Title: The Imzadi Files – The Child

 

Author: Rising Sun

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Rated: PG

Summary: Troi undergoes a mysterious pregnancy.

Classification: Riker/Troi

Disclaimer: Star Trek: The Next Generation characters portrayed belong to Roddenberry Productions and Paramount Television. No copyright infringement intended.  All other characters depicted are purely fictional and any similarities to actual people are purely coincidental.

 

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Story Written - 2001

 
Personal Log – Dee Tee

 

There are times when minding one’s own business can still result in trouble. So there I was ASLEEP! And work up pregnant.  When it is to be trouble will find you.

 

I have always wanted children and I will confess to you only - that I had hoped that Will Riker wouldd have been the father.  That is fast becoming a dream to be unfulfilled.  But that does not diminish the fact that I want a family!

 

So there I was pregnant.  It had to be the strangest if not the fastest pregnancy on record.  Between fertilization and birth it took eleven hours.

 

I’ll never forget the look on my friend’s faces when it was announced in the Observation Lounge during a meeting. When Will heard I was pregnant I don’t know which affected me more… the look on his face or the emotional tidal wave that hit me from him.  I didn’t realize that his emotions still ran that deep!

 

There was a challenge in his voice when he asked who was the father.  I wanted to snap that it should have been him… but I didn’t.

 

Eleven hours later there I was in full labour with Data in attendance.   A unique experience for both of us as this was my first pregnancy. Data was child like in his wonder and interest. As usual he was full of questions, but it was good to have a friend around even if it was not the one I wanted.

 

I am slowly becoming my mother. On that I will not comment.

 

Kate placed that precious bundle in my arms and I was overwhelmed with emotion.  Such a rush that can never be explained. I was in love … this was my son and I called him Ian after my father.  I turned round and my life was near completion. As it turned out he was there. Imzadi had been unable to stay away at a time like this. The moment when I gave birth.

 

It had been obvious from the start that this was no ordinary pregnancy and as such this was no ordinary baby.   Within a few hours he was seven years old.  What I mean by that is that with a few hours he had grown and was physically and emotionally seven years old.

 

While all this was going on; Enterprise was trying to escape from a system that had recently fallen victim to a deadly plague. We were transporting samples for scientific study, but Ian was affecting the containment of the samples and we were all in danger.

 

Before my very eyes he died.  As much joy as I felt when he was born that is the pain I felt when he died. That was MY BABY!  Again Imzadi was there. It may have been coincidence but at the moments of life and death with my baby … Will was there and that is all that matters.

 

It has been a difficult time for me and he has been there. Not speaking unless I want too.  Just being my friend.  Were it not for him I would not have accepted the situation or even be writing this log.

 

Thank you Imzadi.

 

Computer save program.

 

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Personal Log – WTR

 

When Deanna announced that she was having a baby I felt like I had been kicked in my stomach.   Deanna and I have always been and will always be friends but the myriad of emotions that ripped through me was a surprise even to me. I suddenly heard myself demanding in a very sarcastic voice as to who was the father! As if that was anyone’s business including mine… so much for just being friends.

 

I managed to redeem myself and the friend in me emerged just in time to be at the birth of Ian. That’s what she called him.  Truly a woman is never more beautiful than when she has just given birth and Deanna was no different. She positively glowed.  If I am to be honest with myself then I should admit that that child should be hers and mine.  And as much as I rejoiced with her at the birth of Ian that is how I mourned with her over his death.

 

It was a sad twist of fate that his presence should endanger us so and that he left so that we may live.  True he was an alien life form seeking to understand humans, but at another level he was my Imzadi’s son and in my world that carries weight.

 

No parent should out live their child and if I could have carried that burden for her I would have.

 

It has been a hard week…

 

Computer save program.