0000 Disclaimerme no own 0000 Yes I know I have a million other stories on the go and instead of updating one of them I write something completely different but that's only because my computer had a breakdown and lost all the new chapters I'd written. So I present this, a one shot fic told by a person with no name 0000

Ring-a-ring-a roses

A pocket full of poses

When the chips are down and everything looks impossible it's amazing what can happen, how people pull together and find a solution.

Of course it's the aftermath that's worst or the anticipation of things to come.

It's why I thank god for our senior officers.

That's the beauty of being an underdog. In times of crisis you do as you are told, you leave any major decisions up to the senior officers because they always know what to do.

Or at least you think they do

But they're beginning to crack. I don't know if anyone else can see it but you can definitely feel it.

I think everyone is beginning to crack but you can see it more clearly in the senior officers.

Why?

I don't know, maybe because they're the ones whom every decision is falling to they're the ones who are dealing with the backlash of some of the Captain's orders. They are the ones who have to appear strong.

We don't, not really. If we crack it doesn't matter so much because we're not the ones making the decisions. If they show weakness then everyone else begins to lose faith.

Maybe it's me who's wrong, maybe I've been out here so long it's warped any sense of reality for me.

I don't know.

But what I do know is they're cracking.

Every person has their limits and I'm afraid they're reaching theirs. When they crumble and I'm not saying 'if' I'm saying 'when' for it's only a matter of time for it to happen unless we find the Xindi.

I'm not indispensable; I'm not a figure of importance. I'm a nameless person who will only be known as a line in a history book under the crew listing in the history of Enterprise. I'm just a small person who used to believe in heroes.

And I used to believe the senior officers were heroes but now I can't help but think,

Who is there to save the heroes when they can't save themselves?

Atishoo, Atishoo

We all fall down.

0000 It'd be nice to hear your thoughts good and bad, it's just a short something that I could type using just one hand :P 0000