Look What We Made

by ktshdw

While Deanna and Will deal with and unexpected pregnancy Picard and Crusher struggle to conceive their first child together. This takes place two years after Nemesis.

1. Part 1

Name: Look What We Made [When We Made Love]
[Part 1]
Author: Kachina
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Rated: PG
Couples: P/C and R/T
Timeline: Post Nemesis and Baby Fiction...

Brief Overview: This fan fiction takes place 2 years after Nemesis. Riker and Troi are making the TITAN their home. Picard and Crusher are married he still is Captain of the ENTERPRISE and she still runs Starfleet Medical. While the TITAN is on docking bay getting up-to-date repairs ENTERPRISE is also getting repairs. Picard and Crusher both have shore leave just at the time that Riker and Troi are getting some R&R after a long 2 year journey.

Author's Note: This is the first fan fiction I have written for Riker/Troi/Picard/Crusher in 8 years so it may be a little bland. I promise it will get better with the following fan fiction's I intend to write, I have about 5 more floating around in my mind. I do not have a webpage but you may use in on your webpage just please link my e-mail so I can get some feedback.

Character's and all other items belong to Paramount. Since I am going through some major R/T/P/C withdrawal I decided to write this piece. I do not get paid I am just a poor college student in need of some R&R from the hustle and bustle of everyday life as a married woman and a college student. However if you wish to drop me a line with feedback I would really appreciate it.

The glowing sun rises over the horizon like a blanket of warmth on the ocean. Riker and Troi sit quietly on the beach and listen to the softness of the rolling waves. This is their second day on leave while the TITAN is becoming more up-to-date on the more recent weaponry and shielding. To them this is the best shore leave they have ever had. They knew that this vacation was going to be the biggest and best.

Picard wakes in the arms of his true love. Picard leans and smells Crusher's hair bringing in her essence. That was one thing that he loved about her....her scent. For all of the years that he has known Beverly he never understood why he thought that she belonged to Jack, even after his untimely death. He felt it would be the betrayal to his best friend, but now he understood what Jack liked in his wife. Not only her beauty on the outside but her compassion on the inside. Beverly slowly rolls over and opens her eyes. She gave Picard the smile that she only reserved for the love of her life, the one that made Picard's heart melt like butter.

"Wil, I have been thinking, we have been married two years. I think it is time that we expand our family. I miss the children on the ENTERPRISE; I miss their smiles when they finally get something right, the glow in their eyes when they show their parents what they have made. What I miss the most is their laughter. There are only a dozen children on the TITAN, none of them ours, I want my child to come home with a craft they made for me, and I want my child to smile when they finally get it I want to hear the laughter of my child. Does that sound selfish?"

Wil was taken aback at his wife proposal. He did want children with her, he did want to hear his children laugh and see his children smile. This is something he has always desired, now that he is married to his IMZADI, he wanted nothing more than to father her children. After all he wasn't getting any younger, each day that passed was one day less of being a father.

"Deanna is you asking me if we can start a family. There is nothing more I want to do. I have been trying to ask you that for two years, but each time something came up and well I just let it go. I also want to see the smile on our child's face and hear the laughter echo in the room. Are you sure you want to do this. Being parents is a large responsibility."

Deanna laughed and laid her head on Wil's shoulder.

"Wil, I have been a parent already, remember with Ian. It is you that I was concerned about you have never been a father before. Are you ready to be a full time father and still run a federation starship?"

"Yes, more than anything, I want to hold our child and teach them the secrets on how to run a starship, how to trick our enemies into joining the federation. Deanna I really want this. I am ready when you are."

"I am ready now, let's start tonight!"

Wil took Deanna's delicate face in his hand and seductively smiled at her. Deanna responded with a soft kiss on Wil's lips. She was ready, willing and able to start a family.

Meanwhile: Beverly and Jean-Luc were seated at the table in their cabin. Still in their night clothes they shared their first meal together off of the ENTERPRISE and out of Starfleet.

"Jean-Luc I have been thinking, I think I would like to leave Starfleet Medical and become your physician on the ENTERPRISE. I know it is a lot to give up but I can't stand to stay apart from you, I love you to much to let you just slip by and fight our enemies alone. I need to be by your side and I want to be a wife to you."

"Are you sure, we will be risking our lives every day. Meeting new races, seeing new planets, there is so much danger out there. I don't know if I want you to risk your life every day, I also love you to much to let you sit at Starfleet day after day there is nothing more I want to do without you. But you will be giving up your dreams."

"Jean-Luc my dreams, my life, belongs with you. I miss you to much when you are away, I want to wake up to you every morning, I want to cook you breakfast every morning, and most importantly I want to be by your side. I want to be there with you, for you. Please Jean-Luc I need to do this, if I don't, I don't know how I will survive being without you."

"If that is really what you want Beverly then I gladly accept your application. After all we have been though so much together, I wouldn't want to let it slip by. I will contact Starfleet and request that you be transferred to the ENTERPRISE. You must be sure that this is what you want to do...no turning back...once you make that decision you can never go back."

"Jean-Luc, this is what I want."

Picard smiled soon followed by Crusher's. Picard takes her hand in his and kisses it.

There is a knock at Deanna's and Wil's cabin door. Deanna gets up from reviewing records and opens the door. Beverly stands there and gives her best friend a hug. Both women smile and tears well up in their eyes. It has been one year since they saw each other, a reunion that was well over due.

"Beverly! You were the last person I would ever see here. What are you doing here? Where is Captain Picard? How is he? How are you? What have you been up too?"

Beverly laughs lightly as they pull their hug away.

"Deanna, relax, there is plenty of time to catch up. There is plenty of time to ask questions. You don't think that I would skip a visit with my best friend. Oh Deanna, I missed you so much, it seems like it has been a hundred years."

"Well, not quite that long but it does feel like it doesn't it? Why don't you come in I just took chocolate cake out of the oven. Are you hungry?"

Beverly comes into the cabin, as Troi closes the door behind her and both take a seat at the table nearby.

"Are you kidding look who you are talking too. So where is Wil? Doing a guy thing I'm sure, what is it fishing, hunting, chopping wood come on Deanna tell me it's been so long."

"Wil is outside gathering some wood in the back. Would you like me to get him?"

"No, I want to hear how you are doing, how have you been this last year?"

"Well after trying to set up an alliance with the Romulan's, Tiki's and Cree we were pretty exhausted. It took an entire year to come to an agreement. The Tiki and Cree was the worse, see they are Native American's who fled earth in 2060 to find a new home. To much land was being taken away and they could no longer survive, 16 generations have lived on the planet surviving off the land. With the joining of the federation we had to make some agreements."

"Agreements, like what?"

"Well first all we had to promise that we would never use their planet for any type of federation building. We were aloud to use their space but we had to keep the building to a minimum. We were not aloud to do unnecessary digging for dilithiam but we were aloud to trade with them for preservatives in exchange that we keep their beliefs between the federation and them. The Tiki were a little more demanding, they wanted to be a member of the federation but no one was aloud to stay on the planet except for emergencies. We are not aloud to discuss their past, seems they don't have a very nice one. Last but not least only Native American's can reside on the planet without the permission of their elders. They are very agriculture oriented, they don't want any outside help, no technology and most important we must keep their beliefs between them."

"No wonder why it took a year for you to make alliances with them. They seem rather, I don't know, secluded almost xenophobic. They don't want anyone on the planet without the permission of the elders. I bet Wesley would like it here."

"Yes, he would."

"So Deanna, you talked about the TITAN, what about you and Wil? Have you had any thoughts of having little Riker's running the decks of the TITAN?"

Deanna smiled and took a bite of her cake.

"How do you know Beverly, we just made the decision yesterday. Have you developed some type of telepathy over the last year?"

Beverly smiles, and takes a bite of her cake.

"I can see it in your eyes, your glowing. I can just see it in a year we will have one little Riker running the decks of the TITAN and sitting on its daddy's lap learning the wonders of flying a federation starship using its telepathy to help its captain."

"It will take years for our child to be capable of understanding its telepathy. They won't even develop until their 12 years old. Oh, I remember being 12; I was the only betazoid who couldn't use her powers because I was half human. I resented that for years. Until one day my mother sat me down and told me that I was just like every one else, I could do something that they couldn't. I could sense emotions as well as use my telepathy. I never resented being half human again until the incident about 10 years ago. But you helped through that as well as Wil I will always be thankful."

"That's what best friends are for. I wanted you to move beyond your telepathy and understand that it wasn't so bad being a human. Being a human gives you challenges, challenges that humans desire."

"So what is going on with your love life? Are you going to answer my question I asked when you first came to the door?"

"Oh my, I almost forgot...my love life is wonderful, being married to Jean-Luc has been my one goal since we were stranded on KesPrit. We blossomed later that year and behind closed doors for the following years. When you and Wil got married I thought this is my moment I am not going to let him turn me down. I proposed and he accepted before I even got the words out of my mouth. He told me he had been trying to ask me to marry him for three years but didn't know how; he also thought that it was betraying his best friend. I told him that Jack and I agree that if one of us should pass away we would want the other to be happy. I am happy with Jean-Luc, happier than I have been since Jack's untimely death. Wesley was so excited, when we told him we were engaged the first thing that came out of his mouth was... "Well it's about damn time, gee ma what took you so long?" I didn't know Wesley wanted us married, but he was very happy. Now to answer your other questions, we came here while the ENTERPRISE was getting a spruce up. We found out from your first officer where you would be so we decided to surprise you. Jean-Luc is out hiking up a trail, something he has always liked. I wanted to go but he encouraged me to talk to my best friend. He is fine and well, I have never seen him so happy. I have decided to leave Starfleet Medical to travel with Jean-Luc once again. He was so worried about me giving up my dreams; I told him that my dreams were with him. Hopefully Starfleet agrees and I will be a Doctor on the ENTERPRISE once again."

"Are you going to have another child with Captain Picard?"

"Deanna, my other son is nearly 30; I don't think he really wants to have a sibling at that age. He has been an only child for years. Besides I think I am little to old to have a child."

"No your not, my mother was 60 when she had my baby brother. The last time I went to see him he was getting ready to go to school. He is so much like his mother he has dark, curly, hair and the darkest eyes I have ever seen. With the exception of the ridge on his nose he is a spitting image of my mother. She loves being a mother, even at her advanced age she took care of him alone. Besides it is my belief that God doesn't give you more than you can handle. If you were to get pregnant again, Captain Picard would shout with glee. He has always wanted to be a father this would give him a chance. Come on Beverly don't say no until you ask the Captain."

Beverly smiles as does Deanna.

Riker outside chopping wood is greeted by his fellow Captain. Riker looks up to the sound of his name to see Picard, they both hug and laugh.

"Wil, how are you doing? It has been what an entire year? It's been far to long to see a fellow Captain, so your wife made you come out and chop some wood. How dare you do that without prior notice?"

"Nah, Deanna didn't suggest I do it. We are planning a nice romantic evening tonight I intend it to be one of the most romantic. What are you doing here anyway I thought you stop to see your wife at Starfleet Medical?"

"I did but then the federation decided to update the ENTERPRISE for a few months. We had to con you first officer into telling us where you were. You have one hell of a good first officer I had to pull rank to get what I wanted. It has been so long since Beverly has seen Deanna; I thought that we should meet up and catch up on the times. I heard you introduced three more races into the federation. Congratulations, I heard it went quite well. Your first mission was quite the success."

"Well I had quite a good teacher. I wouldn't have been able to do it without being under you watchful eye all those years aboard the ENTERPRISE. Now I have my own ship, everything I do on that ship is what I learned from watching you. I miss the crew but most of all I miss being your sidekick."

"You are not the only one. How is Deanna have you thought about having children on your ship? I know that you have 12 already but what about your own?"

"Funny you asked me that...Deanna and I just decided to start trying for a family. Since she is a betazoid it may take some time but it is time well spent. You wouldn't believe how happy I am to have her at my side. The only thing that is missing is your guidance."

"Wil, I told you years ago that you could run your own ship. You had so many offers why didn't you take them? I also told you that you and Deanna were soul mates, it just took the trip to the Baku planet to re-open your love, having a child with her will only strengthen it. Your feelings have never changed. You have always loved her."

"I didn't want to leave Deanna or the ENTERPRISE. Then two years ago I thought that it was time to take the offer. I always wanted to captain my own ship, now I don't know if I would have ever gotten the chance without your kind words."

"No Wil, you earned the rank of Captain on your own I just gave you a little push. You are missed, but my new first officer is just like you. Demanding, confidant, and secure, he has a lot of your qualities. It's like you never left."

"How are you and Beverly doing?"

"Beverly and I are wonderful, I never thought that I needed to be married, I thought that my life was in Starfleet. Then when she and I were stranded on KesPrit my feelings began to overflow. The implants may have given us a push. I think it was destiny that she and I were the ones captured. I believe that if it were not for those implants we may have never known how much we loved each other. Keeping those feelings buried for all those years, so many times I wanted to tell her but I thought I would betray my best friend. One day she told me that if either of them were to pass away the other was to find another. She told me that he ordered that Beverly and I become more than friends. It just took 17 years to follow those. I don't know what life would be without Beverly. She has decided to leave Starfleet medical and rejoin my ship. I told her that she was giving up her dreams; she told me that I was her dreams, nothing could make her happier. So I requested that she be reassigned on the ENTERPRISE they quickly said yes. Beverly doesn't know yet."

"What about starting a family? You have always said that you wanted to be a father. This is your chance, having a child together would make your life complete. Besides you can show your child how to run the ship and someday they will leave for the academy. You will no longer be the only Picard ever to join Starfleet."

"Wil, I don't know, I already have a step-son who is almost 30. I don't think it will take nicely with him if his mother and I were to have another baby. He has been an only child for 30 years this kind of a change my have its effects on him."

"Has Wesley ever said that he never wanted to have any siblings? Do you think he wants to be an only child forever? I was an only child and I hated it. Wesley has grown into a young man before our eyes maybe he is more grown up than you think."

One month later:

Wil, Deanna, Beverly and Picard take a long hike up the same mountain. One last trip before they all return to their ships. Deanna and Beverly straggle behind talking with each other about family life and how it is to be so close to their husbands. Wil and Jean-Luc talk about family and how much each has learned under the careful watch of their friend. Deanna falls silent and Beverly turns to find the problem.

"Deanna, is something wrong? You don't look very well, are you sure you should have come on this trip you have been so tired the last few weeks."

"No Beverly, I'm alright just not used to doing so much physical activity. This is nothing like the holodeck, and trying for a baby is a lot of activity as well. I am sure that Wil is feeling the same; it has been an exhausting last few weeks. I'm sure that when I return to the ship I'll be back to my normal self."

"Have you had any other symptoms, any nausea or anything?"

"No just tired, I have had this before...it isn't a surprise."

"Deanna what are you talking about, you had these symptoms before? Why didn't you tell me? I could have given you something."

"No Beverly, I don't want anything, I just need to get back to the ship. There I will be able to find out if I am right."

"Are you dying or something, Deanna I am your best friend, best friends tell each other everything if there is something wrong tell me, we can deal with it together."

"No I'm not dying. I have only felt this way one other time and that was 14 years ago. Beverly I think I am pregnant again."

"Really Deanna, Wil must be so excited, that didn't take long. Doctor's are always wrong, we think we know everything, it will take a few months, this only took you weeks. How far along do you think you are? How late are you Deanna?"

"Let's see, about 10 weeks or so. I didn't notice it right away with our shore leave and everything going on. One night when I was lying in bed, I heard something, a tiny little thought, that thought called me mommy. My mother told me that when a Betazoid is pregnant she can almost hear the thoughts of her unborn baby. I heard the baby last month. I was afraid to tell Wil incase it wasn't true; I wanted to wait until I saw our ship physician. Then I would tell him."

"Deanna why didn't you tell me; I am a Doctor, I could have examined you. You would have known right away instead of holding that inside for all those weeks. I know you and Wil only started to talk about family a month ago but maybe this is a sign, that you both were ready to have a child 2 ½ months ago. I can examine you now with a tricorder the guys wouldn't even notice. Come on Deanna, Wil has the right to know."

Deanna nodded and with one look Beverly noticed that the men were deep in conversation. With the tricorder beeping a few seconds go by and Beverly has the results.

"Deanna you are pregnant and about 10 weeks. That voice you heard it had to have been your child.."

"I really am pregnant. I didn't get my hopes up because I wasn't sure and it wasn't exactly a planned pregnancy. What will I do to tell Wil?"

"Well, I think we can think of something."

Wil and Picard are discussing their ships when Picard drops the bomb on Wil. He and Beverly have decided to TRY for a baby, because of her age they may need to go into more specialization. A fertility specialist, Beverly didn't argue with it and they have an appointment when they get back to the ship.

"That's great Captain, I told you that she would say yes to you. See Wesley didn't mind if he had a sibling even if they were nearly 30 years between them. Wesley can teach his baby brother and sister everything he learned from the ENTERPRISE and studying with the Native Americans."

"To tell you the truth it was your wife, she was the one who convinced Beverly to have another child. Our children can grow up together when we both get leave. Maybe one day they will marry, well if they aren't the same sex. So how is Deanna anyway?"

"She has been really tired the last few weeks. I think she is getting to much fresh air. She said that she would be better when she returns to the ship. But I don't know, something is bothering her, I can tell. She won't talk about it but there is something wrong, I just don't know what it is."

"Give her time Wil, she will open up eventually. Deanna has always been like that for as long as I have known her. She won't say anything unless she feels the need to tell you. Maybe in a few days she will begin to open up with to you."

I hope so. I hate not being able to help her. She is my IMZADI FOREVER...

TBC...