Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 15:28:51 +0000
From: James Leete <leeteey2063@hotmail.com>
Subject: My Maquis Lover Chapter 16

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This story is based in the "Star Trek" universe. The use of anything
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All other content or otherwise are works of my own imagination. All events
are fictitious in nature.

Any similarities to persons living, dead, or otherwise are purely
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This story contains strong themes of homosexual content, if this offends
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Ok as well before we start this is based on the series Star Trek Voyager
but with a twist from the original story line and i hope you like it.

Chapter 16: Preparing the Wedding

As I sat in the mess hall with a coffee and a pad going over the wedding
details. It had 2 days since Tom had asked me to marry him and I was still
glowing. Word had travelled very quickly around the ship about the first
gay wedding on board and in a way this made me even happier. Everyone I
spoke with all said either congratulation or something to that effect. On
my pad so far I had down B'Elanna as my maid of honour, Chakotay as Tom's
best man, Janeway performing the wedding, Harry as father of the bride,
Naomi as flower girl and ring bearer and that was it. The captain
thankfully had given me a week off to get everything planned down to the
last detail so I wouldn't be worrying about while I was on duty. I knew
that everyone would be wearing dress uniforms for this wedding so getting
outfits ready was not an issue, with the exception of Naomi. That was one
task, speaking with the captain and getting permission to have one
replicated for her. I looked up and saw Neelix hovering nearby. "Come
Neelix have a seat. We need to talk about the wedding menu." I said. "You
want me to cater it?" he asked. "If you're willing." I said. "I would be
honoured to." He said. "Good, I have the feeling you have some ideas." I
said smiling. He handed me a pad and I smiled. I read through what he had
in mind and I just loved what he had. On the menu he had pâté with melba
toast and Gallia melon or Carrot and coriander soup to start. Then we had a
fish course of salmon or instead of fish you could have a pasta dish which
was pasta marinated in a sun dried tomato sauce with chopped bacon bits
mixed through. Then for main it was a set meal of Turkey with all the
trimmings. Then for desert there was a choice of Chocolate Torte, New York
Cheesecake, Wedding cake or A cheese board. Then to round it off there was
coffee and mints. I made a copy of the menu on to my padd handing the
original to Neelix. "This all sounds perfect. Let me speak with Tom but I'm
pretty sure he will agree with this menu." I told him. He seemed happy with
that. "Have you given any thought to the cake?" asked Neelix. "I spoke with
Tom last night as this was one thing I knew I would need an idea for and we
decided to go for an original 3 tier wedding cake." I said. "That sounds
fantastic, I look forward to baking it." He told me. "Neelix if this is too
much for you we can replicate the cake." I said. He laughed out loud and
said "I would never dream of that." "As long as your happy to do it." I
said. He nodded. "It's not a problem what so ever." He told me. "But just
to ask, will the reception and meal be on the holodeck or in the mess
hall?" he asked me. "In the mess hall. Only the ceremony and pictures will
be done in the holodeck." I told him. "Okay so you just pick out what you
want in the way of table dressings and I will replicate it all for you." He
replied me. I smiled and said "Thank you Neelix." I said. He turned and
went back to work. I left the mess hall and headed off to start getting
other things organised.

As I stepped off the turbolift on the bridge I noticed the captain wasn't
in her chair. "Can I help you Jack?" asked Chakotay. "I was hoping to see
the captain." I said. "She's in the ready room." He told me. I went down
and hit the door panel. "Come in." She said. I walked in and she looked at
me. "Ah Jack, wedding planning I would imagine?" she asked. "Yes ma'am, I
wanted to talk about Naomi." I said. She gestured for me to sit and I took
a seat. "What about her?" she asked. "Well I know everyone will be wearing
a dress uniform and I would like you're permission to replicate one for
Naomi as well, so she would feel more suited." I said. "Of course
permission granted." She said causing me to smile. "Thank you" I
said. "It's no problem." She said as I stood up and walked out. I noticed
Sam Wildman wasn't at her station so I assumed she was in her quarters with
Naomi which would help get this started. I walked into the turbolift and
called out "Deck 7" and the turbolift sprang into action. When the
turbolift finally landed on Deck 7 I walked down the corridor thinking of
how much I had to get ready before the wedding. As I walked up to Sam
Wildman's quarters I saw Paris walking down the corridor. "Tom." I
said. "Jack how's it going?" he said. "All good, listen what are you doing
in about an hour?" I asked. "Well I'm not on duty until 15:00 so nothing
why? He said. "Can you meet me on Holodeck 2, so we can go over some
wedding details?" I asked. "Sure, I have been thinking of some ideas, I'll
see you then." He said. He strolled off as I hit the door panel for Sam
Wildman's quarters. "Come in." She said. I entered the door to see Sam sat
on her sofa with a cup and pad in her hand. "Hi Sam I hope I'm not
interrupting?" I asked. "No not at all what can I do for you sir?" she said
standing. "At ease Sam, and please call me Jack I'm off duty this week
planning the wedding." I said. "Oh sure yeah, and listen thank you for
including Naomi, she is so excited it's all she ever talks about at the
minute." She said. I smiled and said "Well I was hoping to see her if she
is here." I said. "She is, I'll grab her." She said. A moment later Naomi
came out of her bedroom with Sam and looked at me. "Hi Jack." She
said. "Hey Naomi." I replied. "What can I do for you?" she said. "Well I
have come to talk to you about the wedding. Now you know that when
Starfleet officers have a wedding everyone who attends wears a dress
uniform." I told her. "Of course." She said. "Well I suddenly realised this
morning you don't officially have a dress uniform. So I went to the captain
and she gave me permission to replicate you an official dress uniform for
you to wear for the wedding." I told her. She gave me a huge smile and said
"Really, oh wow." "Really, now what I need you to do is go with your mum so
she can measure you for a uniform and then I can get it replicated." I
said. She stood up and went with Sam into the bedroom. A few minutes later
Sam came out with her and handed me a padd that had everything on including
shoe size. I held the padd and said "Right I will be back shortly with your
uniform" She smiled at me and said "Okay Jack." I turned to Sam "Thanks
Sam, see you soon." I said turning and leaving the quarters. I went in to
the turbolift and rode down to deck 13 where the quarter masters office was
and went in. "Lieutenant, nice to see you." Said Ensign Brown who was the
quartermaster. "Ensign, I need a dress uniform replicated. But it's not for
me, it's for little Naomi Wildman. I have her measurements here and I need
it in red." I said handing him the padd. He nodded and said "Not a problem"
taking the padd from me and inputting the information. A few minutes later
he walked over to a replicator and there it appeared. He took it off the
stand along with the boots and handed me it. "Here you are Lieutenant." He
said. I smiled and said "Thanks Ensign." Turning and leaving.

"It's perfect." Said Naomi walking out of her room dressed completely in
the dress uniform I had just given her. I looked at her and said "Well
don't you look like a little angel." She smiled and said "Thank you Jack."
"You're welcome, but I want you to keep it clean in time for the wedding."
I told her. "I will." She said. "One last thing, it is tradition that on
the morning of the wedding the bride, which in this case is me, the maid of
honour and the flower girl have breakfast together and get ready for the
big day. I would love it if you could join me and B'Elanna in my quarters
and give us a big helping hand that day." I said. Naomi looked for me to
Sam and said "Please mom." Sam smiled and said "Who am I to argue with
tradition? Of course you can." She said making Naomi smile even more. "And
then once at the ceremony you will see your mom there." I said. "That's
great thank you jack." Said Sam. "Not a problem and thank you." I said as
Naomi disappeared off into her. "Well I need to get going to meet Tom Paris
on the holodeck." I said. "Okay well I'll see you soon and good luck." She
said as I walked out the quarters. I checked the time and saw that I was
running a little late. I walked in to a turbolift and called out "Holodeck
2." The turbolift sprang into action and soon I found myself outside
holodeck 2. I walked into see Paris stood there. "Sorry I'm late." I
said. "It's no problem." He said smiling. "Well let's get to it." I
said. "Alright, well based on what we talked about the other day I have
come up a rough program which we can refine however you want to." Said
Paris. "Okay let's take a look." I said. Now when we had spoken the other
day I said that I wanted to have the wedding outside in a big garden or
national park in England on a lovely hot summers day. "Computer activate
program Jack's wedding Alpha 1" said Paris. The hologrid disappeared and
was replaced with a perfect scene. We were stood in the grounds of
somewhere I knew very well. When I was a teenager and I needed somewhere
quiet to go and study I discovered Fountains Abbey. It was this old abbey
in Yorkshire in England set on the most beautiful grounds I had ever
seen. There was a big lake in the middle with crystal blue water. I looked
around and saw that we were right on the edge of the lake with trees all
around us and the sun was shining. "How did you know I wanted Fountains
Abbey?" I asked. "Lucky guess." Said Paris. We walked around as he
explained where things would go and I immediately knew I had found the
place I wanted to get married. "Tom this is amazing." I said. He led me
over to another part of the grounds and told me this is where we could have
pictures etc. "It's perfect thank you so much." I said. "So you don't want
me to change anything?" he asked. "Nope not one thing." I replied. "Okay
well I'll complete the program by tomorrow with all the chairs, the arch
and flowers etc and bring you back to see it" he said. "Okay you're on." I
said. "Computer end program." Said Paris. The hologrid returned and I
turned to him. "Well I need to head off" I said. "Yeah busy stuff planning
a wedding. Just to ask before you go, who are you having doing your
pictures? It's just I'm good with a holodeck but bad with pictures so if
you want I could program a photographer?" he asked. "Actually I was going
to ask the doctor. You know how he is with the photography." I said causing
tom to smile. "Good choice." He said. "Thanks, see ya mate." I said. "Yeah
see ya." He said as I exited the holodeck.

"Deck 5" I said as entered the turbolift. It sprung into action as I stood
thinking about the never ending list of things I had to do. The turbolift
stopped and I exited heading for sickbay. As I entered sickbay I saw that
the doctor was with a patient who had burnt his hand. He looked at me and
nodded. When the doctor had finished he said to the crewman "All done
crewman you can go." The crewman got up and said "Sir" to me on the way out
as the doctor approached me. "Mr. Carter what can I do for you?" he
said. "I have a few personal requests to make if I may?" I told him. "Yes."
He said. "Firstly, I wanted to ask if you would be mine and Tom's wedding
photographer?" I asked. "I would be delighted to." He said smiling. "Thank
you, and second of all I wanted to ask about being pregnant." I said
smiling. "What you believe you may be pregnant?" he asked. "No we're still
taking the injections remember." I said "Of course, then what about being
pregnant?" he asked. "I just wanted some information, if I can?" I
asked. "Ahhh I see, well as I told you when we first talked about it, it
would happen during anal...." was all he got out before I cut him
off. "Actually doctor what I really wanted to know is how long it will last
and how it will affect me?" I said. "Okay well, with you being male the
pregnancy will not last the full 9 months as you will have a lower
gestation period than most normal pregnancies. It will last approximately
30 weeks. As for how it will affect you, well you can expect heightened
emotions, increased appetite, mood swings and such like." He told me. "And
the baby will grow in my belly right?" I asked. He smiled and said "Yes it
will grow in your belly just like any other pregnancy." He said. "And just
two more things, firstly you mentioned breast feeding how would that work?"
I said "When you have had the baby I can give you an injection that will
make your nipples hard constantly so that the baby can feed from it, that
is of course assuming you wish to breast feed." He told me. "So I do have
an option?" I said. "Of course you can bottle feed if you wish." He
said. "Is there one that you recommend over the other?" I asked. "No I
think both are fine." He said. "Okay and the last thing is: obviously I
studied biology at school so I know how a woman gives birth, but how will I
give birth?" I asked. "That is a very good question and since I first told
you that you could get pregnant, I have been working on that and in
particular have been working very closely with the transporter chief and
together we have improved the transport procedures associated with beaming
a baby from a person's womb, so that we wouldn't have to put the baby on
osmotic pressure therapy, and I believe that this could be the best thing
for you." He said. "But won't that hurt the baby?" I asked. "Of course not,
Naomi Wildman was born in that way and look how she turned out." Said the
doctor. I smiled, "okay well it beats being cut up." I said. He smiled and
said "Is there anything further?" I shook my head and said "No thank you
doctor." I said and leaving.

Next stop was my quarters to sit and find table settings. That included
china, glasses, napkins, centre pieces, candles. I also had to send out a
general memo to all personnel on board that if they wanted to attend the
wedding they were more than welcome to but had to let me know ASAP. "Deck
6" I said entering the turbolift. It only took a second for me to arrive
one deck below and I walked out and down the hall towards my quarters. When
I finally arrived I sat at the desk and breathed a sigh of relief. My legs
were tired from so much walking. I replicated some coffee and then sat back
at my desk and activated the monitor. My first task was to send the
memo. It read

TO: ALL PERSONNEL OF THE U.S.S. VOYAGER NCC 74656

FROM: LIEUTENANT JACK CARTER AND ENSIGN THOMAS WALKER

SUBJECT: OUR WEDDING

ATTACHED: WEDDING MENU

TO ALL,

AS I'M SURE YOU ARE AWARE TOM AND I WILL BE GETTING MARRIED IN JUST UNDER A
MONTH. THE OFFICAL DATE HAS BEEN SET AS JULY 6TH BEGINNING AT 13:00
HOURS. TOM AND I WOULD THEREFORE LIKE TO EXTEND AN INVITATION TO ANYONE WHO
IS ABLE TO ATTEND ON THAT DAY. IT WOULD MEAN A GREAT DEAL TO US FOR PEOPLE
TO BE THERE. IF YOU DO WISH TO ATTEND THEN PLEASE LET EITHER MYSELF OR TOM
KNOW ASAP. WHEN REPLYING IF YOU DO PLAN TO ATTEND PLEASE CAN YOU SELECT
YOUR MEAL CHOICES FROM THE MENU NEELIX HAS MADE AND THEN WE CAN INFORM
NEELIX WHO WILL BE PREPARING WHAT I'M SURE IS GOING TO BE A DELICIOUS MEAL.

THANKS

JACK CARTER

I then sent the message out to everyone and went to work on picking out
things for the table. After spending a good hour I finally made my
choices. The good thing with Tom was he really knew how much I wanted the
perfect wedding and pretty much left everything in my hands as he knew I
would make it fabulous. That and I told him to stay out of the way, which
he was more than happy to stick by. I noted the selections down on my pad
and stood up ready to leave. "Walker to Carter." Said Tom over the
comm. "Go ahead." I said. "Could you come down to engineering a second, I
have about 30 messages here from people who got your memo." He
said. "Already, okay I'm on my way." I said and clicked off the comm. Just
as I was getting ready to leave I looked at my monitor and saw that I had
52 messages waiting. I decided to look at them after I came back from
seeing Tom and Neelix. I left my quarters with another padd and an
isolinear chip with my first port of call being engineering. When I arrived
in engineering everyone looked glad to see me, which I found a bit
strange. I went over to Tom and pinched his bum causing him to turn
around. "Hey you." I said. "Hey yourself." He said kissing me. "Here take a
look at this, it's the menu Neelix prepared and the bits for the tables,
while I download these messages." I said turning my attention to the
console. I inserted the chip and copied the messages across and the removed
the chip. Tom was still reading the menu. "I love the menu. Do you?" he
asked. "Yeah it sounds so fab." I said smiling. He then looked at the bits
for the table. I had picked the china which was white and had a gold design
around the outside edge. He then moved onto glasses and I had picked just
standard champagne flutes, wine glasses and high ball tumblers all crystal
of course. He then looked at the napkins and chuckled. I had designed the
napkin. They were ivory and had the Starfleet insignia in the middle. Above
that was my full name and below it was Tom's full name. Beneath Tom's name
it read `joined together on July 6th 2377'. "I do like the napkins." He
said. He then saw the flowers for the table centres and looked a bit
puzzled. "What are they?" he asked. "Tulips." I said. "But there pink." He
said. "Yeah so?" I said. "Tom, tulips can be almost any colour. And
personally I think they look gorgeous." Said B'Elanna looking over his
shoulder. "Thank you." I said. "Hey I'm not complaining I just wasn't
sure." Tom said. Finally he looked at the candle and said "The candle is
perfect." He said. "Good so you like it all then?" I asked. "Of course." He
said kissing my cheek. "Good, oh B'Elanna I got Naomi her dress
uniform. She looks so adorable. And Sam said we can have her on the morning
of the wedding so we can have breakfast and get ready etc." I said. "Okay
great I'm so looking forward to your bachelorette party." She told me. "Oh
god please don't god mad." I said. "I won't I promise. Also from what I
hear Chakotay is planning a night that Tom here will never forget." She
said smiling. He smiled. "Bring on the beer." He said. I laughed and said
"Right I'm going, if anymore message come to you forward them to me, oh and
I Love you." I said kissing. He smiled and said "I love you too" as I
walked out the door.

I entered the mess hall I saw Neelix serving Luke his dinner. I then saw
Tabor and Garren and Morris all sat in the corner and they me over. I said
"2 minutes." They nodded and I went to Neelix. "Neelix, I have my table
dressing stuff." I said. He picked up a pad and said "This all looks
beautiful Jack. I take it you want just white table clothes?" he
asked. "Yes please." I said. "What about seating?" he asked. "When I get a
final guest list completed I will make a seating chart and make Name cards
for people to see where they are sitting." I said. "Okay and of course you
will be having a head table." He asked. "Of course." I said. "Okay that's
all I need. I will see the quartermaster about replicating the round tables
once you have a final list." He said. "Okay thanks. And while I'm here I'll
take a coffee if I may." I said. He smiled and poured me a cup of coffee
and went over and sat with the guys. "Hey guys, how's it going?" I
said. "All good, how goes the wedding planning?" asked Tabor. "Nearly
done." I said "What already?" said Garren. "Yep, the only thing I have left
to do is wait for people to respond to the memo I sent out and get them to
pick their menu choices. Then make a seating chart and I'm done." I
said. "Well you can put us down for sure." Said Tabor meaning him and
Garren. "And us." Said Luke meaning him and Morris. "Okay, well in which
case then pick you're menu choices now." I said. I handed them the padd and
they all took their pick. I loved how easy it was with a padd. All you did
with menu choices was stick your thumb on the ID plate, then select which
ones you wanted and it made a note of it until I came to download it back
into my personal database. "Thanks guys. Anyway I have something to ask you
Luke?" I said looking at him. "Oh, what's that?" he said. "Were you going
to tell me that you and the doctor had been working hard on getting the
transporters modified so that he can transport out a baby without causing a
hemosaphibic imbalance resulting in the baby need osmotic pressure
therapy." I said. "No why should I?" he said. "Did he not say what it was
for?" I asked. "No he just said that it had to be done." He told me. "Oh,
well he's doing it so that when Tom and I come to have a baby it will the
safest way of getting it out of me." I said. "Oh right, I never thought of
that." Said Luke. I smiled and said "Anyway I have about 80 messages to go
through from people on board. So I will see you all later." I said getting
up and leaving.

After spending 3 hours in my quarters reading messages that people had sent
I was getting giddy. 97 crewmen had responded. 46 of which could attend the
rest couldn't as they were on duty. Just as I had finished the last message
the computer announced "Lieutenant Carter, please check your personal
messages, you have messages waiting." I went in to my inbox and there was
another 46 messages. That meant we had 143 replies, which was the exact
number of people on board with the exception of myself and Tom plus Garren,
Tabor, Luke and Morris. I went through and read all of those over the next
hour and a half and found that out of those 46, 9 could make it the rest
were on duty. So that now put our final total at 55 guests. A small wedding
but a nice one none the less. I then started to collate the meals. I
instructed the computer to count up each one and make one final list. Just
as the computer chirped in response the doors opened and in walked
Tom. "Honey I'm home." He said I smiled. "We're not married just yet." I
said. "Collating complete." Said the computer. "What are you up to?" he
asked. "Well everyone on board has answered my memo even the senior staff
and we have a total number of 55 people at the wedding." I said. "That
sounds perfect. So who else needs to pick their meals?" he said coming over
and sitting on my knee. "Just you and me." I said. He picked first. He had
the pâté, the salmon, turkey obviously and chocolate Torte to end. I then
picked the Soup, the pasta, the turkey and chocolate torte to end. "We're
done." I said. "Good, so what else needs to be done now?" he asked. "Well
we need to make a seating chart and give Neelix the menu's" I said. "And
we're done?" he said. "For today at least. But there is still lots more to
do." I said. "Oh and I need to see Paris on the holodeck tomorrow. He is
finishing the last bits of the holoprogram." I added. No sooner had the
words left my mouth the comm. Chirped. "Could Lieutenant Carter, Ensign
Walker and all senior officers please report to holodeck 2." Said
Paris. "Let's go" I said to Tom.

"Tom it is beautiful." Said Janeway. He had called us down to see the final
version of the simulation for our wedding. "Thanks." He said. I looked
around and there were chairs set up and split in two to make space for the
aisle. At the bottom of the aisle was an arch that was set up with candles
and flowers intertwined. Along the outside of the chairs were vases set up
in stands of mixtures of flowers, from lilies to tulips. "So to rehearse,
captain you would be here." Said Paris leading her to arch. "Jack, you
would be here with Harry." Taking both of us to the top of the aisle so we
looked down on the captain. "B'Elanna you and Chakotay would be up there
too in front of Jack and Harry." He said pointing them up where Chakotay
held his arm out for B'Elanna to slid hers through. "Naomi you would be in
front of Chakotay and B'Elanna holding the cushion which would have the
rings on." He said to Naomi who grabbed the cushion that was already there
and stood in front of Chakotay and B'Elanna. "And lastly Tom you would be
here with the captain." He said guiding Tom over to the arch too. "Computer
play music selection Paris alpha 9" said Paris and the violin music that I
had picked out which was a piece of classical music began to play. Naomi
then started to walk down the aisle followed by Chakotay and B'Elanna. When
she got to the bottom Naomi placed stood to the side of the captain. When
Chakotay and B'Elanna got down, Chakotay stood to the side of Tom and
B'Elanna stood on the opposite side from Tom but leaving space for me to
come in between them. Then when everyone was in place, the music repeated
from the top and Harry walked me down the aisle. When I got to the bottom
Harry shook my hand and then I moved to stand beside Tom facing them. The
music then stopped. "So from here on the captain would perform the
ceremony." Said Paris brining me out of my trance. I was really getting
into it. I wanted to do it then and there.  "Got it." Said the captain. Oh
well just another 3 weeks to go.