Posted by Lieutenant Commander Jarred Alindor (Chief Engineer) in Alindor’s Quarters - Meeting Elizabeth Alindor

Posted by Ensign Kalani Kāne (Scientist) in Alindor’s Quarters - Meeting Elizabeth Alindor

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As she walked in, Elizabeth smiled widely and ran across the room jumping up on the couch. “It looks like home Nana only I can’t see the lights from the city.” After pressing her face to the window, she looked back at Jarred. “Can we take a drive around the ship? PaPa used to take Nana and me all around Tycho on Sunday afternoons. We would get ice cream and sometimes go to the park. Can we do that Daddy?”

“A drive… well… sure. We can’t drive around the ship but we can always go to the holodeck and drive… well anywhere really. You name a location and we can go for a spin, I might even go go-kart racing with you see what you can do.” he said with a small wink at Elizabeth.

“You have a go-cart track on the ship. No way,” Lizzie said jumping up and down with excitement. “I love go-carts. My feet don’t reach the pedals but PaPa has brough pillows before. Do you have pillows I can use?”

“Sure, we can even make the cart perfectly sized for you if you want. Custom sized just for you little one.” Jarred said with a big smile, he would enjoy programming the holodeck for her. He assumed his parents didn’t often get to take her

“Elizabeth, no jumping on the furniture please,” Samantha said softly. This garnered a groan as she jumped up once more to land on her bottom. Using the cushions like a trampoline to propel her up again, Elizabeth was on her feet again looking around.

“I think she likes your quarters,” Samantha whispered to her son. She was thrilled that Elizabeth seemed to be happy with Jarred’s home. Samantha was just happy that it was this clean. She debated on how much of that was due to Kalani living there and cleaning up or her son wanting to impress Kalani so he cleaned up.

“Do you have a dog?” Her tone was super excited and Elizabeth dropped to her knees slapping her legs and calling out ‘here puppy puppy’.

“That is Ralph’s bed… Ralph is Kalani’s pet fox, when she comes he often comes too and we like to give him a place to stay. In fact that’s why Kalani left, she will be here soon to let you meet Ralph and maybe a few of her other animals. Until then I do have a suprise for you little one. Would you like to see your room?” he asked her as he offered his hand to his daughter, pointing his head at the door across the living space.

“Yes,” she said jumping up and looking around the room. There were several doors and she had no idea which one was going to be hers.

Family quarters had a bit of more room, his room had his own bathroom, then there was a bathroom for guests, living space, office area, and dining area as well as the second bedroom. It was a perk of having Elizabeth that he always had the family quarters for just in case she ever came to visit. Now that she was living with him, he was very thrilled he had a chance to finally put her room to good use.

“I hope you like the room, I spent a lot time making it perfect. Last time we talked you told me all your favorite colors and activities, I hope I did well in making this the perfect room sweetie.” he said as he waited for her to open the door first.

Elizabeth palmed the door open and slowly stuck her head in as if she were sneaking into the room. Looking to the left and then right she slowly entered the room. “You made it pink,” she said grinning wider than she had since she arrived. “It is the same color as my bedroom back home. When wake up I won’t know where I am,” she let out a deep kid giggle. “I love it, Daddy.” Elizabeth ran over wrapping her arms around Jarred’s middle before running over to the shelves lining the walls. “I love the soccer balls and you have all my trophies. I love that my bed is under the window so I can look out and see the stars at night and that you have all my toys” she rambled until she stopped. “How did you get all of my stuff?” Elizabeth looked around and began to open some doors to the various dressers and closets. Her face fell a little seeing so many of her clothes already in the closets.

“Remember we talked about packing up your stuff and sending it to Daddy so that he had everything you needed when you came to live with him,” Samantha said.

“Yes but what will be left in my room back home,” Elizabeth asked sitting on the bed. “I wanna live with daddy but what will I have when I come home to see you?”

Jonathan came up behind Jarred as he placed a hand on his shoulder, just briefly before moving aside. It was hard in many ways to try and find his rhythm with Jarred, they seemed to have been in conflict since he was born. Still, Jonathan loved Jarred, even if Jarred didn’t feel that was true.

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The slightly quiet moment was soon broken not by adult conversations but loud yips. “Ralphie,” Elizabeth squealed running out of the bedroom pushing past her PaPa and Daddy. The small fox came barreling into the room running immediately to the couch and looking around. It only took him a second to notice someone new in the room and this person was just the right size. In fact, she appeared to be the perfect size. Ralph walked up to her and sniffed twice then immediately dropped his head and stuck his butt in the air wagging his tail.

Kalani walked up to Jarred and linked an arm around his waist. “So how is it going,” she whispered into Jarred’s ear.

“So far so good, I think she really likes the room, and really likes Ralph” Jarred said as he kissed her cheek.

“Daddy why is your dog so small,” Elizabeth asked and then was sent into a fit of giggles as Ralph began to jump up and nip at her ready to play. Ralph had learned how hard to bite these two-legged animals. When you bit it had to be just enough to cause them to laugh but not hard enough to make them say words loudly.

“Well Ralph is a fennec fox. Kalani rescued him, and takes care of him now. He is very sweet but very small, they do not get to be very large so this is about as big as he will get sweetie.” Jarred tried to explain, wanting to keep it simple for his daughter.

“He will fit into my doll clothes,” she said excitedly clapping her hands. “I can dress him up in my soccer uniform. You know the one that is supposed to be for my Federation Girl doll that you bought me last Christmas ‘cept it only has two shoes.” At that moment Elizabeth and Ralph both turned to face Jarred. Elizabeth clearly waiting for Jarred to solve the problem through Cosmozon and Ralph looking for someone to save him.

“I hate to do this but we should probably get something to eat soon. It is about 7 and she hasn’t eaten since lunch. She also got up this morning early and it was a very busy day,” Samantha said softly to her son.

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“Sure, I would love that I even got us some dishes planned for the replicator. If everyone just wants to get ready I can get the food to us.” Jarred said as he looked at his parents then to Kalani.

“I am so hungry,” Elizabeth said happily jumping into her seat. Secretly she knew it would be pizza. She had had pizza for the last three days as they bounced from the shuttle to shuttle and she got to order the kids meals. Elizabeth knew her Daddy would be serving pizza. Once a month for the last six months her Daddy and she had date night. They would each eat pizza and watch a show together talking about all the things they would do when she got here. That surely had to mean there would be pizza for dinner.

Time passed as they all gathered, the table set showed four separate dishes. “So I wanted to give a little bit of everything, we have some Salisbury steak like dad always loved,”

“Daddy I don’t like that,” Elizabeth said in a soft tone tugging on his sleeve.

” pomegranate and chicken Cesar salad mom used to make”

“Daddy....I don’t like that either,” Elizabeth looked up at him as Jarred continued to describe the foods being served.

”, some jambalaya I always loved, “

“Daddy this is all yuck eeeee,” she slouched in her seat.

“and … what do you call this again love?” he asked looking at Kalani. Her dish looked like a very odd sandwich, with spam and god knows what. She often raved about it but he never willingly ate any of it.

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“It’s Spam Musubi,” Kalani said rolling her eyes and sighing.

“It’s uhh interesting,” Samantha said trying to be polite. “Whats exactly in…it?”

“It is a thick slice of Spam browned, sometimes in a teriyaki sauce. It’s served on a brick of rice and wrapped in a sheet of Nori or seaweed. There are a lot of different versions, but all basically follow this formula and it is magic along with the title best dish on Hawaii ever,” Kalani boasted proudly. “Trust me you will love it,” Kalani replied cutting it into slices. Normally one would eat all of it since it was basically the size of a sandwich but tonight it was more of a buffet so that everyone could share everyone else’s favorite dinner.

“Daddy I don’t like this,” Elizabeth turned up her nose as Jarred cut a slice of Salisbury steak and placed it on her plate. “Nana knows. I don’t wanna eat this,” she moaned slouching down further so that her nose was at the level of the table.

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