After a few minutes of flying through the atmosphere of the Torkayan Homeworld and a couple more in space, the pod was soon back in the launch bay. The away team got out and moved into de-con. Phlox cleared them all and they all left and went up to the bridge.

As Malcolm, Marlaya and Archer entered the bridge, T'Pol turned to them, she was standing just in front of the captain's chair, her hands neatly by her side as usual. Even though she wasn't showing it they all knew that T'Pol was confused as to the captain's recent orders of place to visit.

"Captain. I believe we had agreed not to return or go anywhere near Hundaria IV." T'Pol said as Archer entered the bridge. The Captain's orders were slightly surprising to the rest of the crew.

"Things change T'Pol." He replied. "We need to go back there cause there are Tarnisians back there. Marlaya remembers them."

As T'Pol and the rest of the people heard the captain's words they all looked at Marlaya in surprise. 'It has been five years since they had left, why were they going back now?' They all thought.

T'Pol retook her place at her science station, as Archer took up the position just in front of his chair.

Archer turned to Travis. "Set a course Travis."

"Aye sir." Replied the space boomer sitting at the front of the bridge. He began pressing buttons altering their course under his captain's orders.

"How many Tarnisians are there?" T'Pol asked. Marlaya wiped a few tears away as she replied.

"About 50." She managed to say as she took a deep breath. T'Pol could see that she had been crying and that she had only just stopped. Marlaya's eyes were red and the iris looked paler than it normally did.

"Travis, how long will it take us to reach the planet?"

"About 13 hours sir." Travis replied as he checked his scans and computer readings. Archer nodded and then turned to Marlaya.

"Get some rest."

Marlaya began to shake her head. "I can't sir. I have got to talk with Avide and Seejeah."

"I'll do that if you want." Malcolm said. Marlaya looked at him, her eyes looked heavy and her eyelids were beginning to droop. She sighed and then nodded her head. Archer watched as the two of them left the bridge, Malcolm's arm wrapped around the young woman's body for support.

Marlaya entered her quarters and saw the mess. Malcolm starred at the clothes on the floor.

"I can see now why you had to separate them." He began to pick up a couple of things and put them away tidily.

"I should get to work on clearing…" Marlaya began before Reed's voice cut in.

"Going to sleep!" Malcolm quickly interrupted. "That's the only thing you need. After that treatment back on that planet you need to sleep." Marlaya sat down on her bed heavily, taking a pair of trousers and throwing them on the floor. However she didn't want to… now she knew what had happened she was afraid that while she was sleeping those memories would come to her, and she wouldn't be able to escape them. She just wanted to stay awake and be with someone right now. Malcolm could see the fear in her eyes. "I'll stay here and clear everything up while you're sleeping."

Marlaya looked at him. At that moment the door chimed. "Come in." She called. The door slid open and Ba'Dan stepped into the room.

"Is it true Marlaya?"

Obviously Archer had told him what happened to her. All Marlaya could do was nod her head. Ba'Dan stepped further in as Marlaya stood up, and both were comforting each other. Deciding that now would be a good time to go and talk to Avide and Seejeah Malcolm silently left the room. The door closing softly behind him.

He moved along the corridors and finally came to where the guest quarters were located. He unlocked one door and went in. sitting on the bed was Seejeah.

"Seejeah?" Malcolm moved in and bent down. Immediately the young girl moved over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"I'm sorry daddy. We didn't mean it."

Malcolm rubbed a hand on her back giving her comfort. "Mummy's just going through a tough time at the moment. But you've got to admit, you did make rather a mess of your quarters this time."

Seejeah stayed silent, just slightly nodding her head as she sniffed and wiped her nose on the sleeve of her green top.

"Let's go and find Avide." Malcolm took Seejeah's hand and led her out of the room. Malcolm unlocked the second door and stepped in. He couldn't believe his eyes. Avide was lying on the floor in the middle of the room… the sheets from the bed strewn across the floor. "Avide! What have you been doing!" he moved forward and tightly hugged the young girl.

"I don't like it when mummy shouts at us." She managed to blurt out through her sobbing.

"I know sweetheart…but mummy's been rather pressed with work recently, and the last thing she wants right now is to have to clear your room. Why was it such a mess?"

Avide stayed quiet and so Seejeah answered for her. "We were playing hide and seek."

Malcolm sighed heavily. "Well the next time you play hide and seek… try and keep the room as tidy as you can, all right?"

The two girls nodded. Avide wiped her eyes dry with her sleeve.

Malcolm looked around the room… "Well I would call the maintenance crew to come and clear this up… but I think it would be good practise if both you girls tidied this up… now I know, Seejeah, that you didn't cause this mess, but you did help cause the mess in your own room… So clear this up with Avide to show me just how well you can do it."

"Ok daddy." The two girls replied in unison and together, without any hassle, they worked on getting the room fit for any guests that may come along. Malcolm for most of it stayed at the side, only helping to show them how to tuck the sheets under the mattress so it was tidy, and then they could do the other three corners themselves. It wasn't long before the bed was straight and the room looked like it had never been a bombsite.

"Good girls." Malcolm then bent down to them and they walked over. "I think that after that you both deserve to have a drink."

The twins nodded in agreement. Malcolm stood up and took Avide in his left hand and Seejeah in his right and the three of them moved off to the mess hall. There he managed to find a couple of his security team willing to look after them for a couple of hours.

With the twins now safely with someone else, Malcolm made his way back to Marlaya's room. He entered without ringing the door so as not to wake Marlaya if she was asleep… and he was right to do so. She was sleeping peacefully on her bed, and Ba'Dan was tidying up the room.

"Lieutenant" Ba'Dan whispered as he moved over to him.

"I see everything here is under control." He replied as he picked up a top and hung it in the wardrobe.

"She told me everything. I wish I had been there with her."

"You didn't know it was going to happen." Malcolm replied, gently placing a hand on Ba'Dan's shoulder for comfort. He picked up a dress that was half hanging off the bed. Instantly he recognised it… it was the blue dress that Vinnie, the ship's quartermaster, had made for Marlaya the first night she had a meal with the Captain, 5 years ago. He gazed at it wondering if it still fitted her. she had looked so beautiful that night. It was a night that Malcolm would never forget in a hurry. Her hair so neatly tied back, and the way the dress had hung made her look taller. As he looked closer at the shimmering material he realised that there was a big tear in it. "I'll get this down to Vinnie for him to repair. Will you be all right here?"

Ba'Dan looked at his sister and sighed. "Yeah. I'll be fine."

Malcolm gently patted Ba'Dan's shoulder and left with the dress. He knew that his question was really a silly one as Marlaya was always in good hands with Ba'Dan around.

Malcolm took one last look at the sleeping form of Marlaya and then left the room.