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Please note. This is a continuation of the story titled, "Perchance to Dream." Please read it first, or you are going to be lost. "Perchance to Dream" is book 3 of this series that spun off of TheDoctorMulder's brilliant story, "Starting Over" (or branch off of chapter 28 of that story.) I encourage you to start there if you have just found this story. Get up to speed. J

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Chapter 1 - In the Med Bay

Rose walked out of room inside the med bay and closed the door behind her. The hallway had ten rooms that could be used for patients. She was grateful for the privacy as she finally found some relief by taking the Doctor's advice and pumped the excess milk out of her breasts. As she walked down the hall, she looked in on the room Logan was in. He lay in a bed with a familiar oxygen tube running under his nose. Legate and Lance were there with him, laughing and telling stories.

"How are you feeling, Logan?" Rose asked him.

He smiled at her. "I'll be alright, ma'am. Doc's making me stay in here for a while just to be sure. He says I have Pressure Poisoning. Was that it?"

Legate nodded his head. "Something like that. Your body just has to level itself out. You pressurized really quickly and depressurized even quicker. You're lucky you were here on this ship. I don't think they can do anything about this on Earth. But, Doc' will have you fixed right up."

Rose smiled at him. "Oh, I have no doubt. Do you need anything?"

Logan smiled back at her and shook his head. "Thank you, ma'am. I'm alright."

Legate teased him. "I'm sure you are about ready for that drink now, aren't you?"

Logan leaned back and laughed. "I'm ready for two!"

Rose laughed at them as she walked further down the hallway. She found the Doctor in the large, main room. He was sitting in a big chair with Genie on his lap. She was reading him a small book. Rose leaned in the doorway and smiled at the scene. Whenever Genie would get the word wrong, The Doctor would bite her ear gently and then whisper the word. She could barely read a sentence because she was laughing so hard. Rose suspected she was reading the words wrong on purpose as part of their little game.

Rose smiled at them. "Now, Genie. You can read better than that. I believe you are just being silly."

Genie laughed as she jumped down from his lap. "I'm going to go read to Logan and make him feel better."

The Doctor smiled at her. "Go ahead. He might like that."

Rose walked over to him as he stood up and patted the seat of the chair, "There you are, my dear. Have a seat."

Rose sat down and sighed. He stood up at the counter in front of her. He was busy mixing some sort of liquids together and putting the medicines into small injectors like he had made Rose. She watched him as he as he made one, and then another.

"How did it go?" he asked her.

"It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm more comfortable now. I'm still as big. But, feel less….." She stressed the word, "endowed."

He laughed quietly at her. He looked over at her and shook his head. "I apologize. I shouldn't laugh at that."

Rose was giggling. "It's alright. How is Logan?"

"He'll be fine. He just got a bit, compressed. He just needs to relax for a bit. I'll let him go in about ten minutes. Everything looks fine."

Rose watched him putting together the injector. He looked around to find a marker and wrote something on it. He turned around and looked at Rose as he blew the ink dry. "Primitive writing utensils. I'm just about over that. Remind me to pick up something decent this week."

Rose smiled at his annoyance. "The things you never think about."

He looked back at her and smiled. "So, dinner? Are we still on for that?"

Rose smiled, "I'll need to get ready. I'd like to change and appear as if I made an effort. Maybe give Sam a feed before we go. Where is he?"

The Doctor pointed behind her. "I put him over there in the cot. He likes looking at the lights on the monitors. We need to probably pick him up something else to lie in while we're there. It will give your back a rest and free up my hands."

Rose smiled. "Too bad we don't have one of those things you lay the baby in and it swings them. Tony had one of those and slept in it all the time."

The Doctor shook his head. "Nah. I don't like those. They are too high from the ground. He might fall out and get hurt."

Rose couldn't believe his words. "He's going to get hurt."

"Not on a goofy thing like that he won't. We can find one closer to the floor and I'll be alright with it. But, not like the ones I've seen. It looks like a ride at Disneyworld."

Rose teased him, "They have seatbelts in them."

"And you don't question why?" He asked her.

She closed her eyes tightly and smiled. "Okay. You make a good point."

He looked seriously at her. "I know I do. I know what I'm talking about. Where did you put….umm…. what you pumped?"

"The small cooler in there. Why?" Rose asked.

He cleaned up where he had been mixing the medicine together and made some notes. "I figure I'll make up a few bottles with it. Let Arla use it while we are gone if he gets hungry. I'll handle that while you are getting ready."

"When will we be there?" Rose asked him.

"We are in orbit now. Been here about six minutes. Gobbo just told me." He turned to her and smiled like a loon. "What would you like to eat?"

She laughed in disbelief. "I have no idea what's here. You know what I like."

"I know what you need. Lots of greasy chips and beer to make your muscles relax. Why are you so tense? You seem worried about something. Have I done something?"

Rose became serious and shook her head. "I need to go get read-"

"Deflecting! What have I done? I'll have to have a think on this. What could you have figured out that I need to confess to?"

He could sense Rose's fear and worry. He turned to her and winked. "You know I'm just kidding. Really. What's going on?"

Rose sighed, "We'll talk about it later. It's not you."

He looked surprised at her. "Really? Cause I can think of a few things." His face broke into a huge smile.

Rose pointed at him. "You better be joking." She turned around and started to walk away from him.

He mumbled loud enough for her to hear him, "That bank I robbed. Those people I kidnapped. There was that woman in Northern Ireland, I think she was a princess….."

She stopped in the doorway. "Oh, shut up."

He laughed at her.

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