As the world falls down (English Version)

Chapter 7

Last days of December, those moments would be the last days spent on the Starship Enterprise, before the crew knew or chose their destiny, after five wonderful years.

Little T'Dal had woken up from the afternoon nap after contracting a fever, promptly treated by Doctor McCoy. According to the doctor, the child had contracted it while refueling the Enterprise at a star base, the captain had given everyone a few hours of rest before resuming their journey. Spock had allowed T'Dal to play with children from other planets and had advised her not to move away from where she was, since she would have left for a moment before returning to the Enterprise.

For his part, McCoy decided to be an uncle and watching T'Dal play himself, who, not realizing that she was being controlled, decided to play tag with the children, having fun.

An Andorian boy wanted to play only with T'Dal because according to the girl she was the first Vulcan girl she had ever met, but when the Andorian boy collided with the doctor's legs the man smiled at him at first. McCoy's "clinical gaze", however, had made it possible to point out to the doctor that the Andorian boy had a very red nose and shining eyes: he was about to march towards the mother of that little Andorian monster with snot on his nose to tell him to stay away from T'Dal when Spock returned.

It was the Vulcan who called T'Dal to himself and as soon as the child happened she returned to having a semblance of Vulcan composure, all three returned to the ship, as McCoy had nothing to do. Unfortunately, a few hours after the incident, his favorite granddaughter had a high fever. Given a last-minute urgency due to a gunfight, she T'Dal she had been taken from the infirmary to Spock's room, where she had been allowed to sleep as she was no longer feverish. The Vulcan would stay there with her until she woke up, but the captain had called him to the deck urgently.

When she woke up, T'Dal found surprisingly herself alone.

«Dad? Father?» she called.

She sat up on the bed, and said in a still sleepy voice, «Light, factor 25.» As she rubbed her eyes, her lights came on becoming barely dim; showing the room and the outlines of the various pieces of furniture. At that moment T'Dal had the complete certainty of being completely alone, in that large room and she was saddened.

«Good morning, White Rabbit.» T'Dal said, calling the name with which the rabbit-shaped plush that was in a corner of the room had been baptized.

«What are you wearing? How is it that Father calls him? Oh yes. White Rabbit is a white rabbit with a waistcoat. But it's easier to call it... vest, according to uncle Leonard», although she liked that word considerably more she had to remember that the correct name was waistcoat. It had become almost a habit to ask and answer each other. She wanted to show her father that she wanted to be a good Vulcan and she had to try thinking logical since she was bored. She actually was still bored with logic and she would have preferred to go back to the starship to play, but she couldn't do it.

«What should I do now?» she asked, looking at her trusted adventure companion and then nodded the soft toy to her as if he were the one to suggest what to do «Right, I have to call dad.»

She tried to pull up a chair and scramble to reach the wall communicator, but she couldn't get reach it, so she stared at the door.

She told herself that to have a snack she had to leave the room and looked at the communicator on the wall again.

«Where I should go? Bridge or sickbay?» T'Dal wondered, only to decide not to change the pink pajamas that she had given her Aunt Nyota because she liked her very much.

"Maybe better bridge," she told herself, since from there she would meet her daddy or Uncle Jim and all together they would go to have a snack, she was very hungry. She wasn't sure she would find Uncle Leonard in the infirmary.