Child of Time- Ch. 5

The Child of Time

By JD1

Rating: PG, Mystery, Romance
Disclaimers in Chapter One

Author’s Note: I really appreciate all the reviews (but that doesn’t mean to stop). There was some confusion to a comment I made in my last A/N, I already have the first eight or nine chapters written, I’m just typing them out, not writing them. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this next chapter.
Summary: What happens when the mystery of the Vulcan by is discovered? How and why?

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Chapter 5

The Middle

**On The Planet**

For almost twenty minutes, the two had been down on the planet, working; scanning, looking, and doing anything to avoid any unnecessary talking.
Suddenly Selack said, "Commander, if I offended you in any way with my question about T’Pol, please tell me."

"No, no, kid. It wasn’t yer fault. It’s… it’s just you were right on the money when ya said that. I guess… I was just unprepared." Trip told him. Selack just flashed a quick smile and nodded his head soberly. "What?"

Selack shook his head. "It is nothing. It’s just… my father used to call me kid. I…" Selack just shook his head.

"What happened t’ ‘im?" Trip immediately regretted asking afterward.
Selack took a deep breath; he looked like he was on the brink of crying, but, like all his emotions, he covered it up. "He died, shortly before I went to the monastery."

"I’m sorry." Trip said, obviously trying to comfort him, but he had no idea how weird that had just sounded to Selack. Selack just nodded and continued working. After along pause, Trip asked, "What was he like? Your dad?"
Selack looked over at him, eyes actually shinning from the tears forming. "He was a very skilled engineer. He taught me all I know."

"That explains a lot."

Selack nodded, then continued, "To be honest, he was a lot like you in many ways."

"Well, he must have my hair," Trip teased, messing up Selack’s hair, getting a weird expression from him.

"You have no idea," Selack mumbled under his breath. "He had a fascination with the human race. It was where I got mine, as well. He even… occasionally ate meat. I, however, never learned to do that." Selack concluded, getting an amused looked from Trip.

"And yer mum?"

"She… is a lot like T’Pol. She is a scientist, because of her I became somewhat of a scientist myself. She, too, has a fascination with humans and worked with some before. Most other traits are Vulcan ones you are quite familiar with." Selack explain, "And you parents?"

The next half hour passed much the same. Swapping info about one another, old stories that happened to them, basically they ‘bonded’. By the time they left, they had more stable ground between the two of them.

**Decon Chamber**

After having put on some kind of gel like substance, Dr. Phlox had allowed the two out but held Selack back to see how he was recovering from his earlier injuries.

"Now this will just take a second," Phlox said in his usual cheerful voice, to his patient on the bio-bed. But his smile quickly turned to confusion when he looked at the results of the scan.

"Is there something wrong?" Selack asked the Doctor.

"I’m not sure. These readings can’t right." Phlox complained to himself, as he seriously considered hitting the console.

Selack hoped off the bio-bed and walked over to Phlox to see what the results were. And they were exactly as he dreaded; his DNA registered as half Vulcan and half Human. He winced at what he was about to tell Phlox, how badly it could affect everything, yet how he knew this would happen sooner or later. "Doctor, I can explain."

This definitely got the Doctor’s attention, for he looked at him with an expectant expression and Selack knew he wanted an answer. "It is because, I… am half Vulcan and half… Human." He looked down as he stuttered though his explanation. He almost looked like a schoolboy caught doing something he shouldn’t have. Then he lifted his head up with determination in his eyes. "You can’t tell anyone. And I mean no one, not even the Captain, it would jeopardize everything." Emotion filled his voice and Phlox could hear the desperation.

"You have my word as a doctor. Now what would it be jeopardizing?" Phlox inquired.

Selack sighed, he would eventually have to tell. "I’m… I’m from your future. About 21 years. You see my great, great granddaughter in the 28th century is of vital importance to ending the Temporal Cold Wars. Now, obviously, I can’t have a granddaughter without parents to have me, so the Suliban in this time are trying to keep my parents from ever getting together. People, I believe you know Daniels," Phlox nodded, very interested with the story, "He brought me to their time, briefed me, and sent me back to this time to help protect my parents at all costs, without my own death." Selack paused, most likely done telling him anything more without being asked.

"So may I assume if you came, well, asked to stay aboard, than your parents are here?" Phlox asked, getting a nod from Selack. "Then may I also assume, that since T’Pol is the only Vulcan aboard, she is your mother?" Again Selack nodded his confirmation. "Then your father would have to be someone on the crew, who is human, and has fair skin and blonde hair. Well that narrows it down to about a, oh, quarter of the crew. I don’t assume you're going to tell me, are you?" As Phlox silently hypothesized, Selack just sighed. "Well, then," Phlox continued, "Just out of curiosity, if you’re half human, do you ever smile, or laugh, or show any emotion at all?"

Selack smile broadly at that. "Yeah, of course. I take much after my father, I just don’t show it when I’m pretending to be full Vulcan."

Phlox should have seen this before, the fact he was half human, and that was nagging him since. "One last question. How come I couldn’t detect the human DNA earlier?"

Again, Selack smiled, amused by both the answer and his curiosity. "In between briefing and departure, I was injected with something that would mask my human DNA. Apparently something in the mines must have reversed the effects."

The Doctor till looked confused by something but did not say anything. "You want to know why they would have me arrive and be attacked at the monastery, don’t you?" Phlox nodded, "That was not intentional. I was supposed to take a shuttle to meet up with Enterprise, but the Suliban found out I was there and attacked."

"Why did you lie about not knowing who attacked?" Phlox asked.

"I didn’t want anybody to know. Besides some one like me really wouldn’t know about them. And besides it would in title an ever more detailed search and I couldn’t have that, you might have found something you shouldn’t have." Selack finished the conversation on that note. A few minutes later the Doctor dismissed him and again promised not to tell.

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If anyone thinks that revealing his secret was a mistake, you will understand why later.

Please R/R I still want to hear want you have to say.

And I’m sorry about the format, I’m trying to fix it but only my other computer let’s me do it the right way and for some reason I did them on this one. Plus my disks aren’t letting me put anything on them, so for the moment you’ll have to be patient. Thanks.

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