Chapter 2
A/N: The bit in Italics in the beginning is just a bit of a recap from the last chapter. Kinda.
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Me: Own nothing, except Kea and Tal. Ooh! And K'Tor! I feel special!
"You're from the Alpha and Beta quadrants?"
"Yup." Kea smiled, "From home."
Suddenly, a frown appeared on Kea's face. "Uh-oh." She declared, reaching for the hyperspanner that had lain forgotten until now.
"Hmm?" said Captain Janeway looking up, still reeling over the shock of Kea's announcement.
"Well, this communications console is pretty old, and Tal had to fiddle with it for hours to get it to transmit a signal, and I have a feeling that-" Kea's face suddenly disappeared from the main viewscreen, but her voice kept coming, "-The video might go any minute." Kea muttered a Klingon curse, and they heard crashing.
B'Elanna Torres, at the Engineering station felt every eye on the bridge swing to her as the Klingon curse was uttered. She felt her face redden slightly and said, "Trust me, you don't want to know."
"She's right, you know." Said Kea. "In English that would make your hair curl. When K'Tor me what that meant I was so shocked, I could have…well, you get the picture." They could hear the humor in her voice. "Well," Kea said, "Since we can't speak face-to-face over the comm., would you like to transport down?"
"Give me a minute." Said Janeway, who signaled to mute the conversation with Kea. She looked at Tuvok, who began to speak.
"Scans have revealed that instead of the 30 individuals that we were informed of on the planets surface, there are in fact 35 individuals on the planets surface." Tuvok raised an eyebrow, "It seems we were deliberately misled.
The Captain raised her eyebrows. "Is that so?" She gave the nod that signaled Harry to unmute the conversation. "Our scans have revealed that instead of the 30 people you first told us about on the surface of your planet, there are in fact 35 people. Care to explain?" Janeway patiently waited for Kea to answer.
Kea sighed. "Captain, the reason I told you there were 30 people here, was perhaps a bit of a lapse of memory on my part. The five people are long-term patients in our medical centre. Well, if we had any doctors left it would be a medical centre…" she sighed again. We had to put them into stasis until something could be done, but even that is failing. We were hoping you could help us with this predicament."
Janeway frowned in thought, and then nodded, not registering that Kea couldn't see her. "Alright, if you'll send us the co-ordinates, my doctor, Chief Engineer and I will beam down."
"Okay." Kea said over the comm., "Sending now."
"We've got them." Harry announced.
"We're on our way." Said the Captain, starting towards the turbolift with B'Elanna behind her. She tapped her combadge. "Janeway to the Doctor. Meet us in transporter room two."
"Acknowledged." Came the Doctors voice over the comm. "I'm on my way. Doctor out."
"Commander Chakotay," Said the Captain, "You have the Bridge."
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