The BLTS Archive - Crying over Spilt Milk
by Netgirl (netgirl_Comingout@hotmail.com)

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Published: 10-21-05 - Updated: 10-21-05

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Sisko whooped along with the rest of the crowd as the runner passed
home, extending the Pike City Pioneers already comfortable lead over
the opposition. Kasidy's brother Keith had kept his word and gotten
them seats in the dugout to see a real live Baseball game.

Sisko grinned as he tightened his grip around Kasidy's shoulder and
leaned in to look at his baby daughter, she was three months old and
Sisko couldn't get enough of looking at her. Kasidy claimed she looked
like him, but he thought her good looks could only have been inherited
from Kasidy, with maybe a little of Jake in there.

"When you're bigger, I'm going to teach you to do that," Sisko told
her as her tiny fist grabbed his finger and squeezed.

"She hasn't cried all day," Kasidy commented, adjusting the bundle in
her arms, "I think she likes baseball."

"Well of course she likes baseball, she's a Sisko!"

"It's true," Jake said appearing next to his father, carrying three
hotdogs, "all Sisko's like baseball and cooking."

"Here let me hold her for a minute, I've had a lot of practice at
eating while holding a baby in one arm" Sisko manoeuvred the baby into
his arms, she didn't stir other than to curl into her father.

"Jake, aren't you supposed to be working?" Sisko asked while trying
not to get mustard on his shirt or his daughter. Technically Jake was
on Sestus 3 to report on the renaissance of baseball for the sports
department of the Federation News Service, but Sisko suspected that
Jake had taken the job so he could spoil his new sister while taking
in a few games with the old man.

"I'll write it up later. You know in a few years you'll have someone
else to bother about doing their homework and I can do my work in
peace, or not do it in peace."

"Hey," Kasidy interrupted, "I hate to interrupt all this father-son
bonding, but the next inning is starting."

Sisko turned his attention back to the game, sitting between his wife
and his son with his baby daughter in his arms.

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The Inside of the wormhole is an intersection of time, space and
reality. The Prophets cannot just see the future of this timeline,
they can see the past, present and future of every timeline, they can
see the consequences of every road not travelled, every decision not
made.

From outside of linear time the prophets allow Benjamin Sisko to watch
himself watch baseball in the sunshine with his family. It is the
penance the prophets exact for not listening to them. If he hadn't
gone to Cardassia, if he had stayed on Deep Space Nine and stopped
Dukat before he got to the fire caves then he would be the one
watching baseball in the sun. With his family.

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The End