This is a sort of sequel to Skeletons. It picks up about a month after, and shows how the events of that particular few days have affected the crew.

Hope you enjoy it

"Commander" he said gently "Sir." Michael Rostov gently nudged his commanding officer, who had fallen asleep at his desk for the second time today. "Sir" he said more abruptly and louder this time, shaking him by the shoulder.

Trip mumbled something in his sleep, which sounded extremely like "Leave me alone, I didn't do nuthin."

Mike's efforts at waking the Chief Engineer hadn't gone unnoticed among the rest of the staff in the vacinity. He heard footsteps behind him, and looked round to see who they belonged to. They belonged to Ensign Jennifer James, someone he'd been avoiding for close to a month now, as had most of the rest of the crew, excluding Commander Tucker of course as he was also receiving the shunning treatment.

No-one knew exactly what had happened when the two engineers had disappeared, or when the away team had gone down to the surface of the planet they were orbiting to investigate. Not even the away team themselves, as their memories had been wiped of the entire incident. Trip and Jennifer claimed to also be suffering from amnesia, but most people had their doubts about the truth in this, especially as the Captain himself seemed to hold those doubts too.

Mike however was grateful at this stage to receive help from anyone who was willing to give it. Commander Tucker was ten minutes late for a status meeting, and he knew he'd get the blame if he was late, he had been the one who'd taken the message. He was however unprepared for what happened next.

Jennifer strode up to them and standing just to Mike's right, slightly behind Commander Tucker, and slapped his head sharply from the back of his neck upwards, ruffling his hair up in the process, and clearly said "Upsy daisy Charlie boy this isn't a slumber party." Then strode off purposely back to the station she had been working at, leaving in her wake a stunned and opened mouthed Ensign and a very pissed off Chief Engineer.

The Chief Engineer in question had tried to sit up quickly and had smacked the top of his head on one of the bars sectioning off his little office from the rest of engineering, and a stream of unrepeatable language was now issuing from his mouth.

He sat up, more carefully this time, and blinked away the stars in front of his eyes. He swivelled round in his chair, a murderous glint in his eye.

"Sir . . ." Mike began, but Trip cut him off by holding up his hand.

"Not now Ensign." He said and strode over to where Jennifer had resumed working, but he didn't get too far.

"Sir" Mike had place his hand firmly on his CO's shoulder and turned him round, and was now cowering slightly under his glare. "You're late."

"Late for wha-, oh shit!" he swore loudly and began running to the exit, trampling any poor crewmen that got in his way. Just before he exited he yelled over his shoulder "Thanks Mike!" and ran out of the door.
Not very long, or eventful but enough for a taster, if people respond I'll continue (with some more interesting events, I promise), if not, I won't, obviously. So if you want more press the beautifully clickable purple button below.

(oh and not all chapters will be in the perspective of Rostov, it just seemed to work for this one, and can anyone tell me what his rank is I just guessed, because some say Ensign, some say Crewman, I'm sure they said it on the show once but I just wasn't listening.)