Hello From The Other Side
By Laura Schiller
Based on: Star Trek: Voyager
Copyright: CBS
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"To Voyager!"
Admiral Owen Paris lifted his wine glass until it sparkled, reflecting both the light of the chandelier overhead and the faces of his family and friends. More than one lady's makeup was a little blurry around the edges tonight, but their smiles were all the brighter.
"To Kathryn," his wife Julia added, lifting her glass in the direction of Gretchen Janeway. "For looking after our boy."
"Keeping him out of trouble, you mean," Owen added gruffly, but a close observer would have noted that his eyes were the reddest of anyone at the at the table.
"Hear, hear!" Moira, Kathleen and Phoebe cheered, tapping their spoons on their glasses until the whole room chimed.
Gretchen, whose hair had gone gray after Edward's death and snow-white after losing her eldest daughter, looked twenty years younger in her happiness. She clinked glasses with everyone, tossed back her drink, and grinned.
"I wouldn't be so sure," she drawled, blue eyes flashing. "Knowing my Kathryn, it's just as likely to be the other way around."