Child of Time- Ch. 6

The Child of Time

By JD1

Rating: PG, Mystery, Romance
Disclaimers in Chapter One

Author’s Note: Thanks for all the reviews, I appreciate that people are actually reading this. This chapter may seem kind of weird and a little unnecessary, but it really is. Mostly it’s going to connect the last chap to the next few. So bare with me. Enjoy!

Summary: While investigating an abandoned planet, Trip and T’Pol are trapped. Will Enterprise be able to save them in time? (Is it just me or does that sound like it needs one of the over-paid, over-dramatic narrators from Batman?)

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Chapter 6

The Second Difference

A week later, Enterprise found herself at an old planet. It appeared to have been abandoned long ago, scans showed old, collapsed caverns, destroyed and/or decaying buildings, no plant or animal life, and no water sources. Archer, not wanting to miss out on even a dead culture, decided to send an away team to investigate.

Once down there, the four split up into two teams: Trip and T’Pol and Hoshi and Selack. Trip and T’Pol headed towards some of the caverns, while Hoshi and Selack went to study some of the ruins.

"Hey, uh, T’Pol?" Trip asked her, suddenly.

"Yes?" She replied looking at him.

"'Bout the kid, Selack. What d’ ya thing of ‘im?"

"He is a most interesting Vulcan child." T’Pol flatly replied.

"Yea, that’s fer sure." Trip mumbled under his breath. "I mean…" Trip was cut off when an explosion caused the cave to collapse on him.

**About 5km away**

"Did you hear that?" Ensign Sato asked her partner, Selack.

"Yes. It sounded much like an," Selack replied cutting himself off. The two looked at each other for a split second before Hoshi grabbed her communicator. She tried both Trip and T’Pol with no luck, before hailing Enterprise.

"Sir, we’ve lost communication with the Commander and Sub-Commander!" Hoshi yelled over the loud explosion and earthquake caused by it.

"Hoshi, I want you and Selack to get back now! It’s a cloaked ship and we my need both of you to help figure out who they are." Hoshi, schocked, and Selack, with eyebrow raised, looked at each other. After a silent debate they ran back to the shuttle.

Selack immediately activated the thrusters and took off. In flight, Hoshi noticed he was pushing some unnecessary buttons before, "Captain," Selack said into the ships communications. "The ship is bearing 2-3 mark 4."

"Got it," Malcolm said to him before a bright explosion marked its destruction.

"That was a Suliban ship wasn’t it?" Hoshi inquired.

"The Suliban? Who are they?" Selack countered, playing innocent.

Hoshi, not thinking he would lie about that, decided to ignore her suspicions and dropped the matter simply by shaking her head saying, "Never mind."

Selack asked her to run a quick sweep for their life signs, as he took his own scans. He already knew what he had to do with them.

"I can’t find them," Hoshi said, on the verge of tears and Selack knew she thought they were dead.

Selack knew better, so he walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "We will find them." Selack said, resisting the urge to smile and try to make her that much more comfortable. Hoshi simply nodded.

**Sickbay**

The Doctor had given the two a clean bill of health, letting Hoshi leave so she could go help find her friends. Selack, however, remained behind to discuss everything with the Doctor.

Selack was pacing mindlessly across the room mumbling, "This wasn’t supposed to happen either. The Suliban must have found out about my mother and I being on the planet."

"And your father," Phlox added, delighted that he got a shocked look from Selack, but he said it in a very toneless way. "I matched your DNA to all the male crew aboard Enterprise, his was the closest match. Commander Tucker is your father, isn’t he." Phlox stated rather than asked.

Selack had to laugh at that, "My father always said you where very resourceful, I guess I have to give you that."

They remained silent for a moment until Phlox asked something that was weighing heavily on his mind. "You don’t think they’re…. dead, do you?"

A question that hardly seemed to fit Phlox’s usual optimistic personality, but Selack choose to be the optimistic one. "No, I know they’re not dead. They can’t be."

"And how do you know that?" Phlox inquired.

"Because," Selack said with a huge smile, "I haven’t disappeared yet."

That comment was enough to brighten Phlox’s spirit, allowing him to smile. "I guess you’re right."

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Please R/R and tell me what you think.
You know, I bet none of you would have ever guessed it was Trip who was his father.

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