Through The Eyes Of A Son
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Chapter Five: The Day He Received Command
Jim Kirk stared out at the sea of classmates cheering for him. He still couldn't believe it. They were giving him the Enterprise. He couldn't wait to get back into space. He had the best ship and the greatest crew and it was going to be amazing. He was going to make something of himself. It was time to be proud of who he was.
Jim watched as the families of his fellow classmates filled the room. Family had never been important to him. One parent was dead and the other couldn't look at him. He had spent a great deal of time resenting the people that gave him life.
That was going to change. He had never known his Father but his Mother was still alive and if the loss of Vulcan had taught him anything it was to love your Mother while you still could. So Jim had contacted Winona, invited her to the graduation and made an effort to reconnect. He needed to do this. He needed to try. He and his Mother had a lot of catching up to do.
He searched for her for ten minutes before the truth began to sink in. He gave it another fifteen before he admitted that she wasn't there. Winona hadn't come. She had promised and she hadn't shown up. Memories of missed school functions and important event stirred his mind and a twenty five year old Jim Kirk asked the same question he had been asking since he was five years old. Why hadn't she come?
"Uncle Jim! Uncle Jim!" A tug at his pants leg pulled him from his dark thoughts and he turned his attention to the cutest five year old he had ever seen.
"Hug?" Joanna McCoy melted his heart as she held her little arms out. Jim bent down and picked her up squeezing her tight. Tickling her until she belly laughed and begged him to stop. When she pulled back in his arms, still laughing, Kirk felt the shadows of the past being swept away.
"Where is you Daddy, JoJo?"
"Her Daddy is right here." Bones's gruff voice was laced with humor. For some reason he always found the sight of Jim hold Joanna funny.
As Bones came closer to talk with the five year old about wondering away Jim scanned the room one last time. He didn't see his Mother but he did see the men and women who had survived Hell with him. Family was important, but not all families were related by blood.
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