Together {Star Trek Enterprise Fan Fiction}

The Boarding Party

Early morning, alarm going off.

Lili lay on top of a strong left arm, with a powerful chest behind her that was breathing regularly. She opened her eyes and followed the arm to its wrist and hand and fingers, to the wedding ring she'd given Doug a year and a half before. It was a dull grey metal, a plain but tall band, “'Morning,” she said softly.

“Ah, here, the alarm's on my side,” he said, “Lean forward a sec,” he took his arm away, rolled over and shut off the alarm, “Got, I think a little while before Joss and Yimar are up.”

She kissed him, “I've still got a little sleep in my eyes,” she rubbed them.

“Can I wake you up a bit more?” he asked.

“Sure,” she said, “But I think we'd better be a bit quick about it, before someone gets it in his head that he wants breakfast.”

They kissed. “You first,” she said.

“Oh?”

“Yeah,” she smiled at him, “Unless you object.”

“Nope,” he said, lying back and folding his arms behind his head.

Doug thought to himself, even a bad one of these is good.

There was a chime at the door.

“Damn,” he said.

They straightened up in bed and made sure the blanket was around them, “Uh, come in,” Lili said.

“'Ommy! 'Ommy!”

“Sorry, we, uh, he's hungry,” Yimar said.

Joss got onto the bed between them. He patted Lili, “Milk?”

“No. We have to save that for Petey. Petey's going to be very hungry when he comes out,” Lili said.

“Joss, do you know where Petey is?” Doug asked his son.

“Uhhh,” Joss thought for a minute, then touched Lili's belly.

“That's right,” Lili said, “And he'll be here in five months. I know that's a long, long time from now,” she glanced at Doug, “but the time will go by quickly. And then after that you'll have a playmate. Would you like that?”

Joss nodded.

“I don't know how much of that he got,” Doug said.

“Well, maybe not much,” Lili admitted, “He just needs to know this is a good thing that's happening.”

“I'll, um, I can take him to breakfast,” Yimar offered.

“It's okay,” Doug said, “We're getting up anyway. Gonna see Doctor Phlox this morning,” he got up and hustled himself into the bathroom. The shower started running.

“He's the cleanest human I've ever known,” Yimar said, “Not that I have a lot of experience with such things.”

“Yes. Very clean,” Lili said.

=/\= 

Shift change on the NX-01. Oh eight hundred hours.

In Engineering, Tripp Tucker and Jennifer Crossman replaced José Torres and Josh Rosen, “EM radiation is still climbing. We can't quite find the cause,” Torres said.

“Okay, you're on that, Crossman,” Tripp said.

“Yes, sir,” she replied.

At the pilot's station, Travis arrived to relieve Melissa, “Hiya,” he said.