No Moving Parts "
By: Krystal, Hologram, [RNPC]
M'Ressha Ka'Tira, Stellar Cartography, [RNPC]
Maxine Tappert , Computer Specialist , [NPC]

Stardate: 58208.13 0030

Ka'tira sat up on the biobed and took a minute to orientate herself. She still felt intoxicated from the reaction she had to the medication been given earlier.

She remembered talking to the red-headed doctor. She was nice. She told her that she had to spend the night. There was a marine too. She rubbed the back of her head with her paw as if to stimulate her memory.

Nothing.

She looked around, the room was dimly lit.

She still felt euphoric. And thirsty.

Her sensitive ears could hear the steady breathing of another patient on the far end of the room. She looked to her left across the rows of darkened, empty biobeds between them. A soft light illuminated the bed on the other side. Display consoles near the person pulsed and flickered steadily.

To her right she spotted a replicator across the way. Not wanting to bother anyone, she decided to do it herself.

She pulled back blanket which covered her and reached one foot down to the floor. It was smooth and cool to the the pads on her toes. The air was cool too. It felt good as she quietly walked across the floor.

Gently, she pressed quiet mode on the replicator's command pad and in turned pressed 'Beverages' from the menu and then, 'Water', '1-liter', 'Cold.'

The glass materialized and she drank it down and put it back and pressed 'recycle.' The replicator hummed as it dematerialized the container.

She was almost back to her bio bed when a voice said, "You're not supposed to get out of bed when you're a patient, you know."

She turned with a start. Even the hair on her tail stood straight up and her head quivered with surprise. "I-I didn't hear you," she said.

"That's because I don't make any noise unless I want to," the nurse told her with a big grin. At least she looked like a nurse. She had on nurses clothing.

She also had antenna, sparkly gold-dusted skin, huge blue eyes, and spikey reddish-gold hair. "You probably shouldn't be naked either," she pointed out helpfully. "Maxine says people kind of frown on that."

Ka'tira looked down, "They had not given me any thing to wear and I didn't think anyone was here."

She paused a second. "Why do you think people frown on that?"

"I'm not exactly sure. It seems pretty silly to me. I couldn't find anything in the data banks to explain it, and Maxie said it was because people were 'roight lot a'prudes," she answered and then giggled.

The Cait regarded the strange nurse a moment, she had no discernible scent, "What species are you?"

The nurse blinked and then giggled again. "Pixie," she answered.

"P-Pixie? I've never heard of that. Are Pixies prudes?"

The nurse giggled and shook her head. "Nonono. Do you want me to get naked too? I have pert breasts. See?" She cupped her breasts and angled her body this way and that so Kat could get a good look at them. "They're perfect."

She squinted at the nurse and regarded her objectively and then with a smirk, "If you want to... I've never seen a *Pixie* before."

"Okay," the nurse giggled and peeled off her nurses uniform to stand naked in all her pixie glory. "Maxie scolds me when I get naked," she confided and giggled again. The rest of her skin was like her face, gold-dusted, and she was completely devoid of body hair. The surface of her skin seemed to shimmer and swirl. She twisted this way and that, so Kat could get a good view and then she blinked as she looked behind her.

"Oh wait..." As soon as she spoke her wings popped out and fluttered delicately. They were very disproportionate to her size and delicate looking. Like dragonfly wings.

"Whoa!" said Ka'tira taking a step back, "You can fly?"

The naked pixie-nurse giggled and nodded. "Yep, yep, yep. Zoom, zoom, zoom."

"You are very beautiful," noted the Caitian.

"I think you are too. I wish I had a tail. Maybe Maxine can give me one.

Is it fun? What can you do with it? Warrior Toes has a tail. He's a kitty like you. We like him."

"Who is Maxine?"

The pixie pointed over to the other occupied bed in sickbay. "She is."

Ka'tira blinked and looked in the direction the Pixie pointed, "...and she can give you a tail?"

"Uh-huh. You want to see her?" the naked nurse asked as her wingtips fluttered and she began to walk in that direction, beckoning Kat to follow her.

Ka'tira padded after her until they reached the far end. "Is she a doctor? Or a bio engineer?"

"No," the naked nurse shook her head as she gazed down at her creator. Her difference in size gave her a totally different perspective. "Isn't she pretty?"

The voices penetrated her drug induced sleep enough that Max slowly blinked open eyes that felt like they were glued shut. She could barely focus on the two standing over her, and honestly thought she was seeing things as she looked up into the face of Krystal and a cat. Either that, or she shrunk.

"K-Krystal?" she managed to croak out.

"Hihihi," Krystal grinned and wiggled her fingers at Max. "We're having a naked party!"

To Maxine, Ka'tira appeared as if in a fish-eye lens as she leaned close to Max, "Hi there."

Max blinked several times and tried to clear the fuzziness of her eyes. "Crikey... y'are a cat...."

"Uh-huh... and Maxie guess what? She has a *tail*! Can I have a tail too?" Krystal asked. "And guess what else! She has FOUR breasts! With nipples! Can I have four? Huh? Can I?"

Maxine tried to focus on first Krystal and then the Cait... then Krystal and then the Cait. "Oh. My. God..." she managed before her eyes rolled back in her head and she slipped back into unconsciousness.

"Uhtoh," Krystal peered closer. "She's gone again.... Bet she's gonna have another nightmare," she nodded sagely and turned to grin at Kat.

"What's wrong with her?"

"She had a nightmare," Krystal nodded wisely. "Have you ever had one of those? I had a dream once... I think."

Ka'tira's head tilted slightly so she could see Max's face better. "I have bad drrreams sometimes," agreed Ka'tira. She turned and regarded the Pixie in the light. "Doesn't your species dream often?"

Krystal shrugged. "I'm not sure," she answered. "I could maybe ask Rahw, but I don't like her much. She threaten to eat me once."

Ka'tira put her paw up to her snouth and giggled, "you mean...?" she said with her gesturing downward.

"Huh?" Krystal blinked and followed the Cait's gesture, looking down at her toes. "Oh Nonononooooo... She'd eat me whole. In one bite. *Chomp*" She chomped her teeth for emphasis. "Not just my feet."

The Caitian's eyes widened a moment, her tail tapped the floor rhythmically, "how big do your species grow? I mean, I thought you meant..."

Krystal frowned a little. "Grow? I can be this big," she motioned to herself. "Do you want me to be bigger?"

She looked at the naked Pixie with a perplexed expression. "How would you do that?"

"Just... get bigger," Krystal answered with a shrug and then seemed to think of something else. "Wait.." she frowned in thought for a moment. "What did you think I meant?"

"Oh, never mind..."

"Don't say that," Krystal pouted. "I hate it when Maxie says that. Tell me."

Ka'tira leaned forward and whispered in the Pixie's ear certain details about the facts of life.

Krystal blinked and her eyes got like saucers. "Ewwwwww...." she pulled back and looked at Kat. "I don't... Does MAXIE have that??? Is THAT what Warrior Toes was doing???? EWWWWW... I don't have that!" She blinked and looked down. "Uhh... I don't think...." she bent over to check herself and make sure.

"Whew... Nothing's there," Krystal grinned. "You had me scared."

The cait bent over sideways also to peak, "Wait...you don't have any parts... how do you...make babies?"

"I thought I had a baby once," Krystal told her. "I even had morning sickness," she confided. "But Maxie told me I couldn't have babies." She looked terribly sad.

"How come?"

"Sometimes I think she doesn't like me," Krystal admitted. "Can you have babies?"

She shrugged, "I guess so," she answered.

"Do you have parts?" Krystal asked curiously and leaned over to take a peek. "Oooohhh.. You Do! What do you do with them?"

"Well, I use them to go to the bathroom but they are also used for making babies and having, uhm, sex."

"I think I read about that once.." Krystal told her. "But Maxie made me forget."

"How can you forget something special and fun like that?"

Krystal shrugged and looked down at Maxine. "She does it.... Wait. Fun?"

"Yes, it's fun to fool around," said Ka'tira with a coy expression.

"Fool around?" Krystal blinked, not quite sure what that meant.

Ka'tira giggled, "well, yeah. I mean, well you know, it feels good."

"Fooling around feels good? Like drinking nectar?" Krystal asked.

"I don't know, I've never had nectar, but yeah..."

"I want to try.. fooling around!" Krystal giggled. "Can you teach me?"

"Hmm..." said Ka'tira tapping her finger on her lip. She leaned over again, "but you don't have any parts."

Krystal leaned over to look too, and sighed dramatically. "I'll have to see if Maxine can write it into my code. I can only do cosmetic things... not... parts things," she explained.

"Ka'tira snapped her fingers, "You are a hologram aren't you." she said.

"Yup, yup, yup," Krystal giggled and nodded.

She covered her eyes with one hand and shook her head, "oh, I should have known."

"Should have known I was a hologram? Why?" Krystal asked. "It's because I don't have any parts, huh?"

"Oh, no no, Hon," she said feeling as if she some how hurt Krystal's feelings, "Its just that you have no scent what so ever. "

Krystal blinked and then giggled. "See! I knew I was fresh!"

She reached forward and touched the hologram, "You feel real!" said the felinoid.

Krystal jumped back and giggled even more as she grabbed herself where the Cait poked her. "That tickled!"

She quirked her head, obviously the pixie could use the same resources as the EMH. She stroked her stomach lightly, and looked up, "You can feel this?"

Krystal giggled again and twisted out of the way. "Uh-huh. Maxine programmed it into me," she explained.

"You have a bellybutton," giggled Ka'tira, "I don't really have one of those."

The sprite looked down at her stomach and the 'bellybutton'. "What is it?"

"It is...left over from where the umbilical cord attached to the fetus," explained Ka'tira matter of factly. "In some species like humans it is more apparent."

"Oh..." The pixie looked momentarily confused as she accessed the data banks of the EMH and finally nodded with a giggle. "Maxie must like bellybuttons," she announced. "Why don't you have one?"

"Well, I suppose I do, sort of..." said Ka'tira feeling her abdomen, "its just not like yours."

"Mine's not real though," Krystal mimicked Ka'tira and felt her belly button. "I want to be a real girl some day."

Ka'tira almost felt sorry for her, perhaps her programming could not tellher that would be impossible.

"You seem real enough to me," she answered the pixie sympathetically.

"Only because of the holoemitters and force field generators," Krystal pointed out and her antennae dropped. "I think Maxie can make me real some day."

"How could she?" asked Kat'tira unguarded.

"I don't know..." Krystal scratched her head. "But she made me..." the pixie pointed out.

"With a bellybutton," admitted the Cait. "But why do you want to be real?"

Krystal blinked. "Because.... Because being real is better than being not real. I could do... everything then..."

Kat'ira smiled, "...and what would be one of the first things you would want to do?"

"Eat warm sticky cinnamon buns with icing. Maxie says 'they're t'die for'," she imitated the computer specialist.

"When she wakes up, I'd like to taste those buns," said looking down at her.