Summary and disclaimer see chapter 1
CHAPTER 6
He was lucky there was no one in the hallways, or else he might have been caught by now. Sulu's door was just a little further...
He buzzed for entrance. For an agonizing second, he thought Sulu wasn't going to let him in.
"Who is it?"
"It's me. Let me in."
"Pavel? I thought you were in sickbay." Sulu couldn't keep the surprise from his voice.
"I am. Let me in before I have to go back."
"I'll take it under consideration."
"Let me in... or I'll huff and puff and blow your house down."
Chekov could almost hear the smile in Sulu's voice. "Come." He quickly stepped inside before the door was even completely open. "According to the doctor, your not healthy enough to blow out a candle," Sulu continued.
"He's wrong."
"Then why that?" The helmsman nodded toward the sling on Chekov's arm. "Decoration?"
"Don't ask. I can't get it off without two hand's either. Don't ask me how many times I tried; I lost count."
"And the limp?"
"Ah... hrrghpm." He mumbled his inadequate explanation. Sulu smiled.
"Hey, it's not me you have to worry about. Uhura's the worry-wart, remember?" The door buzzed again. "Come," he said, without thinking.
Dr. McCoy stormed through the doorway, a triumphant gleam in his eye. "Ha! Didn't think you could get away that easily, did you?"
Chekov cast a long-suffering glance over his shoulder as McCoy herded him through the door. "One of these days, I'm going to transfer to security so I can escape these situations," he said. He disappeared around the doorway.
"How's the reteaching of the Rodt'hir coming, Admiral?" Kirk asked the viewscreen. Admiral Kabrini sat at her desk on the viewscreen. "Very well, actually. All we needed to do was give them a purpose, and they adopted it as their own. They should be ready to join the Federation within the next couple of years. At least, they won't turn homicidal."
"That's very nice to know. If there's nothing else...?"
"No. Kabrini out." The view returned to the stars as they appeared from warp speed. Traveling between stars, exploring strange new worlds- that's what it was all about. He could do without the "new life, and new civilizations" for the moment. Just give me a ship and a star to steer by he thought.
The Enterprise sailed on, devoid of murderous monsters.
