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Chapter 3: Freedom

Her eyes widen a bit and her body stiffed at the entrance upon seeing a chair all the way around. The person sitting in it was her brother Tomoyuki and he had that most stupid grin upon his face while toying with the pencil between his fingers. She didn't quite find any words to explain his appearance but it gave way to more assumptions on her part. Did Robespierre happen to be here also?

Whatever mean things she was going to say vanished amidst her joy and she jumped on him surprising everyone including him with her actions but she didn't stay on him long.

"HEY! ENOUGH! HEY! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY SISTER! CAPTAIN PICARD THIS IS NOT MY S-SISTER! ALIENS-" In the background Picard grinned.

She whacked him really hard and got off lightly pissed.

"Baka-san! I am your sister..you...why haven't you...! I SHOULD KILL YOU FOR LEAVING ME! I SWEAR! I thought I was going to die...and look at you..bigshot..I should..kill you myself...but I can't kill you without asking if ..." Her voice trailed off as everyone took their seats listening.

He titled his head sideways gazing at her face then went back. "Now this is my sister!" He declared to everyone in the room and there was a small chuckle but it ended when he continued on. "I am sorry. Like you I ended up here. I can't explain it either. I either thought you were dead but I guess I was being stupid-"

"Sure in the hell you were."

"Yes I was but I bet now since we are reunited, you want to know where Maxime is right? He is here..but not in this room. He is on the ship-"
"WHERE!" She stammered a bit but he hushed it up by a face she couldn't counter against in all of her years knowing him. His face still showed that gentleness and warmth but it was overshadowed by grief and sadness and alot of pain. His face also revealed harsh lines around his mouth. They were probably rough. How long had he been here? What did he see here that made him..or..did she never notice Tomoyuki's change? She admitted never looking at him as she was now because during those things, she took him for granted. Him being there was always no prize. She asked no more of Robespierre and instead to ease her brother, accepted Geordi's seat. She sat quietly with her hands in her lap. The atmosphere of the room got very dense and tension ached through her body stressing her out.

Picard remained standing (the only one) casually sliding almost off the floor to her. He motioned with a brisk hand for something and Will got up leaving the table. Her stomach dropped. All eyes planted on her waiting for her side of the story. She swallowed her uneasiness and used the littlest part of her voice to speak but it grew when she re lived the moment, the exact moment of her acquiring the suitcase.

"Now please explain what you saw in the suitcase."

Picard sounded like her father in a much heavier huskier voice and her mind drifted away but it stayed rooted here. No one interrupted her. If they had did then she would of started crying. She didn't want to start crying infront of people she was beginning to know. They would think she wasn't stable or something. But they were being so kind to her. Her mind then tried to picture the little girl but it wasn't until Will returned slamming the suitcase down, did her memory resurface. The beautiful little girl... "I saw a little girl.I heard people talking about it..I couldn't see them because of the light..but I heard that the little girl was of a great importance to them."

"How so?"

"I told you how i came to be. I was just there."

"No one can be just there." Will stated calmly and her frozen blood began to boil over.

"Well i was and I am sorry if i 'just happened' to be there. I can't explain it either. I want to know of it myself so please don't do that. Don't think that i am a bad person because.."

"Tomiko-chan.." Tomoyuki extended his arm across the table to her but she made no movements to seize it. She was beginning to get defensive on her own character and it probably caused alot of suspicion. Luckily she no longer had to answer any more questions because Picard accepted her answers as proof. "Calm yourself Riker. She is to be given a chance to be trusted as everyone else here. She says that she overheard two people talking. Miss Tomiko can you describe them?"

"No sir..not so precise."

He gave a shot nod and returned to the thinking.

"Sir, maybe if she gives the computer the information she has seen then maybe she could identify the two men." Data said in his usual lack of emotion but she sensed a seriousness about it.

"That may be so. Can you do that?"

She answered with a yes very shakily. "Then after this meeting, make it so Mr. Data and maybe we can help her get to the bottom of this but for now..we must..see about this suitcase..see if you can-" She bolted up taking out the key and holding it up for all to see. "Sir, this is the key. This is how i opened it the first time and maybe this time you can open this the same. Sir, do you want me to open it now and let you see?"

They all exchanged glances and finally the decision came to Picard. He agreed to it. The suitcase was pushed to her almost running over Tomoyuki's exposed fingers but he had pulled back. She once again grasped the suitcase with both hands and located the slot. She breathlessly placed the key in. Silence gripped them all producing air that could kill them but by a small click which she never heard before, the suitcase suddenly swung violently open and a older woman's voice that was much mechanical started talking. "Initiating the start up sequence for code 2124565-86396." The wisps of cold air slowly rose and it got hot inside the room. Was the little girl finally be awoken? How come this was happening now! Was this time anything special?

"Code over, initiating wake up sequence in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1." The moist, humid air covered up everything like a fog making it impossible to see for a few moments. Tomiko fought to be able to breathe and wondered if she would indeed see that little girl's face. Why would she be thinking something like that anyway? The fog circulated around the room until the filter system kicked in and it went to other parts of the starship.

"What the hell..?" She squealed up in a higher pitch.

"Amazing.." Geordi muttered scanning the naked little girl sitting inside the suitcase with blank eyes and blank expression. "She seems to be..alive almost.."

"Alive?" She imputed again.

"Yes I alive. Even if she doesn't seem to be. I sense great emotion from her." Deanna pointed out taking the great leap to touch the little girl. They were at a loss. Data took out his tricoder and got a reading from her as everyone goggled her closely. Even Picard was deeply interested. The scanning was complete and Data got his analysis but he hesitated staring at her to his tricoder.

Him not saying anything prompted Picard to make Data to say the conclusions out loud.

"She is human sir."

Human? Was she free at last from that prison? Freedom had been granted. Her freedom.