Reminiscing
By TayaJaneway
Author Note: J/C and P/T are married and their children are old enough to
get married.
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"Mom how did daddy purpose?" Taya asked at dinner.
Kathryn, Chakotay and their two kids, Taya and Alex, were Tom and B'Elanna's house, eating dinner with them and Miral.
"What brings this up?"
"Oh, I over heard Alex and-"
"Taya!" Alex cut her off.
Miral smiled. And everyone's were on Alex.
"Alex is there something you would like to tell us?"
"No. Please answer Taya's question."
"Alright!" She looked at Chakotay.
"Well, a lot of the quarters had been breeched included Tom and B'Elanna's and Chakotay's. So my quarter's being the largest is were we all stayed. B'Elanna slept in my bed with me and Chakotay and Tom . were did you two sleep?"
"I slept on the couch!" Tom said.
"Yeah, I got stuck with the floor!" Chakotay said.
They all laughed. "Well on night before Tom and B'Elanna came 'home' Chakotay and I got into an argument about . what?"
"Don't tell me you forgot!"
"Kathryn you got one thing wrong, we had come back. The argument was over who got the shower first and you not having any coffee that day-"
"Wait a minute, mom without coffee?"
"That's why the argument was really corny, until she made him mad!"
"Yeah I said . 'Chakotay, I'm getting in the shower first-'
'Oh, I deserve the shower first since you won't let me have the bed!' He shouted at me.
Then I said the corniest thing, 'Just because you like me-'"
'You think I like you Kathryn!?' I interrupted
She just looked at me. 'No Kathryn I don't like you.' I told her."
"Then he said the most sweetest thing besides the legend I had ever heard. You probably don't even remember!" She paused and started to recite what he'd said that day.
"'Just because my heart fells like it's about to burst through my chest when you are around.'"
"'Or when you walk'," he took over, "'into the room my eyes shine and my day just got a little better. Or when I'm talking to you and told you the legend I was swallowing every five seconds to keep my heart from keeping out.
'Or how since I where my heart out on my sleeve, you crush it every time you touch my arm. All those reasons mean nothing.' I paused and started to walk towards the door, and as the door slide open I turned and said, 'No Kathryn, I don't like you! I love you! I love you with all mind, body, soul, spirit and heart!' And I walked out of the room."
Kathryn just sat there, at the dinner table and cried.
"That's how you purposed?"
"No! He purposed two days later after she finally told him that she loved him!" B'Elanna said.
"I just got up one morning, thought for a minute and walked to the foot of the bed, where he was sleeping and woke him up with a kiss and told him I loved him!" Kathryn smiled.
"I smiled and hollered and everything praying that this dream wouldn't end. Then when we kissed again I realized that it wasn't a dream and I asked her."
"Yeah, he woke me up and needless to say, I didn't get to sleep in that bed that night or in the same room!"
They all smiled. Miral and Alex looked at each other and nodded.
THEND
Part Two Coming soon!
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"Mom how did daddy purpose?" Taya asked at dinner.
Kathryn, Chakotay and their two kids, Taya and Alex, were Tom and B'Elanna's house, eating dinner with them and Miral.
"What brings this up?"
"Oh, I over heard Alex and-"
"Taya!" Alex cut her off.
Miral smiled. And everyone's were on Alex.
"Alex is there something you would like to tell us?"
"No. Please answer Taya's question."
"Alright!" She looked at Chakotay.
"Well, a lot of the quarters had been breeched included Tom and B'Elanna's and Chakotay's. So my quarter's being the largest is were we all stayed. B'Elanna slept in my bed with me and Chakotay and Tom . were did you two sleep?"
"I slept on the couch!" Tom said.
"Yeah, I got stuck with the floor!" Chakotay said.
They all laughed. "Well on night before Tom and B'Elanna came 'home' Chakotay and I got into an argument about . what?"
"Don't tell me you forgot!"
"Kathryn you got one thing wrong, we had come back. The argument was over who got the shower first and you not having any coffee that day-"
"Wait a minute, mom without coffee?"
"That's why the argument was really corny, until she made him mad!"
"Yeah I said . 'Chakotay, I'm getting in the shower first-'
'Oh, I deserve the shower first since you won't let me have the bed!' He shouted at me.
Then I said the corniest thing, 'Just because you like me-'"
'You think I like you Kathryn!?' I interrupted
She just looked at me. 'No Kathryn I don't like you.' I told her."
"Then he said the most sweetest thing besides the legend I had ever heard. You probably don't even remember!" She paused and started to recite what he'd said that day.
"'Just because my heart fells like it's about to burst through my chest when you are around.'"
"'Or when you walk'," he took over, "'into the room my eyes shine and my day just got a little better. Or when I'm talking to you and told you the legend I was swallowing every five seconds to keep my heart from keeping out.
'Or how since I where my heart out on my sleeve, you crush it every time you touch my arm. All those reasons mean nothing.' I paused and started to walk towards the door, and as the door slide open I turned and said, 'No Kathryn, I don't like you! I love you! I love you with all mind, body, soul, spirit and heart!' And I walked out of the room."
Kathryn just sat there, at the dinner table and cried.
"That's how you purposed?"
"No! He purposed two days later after she finally told him that she loved him!" B'Elanna said.
"I just got up one morning, thought for a minute and walked to the foot of the bed, where he was sleeping and woke him up with a kiss and told him I loved him!" Kathryn smiled.
"I smiled and hollered and everything praying that this dream wouldn't end. Then when we kissed again I realized that it wasn't a dream and I asked her."
"Yeah, he woke me up and needless to say, I didn't get to sleep in that bed that night or in the same room!"
They all smiled. Miral and Alex looked at each other and nodded.
THEND
Part Two Coming soon!
