After a hard day's work down in engineering setting his plan in motion of how he was gone get back to his ship he went back to his quarters for a well deserved sleep. When he entered Erin and Hoshi were already there and dinner was laid out on a table. It then hit Trip that something was a little odd. After calculating in his head his age, Hoshi's age, and Erin's age he estimated that Hoshi would have only been about 14 and he would have been 19 when they gave birth to Erin! This didn't seem right so Trip instantly moved over to a computer.

"Something wrong hon… Trip?" Hoshi asked as she watched her alternate husband moving away from the dinner. They had prepared him what they knew as being Trip's favourite meal…. Deep pan-fried catfish – his mother's recipe. They thought that if their Trip liked it so much, then surely this Trip would too.

"No. I just need to check up on something. I'll be with you in a minute." The two women watched as he went into the crew personnel files and found what he was looking for. It kind of shocked him that actually the Trip Tucker he was replacing was about 42 and Hoshi was 38! That explained why Hoshi did look a bit older then the one he had left behind who was around 26 years old. He took a heavy sigh and moved back over to the table.

"Looks delicious. You get you meals sent to your quarters?" Trip sat down in the chair opposite Hoshi.

"Only if we ask chef really nicely." Trip looked at the food and then at Hoshi, then Erin and realised he wasn't really that hungry. Well he was hungry… just he was missing his ship…. He wanted to get back to his ship where Hoshi was a COMM Ensign, Archer was the captain and T'Pol was a science officer.

"Look, err. It looks really nice, but err… I'm not that hungry… I should get back to work on the data PADD and everything try and get myself home. Make sure everything is gonna be correct and that I haven't missed anything out." Trip quickly stood up and without a word from Hoshi or Erin he left the room. The two women sighed.

"That definitely proves he's not my dad." Erin said glumly as she toyed with her fork and a piece of catfish. "Do you think someone should do and talk to him?" she looked at her mother who was sighing heavily.

"I don't know sweetie." Hoshi stood up and moved round to stand behind Erin and the two of them were soon hugging. Erin was deeply missing her father and wanted him with her right now. She found it hard to believe that the Trip she had been speaking to for the last day wasn't her father and from where he was from she didn't even exist, and that scared her.

Trip never returned back to the room that night. Instead he found his way to some empty guest quarters and stayed the night there. The next morning he was going to set his plan in motion. The ship was going to cross back over the anomaly that had sent him there in the first place and send a data PADD through, hoping it was going to end up on Enterprise and not out in space. The PADD was going to contain some information about how the two Trips could be switched back.

The ship began to cross the area where the anomaly was. Trip was ready along a corridor with the PADD. The wave soon came speeding towards him and it soon hit him, knocking him back and into a wall. Archer and Hoshi were with him and when he became conscious again they helped him stand up.

"Did it work?" Trip asked slightly dazed and he was helped onto his feet.

"Well the PADD's disappeared I can't see it anywhere."

"That's good." He replied slightly shaking his head and taking slightly deeper, longer breaths, as he moved his arms in order to say to them 'I don't need your help standing up'.

"Do you need to go to sickbay?"

"No I'll be fine." He'd only said that because he wasn't too comfortable with the fact that it would be Travis treating him. He'd gotten use to Phlox's weird but effective ways of healing and now the thought of normal ways was just a little shocking to him. He was missing Phlox, he was missing his Captain, but then most of all he was probably missing T'Pol, the fact that here he was married to Hoshi was unnerving to him. Sure she was a beautiful woman, and a human, but his relationship with T'Pol had sparked a lot more since entering the Delphic Expanse. He knew he loved her, but he just couldn't find the courage to actually tell her himself. He was also worried if T'Pol felt the same way about him or not, because she was a Vulcan she wasn't showing any signs of emotions like that for Trip to be able to notice. Right now he wanted to have a session with the Vulcan Neuro Pressure, but he wanted it with his T'Pol, not this other T'Pol that he had spending a little bit of time with working on the route home.

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Lieutenant Malcolm Reed was having a nice little stroll along the corridors on C deck, making his way to the Mess Hall for breakfast – toast with marmalade – that was his favourite and he was looking forward to it, unless someone else had beaten him to the last plate, which often happened. And when that happened, Malcolm would get slightly annoyed and had to make do with soggy cereal as the milk had already been poured over it. 'Why wouldn't they supply little jugs of milk?' Malcolm always thought to himself when the situation arose. He turned a corner and instantly he spotted a PADD lying in the middle of the floor. No one else was around so he want over to it, picked it up and began to read it. What he read instantly interested him and he made his way to the bridge, forgetting where he had been headed too. But what he had found was more important than indulging himself in breakfast.

The doors slide open and Malcolm jumped out moving over to Archer as quickly as he could without going into a run.

"Captain!" Archer turned round to face his Armoury Officer.

"What is it Malcolm?" Archer replied as he stood up.

"I found this data PADD along a corridor. It's from Commander Tucker." Trip looked up from his engineering station. Archer looked over at him. A noise made Archer look back at Malcolm. "I haven't had breakfast yet sir." Archer nodded slightly as he took the PADD from Malcolm and began to read it. The tactical officer then began to rub his stomach as it growled even more.

"I haven't touched any PADDs since I've been here." Trip stated as he walked over to the Captain and the Armoury officer.

"You mean it's from our Trip?" Malcolm had a small smile on his face.

"That's my guess sir." He passed the PADD to Archer and he began to read it. Most of it said what they already knew…. That Trip Tucker was in a parallel universe and only he switched because everyone else was different rank and position on the ship. Then they cam to the interesting bit…. The bit telling them how to put everything right.

"What's the time?" Archer asked as he looked around the bridge waiting for an answer.

"It is 14:28."

"Hmmm… that means we've got… 3 hours and 32 minutes." He turned to the Trip standing next to him. "Wanna say your goodbyes to everyone?"

"Sir?" Trip asked looking a little confused. Archer help up the PADD as he spoke.

"It seems your ship has devised a way to get you home. We're to follow these instructions precisely or it won't work." Trip sighed.

"So… What do I have to do?"

"You and Hoshi are to be walking along this corridor." Archer moved back into the situation area and brought up the corridor in question. Trip, Malcolm and Hoshi all listened intently to the instructions. Noting what each of them were going to have to do. Before moving into the situation area Malcolm called the galley and asked chef to bring up some breakfast for him. It soon arrived – toast with marmalade, coffee and some cereal of some sorts. The steward also brought up some coffee and tea for the other members as he only found it fair – especially for the captain.