Path: newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsread.com!newsstand.newsread.com!POSTED.newshog.newsread.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated Approved: ascem@earthlink.net Organization: Better Living Thru TrekSmut Sender: ascem@earthlink.net Message-ID: <20041118202250.41487.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> From: Marcia Wilson-Cales MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list ASCEML@yahoogroups.com; contact ASCEML-owner@yahoogroups.com Subject: "Corpses Are Not Considerate Part 1" TOS MU; Ensemble. Rated G; Humor Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 200 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:55:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.198.142.218 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 1100814902 209.198.142.218 (Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:55:02 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:55:02 EST Xref: news.earthlink.net alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated:85728 X-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:55:31 PST (newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net) Title: "Corpses Are Not Considerate" Author: Kelthammer Sequel to "the Plot Curdles," Series: TOS; Alt; Mirror Universe Character Codes: Ensemble; Scott; McCoy Archive: Sure, just let me know, ok? Disclaimer: Paraborg owns all; this is a written version of playing with t= he action figures--got it? Summary: Situation Normal: All Fouled Up. It was still quite early in the alpha shift. Attendance was down to a mini= mum as two men walked slowly to Shuttlelounge B. =20 "You did a pretty good makin' a makeshift sickbay out of this," McCoy appro= ved. His eye had caught a standard-grade poster a helpful technician had p= ut on the wall of several species without their skins and a chemistry table= highlighting the major blood groups. =20 "Well, I didn't think we'd have to need it," Scott admitted. "It's not lik= e there's a bit o' a rush tae yer department." =20 "Not right now there isn't." McCoy pointed out. He could have said that r= ather ominously, but didn't. His hands were wrapped around the largest mug= of coffee Scott had ever seen. It was obviously a purchase from off-ship.= "OK, now that we're alone, what was so all-fired important that it needed= my approval?" =20 "Well th'captain's havin' the B Lounge cleared out for the annual HardMail = runs," Scott explained. As "Hard Mail" (nonelectronic) didn't come but onc= e or twice a year on a Standard Imperial ship, and what came tended to be i= n large volume, it made sense to donate so much space. =20 "I thought he assigned that to Chekov?" McCoy wondered. =20 "Aye, he did, but first *I* hav ta have my men clear it out n'prove there's= nothing in here already. T'will be hard enough to find a lost piece o'mai= l when it all comes, wi'out someone screamin' for a left-handed spanner the= y left in here before the cargo came in." =20 "Sounds absolutely thrilling," McCoy offered. "Chekov thinks the captain's= going to kill him anyway. Should be fun to work with him." =20 Scott paused, ever so slightly. "Is the captain wantin' tae kill him?" =20 "No more than he does anybody else," McCoy shrugged with a stoicism to impr= ess Brutus. "I think he taeks the rumor mill a little too seriously." =20 "He used tae work in Covert; I imagine he'd be paranoid on principle." Sco= tt mumbled.=20 =20 "Ah, don't worry about it," McCoy offered jadedly. "He's the best astrophy= sicist on ship next to Sulu & Spock. If he just understood Kirk didn't hav= e any immediate replacement lined up, he could relax a little." He looked = around. Scott had stopped them in the center of a large wall of cardboard = storage bins. =20 "Doctor, do ye know anything about these kind o' bins?" =20 "Well, when I was a kid they made dandy hideouts. I made an escape pod out= of one in my back yard. It worked great until a flock of Muscovys decided= it was great pre-feb housing. Why?" =20 Scott stopped in front of a particularly large canister made of compressed = pulp-fibers and re-inforced with strips of aluminum. He looked at McCoy, l= ooked at the container. As McCoy watched, the CEO pried open the lid, look= ed inside the canister (It was almost chest-high), and looked again at McCo= y. =20 McCoy took a step forward. He read the MEMORY ALPHA label on the outside. = He looked inside. =20 "Woa." =20 Scott was relieved that McCoy sounded (fairly) calm. "It's from Memory Alp= ha," he pointed out. =20 "Yeah, I noticed." McCoy said seriously. He took a drink of coffee. "Isn= 't that where Mira is?" =20 "Thot's the problem." Scott admitted. =20 "What is?" =20 "Mira's in Memory Alpha." =20 "I fail to see the problem." =20 McCoy privately wondered what they must look like, two grown men patiently = trying to make each other see another viewpoint over a tin stuffed full of = skeletalized remains. Eventually, Scott was able to make a breakthrough in= comprehension. =20 "Lemme get this straight." McCoy swallowed the last of the sludge hanging = to the bottom of his mug, coughed loudly, and continued. "You don't know i= f Mira had anything to do with this. But, she could because she's one of t= he 3,000 members of the Empire staffed to Memory Alpha." =20 "There aren't thot many crewmembers on Mem'ry Alpha who've been on the ENTE= RPRISE," Scott pointed out. =20 "Have you thought about co-incidence?" =20 "McCoy, twasn't it you who said, "only a fool can afford to believe in co-i= ncidence?" =20 "I was trying to get Spock's goat." =20 "Well, you got it. But think about it. She could have something to do abo= ut this." =20 "You're wanting to cover this up in case Mira killed him?" =20 Put in that context, it wasn't the smartest thing Scott had ever come up wi= th. But it was the only thing he could think of. =20 McCoy realized the silence was speaking for itself. He sighed. Looked aga= in into the canister. =20 "I dunno. I'd be really surprised if Mira did kill this guy." =20 Scott normally hated to take a flying leap at hope. This time, there was n= o holding back. "Aye?" =20 "Ayeh." McCoy drawled back. "For one thing, that's a Vulcan." =20 Scott didn't know how the devil McCoy could tell a species from a jumble of= dry bones, and said so in no uncertain language. =20 "Human bones are more gracile." The doctor explained patiently. "It's bec= ause of our lighter gravity. Vulcanoid skeletons, due to their lifespan on= heavier-grav planets, are rough and almost pebbly to the touch. To transl= ate it into engineering terms, Mr. Scott, that's what enables all that extr= a muscle tissue to lock on to their skeletons." =20 Scott looked again in the dark well of homicide. "Och." He said. "I was w= onderin' if there was a telltale bump where th' ears would be or something.= " =20 "I'm glad I stopped drinking before I heard that." =20 Scott looked sour. "Well now what?" =20 "Now what? This is your department!" =20 "You're in better wi'th'captain than I am, mon!" =20 "Yeah, for the next two hours!" McCoy snapped back. "Oh, for..." He exha= led and briefly closed his eyes. "Look, you wanna believe your lady-fair d= ispatched a seven-foot-tall Vulcan and stuffed him in a very small box afte= r de-fleshing him, you--" =20 "Seven feet tall?" =20 "The thigh bones," McCoy said with great patience. =20 "Doctor, if I ever maun hide a corse, I'll be goin' straight tae ye." =20 "Thanks ever so." McCoy began rubbing his forehead. "My mother would be p= roud. She always wanted me to have a secondary line of work to fall back o= n." =20 "I cannae get Mira implicated in all this! Chekov's comin' in here first t= hing tomorrow tae start preparin' for the mail!" Scott waited worridly. =20 Finally, McCoy exhaled--a universal sign of defeat. "I'll see what I can d= o." He muttered all the way out of the store room. =20 TBC =20 =09=09=09 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? 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