Upset Children and Songs to Sleep By...

Elrondir

If you'd had wished to really wished to rattle his cage though, I send with a slight grin on my face, causing McCoy to draw his eyebrows together. You could have told them about that one counter that had been cooked up against that infertility plague the Enemy supposedly had.

There had been many of twist and turns in the Enemy/Alliance War. Some which favored my side and some which favored the Enemy. In this case what I speak of is something dark and dangerous the Enemy had come up with that could have been a VERY bad turn for humanity as a whole indeed.

Yep, still all in all it is amazing what can still be pulled out of what some have begun calling the Terror Closet. Granted, a lot of that dark tech (some of which dates forward from the 29th century!) is too scary to even THINK about using. But one technique which we found would have been a pretty effective counter to that bio-weapon which could have rendered large portions of either the female or male population totally sterile. If it had come to pass, the enemy could have won through attrition as losses in manpower from normal battle causalities took their toll and few to little "replacements" came online to fill in. But as it stood for some reason (perhaps somehow news leaked out of our counter- ploy) caused the Enemy never to deploy it. Good and well, I guess.

However, somebody in the Company saw a fast buck to be made and got a hold of that bit of medical technique and . . . as cosmopolitan as those people who hale from the various "Star Trek" are, they seem a bit . . . .squeamish still about homosexuality, much less the idea that same sex couples now (due to that technique recovered from the "Terror Closet") can produce offspring. Just goes to show you . . .

. . .

Myself, I know that there probably will be long term consequences for human society back Home because of that. However, it's an ongoing issue under study for sociologists to figure out and it IS NOT my problem. I have sympathy for the Star Trekkers about this. It is a . . . bit deviant from their definition of the norm but . . .in the end it's not my problem.

As long as we come to an understanding when and if I am ever propositioned by those who choose alternate lifestyles that no means no I'm cool with them (and I shall only as the same from them in return).

. . .

That said, the same source for THAT headache also was the same source for an effective treatment for the malady that would otherwise prove fatal to the surviving people from that Mirror Star Trek universe. They'd been right in saying that the transporter had only been balanced for four and a fifth person could prove disastrous. But they'd been forced at gunpoint to do it anyway . . .

And as fate would have it the one person who's in MOST need of treatment for impending transporter psychosis (http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki /Transporter _psychosis# Transporter_ psychosis) just happens to be that person who'd forced the issue: Lt. Marlena Moreau.

Seeing that Lilith's worries are now somewhat placated and everyone and everything else seems to be in order, we leave the young girl to her sedated rest to attend to the other pressing matters. Honestly, after everything else today I'm hoping that we can pull THIS small mission of mercy off without a hitch. Yes, the Quest is paramount (if only by numbers lost to a fate worse than death if we fail). However, showing a bit of kindness isn't uncalled for, you know!

Gestures of kindness are the reasons why we have Reika now in the family, you know...

That said, it is also a gesture of kindness in not picking on Dr. McCoy here on his (in this case justified) fear of the transporter. Therefore I'll reign in my sometimes mean sense of humor and not make any snide comments about that one 20th century scifi movie: The Fly.

"It's time for the first regiment of treatments for our wayward Captain's woman," I say softly, as way of answer to McCoy's unspoken query. Thankfully, NERV is technologically advanced enough synthesize the drugs we had on file in our Medical computer folders.

We pass by a gaggle of people in the waiting room outside on our way to our next patient. It's rather cute the scene I glimpse: Tabris singing a song to lull Rei I to sleep. It is a traditional Japanese melody used to lull small children to bed and it seems to have done it's magic on the still somewhat confused (and upset) little girl.

Given what had happened earlier today . . . I am glad to see little Rei is no longer crying.

Nearly blew my stack when I heard what had happened, all because someone somewhere couldn't coordinate a prisoner transfer!

After all the . . .er. . . excitement today it's a nice way to end it. Hopefullly tomorrow shall reveal something we can do to make some plans. Formulate something to do beside . . .hole up in this hole in the ground and hide.

Hiding doesn't sit well with me.

Tabris

"Sleep well little one," I whisper, giving a light kiss on Rei I's forehead and handing her over to what I guess could only be described as her adopted . . . mother. Though I am not exactly sure just HOW one could define the relationship this kindly woman has with the pale blue haired girl, to be honest.

Unlike Reika, little Rei I has the soul (or katra if you're into Star Trek and a fan of Vulcans) of her reality's Yui Akari. It appears that little Rei's origins are quiet different from my origin and yet again different from those of . . .Lilith.

. . .

God only knows exactly what I'm supposed to make of that one now white haired (and winged) former Nephilim. She too had been a Yui Akari in a prior life, but the origins of her soul belong back in the days of antiquity. She had BEEN the actual Second Angel, Lilith! And just let us just say that though I am no longer one of those pseudo- Angels, the Mother still holds some . . . awe and shall we say . . . tempered respect (tinged in fear) from me.

. . .

Now, let us just concentrate on the little one I'd just finally managed to go to sleep. She'd been most distraught since that chance encounter with Commander Ikari. Words were said that should have not been said and . . . I really do wish I could have been there to . . .er. . . express MY displeasure with the creatures known as Gendo Akari.

1. As it was, someone ELSE rather close to at least ONE of the young women named Rei Ayanami had been there . . .and broke somebody's nose from what I hear...

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