Thirteen year old Jim Kirk sits on Tarsus surrrounded by tired and hungry children. They talk about their families - their parents, their siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles. Jim watches the stars while they reminisce about better days.
"What about your family, JT?" One of them asks, and the group falls silent.
Jim thinks about his mother, always off planet, he thinks about his brother, who ran away to only god knows where, he even thinks about Frank, and remembers the yelling and hitting and the pain.
"I don't have one," Jim decides, watching the stars glitter, "but I'll find one," he points to the sky, "up there."
Seventeen year old Spock listens to his parents arguing - again - from the kitchen. His father's voice is flat and his mother's eerily calm. Sybok is out. Nobody is exactly sure where. Michael - well, Michael is there but it's never been the same. Not since.
He thinks about the boys in school - their taunting words, their cruel sneers and jibes. He thinks about his teachers - the way they look down at him as he passes by. He thinks about his father's disappointed look, remembers Michael's harsh words, and the pitiful look in his mother's eyes every time she looks at him these days.
Spock sits on his window sill, watching the moonless sky, face pressed up against the cold glass. His palm lays flat against the glass, falling into a distinct ta'al and he wonders if there is someone - or people - out there among the stars that will one day welcome him for who he is.
Thirty six year old Leonard McCoy sits in a park alone. The bitter cold nips at his hand, where a PADD hangs limp between his fingers. It holds the outcome of his finally settled, long courtcase. He has lost everything - his Joanna, his beautiful daughter, his little girl.
He looks up at the stars. He prays to them give him his girl back. To give him something - anything - to end this agony. To give him a family again.
Years later they sit together on the Enterprise, watching the stars whisk by. Finally at peace. They found their family among the stars.
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