How the Time Flies

Chapter 15

We spent the next two weeks on Risa and then got a transport ship back to Starbase 87 where the Enterprise was docked. "So how was Risa?!" Ezri asks excitedly meeting us at the docking bay. "It was' I start to say "Great." Julian says finishing my sentence. "Well it's glad to have you both back." Ezri says. "I better go. I told Ensign Wilde I'd be back for her appointment at 0900." She added smiling and walking. "What do you say to going for dinner at Vic's tonight?" Julian asks smiling as we walk through the starbase back to the Enterprise. "I'd like that. Haven't been to Vic's in forever." I say. "Well at least I got him to sing at our wedding." Julian says. "It's just so hard to get your hands on a few holo emitters these days." I mutter. I go unpack and then head off to the bridge to work in my office. As I walk in my computer chirps, I must have a message from someone. I sit down and open the file. It was about a first contact mission. They wanted me to go undercover....I wonder how I'm going to tell Julian and the crew.

Two hours later I go back to my quarters to get dressed for my evening with Julian. "You look....beautiful." Julian states almost speechless when I walk out into the living room in my dress. "Thanks. You look great to." I say smiling. "Well, Mrs. Bashir. After you." He says motioning to the door. We head down to the holodeck and Julian says "Computer play program Bashir 62." As we walk in I could hear Vic singing "Come Fly with Me" and see him moving around on stage. The night was perfect, Vic was even our waiter. After it was over we headed back to our quarters and got changed. I sat down on the couch. I guess this would be the time to tell him.

(A month later)

"We need to stabilize her stat! She has internal bleeding, 3 fractured ribs, a gun shot wound to the chest and multiple burns and cuts." An ER nurse yells wheeling a gurney through the halls of the hospital. "I'm gonna need to get her into surgery now if we want her live." The doctor says walking out of the OR. "Nurse get these clothes off her." She says looking over the patient. "Get me 2 pints of blood. I'll start operating as soon as you get back." She says wheeling the gurney into the OR. The nurse runs back in with the blood needed and the doctor starts to operate. "What the-" the doctor says looking. "She's not Galvanian. I don't know what she is." She states.

(Back to after Max and Julian went to Vic's)

"Why do you have to do this mission? Why can't it be Commander Nog or Harry?" Julian asks me. "I told you. First contact is a big deal, I want to it to go right. And second, the Galvanians are an all Female race! Except for a few males who you know...help them populate. It's not exactly like Nog or Harry would fit in. Not that I'm saying one of them couldn't pull of a dress..." I get interrupted by Julian laughing at the though of Nog or Harry in a dress. "As I was saying I'm just going to be on Seta III for a month to watch how they act and what customs they have. You know. Learn more about them. I will get to see them launch there first warp drive ship! It's not an everyday thing you get to see." I finish. "Alright alright. But I want you to be carful! You gotta promise me that." He says kissing my forehead. "I will. Don't worry." I say hugging him. "Anyways. Tomorrow could I come in and get my prosthetics done?" I ask. "Yeah. What's different about the Galvanians?" Julian asks. "Well. It's not like my eyes would look normal." I point out. "Also they have 3 ears." I say. "3? Well, they certainly hear well
I bet." He says grabbing his tea off the table and sitting down on the couch next to me. I lay my head against his chest. "I'm gonna miss this." I mutter softly. "I'll miss you to. By the time you get back Ezri will be glad I'm not going on and on about you every day." He says laughing slightly and taking a sip of his tea. I get up and go change, then hop in bed. Julian joins me an hour later after finishing up a book he was reading.

On Seta III

Four hours after surgery the patient gets wheeled to a room. "What's your name miss?" The nurse asks seeing I'm awake. She had a clipboard and pen in her hand "Malora. Malora Wright." I say looking around the room confused. I smelled chemicals and felt like I had just been drugged. "Well Malora. I'm your nurse Jemma. If you need anything just press that button on the table next to your bed." She says. She looked nervous, when I turned my head I could see guards outside the room. She speeds out of the room at warp speed. I felt around near my ears for the prosthetics. They were gone. I figured much, once they operated they'd see I wasn't like them. I lay there as the memories of the past 24 hours come back. I was at the main hall visiting with the governor of the Rozon Sector when three armed people came out of no where dressed in black. I told the governor to run while I fought them off. I had been hiding behind a desk trying to find a weapon as the bullets sprayed around the room. I was posing as a astrophysicist from the Getta province. I ran across the room and started fighting the three, managing to pull off one of there masks. They were male. I was shocked at first which made it easy for one of them to shoot me as I ran for cover. The next thing I remember is waking up here.