When Trip returned at dusk, Nicole was gone.
Nicole was plain bored, there was nothing to do in this place, at least for the last week she'd been able to talk to Trip, but now he was gone.
When noon had arrived, Nicole took to walking in circles around the cell. When she heard the opening and closing of a door, she stopped and stared at the door of her cell.
She didn't know why she would be expecting Trip, yet she was a bit suprissed when she saw Big and two other companions. He walked right up to Nicole's cell.
He order it to be opened, while Nicole shrank back into a corner. Big walked in holding up a flashlight-sort of object. A blue light switched on. Nicole was only aware of a few seconds where she felt exhausted before she slumped over unconcoius.
When she woke, the first thing the ensign noticed was she was being held to a table by uncomfortable leather-like straps that went around her ankles, knees, wrists and forehead. Faintly, she could heard Big talking, and a beeping noise.
Big stopped and headed toward Nicole, the beeping signaled when she was awake. He said something to another before undoing to strap that held Nicole's head down.
"What do you want?" Nicole said, trying to hide the panic in her voice.
"Did you know, you're the first human we've ever been in contact with?" When Big said more than just a few words, he seemed to take on an accent, it sounded odd for lack of a better word.
Nicole didn't answer him, she didn't know what she would say.
Big continued, "And so I said to myself, 'How much are these humans and my people alike?'"
A door opened and closed, two feet could be heard scurring over to where Nicole and Big were.
"And then the answer hit me, Do to them what we do to our prisoners."
Moments later, Nicole felt a rather thick needle enter her arm, coldness flowed from it and into her blood. Big asked a question, Nicole couldn't hear, but she heard herself start talking, she slipped into somewhat of a sleep, but she was aware that she was talking nonstop. Sometimes the words made sense.
She was telling them everything she knew, from her job on Enterprise, to her most intimate secrets.
It had been hours since Trip had returned to the cell to find that Nicole was gone. He'd paced the cell before having to sit down. He was tired, but he wouldn't sleep until Nicole was back.
No more than 2 or 3 hours after Trip had sat down, the commander heard someone talking, he got up and walked to the cell door.
Minutes later, he saw Big, and 2 smaller Tinarians carrying something. The door to the cell was opened and Nicole was dragged in, she was talking, she stopped only to take a few breaths before continuing.
"What did you do to her?" Trip asked angrily
Big shot him an annoyed glance before locking the door and walking off.
"Nicole?" Trip knelt down beside her,
"Hello, Commander," She said before continuing what she had been talking about, something about her 15th birthday.
"What did they do to you?" Trip didn't receive an answer, Nicole stared at the ceiling, talking. "Nicole. Nicole!"
The ensign stopped, looking at Trip,
"Have I mentioned how lovely your accent is? Big has an accent, so does Malcolm for that matter. Malcolm sure is a hottie. I can't wait to get back to Enterprise. I miss Nick too."
"O'Malley!" Trip yelled, agitated
Nicole closed her mouth, looking hurt that she had just been yelled at.
Silence. Trip actually welcolmed it for once. Nicole had fallen asleep only a few minutes ago.
Trip put his head against the wall, he was too tired to do anything else for a while.