Harry Kim was walking down the hall accompanying the new comer to Voyager, he found himself unsure of what to say to her but had been assigned to keep her company until they could find a way to send her back home. He had always been very nervous around girls, especially when they were beautiful and he had the horrible luck of always getting involved with women who were unobtainable for one reason or another. Kara was certainty beautiful, but for all he knew she could be his future daughter! Or surely, at the least she was definitely one of his friends or colleague's children. He would try to be her friend though, however unsure he was about how to go about it.
"So, Kara? That's a pretty name. Did your mother or father pick it out?" he asked hoping to catch a hint of who they might be, everyone was excited about learning about the future after all. Everyone on the ship was casting bets on who's child she would be! Naturally Tom Paris had found a way to capitalize from the hoopla, but as always it was all in good fun.
The girl looked at him knowingly, "I'm not going to be giving you any hints." she gave him a smile that reminded him of someone but he just couldn't place who it was at the moment. He felt as if she knew him, and obviously she knew he was trying to get hints about her family.
"Okay, you caught me, it's just that you look so familiar but I can't place you. Everyone is curious." he said still trying to figure it out. Kara smiled and nodded. "I bet Mr. Paris is casting bets at this very moment on the subject." she said knowingly. Harry was caught off guard and chuckled, "You must know us all pretty well" he replied.
"So I hear you are a musician?" he asked trying to make conversation and find out more about her at the same time. Kara smiled, "I'm a singer, I can also play several instruments" He nodded, "Impressive, I play the clarinet.. but then you probably already knew that." he realized as he was in mid sentence there probably wasn't much he could tell her about any of them that she didn't already know.
Just then Harry's comm badge went off, "Ensign Kim, please report to the briefing room, and bring Kara with you", "Yes ma'am" replied Harry. He and Kara made their way to the briefing room hoping to hear good news. When they got there most of the senior staff had already been assembled.
The Captain looked at her and smiled, "Kara, we're doing everything we can to get you back to your time, but we need to figure out what caused this anomaly. Is there anything you can tell us about what happened when you were transported here?"
Kara looked uneasy and glanced unconsciously at Seven, who gave her an encouraging look, "In order to return you to your time, we require more data" she said earnestly looking into the girls eyes. For some reason Seven felt a connection to this girl, not just because of their similar traits that she had noticed but there was something about her.. Seven could quite figure out what it could be. Everyone looked at Seven a bit surprised, she wasn't usually so open with others but lately she'd really grown out of her unsureness and was beginning to act more and more human every day.
Kara nodded at Seven, almost obediently. "I was.. in the middle of a performance, like I told the Captain earlier, it was practice for my parents 23rd wedding anniversary. I was there with Mir... my friends, we were on Earth.." she said reluctantly hoping not to have damaged the time line.
Everyone looked at each other excitedly, but none rivaled Harry's enthusiasm. "So we do get home!" he exclaimed with pure excitement and joy written all over his face. Everyone gave a small laugh at Harry's predictable excitement over getting home even though they didn't know how or when it would actually happen. Kara looked around uncomfortably.
"Kara, was there anything strange that you saw, anything out of the ordinary?" The Captain pressed trying to figure out what had happened.
Kara sighed, "No that's just it, I can't remember anything strange at all, I was singing, and then there was a flash of light and I was here, I can't explain it." she looked defeated as if she should have known the answers herself.
B'Elanna had caught that she'd almost said Miral, it made her wonder whose daughter she was even more since her child would grow up with and be close friends with her even on Earth after they got home. Tom and B'Elanna shared a look and nothing more was said about it at the time, though B'Elanna put her hand on her stomach and began to realize that Miral was definitely the name she wanted for their daughter.
Everyone was focused once again on Kara as she took a deep breath and prepared herself to speak once more to the expectant onlookers. "Yes, we get home, I'm sorry I can't be of more assistance to you in finding out what happened, but I'm more than willing to help in any way that I can." she told them honestly. The way that she spoke, the words she used were almost reminiscent of something Seven would have said and the Captain noticed it, but then dismissed it as she knew the girl couldn't tell them and it would only make her wonder more.
"Can you help Lieutenant Paris reconstruct your whereabouts on the holodeck so that we can get a better idea about what might have caused this?"the Captain asked hopefully. Kara looked to Tom and back to the Captain and nodded. "Yes Captain" she said seriously. With that everyone was dismissed and went their separate ways to discuss the news that sometime in the next 20 years or so they do get home! The ship was buzzing with more gossip than usual with all sorts of rumors and excitement.
Tom approached her as they were to work together. "Hi, I'm Tom as you probably know" he laughed gently. "So we're assigned to holodeck two, where on Earth do you live?" he joked characteristically. She shook her head and rolled her eyes, "some things never change" she gave a soft laugh. Tom looked at her in mock offense, "And what's THAT supposed to mean?" he asked indignantly.