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A/N: Double posting today as it is New Year's weekend. I will be unable to post this weekend. So here's a total flashback Chapter! Happy New Year! This is unbetaed.

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Chapter 4 – The First of Many Arguments

Christina Janine Kirk was proudly named after two influential people in her father's life.

Admiral Christopher Pike, the man who recruited her father into Starfleet and Medical Officer Christine Chapel. Chapel had saved Christina and her Mother's life after she was born prematuraly on a turbo lift during an attack on the Enterprise by Romulan insurgents.

For the first twelve years of her life she was never called Christina. Instead, she was referred to as Chrissy. Little... Chrissy... Kirk. She hated, her nickname. Chrissy sounded trivial and frivolous. It was so freaking girly and nothing like her. The name "Chrissy" made her want to scream every time she heard it, but it seemed as though she'd be stuck with it. So one night, over a joint family dinner with Saul's family, "Chrissygate' hit the fan.

"Chrissy can you pass the Kasa," her father asked and she ignored him. After a moment of being distracted while discussing some communication departmental issue with Spock, Jim realized his daughter had not responded, "Chrissy? Chrissy?"

"What!" Chuck said, defiantly. Jim put his napkin down and sat back in his chair, looking at his little Chrissy in shock.

"What? What the hell do you mean 'what', young lady?" he said and she passed the Kasa rather rudely.

"Chrissy!" Janice admonished.

"I hate Chrissy. I hate it," Chuck stood up climbing on to her chair. "From this day forward, I will not respond to Chrissy...ever!" she declared and then sat back down with her arms corss her chest.

Spock looked at his wife with a raised eyebrow, and Nyota hid her laugh behind her napkin. Saul was quietly observing.

"But sweetheart, it's your name," he father tried to convince her, but she glared at him.

"My name is Christina!" she yelled and then ran from the dinner table into her room leaving Jim and Janice flabbergasted.

"Why does she suddenly hate Chrissy?" Jim pondered out loud and Saul spoke up.

"Some of the older children in school call her names, Prissy, has been one."

"Kids dare to tease my baby girl?" Jim said, angrily, and Janice patted his hand.

"Kids will be kids," she sighed. "And she's the Captain's daughter. That makes her a target."

"She didn't want to tell you. She doesn't want you to make them apologize. And she really does hate the name Chrissy," Saul said. Grabbing two rolls and fruit off the table. He left off to Chrissy's room.

"He is way too smart for his age," Jim said watching Saul disappear into her room.

"Thank you, Jim." Spock said and Uhura laughed.

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Saul went into Chrissy's room and found her on her bed, crying.

"I have rolls and an apple, I can get you something else if you want?" Saul said, standing next to her bed. She shook her head.

"I don't want food, I want a better nickname!" she pouted as she sat up wiping her face with the back of her sleeve. Saul smiled at the state of her messy blonde curls.

"How about just Chris?" he asked and Saul wrinkled her nose.

"They would still call me Chrissy."

"Tina?"

"Ugh!"

"Blondie?"

"I would kill you!"

"Curly?"

"Get out of my room!"

Saul was laughing, "Well, what do you want to be called?"

"I was thinking, Chuck," she said and Saul looked confused.

"Isn't Chuck short for Charles?"

"It is," She took a large bite out of her apple.

"That's illogical, your name is not Charles or Charlene," he said and she rolled her eyes.

"Your name is not Saul, it's pronounced So-vic, that's illogical," she challenged and Saul paused.

"Most humans mispronounce my Vulcan name to make it sound more complicated than it is," he hunched his shoulders. "I've been called Solk, Soulk, Salvek, Solve-it is a favorite amongst the older kids," he paused. "I think they are trying to insinuate that I'm a...know-it-all."

Chuck rolled her eyes, "That's cause you are a know-it-all!"

"That's as illogical as changing your name from Chrissy to Chuck. Do you think it will stop the taunting? If anything, this would make the taunting worse!"

"I don't care about the taunting, they can call me Prissy, Pissy, Kissy, whatever. I just want to be known from now on as Chuck," she demanded.

"Why Chuck? It's a boy's name." he said and she smiled.

"Exactly," she said and then ate the rest her apple. "The boy's think I'm this soft spoiled little princess, but I can whoop their butts, just like one of the guys." she said with her mouth full.

"Do you think this name change will sway their minds? You are still a girl."

"Ugh," Chuck said, frustrated. She laid on her back and stared up at the ceiling. "I don't care, Saul, I don't care if you or anybody else thinks it's 'illogical', it's what I want!"

"I think I prefer, Chrissy," Saul said looking down.

"I don't care!" she yelled.

"Chrissy is very pretty," Saul said, avoiding eye contact.

"Get out!" she jumped off her bed and walked to her door.

"I did not mean to make you angry," Saul panicked.

"Out!" Christina pointed at her door and Saul left.

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Later that night, when Saul was in his own quarters, he told his mother about what transpired. Nyota smiled and sat on his bed.

"Christina, is very much like her father. Tenacious, ambitious, smart and extremely stubborn."

"And sometimes very illogical," Spock said, from the doorway.

"Chuck is not a pretty name," Saul said.

"You told us the other children were calling her Prissy, do you think she's Prissy?" Nyota asked.

"No, she's more like one of the boys. She wrestles and does things that me and John do. Sometimes better," Saul smiled. Then he became quiet and introspective as he thought about Christina's reaction about the teasing. Most importantly, she used the words soft spoiled princess.

"The others are trying to insinuate that she's spoiled, because she's the Captain's daughter."

"Correct," Spock said, as walked to Nyota.

"It's illogical, she is still a girl. Changing her nickname to Chuck won't change that," Saul argued.

Nyota smiled and kissed his forehead, "But it will make her feel more comfortable. Sometimes we can afford to sacrifice a little logic for comfort."

Saul looked at his father for confirmation. Spock winked at him and then his parents walked to the door.

"Goodnight mom, father," Saul said, rolling over, burying himself in he blankets.

"Goodnight sa-fu," Spock said.

"Night baby," Nyota smiled and closed the door.

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The next day they were in class, Chuck ignored Saul all day until lunch time. She was sitting down at the lunch table across from Saul next to John and Moira, when Saul offered her his apple.

"Chuck, you want my apple? My mother gave me two," he said, handing it over and Chuck smiled widely at him. He knew he was instantly forgiven.

"Chuck's a boy's name," Moira said.

"I think it's cool," John smiled. "Chuck, I like it!"

From then on, "Chrissy" was just a horrible distant memory.