Anchors Aweigh

chapter 14

Yorktown

In the dorm room that Enterprise and Essex shared, there were currently two girls that occupied in the room.

Over on one side was Yorktown was sitting down on Essex's bed. While on the other was Enterprise that sat in her own bed across from her. It had seemed Essex was currently gone at the moment since the room had been empty when the pair walked in and so it was just the two of them.

As for the reason they were there, Enterprise began to recall the moment that lead them to here.

"Hey there Little Y. What's going on?" Enterprise asked.

Enterprise had been just been resting around like the rest of the fleet when she saw Yorktown approach her. She had perked up and turned her head towards Yorktown to greet her.

But to Enterprise, it had looked like Yorktown had a bit of an anxious look on her face.

"I just wanted to talk to ask you something." Yorktown responded.

"Oh? What did you want to talk about? I'm all ears."

"Well..." Yorktown shuffled her feet. "I heard from Hornet that you talked to her about her uh, predecessor." Yorktown scratched the back of her head. "So I was just wondering..."

"You want to learn about yours too?" Enterprise interjected when Yorktown didn't finish her sentence.

Yorktown nodded. "I've always been interested to know what the previous Yorktown was like ever since we've learned that me and Hornet looked like your sisters." Yorktown said. "But uh, I don't really mind if you don't want to if you don't want to talk about it." Yorktown felt that the topic of her sisters that were gone was kind of a sensitive topic ever since Yorktown had met Enterprise and saw her break into tears after she saw her and Hornet.

"I don't mind at all Little Y. You know I talked about it with Hornet so I'll be okay with talking to you about it." Enterprise shook her head. "But thanks for being considerate." She smiled.

Yorktown could only nod and smile back as a part of her worries left her.

"I did promise you and Hornet I would tell you guys more about my sisters." Enterprise said. "So let's go to my room and I'll tell you a story."

Yorktown had been sitting patiently waiting for Enterprise to start after they had moved over to her room and settled in.

"Let's see, where do I begin." Enterprise mused as she slapped her hands on her knees. "So you wanted to know what Yorktown was like right?"

Yorktown nodded.

"Well I guess the first thing to get out of the way Yorktown was my older sister. And just like any younger sibling, I looked up to her. She was that strong elder figure you could look up to." Enterprise said as she started to recall fondly of her older sister.

She gazed over at Yorktown. "She was strong too. You guys think I'm tough for what I went through, but my sister was also tough as nails."

Yorktown's face piqued with interest. "Wow, even tougher than you?" From the stories that Yorktown had heard about all the battles Enterprise went through, she couldn't believe that someone could be tougher than Enterprise.

"Mmhmm, you better believe it. I guess it was fitting that our older sister was the toughest of the Yorktowns." Enterprise nodded with a touch of pride in it.

"She was always the one that tried her hardest when we were training as carriers. The old Lady Lex was astounded by how much enthusiasm Yorktown had in trying to do her best. Basically, she was a model sister to look up to." Enterprise said with fondness.