Okay, here it is, part 6!  Thank you all for your fantastic feedback!  I
appreciate it! :) The name Serena, BTW, came from my friend and fellow Parisite,
Serena, who won the "How Babies Are Made" contest from part 5! Congrats, Serena! :)
Please send comments to pt4ever@yahoo.com Thanks!

Disclaimer:  Paramount did, does, and will always own these
characters. (Except for the ones I make up.)  I just play with them a
little.  :).  

Daddy's Little Girl (post-VOY, P/T, PG)
by JoAnna Walsvik
part 6/6

        "Okay, hold still..."  Tom Paris said, carefully focusing the
camera.  "Smile, Katy...that's good...there.  All done."
        Katy Paris hopped off of her mother's lap while her new baby
sister, Serena Kes Paris, cooed contentedly.  "Can we take another one,
Daddy?"  Katy asked eagerly.
        "Maybe later, munchkin,"  Tom grinned, helping his wife out of
her chair.  "We've taken enough pictures already."
        "Mommy, can I hold Selery?"  Katy persisted.
        "Not right now, sweetheart.  And don't call your sister 'Selery'. 
She's a baby, not a vegetable," B'Elanna said, adjusting little Serena's
blanket.
        "But that's what Daddy calls her,"  Katy said innocently.
        B'Elanna shot her husband a menacing look.  "Well, Daddy isn't
going to call her that any more, is he?" she said pointedly.
        "Yes, dear,"  Tom grinned, holding back laughter.  "I can't say
the same for Uncle Neelix, however.  He gave her the nickname in the
first place.  And you have to admit, it's cute."
        "Neelix always has food on the brain,"  B'Elanna said ruefully,
rolling her eyes.  "Whenever he calls her 'Selery' I feel like I'm raising
a
garden, not a child."
        Serena Kes Paris, named after Tom's grandmother Serena Paris
and godmother Kes, was blissfully unaware of the discussion
surrounding her name.  A mere three weeks old, she only knew that she
was cherished by her mother, father, sister, and one hundred forty-odd
aunts and uncles--and especially by her godmother and namesake, Kes.
        The newest addition to the Paris family was just that--a Paris. 
Upon seeing his new daughter a few seconds after her birth, the first
words out of Tom's mouth had been, "She's Serena!"  Serena, it
seemed, had been his grandmother and a person whom he had loved
very much.  According to the proud papa, his new daughter was the
very image of her great-grandmother.
        B'Elanna took Tom's word for it, for she certainly couldn't see
anything of herself in the child.  The baby had fuzzy little golden
ringlets that made her look like a tiny version of Tom, but the striking
emerald green eyes the little girl possessed must have belonged to
Admiral Serena Paris, as Tom claimed.
        Those same eyes had given little Serena her rather infamous
nickname.  The moment Neelix, who had just replicated celery stalks
for a salad he was concocting, set eyes upon the new Paris child, he
exclaimed, "Her eyes are the color of tops of celery stalks!  She's not
Serena, she's *Selery*!"  From then on, despite B'Elanna's objections,
the little girl was called 'Selery' by all.  And even "Selery's" mother
had
to admit, the nickname was kind of cute.
        "Maybe we should name the next one 'Cantaloupe,'"  Tom
teased good-naturedly.
        "Thomas Eugene Paris, if you dare--"  B'Elanna began
laughingly, but was silenced when Tom pressed his lips upon hers.
        "Mommy, Daddy, that's gross!"  Katy protested loudly.
        "Oh, yeah, munchkin?  Just wait about a decade, and then you
can tell us how 'gross' it is,"  Tom said, scooping her up in his arms. 
"C'mon.  Let's go to the holodeck and romp around a bit, shall we?"
        "Yea!"  Katy yelled.  "Can we bring Selery with?  And then can
we replicate some candy?  Can we, Daddy, can we?"
        "Sure,"  he agreed, bringing a joyful smile to Katy's face.
        "Tom, you'll spoil both of them,"  B'Elanna warned gently from
where she was changing the baby Serena.
        "And why shouldn't I?" he replied, a slow grin spreading across
his face as he gazed at his wife and daughters.  "They are, after all,
daddy's little girls."

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END OF PART 6

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