Author's Note: I have not seen the new Star trek movie, but I have seen the Original Series many times so bare with me. I do have some knowledge of the movie though, and so I will use it. Same mumbo jumbo; I do not own Star Trek, or anything affiliated with Star Trek. Rated T, because I like to play it safe.
Prologue
"Angelica, get out here! Your father needs help with the groceries," mom yelled from downstairs.
"I'm coming!" I yelled back, and with a huff I closed my laptop. I might as well help because I wasn't getting anything accomplished. Another idea that I had for a story that failed, just great. If I wasn't so easily distracted I would be able to follow through with my ideas, and it would help if I didn't over think things too. I say to myself, "no the character would not do that, no that would never actually happen, or no that is not true to the idea of the story". Logic gets in the way as usual.
"About time you got out here my arms were about to fall off," my dad said with a smile.
"Yeah, well I am not going to be a doctor for a while. So, if your arms fall off I can't reattach them," I joked back. Holly, what is in these bags, they way a ton. Maybe his arms could have fallen off carrying these.
"Watch out Angelica, you have the eggs and bread" dad said, and I dismissed him with a roll of my eyes. Honestly they are more protective of the eggs and bread than anything else.
"I won't smash them, don't worry" I said in sarcasm, setting them down on the stove.
"So, how was school," dad asked.
"Fine." I answered. I was yelled at by someone but I'm fine. The immature people at my school were getting on my nerves. Then one girl who sits at the same table that I do at lunch has the nerve to say that no one likes me and that I should leave. I did leave, just so I would show that she didn't get to me. The less I acknowledge that she hit a nerve; the better it is for me. Even though she did hurt me, because no matter how many people are friendly with me in the back of my mind I know that I will always be on the edge; an outsider.
"Angelica," mom said loudly, she sounds annoyed.
"Sorry... what?" I said.
"I've been trying to get your attention for the past minute. I swear that half the time you don't even know what is going on around you" mom said in that lecturing tone of hers.
"I can't help it lately, I feel worn out. I feel like I need to get away, like we all should get away" I said. It was true, everyone in the house was tense and there was at least one argument a day.
"Dear, Robert, come here. I should show you-two something" mom said lighting up like it was her birthday or Christmas. We followed her into the basement, where she picked up a small box.
"A box, that is exciting, but I don't see how that helps with fact that we need to get away" I said.
"It's not the box, it is what is in the box that counts" mom said opening the box. She pulled out a pendant that was silver and triangle shaped. The pendant was outlined by raised filigree, and had an amethyst stone in the center.
"Well, not that the necklace isn't pretty, honey but is so special about it" dad asked. I guess he was as sceptical as I was. I mean a necklace is not really an impressive object; gorgeous and expensive but not impressive.
"My great grandmother left it to my mother, who in turn left it to me and now I'm giving it to you" mom said handing the pendant to me.
"But what does it do?" I asked, getting tired of the beating around the bush.
"It takes you were you are destined to be, as you were destined to be" mom said.
"Are you serious? There is no such thing as taking people where they are destined to be" I said looking at the pendant.
"Try it, think hard about wanting to be somewhere else, but do not use a specific location" mom said; dad was just standing in shock.
"Okay," I said starting to think of how I'd rather be anywhere but here.
"Wait, if the pendant breaks, we will never return home" mom said.
"How does it break? Just like a normal pendant" I asked.
"No, if the person who held the pendant was never meant to be here and truly in their heart they do not want to return then it will break" mom said casting a glance to dad.
"Well, I will want to come home because we don't even know where it will send us" I said. As I started to think of leaving I started to wonder, 'Do I really want to come back? There is nothing really keeping me here except my parents'.
There was a light that started to fill the whole room. We all stared at each other in shock, as we watched a doorway made of stone, but it almost looked like a beam of light; it was almost blinding.
"Go through the light!" mom said as she walked boldly into the light disappearing.
"Go towards the light..." my dad joked as he too walked into the beam of light.
I looked around the room one last time as I followed my parents into the light. I felt like I was being pulled apart in all different directions, then I walked towards the end of the light and passed through to a field out in the open. The buildings surrounding it looked strange, as if we had journeyed to the...future.
When I walked out I saw that we were in a very different place, but it did not look like too different of a time, but then I picked up a newspaper.
The Date was not 2009, but instead 2247?
"Well that changes things. I guess we are in the future now, but we will see how it goes we may like it here and never want to leave" mom said walking onto the main street.
"Yeah, just see how it goes everything will be fine. Let's all be calm" I said sarcastically, looking at the pendant still in my hand.
"At least the pendant is still intact, so we can still get back home" dad said in a hopeful tone.
"The question is how long we can stay here, before the pendant does break. It could be years, but I have a feeling that we may not want to leave" mom said.
I guess we will have to wait it out...
Eleven Years later
"Mom, I am a doctor now and I will go where I am most needed" I said packing my belongings into a bag.
"Space is dangerous, you said it yourself. I don't understand why you can't simply stay here on earth. You are being irrational, as if you need a fill of adventure like your still a child" mom said.
"But I am not a child am I? All these years of being here, and when I get the chance to do something that I want it is out of the question. You certainly had no qualms with me joining Star Fleet in the first place" I told her.
"She is right; it may be where she belongs. After all I hear that it has some of the most brilliant minds on board. Don't you think that she belongs right there with them?" dad said calmly resting a hand on her shoulder.
"Just promise me that you will remember the engineers, while you're up there in that fancy ship" mom said with tears in her eyes, I hugged her.
"Of course, how could I forget them, and the one that taught me so much; the best mother ever" I said releasing her.
"I don't see why you'll need to know things about engineering when you are a doctor but..." dad said earning a smack across the head.
"She needs any knowledge she can get mister" mom said.
"I guess I won't see you for awhile" I said tears welling up in my eyes.
"You be good okay. Come back to us, alright" mom said, a tear sliding down her cheek.
"We have to go too, dear. My boss is sending me to study the Vulcan language more thoroughly" dad said.
"You two are going to be on a planet with a race that does not do anything illogical? That should be interesting" I said raising an eye brow.
"Well your father will not be of much help if he cannot even greet them properly" mom said rolling her eyes.
"It's not my fault...my fingers don't go that way" dad said desperately trying to move his fingers into the proper Vulcan greeting, as mom and I mocked him by accomplishing it easily.
"Good-bye..." I said heading for my car that would take me to my new home on the Enterprise.