By the time they made it back to the hostel room, Scotty was pretty much exhausted beyond any description.

He had fallen quiet in the cab, leaning his head over against the window and almost drifting off, while the unconscious older Scott was laying across his and Harold's laps, and as Harold was doing something or another with the PADD.  ( Read more... )

Fishing on the sea shore was virtually impossible for any number of reasons; the biggest being, of course, that they had several seriously pissed off dockhands who would probably have an eye out for them.  But another reason was that it was too busy and bustling for any such thing, and therefore any attempt at fishing would have to be made ( Read more... )

          "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince ( Read more... )

         Everybody knows that when it is noon in the United States the sun is setting over France. If you could fly to France in one minute, you could go straight into the sunset, right from noon. Unfortunately, France is too far away for that. But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need do is move your chair a few steps. You can see ( Read more... )

After a conversation he never expected to have, nor was entirely sure how to grasp, Scotty did the only sane thing a man could do when he was in this situation: He went to bed ( Read more... )

It wasn't particularly pleasant to spend your first moments of the morning worshipping a toilet.

It was even less pleasant when you knew that you wouldn't even be able to stomach a proper cup of coffee, and still had to go to work.

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He'd pulled a few more mechanical maneuvers before it got too dark to see, and without his penlight, he couldn't really work effectively anymore.  So, he wandered down the beach, still just wearing his trousers and carrying the rest, on the other side of the docks.  Without any lifeguards or lights, it was something more close to uninhabited; a ( Read more... )

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

( Off the Ground )

The night watches on the Enterprise were surprisingly quiet, and that had left Scotty to mostly work unaccosted and uninterrupted. It was a bit more tricky without some kind of repair list, but he'd kept himself busy. All the minor, silly things that weren't critical. Well, and shower sabotage, but that was more for the sake of principle than ( Read more... )

Scotty woke up in the galley, not too terribly surprised that Harold had left; he didn't figure the floor of a galley was all that comfortable a napping spot for most people anyway. But he was then chased out by some of the next watch of cooks, and had to do something with himself ( Read more... )