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Everybody Loves Trip - Chapter 2

Author - Hoshissis
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Everybody loves Trip

by Hoshissis

Rated: PG-13
Genre: Friendship/humor, some implications of slash in later chapters

Disclaimer: Characters belong to Paramount, and the author is making no profit at all from this story.

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Chapter Two

After being released by Phlox, Trip walked to the bridge to say hello to everyone and update Captain Archer on the last five days. As he walked out of the turbo lift he saw Captain Archer in the situation room looking at some monitors.

“Hey!” said Captain Archer looking up at his friend, “Glad to see you back, did ya enjoy yourself?”

“Yeah thanks, it was a bit of a mess at first, but we soon got things sorted out. I saw some interesting bits of technology that I thought I would try to adapt for Enterprise, with your permission of course,” he laughed walking towards him.

“Sure why don’t you tell you tell me about it over dinner, beer and a match,” replied Captain Archer who stood face to face with Trip staring at him strangely.

“Dinner, beer and a match – damn you must have missed me!” laughed Trip.

Then feeling slightly uneasy under his Captains intense scrutiny, “Anything wrong” he asked.

“No!” replied Captain Archer still gazing at his young friend. He didn’t know what it was about Trip at the moment but he just couldn’t take his eyes off him. // He has the most amazing blue eyes, why have I never noticed this before,// he thought. Trying to compose himself he quickly added, “It’s just good to see you again.” He didn’t just say this matter of factly, looking longingly at his young friend he knew deep down that he really meant it, he had really missed him.

“Right then, I’ll go and get a quick shower and grab a few hours sleep,” said Trip pointing in the direction of the turbo lift as he started to slowly back out. Before he stepped off the bridge he looked back and asked, “Is seven okay?”

“It’s great, see you then” replied Captain Archer with a big smile on his face. // I’m going to make this a night to remembe //, he thought.

// Now that was weird //, thought Trip as the lift doors closed and descended to his quarters.

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After three hours sleep and a quick scrub down in the shower Trip felt re-energised and ready to find out what state Lieutenant Hess had left engineering in. With a quick detour to the mess hall for a sandwich he was soon up to date with what had happened and what was needed to be done in Engineering. As per usual Lieutenant Hess had done an excellent job looking after his department. There were no immediate concern for his attention, just regular maintenance and diagnostics, so he decided to visit Malcolm in the armoury. It had been a while since they had one of their buddy-to-buddy chats.

“Hey Mal! How’s it going?” asked Trip spying Malcolm near the torpedo bay.

“Your back, lucky bugger!”

“What do you mean?” said Trip walking up next to him.

“Working with those gorgeous creatures for five days,” teased Malcolm. “You could have sabotaged their weapon ports so I had a chance to go over.”

“Sorry, I’ll keep that in mind for next time,” laughed Trip.

“Don’t know how you managed to get anything done; the way they looked I wouldn’t have been able to keep my eyes or hands on the job.”

“You don’t know half of it,” murmured Trip.

This last bit definitely piqued Malcolm’s interest, but try as he might he couldn’t pry anymore info out of Commander Tucker.

“I’m just about finished up here, do you want to come and help me with the port phase cannon,” asked Malcolm, feeling a sudden need to gaze into Trip’s penetrating blue eyes. He didn’t know why but he really wanted to go somewhere quiet where he could have Commander Tucker all to himself.

“Why what’s up with it?” replied Trip suddenly feeling very hot under the collar and slightly uncomfortable from Malcolm’s penetrating stare.

“It just needs tweaking,” replied Malcolm edging closer to Trip until he was inches away. Then in a very seductive whisper and wearing a big smirk on his face he said, “Why don’t you use your magic fingers to help me get that big gun firing again.”.

Trip gave him a blank stare; he couldn’t believe what Malcolm had just said, if he didn’t know any better he could have sworn that Malcolm was coming on to him.

“If it’s all right with ya Mal, I’ll get back to ya on that,” said Trip edging away, “I just need to go check on something with Hess first.” // Damnit what’s the matter with everyone round here, // he thought slowly turning round and walking towards the door.


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