Bad, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, bad! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I've been a busy bee with school, so yeah, sorry. I don't own any of the main characters, but I do own Bella
That evening, a pretty woman came in, carrying a stack of clothing. She walked to Chekov and gave him new shirts, and then made her way over to me. I looked at Chekov, hoping to see him change, but he went into what seemed to be McCoy's office to change.
"You're Bella, right? I'm Nyota." She asked me.
"Yeah. Uhura's your last name right?." I sat up, proffering my hand. She shook it.
She turned to McCoy and said, "Clear off will you? A woman's touch is needed here."
McCoy looked like he was going to disagree, but left anyway, muttering about something
"Now, I hope this stuff fits you as we don't have anything else yet. Will you be needing any help changing?"
"I should be fine, but are there any flat shoes? I can't be on crutches in a high heeled shoe."
"I should be able to find you something. Jo, can you go and make sure that Chekov doesn't come out yet?"
Jo looked happy as she hopped off the bed and ran to the office, saying as she went, "Yeah, sure, Uhura."
I looked at her, grinning, "She seems a bit too eager. Are they in love or something?"
She shrugged, "Dunno, none of us do. Her father will kill him, if they start dating. Ever since the divorce, he's been very protective."
"I noticed. When Scotty and Chekov carried her in, he yelled at them. Very much the doting daddy."
She sniggered at this, then left to check on the other two. I used this distraction to get changed. The uniform was red, like Uhura's and Scotty's, but while I had been expecting a miniskirt, I was presented with a pair of oversized men's trousers. Uhura came back to see me staring at these trousers and tactfully found me some crutches. She then proceeded to help me to get the trousers on.
"Alright, that's you sorted. Scotty wants you to report down to Engineering some time over the next week. You're to be his second; you'll be looking after engineering when Scotty's busy. You know, most of the engineers are very hacked off that a newbie gets to be his second when they've been on the ship for five years or more."
"Wait! I'm to be Scotty's second?" She nodded. "But we only talked for, like, five minutes – if that. And yet he wants ME to be his second-in-command?"
"Well, evidently you made an impression. And trust me, making an impression on Scotty can be quite hard."
Right then, Spock walked, "Lieutenant, what is causing the delay?"
"Sorry. She's not quite ready yet, I have a trouser leg to adjust."
I looked at my foot, "And a flat shoe to find, as well."
She looked down, "Oh, yes. Several safety pins and a trainer of some sorts."
As she bustled out, Spock approached. "Going by your stunned expression upon my entry, Lieutenant Uhura has told you about your role on-board the Enterprise."
"What, that I'm to be Scotty's second? Yeah, she told me. Why me though? I know nothing of how the Enterprise works. I didn't even graduate."
"You are to be his second because, and I quote, "ye the sort that keeps soldiering on, nae matter what happens." Mr Scott likes to see that in an engineer, especially in the role of his number two. You are to accompany me to the mess hall now for dinner. Alpha shift has finished, and the Beta shift has not yet started. Ensign Chekov, Miss McCoy," he said, raising his voice slightly. "you are to accompany us as well."
As the two of them walked in, I noticed that Chekov's ears had gone red. Jo was looking at the ground and not standing anywhere near him, so I think that something had gone badly. They headed over to us and Jo started whispering to Spock. Chekov came and stood by me.
"Well, that looked awkward." I said, cocking my head at him
He grinned sheepishly, "Da, it vas. Doctor McCoy vould be horrified to find zat his daughter had been trying to snog ze face off of ze nawigator." He whispered this to me, looking at Jo's back.
"Aah, that kind of awkward. McCoy will disapprove of that heartily. Especially in his own office." We followed the other two into a room full of people in a variety of coloured shirts. I had expected that certain colours would only sit with the same colours. "OH, wow."
"Da! I reacted in ze same vay. Vhat do you vant for dinner? I vill get it for you, as you hafe no hands free."
"Umm, do you still do sandwiches in this day and age? If you do, I'll have one; don't mind what's in it though."
"Okay." He walked off to join the queue, in front of the panel that seemed to give the meals out.
I looked around for familiar faces, but couldn't immediately see anyone. Looking around again, I saw Sulu waving at me. I went over and sat opposite him.
"So, where's Chekov? I saw you come in with him."
"Went to go get the dinner. I'm not really able to carry it myself."
"Fair enough," he said with a laugh in his voice. "Oi, Pav! I saw that you left your poor lady to fend for herself. Russian men are gentlemen and vill do anyzing to assist a lady, says you, then you go and leave one standing on her lonesome in the middle of the mess. Not very gentlemanly on your part is it?"
"Nyet, but I vas getting her dinner for her. If you had told me zat you knew no-one, zen I vould hafe introduced you to some people." He said, a little abashed that he had left me alone.
"Don't you go worrying yourself, Chekov, I'm lucky that Sulu spotted me first."
Chekov frowned, "How do you know her, 'Karu?
"I was one of the first people she met when she woke up. You any good at singing, Bella?" He asked.
"Yeah, fairly well. I sing soprano," they looked puzzled. "The highest female voice. You two sound like you could be tenors. The highest broken male voice." Again they looked puzzled. "Before a boy's voice breaks, they're usually sopranos. Why ask?"
"Well, we're doing a karaoke night in a few weeks, and we need more entrants. He's agreed to it, haven't you, Pav?"
"Vait, vhen vas zis? I don't remember agreeing to zat."
"I had bet you that if the occupant of one of the pods was female, then you'd do a song with her at the karaoke. And because Bella turned out to be a girl, then you have to sing one song with her."
"Alright, one song. I vill sing one song vith Bella, ONLY if she says zat it is okay." His eyes begging me not to say yes.
"I'll do a song with Chekov AND a song with you, Sulu, for setting me up before you even knew me."
Chekov lowered his head into his hands and moaned, while Sulu looked horrified. I sniggered at both reactions, but then the ship lurched so violently that I flew face first into my sandwich and slipped off my chair. The ship shuddered hard, so hard that the boys fell off their chairs as well. The ship kept shuddering and lurching that all in the mess ended huddled under the tables waiting for it to be over. As the ship steadied for the last time, I realised that Chekov was the person who'd fallen on me during that chaos. He smiled sheepishly and pushed himself off. He then helped me out and back onto my chair. As his hand came away from my back, I could see blood on it. He, too, noticed and rubbed it off onto his trousers. When no more blood came, I realised that it was mine and reached round to touch my back. My hand was covered in blood.
At that moment, Uhura's voice came over the tannoy, "All injured personnel report to Sickbay for treatment. Repeat, all injured personnel to Sickbay for treatment."
Chekov hunted around for my crutches and we went back to Sickbay. Fortunately, McCoy was waiting for me with a loaded hypospray. "How did you know that I had forgotten to give you this one?"
"I'm not here for that. I got hurt in the mess and my back's bleeding now. Hurts a lot, too." Almost as much as my leg did, I thought.
"Lie face down on that bed. What's wrong with you?" He said, addressing Chekov.
"I zink zat I dislocated my shoulder."
"Alright, shirt off. Christine, can you treat Bella's back? I've a dislocated shoulder to set."
A blond woman walked over and gave me a hypospray, "This'll help with the pain." I remembered nothing after that.