Chapter 9

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When the kiss broke between Lisa and Collin, they both blushed a bit. Collin more then she was. Lisa smiled lightly at him. On the outside she was acting cool, but on the inside she was nervous. She had her first kiss from a boy! How was she going to break the news to her father? And what was he going to say?

"I have to go," she said, turning and going for the double doors. Collin waved to her as she left. Lisa returned the wave and walked out backwards.

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Lisa didn't go home right away, she needed time to think about what had happened. She decided that she could do this best at the Holodeck.

She stopped when she reached the archway. Everything that had happened in the last couple of months was coming back to her. She had needed to get away for sometime now, but had never gotten around to it.

"Computer," she called, "run program Riker alpha," she commanded. "Program completed, you may enter when ready," the mechanical female voice told her, she stepped over in front of the archway. She waited a full moment before the door opened.

She looked around the program that she had requested. It was the same one that the Bynars had programmed for her father a few months prior. Only then it had been used as a distraction while they stole the ship to help their dying planet.

But now, she was using it for something else. For relaxation. She took a seat up towards the front, where she could hear the band play the best.

She was just about comfortable when she felt a presence in the room; she tensed a bit in the seat that she had chosen.

"Excuse me miss," the voice began. It was growing closer. Lisa forged the urge to turn and look to see who it was.

"Is this your first time here?" the voice asked.

"No," Lisa said through gritted teeth. She grew even more nervous when she could sense that he wasn't going to leave her alone anytime soon.

"Please," she said, her voice becoming desperate, "Leave me alone."

But the person who was behind her wouldn't. He leaned in closer. She thought that she smelled candy on his breath.

A sudden smile crept across her face and she finally turned to face the person that had been bothering her. It was her brother: Tom.

Tom smiled, "I thought that I would surprise you," he told her. She reached out and punched him in the arm, "Don't do that!" she said. A moment later however, she wrapped her arms around him.

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Lisa walked the decks of the Enterprise with her brother in tow. He seemed to be taking in everything that she could think to tell him about the ship. As they walked along, Lisa couldn't help but beam at the sight if him. It had been nearly a year since they had last seen each other.

He was a freshman at the Academy, and he was in the same squadron that their father had been in when he was there. Lisa always liked hearing about what kind of things he was studying in the various subjects that he had taken over the year.

When one looked at him, they would have thought that he was the perfect double for their father, except for the eyes. He had their mother's eyes, which were brown.

"How did your studies go this year?" she asked. He looked at her, "They went fine for the most part, I did have some trouble with some subjects though," he admitted.

Lisa took his hand and held it close, "That's ok," she said reassuringly. "Don't forget, Mom and Dad had troubles their first years too".

Tom smiled at her, "See?" he said, "This is what I needed". Lisa smiled.

"I know that I can do better," he told her as the lift climbed, "And I hope that I can do as well as they did."

Lisa smiled at her brother, "I think that you will," she said. She had meant it too. She had known since they were young children that he was destinatned to great things.

"Theresa and Sam will be excited to see you," she said as the lift came to a stop. Tom smiled, "I can't wait to see them, and Sam must be pretty big by now."

Lisa nodded, "In another couple of months she'll be a year old," she said. Tom shook his head, "It seems like just yesterday that Mom and Dad were sitting down to say that we were going to have another baby sibling," he said.

"I remember when she was born," Lisa said as they neared their quarters, "You nearly freaked out when you found out that you were being over run by women," she laughed.

"God, those were good times," she said as they stopped in front of the double doors. Lisa pressed a couple of buttons and the doors opened.

"Hey Ayriana," Lisa greeted as they walked through the doors. Tom stopped and looked at her, "He Ayriana," he greeted.

The young girl looked at him and smiled, "Hey Tom!" she greeted as she got up off of the ground where she had been playing with Sam. Sam looked up and smiled at Lisa, her arms springing open.

Lisa bent down and picked her up; Tom looked over at her and smiled.

"Hi Sammy," he greeted.

She looked at him funny, as if she was trying to figure out who he was. Finally she settled on smiling for him.

"I think that she thinks that you're dad," Lisa said. Tom gave her a look, "Why did you have to say that?" he asked.

Lisa rolled her eyes, she knew her brother well enough to know when he was pulling her leg. Tom sensed that she was on to him and laughed.

Lisa sighed and walked into the other room, while Tom placed his hands in his pockets. Ayriana gathered up some of the toys that Sam had strewn all over the room. "I heard that you were going to be stationed here until school starts up again," she said, picking up a duck.

Tom nodded, "It's my first deep space assignment," he said. "I was chosen because my fourth quarter grades were excellent, and I worked extremely hard."

Ayriana nodded, "Now doubt, you are much like your father in that regard."

Tom eyed the young telepath, she looked like her mother, Deanna, but she had her father's sense of humor. They had known each other since they were small children. They would often play together during break times at school. And as much as Tom loved to tease her like she was his fifth little sister, she often was his rock.

He was brought out of his revelry when Lisa walked back into the room, Sam was walking to, but with support. She seemed to be very happy with herself. Theresa on the other hand, was trying to hide behind Lisa.

Tom got down to knee level when he saw how shy she was, "Hello Theresa," he said easily. "You've grown since the last time that I saw you."

Theresa didn't say anything. She just clutched onto Frank with one hand and Lisa with the other.

Tom looked at the teddy bear that she was holding, "Is that Frank?" he asked. Theresa nodded, but kept the bear close to her.

"You know that he was my bear first right? Then he was Lisa's," he told her, gesturing at both himself and Lisa.

Theresa looked at her sister, and finally spoke up, "True?" she asked.

Lisa nodded, "Yes, Frank was Tom's bear first," she said, nodding her head over to the eldest Riker child, "Then he was mine, and now he's yours."

"And when Sam is old enough, he will go to her," Tom added. "It's tradition in this family," Lisa explained. "We've all had that bear at one point or another," she went on.

"If that bear could talk, I bet that he would have over a million stories to tell," Tom said, laughing to himself as the memories came flooding back.

Lisa, however, could tell that her brother was hiding something.

She hopped that it was worth it.

End of Chapter.

A/N: I am sorry that this chapter is short. I will try to make up for it in the next one.

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