Thinking of You

Title: Thinking of you
Series: You Give Me Love
Rated: PG-13 (mild language)
Archive: Anywhere
Notes: Hanson owns this title, Paramount owns ST: Voy and most of the Characters. I own Easton, Gene, and Erin Paris, Sierra, Taya, and Chayton Torres. This is Part Four of You give Me Love. Enjoy.



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    Easton propped her feet up on the console. As her punishment for being the Captain's Daughter, she was always on duty at the communications array, 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, after which she took care of the Voyager Colony's children.
    The ship had been destroyed 17 years ago, and the Delta Flyer would be there with another ship to retrieve the survivors within the next few years, hopefully. While they were able to receive news from the Alpha Quadrant, they couldn't send anything out. What news they got only came every six months.

    "Easton?" Chakotay called while entering the small shuttle. She quickly dropped her feet from the consol and tried to look busy.

    "Hello, Commander."

    "Relax. Both of your parents enjoyed to put their feet up when no one was looking. Anyway, I'm not in uniform...or on duty...I just came with some lunch." Easton relaxed and offered the chair next to her for Chakotay. "So, any word yet?"

    "None. Do you know where Gene is?" Easton asked, wondering when her little brother would finish fixing her comm badge.

    "I think your Dad is looking for him."

"Did he check in Mom's cabin?" Easton looked up, a little sad. Her parents had been having problems since her father's accident, but it had gotten a lot more serious in the last month. Chakotay shook his head.

"I'd say he's in his tree house, hiding." Easton laughed. "Taya and Sierra were after him, too. I wonder what he did."

    "You *don't* want to know."

    "Oh, come on, Easton. I'm your godfather. I named you, then named my daughter after you."

    "Hell No, Chakotay!"

    "Taya Easton Paris, I'll make it an order!"

    "He reconfigured their comm badge so it would transmit over the kids' comm badges at school by remote control. He likes Sierra."

    "When I get my hands on that little~ THOMAS EUGENE PARIS, JR.!" Chakotay ranted as he stalked out of the shuttle. Easton shook her head and laughed. Gene, *alway* getting into trouble...with everyone but Easton.

    "Gene, he's gone." Her brother popped out from his hiding place.

    "How'd you know I was in here?"

    "Because, you are in big trouble, and where *else* would you be, but hiding near me?"

    "You ratted me out, Easton," the 11 year old said, almost pouting

    "He'd have been even more pissed if Mom or Sierra told him." Gene smiled weakly. The console beeped. "We're being hailed!" Easton tapped a button on the console.

    *Delta Flyer II to Voyager Shuttle Sacajawea. Captain Janeway? It's Harry. Please respond. *

    "Delta Flyer II, this is Easton Paris. Hang on, I'll get my Mom. Talk to my brother," Easton shoved Gene in front of the view screen and tapped it on before launching herself out the door.

    "Hi, you must be my Uncle Harry."

    "You look like a 9-year-old Tom Paris!" Gene laughed.

   "Thomas Eugene Paris, Jr., at your service, and I'm 11, not 9, dammit!"

   "Oh, forgive me! Well, Little Tom,"

   "Gene."

    "Well, Gene, tell me about what's happened the last few years? We haven't heard anything for almost 10 years since the relay broke down."

    "Not too much. I have a six year old sister....."

"Any kids named Harry?"

    "Taya Easton, Thomas Eugene, Theresa Erin. No Harry's there. Sorry, Uncle Harry." Naomi's daughter, who had been sleeping in the small sleeping area of the shuttle scampered out and climbed onto Gene's lap. Her long curls bounced on her shoulders. "Hi Kim!"

   "Hi!" It was one of two words the two year old could say. Harry smiled from ear to ear.


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    Easton ran down the hill, tripping when she saw her mother in the garden. Kathryn ran where her daughter fell.

    "MOM!" Easton screamed, laughing. Kathryn brushed her off as she helped the 16 year old up. Blood oozed lightly from a cut on her cheek.

    "Lets get you to the Doctor and get that scratch taken care of," Kathryn said, trying to pull Easton towards the Infirmary. Easton pulled away.

    "Mom, wait!"

    "What is going on!"

    "Harry is on the comm! We're going home!"


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    Everyone was ready to leave. The USS Delta NCC 8063 was a lot bigger than standard Star Fleet vessels, and could comfortably carry a full crew of 1,500 plus their families, and the 200 Voyager survivors. True there had only been 147 survivors, but now most of them had married and had children.
    Kathryn and Tom alone had three children, Easton, Gene, and Erin. Chakotay and B'Elanna were the parents of 15 year old Chayton Harry, 8 year old Annika Sierra, and 5 year old Taya Rose. Naomi, now 24, had one daughter now, Kim, who was a little over 2 years old. All of the children were raised knowing about Voyager, Earth, their parents' journey, and that someday they would be leaving this planet for Earth again. When the time came, all of the Voyager Crew was ready to go.
   It had been a fight with some of the parents to get their 14 and 15 year olds to want to leave the safe haven of the remote planet's village, but all had come in the end, as they would be able to return to the planet at any time they wanted now with the technology Star Fleet created, thanks to the designs of B'Elanna Torres. B'Elanna designed almost all of the new technology on the USS Delta, and was ecstatic just walking around the ship, staring at her visions come to life.

   "Ms. Torres, can I help you?" Captain Geordi LaForge said, grinning at her

   "No, I was just....um...." B'Elanna stammered, feeling like a child caught with her hand in a cookie jar.

   "I mean, would you like to take a closer look at her? She is yours. This whole ship is yours."

   "How does she handle?" Geordi's grin widened into a proud smile. He patted her back gently.

    "She's amazing, Lt. Truly amazing. You designed quite a ship. Is there anything you would modify?" B'Elanna bit her bottom lip. "Listen, B'Elanna, I am going to tell you something. You can't repeat this to anyone, not yet. This ship is only under my command temporarily. When we get back to the alpha quadrant, my senior staff and I will go back to our ship, and this will be Yours."

   "Mine? Or Kathryn's?"

   "Technically, Kathryn Janeway will be the captain, but you an I *both* know that the engineer s the key to any good ship."

   "Then yes, I would change one thing."

   "Oh?"

   "The energy output is too great. The dampening field around the core will need constant repair after about a year. I've been thinking about that for the last few months, wondering what was taking so long to get here. I thought that the problem was the warp core."

   "Actually, we took so long getting here because Harry and Annika were the only ones who knew what the hell to do, and how it needed to be done. And when she left for maternity, all hell broke loose. Harry had to beam himself all over the ship to fix minor problems that only he and Annika could work out." Geordi laughed at the memory of Harry being beamed in and out every ten seconds by two people in a transporter tug of war.

   "Poor Harry!" Seven had been human since their second year in the Alpha Quadrant, and married Harry a year later. "Has Harry heard about Tom yet?"

"I don't think so. The way Harry talks about Tom, you'd think they were brothers. I would suggest you be there when they meet."

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Tom and Erin peeped their heads out of the tree house. They were both nervous around strangers, and Kathryn was no where in sight. Naomi was busy with Kimmy, and Chakotay had left with his family already.

"Tommy, what's going on?" Erin asked. She only called him Dad when others were around. Tom shrugged his shoulders.

"Don't know. Where's Kathryn?"

"Don't know, wait!" she squealed. "There's Mom!" She pointed over towards the door of the cabin where Kathryn, B'Elanna and Harry were standing.

"HI KAT!" Tom called as he jumped out of the tree house. He turned and caught Erin, and ran over to the group of people. "We were playing up there. Hi B'Elanna. Who're you?" he asked a bewildered Harry.

"Tom, its Harry."

"I'm Tommy. Hi Harry. Wanna go play with us?" Kathryn touched Toms arm. He turned to her and she shook her head, telling him 'No.' "Ok. C'mon Erin, let's go." Harry watched as they scampered off.

"Why didn't you tell me, B'Elanna? I'm his best friend." B'Elanna opened her mouth to speak, but thought the better of it and closed it again. "You should have told me."


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"Hi, Tommy. Hi, Erin. Can I play, too?" Harry asked, sitting on the floor of Tom and Kathryn's new quarters. Erin nodded and handed him an oldfashioned Lego block. "What are you building?"

"Delta Flyer," Tom said. "Well, how's it looking?" Harry looked over at Tom. He sounded like he had before the accident.

"Tom, do you remember the Delta Flyer?" Tom nodded.

"He remembers most things, but he's mentally six years old. You'll get used to it. He's still Tom Paris, but just.....more precoscious I guess. The accident did some really bad damage, but he's always been funny. When he starts to remember you, he'll crack jokes and goof around," Gene said plopping himself on the floor between Harry and Erin. "Erin on the other hand probaby won't ever speak to you for the next month. She's really shy. You know my parents weren't shy, but she is." Erin scowled at Gene. "Relax, Erin, I love you the way you are." He planted a kiss on her head.

"Captain Proton meets Starfleet vessal USS Enterprise! Kapsssshhhh!! Boom Boom Boom!! KSSSHSHHH!!!" Tom said making the Delta Flyer 'fire' at his minature Enterprise. "Agghhh! My legs!!!! Oh the humanity! My poor bald head is burning!! AAGGHH!!"

"Ok, he really IS Tom," Harry laughed.

"Deanna, take the helm!" he said in a Picard voice. Then in a Deanna voice, he answered. "Oh My God, I'm crashing the ship onto the planet! Oh My God!" He switched to Data. "Oh, Shit." He crashed it into the pile of Legos. Geordi LaForge, who was having coffee with Kathryn frowned at Tom. Tom looked up and grinned meekly in response.

"Tom, not the Enterprise. Not today. You can play with Voyager." Tom jumped up and ran into the bedroom.

"Kathryn, that was almost exactly how the crash happened."

"I know." Moment's later, Tom returned with a little Voyager model which he promptly crashed into the Legos. Geordi shook his head and sipped his coffee to the sounde of Tom attacking the miniture ships with his legos. "Harry, would you mind taking him to the Holodeck and letting him do some Voyager simulations? Maybe its jog some more of his memory."

"Can I go to Chakotay's and play with Sierra?"

"Sure, Gene. Take your sister to Naomi first."

"Actually, Captain, Annika and Janie are aboard, and maybe Erin and Janie could play together. They're about the same age." Erin smiled at her mother.

"All right. You guys have fun." Harry, Tom, Erin and Gene filed out into the corridor. "Geordi, I know medical technology has advanced a lot since we disappeared. I mean its been 25 years. They made a Borg totally human. Is there anything that Dr. Picard can do for Tom?"

"I was wondering when you'd get to that. I had Bev hand in a small report on the procedure she's been working on for him. Believe me, Jean-Luc is none too please to have his wife working on...well....their honeymoon."

"They chose the Delta Quadrant for a honeymoon!?"

"They were tired of the Alpha Quadrant. Nothing left to explore."

"I'll be damn glad to let them have the whole damn quadrant if they want it, I just want Tom back. Its been six years since I have had a conversation with him that didn't involve cutting his meat, telling him to sit still, or asking him to act older than 3. I don't mean to sound bitter; I love him, and He knows what everything is, but still is a six year old boy....mentally. I can't even hug him without fearing he'll be afraid.
"He knows me as his wife. When Erin was about 6 months old, Easton and Gene were taking him out to the snow fort, and none of them were dressed properly; they'd have all been sick for a week. After I fixed hats and boots, Easton kissed my cheek, Gene hugged me, and Tom.....kissed me. I mean, like at our wedding-type kiss. But there are just moments like that. Never more than a few minutes, and then he forgets." Geordi tapped his comm badge.

"LaForge to Dr. B. C. Picard."

*Beverly here. Geordi, is something wrong?*

"No, Kathryn was wondering when you would be able to start the procedures on Tom."

*Tomorrow afternoon. I have a lot of prepping to do. Fast enough?* Kathryn smiled nervously and nodded.

"You just let us know what time, and we'll have him there. LaForge out."


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Tom walked around the mess hall of Voyager watching the little party. It was more than 20 years ago. Everyone looked so different. Naomi was so small; barely three years old. He saw the younger version of himself laughing and joking with Harry. Tom watched himself as a young man; the life of the party. Naommi had run straight to him and almost knocked him down hugging him. He'd tossed her in the air and caught her. A woman (Tom wanted to say her name was Sam, but he wasn't too sure) watched him, and asked him to be careful with the child; she had been sick recently and might get sick again. Tom nodded and sat down with Naomi and played cards with her mother and Kathryn. Neelix and Tuvok argued about the food, which seemed appropriate.
Harry had sat next to Tom and let Naomi climb over to his lap. Tom kissed the girls spiked forehead. Sam told tom she had to go on duty right after the party and asked him to take Naomi for the night, and not to spoil her. His response was it was his job to spoil her.

"Do you remember now, Tom?"

"Some. Kathryn. You. B'Elanna. Chakotay. Its mixed up real bad. I just want it to be right." Kathryn entered the holodeck, and canceled the characters. Tom looked up at her with tears in his eyes. "I want to remember. I want to be how you remember me, Kath."

"You will. After tomorrow, Tom, you'll remember everything. I promise."


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Easton had taken Erin and Gene to Naomi's quarters for a few days while Tom got settled in with Kathryn. Gene hadn't even had a chance to see his father since his surgery. He didn't know what he would be like, or if he'd be how he was when Gene was 3. Easton wasn't worried. She knew what her father was like before the accident, and was excited that he'd be himself again. Naomi's husband, Verdaano, left his home planet to be with Easton, and felt as though it was his father also going through this.
Verdaano was from Jagon 7. He'd met Easton when she's been placed with the family. When Tom rescued Easton, Verdaano swore to her he'd find her again, and they'd always be best friends. They were still best friends, but Verdaano had fallen in-love with Naomi.

"Daano, Kimmy's sleeping, and Gene and Erin are studying, I'm going with Easton and Chayton to meet Tom," Naomi said as she reached down and kissed her husband.

"Tell him Hello for me, Love." Naomi smiled as she and Easton left. Chayton walked next to Easton, holding her hand.

"Nervous, East?" Chayton asked.

"No, why?"

"You're sqweezing the life out of my hand." Naomi laughed at the two. They were Kathryn and Chakotay in miniture.

"You remind me of your parents. I swear, Easton, you are your mother when we were on Voyager." Easton glared at Naomi jokingly. Naomi smiled back and stopped at the door to Kathryn and Tom's quarters.


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Tom was in his uniform, adjusting his pips and making sure his comm badge was on correctly. Kathryn smiled up at him from their bed. Her nightgown was tangled around her.

"Kathryn, Naomi and Easton are going to be here soon. You might want to get dressed. Knowing Easton, Chayton'll be here too." Tom reached down and kissed Kathryn gently.

"Nervous?" Kathryn asked. Tom nodded. "Dont worry, darling. They love you, and remember you like this. Even if they didn't, they love you Tom. You are their father," she said as she got dressed.

"To Easton and Gene, I'm a father, to Erin, I'm the really big baby brother to play with. She may not understand, Kathryn. What if she hates me?"

"Tom, Erin will love you. You thought it was a bad idea for Sam to let you take Naomi for her at first because you thought you'd mess up and she'd get hurt. But you took her anyway and ended up raising her to be a beautiful, intelligent woman." Kathryn pulled her uniform jacket on and her boots. Tom sat behind her on the bed and brushed her shoulder-length silvery red hair. "Tom, don't worry. It'll be all right." The doorchimed beeped to punctuate her sentence.

"Come," Tom called leaving the bedroom. Easton and Naomi stepped in, followed by Chayton. "Easton," he said, hugging his oldest child. "Hi, Peanut."

"Hi Daddy," she said into his shoulder. Tommy was gone, and Tom was back.