"What is this?" Hikaru asked the person who jumped in his lap as she put the gold tiara on his head.

"I'm Link, daddy. You have to be Zelda," their daughter told him. Hiri looked at Jamie.

"Don't look at me, Princess. I got nothing to do with it," Jamie said as Demora tugged him out of the chair.

"Rescue me, mommy," he whispered.

"No can do, Zelda. That's Link's job. Right, Link?"

"Yep. Mommy's right. Besides, I'm rescuing you from her. She's the bad guy," the seven year old proclaimed.

"I don't think your mother could ever actually be bad, sweet pea," Hikaru pressed a kiss on the top of their daughter's head. "She can try though."

"What bad guy am I?" Jamie asked.

Demora thought about it for a second, "Hmm… you can be Ganon."

"Always trying to take my kingdom," Hiri huffed.

"Hyrule will be mine, Princess Zelda," Jamie told him.

"Not as long as I'm around," their daughter said in her oversized green shirt that Jamie was sure belonged to Hiri.

"Well, I hate to break it to you, Link, but it's past your bed time. I can take over the whole kingdom while you slumber," Jamie teased.

"No!" Demora cried overdramatically.

Hikaru stood tall, "I won't let you win."

"You won't be able to stop me," she chuckled and looked at Demora. "Who's reading your story tonight?"

Demora looked between the pair of officers, "Hmm… Daddy."

"Okay," Jamie chuckled before she peppered kissed all over the little girl's face. "Night, mini. I love you."

"Love you too, mommy," Demora said before she scrambled up Hikaru's back, with a little help from him.

"To Hyrule," Hiri called before they left the room. Jamie couldn't help but laugh at them. She almost couldn't believe how the last nine years panned out.

After months of vid-comms, messages and meet ups all over the place, the pair of command officers decided to just get married. It took them almost a year to plan the damn thing thanks to their ship schedules and in the end, they didn't even have the wedding they put together. A Bajoran colony on Gelladorn was destroyed and the colony on Velat Nol was attacked by the Ascendants. Both the Courageous and Enterprise defended the Bajorans, taking heavy damage. Captain Caulder ended up marrying the pair in his ready room in front of a dozen of their friends and Uhura recorded it for the parents.

A few months after that, Caulder was killed in a scuffle with some Orion Raiders and Hikaru was advanced to active commanding officer of the Courageous. He didn't think the brass would let him keep it but they did, promoting him to full commander… just in time for Jamie to figure out that she was pregnant. So, instead of another five year mission, the Enterprise was put into the patrol rotation.

On Bones' birthday, January twentieth, twenty-two sixty-seven, Demora Christopher Sulu was born. The kid was every inch her father's daughter with dark hair, dark eyes and full of energy. Jamie and Hikaru took posts at the Academy for three years while the Enterprise was being refit. After that, Jamie returned to commanding her ship and Hiri took up the first officer's post while Demora wrapped the whole crew around her tiny fingers. Spock wanted to focus more on his research and his own nuptials, so he stepped down from the XO spot.

Now, Hikaru was on the short list for commanding officer of the new Excelsior. They decided that their daughter would stay with Jamie if he got it since she was promoted to Rear Admiral and assigned as XO to the Special Diplomatic Division in San Francisco. The CO, Vice Admiral Lori Ciana actually had to lobby for Jamie to join the SDD since the young admiral was offered a spot at Tactical Command. Jamie agreed on the condition that Riley get a promotion and serve as her aide at HQ. She still has trust issues, not that anyone could blame her.

"How's my other favorite girl?" Hiri asked when he walked back in the room ten minutes later.

"I would feel better if your son wasn't kicking me in the kidneys. I'm thinking about Hosato Samuel Sulu… or something like that," she chuckled.

"I like it. Maybe Samuel Hosato Sulu. I'd ask dad but we both know what he'd pick. That's how Demi ended up with my grandmother's name in the first place."

"That's true. She out already?" Jamie asked.

"Yep. Three pages and she was out like a light. I suppose I should tuck mommy in now," he said before giving her a quick kiss.

"Is that what we're calling it now?"

"Yes, ma'am, it is," Hikaru took the PADD out of her hands.

Jamie smiled, "Well, this'll be a first. I never had sex with a captain before."

"What?" He stopped and looked at her. "Did you just say what I think you just said?"

"You have the PADD in your hands, you tell me," she shrugged.

"Oh my God," Hiri muttered as he read the orders a few times. "I'm a captain… of the Excelsior… You already knew."

"I'm an admiral, I know a lot of things, sweetheart," Jamie smiled.

Generally, she doesn't like being tied to the brass but it's the only place, other than the Enterprise, where she could affect some change. It was also the only way to keep an eye on her crew since they've mostly spread out, getting promotions and making their marks on the universe just like Jamie thought they would.

Bones joined the Frontier Medical Program and was out in the black as the XO on a medical ship. Uhura took up a post with Starfleet Intelligence. Scotty and Gaila were both with the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Chekov was staying on the Enterprise as the Executive and Chief Tactical Officer. Spock was working at Science Command. Carol moved to Fleet R&D.

"How long have you known?"

"A while. The short list had two people on it," she told him. "The other officer, Will Decker, got the Enterprise. His commission was before yours, which made him the senior officer, so he got to pick. He made his official choice two days ago. Congratulations, Captain Sulu."

"Say it again," he smiled.

"Captain Hikaru Sato Sulu… Kirk," Jamie smiled.

He chuckled, "Sounds good. You called it… a decade ago. I'm never gonna hear the end of it, am I?"

"Of course not."