The morning after the night before [Chris, Karl]
The play had gone well. While a part of him wished he could have made it down to Comic Con to see Karl and Zach, Chris had put that out of his mind, focusing entirely on the performance. By the time he walked out the stage door he was tired, yet riding that high from a night where everything had gone right. He’d signed a few autographs, even
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A shrill beep broke through the short silence following his words, and made them all jump. Well, everyone but Uhura. It seemed to have emanated from a computer-like thing on the desk nearby, something on the screen flashing, and Karl was the first up and over to inspect it. "A communication request. From Ensign Joanna McCoy. That's Bones' daughter, right? I better...yeah ( ... )
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He studied Zach, for the first time really taking in his... Spock's appearance, the green cast to his skin and the way he kept moving his hands. It was sort of like looking at Jim's body in the mirror, finally having it sink in that the marks and tattoos were real.
Looking at Uhura, he gave her a tentative smile.
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For a brief moment Chris wondered what it was like, being so touch-sensitive. It must be driving Zach up the wall.
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She was about to say something reassuring to Zach when her communicator beeped. Nyota looked at the incoming message. It was from M'Benga, advising her that they were aware of the situation. Her eyebrows rose as she read the rest. "It seems a large number of crew members were affected," she told Chris and Zach. From the sound of it, they had their hands full in Sickbay.
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"It will cause concern, yes," she said. She had been too distracted earlier to really pay attention to the bond, but she could feel faint bursts of curiosityirritationconcern flickering through, like an old-fashioned radio that wasn't tuned properly. The fact that she was feeling Spock, though, helped her to remain calm and focused.
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He came back over and sat down, running a hand absently through his floppy hair. "I think this has something to do with the dreams." Directed at Chris and Zach, obviously. "I mean, hive-mind dreams about Star Trek char- people, and then we end up here? We should meet up with the other switcheroos and see if they experienced anything similar."
If they had, it would at least give them all a point of common reference to start figuring out what the hell had happened.
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He wondered if Jim had ended up in his apartment, and if he'd thought to look around for Chris' computer. He thought he'd left it in his bedroom, but wasn't sure.
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There it was, all around them, the darkness of space. The stars were beautiful, moving very slowly by. A million miles from home, years ahead of their time when they should have long been dead. It was easy to think of way too many terrible thoughts, like about Neal thinking he should be home in two days, and Noah and Harold, and Karl's two boys and his wife he was just speaking with, and the audition that he had in two days--
Zach rubbed his brow, twitched as it felt strange, and dropped his hand to keep from doing it again.
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He looked away from the window and down at his knees instead, honestly startled at the way his heart had begun to pound. Over thirty years of loving the idea of fantastical space adventures, and now he was in one and he felt like curling up somewhere safe and dark until he was home with his family and everything was where and when it was supposed to be.
I had one -- in the bathroom with no windows flitted suddenly across his mind.
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He turned when he heard Uhura's question and found Karl sitting there, looking so much like that day they'd shot the shuttle scene, both of them high on cold medicine as they got through it. Awkwardness shoved aside, he went over and crouched in front of Karl's chair, one hand on the arm. "I think these things are pretty safe."
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"If we aren't going down to Sickbay right now, could I just..." Zach was at a loss for words, then said a little desperately, "take five minutes?" He needed to think, and something in him said he needed to think it through alone. Something in the air made it hard to think.
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Zach was edging away, pointed brows lifted in a questioningly human expression, and the rest of them gave a simultaneous nod. Karl didn't blame him. If he were suddenly in an alien body, he'd want a lot more than five minutes.
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