In front of her stood… she. It was impossible, but the person she was looking at looked just like herself.
"Surprising?" the girl said with a grim smile.
"You can mirror a person?" Kate wondered. The other one laughed.
"No, I am you!"
When Kate realised how serious the girl was she took a few steps back.
"No…"
"I believe that I've always said that there is good and bad in everyone", the other Kate said, raising her gun. "You've showed the good side for far too long."
A second beam flew towards her and she leaped aside once again.
"You're not me", she said as she rose. "I would never attack my friends."
"Why wouldn't you?" the copy wondered and smiled as Wesley came closer.
"Mirrors?" he whispered.
"Is that a creature?" Kate mumbled back. Wesley silently nodded.
"Why wouldn't you kill them?" the copy continued.
"Leave", Kate said and stepped forward once again. "This attack is over."
The copy looked surprised, before she disappeared into thin air.
"Where are the others?" Picard asked as he rose from the floor. Kate looked around. Except for them, the Bridge was empty.
"Why do I feel that Q was lying about that he had nothing to do with this?" Picard muttered.
"Well, I just had to see what you thought about it", Q said as he reappeared on the Bridge. Kate looked irritated as she put her hands on her hips.
"I'll send you to the real Enterprise immediately", he said. It seemed like he was about to start laughing. A moment later they where on the Bridge on the real Enterprise. Their sudden arrival made several of the crew-members call out in surprise.
"Wesley?" Riker said in surprise, before looking at Picard and Kate. "What's going on?"
"Q played a little game with us", Picard muttered as he walked down to place himself in his chair.
"I'm not too sure that it was just a game", Kate said slowly. Now, afterwards, she realised that what had happened might be a clue.
"What if Q showed us what would happen?" she said solemnly. "What if…"
She hesitated, the others realised that she was scared.
"What if I'm the one who'll kill everyone?"
Riker wrinkled his forehead.
"What are you talking about?" he wondered.
"While Q played his little 'game', there was a person who looked just like me on this Bridge", Kate answered. "When I said that I would never attack any of my friends, she asked 'why wouldn't you'."
Picard saw how shaken Kate was by the experience, but also he realised what she was talking about. What if it was true?
"It will not happen", Weasley said calmly. "You're not that kind of person, I can sense it."
She smiled at him, but the fear was still in her eyes.
"Unless you have a weapon, you won't be able to kill us alone", Picard calmed her. "With Worf as our Security Chief, I would be surprised if you got one."
The crew shared a laugh, which made Kate smile a bit. Worf, the Klingon that had been presence at the meeting earlier, was certainly not someone who gave a weapon to just anyone.
"Any progress in getting us out of here, Data?" Picard asked and looked at the android. Kate didn't stay to hear the answer; she was already heading back to her quarters. She needed to think.
The calm music that she had ordered from the computer made it easier to organize her thoughts as she sat in her chair, looking out into the red and yellow. There where clues in this, clues that she had missed by accident. On a paper she had written down what she thought would happen; the attack and her hurting or killing her friends. She had to prevent both things from happening, but how? They where trapped by some race that no one recognized, a race that would destroy all of this. Angrily she threw the pen aside and ran her fingers through her thick, brown hair.
"Trouble?"
She immediately got to her feet. Wesley stood leaning towards the wall, smiling at her.
"How did you get in?" she asked, confused.
"I can move around as I wish", he answered as he approached her. "But now when I'm here, it's impossible to move outside the bubble."
"You mean here in this room or here on the Enterprise?" Kate asked with a smile. Wesley laughed as he sat down in front of her.
"I'm sure that Q actually tried to show us something", Kate said as she sat down again. Wesley looked at her paper.
"You still believe that you'll kill someone?" he asked and looked at her.
"I don't know anymore", she answered and sighed, as she leaned backwards. "It's all really confusing."
"My experience with Q tells me that's what he wants", Wesley said. "He likes to see us struggling with finding the right answers, answers that he thinks where clear from the beginning."
"Sounds really funny", Kate muttered. They shared a laugh and it felt like they'd known each other for far longer than about an hour.
"How is it to live in the 21st century?" Wesley suddenly asked. Kate wrinkled her forehead.
"Well, at least in some countries we've begun to think about the environment. Others just continue to poison the world. I have no idea if they've begun to build ships like this yet."
"I believe they had begun to build them", Wesley said. "But it was a great secret; most people had no idea about it."
"Must have been hard to hide this kind of ship", Kate said and shook her head.
"They probably had a ship that could hold about 100 instead of more than a 1000", Wesley said with a smile. Kate nodded and smiled back.
"Otherwise they would have to invent something that made it invisible as well."
They shared another laugh, before just sitting there, looking out the window and enjoying each other's company.
"Why are the school and this ship trapped together?" Kate suddenly said. Wesley raised an eyebrow in wonder.
"What's the connection between them?" Kate continued, looking at Wesley.
"You, perhaps?"
"No, it's too simple", Kate said. She stood up and picked up her pen from the floor, before sitting down, turning the paper over and began to write.
"There must be some kind of connection", she muttered. Wesley leaned forward to see what she wrote.
"What if some of those that are on my school are the ancestors of this crew?" she said and looked up at him. They where only inches away and Wesley pulled back, blushing.
"Well, it is… possible", he said as he managed to control himself.
"It is possible that people change names as they marry, but what if there is some clue…"
She twirled the pen between her fingers.
"My mum's name was Howard before she got married", Wesley said.
"Well, Howard is an ordinary name, but it's the only one we have", Kate said and wrote it down. "The headmaster's last name is Howard. There might be a connection."
"We also have Riker, LaForge, Picard…"
"No, none of them", Kate said and leaned back again. "Maybe I was just crazy about finding another connection than me."
"Well, we have one possibility", Wesley said. "We'll probably find some information that proves it."
"Hopefully", Kate said and nodded. "Then I won't have to…"
She hesitated and rose.
"Of course!"
Before Wesley could say anything, she rushed out of the door.
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