Enterprise sickbay: Trip and T'Pol could only look on as Phlox was examining Elizabeth. The worry was more than apparent in Trip's eyes, and T'Pol was showing none of the concern or fear that was tearing at her heart. Their little daughter was dieing, and they both felt helpless. After his last examination, Phlox looked at the two of them. They were his friends, and he could see how this was tearing them apart, even T'Pol. He decided then and there that he had to save this little girl, no matter the cost. He turned and walked across the sickbay to the cabinet where he had specimens in stasis. He turned and looked at the three people standing around the biobed, and his path became clear to him.

"Captain, could you help me a moment."

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Jonathon Archer looked at Dr. Phlox for a moment, and then crossed over the sickbay to where he stood. Neither Trip nor T'Pol noticed his absence; their full attention was on Elizabeth right now. Trip was holding her little hand in his, and T'Pol was brushing her hair away from her face.

"She has your eyes Trip."

"And your ears." he said with a sad smile.

When Jonathon reached him, Phlox looked at him. In a hushed tone, he spoke to him. "I may be able to help her Captain, but their are risks."

"What sort of risks?"

Phlox smiled at him, "The kind of risks that one would take for a friend. But I'm going to need your help Captain."

The two of them looked across sickbay at the couple standing by the biobed. Both of them knew, that whatever the risk, it was worth it.

"What do you need me to do Phlox?"

"First, we need to get them out of here. Then we can proceed."

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Now Jonathon walked over to Trip and T'Pol. "Phlox thinks that he might be able to help her, but he can't start until you two leave."

They looked at him, and Trip spoke for the two of them. "We're not leavin Capt'n, and you can't make us."

Jonathon looked at his old friend now, "Trip, if you want to give her a chance, you'll go to your quarters and wait there. Please."

Trip looked at Jonathon, and then over at Phlox, who was working with a box on the counter. "Save her Jon."

Jonathon looked at them, "If anyone can, its Phlox."

Trip and T'Pol looked at Elizabeth one last time, and then they left the sickbay, Trip had his arm around T'Pol's shoulder.

"Their gone Phlox, now what do you need me to do?"

Phlox looked at him. "First secure the door, then come over to Elizabeth's bed."

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Jonathon locked the door, and stepped over to the bed. He saw that Phlox was loading three hypo sprays. Then he watched as Phlox removed his shirt.

"What are you doing?"

"Do you remember when I was infected Captain?"

"Yes."

"Well, I didn't exactly destroy all of the Nanobots."

"What."

"I placed a few hundred in stasis."

"Do you have any idea how dangerous that was?"

"Yes Captain. But I was planning to study them to see if I could make a cure that would work for Non-Denobulians."

"And did you?"

"Not exactly, but I did find a way to reprogram them."

"So how does that help Elizabeth?"

"Well Captain, I've been comparing Elizabeth's DNA with my records of their son's DNA."

Jonathan remembered Trip's son, and how he had helped them in the expanse.

"So what did you discover?"

"I've found the flaw in the strands. And I can use the nanobots to correct the flaw..."

As Phlox hesitated, Jonathon saw the look in his eyes. "There's a problem, isn't there?"

"Well yes. When I introduce the nanobots into her, they will replicate and begin to make the needed corrections. The only problem is removing them once their done making the corrections. So I'm going to be filtering them out of her by using my livers and spleen, and my body will destroy them as it did before."

" But that could kill you."

" Possibly, but I expect that they will only make me very weak, so I may need a stimulant, to stay conscious during the procedure, that's why I need you here."

Jonathon knew that whatever Phlox needed, he was in for the long haul.

"What do you need me to do?"

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Phlox was attaching a device to his abdomen. The device had two lines of clear plastic flexible tubing coming from it, and ending in a similar device. Phlox then turned and used the first hypo spray on Elizabeth. She closed her eyes, and her breathing became very shallow.

"Don't worry Captain, she's just sleeping."

Now Phlox placed the second device on Elizabeth's chest, just over her heart. Once he was sure it was attached properly, he looked at the Captain.

"Would you pull the other gurney over here Captain."

Jonathon did as he asked, and locked it into place. Phlox climbed on the gurney, and handed the Captain another Hypo spray.

"Please inject this into Elizabeth."

As the Captain did that, Phlox activated the device on his abdomen. "Now we wait Captain."

For the next two hours, the Captain watched as Elizabeth's temperature would go up and then drop a little, and Phlox was beginning to look very pale. Jonathon watched as a clear fluid passed between the two devices, and he knew there was nothing he could do except wait, and give Phlox the stimulant if he asked for it.

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Trip and T'Pol were waiting in her quarters. She was sitting on her bed, but Trip was pacing back and forth.

"Why haven't they called us yet? Maybe something went wrong, maybe Phlox can't help her, and he doesn't want us to know."

"I don't believe that the Doctor would do that to us Trip."

He looked at her, and knew that she was right. He also knew that this was tearing her up inside, but she would never show it. Now he sat on the bed next to her, and she turned to look at him. He could see that despite all of her Vulcan training and control, her eyes were very moist looking. He reached up and brushed a tear from the corner of her eye.

"She's going to be Ok, I just know it."

T'Pol said nothing, she leaned forward and put her head on his shoulder. He gently embraced her, and the two of them sat in silence. The tears running down Trip's cheeks were from both of them.

After a few hours, the intercom in T'Pol's quarters rang, and Trip was bounding over furniture to reach it, T'Pol was at his side.

"Yeah?"

Jonathon was calling them, "Could you come to sickbay?"

Trip and T'Pol were soon running through the passageways of the Enterprise, hand in hand, and neither of them cared who might see them. When they arrived at the door to sickbay, they both stopped just outside of the door. They were expecting the worse, and Trip looked at T'Pol. She nodded her head, and he opened the door. They saw Jonathon helping Phlox onto the Biobed, and they looked at the two of them. Phlox looked like he had just gone ten rounds with a Klingon, and Jonathon didn't look much better.

T'Pol looked at the Captain, "Where's Elizabeth? Where's my daughter?"

Jonathon smiled at them, and pointed to a small crib-like bed in the corner. The two nervous parents went over to the bed, and looked at her.

"How is she Doc?"

Phlox looked at Trip, and weakly smiled, "She's just fine now, and as long as she and her parents obey Doctors orders, then she should be out of sickbay in a day or two."

T'Pol looked at Elizabeth sleeping in the bed, and she felt she had to do something that she had never done before. She walked over to the biobed, and hugged Phlox. All she could do was whisper, "Thank you."