Okay I don't own Star Trek or any of these characters except Kylin Moore and anyone can use her. I'm not making money off of this, I'm just doing this for fun.
Recap: Kylin has just found her colony has been targeted by the Klingon Empire and she has get to them to return back to Earth...Thats easier said then done.
Kylin watched as the ground grew closer. She had been in contact with her aunt earlier in the day, so she was expected. The shuttle landed and she got out carefully. Very few things had changed in the year she had been gone. In addition to Trip, Archer and T'Pol had come down as well.
"Aunt Kylie," she heard a child scream. Kylin looked and saw her nephew and niece running to her. The rest of her family were behind them.
Kylin forgot all of the facade and decorum that she had learned over her years as an ambassador and run to met them. "Jason, Lori, I miss you two so much," she said getting down on her knees to be at their level. They both ran to her outstrenched arms. She couldn't believe had big they had gotten in the year that she had been away.
"Hey do you have be 3 feet tall to get some attenion here," Her brother Allan said.
"Nope, just have half a brain," Kylin told her younger brother, saying their rituation joke.
"C'mom here," he said, laughing hugging her. Her Aunt Lisa and other family came. Her shipmates kept a respectable distance as the family reunited. Kylin was grateful but she kept feeling sicker and sicker, knowing the news that she had to bring.
"Ky, who are your friends," Aunt Lisa asked, putting her arms around her niece's shoulders.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I where my manners. There is Captain Jonathan Archer, Subcommander T'Pol and Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker. This is my aunt Lisa Geller, my cousins Ben and Allen Geller and their wives Sophie and Shannon. These rugrats here are my nephew Jason and my niece Lori."
Everyone said their greetings. "Welcome home honey," Lisa told Kylin, "Where are your things?"
Kylin lifted her bag. Her brother Ben took it from her, "What do you have in here Kylie, a Vulcan speed cruiser," he said teasing her.
"Picture an appendage on my hands sticking at you," Kylin told him.
He just laughed at her. "Please come to my home tonight for dinner," Lisa said inviting the crew.
"We would be honored too," Archer told her.
"Tell your crew they are more then welcome to come down while you are in orbit," Lisa told him.
"We'll do that," Trip promised.
"Aunt Lisa when you get a minute, I need to talk you," Kylin whispered as they walked to the transport vehicle. The crew of the Enterprise returned, to the ship promising to return in hour so Kylin and her family could have sometime together.
"Sure sweetie, by the way your boss, Cal Ishira called, he told me tell that he would be arriving around seven. I told him to come over to the house for dessert," she told her.
The ride to the house did not take to long, with the family catching up. Lori and Jason tried to tell Kylin what had been going on for the past year.
When they got inside in the kitchen, Lisa pulled her niece aside. "What did you want tell me Kylin," she asked as started to pull dishes out of the cabinets her husband Alex had built 15 years ago. Alex Geller had died 10 years ago and was buried 7 miles outside the city.
"You're still on the council right," Kylin asked. Lisa nodded her head. "Can you call an emergency meeting of the council tonight or tomorrow morning?"
"Tonight, I can't because its the annual founding festival but tomorrow I can, why Kylie, whats going on," she asked, frowning.
Kylin wanted to smack her head. She had forgotten the annual founding festival, where the colony celebrated its arrival in New Tierra. That made things much worse. "If I tell you, you can't tell anyone not even Ben or Allan or their families. I may tell Sophie but thats it, if you feel can't hold this, lets just drop it and I will explain everything tommorrow morning."
"You better tell me Ky," Lisa taking a seat, wishing she had a Scotch.
"Starfleet and the High Command got a message two days ago from the Klingons. They are claiming that this planet belongs to them, that we have no right here. They have given us to Monday to vacate or they'll take matters in their own hands," Kylin said.
To her credit, Lisa didn't scream or react in a violate way. Quietly, she got up and took a glass from the cabinet and took a drink of water. "What does the High Command and Starfleet have to say about this," Lisa asked, already having a good idea.
"They want us to resettle," Kylin said, "They will not help us if we stay and fight."
"Figures," Lisa replied, her voice bitter, "I can understand the High Command's position, but Starfleet? We suppose to all be humans, you'd think we stick together. But after what happened to your parents, I guess anything is possible." Her memories of her brother's death weren't as graphic as Kylin's but just as traumatic.
"I know Aunt Lisa, but I have seen what the Klingons are capable of. What we have are a bunch of plasma weapons and some cargo ships capable of Warp 3 if we're lucky. They have photonic torpedos, it comes down to a fight, it won't be much of a contest," Kylin told her.
Lisa Geller knew that her niece was right, but it certainly didn't make her feel better about it. "I will call a meeting first thing tomorrow, but you better be damn convicing," she replied, "its a good thing Allan's wedding was moved up to Friday, at least they'll get sometime to themselves. You better go upstairs and unpack."
Kylin nodded and went up to her old room. It was pretty much like she had left it when she went away to school a decade ago. In the years she had been gone she had always taken it forgranted that she would here. The fact that would not be option after next Monday struck a sense of finality in her. She hadn't taken that much from the ship so she finished unpacking fairly quickly and took her padd so she could work.
"Hey, no working, you are suppose to be on break," Sophie standing in the doorway.
Kylin dropped the padd and embraced her old friend and brother's wife. "How are you," she asked "and where are Jason and Lori?"
"They went out with Ben to get ice cream so you and I can have a little girl talk," Sophie told her, "We have about 30 minutes so it better be juicy girl talk."
Kylin had to laugh, her friend always had a manic personality. "You're right, how is nursing treating you."
"Don't pulled that on me, you're the one leading the exciting career, meeting interesting people," Sophie said.
"Yeah I know, hobknobbing with celebrites," Kylin said finishing it for her, wishing she hadn't brought this up, "Its been 'interesting'"
"Whats so 'interesting', in your letters lately, you sound like you're trying to be happy but your heart isn't in it. I've been worried about sweetie, I thought you were really excitied this new job," Sophie told, worry clouding her brown eyes.
Kylin felt her eyes begin to tear up a bit. She thought she had done a good job masking her feelings up, but apparently she hadn't. "Its a real long story."
"Well tell me about it, we have 28 minutes and counting," Sophie said, hoping to get her friend to smile.
It helped a little. "Remember how happy I was to get this posting on the Enterprise," Kylin asked.
"Do I ever, you bouncing off the walls when you called us," Sophie answering, remember the day Kylin got her assignment.
"Well, this crew wasn't as happy as I was. From the moment I walked on that ship I was ostriced. The captain had the armory officer go through my bag with the chief engineer and told me that if I was spy that my ass was going to the brig," Kylin told her.
Sophie's face went bright red, "That son of a bitch, I hope you told him off."
"I didn't tell him but I put him in his place. Anyway it turned out that they didn't want me there to begin with for a number of reasons, a big one being that I'm a civilian and part of the F.P.I.C." It was no big secret that the F.P.I.C wasn't taken seriously and had to work for each placement given. "My first night there we ran into a battle between a rebel Calverion ship and an Imperial one." Kylin told her.
Sophie nodded, the colony knew all about the Calverion conflict. A lot of their traders came this way. "What happened," she asked.
"After their battle, the Imperial ship came to told to us. We went to their homeworld and had dinner with their council. When we returned the ship I was arrested about 20 minutes later for espionage."
Kylin told her.
Sophie Geller wasn't one for mincing words, "You've got to be fucking kidding me," she yelled, "they're lucky they're on that ship or I would kick their asses right now."
"Calm down Soph, I don't what Aunt Lisa coming up here," Kylin whispered, "Anyway they arrested me, interrogated me and went through all my personal letter chips."
"You didn't take this lying down," she asked.
"Of course not, I told them to get me in touch with Cal and he told me he'd be there in fwe days to get me," Kylin said.
"In disgrace of course," Sophie finished for her.
"Of course, so anyway I was taken back to my quarters and I snuck out and went to surface," Kylin said.
"You stole a shuttle craft," Sophie asked, shocked.
"Of course not, I transport myself to the surface," Kylin said looking down at the bedspread, wondering which one sounded crazier.
"Remember me to not have Ben show you how these things worked," Sophie told, remembering the urban legendes they had heard about transporters, "you when to the surface."
"Yep and around the same time they realized I couldn't have done it. Someone else on the ship had done it, one of the Avengers who slipped through Starfleet's screening." Kylin continued, both of them knew that the Avengers were trying to destroy any cohension found between humans and other aliens. They were trying to get Earth to adopt a policy of isolation. "They caught with me, just as the Imperials were destroying a rebel base."
"Wow," Sophie said, at a loss for words, "why did you stay?"
"I had every intention of leaving when Cal came to get me," Kylin said playing with a thread on her bedspread. "He convinced me to stay and I did, obviously."
"Have things gotten better," Sophie asked, really worried about her friend.
"On the work front, its been amazing Sophie, I been seeing things, meeting other cultures that I couldn't even think of when I was on that Vulcan ship. Their isolations policies made it hard to meet new aliens. The captain and his crew are very open to that. But living with them has been something else. Instead of being on my ass 24/7 they making sure that everything is 'just fine'," Kylin said, "A light goes out to my room, someone is there in 5 minutes to fix it. I get a transmission, they ask me if I need a secure link each time. You ever seen a Vulcan express remorse, its not a pretty sight."
Sophie had to laugh.
"C'mon Kylin, I'm sure they just feel bad," Sophie said.
"I know, but give it a rest, sheesh, this just reminds about everything before, I just want to get over it and everytime they do something, its like they're slapping me in my face," Kylin told her.
"What about that engineer, Trip, I saw him holding your hand when you got that pod," Sophie asked. Kylin blushed a little, "Hah something is up, spill it girl."
"He was the first person to really be nice to me on the ship, when I first arrived. He showed me around the ship and we had dessert together." she told her.
"And, you're holding out, did he accuse you as well," Sophie asked.
"At first yes, but he also was the first to believe that I was innocent," Kylin told her.
"Okay, he's only half a monkey. What else," Sophie demanded, determined to get a nice piece of gossip from her.
"He's been leaving a rose on my desk for the past 3 months," Kylin admitted.
"Oh, so," Sophie pressed.
"So after this, we're going to give it a try," Kylin said.
"Its about time, you should really invited to the wedding this weekend, by the way Shannon wants you as a bridesmaid, so you need to give her your measures when she asks you tonight," Sophie and then noticed her friend's face going white. "Ky whats the matter?"
Until that moment, Kylin had forgotten why she was home so early. How she going to tell this to the others? "I have to tell you something Sophie, but you can't tell anyone or they might panick," she told her friend.
"What is it," Sophie asked slowly, not sure she wanted to know.
Kylin gave her the same story, she had told her aunt. Both were shaking and in tears when she finished. "I won't tell anyone til tomorrow morning but after that.." Sophie said.
They both nodded. "Ladies I have two bundles of joy here for you," both women turned and saw Ben with his 2 kids there.
"Hey come in here, do you know how dull its been just the two of us," Sophie to her two kids who ran in.
TBC
Sorry this took so long and was so drippy, the section will be better, thanks :)
Recap: Kylin has just found her colony has been targeted by the Klingon Empire and she has get to them to return back to Earth...Thats easier said then done.
Kylin watched as the ground grew closer. She had been in contact with her aunt earlier in the day, so she was expected. The shuttle landed and she got out carefully. Very few things had changed in the year she had been gone. In addition to Trip, Archer and T'Pol had come down as well.
"Aunt Kylie," she heard a child scream. Kylin looked and saw her nephew and niece running to her. The rest of her family were behind them.
Kylin forgot all of the facade and decorum that she had learned over her years as an ambassador and run to met them. "Jason, Lori, I miss you two so much," she said getting down on her knees to be at their level. They both ran to her outstrenched arms. She couldn't believe had big they had gotten in the year that she had been away.
"Hey do you have be 3 feet tall to get some attenion here," Her brother Allan said.
"Nope, just have half a brain," Kylin told her younger brother, saying their rituation joke.
"C'mom here," he said, laughing hugging her. Her Aunt Lisa and other family came. Her shipmates kept a respectable distance as the family reunited. Kylin was grateful but she kept feeling sicker and sicker, knowing the news that she had to bring.
"Ky, who are your friends," Aunt Lisa asked, putting her arms around her niece's shoulders.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I where my manners. There is Captain Jonathan Archer, Subcommander T'Pol and Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker. This is my aunt Lisa Geller, my cousins Ben and Allen Geller and their wives Sophie and Shannon. These rugrats here are my nephew Jason and my niece Lori."
Everyone said their greetings. "Welcome home honey," Lisa told Kylin, "Where are your things?"
Kylin lifted her bag. Her brother Ben took it from her, "What do you have in here Kylie, a Vulcan speed cruiser," he said teasing her.
"Picture an appendage on my hands sticking at you," Kylin told him.
He just laughed at her. "Please come to my home tonight for dinner," Lisa said inviting the crew.
"We would be honored too," Archer told her.
"Tell your crew they are more then welcome to come down while you are in orbit," Lisa told him.
"We'll do that," Trip promised.
"Aunt Lisa when you get a minute, I need to talk you," Kylin whispered as they walked to the transport vehicle. The crew of the Enterprise returned, to the ship promising to return in hour so Kylin and her family could have sometime together.
"Sure sweetie, by the way your boss, Cal Ishira called, he told me tell that he would be arriving around seven. I told him to come over to the house for dessert," she told her.
The ride to the house did not take to long, with the family catching up. Lori and Jason tried to tell Kylin what had been going on for the past year.
When they got inside in the kitchen, Lisa pulled her niece aside. "What did you want tell me Kylin," she asked as started to pull dishes out of the cabinets her husband Alex had built 15 years ago. Alex Geller had died 10 years ago and was buried 7 miles outside the city.
"You're still on the council right," Kylin asked. Lisa nodded her head. "Can you call an emergency meeting of the council tonight or tomorrow morning?"
"Tonight, I can't because its the annual founding festival but tomorrow I can, why Kylie, whats going on," she asked, frowning.
Kylin wanted to smack her head. She had forgotten the annual founding festival, where the colony celebrated its arrival in New Tierra. That made things much worse. "If I tell you, you can't tell anyone not even Ben or Allan or their families. I may tell Sophie but thats it, if you feel can't hold this, lets just drop it and I will explain everything tommorrow morning."
"You better tell me Ky," Lisa taking a seat, wishing she had a Scotch.
"Starfleet and the High Command got a message two days ago from the Klingons. They are claiming that this planet belongs to them, that we have no right here. They have given us to Monday to vacate or they'll take matters in their own hands," Kylin said.
To her credit, Lisa didn't scream or react in a violate way. Quietly, she got up and took a glass from the cabinet and took a drink of water. "What does the High Command and Starfleet have to say about this," Lisa asked, already having a good idea.
"They want us to resettle," Kylin said, "They will not help us if we stay and fight."
"Figures," Lisa replied, her voice bitter, "I can understand the High Command's position, but Starfleet? We suppose to all be humans, you'd think we stick together. But after what happened to your parents, I guess anything is possible." Her memories of her brother's death weren't as graphic as Kylin's but just as traumatic.
"I know Aunt Lisa, but I have seen what the Klingons are capable of. What we have are a bunch of plasma weapons and some cargo ships capable of Warp 3 if we're lucky. They have photonic torpedos, it comes down to a fight, it won't be much of a contest," Kylin told her.
Lisa Geller knew that her niece was right, but it certainly didn't make her feel better about it. "I will call a meeting first thing tomorrow, but you better be damn convicing," she replied, "its a good thing Allan's wedding was moved up to Friday, at least they'll get sometime to themselves. You better go upstairs and unpack."
Kylin nodded and went up to her old room. It was pretty much like she had left it when she went away to school a decade ago. In the years she had been gone she had always taken it forgranted that she would here. The fact that would not be option after next Monday struck a sense of finality in her. She hadn't taken that much from the ship so she finished unpacking fairly quickly and took her padd so she could work.
"Hey, no working, you are suppose to be on break," Sophie standing in the doorway.
Kylin dropped the padd and embraced her old friend and brother's wife. "How are you," she asked "and where are Jason and Lori?"
"They went out with Ben to get ice cream so you and I can have a little girl talk," Sophie told her, "We have about 30 minutes so it better be juicy girl talk."
Kylin had to laugh, her friend always had a manic personality. "You're right, how is nursing treating you."
"Don't pulled that on me, you're the one leading the exciting career, meeting interesting people," Sophie said.
"Yeah I know, hobknobbing with celebrites," Kylin said finishing it for her, wishing she hadn't brought this up, "Its been 'interesting'"
"Whats so 'interesting', in your letters lately, you sound like you're trying to be happy but your heart isn't in it. I've been worried about sweetie, I thought you were really excitied this new job," Sophie told, worry clouding her brown eyes.
Kylin felt her eyes begin to tear up a bit. She thought she had done a good job masking her feelings up, but apparently she hadn't. "Its a real long story."
"Well tell me about it, we have 28 minutes and counting," Sophie said, hoping to get her friend to smile.
It helped a little. "Remember how happy I was to get this posting on the Enterprise," Kylin asked.
"Do I ever, you bouncing off the walls when you called us," Sophie answering, remember the day Kylin got her assignment.
"Well, this crew wasn't as happy as I was. From the moment I walked on that ship I was ostriced. The captain had the armory officer go through my bag with the chief engineer and told me that if I was spy that my ass was going to the brig," Kylin told her.
Sophie's face went bright red, "That son of a bitch, I hope you told him off."
"I didn't tell him but I put him in his place. Anyway it turned out that they didn't want me there to begin with for a number of reasons, a big one being that I'm a civilian and part of the F.P.I.C." It was no big secret that the F.P.I.C wasn't taken seriously and had to work for each placement given. "My first night there we ran into a battle between a rebel Calverion ship and an Imperial one." Kylin told her.
Sophie nodded, the colony knew all about the Calverion conflict. A lot of their traders came this way. "What happened," she asked.
"After their battle, the Imperial ship came to told to us. We went to their homeworld and had dinner with their council. When we returned the ship I was arrested about 20 minutes later for espionage."
Kylin told her.
Sophie Geller wasn't one for mincing words, "You've got to be fucking kidding me," she yelled, "they're lucky they're on that ship or I would kick their asses right now."
"Calm down Soph, I don't what Aunt Lisa coming up here," Kylin whispered, "Anyway they arrested me, interrogated me and went through all my personal letter chips."
"You didn't take this lying down," she asked.
"Of course not, I told them to get me in touch with Cal and he told me he'd be there in fwe days to get me," Kylin said.
"In disgrace of course," Sophie finished for her.
"Of course, so anyway I was taken back to my quarters and I snuck out and went to surface," Kylin said.
"You stole a shuttle craft," Sophie asked, shocked.
"Of course not, I transport myself to the surface," Kylin said looking down at the bedspread, wondering which one sounded crazier.
"Remember me to not have Ben show you how these things worked," Sophie told, remembering the urban legendes they had heard about transporters, "you when to the surface."
"Yep and around the same time they realized I couldn't have done it. Someone else on the ship had done it, one of the Avengers who slipped through Starfleet's screening." Kylin continued, both of them knew that the Avengers were trying to destroy any cohension found between humans and other aliens. They were trying to get Earth to adopt a policy of isolation. "They caught with me, just as the Imperials were destroying a rebel base."
"Wow," Sophie said, at a loss for words, "why did you stay?"
"I had every intention of leaving when Cal came to get me," Kylin said playing with a thread on her bedspread. "He convinced me to stay and I did, obviously."
"Have things gotten better," Sophie asked, really worried about her friend.
"On the work front, its been amazing Sophie, I been seeing things, meeting other cultures that I couldn't even think of when I was on that Vulcan ship. Their isolations policies made it hard to meet new aliens. The captain and his crew are very open to that. But living with them has been something else. Instead of being on my ass 24/7 they making sure that everything is 'just fine'," Kylin said, "A light goes out to my room, someone is there in 5 minutes to fix it. I get a transmission, they ask me if I need a secure link each time. You ever seen a Vulcan express remorse, its not a pretty sight."
Sophie had to laugh.
"C'mon Kylin, I'm sure they just feel bad," Sophie said.
"I know, but give it a rest, sheesh, this just reminds about everything before, I just want to get over it and everytime they do something, its like they're slapping me in my face," Kylin told her.
"What about that engineer, Trip, I saw him holding your hand when you got that pod," Sophie asked. Kylin blushed a little, "Hah something is up, spill it girl."
"He was the first person to really be nice to me on the ship, when I first arrived. He showed me around the ship and we had dessert together." she told her.
"And, you're holding out, did he accuse you as well," Sophie asked.
"At first yes, but he also was the first to believe that I was innocent," Kylin told her.
"Okay, he's only half a monkey. What else," Sophie demanded, determined to get a nice piece of gossip from her.
"He's been leaving a rose on my desk for the past 3 months," Kylin admitted.
"Oh, so," Sophie pressed.
"So after this, we're going to give it a try," Kylin said.
"Its about time, you should really invited to the wedding this weekend, by the way Shannon wants you as a bridesmaid, so you need to give her your measures when she asks you tonight," Sophie and then noticed her friend's face going white. "Ky whats the matter?"
Until that moment, Kylin had forgotten why she was home so early. How she going to tell this to the others? "I have to tell you something Sophie, but you can't tell anyone or they might panick," she told her friend.
"What is it," Sophie asked slowly, not sure she wanted to know.
Kylin gave her the same story, she had told her aunt. Both were shaking and in tears when she finished. "I won't tell anyone til tomorrow morning but after that.." Sophie said.
They both nodded. "Ladies I have two bundles of joy here for you," both women turned and saw Ben with his 2 kids there.
"Hey come in here, do you know how dull its been just the two of us," Sophie to her two kids who ran in.
TBC
Sorry this took so long and was so drippy, the section will be better, thanks :)