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Summary: Sovek's identity is confirmed, his story is revealed.

T'pol moved quickly through enterprise's corridors. Oblivious to her surroundings her only goal to get to her quarters, reaching them finally she keyed in her code and stepped inside. She sank to the floor in front of her meditation candle, left there from earlier on. What was she suppose to think? It could not possibly be her father. He had died, heroically by all accounts over 40 years ago and now he was back from the dead? No! It had to be a trick, she would had of heard from her father before now if he had been alive, she would have heard something, anything.

Her door buzzed interrupting her thought pattern; she knew who it would be. "Enter" she called out and Trip entered.

"Hey, I came to see how your doing." Unsure of how to continue he sat down next to her, their shoulders touching. "Is it really true what that guy said about being you father?"

T'pol shook her head "My father died forty five years ago, the man we met with is an impostor."

Being in such close proximity with T'pol trip could sense her uncertainty even more, he put his arms around her and she relaxed, ever so slightly in his embrace.

"T'pol, have you considered that it might actually be true?"

In truth she had briefly considered this but she could find no logic in why her father would have remained hidden for so long; if she had to admit it to herself, a part of her wanted it to be a lie. As a child she had idolised her father as much as any Vulcan could and he being alive now, lying to her and everyone else would tarnish the respect and fond memories she had of him.

As if reading her thoughts Trip whispered to her "He could have had a genuine reason why he has kept hidden for so long." That did seem logical she thought, but what was so serious that he could not tell his own family that he was alive?

"You know you've got a chance many people would do anything for, you've got another chance T'pol." she had not considered that at all. What if he was telling the truth, she would have her father back again. Trip was right she had to find out if he was her father.

"We should go to Phlox and get him to perform a DNA test" said Trip "That should confirm whether Sovek is just who he claims to be." Trip stood and helped T'pol up.

"Are you sure you're ok." the engineer asked again

"I'm fine, and thank you for your help Trip."

"Any time" he grinned as they walked out of her quarters, closer to each other than was necessary.

When the two arrived at sickbay, it appeared the Captain had had the same idea about a DNA test, Phlox was just finishing his final analysis on his patient as Trip and T'pol arrived, drawing everyone's attention. It appeared the rest of the senior staff were not needed elsewhere and were happy to find out more information on their new 'guest.' T'pol avoided looking at Sovek so instead she focused her attention on the medical screen which was displaying phlox's reading's. Travis spoke first

"What does all that mean?" he said indicating to the data.

T'pol's eyes flew from side to side assimilating the information "It means, Sovek was telling the truth, he is my father."…..

Captain Archer did not think he could take much more. After the shocking revelation that Earth and Vulcan were about to be attacked and then the revelation that the informant was T'pol's apparently dead father he didn't know what to think. All he wanted now was answers and he was for sure going to do anything to get them. Sovek had refused to say anything after T'pol had left instead saying that he would only reveal what was going on with her present. Archer thought that was fair, after all he deserved a chance to explain why he had lied to his daughter for so many years, right? But now T'pol was here and he was going to get answers.

"Ok Sovek now we have confirmed who you are and T'pol's here I want to know everything."

"I believe that is reasonable captain," responded Sovek trying in vain to catch his daughters attention and failing. "I believe I should start at the beginning."

He stood, his hands graspedbehind his back; a regular Vulcan stance. "Around fifty years ago I worked in the ministry of security. It was my job to, how do you put it, do my governments dirty work. This involved the usual things you would expect, classified missions, capturing convicts, but overall securing Vulcan and therefore my family's safety." With that he once again looked over to T'pol and their eyes briefly met.

"On one mission which was particularly dangerous I discovered information which I wasn't expected to find. This information exposed several members of the high command and their dealings with a species who I later found to be the Romulans." Sovek considered for a moment what would have happened if he had never gone on that mission, how different his life would have been. He wouldn't have been hunted, he wouldn't have had to give up his entire life, his family.

Sovek's revelation came as a huge shock to the Enterprise staff. "What would Vulcan have to gain from dealing with the Romulans?" asked Archer.

"I will get to that later captain. When I discovered this information, it became apparent that there was a lot more to the story. In the months that followed, I took it upon myself to carry out some independent research, which was helped by the fact that I was a ranking member of the ministry of security. I soon found that the extent of betrayal ran much further than I ever expected and it was then that I realised me and my family were in a lot of danger." Taking a deep breath, he continued

"I couldn't put them in danger because of me. They would be used against me and I couldn't reveal what I had found as there was more that needed to be discovered so I realised the only way to accomplish both was to fake my own death. At that time there was only one other person who I trusted enough to reveal what I had found. His name was Soval. He too had worked at the ministry."

"Wait, ambassador Soval helped to fake your death?" said Trip disbelievingly

"Ambassador?" said Sovek 'It seems he has done quite well for himself in my absence.' he mused. "And in response to your question yes, he helped me." pausing for a moment to consider how to go on Sovek continued.

"The opportunity presented itself when Soval and I were both travelling close to an Earth shipping lane. We were both travelling home from a joint assignment when an Earth ship, it must not have been able to reach more than warp one point three was being attacked by pirates, trying to steal the vessel's cargo. The ship we were travelling on did not have that much fire power but it was enough to stop the attack and save the ship, I believe it was called the horizon or something close to that."

"The horizon?" interrupted Mayweather, the only boomer of the crew.

"Yes, have you heard of it?"

"Heard of it, it was my father's ship" Travis responded

"My father use to tell me the story of how he was rescued in the early days when he started transporting cargo by a Vulcan, he always said he received the strangest request afterwards but he never did tell me what it was and I never did find out." said Travis disappointed. His father had died a few years ago, and this story amongst other things were left unresolved. It reminded him of just how much he had missed his father.

"Perhaps I could be of assistance." The Vulcan answered.

"After we drove off the pirates we docked with the ship and I met an enthusiastic young man, the Captain, who didn't seem at all put off by the resent encounter."

This caused Travis to break out into a huge smile "That sounds like my dad." he said proudly, warming instantly to the Vulcan before him. After all if it had not been for him, the ship and his parents would have been destroyed and he would not be here.

"We helped with any repairs and then it occurred to me that I had the best opportunity I could hope for to carry out my plan. I talked it over with Soval and Horizon's captain and it was agreed that I would take the Vulcan ship, while Soval returned on the Horizon. We would say that the pirates returned and in the battle my ship was destroyed, me along with it, all the while Soval was on the Human ship helping with repairs. The plan worked flawlessly and to every one I once knew I was dead" Sovek looked down to the floor he hadn't thought going over that particular part of his life would have been so difficult. "It was the hardest thing I have ever had to do give up my family. Lie to my wife and my only child." he looked over to T'pol, "And for that I am truly sorry."

The second the words left his mouth Sovek felt a shooting pain overwhelm his senses, he briefly heard someone ask if he was ok; he blinked as if to clear his vision, his eyesight becoming blurred and collapsed…

To be continued...

(Sorry about yet another cliffhanger. I promise the next update won't have one... probably)

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