Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer

Author:Kirsten Beyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

As Captain Eden had expected, she had been among the very last to learn of Willem’s plans.

After finally spending the better part of a week interviewing Admiral Janeway, an experience that left Eden with a profound respect for the challenges Janeway had endured and in awe of her devotion to duty, the captain had finally completed her analysis and forwarded it to Admiral Montgomery. She had expected to hear from Willem within a few hours of transmitting it, but instead there was frustrating silence.

Determined to put it out of her mind, Eden had decided to spend the weekend in Paris, where the Louvre was featuring a spectacular new exhibit of several newly discovered paintings by D’Mack of Vulcan. While staring at the most impressive rendering of a sandstorm she’d ever seen, she’d run into Admiral Upton, who was touring the museum with his wife and young daughter. He’d been gracious enough to compliment Eden on her work and her report, though he admitted he hadn’t had a chance to study it as deeply as he intended. He’d then proceeded to inquire as to how Batiste was taking Command’s denial of his proposal regarding Voyager. She’d been forced to admit that she had no idea, and was further humiliated when she’d had to remind Upton that she and Willem were no longer married.

The admiral had seemed appropriately mortified by his gaffe and apologized profusely. She’d met Upton only a handful of times and wasn’t terribly surprised that he wasn’t current on the state of her personal life.

As Willem had apparently used her analysis in support of his argument, Upton had assumed that Eden was fully briefed on the proposal. He suggested that if she and Batiste were serious about making better use of Voyager’s unique resources, they might start by looking a little closer to home. By silently pretending to know much more than she did, Eden had managed to get the gist of Willem’s plan out of Upton before excusing herself politely and hurrying from the exhibit. Propriety suggested it was a good idea not to allow one’s head to explode in front of a superior officer in a public place.

Eden had returned to San Francisco determined to confront Willem at once. He lived only three kilometers from her apartment, and she debated walking the brief distance in the cool moonlit air to clear her head and take the edge off the heat her anger was generating. Finally, she decided that Willem had earned that anger honestly and should be spared none of it.

She rang his door chime three times before the doors slid open and she heard a muffled, “Come in,” from the direction of Willem’s bedroom.

This was the apartment they had shared when they’d been married. Willem had offered to allow her to continue living there when they’d separated, but Eden had found the notion unimaginable. Entering the living room and noting that the honeymoon picture of the two of them sunbathing on one of Delgara’s most exclusive

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