Lost – Chapter 9

USS Enterprise – Sick Bay

Harry dropped to his knees pulling Emma with him "Keep down Emma."

Trying to see who was attacking sick bay when hunkered down was difficult so he risked a glance above the biobed. Spotting a hand holding a wand he slowly aimed his own at it and cast one of the most damaging spells in his inventory.

"Reducto"

There was a loud crack and the hand and wand simply exploded, there was a short scream and then a loud thump. Harry decided to take a chance a signalled for Emma to stay down before he jumped up and ran for the door, just as a man turned the corner wand raised. At first it appeared that Harry's luck was in. The Romulan seemed surprised to see his target standing in front of him and so he was unprepared for what happened next.

"Stupefy"

Harry's stunner caught the Romulan in the face and he slumped to the floor unconscious. He then signalled for Emma to join him but she didn't move from where she knelt, shivering on the floor. Moving quickly he grabbed her hand and pulled her to her feet. She complied but Harry could feel her hand shaking. Harry dragged Emma toward the door as he kept an eye out for anymore attackers. He opened the hatch and looked out he immediately spotted two Starfleet officers laying unmoving on the floor and he quickly pulled Emma back inside and shut the door.

"Emma do you know how to lock these doors?"

Emma didn't response, and Harry surmised that she may be in shock. He needed an ally so he quickly moved to Doctor Selar and enervated her. The Vulcan woman blinked and looked around before sitting up.

"I appear to have been rendered unconscious do either of you need medical assistance?"

"No Doctor but you are right those two Romulan's attacked you but I managed to take both of them out. I don't know if there are any more of them about and outside there are two Starfleet officers down."

Selar activated her comm badge "Selar to the Bridge".

"Selar to security."

"It would appear that communications are down or that there have been other incidents elsewhere onboard. Our best course of action would be to stay here until security has regained control of the ship." Doctor Selar's logical Vulcan mind was following policy, to the letter.

Harry however was worried, where was everyone else? He thought as he gripped his wand tightly.

USS Enterprise – Conference Room A

L'kor was far enough from the door to only be deafened by the blast and as she looked and saw figures entering through the smoke and reacted as any Klingon warrior would she whipped out her dagger and threw herself at the closest figure.

Meanwhile Riker was picking himself up off the floor only to see a snarling L'kor throw herself at someone hidden in the smoke. Trying to work out what was going on he stayed low and moved to where Picard lay unmoving on the floor next to D'Mek. Data was also moving and appeared to be grappling with another shadowy figure.

Worf also threw himself in to the fray leaping forward to engage the closest figure even as L'kor was thrown backwards by a burst of red light. She was soon joined by a Romulan then another Romulan joined the first and Data reappeared as he ducked under a green beam before striking out with inhuman speed. As a third Romulan joined the other two it soon became apparent that the fight was over for now. Worf began checking the Romulans for weapons and communications devices.

Riker who had been moving the wounded to safety and seeing to D'Mek and the unconscious Starfleet officers "Data see if you can raise the bridge or security we need to find out if the bastards have hit anywhere else" Riker touched his comm. badge "Riker to Sick Bay……..Riker to Doctor Selar……damn it looks like communications are down as well. Data see if you can get communications back online."

"Aye Sir." Responded Data as he began typing of the room's access console.

"Worf how do we stand for weapons and what is the casualty count?"

"We have six Romulan's four are unconscious and two are dead, I have disarmed them all. Sir three of them were armed with these." Worf handed Riker three wands.

"Commander report" ordered Picard as he slowly sat up shading his eyes.

"Captain, are you in pain?"

"Just a headache number one, nothing that can't wait, now report Commander" ordered Picard.

"Sir it appears that the ship has been boarded by an unknown number of Romulan's six attacked here and so far we haven't been able to communicate with other areas of the ship"

"Very well Commander, Mister Data please attempt to ascertain out current tactical position, we need intelligence and we need it soon, Lieutenant Worf please keep watch on the corridor. We need to take back the ship."

"Aye Captain" responded Worf as he positioned himself in the corridor.

"How are the others Will" asked Picard quietly, he glanced to where Troi, Doctor Crusher, La Forge, D'Mek and L'kor lay having been moved by Data.

"As far as I can tell they were stunned by the blast although D'Mek got hit by some debris when the door exploded."

"Well let's see if we can get some medical assistance, any luck Data?"

"I have managed to access some of the ships sensors, it would appear that Romulan boarding parties have attacked several key areas on board, engineering, our location and sick bay; they appear to have activated some sort of dampening field in engineering that has essentially sealed sections of the ship. Commander the computer cores operation also seems to be being disrupted; unfortunately I am unable to discern how they are achieving this."

"Can you determine numbers?" asked Riker.

"There appears to be a number of other Romulan life signs aboard the Enterprise, I can detect eight, correction there are now only six normal Romulan life signs aboard…… I would surmise that they have been rendered unconscious."

"Unconscious? that would suggest that others are fighting back, where are the unconscious ones?"

"Sick Bay"

USS Enterprise – Sick Bay

"I'm scared" Emma whispered when Harry asked her if she was alright.

"So am I but we need to function and keep our wits about us."

"Doctor Selar is there anywhere we could hide in here? I mean out of sight has to be better than standing here where anyone coming in will see us straight away."

Harry was trying to stay calm and think logically but the fact that nobody had arrived to assist them was worrying him. He kept checking the door and considered breaking it somehow so it wouldn't open but that would just trap them all in sick bay.

Evidently Harry's logical assessment of their position had influenced Doctor Selar because the Vulcan was now studying a schematic of the room.

"There is a wall cavity behind the portside bulkhead where two jefferies tubes meet. I believe it would be ideal as it also offers us an escape route should it become needed"

Dr Selar walked over to the wall and removed a panel showing Harry and Emma the space behind it. Working quickly they gathered some medical supplies and moved to their hiding spot; once all three were safely inside Dr Selar replaced the panel and then set up her tricorder to scan sick bay for life signs so as to give them a warning if anyone entered while they were hidden away.

Time passed slowly as the three waited in the small space. Harry noted with relief that Emma had begun to clam down and seemed less shaky.

The soft beep of Selar's tricorder drew all three's attention and the Vulcan doctor immediately studied it's display before Harry watched as Dr Selar checked her tricorder and smiled she pointed to the two coloured dots on it.

"Human?" asked Harry.

"Yes" replied Dr Selar.

"Starfleet?" asked Harry still talking softly.

While sealed the hatch wasn't entirely sound proof so Harry whispered the most powerful silencing charm he knew.

"Parietis Silentium" a pink glow appeared in the air in front of him "there they shouldn't be able to hear us now but we had better keep our voices down" whispered Harry.

"What did you do?" asked Emma as the soft pink glow faded.

"Put a silencing charm on the wall, makes it hard for them to hear us" answered Harry.

"How?"

"I'll explain later I promise" He assured her.

"……no I don't know where they are….Potter is wounded according to sick bay records……..Tulor and……….stunned………acknowledged…….on site" the voice faded till the three could no longer hear the one sided conversation.

Harry was convinced these were not Starfleet officers but still turned to ask the others "What do you think?"

"They sounded human but" Emma paused "That conversation didn't sound nice"

"Damn" whispered Harry as he realised what had sparked his suspicions "They knew the Romulan's names, he referred to the two stunned Romulan's by name. We need to get out of here fast before they think to look for life signs or start looking up schematics."

Dr Selar could only agree with Harry's logic but still was not convinced that leaving her post was the best way to proceed but she did have one patient and a minor's safety to consider. Quickly she opened the hatch giving access to the Jefferies tube and indicated that Harry and Emma should precede her on the climb up the access ladder. Harry gestured for Emma to wait as he climbed the ladder to the next landing.

"Okay Emma come on up" he called down quietly.

When all three had reached the landing Dr Selar opened the hatch explained that this junction led either up or branched out on deck twelve mainly to crew quarters and science labs.

"How far to the bridge?" asked Harry.

"We are on deck twelve the bridge is on deck one" answered Dr Selar.

"And we can climb ladders all the way up?"

"It is a long climb but yes it is possible. May I ask why you deem the bridge to be the best destination?" asked Dr Selar.

"Well I don't know a lot about Starfleet vessels but on a Klingon ship if the bridge were taken that's the one spot nearly every officer would head to and right now I want to know what the bloody hell is going on."

"Perhaps" began Dr Selar "it would be best for me to go. I am uncomfortable with the idea of leading you in to a situation that may involve a confrontation."

"I can look after myself Doctor" protested Harry.

"I don't doubt it but it is my responsibility, please wait here and protect Emma. In the event that I don't return wait here until the all clear sounds" instructed Dr Selar.

As she began to ascend the ladder there was a flash of green light from above and the Vulcan Doctor simply went limp and fell backwards.

IKS Kaveth Nar – Bridge

"I don't give a shit I am going after my godson" a furious Sirius was facing off against Moros and two other Klingon officers.

Moros had just managed to restore order to the Kaveth Nar after ten Romulan's had boarded the ship and managed to do some damage before they had been killed or captured. The remaining boarders had fled. Now after fifteen long minutes the transporters were finally working and Sirius wanted to beam directly to the Enterprise. However Moros was adamant that no one was leaving the ship till he could find out just what the hell was happening on the Enterprise as any away team could be beaming in to the middle of a fire fight.

"Listen Moros just beam me over, I can protect myself and find Harry, we can be back in minutes and I will be able to give you a personal bloody report on what's happening."

"Sirius the Enterprise is huge just let me run some scans and maybe I'll be able to beam you straight to him" Moros was a little frightened as Sirius raised his wand and placed it on his palm.

"Watch Moros, Point me Harry Potter"

Sirius's wand swung toward the Enterprise "See Moros, on board Enterprise, closer to him and I can pinpoint his location."

Moros was silent looking in to Sirius's eyes for a few seconds "Tell me truly Sirius can you do this?"

"Yes"

"Take this" Moros handed Sirius a disruptor "Operations what is the status of Enterprise?"

"Their shields are still down and there are still power fluctuations on all decks" reported Duran at Operations.

"Very well, beam Mister Black to the shuttle bay on deck fourteen, Sirius prepare yourself there could be some very unhappy people nearby when you materialise."

USS Enterprise – Shuttle Bay

Sirius appeared in the centre of the shuttle bay and didn't see anybody so he immediately disillusioned himself and cast a silencing charm on his feet. 'Years of schoolyard pranks finally paying off' he thought with a brief smile. There was no sign of any Romulan or Starfleet personnel and so he moved slowly toward the exit.

"Point me Harry Potter"

His wand pointed straight up; okay so he may be still in sickbay with a soft pop Sirius apparated and appeared in sickbay right between two grey cloaked figures one of whom was bent over an unmoving Starfleet officer. Sirius was moving before he even finished the thought diving to the floor he cast a stunner striking the standing figure before targeting the second man with a stunner. Sirius quickly snapped the two wands he found and took their weapons before stunning both again. The female Starfleet officer was already dead; with a sigh he stood and moved to where a panel was missing from the wall but stopped when he heard voices.

USS Enterprise – Corridor outside Sick Bay - Deck 12

Worf shook his head and closed the dead security officers eyes "This one a well Captain."

"Damn, very well Mister Worf weapons on stun and be careful and quick, on three, one…" Picard pulled back from the door control as it slid open.

"Captain" Sirius greeted Picard.

The Starfleet officers lowered their weapons as they recognised Sirius.

"I didn't know you were aboard Mister Black" said Picard who was still gripping his Phaser.

"I just beamed over from the Kaveth Nar I'm looking for Harry."

"Can you communicate with your ship?"

Sirius handed Picard his Klingon communicator and soon he was conversing with Moros about garnering Klingon's to help secure the Enterprise. Worf and Riker were quickly checking the fallen in sick bay.

"Mister Black did you deal with all four Romulans?" asked Worf as he finished tying up the Romulans.

"No just those two, I suspect Harry got the other two before I arrived"

"I found your officer near that hatch" he pointed to the open access hatch.

"You think our people escaped?" asked Riker.

"Well Harry's not here so yeah maybe, I'm going up to have a look anyway……"

BOOM

"What was that?" demanded Picard

USS Enterprise – Jefferies Tube Deck 10

"Protego" Harry whispered as he risked a glance up the ladder at the next platform he caught a glimpse of movement and pulled his head back in. He was using his body to shield Emma and they were, at least for now out of direct line of sight but he was well aware that they were not in a very good position particularly if any one targeted them from below. Harry was trying to think of a next move when the landing he was on was rocked by an explosion.

His shield spell had protected them both but the landing they were on was badly damaged and tilting precariously downward. Emma was clinging to Harry's back and Harry had to hang on with both hands to stop them both falling.

"Harry?"

It took a few seconds for Harry to realise the call had come from below and he knew the voice.

"Sirius?"

"Stay where you are pup, helps on the way."

"Their above me, I think a couple of levels up" Harry yelled down to his Godfather.

There was another loud bang and then silence.

"We have secured the landing Captain"

"Very good Mister Worf, Mister Potter are you safe where you are?"

"Umm well I can hang on a bit but Emma is getting a bit heavy" replied Harry.

"You have some one with you Mister Potter?"

"Emma was visiting me in sick bay."

"Okay well hang on for a few more minutes while we get organised to get you out."

In the end it took nearly thirty minutes and Sirius ended up levitating them both down. In that time the Enterprise's crew with the help of the Klingon's managed to regain control of the ship. They had managed to capture five Romulans and three Humans working with them while seven of the boarding party had been killed. The Enterprise suffered the loss of twenty six crewmen; including the entire Beta shift bridge crew. Most of the crew had been stunned or simply locked in their rooms.

Overall it took several hours for engineering to repair the damage to key systems and to disable the device left in engineering that had been affecting the computer cores.

As Harry lay once more in sick bay watching Emma surrounded by her family sleeping in the next biobed he was trying to work out what exactly to say when she woke up. His secret was certainly out and to be honest he wasn't sure what her reaction was going to be or if he could blame her if she wanted nothing more to do with him. Once more someone had died trying to protect him and people he liked, friends were threatened. Yes he thought glumly knowing Harry Potter was dangerous. Harry rolled to face away from Emma, perhaps it would be better to let her go, it would certainly go along way toward keeping her safe.

In Sickbay visiting Beverly, Deanna Troi looked up as a feeling of loss and sadness washed over her; she watched Harry roll over and shut his eyes.