Sistas In Tha House Part 3

"Mom, please, *can* we go to Armath?"

Michael's pleading voice filled the hovercar. BElanna, Michael, Miral and Cat headed towards the video store.

"Let's put it this way, Michael. I'll go to Armath even if I'll have to quit my job and sell our house to get there!"

"We can go in three weeks if you want to!"

Cat's happy voice.

"E very week it goes a freighter beside the Armath system, but these you've to sneak aboard. it also goes a tourist bus directly to a planet near Armath every second month. It's better to go with one of those, and the next one leaves on Thursday in three weeks."

"Can you call and order tickets or something?"

Miral asked, Cat answered her question.

"No, you just show up there and walks aboard, it's never many people there. And like I've said; it takes a week to get to Armath and not many want's to go there thanks to that."

"You know, it sounds like you've done this before..."

Cat smiled at Michael, her brother. *Brother*!

She was so happy now, only her father was missing in her life. She reaches up to touch her forehead, finally she didn't have to use a bandana to cover her ridges.

"When would Tom get home?"

BElanna, Cat's *mother* interrupted her happy wondering.

"In a few weeks."

Cat sounded distant, still lost in her thoughts. Miral didn't care, she wanted to know more, and this was the perfect opportunity to ask her baby sister.

"How come your, er.... our father, goes away to a Deep space station to work, when Starfleet did that awful thing to him and you?!"

"Well, not many other places needs a pilot, medical assistant or ship designer. To get in - false name."

Three weeks later stood the four Klingon/humans at a platform in Spain. A few Ferengi wandered around the area.

Cat also saw a couple of Vulcans and even a pair of humans.

After twenty minutes wait came the space bus, it was big, old, brown and looked like it wouldn't pass for full impulse speed.

Miral couldn't believe that thing could reach Warp 9.

The family got aboard along with the other passagers, they paid an old Betazoid, probably the driver, and got four rooms next to each other.

The rooms were at least clean, in opposite to the ship itself.

Cat, Michael and Miral fell asleep almost immediately in their future beds for a week.

BElanna, however, was wide awake until 3 a.m., wondering about how Armath would be, her kids, and most of all; how Tom would reach upon seeing her again.

Well, there wasn't any turning back now.

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Tha1n0nlYVoy_Girl 9/2 2002