April 2265

Chris

Chris was sitting on the porch at the family house in Mojave, telling stories to his dad, Hobelia, Cody and Zane. He smiled as he watched his wife and their children play near the lake. Five years had come and gone so fast and by all accounts the mission was a success. He chuckled to himself thinking about some of the last assignments they went on.

A few months ago, he was ordered to induct a new planet to the Federation. He took McCoy, Uhura, Kevin and a few security officers on what was supposed to be a diplomatic mission and they promptly found themselves being held captive. It was funny when he considered the fact that most of the Federation knew by now not to mess with the Enterprise crew. Over the last five years they fought impossible battles, brokered treaties, stopped wars from starting, saved all kinds of planets from all kinds of issues, explored stars they've never seen before, examined new things and left their mark on the universe. Now when people say the name 'Captain Jamison T. Kirk' it was either in pure excitement or in absolute fear. Jamie was a hero in her own right who showed everyone that being her father's daughter was only the beginning of what makes her who she is.

During those few hours in captivity, they weren't even worried. "Anyone want to take bets on how long it'll take before she springs us?" McCoy asked at some point. They had all tossed times around the room, Kevin was the closest with ten minutes; Jamie and company showed up in seven. One minute the guards were there and the next they were dropping like flies. The group looked up to find Harrison, Hendorff and Sulu taking them out while Jamie hacked the system and unlocked the cells they were being held in. "Looks like you really can't go anywhere without me, sir." He smiled at her, "Maybe I just like watching you work, Captain." That earned a laugh as they made their way through the compound.

The last five years brought a smile to his face, the beginning marked by the birth of their daughter. Chris had figured out what to name her just two days before she was born. Like Jamie did with Charlie, he didn't tell and she didn't ask. Their son and Joanna wanted to know but he still kept it to himself. August twentieth, 2260 was the big day; Jamie was on the bridge when she went into labor. She wasn't working, she just got bored so she decided to see what Spock and the senior staff were up to. They had to ban her from engineering at around six months because she couldn't stop herself from trying to help out, she scared the crap out of Scotty a few times. Chris knew that Jamie never did like sitting on her hands.

Getting called to the Medbay by McCoy wasn't that unexpected, seeing Harrison holding Jamie's hand, whispering to her that she was doing good and coaching her breathing was odd. It just wasn't as odd as Chris thought it would be. The former Section 31 officer fit in with the rest of this motley crew after they got used to him. Jamie spent a lot of time talking with him and pulling him into the no-so-little family that she created, turned out that Harrison had looked out for her when he got the chance and had kept a good deal of information about them from Marcus. Chris will admit he was a little leery about the guy at first but Jamie trusted him, so Chris eventually got over it, especially after watching Harrison keep Samantha calm. If Charlie liked hanging out with Spock, Sammie loved being around Harrison, he would talk to her with that accent and it would either make her smile or put her right to sleep.

After the baby and another -Gaila and Sulu's- wedding, they got to work seeing the galaxy. Jamie put an end to Kaaj three days after she went back on duty; a month after baby Sammie was born. Kaaj took his blood debt to new heights, too bad that no one told him that Jamie was more dangerous than Chris; where he was calm and cool, Jamie was controlled chaos. The crazy Klingon attacked the ship but he wasn't expecting the blonde woman in the command chair, "Go get your father, child." He also wasn't expecting her to laugh in his face and stand her ground, "Oh, come on, Kaaj. This is getting ridiculous, you show up, issue some threats that you never make good on and leave as soon as you start losing. That's why you aren't allowed back to the Empire, you're so weak that my children have outgrown you. Hell, you tried to kill me once and you failed. I would let it go but since you keep trying to kill my husband, I'll play along. If you leave now, I won't kill you today. Stay and you will die." Kaaj really should've listened to her, the Klingon attacked first and the Enterprise destroyed his ship. Since he had dishonored the Empire in his failure –which is why he hated Chris in the first place- the Klingons didn't say anything about Jamie killing him. They did have a fit about Jamie's trip to their home world but after the crew saved a Klingon colony from the Romulans, the chancellor decided not to kill her. Of course, many things took place but that was undoubtedly among his favorites.

Jamie

The last days on the ship were hilarious. Everyone was so excited about going home, everyone except the children, apparently they wanted to stay in space. Jamie could understand where they were coming from, kids like Sammie and Jimmy were born on the ship, it was all they knew. There were plenty more children on the ship than they started with, they left with a dozen and were coming home with twenty-five under the age of sixteen. Two days away from Starbase One, Jamie found herself standing in her quarters with the mini versions of the senior staff. "Charles George Pike, Samantha Hoshi Willa Pike, James Christopher Scott and Joanna Eleanora McCoy!" The four of them either looked around the room or at her with fake innocence, "Want to tell me why the replicators are only making cupcakes?"

She knew it was them, Sammie and Jimmy were only four but the pink and green icing was a dead giveaway that they were involved. Jo just turned sixteen a week ago and had finished with school early, she took college level courses while working in the medbay with her dad and Chapel. Bones was proud as hell that she's studying to be a nurse. Joanna was still the big sister of their little crew, none of the kids did anything that Jo didn't know about, just like her dad. Charlie was the one who reprogrammed the replicators, Jamie was sure of it. Between learning computer programming from Spock and engineering from Scotty, he knew exactly what to do; she couldn't believe that he was almost nine. All the kids in the room started talking at the same time; Jamie, Chris, Carol, Bones, Scotty and Chapel just watched them dig themselves into a hole. What they didn't know it that they weren't really in any trouble, nobody got hurt and what they did was ingenious.

"First, you're going to fix it. Then, you're going to figure out how we knew it was you. Get to work," she had told them. The giveaway wasn't the cupcakes or even the icing, it was the coding. Every hacker has a code that's special to him or her, Charlie and Joanna weren't any different, they didn't bother to disguise the fact that they had been in the system. As soon as the kids went into Charlie's room the adults all burst into laughter, "remember when they were all just little and cute?" Chapel asked. Jamie smiled at the memories of their babies. She thought back to when Sammie was born, Jamie wasn't sure what Chris would pick for their daughter's name, she'll admit that what he came up with wasn't it. He named their little girl after three of the best people they knew; Hoshi, her brother Sam and Chris' mother. "I like it." Jamie had stayed on duty until a week before she gave birth when everyone –seemed like everyone- teamed up and told her to go rest. Spock was the acting Captain and Sulu was acting first officer since Scotty was still getting used to being a new dad.

The thing that got Jamie over the last five years was Charlie and Sammie. Jamie swore it was like watching her with her brother. After her daughter was born, Bones brought Charlie and Joanna to see her, "I have two visitors who demanded to see you." Chris had looked at their son and asked if he wanted to hold his sister, the look on Charlie's face was priceless as he sat on his mother's lap and Chris placed the baby in his arms with Jamie's arms around both of them. Joanna had hopped up next to them on the bed, "Thank God she looks like Aunt Jamie," the girl said, earning a laugh from Chris and Bones. Jamie remembered watching Charlie with his sister over the last few years. Once, she went into the baby's room and found Charlie sitting next to the crib, "I'm your brother. Mama says that means that I'm gonna take care of you. But mama takes care of her brothers so I guess that means we'll take care of each other." Charlie was true to his word, he had his sister's back and she was learning how to have his. She couldn't wait to see what would happen when they got older or when Gaila and Sulu's twins, and Spock and Uhura's son were all old enough to join in the mischief.

Gaila and Sulu got married at the end of 2260 but the babies didn't come until 2263; Navna and Demora Sulu looked like their father, except they were girls, cuter then him and green. Baby Silok -from the great sky- was the newest addition to the crew at six months old, he was only a quarter Vulcan but still took after his father with the ears; Jamie and Scotty won that bet against Bones, Chekov and Sulu. The kid was cute

and he had his dad wrapped around his finger.

Bones and Carol were still together, Jamie and Joanna told him to just marry the woman already, but they were going to take it slow. No wedding plans or kids in their immediate future, Joanna made him swear that she wasn't going to be a mother before he had another child; that led to a fun day of playing referee between her best friend and his daughter. Bones, Spock and Jamie stuck pretty close to each other, especially when they weren't on the ship. The 'trio' as some of the crew called them was a force to be reckoned with. Jamie alone was dangerous, the three of them together was downright scary. The courageous captain who would do anything for her crew, the passionate doctor who worked miracles and the logical Vulcan who out-thought most of the people around him. There wasn't much that the three of them didn't –couldn't- do.

Bones did dish her a blow after Sammie was born, "You can't have any more children, Jim. Your body can't take it." To be honest Jamie was shocked that she had two in the first place. There had been so much damage done to her since before she hit puberty and the partial hysterectomy at ten made each pregnancy a miracle. Chris just smiled when she told him, and in classic Chris fashion told her that all he wanted was her, their children were icing on the cake.

She glanced at him as he made his way from the porch to join them by the water, the kids abandoned her for their father. Looking out at the water, Jamie chuckled as he picked them both up, "You know, I could get used to this."

"You'd be bored outta your mind in a month. So would I," he said with a chuckle.

She shrugged, "Life with the three of you is never boring." Chris shook his head as a car pulled up to the house. Big Charlie walked down towards the water with Barnett. The Admiral looked at they pair and after an introduction to the children, he got right down to business.

"I got a proposition for you two," Barnett said. Chris looked at his friend after he explained.

"What makes you think we'll do it?" Chris asked. Barnett shrugged and looked at Jamie.

Jamie smiled, "To 'boldly go' is what I was made to do."

AN: Well this is it. I wasn't sure how to end it, I wrote this chapter five times with four points of view before I decided on just using Jamie and Chris. I've never done a story this long and it was fun. I left time gaps so maybe I'll write one-shots to fill those in, eventually. Thanks to everyone who read the craziness in my head, it really means a lot.