HEY GUYS!

Here is the next chapter of After Ten Years, it's a lot shorter than the others but this was the most logical break that I could come up with. I hope you enjoy this chapter! And I must give props to my amazing beta Mavfan, she is amazing and totally ROCKS and has made this story awesome!

Thank you very much for reading, hope you enjoy!

Marla1

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Naomi smiled at the telling of their first date, though she was forever mortified over the Flotter and Trevis incident, it had been one of the best nights of her life. By then she was so caught up in the moment, she told the second part about the day that they said that they loved each other.

Sam's heart soared, she turned to Gresk and smiled, "Our baby is married…"

He wrapped his arms tightly around Lexie, "And she has a beautiful baby of her own…"

Lexie sighed, "Grandpa I am five years and three months old, I am not a baby."

He laughed, Sam was reminded of Naomi when she was that age, a bright and curious girl, "Hey Naomi…"

Naomi who was in mid laugh turned towards her mother, "Yea mom." Her smile grew wider, "I like saying that."

"I like hearing it from you missy, it seems that it's a perfect time for some food. That is if you can convince your husband to let you go." Sam smiled at both Naomi and Miral, whose husbands had their arms in some way wrapped around their respective wives, they had not moved an inch throughout the story.

"Might be kind of hard, see Miral and I well…"

Miral continued, this was an inside joke between the two of them and they enjoyed bringing up every time they could, "Naomi, I keep telling you to ease up on the love potion you have been giving him, it's going to make him loopy."

Lucas and Icheb both sighed, Naomi shrugged her shoulders, "Yea but you know there is no hope for Icheb, and if I gave him half of what you gave Lucas he is going to be batty. You know I knew you shouldn't have given him so much…"

They both laughed, Naomi saw the looks of confusion cross people's faces, "It's an inside joke, you would have had to been there to really get it. And to see the looks on their cute whittle faces." Both Miral and Naomi went to pinch their husbands faces, but were stopped before they could finish the joke.

"Food…" Lexie who had vacated her grandfathers lap walked over to her mother and smiled at her, Naomi knew that look, the gears were whirring in her head, "Are we eating dessert first like you said was tradition to do at the reunions?" her eyes lit up at the prospect.

Sam laughed, Naomi stood up and grabbed Lexie's hand, she leaned down and whispered in Lexie's ear, like it was a secret, "Yea, and we are going to try as many as we want." Then she and Lexie almost skipped over to the dessert table.

"She got her mother's love of desserts." Sam told Icheb as they turned to follow the two girls.

Gresk laughed, "I'm shocked then that both of them sat here for as long as they did, especially my Naomi. I remember when we came to the reunions with her as a child she was always first at the table. She always reminded us of the tradition and then after all of the introductions she would dance on the balls of her feet until we went to the dessert table."

Icheb laughed as he grabbed two plates and balanced them on his arms, "That sounds like my Lexie and, well, like my Naomi too."

"Hey sweets." Naomi called over to Icheb, those who were around laughed as Icheb turned around, "Chocolate and carrot?"

"And pumpkin please…" Icheb turned back around and started piling savory foods on the plates he was carrying.

"I already got the pumpkin Daddy." Lexie said adding another brownie to her plate.

Lucas saw Sam looking at Icheb strangely as he piled the food on his plates, "They always do this at buffets, well the dessert gathering is usually last. Next Naomi will go and get a huge salad and Miss Lexie will get drinks. They are a very interesting family."

Sam turned to Lucas who was carrying Miral and his plates while she grabbed the food items and placed them on the plates, "Lucas you sure grew up good."

Lucas laughed, "Thanks Mrs. Naomi's mom." They both smiled at this, he called her that for years because he knew it annoyed her, "I hope my Dad feels the same way."

Tom clapped his hand on Lucas' shoulder, "I'm sure your Dad will be proud, hell mine was when I came back and if he could be proud of me yours will be proud of you. You know I think I like you, even though you're married to my daughter. I didn't think I would ever like the man who dared touch her I am very happy with you two." Tom kissed Miral on the top of her head, very happy to have his daughter home, he then turned and walked over towards their table.

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"So then, if you two really fought like cats and dogs' why are you married and so sickeningly happy now." Issac asked his sister Miral.

"Because something stupid had to happen to get him, in all his stubbornness to…"

Lucas interjected, "More like you and YOUR stubbornness…"

Miral rolled her eyes and continued, "Ok fine it took me almost killing myself in a holodeck story to come to terms with it. I guess I have Moms stubbornness and Dads all combined into one."

B'Elanna laughed, "Oh lordy, like mother like daughter." She stared at her son, "Now dear Issac, don't you go looking for girls who turn the holodeck safety controls off and then run a dangerous story. They can only lead to trouble."

Issac laughed at his mother, "Who knows, maybe I didn't inherit any of the stubbornness, maybe Miral got it all."

Miral reached across her husband and slapped her bother, "Ah that felt good to slap you, bro."

"Yea, its so great to have you home sis." He said with some sarcasm in his voice.

"I want to hear this story, Naomi…" B'Elanna reached over and tapped her on the shoulder, "Will you tell us the story of how my Miral and Lucas started dating?"

"Why, of course, I would love to, why don't we tell it over dessert?", Naomi smiled at Miral, "Now we get the honors."

Miral rolled her eyes and dabbed a bit of mashed potatoes on Naomi's nose.

"Now, now, ladies NO playing with your food at the table, unless you want to make it a full on food fight."

Faulk said walking up behind Miral and Naomi.

"Aw why not Capt?"

Lexie smiled and turned to look at Faulk, "Are we going to dance?"

"Yep, and they are playing our song Missy." Faulk held his hand out to her and she took it, a huge grin plastered on her face.

Naomi grinned at Faulk, "Have fun, now remember she has to be back at the castle by midnight." They walked off to the dance floor, Faulk scooping Lexie in his arms for their first dance of the evening. Naomi turned back towards the table and continued, "Captain is her Godfather and he promised her that she would have a dance with him. I'm glad he was able to get away from all the big wigs." She said the last part louder as Admiral Janeway walked past their table.

"Watch it Lieutenant." She grinned seeing Naomi's hands fly to her mouth in mock fear as Janeway sat down in Lexie's vacated chair, "Icheb someone is here to see you. I think her name is Kelly, she has been coming to these for years waiting for you to come back. She's at the bar." Janeway pointed to a tall blonde woman who was staring out on to the dance floor with a martini glass in her hand.

"Hey Icheb, I wonder if she is still after you?" Miral asked very curious as to why Icheb's old friend and pseudostalker was at the Voyager reunion.

Icheb laughed nonchalantly, "I would hope she has moved on, after all, its been ten years. I guess I will go and say hi to her…" he turned to Naomi who struggled to nod her head.

Naomi was silent, she shot a look to Miral after Icheb got up from the table. Miral sighed, she had meet Kelly on one of the last few days they were on Earth before they set off. It was a very bad first impression of this woman.

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Kelly tried to wipe away the tears, her Icheb was leaving to go on a mission for ten years and she couldn't go with. It just wasn't fair.

"But why does he have to go away?" she asked the girl who Icheb introduced as Miral.

"It's a great opportunity for him, so what exactly are you and Icheb?" Miral was never one for subtly with people.

"Oh, Icheb is mine." She said simply.

"You guys dating?"

"No, but he is mine. He just doesn't really know it yet. We have known each other through the SFA years, and I just know he is saving himself for me."

Miral couldn't figure out how to react to her last statement in a nice way, "But Icheb doesn't seem to notice."

"He is just being a gentleman, and if it wasn't for this damn trip he would be mine even more."

Since Miral could not think of a way to answer that and still be nice to her she smiled and decided to end their conversation, "Well, I have to go and help Icheb get some more engine parts on board, so bye." Miral turned to walk away from Kelly.

Kelly reached out and grabbed Miral's shirt and pulled her back towards her, "IF you take my Icheb away from me, so help me I will hurt you, he IS MINE!" Miral put her hand over Kelly's and started squeezing it, Kelly was not expecting this and tried to pull her hand away.

"OW THAT HURTS." Kelly screeched, Miral did not let go, though she stopped squeezing it.

"LISTEN don't you ever touch me girl, you wont know what hit you. You're lucky I have not decided to go Klingon on your ass. GO." Miral glared at her with an extremely fearsome and downright scary glare that made Kelly instantly back away from her.

Miral turned to Icheb, "Kelly had to go, she said she would see you before you left," she turned back and sent another glare Kelly's way that made her turn around and practically run away, "So, do you need some help mister?" She slapped him on the back and grabbed a box hauling it behind Icheb.

From that moment on there was never a moment that Miral would think about that strange incident without shuddering.

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Miral never told Icheb about how Kelly had treated her because Icheb didn't seem to realize that Kelly has this unhealthy infatuation with him. He thought they were just friends. Miral knew that she couldn't change Icheb being a nice and sometimes too nice and very often oblivious. But, when Naomi and Icheb started dating, Miral had warned her about Kelly, so that when they returned to Earth, Naomi would know what to expect from Kelly.

Miral excused herself and Naomi from the table, Naomi grabbed on to Mirals arm trying to keep herself calm, "If that…. woman tries anything… I will hurt her."

Miral laughed, "Why don't we make this fun Naomi, I have been itching to have a little fun"

Naomi looked at Miral square in the face and saw the twinkle in her eyes, "I don't know what you are thinking about doing, but I already love the way your mind works Miral. What's the plan?"

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Hope you enjoyed the 4th chapter, the next chapter will be Kelly part 2, don't worry Miss Creepyness goes away and it's a great way too! And in the next chapter you'll hear about Miral and Lucas and when they finally admitted their feelings for each other, oh it will be interesting! Until next time! (I am busy this week but next is break week so I will be able to write more, happy times and the next chapter should be up in the next couple of weeks!)