Hello all! So here is the next chapter. I'm really enjoying writing this fan fiction and from the response I've got from it, you are enjoying it too! I'm itching to write more of it everyday, which is good for you lot. This was a fun chapter to write and quite easy to write too, so I hope you enjoy it. So do the usual, read and review…..you know you want to!

Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek or Chekov…..ah Chekov, the cutest thing since tribbles.

It had been 2 days since Scotty had brought Lizzie to sickbay and she still hadn't woken up. He had rushed her there, the wound on her head getting worse. What didn't help was the amount of people in sickbay, all with injuries from the attack on the ship, but under captain's orders, Lizzie was one of the first to be seen.

Bones had managed to stop the bleeding and clean the wound before he bandaged it. However, he was getting annoyed. Annoyed by the amount of patients, annoyed by the amount of time he had to spend in sickbay without a break, but most of all, annoyed by the Russian teenager who hadn't left Lizzie's side since she had entered the hospital.

"Move kid, your in my way…..again!"

"Sorry Bones" Chekov said, moving out of the doctor's way. "Its just I vant to be ere vhen Miss Lizzie vakes up. If zhere is anything I can do to elp, please do not esitate to ask."

"You get help by getting your god damn sorry ass outta my way" Bones told him. "Just sit down and don't do anything."

Chekov did as he was told and sat down in the chair next to the bed Lizzie was residing in, taking her hand in his.

"If you want to do something kid" Bones began, noticing the worried look on Chekov's face, "Go get some sleep."

"No, I vill stay by her side until she vakes." Chekov's eyes did not leave Lizzie's still form as he spoke.

"Whatever, just don't come running to me when your too tired to work" Bones muttered under his breath before going over to another patient.

Chekov knew that Bones was right. In 48 hours, he had only had about 2 hours sleep and fatigue was present throughout his body. (A/N: me and my cousin did this once on a trip to London and the way I felt would be the way Chekov would feel after so long without sleep. It nearly killed us!) He had only managed to be here that long because he had annoyed the hell out of Kirk until he let him stay. Chekov enjoyed answering every question his captain asked him in Russian. However Kirk didn't enjoy it so much and so had given in and had let Chekov stay with Lizzie.

However he refused to leave, he would stay there until she woke up, knowing a friendly face would comfort her. He had become attached to Lizzie, even though he had only known her a few days, excluding the day of their first meeting. She hadn't been out of his mind since that day. He didn't know whether it was because of her panic and sadness the first time he met her or the smile that played on both of their lips every time they saw each other or her pretty face of which he had admitted to himself that he liked, but he felt like he should be there for her and take care of her. What he did know though was that she was his friend and he would not leave her side.

Another 2 hours passed and Chekov could feel his eye lids starting to close against his will. He knew keeping awake was futile and that he would slowly succumb to sleep. That was until he heard a slight moan and saw slight movement from the girl in front of him. This snapped him out of his zombie like state and he jumped to his feet.

"Miss Lizzie?" he asked her in as gentle a voice as possible.

"Hmmm……" she said in a groggy voice, her eyes slowly opening, adjusting to the light.

"Miss Lizzie. I'm ere, you are safe, its ok." He could not stop the smile appearing on his face and the relief that flooded through his body as her eyes finally opened fully and she gazed up at him.

"Pavel" she smiled, her voice merely a whisper. "You have to stop calling me Miss. Or else I'll hit you so hard, I'll end up putting you in one of these beds."

Chekov laughed quietly at this. "I'll try to stop." Lizzie smiled. That was until the pain in her head finally registered in her mind.

"Owww…" she screamed lifting her weak arm to her wound. Chekov leaned forward to help her as she did this.

"Well look who has finally decided to grace us with her presence" the Chief Medical Officer said approaching her bed after hearing her screams.

"Hi Bones" Lizzie said lowering her hand. Chekov took hold of it.

"How are you feeling?" Bones asked her.

"Stiff, sore, tired, my head is throbbing. I think I have a habit for hitting my head" she said with amusement in her voice. This brought back memories of her hitting a filing cabinet on her first day.

"Your probably gonna feel like that for a few days yet. You did some damage." Bones said, concern in his voice.

"Well how long was I out?"

"2 days" Chekov suddenly perked up.

"I've been here for 2 days?" Lizzie asked amazed.

"Yeah, and annoyingly, so has he." Bones pointed to Chekov. Lizzie looked at the Russian.

"You have? Why?"

"Vell like I alvays say, a Russian man vill alvays elp a lady in trouble."

"Wow, thank you Pavel." Lizzie squeezed his hand. She couldn't believe how long he had stayed with her. She was happy about it though, glad that he would spend all of his time with her, even though she was unconscious. It really touched her.

"Anyway" Bones began. "I want to change your bandages. You have had them on for 2 days now and you need clean ones." Lizzie suddenly realised the bandage wrapped around her head.

"Nurse Chapel" he called as a blonde women suddenly approached him.

"Yes Doctor McCoy?" she asked.

"Please go fetch me some clean bandages for Miss Woods and go tell Kumiko to get the pain killers ready."

"Yes sir" the nurse replied turning away.

"Has Admiral Pike been in touch at all?" Lizzie asked quietly to Chekov.

"No but I am sure he vill." He gave her a comforting smile and she gave him one back.

At this, the doors to Sickbay opened and in walked the Captain with Lieutenant Uhura. The pair both made their way over to Lizzie's bed.

"Well good morning Sleeping Beauty!" Kirk said as soon as he saw that she was awake. Uhura rolled her eyes before speaking.

"How are you sweetie?" she asked Lizzie.

"Stiff, sore, tired and my head hurts" she replied, with a funny feeling she was going to be giving that answer to many people as the day went on.

"Well, your in good hands with Bones" Kirk told her giving the doctor a slap on the back.

"What happened?" Lizzie asked wanting to know how she got into Sickbay in the first place.

"Damn Klingons, that's what happened" Bones told her.

At this, nurse Chapel arrived with the bandages, essentially ending the conversation. Much to Kirk's dismay, Kumiko arrived too.

"Hiiiiiii Kirk" she squealed handing Bones the hypo spray full of painkillers.

"Erm, hi Kumiko" Kirk slowly moved away from her. Bones, noticing how uncomfortable his friend was, spoke.

"Kumiko, please go give Ensign Hughes his hypo spray please."

"Yes sir. Bye Kirk." she said giving the captain a wave before leaving.

"You owe me one" Bones said to a relieved Kirk before turning to Lizzie.

"Right, lets change those bandages." With Nurse Chapel's help, he had the wound re-bandaged in no time.

"I'm gonna give you a hypo spray jab now."

"A what?" Lizzie asked.

"A hypo spray. It contains painkillers and a sedative to help you sleep. It'll only hurt for a second."

But before Lizzie had time to react, Bones gave her the hypo spray and she fell asleep within seconds.

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Lizzie finally awoke 8 hours later and looked to her side expecting to see Chekov. Instead, she found her captain waiting by her side.

"Where's Pavel?" she asked, her voice groggy from sleep.

"Bones finally got him to go and get some sleep" Kirk said putting down the book he was reading as he realised she was awake.

"How did he manage that?"

"Chekov would only go on the condition that someone would stay with you and that we would tell him when your awake."

"Oh" she said with a laugh. Even though she had been asleep, he still refused to leave her side. He really was a caring person. What Lizzie didn't understand was the tingles she felt in her stomach at the thought of this.

"Feel better after that sleep?" he asked her.

"Yeah, I think the painkillers have helped too." Lizzie noticed the pain in her head wasn't as strong as before.

"Good" he told her. At this he opened his communicator. "Uhura, please inform Ensign Chekov that Ensign Woods is awake please."

"Ay sir" Uhura's voice said from over the communicator.

"Thanks, Kirk out." He turned back to his book. Lizzie looked at him as he did this. Something wasn't right here. It finally dawned on her.

"Not that I'm complaining, but why aren't you flirting with me?" If anything she was glad he had stopped since he had done nothing but flirt since he had met her but it concerned her as to why.

"Oh, I've stopped that with you now. Someone else has got his eye on you, so I'm going to take a back seat and let him go for it."

Someone liked her?

"Who is it?" Lizzie asked eagerly. Back home, no boys had ever liked her. They saw her more as a friend rather than a girlfriend. This didn't bother her at first, but when puberty kicked in and she started noticing boys, it really got on her nerves. That fact that she was into mechanics and engineering didn't really help her either. She was a tomboy at heart.

"Cant say" Kirk said with a cheeky grin. His eyes never left his book.

"Why not?"

"I don't think he's even realised it himself yet. Its so obvious though." He began laughing to himself. Lizzie glared at him, but reminded herself to ask him again later because at that moment, Chekov entered Sickbay again.

"Lizzie, your awake!" He ran over to her bed.

"Hi, how was your sleep?"

"Wery good thank you" he replied. The two of them stared at each other with smiles on their faces. Kirk decided to butt into the conversation.

"Geez, you two are so blind" he said getting up.

"Huh?" they both said in unison looking up at their captain.

"Never mind" he replied shacking his head. "I'm going to the bridge. I gotta ship to run. Take care Lizzie." He turned and left Sickbay. Chekov sat in the vacated chair and turned to Lizzie his attention entirely on her, where they talked for what seemed like hours.

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It was 5 days later when Lizzie was finally well enough to leave sickbay. She finally got out of the bed and took her first steps in a week.

"Oh, that feels good" she said whilst walking around, stretching. Chekov, Bones and Uhura laughed at this.

"Well how about we walk right over to your quarters" Uhura told her. Lizzie had been on the ship for a week now and still hadn't seen her quarters.

"Sounds good" she replied. She turned to Chekov. "I'll meet you in the Mess Hall later ok?"

"Yes, I vill see you later Lizzie." His face was beaming at the prospect of this. The two women then turned and left Sickbay, bring a sad look to Chekov's face.

"Geez kid, you've got it baaaaad!" Bones told him, noticing the look on the Ensign's face.

"Excuse me? I do not understand."

"Lizzie!"

"Vhat about her?"

"What about her? That huge crush you obviously have on her." Bones crossed him arms and looked at the Russian.

"It is not a crush" Chekov said blushing. " It is merely…friendship."

"Yeah, well that red face of yours tells me otherwise."

"I do not have a crush on Lizzie." He was trying to defend himself.

"Sure, you don't have a crush on Lizzie. Same as Kirk doesn't like women and Spock is my most favourite person in the whole entire galaxy."

"Zhat is sarcasm Doctor McCoy" Chekov told him.

"Exactly!" the doctor replied. "Come on Chekov, admit it. You have fallen for Lizzie, big time."

Chekov looked down at his feet as he thought about this. Had he fallen for Lizzie?

He could not bare to leave her side in sickbay and he was a wreck after hearing that she was injured. Not to mention all the times she had made him laugh and blush and the smile that appeared on his face every time he saw her. Or fact that for the past month he hadn't been able to get her pretty face out of his head. He had decided, his mind was therefore made up.

He obviously knew his answer. He looked up at McCoy.

"Yes Doctor" he said bravely, finally admitting what he had known for weeks. "I have. I have fallen for Lizzie."

A/N: At last! He has finally admitted it! Now if only Lizzie would lol. Shall I keep writing Chekov with the accent or would you guys prefer it if I wrote in plain English and you can just imagine the accent as you read?