A/N: This Charlene/Scotty story takes place after Martha's Tears and before Golden Bells and Serpent Gods. It refers to the season 2 TOS episode Wolf in the Fold. In the first five minutes of the episode, McCoy mentions that Scotty was involved in an accident in Engineering that caused major trauma to his head. Apparently, the accident was caused by a female crewman and after the incident, Scotty held a deep resentment towards women. McCoy thought that Scotty was much improved and almost back to his old self and that a shore leave on the hedonistic society of Argelius II would cure him of any vestiges of female resentment. (I won't even get into the issue of how a weekend of whoring it up on a planet is supposed to cure psychological trauma.) Anyway, Scotty becomes a prime suspect in three stabbing murders of women. Kirk and McCoy begin to wonder if Scotty is really cured of his resentment of women. Since I have Scotty and Charlene beginning a romantic relationship in Martha's Tears, I wondered how this accident would impact their new relationship.