we choose our own pain, mine helps me remember

Chapter 5

After the holovid finished Chris, Kat and Sienna went to get some lunch. In the mess hall, they saw Number one and Paul talking to each other. "Number one, Uncle Paul!" Sienna shouted across the mess hall.Everyone was used to Sienna shouting, so they just smiled and continued talking, while Sienna was running around tables to get to her destination.

Number one got down on the floor to catch Sienna as she came running at her full speed. "Hello my brave little cadet, how are you?" "Good, how are you number one?" "I am fine.""Hello Uncle Paul." "Hi sweetheart." Paul said. "Can we sit with you for lunch?" Chris asked politely. "Of course captain, admiral, we would be honored." Paul stated. 

"What do you want to eat sweetheart?" Kat asked Sienna. "Umm...can I please have a cheeseburger and fries?" Sienna asked sweetly. "Of course." Kat said and went to get hers and Sienna's food.

"Good choice, my brave little cadet." Number one stated, while eating her own cheeseburger and fries. At that moment Annie Baratheon came into the mess hall. She saw Chris and Sienna and walked over to them.

"Hi Captain Pike, is this your daughter?" Annie asked, sounding snobby. "No she isn't, she is Ash's adopted daughter." Chris said. "How?" Annie replied, shocked. "Well Sienna won't remember this, but we were on a planet that treated some children like crap, children that look like Sienna, because all of the other children had white hair."

Sienna had heard this all before, so she just zoned out out as Chris continued. "We found her hiding in the bushed and she latched herself onto Ash, because he looked like her. We talked to the locals about her, and when we asked for her name they said she didn't deserve a name on that planet.

They said we could name her and take her with us, poor girl was only one and a half. So ash took her with us and a few weeks later there was a new child on the discovery called Sienna Gabriel Paul Michael Lorca-Tyler."

Chris realized his mistake a little to late. Annie looked shocked. So did  Number one and Paul. Sienna was zoned out happily eating her cheeseburger and fries and didn't realize the quietness and tenseness of the mess hall. "so this child is Ash and Captain Lorca's child?" Annie asked the shocked that Ash could look after a child. "Yes she is, do you have a problem with that?" Paul asked.

"Yes i do, Ash is unfit to look after a child, he is mentally unstable and abusive. I don't care about Captain Lorca, but I will take the child away from Ash." Annie sneered. Everyone was tense because they love Sienna and don't want her to go away with this crazy woman.

"I will not go with you, you evil cow. you are the one who is mentally unstable and abusive. So why don't you leave my family alone or I will tell everything you have done today to Admiral Archer and he will tell starfleet and you will be taken from your job!" Sienna yelled at Annie.

Annie was shocked that a seven year old girl could know what she did to Ash. "I will make sure you don't get to see him again, I will tell starfleet how you threatened me with losing my Job and I wonder who they will believe." Annie said with venom in her voice.

"They will believe me because all the admirals love me, especially admiral's Archer, Bennett, Cornwell and Marcus, so ha." Ash and Gabe walked in halfway through Sienna's speech and were speechless, but smirking.

"Yeah right, I doubt it." Katrina decided to intervene. "Ambassador Baratheon, are you threatening my god-daughter?" Annie saw Katrina at the table and snapped out a salute when she noticed she was an admiral.

"N-No ma'am, I was just explaining how Ash is mentally unstable and abusive." "I know I have been sitting here the whole time, and I have read the reports, courtesy of my husband here." Here she pointed at Chris. "He is not abusive or mentally unstable and unstable, you are." Katrina continued.

"Ash Lorca-Tyler is the bravest, kindest, strongest man I know, you will not get away with this, you foul woman!" Gabe yelled. "Yeah right, you wouldn't do that to an ambassador. This is not over Ash Robert Tyler or is it Lorca-Tyler now." She sneered evilly stalking past them to get out of the mess hall. "What just happened?" Number one, or Una as she is also called, Asked. "I don't know." Paul answered back.