A few minutes later and John, Trip, the Tarnisian and the aliens entered sickbay. Upon hearing the doors slide open Marlaya looked up and immediately noticed the Tarnisian male standing there, he also noticed Marlaya.

"Ba'Dan!" She slid off the bed. Her eyes never looking away from those of the man who had just entered.

"Marlaya. You're alive!" The two were soon embraced in a hug, both now crying tears of joy and happiness.

"You two know each other?" Trip asked trying to understand what was going on.

"Marlaya is my sister." The Tarnisian male said. He gazed back into her eyes. "I'm so pleased to see you again."

"So am I." Ba'Dan was Marlaya's older brother. He had been born 7 years before she had been and so he had always been very protective over her, but when he had to join the battle cruisers he was always writing letters to her to see how she was doing, and making sure she wasn't getting into any trouble. When the Gregtarnans had boarded the cruiser he was on he was lucky to have escaped and also lucky that he had been found by these Matollan. The society of Tarnisians meant that no male of the royal family was allowed to be a ruler. Only the females, and so if ever there was a boy born into the family when he was old enough he would have to leave the planet and work on a battle cruiser to defend his family and home. For the rest of the population the males were just as important as any other and they had the same rights and privileges as the females.

"Who else is alive?" Curious to know who the other two Tarnisians alive were, hoping it was his parents, or his other sister, Lorella. Lorella was Marlaya's younger sister and she had always had such a kind and gentle spirit, born two years after Marlaya.

"No one that you would know Ba'Dan." Hearing those words caused him to realise that his parents were dead, and so was the rest of his friends and family. It was something he didn't want to hear, but he had.

"Why not?" Marlaya turned round and signalled for Hoshi and Malcolm to step forward with the two bundles. Ba'Dan just looked at them, words could not describe how he was feeling. Their little arms and legs slightly kicking, and their crying had now stopped.

"You're an uncle."

"Who's the father?" Galahad asked, curious and excited to see the babies.

"We don't know. It happened while she was at a prison camp on Hundaria IV about a month before we rescued her." John replied as he moved over to the baby Hoshi was holding, looking at it closely and seeing how beautiful she looked. The baby starred up at him and slightly smiled, John smiled back at her.

"How old are they?"

"Just a couple of hours." Malcolm replied. At that moment the young child in Malcolm's arms began to cry. Phlox quickly moved over with a feeding bottle and handed it to the Armoury officer. "You want me to feed it?"

"It's not an 'It', it's a her, Malcolm, and you are the one holding her. It'd be easier if you did." Malcolm looked at Marlaya and she smiled at him. Malcolm couldn't resist that smile and so began to feed the baby. "I think she likes you." Marlaya said as she watched Malcolm feeding her daughter, who appeared to be quite happy.

"Let's leave them alone. I'll show you around the ship." John said turning to their visitors and they all left. Trip decided to stay in sickbay and enjoy watching the little bundles of joy.

"What are their names?" Ba'Dan asked.

"I'm not sure yet. I had thought of Selaya, or Seejeah for one of them."

"Out of those two names I think Seejeah is the nicest." Replied Trip as he smiled down on the one is Hoshi's arms.

"It was our mother's name." Ba'Dan said as he began to picture what his mother looked like. Why Marlaya had been spared from the destruction no one knew, but at least he still had one sister alive, and now there were two girls. However it was most likely that they would never get children of their own and so then the Tarnisians will become an extinct race. Something which no one really wanted to think about, but it was hard not to.

"Seejeah it is then."

"For which one?" Marlaya looked hard at her two daughters.

"I think this one." She said pointing to the one Hoshi was cradling. "Seeing as my mum was a Peaso, it'll fit."

"And the other one?"

"I'm not sure." She paused for a moment thinking of a name. She watched as the young one fed from the bottle Malcolm was holding up to her mouth. "Avide." She finally announced, smiling.

"That's a nice name." Trip said. "Does it mean anything?"

"It's French for greedy!" Hoshi exclaimed, laughing a little. Malcolm looked at Marlaya and all of them laughed slightly.

"Malcolm." he looked at her upon hearing his name.

"What?"

"I've just realised. They don't have a cot to sleep in."

"Ah I'm sure my engineering team can fix one up for ya." Trip said putting his arm round her shoulders. Ba'Dan had moved closer over to Hoshi so he could see the young one. Ba'Dan had looked at Marlaya and had nodded to him, allowing him to hold his own niece. He carefully picked Seejeah up from Hoshi's arms.

"It's no problem?"

"Course not. Especially for you." Marlaya smiled as Trip slightly shook his head.

"Marlaya. Do you think Captain Archer will allow me to stay on board with you?"

""I don't see why he would say no. For 5 years I've thought I was the only Tarnisian left alive."

"Now you know there are four." Hoshi said.

When Captain Archer returned from showing the Matollans around he granted permission for Ba'Dan to stay, so the Matollans soon left and Enterprise gained a new passenger. For the next few weeks Malcolm, Ba'Dan, Phlox, Hoshi, Trip and Marlaya took it in turns to look after the twins, with the occasional John or T'Pol taking a shift here and there, teaching Marlaya what she needed to know about child care, and the children grew quite fast. A question Ba'Dan often asked was what was Marlaya going to say to the children when they asked about their father. It was something no one had really given any thought to, except Marlaya. She saw the way Malcolm handled being with them and he agreed to step in as the children's father.

When Marlaya and Malcolm were not on babysitting duty he took her down to the gym where she was given some basic fighting skills. She knew she would need them to protect herself and her daughters for the length of time she was going to be on Enterprise, which may turn out to be the rest of her life. The brother and sister were also given uniforms, as they both wanted to join Starfleet. Ba'Dan had chosen to join the COMM team and so he was given instructions by Hoshi. Marlaya had decided that security is what she wanted to do, which had surprised everyone. Admiral Forrest had decided that they could both have their training on Enterprise for a couple of years, and then go to the Academy for the final exams for another year.