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Stupid Alien... Thing

After a polite good bye kiss on her hand, Chekov left her at her door. She quickly entered the security code and slipped inside the door. Her insides were full of butterflies as she took a long traditional shower. The water washed away the sweat and grim of two days spent in bed. She took the time to comb threw her mane of hair before leaving the steamy cubicle.

Standing in front of her mirror in naught but a towel she smiled as she spun around, flinging water everywhere from her dripping wet hair. She ran her hand threw her hair and for the first time in two days it was soft and silky. She had a feeling that tomorrow she would look, and feel, better by a tenfold.

She hurried to change into her pyjamas and pull out her clothes for tomorrow; her blue short sleeves dress, black under shirt and black boots. Once she was ready for tomorrow, she let herself fall back onto her bed with a sigh. She felt like she was on a cloud and she didn't really want to come down from it.

She couldn't believe what had happened over the past few days. First, she got beat up thoroughly. Then, the whole aliens taking over people thing. Now, this....whatever it was. She felt giddy and hot every time Chekov was around her. She hadn't ever felt this way before and she wasn't one hundred percent sure about what it was. She had ideas but ... she wasn't sure what exactly it was. She knew that she was physically attracted to him and that she was fairly sure she had a crush on him but was that it?

She had only read about this in her text books so she couldn't know from experience exactly how far she went. She knew what she should expect from each stage of attraction but couldn't be sure unless she wanted to test herself with Chekov around, just slightly obvious. She figured that she would just have to wait it out until she figured it out.

"Computer, lightz out," she commanded shifting into a comfortable position.

A very annoying beeping sound woke her up. She moaned and sat up in a quick action, just a little too quickly because her head started to spin and she fell back against her pillow.

"Good morning Ensign Le Fievre," the computerized voice of a woman chimed. The lights all turned on as she had set them when she had started working on the Enterprise. She couldn't help but wince slightly from the sudden change of lighting but at least now she was awake.

She slowly got up, wincing just a bit as her healing body protested the motion and walked over to the chair where she had laid out her clothes on. She quickly pulled them on and went to go splash some water on her face. She ran a brush threw her hair and splash some water on that so that it would curl properly instead of being half flat but still a bit curly. She pulled her hair into a ponytail and pinned back a few of her shorter layers and long side bangs back so they were off of her face.

She looked at the time that was displayed on the lower right corner of her mirror and gasped. She had only 10 minutes to eat and get to the Sickbay for her 6 hour shift. She decided that it was worth the pain to run to get breakfast before her shift. She knew that if she didn't, she would be starving before too long.

She ran as fast as she could manage to the cafeteria. She nodded to the people she knew and when a very excited Russian boy came to talk, she told him that she was running late and couldn't talk. She grabbed a muffin and a coffee and ate and drank them on her way. She managed to get there with only seconds to spare.

"You're late," she heard Bones say behind her.

"Actualy, I waz on time. I waz fifteen seconds early actually," Felicity couldn't help but reply, even if she was a bit of a smart ass.

"Ya ya, show off," she heard him mutter as he walked away.

She smiled and went to check on her things to do list on the panel on the wall. She really didn't have much to do but she was sure that something would happen and they would be working their butts off to get things done. She went around and checked on the patients assigned to her. Everything was normal enough for most of her morning but at about ten in the morning, someone came in with the symptoms of the alien contamination.

Bones came over to her and dismissed her of her other patience so that she could help him instead of him having to break the information to someone else. She took all of the ensign's vitals and sedated him to keep him from acting out.

"Vhat are ve going to do now sire?" she couldn't help but ask once she had done everything he had instructed her to do.

"Well first I have to make sure that the captain knows that there is another one but after that...I guess that we can try the cure I made. I don't know if it will work but ... it's worth a shot," he said going to contact the captain in the Bridge.

When he came back, he had a hypospray loaded with what she could only assume was the test vaccine.

"Here goes nothing," he said before giving it to the sedated man on the table.

They both stood there waiting for something to happen. After a few minutes, Felicity scanned him over again hoping that his heart rate had decreased or that the amount of adrenaline or noradrenalin in his veins would diminish noticeably. Nothing was different, absolutely nothing. She even checked his eyes but they were still black.

"So vhat now?" she said

"I have no idea..." McCoy replied.

"I guezz we'll just have to try again. I can get started if you vant?"she asked softly, sensing that McCoy was currently fairly bummed out.

"Ya you go do that, I'll take him down to where they are holding the other people that are infected," Bones said sounding distant.

"How many people are infected az of now?" Felicity asked after only making it a few steps away from the patient and her superior doctor.

"Counting this poor guy, twenty three," Bones said going to get someone to help take the patient to the holding room.

Felicity sighed and went to the lab to work on the cure for this annoying... thing.