“Give it back.”

Dante crossed his arms and glared. Few people among the crew directly disobeyed him and even then, it was usually only his son Oscar or his wife the Chief Medical Officer that did so. Outside of the ‘usual’, the stubborn look he was now receiving told of defiance and a pouting refusal to follow commands.

“Seriously? After all of that performance I throw the ball once and you decide to keep it and not give it back? You have issues Bruce.” The slightly Italian accented tone of his voice followed up with a sigh as he turned back to his desk. “Fine, you stubborn lizard. I’m not playing anymore, keep it and keep yourself occupied then.”

In the corner of the ready room, the large eight foot long lizard sat with his beady yellow eyes following Dante as he walked away from him, the red ball tightly gripped protectively in his mouth, tight enough that the Human would have no chance to wrestle it off him if he tried. That the man wasn’t going to try annoyed Bruce, and he slowly laid the ball on the ground and flicked his tongue in the mans direction dismissively.

A slight ping from his console alerted Dante that playtime was over, and a reminder popped up of his next task for the day.

=/\= Lieutenant Akiyama, this is the Captain. Please report to my Ready Room. =/\= He dropped the hand from his comm-badge and picked up the large, oversized mug of coffee beside him as he sat down at his chair. Taking a sip, he glanced at Bruce over the rim.

“Don’t look at me like that,” he said to the lizard who was still standing exactly where Dante had left him.

Captain Knight, CO