ATC – Journey to
EPILOGUE
Amanda crept into the darkened Sickbay ward where her husband and son
slumbered, each recuperating from their ordeals of the previous day. Her
heart skipped a beat as she panicked at the sight of Sarek's empty bed.
/Perhaps he's just in the bathroom,/ she
thought. /I'll just check on Spock./
Amanda looked over to her son's bed and flinched. Either her son had
gained a lot of weight overnight--and grown a second head—or Sarek and Spock we
sharing one bed! Amanda shook her head in wonder as she crept closer.
/Oh, how cute they look!/ she thought as she looked at
her husband and her grown son squeezing together on one single cot.
Spock's head was tucked between his father's neck and shoulder, and Sarek's
cheek rested on his son's hair. Both were sleeping peacefully.
Amanda decided then and there she needed to have a holopic
of the occasion!
Amanda noticed Nurse Chapel making her rounds of the three patients.
Amanda signed to the young woman for a camera. Christine gave the
ambassador's wife a smile and a conspiratorial wink. She slipped out of
the ward and soon returned with the requested equipment. Amanda stepped
onto a nearby footstool, aimed and snapped a precious image of her two favorite
Vulcans. Christine removed the camera's disk and gave it to Amanda who
tucked it safely into a pocket.
/I'll make one copy and leave it in Spock's room before we leave,/ she planned as she looked at her sleeping men.
/I'll make another and leave it on Sarek's desk at home. I'll put one in
Spock's "baby" book, and lock the master disk in my safe./ Plans all made, Amanda bent low and oh so gently
kissed the top of her son's head.
The movement caused Sarek to stir. Opening sleepy eyes, he raised two
fingers to his wife. //You should be
asleep,// he chided gently through the bond.
//I could say to same to you,// she teased back.
Amanda indicated Spock with a move of her head. //What brought this on?// she asked.
//We were both cold.// Sarek defended. //It was
logical. It also gave us an opportunity to… discuss important issues,
come to an agreement.//
Amanda chuckled. //You make it sound like a negotiation!//
Sarek raised a wry eyebrow. //An astute observation.//
Amanda smiled. //Of course I'm astute. I'm a wife AND a mother!// She gaze shifted to take in the sight of both
men. //This brings back a lot of memories.//
//Indeed,// Sarek concurred, remembering similar nights with a very sick
boy.
Amanda didn't miss his minute grimace.
//Pain?// she asked. Sarek nodded. //I'll get the nurse.//
Amanda move quickly to the nurse's station. She found Christine loading
up a hypo.
"Can Sarek have anything for pain?" she asked quietly.
"Right away," the nurse agreed. "Then perhaps you can
convince him to return to his own bed. He's very stubborn."
Amanda nearly giggled. "Very stubborn."
"Well," Christine observed, "now we know where Spock gets
it from."
"Oh, no," Amanda corrected the nurse. "Poor Spock has a
double dose. I'm just as stubborn as Sarek!"
The women enjoyed a quiet snicker before returning to the Vulcans'
bedside. Amanda motioned Sarek out of bed and patted his original bed
that Christine had heaped with warmed blankets. After the ambassador had
eased away from Spock, moved a few feet across the floor and settled into his
bed, the nurse injected him with the pain medication and he drifted back to
sleep.
Spock meanwhile rooted sleepily for his lost source of warmth. Christine
placed more heated blankets on him as well. Spock opened his eyes at the
disturbance and found Amanda's blue eyes peering at him lovingly. He
treated her to a slight, sleepy smile before falling back to sleep himself.
Amanda stepped back where she could see both her husband and her son. It
was a good thing that they were both asleep. She could just imagine them
judging her "highly illogical" for her sloppy, happy smile and the
fat tears coursing down her cheeks.
In the end, Amanda decided that didn't really matter. What did matter was
the fact that father and son were on speaking terms once again. Once
again, finally, all was right with Amanda's little world
End