Out along a corridor Raya was making her way to sickbay. Crewman Sophie Jackson soon came along.

"Raya!" came a voice from behind Raya. She turned and smiled at the sight of her friend.

"Hi Sophie."

"Where are you off to?" Sophie asked as she jogged to catch up with the security ensign.

"Sickbay. Need to have a check up about the baby" Raya replied. Sophie looked at Raya in shock. "It's been 5 months since I got pregnant and you hadn't noticed?" Raya said.

Sophie placed a hand on the back of her neck and scratched it lightly. "Well, I've, uh, been kinda busy. Who's the Father may I ask?" Sophie asked, a bit more curiously.

"Who do you think?" Raya laughed in between small smiles. Sophie thought for a couple of seconds.

"No!" Sophie replied in slight shock. Raya had a face, which confirmed what Sophie kind of already knew. "Lt. Malcolm Reed? You lucky devil."

"I guess me and Malcolm had a few things in common with which he felt he could get closer to me than any other woman. Why do you think he asked me to marry him? Besides you told me to say yes." Raya said raising her eyebrows every now and then.

"Indeed. Fancy some company in sickbay. I've got lunch so I'm free" Sophie smiled, knowing Raya would translate it as boredom in a lunch hour

"Sure. Come on. Don't exactly want to be left alone with Phlox's menagerie of ... how should I say... pets." The two women laughed. So it was that Raya and Sophie entered Phlox's domain. Phlox was feeding his menagerie of creatures when they did enter.

"Ah, good afternoon Ensign, crewman." Phlox said as he put down a tray of food. He picked up a scanner from a bench and indicated a biobed. "On the bed please." He said cheerily. Raya jumped up. Phlox scanned her. He didn't say anything for a while but soon lightened. "Your baby is completely healthy. Everything should be fine with the birth."

"That's good to hear. After being stabbed, shot, I'm surprised it's doing so well." Raya replied, sighing slightly. Raya then looked at Sophie. "Tia's in the brig isn't she?"

Sophie nodded. "Yep, and she's being guarded at this precise moment as well"

"Has Captain Archer decided what he's going to do with her?"

"Not yet, if he has we haven't heard yet" Sophie leaned against the wall looking at Raya and Phlox.

Dracona meanwhile had gone to her quarters. Lots was going through her mind, Ra'Saak could be arriving in the next hour but she didn't know that. He didn't know where he was. She knew ship's weapons had little effect on dragon scales, mostly it was deflected back towards the sender. She lay on her bed trying to think about other things on board the ship that could divert her from the thought of her father. The thought of Trip came into her mind. There was definitely something to this guy. He was always optimistic when she saw him. He had a positive attitude, which she liked. She didn't really like people who were pessimistic all the time. Little amounts of pessimism she could take but lots, was another matter.

He had electrifying blue eyes. Piercing but cheerful nonetheless. His blonde hair, she could go on but cut short. She ran her hand on her face and through her hair. 'Was she falling for him?' she asked herself she spent another hour pondering on such a question. She soon plunked her head into the pillow below her. So much confusion in her feelings. Was she in love with Trip Tucker or not?' She was lost in open water, floating in confusion and mystery.

She lifted herself from her bed, brushed her hair and decided to return to the mess to get another coffee. She left the quarters she was residing in.

A thought then struck her. She was 20 years old and Commander Tucker was around 34. That was a 14-year difference, a bit to large gap in her opinion. Did Commander Tucker feel the same way about her? Dracona stopped walking and leant up against the wall of the corridor.

But then again she needed that coffee so she dawdled the rest of the way to the mess hall thinking of reasons for and against. She wasn't looking where she was going at all, though her stop off point was drawing nearer. She hadn't realised 'who' she had bumped into. She just felt flesh and then a hard surface. She noted it as the floor. Grey and toneless.

"Are you all right?" came a voice from the person she had just bumped into.

"Uh..." Dracona said rather bemused. Then it hit her, a pain from the rear end alerted her she was indeed on a hard surface and on the floor. She looked up at the person looking rather dazed, her brain was spinning and she wasn't sure why. A fall to the ground couldn't cause that kind of thing, could it? She looked harder, her eyes trying to focus. Blonde hair and blue eyes. Apart from that she couldn't recognise who she had bumped into "I… I'm sorry. I guess...uh...i wasn't ah...looking where i was going. Sorry" She replied, hazily. She tried to stand but unusually found it difficult to do so. The person who she had bumped into helped her up and supported her

"Let's get you ta sickbay" His voice was very familiar. Very familiar.

Holding Dracona by one arm and putting his other arm round her shoulders to steady her the two of them moved off and made their way down to sickbay. When they entered Raya and Sophie were slightly surprised.

"Commander... what happened?" Raya asked, concern for Dracona was easily recognisable in her voice.

"Dracona wasn't looking where she was goin' and bumped right into me" Trip replied as he guided a dazed Dracona to a bio bed. Phlox moved over and began to scan her. "How is she Doc?"

Phlox at first didn't answer, and kept on checking the scanner he was using. Dracona looked from Phlox to Raya to Trip and back to Phlox and gently rubbed a hand on her forehead.

Phlox nodded. "It seems she has a slight concussion, it'll go soon" Phlox smiled "All she needs is a couple of hours rest and a good hot drink"

Trip nodded. Least it wasn't that bad.

"That's exactly what i need right now... a nice hot drink." Raya said.

"You're free to go. The checks have been completed" Phlox merrily noted. He smiled and nodded at the Commander and others before he went into his office.

"Why don't we all go?" Trip offered

Sophie helped Raya jump off the bio bed and Trip helped Dracona, then leading her out as she had led her in the four of them made their way to the Mess Hall. They eventually reach the mess and Trip after helping Dracona sitting down to a table and finding out what everyone wanted got their drinks for, with the help of Sophie.