Family Reunion Part II
Posted on Fri Sep 26th, 2025 @ 3:56pm by Lieutenant JG Stefan Zamfir
Edited on on Tue Sep 30th, 2025 @ 9:02am
1,911 words; about a 10 minute read
Mission:
All Our Yesterdays
Location: SS Wyvern
Timeline: One Month Before Joining USS Pioneer
Tatiana saw the signs of a little boy becoming a little bit overwhelmed with all that was happening. "Say Annabelle, shall we get two individuals off for a rest? I'm sure they would like a nap?"
Annabelle nodded, "Yes, I think that would be a splendid idea. C'mon Annie I think Mindy would like some play time."
Annie nodded, "Okay Mama. "She turned to her new found family. "I hope to see you again and stay in touch."
The kids received hugs before Tatiana and Annabelle took them to their room.
The three men and Camelia watched as they left, all showing concern for the young ones.
Once they left, Camelia looked a the three men. "Okay you three lets talk, I've got questions that I want answered."
Lucian looked at Stefan. "Still bossy, ain't she." giving a grin and a wink to his brother.
Max's eyes widened at this as he saw a storm cloud developing in Camelia's eyes. "Uh guys? I don't like the look in her eyes. It reminds me of the look in Annabelle's eyes. Don't piss her off okay?"
Lucian and Stefan exchanged glances then looked at Max, then looked at Camelia, who had a rather stern expression.
"Okay, okay," Stefan and Lucian taking a seat next to Max.
Camelia smiled, "Okay thank you. Now Lucian, how did you get Marcus, and how did you get reunited with Annabelle?"
Max and Stefan wanted to know as well.
Lucian launched into the tale of how he had to disguise himself to find Marcus, and how he and Marcus were retrieved along with two others by a team sent out from the USS Majestic consisting of Hadir Prenar, S'anra, and one other. And the person who owned the ship they had used, Rashad.
"Does Hadir know who he helped to rescue?" Camelia was rather interested int his answer.
"No, my identity wasn't revealed, Rashad had kept it under wraps. and then when I had arrived on Poseidon Station I reunited with Annabelle, once I got Marcus out of stasis. It was the only way I could get him and I away. I had dressed myself as a Breen."
"Okay that is clever, so why didn't you tell us that you got married, and it must have been sometime ago with Marcus being ten years old? " spearing Lucian with a rather pointed glare.
Lucien drew in a breath. "Well you see, Annabelle and I had to go into hiding. I was being hunted, I faked my death, to keep Annabelle safe. Or so I thought. The person who is after me his name is Thorton. The other name he went by was Eric Lebeaux. He was dating Lily Marlow, Annabelle's best friend and well, they were close like sisters."
"He and I had been working together on an intelligence team, then I found something about him and was gathering information about him. He was working with Romulans, wanting to mess with the Federation."
Lucian picked up a sandwich taking a bite of it, before he continued.
"Okay I do remember you saying something about Eric years ago then nothing after that. You just up and disappeared no word from you." Camelia growled.
"Yeah I've been looking for you, hoping to hear something from you, or about you. Hell I got slapped because of you." Stefan huffed.
Lucian laughed, "Sorry but I am finding that funny, but still sorry you got slapped due to my actions."
"Now continuing on, after i had faked my death, thinking that it would save Annabelle I found out it devastated her, and I got a tip from someone that Thorton was going to kill her, just to draw me out. And I couldn't let that happen. I got there just in time to get her out, however there was a complication, Lily Marlow. She got sort of mixed up on all of this."
Camelia gave out a gasp. "Lily Marlow, the very same Lily who is serving on the same ship as I am?"
"Wait, what?" Lucian exclaimed. "You're serving on the same ship as she is?"
Stefan stared at Lucian. "Wait Lily Marlow? I had served on a ship that she was serving on. She was Assistant Chief Medical officer. I ran across her on the ship, briefly, I don't think she'd remember me."
He shook his head, "nah couldn't be her."
Camelia pulled out her PADD, bringing up the manifest, then bringing up the image of Lily. "Is this the Lily you are talking about?"
The three men just stared at the image. "Woah it is her!" in unison.
"Um we may have a problem, and I don't know what to do about it. You see, Lily had gone to comfort Annabelle, when Annabelle thought I was dead. She had gone to go get some comfort food for Annabelle and well, she didn't stay away like Annabelle had hoped she would."
"Annabelle and I had been able to get out from the cabin just before it exploded, but Lily, she arrived at the wrong time. Annabelle and I had discovered the bomb, just before it went off and I am not an explosives expert, I didn't know how to defuse a bomb. not back then."
He took a bite then sucked down some drink before he continued."
The others were riveted by this tale.
"Long story short, Lily got caught in the blast, luckily she was on the outside of the main explosion. Still she got injured, and like a stupid person, I heard others coming towards where Annabelle's cabin was, I figured that Lily would be rescued and that Annabelle and I would be considered dead."
"Are you freaking serious!" Max hissed. 'Man you were going to let Lily just stay there? Maybe dying?! You know I consider her a sister."
"Okay I will admit to my momentary stupidity, Annabelle brought me out of that thinking and we took Lily to where she could be cared for. However we were spotted, we had to disappear. We couldn't be found." Lucian uttered softly, regret in his eyes.
"After leaving Lily what happened." Camelia urged.
"Okay so Annabelle and I found ourselves in a colony, established ourselves a place and we had gotten married. Took on the last name of Parker. Later on, I had to fake my death, again, I had blonde hair at the time. I I had stuck with a disguise including my eye color. but I digress."
Lucian looked at the others.
"Annabelle and the kids left the colony after i left. We got divorced. After leaving, Annabelle was heading off to make herself a business, making a new life for her and the kids. Two years ago, Marcus got grabbed, after some searching I was able to find him, but, I had to infiltrate the group who had snatched him. I managed to get him to be at my side." Lucian stopped there.
Max spoke up. "Okay so, in case you want to know I didn't know about Lucian here until after he and Marcus showed up on Poseidon Station. All I knew was that she had lost her husband and that my nephew had been grabbed. Mom and Dad now know that Annabelle is alive, and that they have two grand kids. but anything else, they couldn't be told, just to keep them safe. It was dangerous to even tell them about Annabelle being alive."
"You know, Lily was devastated by the loss of Annabelle, I don't know what kept her going except for her family. Mom, Dad and I couldn't stand being in the same town, where Annabelle had grown up with Lily and her family. This was before Annabelle was found to be alive. I think that her family pulled her through her rough times, plus counseling. I've not seen her since so-I wonder how she is doing" Max looking towards Camelia.
"What you want me to start keeping tabs on her? What am I going to say to her? Do i tell her that Annabelle is alive and well? " Camelia drew in a breath, letting it out in a huff. "You have certainly created a problem. I can understand the reason for why you did this just... I am not going to enjoy the storm that will probably end up happening. And I suppose you want to find out what happened to her afterwards?"
Camelia sighed rather resignedly. "Fine I will do so. And it looks like my connection to being in Intelligence is going to surface, especially since we've got a Cardassian as Chief of intelligence on my ship."
"Hold on, Hadir Prenar you say? He's good, He's the first Cardassian to be in Star Fleet and right now the only one. He's earned his way in his position. He may already know about your connection to intelligence. I wouldn't be surprised, if not he'll probably find out very soon. "Stefan responded.
His eyes went to Max. "Are you still working on Poseidon Station?"
Max shook his head, "I am waiting to see where I'm going to be sent to next. Right now, I'm going to spend sometime with Annabelle and the kids, plus well getting to know my brother in law." his eyes gliding over to Lucian.
Lucian nodded.
Turning towards Camelia. "So, Sis, I am going to request that you keep an eye on Lily as well. And maybe sometime, she and Annabelle can reunite and maybe amends can be made. Sheesh this has become one crazy reunion."
Camelia nodded, "And hopefully we'll find out who's been after Lucian and who's also been after Lily."
The three men nodded, "Agreed."
"For now, lets just spend the short time we've got together until we have to go our separate ways." she glared at her older brother. "And Lucian, don't go disappearing without keeping in touch. "
"My still bossy even though you're the youngest." Lucian teasing her.
"Well someone needs to keep you two in line!" Camelia teasing back. "Anyhow glad to see you again and glad we've got another brother to add to the fold. The ladies are still outnumbered in this." laughing.
"Not by much." Stefan responded with a wink. "Not by much."
The rest of the evening was spent talking about things that had happened since they went their separate ways, Tatiana and Annabelle joining them once the two kids went to sleep.
Tatiana was quite happy to see that the family had grown, it did her heart good, her kids certainly grew up well, and have survived the trials that came upon them. Sometime soon she'll be taking her leave, on her own. It will be difficult but she needed to find her own way now, and perhaps find someone for herself. It was time for her to live.
Annabelle was happy to have more family added to her circle.
Max still didn't know where he was going to end up, however, right now it was great to be with family.
As for the Zamfir Triplets, Lucian, Stefan and Camelia; it was good to see each other once more.
A Post By
Lieutenant Stefan Zamfir
Assistant Chief Intelligence Officer, USS Pioneer
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