Chapter 15: Interlude - April
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Buffy and Dawn sat in the orbital lounge looking out over a new Enterprise that was about ready to be launched. It had been nearly one hundred years since they had set out on John's Enterprise and they had enjoyed every bit of it.
They had been through quite a bit during the NX-01's mission; the temporal cold war, the Xindi threat and finally simple exploration. Finally they had joined John at the ceremony that had brought together the Vulcans, the Andorians, Humans and the Tellarites to found the United Federation of Planets that would one day encompass all those planets that Jean Luc had said belonged to the Federation of his time period.
And the first of their friends from the NX-01 had died; Trip had died saving his friends Buffy and John by luring an enemy boarding party into a nearby plasma junction which he rigged to explode. He was mortally injured during the explosion and his final words were to Buffy, he told her not to let Dawn get away. That she might be Buffy's sister or cousin, depending on what story they told. But he had seen the budding relationship between them and knew it would blossom into much more over time.
And now they sat there contemplating everything that had happened as they smiled and watched as the newest Enterprise left drydock. And they nodded, finally it they were heading for the future that they had heard about all those years ago as they watched the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701 under the command of Robert April head off into that future.