Stardate: 70806:1530
Title: Who’s Your Daddy?
Author: CMO Ted Matthews
Time: After "Keeping It In The Family"
Scene: USS Horizon


Ted caught himself looking at Lily and quickly pulled himself up sharp; this woman was the Captain’s daughter, so therefore he was old enough to be her father and, if she was born on this ship and Ted managed to hang on to his position as CMO, he might even end up delivering her!

The soft laugh stopped the runaway train thoughts that were crashing through his head.

"Something funny?" The more the CMO looked at her the more he saw gestures and postures he knew were from Scott. There was, however, another very familiar and striking part of her that he recognised.

"I can see it all skipping through your head, hundreds of questions and possible conclusions." They were walking to the guest quarters and until now they had done it in silence.

"You sound like you know me, but I don’t expect you to answer that." Lily nodded her head in understanding.

She paused as the doors to the guest quarters opened.

"What’s wrong?" Ted was puzzled.

"It is just so... well, luxurious." This only added to Ted’s confusion. After all, this was the daughter of Captain Deadilus - you would think her life would have been a lot easier because of that fact, and yet here she was marvelling at a few creature comforts.

Lily slowly walked around the room touching objects.

"I did notice that when I scanned you you’re slightly anaemic. Do you get tired quickly?"

"I rarely sleep," the young woman responded.

"Hardly the same thing!" Ted put on his tough but caring Doctor’s face

"No, but times are very different in the future."

"Well, make sure you take advantage of this opportunity to eat well and get some sleep."

"Thank you, Dr. Matthews."

As he left her alone he headed back to Medical; there was something he had to check.

~

Something about her parentage was bothering him. There was no doubt she was in fact Scott’s child - it was her age and the familiarity he felt, even though technically he had yet to meet her.

He put security measures in place to keep this test private and then ran a comparison. It didn’t take him long to confirm what he guessed he knew subconsciously anyway - he already knew Lily’s mother, as she was on this ship.


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Ted Matthews
CMO
USS Horizon
NCC-72400
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