Of course it's a little different. It always is.

This is short... but the next, in my opinion, is the best scene in the thing. It's called suspense.

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Kate steps out onto the Bridge.

*Remind me never to become Captain.* She looks up towards the tactical station where Tuvok stands, running (yet another) drill. *This is such a dangerous quadrant... Thank God we have him with us.*

Tuvok glanced at the ensign emerging from the Captain's ready Room briefly, apparently just to make sure she wasn't some invading space alien who had just eaten the Captain.

Kate nodded at him civilly in acknowledgement, but he had already turned back to his station. As she walked to the turbolift, a flush of unreasoning anger hit her. *So it's going to be that way, huh? You're going to ignore me and treat me like a piece of mobile furniture for the next month? Even for a Vulcan, that's rude.*

And, in a different part of her mind than the one that thinks about regulations and status reports, a thought emerges. *He is so not going to get away with this.*

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I have the next chapter uploaded. It's in the "Document Manager" thing right now, all nice and ready for me to click that "Create Chapters" thing and give it to you. I am annoyed because I have almost no reviews. Total. The next chapter is under ransom until I get at least one review from someone on this dratted site I have never heard of before. So, go find me one! And review while you're at it, too.