" Captain!" "Uhura has found one of the intruders on the 5th deck in the Medical Supply room!" cried Sulu turning around to face his Captain.
Kirk immediately clicks the white knob on his chair's panel.
"Security to Deck 5 in the Medical Supply room." "An intruder has made their way there."
"Communication Officer Lt. Uhura is in danger." "Phaser weapons must be on stun I want this person alive." shouted Kirk over the intercom releasing the intercom knob.
Kirk flew out of the Captains chair and directly headed for the elevator shaft doors.
"I won't allow another unnecessary death on my hands!" barked Kirk dashing through the sliding doors and whisking away.
"I'm going too!" cried Ceilia sprinting to the shaft.
McCoy quickly tried to grab her back, but sadly she was already carried away.
"Girl's are too much trouble!" groaned McCoy staring at Mr. Spock anxiously.
Uhura standing nervously over the wall intercom replaces the scene.
The intruder was not going to have it easy that's for sure. Her eyes turned away from the intercom and faced the man howling over his shins. Who was he? Certainly she didn't want to find out, and quickly dashed for the doors.
"NO!" howled the tall dark man lunging at her with his whole body.
With a swift tackle Uhura fell to the floor; his immense body hovering over her.
"Let go of me!" shouted Uhura pushing his chest with all her might, her fingernails digging deep into his silver jumpsuit.
"I don't know who you are, but your not meant to be here!" screamed Uhura again kicking her legs with might.
"Listen please!" pleaded the dark handsome man lingering in front of her.
His hands wrapped around hers, and she was soon out of possibilities to get out. She froze up and had to forcefully look back at his dark eyes.
" I am Charlie!" wheezed the man, pushing his body harder on her chest.
"You're crazy!" "Charlie is nine!" shouted Uhura hearing footsteps coming closer by the second.
"Lieutenant!" hollered the three Security Officers instantly opening the sliding doors.
Standing over Lt. Uhura was an unknown man forcefully pressing his chest against her body. Uhura could barely even breathe out a" help" from her mouth.
One of the security officers dove out and pushed the man off of the Lieutenant, and with a thud the mysterious man toppled over on the floor.
"Lieutenant!" shouted two of the officers pulling her off the floor.
"I'm alright, but grab that man!" coughed Uhura pointing back to the man on the floor.
"I'm not dangerous!" "I'm Charlie!" roared the man again.
"I'm going to stand for this!" bellowed the supposed Charlie, grabbing the officer by his waist and pounding him against the wall. The officer's body bashed up again the metal beams forcefully. The second security officer thrusting himself on Charlie's back reeled him away from the injured officer.
Uhura quickly looked through the medical supplies, and grabbed one of the hyposprays for one the hallucinating patients on board.
She ran and jabbed it quickly in Charlie's arm.
"AHH!" screamed Charlie throwing the officer off his back.
The third officer pulled out his phaser weapon, and shot out a single stun phaser at Charlie.
"NO!" yelled Uhura diving for the officer's arm.
Too late! The phaser beam had already blasted the, by now, delirious man. Stunning an unconscious man can be fatal.
Charlie let out a big holler, as his body plummeted to the floor.
The Medical doors skimmed open, revealing Kirk and Ceilia on the other side.
"CHARLIE!" cried Ceilia running past Kirk and Uhura.
Ceilia's arms picked up the heavy handsome black man from the floor. Her eyes flooded with tears.
"Charlie!" "I'm right here!" cried Ceilia stooping her head over his face.
"He's still alive!" said one of the officers feeling Charlie's pulse.
"Captain I didn't…"wheezed Uhura pulling her hands to her mouth.
"It's ok Lt." "Please go back to your post." answered Kirk going over to the wall intercom.
Kirk presses the white button and says.
"Bones please meet me at Sickbay, one of the children is slowly dieing." repeated Kirk with a whiff of sadness releasing the intercom button.
"Officers take Charlie to Sick Bay immediately." replied Kirk pulling Ceilia from the floor.
"Let's go Ceilia your friend will need you there when he wakes up." smiled Kirk holding her hand quite strongly.
"I understand Captain, but please tell your men to be on the look out for Dana."
"I don't want her hurt too." sniffled Ceilia glaring at Kirk with her deep colored eyes.
"Already put that through to Sulu, now come on we must go." Said Kirk pushing through the gliding doors with Ceilia.
The location transformed from the Medical Supply room to Sick Bay.
On the other side of the doors were McCoy and Nurse Chapel arranging the medical instruments for Charlie, who was laying on the medical stretcher moaning in unbearable wails.
"Number one on my list is to shut his wailing!" barked McCoy pulling out his medical tricorder.
"Jim!" " You know Charlie could have DIED if an Officer shot ONE more stunning phaser beam at him?" howled the troubled McCoy snatching a scalpel from Nurse Chapel's hands and quickly making a slight incision in Charlie right temple.
"Yes I know." said Kirk staring back at Charlie.
Quickly as he cut into the flesh, McCoy pulled out a tiny medical stimulator and placed into the slot in his temple.
"He's fine now." said McCoy placing the medical scalpel and tricorder on the medical tray.
"The stimulator should be enough to keep his brain from losing consciousness again, at least until his body is well enough for me to operate on his brain." sighed McCoy sewing up the cut.
"Nurse, take over." yapped McCoy leaving Charlie's bedside.
"But he's in a delicate condition if we do something to upset his state he could fall back to a comatose state." answered McCoy staring a Ceilia.
"Thank you!" screamed Ceilia jumping on the Doctor with glee
He saved Charlie. A most wonderful man he was.
"You saved his life!"
"You are extraordinary McCoy!" chuckled Ceilia flying into his arms once again, her arms squeezing his chest really tight.
"You know, your not a little girl anymore?" stammered McCoy staring at Ceilia's rosy cheeks.
"And?" "What's so wrong with hugging you Doctor?"
" I really like you anyways." smiled Ceilia revealing her pearly white smile out from her pink lips.
"B-b-b-ut." "You can't say that!" stuttered McCoy his face turning quite red.
"I'll say whatever I want to Doctor." exclaimed Ceilia pressing her head full of brown locks onto his chest.
"I see you got an admirer there Doctor." said Nurse Chapel a slight glint of glee poking through her face.
McCoy couldn't help but give Nurse Chapel an unnerving stare. Seriously, ever since hiring Nurse Chapel she always liked to pry into his own business. Typical of women!
BEEP. A loud sound came from the wall intercom and Spock's booming voice emanated of the walls.
"Captain." "Sulu and I have a found a series of paths underneath Helix." "Apparently there are many more than expected."
"Celia would be efficient to indicate which one path to take." echoed Spock through the voice intercom.
Kirk walks over and presses his hand on the white intercom dial.
"Right Spock." "We will come right up." stated Kirk liberating the button from his palms.
" I'll do all I can to help." replied Ceilia coming out from McCoy's arms.
"I'll do anything to help my people Kirk, anything." answered Ceilia clenching blue jeweled dress tightly, gazing at Kirk's composed distinction.
"I'm glad." replied Kirk trying to reassure Ceilia with his smile once again.
Nothing in the world compares when, in the time of need, a person helps you along the way, a miraculous stranger to pull you out from your nightmares. She would do anything for the crew; their kindness surpassed the millions of people she has ever come to know. Whatever sweet memory Kirk placed in such an open heart in him surely worked. Kirk was the kinder than she of knew him to be.