Svetlana looks at them and says: " Why are you in your suits? " Natalia says; " Well we thought we could get in the pool as soon as we got done eating...and you guys could meet us down there. Is that ok mommy? " Rachelle speaks up and says; " Yeah daddy Is it ok? " We just look at each other and smile and nod, letting them know it was ok. After we eat, the girls head down to the pool, and we clean up the table and kitchen. We finish our red wine we had with the meal, making small talk, and. .well you know the rest how could I possibly refuse we moved as one. "Dancing is like riding a bike, my dear, you never forget" I replied. "You need to treat her with a firm hand, Michael and set limits for her. You certainly can't allow her to hit and swear at you.... I was thinking out loud of course you won't. That being said with us it is different you bastard" She whispered squeezing and kissing my hand."Martha has a temper and in this department is your equal. While yours is tempered and. Mostly because of Jessica.”“It’s more complicated than that,” I said. “Yes, Jess has her issues, but you have to admit I’m not the easiest person to live with.”“No kidding,” Michelle said deadpan. “That’s been clear since day one!”“And yet...”“There was a thin membrane which needed a very specific touch from you, and you only. It was always there for you, from the time I was little. Destiny. Fate. Whatever you want to call it. Our lives were always on a collision course for you to break that. In later years, he became a seasoned veteran of space, with a little bit of that ‘maverick’ still in him. He thought of a certain engineer who, through his own mechanizations, found his way to the twenty-fourth century, but he knew that time would not be denied. Soon he would be gone, like Uhura, Sulu and Chekov, Dr. Chapel, his mother, so many others, and just recently, his father. He knew them all, knew all their fates… save one. It was ironic that he didn’t know the fate of his very first.