The BLTS Archive - toDSaH
by CrashCart (CrashCart9@yahoo.com)

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Published: 09-08-05

Updated: 09-08-05

Words between / /  indicate italics

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As Naomi had graduated Commander Tuvok's academy program and was now
an ensign, Miral had taken her place as the Captain's assistant. Miral
had come to view the Captain as not only the boss of the ship, but as
a mixture of surrogate aunt and teacher as well. It was in the latter
two forms that the 6 year old came to the Captain one morning.

"What is a /toDSaH?/" Kathryn was surprised at the curse coming from
the child.

"Where did you hear that?" The Captain patted the couch beside her in
the ready room for Miral to sit, knowing she didn't really need to ask
who said the epithet.

"/SoSoy/ said Daddy was one." The girl answered innocently. Janeway
was surprised again; she had heard that there had been an altercation
in engineering which Seven and B'Elanna had evidently resolved after
taking it into Torres' office. Kathryn had assumed B'Elanna, still
fuming, had gone back to her quarters and ranted about the former
drone in front of her daughter, who had picked up the word.

"Your daddy? Not Seven?"

"Daddy didn't come pick me up last night. /SoSoy/ said he was d-runk."
Kathryn grimaced as Miral continued. "Anyway, /toDSaH/ sounds mean,
and /SoSoy/ likes Seven." The Captain raised an eyebrow, inviting her
to continue. "Seven had a sleepover with /SoSoy/ last night. I think
they were playing hide and seek or something because they called each
other's names a lot."

Kathryn was very nearly jumping out of her seat at this news. Even
though Starfleet regulations were becoming looser and looser the
longer they were away from home, as Captain, she wasn't as privy to
all the ship's gossip as those lower in rank. But she was positive no
one knew this! If Miral's report meant what she thought it meant,
well, she had foreseen those two getting together for years, and
recently bet on it. It meant she had won two hours of holodeck time
from each of Chakotay, Tom, and Harry. But she wanted to be sure
first...

"Miral, sweetie, did they say anything else?"

Miral had all but forgotten about her original question; she was
delighted to have so much of her Captain's attention. "I was in the
other room, and I was a-posed to be asleep, so I didn't hear much, but
they growled a lot. Which was really funny because I didn't think
Borgs growled!" She giggled. "And...' she looked at the ceiling,
thinking, "/SoSoy/ called her /SochwI'/ and 'My beautiful Annika'. And
there was a whole bunch of Klingon I didn't understand." Her eyes
turned back to Kathryn's. "Did you know that Seven spoke Klingon?"

"No, I suppose I didn't." Kathryn said. Miral frowned suddenly.
"What's wrong?"

"Hows come Seven gets to sleep over when she has to work in the
morning? I can't on school nights!"

Kathryn grinned. "You know what? I'll have to talk to her about that!"
She hopped up and nearly skipped out of the ready room, her mind
already musing over which holoprogram to use first: "Vulcan Love Slave
3" or "Wrigley's Pleasure Planet". Coming on the bridge, she said, "I
was right! Okay, boys. Pay up!"

And as the doors to the ready room began to close, only Tuvok could
hear Miral's faint cry of, "But what does /toDSaH/ mean?"

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The End