Lt Kishe Edac - Fathers Day
Emma Banin
(( Deck 14, Personal Quarters USS Khitomer))
Krasayn looked at his daughter as she’s at in front of the computer in an otherwise spartan quarters. He smiled to himself. As usual she was immaculately dressed, perhaps too so.
From what he understood the mission she had been thrown into was now over and the New Orleans II class starship was on course to Deep Space 33. Surely that was time for her to unpack and unwind, but no there she was wearing her precisely ironed uniform with the holdall she had packed her few belongings in when she had first headed to Starfleet Academy on the floor behind her.
Krasayn: Kishe, what on Cardassia are you doing in your uniform? Shouldn’t you be in the holodeck or reading a book or something?
She gave him an exasperated look. The sort of look that said ‘I have heard this before’. He couldn’t help but shake his head and laugh. In recent years he had had too few opportunities to do that.
Kishe: Dad! We’ve literally just come off a mission. I haven’t even met the Captain and…
Krasayn held up his hand, an understanding grin spread across his face as he shook his head.
Krasayn: Relax Kishe. You’re going to do fine. Let them see who you really are, who we really are.
She had long given up trying to debate her Father and Mother on exactly how the galaxy saw the Cardassian people and whether it was even necessary to change their perception of them, let alone of it was possible to do so.
The Dominion war had left scars across all quadrants, some physical some not, and she wondered if they should be healed or left as a grim warning of what all people were capable of. However she believed in their belief. She believed they thought that it was both possible and necessary.
It hadn’t been easy for her Father to stand with those who had defeated the military and to help prosecute his own people, but he had done it. He never made the easy decision and Kishe felt that if she were not to follow his example that she would be letting him and her Mother down. They would never voice their disappointment, but she would know it. She would feel it, like a bad kmee on a rainy day it would always be there.
Kishe: I am trying Dad, will try . I just don’t want to mess it up.
Krasayn: You won’t, and if you do then you have a home to come back to. I mean we’ll be massively disappointed but..
Kishe: Arrgh! Stop it! :glancing at the clock on her desk: Listen Dad I gotta go. I love you. Tell Mom the same.
Krasayn: I will tell mom that you love me.
Kishe shook her head and blew her Father a kiss. He smiled catching the imaginary kiss and putting it in his pocket, then reaching forwards the screen and logging out. She sat back smiling. She would always have a home. She had been happy playing amongst the ruins of a devastated world. She had been happy when they moved into their new home, and had a real if small garden, and she would be happy on board the Khitomer.
There would be problems. How the Bajoran officers would react to her played on her mind but her doubts and fears at the Academy had been proved false to a great extent and she was sure the same would be found true for the crew of the Khitomer. She was sure.
She glanced at the door and sighed. She was sure…
END
Lieutenant Kishe Edac
Ops Officer
USS Khitomer
NCC62400
A239810JA2Q