Time Reborn
Author – Vixster
Rating – G
Disclaimer – I don't own the ship, the characters, or anything at all.
Authors Note – I wrote this story after reading a book, which was nothing to do with star trek, but there you go. This story was originally about something completely different, but I think it's been adapted well.
Chapter 1 – Remembrance
A young cadet stood all in black, apart from her shining auburn hair, in a dark graveyard on a cold November evening. She smiled tearfully, as she laid a rose on the sombre grey grave, her promise of new life. Kneeling in the soil by the grave, the rain beating down on her head, she put her hand to her lips, before bringing the same hand down on the gravestone.
She turned around hearing footsteps behind her, a greying man, his features distorted by time stood watching her.
"I thought I would find you here", he said, his voice was tinged with sadness.
She ran to him, and held him tightly.
"I missed you Captain", her voice defined his rank, intimidating.
He laughed, "I missed you too. Still your mothers daughter I see", he said, ending on a more sombre note.
Her features tensed and her eyes misted over. Noticing this he carried swiftly on, not wishing to cause more heartache for this young woman, whom he had grown to admire as much as he had her mother.
"Are you going to the reunion this evening?"
"Yes, I promised", her voice was quiet, sad.
He drew back, holding her at arms length he surveyed her. She hadn't changed, maybe she had grown a little older, but she was still the same duty bound cadet he had left six months ago. She was still prim and proper, with an impenetrable exterior. Her eyes still hid a long since buried pain, and her pale face a still showed the scar. She hadn't always been this way, he could remember the times he had spent with her laughing till they almost cried, but then there had been another person. Someone who neither of them would ever forget, someone who had led a community home and fallen in her finest hour. There was one thing that hadn't changed, and no matter what she went through he knew she would retain her commanding presence.
She cleared her throat, "You're staring."
"Sorry, it's been a long time", he excused himself.
She raised an eyebrow, "I should be getting back, gran will be wondering where I am."
He nodded, "I'll see you at the reunion."
He hoped she would come; she had seemed a little cold with him today. He watched her walk away through the rows of graves; he knew how hard this day was for her. It was hard for the rest of them too, but more so for her more than anyone. A day of celebration but also a day of great sadness.
He looked up at the towering buildings of Starfleet headquarters, so formal, so miserable. The lives that had been lost for that organisation, an organisation that he was now a part of more than ever. Captain, he mused, she had been a captain, if she had lived maybe she would have got admiral by now. He sighed, all the ifs and buts, life would certainly be very different for a lot of people if she had lived.
-FIN-
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