Music, the One Shot

"I don't understand why the Captain needs to put on a Talent Show!" Scotty exclaimed and Emily laughed softly.

"Because it will help the crew unwind. Come here and help me put this up," she ordered.

"Yes lassie."

The pair soon had the proscenium arch up on the makeshift stage. She was the only one with a blue outfit on out of the entire group and was easy to spot. Scotty paused to watch her as she turned to talk to "Cupcake", as he would forever be called in both of their minds.

She only nodded a little at something, then shooed him off. As she turned to Scotty with a smile and gently held onto his arm. "All right, let's go! We've done our duty, now let's practice," she said and Scotty couldn't resist.

He rarely ever played his bagpipes in public; it was something he just didn't do. He had played an old Scottish folk song for Emily because she had asked. He was surprised when she had sung quietly along and with some persuasion on his part, he got her to sing along in full voice.

That was when their illustrious Captain found them and persuaded (ordered) them to be in the talent show.

Which was that night, right now, and they were first.

Scotty almost forgot how to breathe when he saw Emily in the dress she had gotten at the last Starbase for this purpose, the way it accented everything about her and she smiled at him in his traditional ware, his family tartan.

As he played his bagpipes, her voice accompanied in time to the beauty of the sound that came from the song.

"Oh ye'll take the high road and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland before ye. But me and my true love will never meet again, on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lommand…"

And while Scotty played, Emily knew there was no way she could sing without him right there.

A/N- The song she's singing is an actual Scottish folk song written in the 1800s. The title is 'Bonnie Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lommand'. The stories behind the song are actually quite numerous, though my favorite, and saddest, is that a soldier wrote it for his sweetheart, leaving his best friend to go back, to deliver the song to his sweetheart he left behind. And while his friend travelled the true road back to Scotland, the soldier who was left behind and executed returned as a spirit to say his final good-byes. She's singing the chorus, thus it is easy to find if you want more stories and the full lyrics.