Saratoga Medical Bay
3:30 PM

Alyen arrived back in sickbay to the sight of Belzoni going over a PADD.

The Head Nurse looked up at him. "Dr. McCoy hasn't gotten back yet." Her voice quieted.

"Did you see the Captain?"

He nodded. "All of this has upset him. Badly," he said softly. "But he's strong, he'll get through this."

Belzoni nodded sadly. "Hopefully we all will."

Any other comment she might have made was cut off as the turbolift doors opened to reveal…

Dr. Leonard McCoy…And Dr. Leonard McCoy.

Both Belzoni and Alyen stared. The two men could have been identical twins. Even their uniforms were…
No not quite. Alyen, always good at observation, noticed that their pants were slightly different,
but the difference was minor.

Both doctors were staring at each other now and both wore almost identical perplexed scowls. "Jim, said
this was strange," one of them, the Enterprise CMO, said finally. "Try mind-bendingly strange."

"That's for sure," McCoy managed.

Alyen silently agreed and knew from her expression, that Belzoni felt the same.

The other doctor took a breath. "I want to make one thing perfectly clear. If anything happens
to MY Captain, he will be treated by me and only by me. Not some doppelganger."

McCoy raised an eyebrow. "This is my sickbay. Hell, this is my universe. You and your friends
are the doppelgangers."

"Don't remind me." His double glanced around. "This is one tiny sickbay."

McCoy's face darkened slightly. "It suits our needs and I'll thank you not to insult it. Lives have
been saved here and crewmembers have died here."

The other McCoy actually flushed slightly. "Sorry," he muttered.

He's stressed. Alyen noted. How can he not be? He's been ripped from his own universe.

He couldn't even imagine how he would react if this had happened to him. If he were separated
from his beloved. From their baby….

McCoy nodded and his expression grew slightly warmer. "We've got a few hours, let's get started."
He motioned to Alyen and Belzoni. "This is my Head Nurse, Diana Belzoni and Medical Assistant,
Tuskaro Alyen."

He handed Belzoni the PADDs he was carrying. "Belzoni, my… double and I are going to be in
the lab. I need you to pull up as much biomedical data as you can from our records and transfer
them to these PADD's."

Belzoni took the PADD's. "Right away, Doctor."

McCoy turned to turned to Alyen. "Alyen, you'll help her. Also, both the Saratoga and the Enterprise
are running ongoing sensor sweeps of that crazy anomaly out there. Run it through our computers
and note anything that might be medically relevant." He snorted. "As if there's anything about cosmic
doorways that open between infinite universes that wouldn't be relevant to one's physical and mental
health."

Alyen nodded. "I'll put all of Bower's lessons to good use, sir."

While the two CMO's made their way to the lab, Alyen caught the eye of the newcomer. "It's an honor
to meet you. Dr McCoy," he said softly.