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Sickbay
8:30 AM
Kirk approached sickbay. He had been preparing for the morning staff meeting when McCoy
had commed, asking him to come to sickbay at once.
Upon entering, he quickly spotted his CMO looking at a PADD. "Bones, is everything alright?"
McCoy looked up. "Everything's just dandy, Jim." He motioned toward a biobed. "But two of your crewmen
asked me to have you come down right away because they had something important they wanted to tell you."
For the first time Kirk noticed L'Naym sitting on a biobed with Aleyn close beside her. Both of them
looked up as he approached.
"Jim." Alyen spoke first, his face beaming. "We know that you were getting ready for a staff meeting,
but we had to see you."
L'Naym hopped off the biobed and approached and Kirk noticed she seemed to be glowing. "We couldn't wait
until the end of the shift to tell you. We had to share our joy with you now."
She took his hand. "Jim…Soul Brother… something wonderful has happened."
Briefing Room
9:40 AM
"Now that formal business has been taken care of, I have an informal but very important announcement
to make." Kirk nodded toward McCoy. "Dr McCoy here already knows, but now I'm going to share it with
the rest of you."
All through the meeting the Senior staff had noticed that their Captain seemed unusually happy and they
all looked at him with expectation.
A wide grin split over his face. "Senior staff, your Captain is going to be an uncle."