It'd been 2 days since Jennifer had made her 'great escape'. Unfortunately the Endeavour had jumped straight to warp as soon as Jennifer was aboard, and due to some new technology, origins unknown, although Malcolm had a pretty good idea, they'd managed to mask they're warp trail making it almost impossible to track. Rather than wasting important 'exploration time' Captain Archer had felt it was better to leave them to it for now, he stressed those particular words.

All the reports had been filed away and in the Captain's words they were now all to put this incident behind them, light years behind them.

Malcolm was currently picking through his dinner lazily with his fork, staring a whole through the padd. On the table in front of him. He consequently didn't notice Trip and Travis sit themselves at his table, he didn't even notice their indiscreet attempt to get his attention by clearing their throats, it was only when Trip gave him a swift kick in the leg that the pain brought him back to reality.

"OW! Son of a-"

"Sorry Mal, you zoned out on us then." Trip apologised.

"My apologies." Malcolm said insincerely.

"Sure." Trip muttered.

"So what had your mind so occupied?" Travis answered as he began to dig in to his meal.

"I'll give you three guesses." Trip said. Malcolm scowled as Travis smirked. "I still can't believe that cow shot me!" Trip said angrily.

"Us, shot us."

"Yeah but its not like you didn't get anything to make up for it." Trip said giving Malcolm a knowing look.

"What on earth are you talking about?" Malcolm said tersely.

"I woke up a good minute before you Malcolm, you're not telling me you wear lipstick now are ya'?" Travis raised and eyebrow.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Malcolm said, however the smile tugging at the corners of his mouth gave him away, causing Travis and Trip to laugh.

"Exactly my point." Trip said inbetween laughs. The three men lapsed into a comfortable silence as they ate their meals.

"I still can't believe she shot me."

THE ABSOLUTE END

I wasn't happy with how I left the last chapter, but didn't really have any brilliant ideas on how to change it so I added this epilogue to ties things up. I hope you all enjoyed the story, I appreciated all the reviews you guys gave me, so how about a last review? thanks again.