/A.N/ Thanks for all of the wonderful reviews, I loved them. Uh, in this chapter I have like no one to dedicate it to so I guess it's just to say good luck to my friend Katie while she's running for our Valentine's Day dance at school's queen. I'm not gonna be there so, uh, good luck Katie and I'm with yah in spirit. Love Yah! Now what you're here for! On with the story! (
Followed immediately by Dylan and Rev, who had returned a returned a few months ago when he heard about Harper's magog larvae hatching and about Trance's change.

"Harper, what happened to you?" Dylan asked taking a glimpse of Harper's appearance.

"Nothin'." Harper replied not understanding the reason for the question. "Why?"

"Well.Your covered in blood."

"Oh that!" Harper exclaimed now understanding. "Well; do you want the long version or the short version?"

"Short please, Mr. Harper."

"Okie Dokie. Well it went like this, Tyr and I were on the ship lookin' for that girl," Harper explained while gesturing toward the figure on the medical bed. "I found her in the cockpit, unconscious on the floor in a huge pool of blood. So, first I tried to stop the bleeding by puttin' my hand over the hole in her gut. That didn't work. So I picker her up and started, carefully, walking towards the airlock when I bumped into Tyr. He took her and brought her here. And speaking of that, what'd you do? Break into a run the nanosecond you got out the airlock?" Harper finished turning from Dylan and Rev to Tyr.

"Growl" Was Tyr's only response.

"Okay. I'll take that as a yes. I guess I should probably go take a shower and change." Harper said as he looked down at his shirt and headed for the door.

"Good idea and now if your all finished I need Dylan, Tyr and Harper to leave. Rev I could use your help if you're willing." Trance finally intervened after becoming agitated because they were having a mindless conversation while the life a young woman was painfully fading away. (Harper stopped when she spoke).

"Of course I will help you Trance. It's what I do." Rev graciously replied as Dylan and Tyr headed out the door.

"Hey! Wait! Uh.is she gonna be ok?" Harper asked sounding terribly concerned while looking at everyone with those adorable puppy dog eyes.

"I don't know Harper." Trance replied sadly "but I need you to go so I can help her." Harper only nodded in response then left the room, headed for his quarters. Harper walked slowly and tiredly through the empty corridors of Andromeda. 'Today has been a long day.' He thought to himself. Sighing se turned and entered his quarters. As the door closed behind his he walked over to the couch in the main living area and plopped down. He half consciously removed the boots from his, already, tired and aching feet. He rested his aching head on the back of the couch and closed his eyes completely intent on falling asleep, when Andromeda shimmered into existence next to him.

"What?" he groaned out withy his eyes still closed.

"Harper don't you think you should take a shower?" The hologram asked, looking over at her engineer lying on his couch, covered in someone else's blood.

Taking in a deep breath Harper replied, "No" and looked over at Andromeda. He smiled at her shocked expression then got up and walked toward the bathroom. Before he was even there, he began shedding cloths. He first removed the shirt from his tired but wonderfully shaped chest, which was covered lightly with the blood that soaked through his shirt. His arms were covered in dark red dried blood. He removed his belt, unbuttoned, and unzipped his pants; sliding them down over his dark and light blue checkered boxers and his exhausted legs. He turned on the water, took off his socks and boxers, and stepped in. After rubbing the blood from his hands he ran them over his face in exhaustion. Harper proceeded in washing all of the blood from his body and actually managed to wash his hair. Then he just stood in the water, allowing the hot spray to massage his aching back and neck. Harper finished his shower, dried off, pulled out a pair of black boxers out of the slightly hidden cabinet, where he kept a pain in case of an emergence, and put them on. He walked out of the bathroom still drying his hair with a towel. He waked straight into the bedroom, threw the towel into the comfortable leather chair in the corner, flopped down on his bed (after placing the forgotten photo album back under it), and fell immediately to sleep.

Back in Medical:

Trance was running from the young woman over to a counter getting things while giving orders to everyone else.

"Trance her vitals are still falling" Rommie said from beside a console.

"I know! I know!" Trance replied distractedly "Beka. Bring me more nano- inhibiters, would yah?"

"Here yah go." Beka replied handing the item to Trance. They had stopped most of the internal bleeding as well as most of the external, but she has lost a lot of blood and one of her broken ribs had punctured a lung, which in what the nano-bots were attempting to repair. Rev was working on sealing the wound in her midsection while Beka took over monitoring the woman's vitals. Rommie was cleaning instruments and Trance was giving her a stabilizer. The young lady was no longer wearing her blood soaked shirt and shorts. She was now wearing a pair of lightweight white pants, like Harper wears when he's in medical, and she was only wearing a bra over her top half. Trance decided not to put a shirt on her until they were finished dressing her wounds.

"Trance. Her vitals are stabilizing. She'll be fine." Rommie said after peering over Beka's shoulder at the woman's vital signs.