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Note: I did not receive any comments on which way the story should go, so if you would like to see what I could come up with with Kirk going back and looking for more relatives then let me know.
He decided that what he really wanted was a chance to know his family as much as possible, even if he did go back and try to find the apparent missing child she might already be dead. What then would be the point of going back? David was already dead and so was Carol. He really didn't have anything to go back to. So he decided to stay and live the life he never had.
"What are we going to do about our children?" Carol asked looking up at Kirk with questioning eyes.
"I say we raise them and let them choose what they want to do with their own lives," Kirk replied. He knew that Carol was weary about having kids with them because she didn't want then gallivanting around the universe like their father. She wanted them close to her.
"We'll raise them. That requires you being around. I know how much you're married to your starships. Besides the day you marry me will be the day hell freezes over, James T. Kirk doesn't get married remember?" Carol replied bitterly.
"Carol," Kirk said as he dropped one knee, he always had been one for tradition, and he had just picked up an engagement ring that morning. There was no way he was letting her go this time. "Will you marry me?"
Right then and there Carol fainted, she just couldn't believe that James T. Kirk had just asked her to marry him. What was next? He'd quit his beloved Starfleet for her?
Note: I did not receive any comments on which way the story should go, so if you would like to see what I could come up with with Kirk going back and looking for more relatives then let me know.
He decided that what he really wanted was a chance to know his family as much as possible, even if he did go back and try to find the apparent missing child she might already be dead. What then would be the point of going back? David was already dead and so was Carol. He really didn't have anything to go back to. So he decided to stay and live the life he never had.
"What are we going to do about our children?" Carol asked looking up at Kirk with questioning eyes.
"I say we raise them and let them choose what they want to do with their own lives," Kirk replied. He knew that Carol was weary about having kids with them because she didn't want then gallivanting around the universe like their father. She wanted them close to her.
"We'll raise them. That requires you being around. I know how much you're married to your starships. Besides the day you marry me will be the day hell freezes over, James T. Kirk doesn't get married remember?" Carol replied bitterly.
"Carol," Kirk said as he dropped one knee, he always had been one for tradition, and he had just picked up an engagement ring that morning. There was no way he was letting her go this time. "Will you marry me?"
Right then and there Carol fainted, she just couldn't believe that James T. Kirk had just asked her to marry him. What was next? He'd quit his beloved Starfleet for her?