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20 March 2008

A/N: Telepathy will be in Italics or Thoughts. This is an A.U. and does not follow canon.

A Father's Joy

Part 50 Bread Crumbs G

Trip came up to the bridge. He was not a happy camper. He had just been about to learn about Warp 7 engines mixtures when this call had come in. Erica had better have found something very useful for this one. He rubbed his head. He noted Hoshi look away and Malcolm grin. He so got no respect.

"T'Mar to Columbia what have you found Captain?" He asked. His tone was a little stiff. Damn it I have such a headache he thought.

Erica grinned at his grumpy tone guessing she had pulled him away from his engines. "Sir we found some sort of beacon. MY communications officer Ensign Ling thinks it may be Illyrians. We could use Lt. Sato's help in translating it."

Trip's scowl faded at this news. "We will be beaming over Captain. Give us ten minutes."

"Aye sir. " Erica said with a grin.

Trip looked at his Second in Command. "You have the bridge. We will be beaming over to Columbia. Malcolm stay here and keep see if we can find anything else. Hoshi you are with me. I want Centurion Vatiac's option of this device."

She nodded and got up to follow him. The prospect of being on a Human ship with normal environmental controls was most appealing.

Malcolm went to help with the sensors. He was glad to be left here. He still wanted to learn more about these sensors. He was glad the Captain was giving him time to learn. He knew that if there were more beacons they had to find them. This could be the breadcrumb they were all hoping to find. "I wonder if this is the bread crumb."

"What do you mean sir?" crew members asked.

"Bread crumbs a marking of the way home." Malcolm explained.

"Why would one use food stuff? Surly the animals would consume it." The crewmember replied.

"Indeed they do. It is from a children's tale. More of a lesson on what not to do." Malcolm said. He sighed there was no logical way to explain a fairytale.

"I see." The Vulcan said clearly not understanding.

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Trip and Hoshi transported to Columbia and the first thing they both noticed was how cool the ship was. Trip resisted sighing in relief, as he had had no desire to insult his Vulcan officer.

"Permission to come aboard Captain." He said formally.

Erica grinned at him. "Permission granted sir. Please come this way. We set the devise up in my ready room. Ensign Ling is wanted to wait until Lt. Sato was here. She seems to think that there might be some sort of code to open the device. Since she has never dealt with this language we thought it wisest to have an expert look at it."

Hoshi sighed inwardly. She was not certain she could do this. But then again she was the only one in Star Fleet who had studied the Illayian language in depth.

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Jonathan Archer sighed with relief when they arrived home. "Well we survived an other round. T'Pol Would you care to join me in the hot tub. I think we could both use it."

T'Pol nodded the warm waters would be most relaxing. While normally she did not like the water their spa was the one real exception. The waters were warm and soothing and she grown quite used to their therapeutic effects. Besides her mate needed to relax to sleep and this would be a most efficient method.

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Hoshi Sato and Tamar Ling worked together on the device. Within a half hour they were able to confirm that is was indeed a bread crumb. Now all they had to do is translate it and maybe follow it to the ginger bread house that with luck would hold the people they had stranded.

TBC…

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