Malcolm walked Marlaya back to her quarters in silence. They soon arrived and Malcolm let Marlaya go in first. She turned round to Malcolm who was staying at the door.

"I'll come and see you in the morning if you want."

"Malcolm, could you stay with me tonight? I might feel better if you did, after the way I spoke to Captain Archer." Malcolm was about to say no, but he thought for a second. She was young, hardly knew anybody and hadn't had a very good few days. He looked at her, from her head to her toes. She looked stunning in that dress, how could he say no? He sighed slightly.

"Of course I can. Let me go and get a change of clothes. I'll be back in a few minutes." Marlaya nodded. "Princess?" he asked slightly cocking his head to one side.

"My mother was the Queen of the Tarnisians, upon her death I would take over her place as Queen, but there isn't anything for me to rule anymore." Malcolm put a hand on her shoulder.

"I'll be back soon." He walked off down the corridor and was soon out of sight. Marlaya moved into her quarters, slipped out of her dress and let her hair down. She like the way her hair fell over her shoulders whenever she let it down. She hung the dress up in the wardrobe. She noticed that Vinnie had been round while she was out at dinner and had mended her blue floaty jacket and had brought her some night clothes. They were neatly folded on her bed. She slipped into them and they fitted perfectly. Like Malcolm had said Vinnie was the best there was in Starfleet. She began to brush her hair with a hairbrush that she guessed Vinnie had also brought down. Her blue streaks began to shimmer as she brushed them in the light of her quarters. She had a little wander around the rest of her quarters and examined everything taking note of where everything was. The door soon chimed and it was Malcolm. He had gotten changed in his quarters and he was wearing a black cotton top and trousers, making up his pyjamas. In his arms he had a bundle of blankets, bed sheets and a pillow. He also had his uniform tucked under his arm as well, ready for the morning.

"I'll make up my bed on the floor." He said as he placed the things on the floor

"Just one thing Malcolm." Malcolm straightened up and looked at her.

"What's that?"

"I hope you don't snore!" The two of them laughed. It lifted much Malcolm's heart when he heard the young Tarnisian laugh and to see her sweet smile. "How old are you?" she asked as she helped Malcolm to make up the bed.

"I'm 34."

"Who rule's your planet... What is it called…? Earth?" Malcolm nodded his head as he spoke.

"Well quite a lot has changed about our planet. We have several different countries on our planet. I'm from a country called England, most of the crew is from a country called America. Hoshi is from a country called Japan."

"I've noticed that you do have a different accent from most of the crew."

"That's how you can tell which country a person is from, by their accent." For the rest of the evening Malcolm introduced Marlaya to the different accents of Earth, saying a certain phrase in a particular accent, he did French, German, Russian, Italian. He even tried to do a Chinese accent, but it didn't work out too well. At least Marlaya was a little happier now and had completely forgotten about the meal.

When Marlaya woke up the next morning she found herself lying on the floor next to Malcolm, a sheet covering her. She must've dozed off while they had been talking the night before and Malcolm probably didn't want to try and move her because she had looked so peaceful sleeping there with her hair all smooth and soft. She sat up but immediately put her hand on her stomach. Sensing that something was wrong she stood up, got dressed and left Malcolm to continue sleeping as she moved off to find her way to sickbay. But very soon she got herself lost and found herself by the transporter, she knew instantly that she wasn't going the right way. She stopped and lent up against the wall. Hoshi soon came out of the turbolift further along the corridor and noticed that Marlaya wasn't looking so good.

"Marlaya?" She called as she moved over towards her. "Are you all right?"

"No. I'm trying to find my way to sickbay." Hoshi took one of her arms and began to lead her off towards the turbolift.

"I'll show you where it is." She said as she put her other arm around Marlaya's shoulder's to help her along.

An hour or so later and Archer entered sickbay to get a report from Doctor Phlox. He was quite surprised to see Marlaya sitting on a bed and Phlox taking scans of her.

"Is everything all right?" Phlox looked up, Marlaya didn't move, not after what had happened last night.

"I'm just giving her a check up just to see how the arm and ribs are doing." But Archer didn't look too convinced at Phlox's reply. He took doctor Phlox over into a corner, their voices going low into a whisper.

"Are you sure that's everything?"

"I believe you are familiar with Doctor Patient confidentiality Captain." Phlox stated. John nodded his head slowly. He then moved over to Marlaya.

"I'd like to apologise for anything I said to you last night that offended you, I hadn't realised that you were a member of royalty among your people. Trip explained everything to me."

"It's not your fault captain.I was the one beling a little out of line." John noticed that Marlaya was holding her stomach with one hand.

"Tummy ache? It wasn't the food last night was it?"

"No sir." Marlaya said shaking her head, she still wouldn't look up at the captain.

"I don't suppose you've seen Malcolm have you? He was meant to report for duty 2 hours ago and he hasn't turned up. We've tried to contact him but we haven't got any reply." Archer said turning away just to glance at the screens placed around sickbay.

"He's probably still my quarters then." Archer turned suddenly to look at her. "I wanted him to stay with last night and so he did. I left him sleeping about an hour and a half ago." John was now very concerned about the length of time Marlaya had been there for just a check up.

"Marlaya, I'd like to help you, but if you're not telling me anything then I can't." He put a hand on her shoulder and at that moment Marlaya looked up at him.

"I'm pregnant." She said and John was very shocked, he didn't know what to say.