A/N: This is set just after the events of North Star (When i wrote this fic i had only seen the episodes up to the Season three episode "North Star" - although i have now also seen "Similitude" - which was the best one ever - of course i'd say thatc asue it was about Trip!)

2 months ... 2 months had passed and they had still found no sign of anything. The only thing they had found were a couple more of the spheres, creating the gravimetric distortions that were the result of the anomalies. Lucky these ones hadn't been too bad and not a lot of damage had happened on the ship. So the crew, obviously, were getting a little bored with life on the ship. Movie night was now not just on Tuesday, but every night – in attempts to keep the crew's moral up…. Unfortunately Trip's idea to make it every night wasn't really working, and they were showing repeats most nights and so not many people turned up to them. Plus also the fact that now some of the films left in the database were children's films… like 'Aladdin' and 'The Lion King' and they didn't appeal to the adults.

Both he and Captain Archer were walking down a corridor on D deck together, Porthos following closely behind his master. They soon came to a hatch and Trip opened it up. Archer turned to his beagle and told him stay, which he obediently did and sat down.

"These are the relays that were fused in the last run in with an anomaly." Trip said as he looked inside, trying to find exactly which of the power relays it was that had been damaged.

"How long will it take you to repair it?"

"I'm not sure. Depends if I can find the damn thing or not." He said, still peering inside. There was no sign of any damage, but the sensors both down in engineering and on the bridge reported that there was some damage there.

"I'm sure you'll find it soon enough. You always do." The two men laughed. Archer looked down the corridor and immediately noticed that the corridor was an odd shape, and the odd shape was making its way towards the two senior officers. That only meant one thing… Anomaly. Archer quickly grabbed Trip and tried to pull him out of the corridor to avoid what was advancing towards them, Porthos saw what his master was doing and quickly followed him. The wave came along so fast that it hit Trip and he was sent flying down the corridor and fell right into the wall, landing on the floor unconscious with a thud.

It wasn't long before he regained his senses and woke up.

"Trip are you all right?" Upon hearing this voice trip was slightly confused. It was a voice he had never heard before. When he fully opened his eyes he could see a beautiful young woman bending over him. She had blues eyes, long reddish brown hair, which was loose, and she also wore glasses. "Trip? Are you all right?" She asked again. Trip looked around him and could see Archer standing just a couple of feet away.

"What happened?" he said groggily as he sat up, the young woman helping him.

"An anomaly hit you Trip, don't you remember?" Archer replied.

"You're lucky you haven't got any broken bones or anything with the force it sent you hitting into this wall." The woman added. Archer bent down and together the woman and he pulled Trip up onto his feet. He looked at the woman, noting that she was quite tall.

"Who are you?" The young woman looked quite stunned at what Trip was saying. She then turned to Archer.

"I think he has concussion." Archer nodded his head.

"I think I agree Ruth." He said. "You'd better get him to sickbay."

"I feel fine Cap'n."

"Captain?" Archer looked rather worried by the way his friend was referring to him as 'Captain'. "Get him down to sickbay immediately." Ruth nodded her head, took Trip by the arm and led him off down the corridor. As Trip looked around he noted that Porthos wasn't anywhere. Porthos had been along that corridor with him and Archer when the Anomaly hit. Trip was exceedingly confused.

When they entered sickbay Trip was rather surprised to see Travis move over and check him over. 'Travis isn't a doctor' Trip thought to himself as Travis put the hypospray up against his neck and injected him with something or other. Looking around he noted here weren't any cages or anything. Just a sickbay. It's like Phlox had never been on the ship, and that's what he was beginning to wonder. Trip then realised what was going on. He was still unconscious and this was all a dream and he'll wake up soon.

"I suggest you stay in your quarters for a couple of days of Commander." Travis said as he placed the hypospray on a table.

"Yeah. I'll do that. Thanks." He jumped off the bed and made his way up to B deck and he entered his quarters. Looking around everything looked normal. This was definitely his quarters. Everything was where it should be. Trip looked around just to make sure. The computer, the bed, the wardrobe, the girl, the bathroom. Trip suddenly stopped and looked at the girl that was sitting in a chair by the computer. She looked up at him and smiled.

"Hi dad." She said and jumped up giving Trip a hug. 'Dad?' Trip thought as he slowly put his arms round the girl to hug her. Immediately she could sense that something was wrong. "Is everything ok?" she asked pulling out of the hug and looking deeply into Trip's eyes.

"Yeah. I just got a bump on the head. One of those anomalies sent me flying along a corridor. Travis say's I just need to stay in my quarters for a coupl'a days." Trip explained as he looked into the girl's blue eyes.

"Good. That gives me the chance to look after you." She turned to move back over to a computer. Her hair was a soft light brown colour and she had blue eyes. Her voice was also like that of Trip's. The wonderful southern accent that hardly anyone could mistake.

"Ah that's not necessary." Trip said beginning to feel an argument coming on with this girl that stood before him.

"Well sure it is!" she said. "After all I do need to look after my dad don't I?" Trip noticed that by the computer there was a bowl of fruit. He moved over to it and picked up a strawberry, popping it into his mouth.

"Yeah. I guess you do." Now Trip knew for sure that this was just a dream. A new woman, he had a daughter, Archer not being captain, Phlox not a doctor and instead it's Travis… all the signs of a dream. Trip turned and sat down on the edge of the bed. Suddenly a voice over the COMM startled Trip as he sat down.

"Tucker to Erin." It was Hoshi's voice. Trip raised an eyebrow without the girl noticing. She moved over to a COMM panel and pressed the bottom button. 'Hoshi?' he thought, 'Hoshi's surname is Tucker?' this dream was turning out to be something rather pleasant.

"Erin here." She replied. 'So that's what her name is.' Trip though. 'This dream is turning out kinda nice. I gotta wife, who just happens to be Hoshi and a kid called Erin. I wonder what else is different.'

"Erin could you please report to the bridge."

"I'm on my way." She moved away from the control panel and back over to Trip. "I'll have to do the nursing thing later. Bye dad."

"Bye Erin." He said as she left the room. As Erin stepped through the door and left Trip realised that she had a uniform on. He noted that her stripes were red, so she must've either taken up engineering or security. 'She looks really smart in that' he though as he moved back over to the bowl and took a couple of grapes off the stalk. He then sat back down on the bed. Taking off his boots trip spread himself on the bed, lying on his back. He closed his eyes and fell asleep.

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"A Parallel universe?" Archer queried as he turned away from the screen in the situation area to face T'Pol who was standing on one side.

"It is a possibility." She replied. "We have no idea what these anomalies can do, plus it is the only explanation I can give for the disappearance of Commander Tucker." She added, staying calm and trying to keep the Captain calm. When the Anomaly had hit the deck where he and Trip were working he had done what he could to get Trip out of the way, but he had been too slow and now Trip was nowhere to be seen. He had completely disappeared.

"So, if he is in a parallel universe, how do you suggest we get him back?" Lieutenant Reed asked from the opposite side of the table.

"I don't know. This kind of problem has never arisen before." She replied. Her hands neatly kept behind her back.

"And what if he's not in a parallel universe. Where do you suggest he is?" Archer asked as he placed both hands on the table and leant on it, looking down at the floor as he spoke.

"He could have been transported off the vessel, but none of our sensors indicated another ship present." T'Pol said, keeping her posture.

"I was watching him the whole time. I never saw a transporter beam activate. He just vanished right in front of my eyes!" Archer declared, raising his voice at his officers stood near him. Travis and Malcolm on one side, T'Pol and Hoshi on the other.

"Well, there is another possibility." Hoshi said, her hands, like Malcolm's were crossed in front of her, and Travis was standing with his hands behind his back, like T'Pol.

"Let's hear it ensign." Archer said looking at Hoshi, hoping she would come up with a better theory than T'Pol.

"The Anomaly could have had some kind of particles in it that has made. Commander Tucker invisible." Archer's heart sank, another silly theory, he was surprised that Hoshi had even come up with an idea like that.

"Invisible?" Archer just couldn't believe what his crew was saying. These crazy ideas that Trip was now in an alternate reality, or he was invisible, he just couldn't believe either of them. Maybe his crew wasn't the brightest there was in Starfleet and he had been wrong to pick each of them.

"Sir, do you have any idea about what's happened to him?" Malcolm asked. Archer looked into the eyes of the Armoury officer.

"No." Replied a distressed Captain as he turned to look back at the screen. Loads of little tiny white dots were on the screen, moving around the yellow blueprint of the ship. It was a birds eye view of the ship, indicating the different rooms and where there were corridors. Each of the dots represented each of the crew, and their names were shown just above the dot. Archer studied each one of them very carefully. 'Where was Trip?' he kept thinking. 'He must be here somewhere.' He said and waiting till he could find Trip's name above one of the little tiny dots. But alas, the name 'Tucker, C' didn't show up. Anywhere.

When the ship had hit the anomaly and Trip had disappeared Archer had ordered a full stop to the ship. So now they were just floating in space, not really going anywhere. Staying in one place they weren't going to move until someone knew where Trip was, or he turned up, or something. He then began to think if Trip as playing a joke on him, after was it was April the First. If this was all a joke it certainly wasn't a very funny one and when Archer finds Trip, there might be hell to pay for the Chief engineer.

"Let's assume for the moment that he is in a parallel universe." T'Pol said, everyone was listening to her, even Archer, even though he didn't really want to. Archer turned back round to face them, looking at each of his crewmembers.

"If he was in a parallel universe." Hoshi began. "Where's the Commander Tucker from the universe that he's in?" Hoshi comment made everyone think for a minute. Archer turned back round to the screen and then noticed something in the vicinity of Engineering. He noticed a white dot with no name above it.

"Maybe he's down by engineering." Archer said, surprised that he was actually following along with this ridiculous idea of the parallel universe. However the more he was thinking about it, the more it was actually becoming a sensible idea, and the actual reason for where Trip's gone.