we choose our own pain, mine helps me remember

chapter 1

Sienna was running with the command track cadet's and ensign, as well as her godfather Christopher Pike. She loved running with them because she also got to cling and climb Chris, while he was watching everyone else do their normal training around the gym, or working.

Today, Sienna was sitting on Chris's shoulders, her favourite position  when she wanted to cling to Chris, still not completely over the Mudd incident. She likes it up on his shoulders because she can see what he and the others are doing. She noticed one of the cadets trip Tilly up. She was not happy with that.

She tapped Chris on the head and told him "one of the cadets tripped up Aunt Sylvia." "Which one, Munchkin?" She pointed to a cadet with short blond hair and white coloured skin. "not unlike Uncle Paul's skin colour' Sienna thought to herself.

"Cadet Austin Lynch!" The cadet in question turned around and stood at attention. Chris nodded his head indicating the cadet to come towards him. He also told Sienna to get off his shoulders because she would not like the pacing around he was going to do. The cadet stood at attention in front of Sienna and Chris.

Chris spoke "It has come to my attention, because of my assistant, that you in fact tripped up Ensign Sylvia Tilly, is this true?" "No Sir." He replied, his voice wavering slightly. "He's lying Uncle Chris." Sienna told him.

"Did you or did you not trip up Ensign Tilly?" Chris said, his voice dangerously low. The cadet gulped now looking nervous and scared. "Y-Y-Yes S-S-Sir." "Thank you cadet, now go apologize to Ensign Tilly." "Yes sir." "Dismissed." 

The cadet saluted and walked over to Tilly. He shook her hand and apologized for tripping her up. She replied with a smile "Thank you Austin, you are forgiven." Austin also smiled and went back to running around the track discovery had.

Chris's communicator chirped to signal a message coming through. "Captain Lorca-Tyler to Captain Pike." "Captain Pike speaking, what's up Gabe?" "We have to pick up an ambassador and take her to a conference on Alderbaran III, we need to know everything about her, sending the name to your P.A.D.D." His P.A.D.D beeped and he picked it up.

He saw the name come up on the screen. He grimaced because he knew about the officer who was in a relationship with her and it ended with him being beaten badly. "Are you alright Uncle Chris?" He heard Sienna say. " Yeah Munchkin, I am fine." "No you're not, you are starting to sound like Uncle Spock, you only do that when you're lying."

"Oh, ok." Chris sighed. "Do you know about your Papa's ex-girlfriend?" "Yes, he got hit by her a lot." Sienna stated angrily. "Well, she is the ambassador we have to pick up and take to the conference on Alderbaran III."

Chris was just as angry and stressed because he knew Ash as he was growing up and looked at him like a father would a son and Ash felt the same way. He was also worried about how Gabe would react when he found out who it was.