Leonard McCoy and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day...

[dctr_mccoy]

It was almost time for them to go.

Starfleet was arriving soon to deal with the Romulans, and the Enterprise would be leaving Agura's orbit and heading out on its new mission

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[ephram_green]

...why was he on a transporter pad?

Ephram looked around. At least there were other kids here...wherever this was. It didn't feel like a planet. Was he on a ship? The adults in the room looked confused too.

This was probably not good.

[doctor_julian]

Jules nodded to the boy. "Hullo." He watched, waiting to see what the boy was going to do.

[ephram_green]

"Hi." He didn't know what else to say, so he introduced himself. "My name's Ephram. What's yours?"

[doctor_julian]

"Jules." He regard the boy solemnly, then held out his hand. "Nice to meet you." It was a vaguely-remembered bit of Manners, something he was Supposed To Do. He'd forgotten with the girl, but she'd poked him, anyway.

[ephram_green]

Ephram shook Jules' hand, his face serious like grownups usually were when they shook hands. "Nice to meet you too."

[doctor_julian]

Ephram's hand was warm. "You have nice hands," Jules observed.

[ephram_green]

Ephram blinked. "Um, thanks. You have good manners." He shuffled on his feet when their handshake ended. "Uh...you wanna get better clothes? That lady, Tina, she brought clothes for us that aren't so big."

[doctor_julian]

"Okay," Jules agreed. He stood, carefully, trying not to step on the hems of his pants legs. He shuffled towards the grownups, then stopped. Which one had been Tina? She was blonde and pretty...there were two blonde, pretty women, though. He headed for the pile of clothes instead.

[OOC - Jules has prosopamnesia, I've decided.]

[ephram_green]

Ephram noticed that Jules looked really confused, so he helped lead the boy to some clothes that looked like they would fit. "It's scary and stuff," he told Jules, "but they said it was an accident and they're gonna work to fix it, so I think we're okay here."

[doctor_julian]

"Good," Jules said. He took the clothes Ephram offered and stared at them for a bit, turning them over and over in his hands. He dropped the shirt to the floor, frowning, and contemplated the pants. He looked down at the pants he was wearing, then back at the ones he was holding. His face lit up, then, and he kicked off the loose pants before stepping into the new pair and pulling them up to discover that they were on backward.

He looked at Ephram, then glared at the floor. "Can you help?" he muttered.

[ephram_green]

Ephram watched Jules have trouble with his pants. When Jules asked him for help, he smiled a little bit and took the pants to lay them out on the floor. "This part goes in front," he said, pointing to the button, "the button goes near your bellybutton, that's how I learned it. So the tag is in the back like a tail inside your pants." He hoped that was enough to help because he didn't know if he could actually put Jules' legs through the pants legs and everything.

[doctor_julian]

Jules stepped back into the pants the way Ephram indicated, and smiled broadly when it worked how it was supposed to. He wriggled out of his oversized shirt and picked up the one he'd dropped earlier, pulling it over his head. He got his head stuck in a sleeve before managing to get it on properly. He was very proud of himself for getting it right.