Okay, so now it's getting a little fluffy and everything seems kind of unimportant, I know. Just try to think of it as a little dancing bears interlude cause it's nearing it's end, I can feel it. I just happen to be one of those people who needs to fully explain all the characters before just racing through story. No worries, mate.
"Now, I know you don't like the Holodeck too much, but just humour me."
"I'm here, aren't I, Q?" replied Miral, although she wished he'd take his hands off of her eyes.
"Ready?"
"As I'll ever be."
He took his hands off of her eyes. "Do you like it?"
She laughed at the sight of the winter carnival in full-holographic-swing.
"Sorry it had to be the Holodeck and not the real thing. You would have enjoyed the real Brunalli light festival a lot more, but my father, er- altered, my powers. I did my best to make it look real, but there's only so much you can do with light energy."
"It's brilliant."
"Come on, lets go for a luge."
"All right."
He laughed and flashed his terrific smile before taking her hand and running through the crowd.
A mug of hot chocolate warmed Miral's cold hands while she watched the ice skaters on the pond nearby. Q had shown her everything and more at the carnival and she had to admit, that she had really fallen for him. He was walking back to the little table for two when it happened: the holographic figures flashed out of existence and a desperate voice sang out over the internal speakers. "All hands to battle stations, red alert. All hands to...."
The comm badge on her chest chirped and the captain's voice half-screamed "Senior officer's to the Bridge." With little or no thought, Miral and Q ran to the Jeffrey's tube hatch at the far end and crawled in. Straight up, to the right, straight up again, left, down, right, up and up again and they would be there.
With a cough and a sputter, the two crawled out next to one of the science stations. With a single glance at the rippling floor, Miral knew what was wrong: they were being pulled through an energetic anomaly and the ship couldn't pull out, it was near structural collapse as the security lieutenant informed them all. Panic was evident over everyone's face as they tried to feign calmness.
Ensign Saka diverted as much power as he could to structural integrity and to the thrusters, the Captain yelled for more, the Ensign yelled back and tapped his fingers to take it from life support, Miral held her breath and Q ran to the Pilot's panel.
Everyone froze as Q tapped the engines forward and pushed them through the anomaly.
"Where are we?"
"Q space." he answered.
Bah ba Baaaaah...