Malcolm was supposed to be overseeing the repairs onboard Enterprise. Supposed to be. He was actually sitting in a shuttlepod, along with Hess, three other engineers and Travis in the driving seat. He'd fed them some lie about helping oversee repairs to weapons systems onboard the Endeavour.

He's sorted out the work schedule and handed it over to Rostov. After all Malcolm wasn't an engineer it wasn't his job to do repairs, to anything other than the armoury anyway. That was what he was telling himself at least.

Malcolm began to follow the others out of the pod after they'd landed when his communicator sounded. His hands fumbled to open his pocket and pull it out. He stared at it for a moment.

"Lieutenant!" he heard Travis yell from outside.

"Coming Travis!" he replied, quickly storing his communicator under the seat with the ration packs.

"T'Pol."

"Yes Captain."

"Have you seen Malcolm?" he asked her "I need to have a word with him." More like two he thought court-martial.

"No sir I haven't. I have been assigning guards to the Resistance personnel."

"Surely assigning the guards should have been Malcolm's job?" he questioned.

"Yes sir, however he asked me to do it for him. He did not seem happy about co-ordinate the repairs." She reported.

"Okay, thanks T'Pol." He said and left her to it.

He made his way to the make shift landing sight where pods ferrying repair teams had been landing and leaving. He smiled at Travis as he emerged from shuttlepod two, and walked over to greet him.

"How's it going Travis?"

"Brilliant sir, I always wanted to be a taxi cab driver." Archer laughed.

"Who did you just deliver?" he asked.

"Em, Lieutenant Hess, Crewman's Smith and James and Ensign Astor sir." he paused "Oh and Lieutenant Reed." He added. Not for the first time today, Archer stopped in his tracks.

"What?! Lieutenant Reed was in the shuttlepod you just took over to the Endeavour?"

"Yessir." Travis said wide eyed, realising he'd done something wrong. "Sir I'm sorry, was Lieutenant Reed not s'posed to-"

"No Travis he wasn't. If you wouldn't mind," he turned to face shuttlepod two "you've got another passenger."

"Yes sir!"

It had to Malcolm's lucky day. The escort for the team he'd come with was none other than Emma Tucker. When she had handed out assignments to the others, and they had gone on their way she turned to Malcolm with a smile on her face and whispered "The Captain, Commander and Crewman Tucker are in the command tent, over there" she pointed, then smiled at him warmly, "it's nice to see you Malcolm, I hope you'll stay and catch up with some of us later after our shift?" she asked.

"Sure thing, thanks Em." He said and made his way to the structure she had indicated.

The camp site was chaos, or so he thought. There seemed to be no clear pattern in the way the tents were laid out, and they were far to close to the ship in his opinion. He turned to face the enormous fallen ship before he entered the tent. She was beautiful. Almost as beautiful as Enterprise he thought.

He turned to face the opening of the tent. Clearing his throat loudly he entered.

Trip was sitting on a chair at the central table, with his feet on the table scrolling through something on a padd. Jennifer was sitting at a table in the corner picking through something on a food tray in front of her . The distraction from her meal sat opposite her at the table.

A young girl with dark blonde hair, almost brown. A pale complexion, like her mother. She was lean, but healthily so, and slightly shorter than Malcolm. Her eyes were neither the bright blue or the dazzling green of her parents, but a deep almost sea green.

Jennifer shifted her gaze towards him and smiled warmly. Looking up to see what her mother's attention was focused towards instead of her, Kate saw Malcolm and squealed.

"Ah! My Ears!" he complained in mock pain, as she hugged him.

"Uncle Malcolm!" she squealed again after pulling away.

"Less of the Uncle." He grimaced. "People might think I'm related to you people." She hit him on the arm.

"And what would be so bad about that?" she demanded.

"Oh nothing, nothing at all." he replied sarcastically.

Trip swung his legs off the table and got up to greet Malcolm. "Hey Mal, not that I'm not glad to see ya', but what are you doing here?"

"I came for a visit." He said evasively taking a seat at the centre table. Trip took his previous seat and eyed Malcolm curiously. "Look I just wanted to come over and say hi to a few familiar faces, you know-"

"Have a look at the weapons systems, and take a gander at the new EM force field we installed round the warp core in case of emergencies?" Trip finished for him.

"Well yeah . . ." Trip laughed and Malcolm smirked. "Am I that obvious."

"Pretty much." Jennifer said taking a seat opposite Malcolm. He flinched slightly as her foot brushed his as she sat down.

"Want anything to eat or drink?" Kate asked him.

"No thanks Kate." He said kindly. "I hear you're doing well in engineering?" She smiled and nodded. "Just like your parents, I always thought you'd do well in the armoury myself." He muttered.

"This way I get to do both, when something needs repairing in the armoury I go and repair it, but I still get to work with the engine." She said enthusiastically.

"Speaking of" Trip said "I think your break is over now Crewman."

"Yes sir." She said with a smile and turned to leave. "See you later Malcolm?"

"Of course." He smiled as she left. "How are the repairs going?"

"Slowly." Trip grumbled. "I'm beginning to wish I hadn't recommended working together, every engineer we get over here is to fascinated with how we got a warp six engine than fixing it." He sighed.

"Well you can't blame them, you'd be just the same."

"Yeah can't argue there I s'pose." He conceded.

"I just wanted to see how you were doing." Malcolm said softly.

"I can show you round if you want."

"You know what I mean." He replied seriously.

"Look Malcolm, it's just going to take a while to sink in that I'm not the chief engineer on Enterprise anymore, apart from that I'm just peachy." He said stubbornly.

"Trip-" he began but was interrupted.

"Sorry to interrupt sir."

"That's OK, go ahead Ensign." Trip said in full Captain mode.

"Yes sir, Captain Archer is here, he says he's looking for one of his officers and he's being quite . . . persistent." The young Ensign told them.

"Thank you Ensign I'll be right there." Trip told him and nodded for him to leave. Getting up he looked at Malcolm. "I'm guessing you didn't have permission to come over here?" he asked.

"Not exactly." Malcolm replied as he too got up."

"Didn't think so. C'mon then." He said leading the way out of the tent with Malcolm and Jennifer following closely behind.

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