White didn't just want to do her tasks and then go home. She wanted to make friends; or at least a friend. She knew the others had trust issues though, aliens could be disguised as crewmates after all. She noticed that Black and Cyan always hung out with each other despite the threat of an imposter, so maybe she could be friends with them.
"Hi!" White said as she walked towards Cyan and Black. The duo stopped what they were talking about and looked at White. "You're one of the new crewmates. Do you need help with anything" Black asked. "Nope! I just want someone to talk to, and everybody else has trust issues. But it looked like you two were having casual conversation so I..thought I could...join in?" White was getting progressively nervous. The situation was starting to feel awkward for her.
"We were actually just about to go do our tasks." Cyan said. "We can all hang out later, right Black?"
"Yeah..."
White's face fell, not like the others could see it though. She was disappointed and had a feeling that the two didn't want to talk to her. As Cyan and Black left the cafeteria, she spotted Red and his son and walked over to them.
"Hi Red!"
"Uh, hey"
"Your son is adorable~ I wish I had a mini crewmate."
"..."
Red remained silent for a minute before saying, "I have to go do my tasks" and leaving. White was confused. Was there something she didn't know about mini crewmates that he knew? Was there something she didn't want to know about mini crewmates?
~~~
Red left the cafeteria to go and feed his son. The mini imposter happily ate the leftover fingers of Brown's body. Red went through the boxes in the storage room. Pulling out a fork, he went over to where his son was eating, picked up a liver from Lime's body and tried to convince his son to eat it. "Come on, I know you like your "finger foods" but you're a growing boy, you need to eat your liver."
"Aww, how cute" A voice said.
Red jumped up and turned around, ready to kill whoever caught him feeding his imposter son. Upon seeing that it was just Black, he relaxed ever so slightly, but not too much seeing that Black was an imposter. "What do you want Black?" He questioned.
"Your heart~"
Red was taken aback. Of all the things he expected to happen on the ship, he didn't expect to be flirted with. He didn't let it show that he was surprised though.
"Very funny, what do you actually want"
"Friendship?"
Red laughed. Having an alien as a friend was surreal to him. But then again, his son is an alien...
"Alright, fine. We can be friends, but that doesn't mean I won't eject you if necessary."
"Oh don't worry, you won't need to." Black said. "So how did you end up here in the first place?"
Red hesitated before saying "You don't need to know that information."
"Oh come on~ if we're friends you might as well tell me about yourself. Here, I'll go first. I'm a 27 year old shapeshifter that used to live on a planet about 300,000 miles away from here. The planet had limited resources so it's surviving inhabitants spread out across the Universe in search of a new home. Cyan had been my best friend since we were children so we decided to look for a new home together. Then when we found this place, we decided to see what it had to offer. To us, all you were was food." Black explained.
Red was defeated. He felt like it would rude if he didn't tell him anything about himself when Black practically told him half his life story. "I guess I'll tell you a little bit about myself." Red cleared his throat. "The reason I ended up joining this death game was because I had always been interested in space. Me and my husband had gotten a divorce about a year ago and he was the one who got to take care of our son most of the time and I took care of him during school breaks and weekends. Somehow I was allowed to take my son into space with me and on the way here I learned that my son was an alien."
"Oh, that must have been hard for you." Black remarked.
"Which part?"
"All of it."
"..."
"..."
"So you're single?" Black asked.
"Yeah." Came Red's response
"So you're gay?"
"...Yeah...you?"
"Yeah..."
All of a sudden, the alarm sounded. An emergency meeting had just been called.