Another Place

Missing Scenes 3

Tom stood there staring at Kes. She had left over a year ago and here she was again, very much older. Tom didn't even recognize her at first, but it was definitely her, just more worn out. After closing his mouth –which had been open since he saw her- he smiled.

"Kes, what're you doing here?" Tom asked.

"Hello to you, too, Tom." Kes replied.

"Oh, hi." Tom said.

"Hello there." Q jumped in. She knew of Kes, an almost Q-like person, and met her two years ago. "I'm Q."

"I remember." Kes responded unenthusiastically. Kes then looked back at Tom and smiled. "I just thought that I should stop by."

"This isn't really your neck of the woods, Kes, so what're you doing here?" Tom said.

"She needs help." Q answered for Kes. Tom and Kes both looked at her. "Well she wasn't going to say it and it's quite obvious. But the question really is why she needs you and not me."

"Probably because I don't annoy her." Tom replied.

"Why you little-" Q started.

"Not that I don't love this interesting little banter thing you two have going, but I need to talk to Tom for a minute…in private." Kes said to the two.

"I'm sorry, but we're rather busy right now, but do please come back." Q said and snapped her fingers. Kes disappeared in a bright white light and then Q turned around and started to walk to the Holodeck. "Are you coming, Tom?"

"What the hell did you do that for!" Tom yelled after her and ran to catch up to her. "That could've been important!"

"She'll come back in…one year, you can see her then." Q replied. "But you might want to be careful…"

The 94th Time Around

"Tom, I know that you like this, but you haven't eaten in a long long time." Q said to Tom.

"But it's just too damn good…" Tom replied while watching.

"I thought you've already seen this series." Q answered.

"Friends is one of the few shows that I can watch over and over and over again and still laugh my butt off." Tom responded.

"Okay, time to go eat." Q said.

The 120th Time Around…

"This just doesn't get old…" Tom said as he was sitting in the huge theatre in the Holodeck. He and Q were sitting in the front row watching some of the female crewmembers sing to various songs.

"I think it gets old." Q replied.

"That's only because you decided to take out some of the Pussycat Dolls songs because they were 'sexually explicit.'" Tom responded. "If you didn't do that, then we would be laughing even harder."

"That-" Q started.

"Shhh!" Tom interrupted. "They're going to start singing and dancing to Buttons!"