Lucy

Characters: Tom Paris, Harry Kim

Rating: T for drug reference

Spoilers: None

Song excerpts taken from "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by The Beatles

Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek Voyager, its characters, or the song referenced in this piece. I am in no way affiliated with the show.

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Harry entered the holodeck to find Tom standing in the center of the room. He was wearing the most unusual outfit that he had ever seen. Of course, Harry was still in his Starfleet uniform. Tom's outfit consisted of denim pants that were excessively wide at the bottom, a multicolored shirt, and some sort of leather strap on his wrist with a peace sign on it. He really didn't know what to think.

"Tom! What are you wearing???????" Harry questioned in slight shock.

"Bell Bottom jeans and a tie-die shirt. Typical of the 1960s."

"Why?"

"I wanted to try a holoprogram I found in the database. It has to do with some old band called 'the Beatles". I hear that it's pretty intense." Tom sat on the floor.

"Meaning?" He was worried.

"Just try it!"

"Okay…" Harry said suspiciously. He moved to sit next to tom on the floor.

"Computer," Tom addressed thin air, "Begin program." Suddenly, he found himself in a boat. There were five other men on the boat, Tom included, and all had some sort of an instrument. The man with the guitar began to play, and another man began to sing moments later.

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

He couldn't concentrate on the music, however, because his surroundings were so strange. Everything was bright and colorfull. It was all a blur. Then he saw her. A beautiful woman standing on the shore. She walked away. She dissapeared. He suddenly snapped to attention when Tom shook him.

"Harry!" Tom called. Suddenly, they were back in the holodeck. "Are you okay?"

"What happened?" He was incredibly confused.

"You became unresponsive to me. It's like you were in a deep sleep, but with your eyes open! Just after the first verse, too. I'm not sure what happened. Was the color too much?" Tom looked genuinely concerned.

"Can we talk about it later?"

"Yeah, lets get you to sickbay."

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The doctor put down the scanner and turned to address his patient.

"You're fine, Ensign. There isn't anything out of the ordinary in your scans. I just can't explain what happened on the holodeck." Tom stood far from the biobed, genuinely concerned that it was his fault.

"Just out of curiosity, what exactly did you see when you- became unresponsive?" Tom walked closer, wanting to hear about it.

"I saw Lucy, and then she was gone." Tom was confused. Who was Lucy? He would simply have to go back an re-run the program to see.