3 hours... 4 hours... 5 hours... 6 hours... 7 hours passed since Raya first entered sickbay. It was going on a bit too long for Archer's liking, and for Trip's. During the 7th hour both of them began to pace back and forth, however the monotony of watching the two officers got to Dracona and she told them to stop doing it.

Using her telepathy Dracona was able to know a little bit about what was going on behind the closed doors, and relayed the information back to Trip and Archer.

"So far so good, Raya's child is not wanting to come out or something like that. My telepathy has been a little off lately." Dracona slid to the floor, sitting down. Putting her hands to her head. At that moment the doors to sickbay slid open and the feint sound of a baby crying could be heard. Phlox stood in the doorway. Trip and Archer looked at Phlox, smiles creeping over their faces at the sound of the baby.

"Well Doc?" Archer asked.

"Come in and see for yourself." He replied. He walked back in followed by the trio. Sitting on a biobed was Raya, cradling a baby wrapped in a white blanket. Malcolm was standing to one side looking at his newborn child. Upon hearing the footsteps both mother and father looked at Archer, Trip and Dracona. Small droplets of sweat were visible on Raya's face, but all of them were more concerned about the baby.

"How's the baby?" Archer asked.

"Despite the fact that she's a month early, she's one of the healthiest babies I've ever seen." Phlox replied cheerily.

"It's a girl?" Trip asked. Raya nodded her head in response to Trip's question.

Dracona looked at the young girl. She had never seen a baby like this before, she had only seen reptilian like offspring. Raca'sackiens being born in an egg rather than a live birth. Even if it looked vulnerable, she knew the baby would be safe here and above all, from where she was, it looked pretty. "What are you calling her?" she asked with a smile, only then did she realise this question was too early to have been said. Raya and Malcolm looked at each other with a smile. Raya then turned back to Dracona...

"Malcolm and i have already talked about it... and we agreed on the name Jessica Ellie Reed." The happy mother replied. Dracona nodded and smiled. "Captain... Do you want to hold her?" Raya asked, looking at Archer. Archer looked at her and nodded, smiling. He moved over carefully and the baby was passed gently into his arms. Raya leaned her head up against Malcolm's shoulders as she watched Archer slightly bouncing the baby in his arms. Before anyone could ask her another question she was out like a light and fast asleep. The birth process had been long and hard for her.

Over the next couple of days everyone wanted to see the new baby... Dracona, Hoshi, Trip and Archer were Jessica's most frequent visitors. As Raya had promised her mother they went back to Zanar so she could meet her, and she was very happy. Jessica looked so beautiful. She had blue eyes just like her father's and already they could tell her hair colour was going to be dark brown. They stayed for a couple of weeks and soon left.

After a few months they came to a planet, and once again Archer and the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 were going to be involved in a first contact.

Dracona was in her quarters at the time, reading some material Trip had given her and felt a sudden but quick shock of pain. She couldn't find an explanation herself. Her head was in agony but surprisingly, the pain subsided very quickly. Going in a matter of minutes. She decided it would be best to go to Sickbay about it. Better to be safe then sorry. She was about to get up when it struck again. It was stronger this time, splitting through her head. She held her hands to her head and struggled through the door. The pain went and Dracona used the relief to quickly head to the place of medicine. Dr. Phlox and herself had become good friends and she hoped he would have something to help. In Sickbay, Dr. Phlox was reading something on a PADD in his office when he heard the doors open and someone crying out in pain. He hurried to the main room to find Dracona leaning on a bio bed with one hand to her head.

"Dracona?" He asked.

"Dr. Do you have anything that would stop this pain. I don't know why it started." Dracona replied, wincing once again. Phlox nodded slowly. Thanks to Dracona spending some time in Sickbay to get a medical file on her and a anatomy check from Dracona earlier he knew enough that her physiology was quite similar to that of a human's but different all the same. He got a hypospray from a cabinet in the corner and went to her. He pressed it into her neck and pressed it in. he could see the effects almost immediately.

"Any better?" He asked, knowingly

"Oh yeah. Thanks Doc" Dracona replied, relieved of the pain. No doubt it would return but later would be better she thought for some unproven reason. Doctor Phlox moved back over to Jessica and finished sorting out her nappy. He was in charge of her while Raya and Malcolm were down on the planet with Archer, Trip and T'Pol.

The planet was called Bedurra... And the inhabitants were the Sarvans, and Archer was down on the planet establishing a first contact with the Sarvan Ambassador, Kartass. The five members of the Enterprise away team were having a meal at the ambassador's home with his family and close colleagues. All through the meal Raya just couldn't help but think that something was wrong. She didn't seem to smile a lot like she usually did, and she was hardly touching her food. Malcolm, who was sitting next to her, noticed she had hardly eaten a thing. He leaned towards her a little.

"Something wrong love?"

"I'm not sure Malcolm. I'm just getting the feeling that something... Bad is going to happen... soon."

Malcolm sighed and gently squeezed her leg underneath the table.

As the evening went on, Raya was getting the feeling stronger and stronger, until she could finally tell what was going on. "Ambassador... We have to evacuate the building!" She suddenly said.

Kartass looked at her with a very puzzled expression "evacuate the building? Whatever for?" he wondered as he asked for the reason.

"There's someone nearby who going to..." But before she could finish what she was going to say, a huge explosion outside the room they were dining in was heard and the building slightly shock. Windows shattered, and the door was blasted off its hinges. Flames leapt into the room. Raya quickly ran to the Ambassador and his family and immediately she teleported them out of the building and to a safe distance. Teleporting inside she quickly grabbed Archer and got him out to the Ambassador.

Once again she teleported in... But when she got back she wasn't in the same room. She was now lost in the building and she didn't know where she was. She began to explore the building trying to find her three trapped friends. The search took her longer than she wanted it to, eventually finding a frayed and battered doorway, or what once was. Looking through the dust she spotted what she thought was a hand. She went to it immediately being careful along the way. When she came to the hand she found the body of a Sarvan. There was no doubt about it now it had been a suicide bomb... an assassination attempt on the Ambassador. She stood up and moved away from the flames as they began to get a bit closer to her. Due to the roar of the flames she never heard the creaking of beams and then suddenly the ceiling above her collapsed and she was trapped under a very large metal steel beam. She yelled in pain as it fell on her, crushing the base of her spine. She was well a truly trapped and she couldn't teleport in conditions like this.