Shutting her eyes tight she soon opened them, only to shut them tight again as the light glared down on her. After blinking a few times her eyes adjusted and could see around her. She was sitting in her quarters on her bed. She tried to sit up but Malcolm stopped her, making her lie down again.

"Lie still Phoebe." He said. Phoebe placed a hand on her forehead, trying to make sense of everything after being stunned.

"Dad?" Phoebe asked.

"He's in sickbay. Doctor Phlox has promised me that as soon as he knows what kind of condition he's in he'll tell me." Phoebe sat up and got off the bed.

"I've got to get to him." She began to make her way to the door, but Malcolm grabbed her arm pulling her back. "Let me go!" she said and tried to pull away from Malcolm, but his grip on her was too tight.

"I'm afraid I can't let you leave."

"Why the hell not?" She said yanking her arm away from his and she was free from his grasp. She massaged her arm where Malcolm had been holding it.

"Because I have my orders from Admiral Archer that you are confined to quarters." Phoebe starred blankly at the man in front of her. She couldn't believe that Archer had confined her to quarters, she hadn't done anything wrong. She just wanted to be with her dad who was most probably dying! Sometimes she wondered why Archer had been made Admiral 10 years ago. She then looked at the door, noticed it was opened and on either side there was a member of security with a large plasma riffle each. At that moment two boys suddenly ran to the door and entered the room.

"Phoebe, what's happened? Where's dad?" He asked frantically. She looked away from her brother and moved back over to the bed, but didn't sit down, she just faced the wall.

"He was stabbed by the Xindi up on the bridge. And I'm not allowed to go and see him." She quickly turned round in anger facing the other boy. "Because your damn father has confined me to quarters!" she yelled at him. "Also he damn well shot me right in front of the other bridge crew including my mum!" she yelled. Malcolm wasn't at all surprised how angry she was. Outside the two guards looked at each other in surprise at hearing Phoebe shouting. They had worked with her a couple of times, and not once had they heard her shouting like she was now. They were getting a little worried that they might have to work with her again.

"My dad would never do that!" Jack said looking hard at the angry girl pacing back and forth in her quarters.

"He did Jack. I was there." Malcolm said. Jack was in a little bit of shock. He never thought that his dad would go as far as shooting Phoebe, but he had. And all because of one little prank that Phoebe had played on him many years ago leaving Jack with a huge scar across his cheek.

"So you can go and tell your bloody father that if I'm not released out of my quarters I'm gonna fucking kill him!" she shouted. Jack stepped back a bit away from the furious girl in front of him. Both he and Quad were getting a little worried about her behaviour. The two men outside were becoming a little worried about what was going on inside that room. They were wondering if it was even safe to be standing where they were.

"Phoebe you don't mean that!" Malcolm was shocked by the way Phoebe was acting. She was usually such a gentle girl. Phoebe then just sat down on her bed, put her head in her hands and cried. Malcolm moved over and sat down next to her, placing a hand on her back. He pulled her in closer to him so that he was able to hug her.

"I just want to see my dad." She said between sniffs and tears. Quad looked at her and then he gently sat down on the bed next to her, rubbing his hand on her back. Jack just watched the scene. He decided he needed to go and see his father and have a serious talk with him. He then quietly slipped out of the room and along the corridor.

Everyone on the ship had been informed that the turbolift leading up to the bridge had gone and so Jack knew he had to enter by the situation area. He had only been up there once or twice when he was a lot younger but he could still remember the way. He very, very carefully entered and looked around noting that Archer wasn't there. He then moved over to T'Pol who was sitting in the captain's chair.

"T'Pol?" He quietly said. But even his small voice made her jump slightly. When she turned round to face him she tried not to show that she had been scared by him.

"Yes?"

"Where's my dad?"

"He's down in sickbay with Captain Tucker." T'Pol replied. Her voice the normal monotone voice that he was used to hearing.

"Thanks." And he very quickly left the bridge. T'Pol watched him leave and then turned back to the view screen.

The Xindi were gone and the fugitive had been returned to the Xindi ship, along with the three Xindi that had appeared just before he had. Although they were now believing that the fugitive Xindi had arrived before the others and they had boarded looking for the fugitive, instead they got their butts kicked by the bridge crew, which they weren't expecting.

Jack quickly made his way down to sickbay. When he entered the four conscious people turned to look at him. He could see Trip lying on a bio bed that the four people were standing by.

"What are you doing here?" Archer asked.

Jack moved further into sickbay, closer to his dad. "I've just been talking to Phoebe. She said that you've confined her to quarters and that you shot her."

"She wasn't doing what I told her to Jack." Archer said as he moved forward.

"It's not just that. I know that you're still angry with her for what she did to me? Why can't you get over it. I've forgiven her. It wasn't like I could've been killed! Besides it was partially my fault as well" Archer had no response instead he moved over to Hoshi and the woman who was indeed Lizzie Tucker. Doctor Phlox had completed tests that proved that. "Dad!"

"I'd better get to the bridge. Keep me updated about how he's doing." Hoshi nodded as Archer placed a hand on her back. He then left walking straight past his son, not even making eye contact with him. It pained him that his father was ignoring him. They had often quarrelled, but never enough that Archer would go as far as to ignore Jack.

Jack moved over to Hoshi. "Hoshi. How is he?" He asked.

"His wound was quite severe. He lost an awful lot of blood and also the knife collapsed his right lung. I'm waiting for the replicator to finish making a new one so I can begin a transplant to replace it." Phlox replied as Hoshi was just too worried about her husband to answer anything.

"Will he live?"

"It's too early to tell."

Jack nodded his head. He began to walk away so he could give the information to Phoebe, Quad and Malcolm.

"Jack." Hoshi called and turned round to the young boy. Jack also turned round to face Hoshi. "I think it would be a good idea if you introduced Lizzie to her niece and nephew." Jack stood there looking a little confused.

"Trip is my big brother." She replied. Jack nodded his head and Lizzie followed him out, but not before taking one last look at Trip before she left. She also moved over to Hoshi and gave her a light hug, her sister-in-law. She found it quite hard to believe what she had missed, Trip getting married and having two children, but she was hoping she could make up the time lost and hoped that Archer would let her stay on board so she could be with her family.

"I suggest you go and get some rest Hoshi. I'll alert you if there's any change, good or bad." Hoshi shook her head, she didn't want to leave him, she loved him.

"I'd prefer to stay here with him." She said looking at the unconscious Trip. Two tubes had been placed up his nose to help with his breathing. Hoshi began to stroke his hair.

"Very well. You can sleep on one of the bio beds over in the corner if you want."

"Thanks." Hoshi said, but didn't move. Phlox just nodded his head and moved over to the replicator to see how much longer he would have to wait to do the transplant.

Hoshi began to remember when she first began to feel for him. It was back when he was a Commander, and nearly a year before they had set off on their mission to find the Xindi and save humanity from near destruction.

She had been down on a planet with him looking at some ancient ruins and a magnetic storm had started up, resulting in Trip and her needing to be transported up. Trip had told her to go first, but because of her fear of the transporter she made him go first. Then during her whole transportation of her molecules being broken down and then compressed into a data stream she had a nightmare of sorts, believing she was disappearing and aliens were trying to sabotage the ship. But she managed to overcome her fear, jump onto her imaginary transporter pad and found herself along the corridor with Trip and Malcolm standing by the controls to the transporter. She promised to herself then she would never use the transporter again, and so far she had managed to keep to that. She hadn't used it again.

It was during the time that Hoshi was 'dead' to the crew when she was following Trip and Phlox along some Jefferies tubes and they had found traces of her blood that she realised Trip did have feelings for her. It never showed in his voice, but she could see it in his eyes at that moment, and that's when she realised.

All those times she had helped Trip out with things like when he had been taken prisoner on a planet that didn't speak English and Hoshi had to parlay for his release. He didn't get more than a broken arm when they refused and Archer sent down an assault team to get him out.

Then there was the time, 6 years ago, when Trip and Daniel Rostov had been infected with a virus and they couldn't speak English. When Quad had been born Rostov had only been on the ship for a couple of years and he was made Quad's godfather. He was 25, Michael Rostov's cousin. Michael had since left Enterprise and had been transferred to the Galinos, NX-03, where he was now Lieutenant Rostov, chief engineer.