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Karokas sat in his work room, laughing. He had the codes and he would destroy Enterprise before they could reveal the scans to his enemies. He didn't trust the Humans. On his monitor he looked at Hoshi who was now eating dinner in what she thought was the mess hall. He had put the ensign also on a holodeck, deciding that was better than keeping her in the cell until he would kill her. Maybe he would let her die in a 'attack' on the holodeck. Karokas grinned, ready to find Enterprise. The Enterprise would return to the planet where they had left Ensign Sato and the wonderful Vulcan when they would not show up. And then Karokas would be ready, disable the shields with the codes from T'Pol and he would blow them up. Then he would kill Hoshi.

Karokas loved that people always fell so easy for his trap. They always blindly believed that they woke up in the future with no memories. He found it amusing to see them think that they were safe.

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Enterprise was on their way to the planet that they had left Hoshi and T'Pol on. Travis, worried about Hoshi was shifting in his chair. But Trip was practically bouncing up and down. Captain Archer looked at him sharply.

'Captain, we have arrived at the planet.' Said the ensign with the red hair who was sitting on T'Pol's chair.

'Good. Start scanning for a human and Vulcan bio sign and our shuttle, ensign.' Said Captain Archer. The ensign started scanning.

'No lifesigns, sir.' Said the woman a little bit surprised. 'But, they have been on the planet, definitely. I see some debris on the continent they were going to land on.'

'They crashed?' Asked Trip.

'Well, yes. But there's only little debris. Like, there's not enough debris from the whole sir, if you get what I'm saying. Someone took the shuttle away.' Said the woman.

'Captain, something disabled our shields.' Said Lieutenant Reed.

'What?' Asked Archer and stood up.

'Someone from the surface is using command codes to disable our shields.' Said Reed in faint alarm and then the whole ship shook. The whole bridge went dark and a fire started burning.

'That was a direct hit and another one would be fatal!' Yelled Reed.

'Get us out of here, right now!' Yelled Archer at Travis.

'Gladly, sir.' Murmured Travis.

Half an hour everyone from the senior staff except for Hoshi and T'Pol off course was present at the meeting.

'Captain, the codes that were used were Subcommander T'Pol her codes.' Said Lieutenant Reed. Trip's whole face brightened.

'So she's still alive!' Said Trip.

'Not necessarily, my friend.' Said Reed. 'Someone could have tortured her and –

'Lieutenant, let's not speculate about that.' Said Captain Archer immediately, looking at Trip. 'Right now somebody knows how to disable our shields. We do not know how much this person knows so I want to send a shuttle to the planet. The Suliban cell ship would be perfect.'

'I volunteer!' Said Trip and Travis at the both time.

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Karokas was angry. His attack had failed. How could he have been so foolish! Off course the ship would have gotten away. But they would come back..

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T'Pol was lying on the floor, curled into a ball, sobbing. She had stopped trying to control her emotions a long time ago.

The Enterprise was probably destroyed now. And it was all her fault now. All her fault. Her fault. Her Fault. Her FAULT! She sobbed even harder. Suddenly she heard footsteps and someone opened the door with a phaser. She felt a little bit hope that they were going to save her but she knew Enterprise was destroyed. And.. this was probably Karokas playing a trick on her. She crouched in the corner.

Trip bursted in, looking through the room and then ran to her.

'T'Pol, thank god, you're alive. Are you all right?' He asked putting his hands on her shoulders. She hissed at him.

'I will not let you touch me, alien. Get away! Get away or I'll snap your neck. You're not Trip. He is dead!' Screamed T'Pol when Trip tried to carry her.

'T'Pol, it's me, Trip. I'm not dead.' Said Trip.

'Trip is dead and it's my fault.' Whimpered T'Pol against his chest. In the hall stood Lieutenant Reed and Travis Mayweather. 'Everyone is dead and it's all my fault. And I had to tell him… I had to tell him..'

'Tell who?' Asked Trip, looking at the Vulcan who now looked so vulnerable.

'I had to tell Trip I loved him.' Whispered T'Pol and then she fainted. Trip stared at her. Malcolm laughed.

'Well..'

'Shut up Mal.'

'Time to find Hoshi.' Said Travis.

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Hoshi was still sitting in 'the messhall', enjoying her dessert. She tried very hard not to think of T'Pol her lifeless body in sickbay.

'I should have demanded to see her. I should have fought him. Maybe T'Pol would have been alive now if I had done that.' Thought Hoshi. The guilt was eating her up.

She pushed her plate with a piece of strawberry pie on it away. She wasn't hungry anymore. Hoshi thought of Travis who had told her Trip was devasted.

I should have died, thought Hoshi and tears threatened to overtake her. It should have been me.

'Hoshi!' Travis walked in smiling and sat down next to her. 'Are you all right?'

Hoshi wasn't sure anymore. 'I'm just.. I feel so guilty, Travis. It's so strange.' Whispered Hoshi when the doors of the mess hall opened and Travis came in. Hoshi stared at him and then at the Travis at her table. She screamed.

'What the hell?'

Travis looked at her and then at Travis at the table and grabbed her.

'Hoshi, you have to get out of here. Believe me, you're not on Enterprise.' Yelled Travis shaking her. Hoshi only screamed harder, her eyes as wide as tea cups.

'Hoshi, he's not real. Don't believe him!' Said the Travis sitting at the table.

Hoshi backhanded the Travis who was shaking her and ran to the door, opening it and ran in the corridor. Trip was standing there, together with Malcolm.

And Trip was carrying T'Pol.

'Where are you bringing her? She's dead! She's dead!' Screamed Hoshi.

I'm going insane, thought Hoshi. Malcolm touched her shoulder. 'Hoshi, listen to me. You're on a holodeck, this is a hologram of the Enterprise. An alien is trying to trick you into believing that you are home. T'Pol isn't really dead, she was a holographic character, just like everyone.' Said Malcolm. Hoshi started crying.

'No, T'Pol is dead and it's my fault, I should have saved her!' Said Hoshi and touched the cheek of T'Pol. Her cheek was warm. 'I'm just hallucinating.'

Travis, the real Travis, the Travis she had hit opened the door and held her. 'Hoshi, we're going to Enterprise. The real one.' Said Travis. Hoshi only cried.

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Archer was waiting in the shuttle bay. The hatch of the shuttle pod opened and Travis came out, helping Hoshi. Hoshi was as white as a ghost and her eyes were puffy from crying. Doctor Phlox hurried to T'Pol, Trip was carrying her.

'Her blood stream is full of drugs designed to make her lose control. We have to get her to sickbay, now!' Ordered Phlox. Two ensigns and Liz Cutler helped T'Pol on a stretched. Malcolm came out at last.

'The mission is finished, captain. We disabled is weapons and his holodecks.' Said Malcolm. After overpowering the alien they had disabled the weapons and holodecks. But then the alien had shapeshifted and they had lost him.

They had searched through the building but when T'Pols condition worsened they were forced to come back to Enterprise.

Archer nodded at Malcolm and Trip.

'Well, I'm not sure how I'm going to explain this away mission to admiral Forrest.' Joked Archer. Trip smiled.

'Yeah, that could be a problem.'

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Trip was sitting next to T'Pols bio bed, thinking about her words.

She had said that she loved him. But he realized that she had been influenced by the drugs.

Hoshi had explained a little about what happened. Karokas, before he had escaped, had been forced to tell his whole plan. He had put T'Pol and Hoshi in holodecks, making T'Pol belief that she was in the future and married with Trip, only to get her command codes.
Malcolm had chuckled when he had mentioned 'married with Trip'. Hoshi was put in a holodeck, believing T'Pol had died and that she was on Enterprise.

Trip still didn't really understand it.

He heard a soft groan next to him and say T'Pol opening her eyes.

'Hey, T'Pol.' Whispered Trip. He realized he was still holding her hand but just held it. Her hand was very soft.

T'Pol blinked twice. 'I am on Enterprise.'

'Yes. And you're not married to me.' Joked Trip. T'Pol pursed her lips.

'Trip…'

Trip explained everything to T'Pol.

'Where is Karokas now?' Asked T'Pol.

'Dunno, probably still in his building. But he won't be able to use the holodeck and weapons anymore.'

For a moment they were silent and then Trip decided to just ask it, hoping for the best. He had almost lost her and he had realized that he loved her and that he couldn't stand not knowing if she did too. If she did, great, they would start a relationship.

If she didn't…

Then he would leave her alone. He immediately became sad when he thought of that!
'T'Pol.. when I saved you, you said something. You said that you loved me. know that the drugs influenced you but I just wanted to know…' Stammered Trip.

Before he could do something she had pulled him closer to her and her lips were on his. She stroked his cheek while they softly explored each other's soft lips. Trip wanted to yell from happiness. He gathered her in his arms and softly rubbed her back.

He loved her. And she loved him.

Archer coughed. He and Malcolm walked in on seeing Trip and T'Pol in a very affectionate embrace. Malcolm had a hard time holding in his laughter and Archer chuckled.

'So, the lovebirds are together?' Asked Malcolm and then he started laughing. Archer joined him and they were practically rolling on the floor from laughter when Trip stopped kissing T'Pol to look at them angrily.

'Hey, ever heard of privacy, you two?'

Malcolm only laughed harder.

'I can't… believe this… chuckle.. after… chuckle… all those years of… chuckle chuckle… arguing.. we find them… chuckle..chuckle..chuckle..kissing.. I… can't..chuckle..chuckle..believe this!' Laughed Archer. Liz Cutler came in.

'What is happening here?' Asked Liz, looking at the captain and tactical officer laughing so hard she was afraid they would choke and the first officer and chief engineer blushing, T'Pol a greenish blush, holding each other.

Liz Cutler decided to come back another time, leaving the four alone.

Just one more chapter, which will be pure fluff with Travis proposing for Hoshi and lots more of fluff, so if that's not your cup of tea, just don't read the next chapter and consider this the end of the story. I'm sorry I couldn't post a chapter earlier but I was really busy..

TBC, please review, you'll make my day!