Thanks again for everyone who's been reviewing. For those of you who haven't, tsk tsk (lol). Here's another chapter for you, there's more storyline stuff in here than M/Q.
"Auntie Kathryn? Auntie, are you here?" Miral walked through the glass doors at the end of the hallway in Starfleet Headquarters looking for her favourite inspiration. "Admiral?" She walked toward the empty desk and looked at the pictures on it.
A very harassed looking Admiral Janeway walked through the doors to her office. She was confused to see someone looking at her pictures and was about to deliver a lengthly lecture before the person turned around. "Miral!"
They both ran and hugged each other.
"Auntie, how have you been?" Miral asked, out of breath from excitement.
"Good, good. Sit down." She motioned to a couch on the far side of the room. "So how have you been?"
"Well, thank you." Miral sat down on the couch and took the cup of coffee that was offered to her. "Are things a little hectic around here, Admiral? You seem frazzled."
The Admiral laughed, "Of course I'm frazzled, there's been some rather strange goings on lately." the elder took a sip of her coffee and looked over the rim mischievously, "It's all very hush-hush of course, Miral, classified level fifteen clearance and whatnot. But I can tell you that the Euphedes is going to be sent out shortly."
"Oh?"
Janeway nodded in response. "And what of your last adventure, Miral? How are your parents?"
"They're fine. They really missed each other, well mom at least. Dad was flying ships?"
"Testing them in New Zealand, have you been out yet?"
"No, we're going tomorrow. I docked today."
"Did you really?"
"Yes, Dad was fairly impressed. He asked me to take up a few ships while I'm down there."
"I've seen some of them, you'll love them."
"Did you hear we ran into Q."
"No, not really. Which one?"
"Oh goodness, all of them. The old one and the young one both."
"You mean Q and Q?" The two laughed at the irony of it. "There's more than just those two, but you mean the young one and his father, right?"
"Yeah." laughed Miral, "The young one's been hanging around for a while, I haven't' seen too much of his dad."
"Just be careful, will you, Miral? I know from experience that they're a rather strange lot."
"Indeed, Auntie."
The Admiral watched closely as she took another sip of coffee. "Are you planning on going to the Academy soon."
"You know I can't."
"Why not? They would understand."
"Well, if I can get this other deal sorted out there wont be any need."
"I don't think it will work, Miral, I'm sorry to say."
"Well, I can't go to the Academy."
"Miral, there's no reason not to."
"My eyes, Kathryn."
"I know about your eyes, Miral, there's nothing stopping you."
"And what about the other stuff, do you think they'd like that."
"Well, you would just have to not do any of that."
"I can barely control it some days, it would just happen and then that would be it."
"Miral, come on."
"No. You don't know what this is like, Auntie. I still remember when the Doctor stuck all those needles in my eyes."
"Okay, Miral. Don't go."
"Grandad?" Miral walked through another set of glass doors in a separate hallway on a separate floor from where she had just been.
"Miral!" The old Admiral behind the desk came forward and hugged his granddaughter. "Sit, sit, sit." he beckoned "Coffee?"
"Tea if you mind."
"Computer, one tea, mint." he ordered the computer. He smiled as he added the mint, knowing full well it was her favourite.
"So – " she began, but he cut her off.
"I haven't gotten it yet, Miral. This type of thing isn't easy, it takes time."
"You've been working on it for a year."
"I know, I'll keep trying. Now, drink your tea and we'll talk about something more uplifting."
She smiled mischievously looking into her tea. "Well, grandad, I met a boy ..."
"Tuvok? Tuvok are you here?" Miral had taken a trip to Vulcan to see her dear old friend but this was not a fun visit she had planned.
"Greetings, Miral." He stepped out wearing his traditional robes. "You have come short announced."
"I know, we were supposed to be here a while but we got another mission starting soon. I apologize."
"It is acceptable."
"I need another lesson." Tuvok nodded. "I want to control it more and make it stronger."
"I do not believe that is wise, but I too wish to continue our previous discussion."
"You want to learn to control it too."
"Indeed."
"Very well."
The two were sitting at a table with a basket of fruit and a cup of water. Miral picked up a piece of fruit and held it over an extra cup beside her. She stared at it intently for a while. It turned into the shape of a cat before turning into a liquid and dropping into the cup. She shook her head and grumbled and took another fruit.
Tuvok also took a piece of fruit and stared at it intently. It melted slightly and he continued staring at it.
Miral looked up and started lauging. "Tuvok, you already did that part. Focus on the whole thing."
"It is difficult." he answered, his concentration now broken, "I do not see what you see."
"You have to focus on the entire thing and fully appreciate everything you can see before you cna see more. That's what I have understood from writings on the thing. I'll describe it to you." She plucked the warped fruit from his hands and started waving her finger around it. "Do you see the energy coming from it, if you look more closely, you see the energy is coming from the vibration of particles within, and if you look even closer, you see that there is nothing really there at all just energy from the vibration."
"I see, young Miral. I believe you do not require any teaching from me, or better yet, that I can offer you none. However, I would appreciate if you continued to teach me."
"Of course."
"I will continue to try to understand what you see."
"I'll leave you now, but I hope to be back soon." She gave the fruit back to him and took herself to the door.
Well, I'll try to update soon but with school and such it may be a little less frequent than before. I tried to just kind of wrap up some things and explain things, we'll see Q again next chapter.