so off. Maybe the fact that Ben was getting thiner and thinner everytime they saw each other or the fact that he just looked a little sick. The Cardassian just wasn't sure if he should ask, so he decided not to. "so what have you been up to lately?" Rulgan asked instead.

The man took some of the food as well. He knew rulgan could see that he wasn't that healthy, he knew that he didn't look good. As he asked the question Ben just made somthing up. "Oh, I did just fine. I did the Garden and helped a friend with his house. It was great, well sadly that friend died last week, but that happens to the best of us." Just the first part was made up, his friend actually died. "So how has live been for you?"

The big cardassian looked over the table and to ben. "I have been doing pretty well. I am curently working on Starbase 777 as you know." He said, it should be obvious that live has been good to him. "I am also a Lieutanant Junior grade" This is an information Ben shouldn 't know, because it happened after his retirement. "I wanted to ask if I could go to the city? Looking around a bit." The cardassian asked.

He just nodded as a sighn that the other one could leave. He wanted to say goodby but the other one just rushed out, with a rushed see you later.

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The Cardassian entered the big house. It was awfully quit. He looked around, not seeing ben anywhere. It was as if he was just gone. Maybe he is just off on a little walk, Rulgan thought. Or atleast he hoped. Afterall Ben hadn't looked the best all day. He took a seat on Bens chair, waiting for a long while. At some point he just gave up and made his way back to the station.

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