T'Pol watched in silence as the figure tumbled out of the ship through the smoke and onto the ground. Phlox rushed forwards to help the ailing figure, who, as the smoke dissipated, was identified as a young woman.

She moved forwards to help the Captain and Phlox, but was hit with a wave of intense recognition as she watched the woman on the ground take her final breaths. T'Pol barely noticed the child that Captain Archer held within his arms; she was focused on the pointed ears of the now deceased woman.

Unconsciously, she reached up and touched the tip of her own ear, and knelt down beside the woman. The features were all so familiar, it was like looking at...

A mirror.

Startled, T'Pol jerked back and fell against the cold floor of the launch bay. Phlox looked over with concern, and Lieutenant Reed quickly bent down beside her.

"Are you alright, Sub-Commander?" he asked, uneasiness apparent in his eyes.

"I..." she whispered softly, and looked to the Doctor.

"I see it too." he responded gravely. "Let's get her, and the child, to sickbay."

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Sickbay was cold, and T'Pol shivered as she stood by the make-shift cradle for the baby. Captain Archer was silent beside her, as they awaited Phlox to finish his tests on both the child and her late mother. T'Pol's mind was spinning as she could not shake the feeling that somehow that Vulcan woman was her. A clone, perhaps? She dismissed that idea in an instant; cloning had been banned in conjunction with the Genetic Wars on Earth and few other cultures had the capacity or need for cloning.

What could it be then? Was it just a coincidence, a strange genetic fluke that caused herself and the other woman to look so alike?

Phlox emerged from his small lab then, and she set aside her thoughts for the moment. Captain Archer straightened beside her, as they both anxiously awaited for the doctor to speak.

"I have finished my tests on both the child and her mother, and have found several interesting things," the doctor commenced, "The woman we found appears to share the exact same DNA and genetic markers as you, T'Pol."

Captain Archer eyes bulged out in surprise. "What... how is this possible."

"Well, although this woman is in essence T'Pol, she is missing several key nutrients that are found in every sentient being. Her daughter is missing the same nutrients as well. I have to conclude that, after exhausting every other avenue, she is not from our universe. I believe that she is from the same universe that we visited briefly a year and a half ago."

"How could that be?" asked T'Pol, after a moment, "The anomaly that permitted us through could not have been displaced here."

"Science is your field, Sub-Commander, not mine. I can only confirm to you that there are now somehow two T'Pols, and that your counterpart is now deceased. Which, brings me to my second patient."

The doctor walked over to the small cradle he had constructed from a small incubator and filled with blankets. The girl, who had downy black hair and blue eyes, was staring up silently at them from her bed.

"She is only half-Vulcan, and since it was 'your' child, T'Pol, I ran her human genetic markers through our database, and sure enough, I found a match. She appears to be the child of your counterpart and Commander Tucker's counterpart."

T'Pol steadied herself mentally as she considered what Phlox had just said. This was the second instance in less than six months that she had met one of her and Commander Tucker's supposed 'offspring'. This was indeed a strange coincidence.

While she had been thinking, Captain Archer and Phlox had continued their conversation about what to do with their new addition to the crew.

"I will care for her." T'Pol interrupted abruptly.

Both men turned to face her. "Are you certain, T'Pol?" asked the captain.

"Yes. She will at least be able to recognize a familiar face. Is there anything else, doctor?"

The Denobulan shook his head once, and then bid goodbye to his two visitors. Captain Archer took his leave as well, and T'Pol found herself alone with her new 'daughter'. Slowly she looked down, and found herself looking straight down into eerily familiar blue eyes.

(reference to"Daedalus" and "Daedalus' Children" by Dave Stern)