Star Trek – Into Darkness

The Side Effect

Chapter Seven

Equilibrium Divergence – Part 1

The Iowa land gave way some feet ahead it was also where his rebellious streak had landed him in even more trouble. Wrecking the chevy corvette an incident that had passed in his earlier adolescence as he now turned away looking to his new set of wheels.

His handsome features for a moment turning serious to the bike and for now at least it helped part of his unruly cravings. With it offering an easy means of escape and the open road as his blue eyes extended beyond the bike.

To what formed a major part of the distinct skyline in this heartland of Iowa the Riverside Shipyard's which currently lay empty. With it being while since he had seen any of those Star Fleet ships being built here and indirectly when they were in use.

It somehow or other forged a connection to his father as his gaze for a moment slide to what else he could see from here the river, which meandered beyond the fertile farmland.

As his gaze swung back to those shipyard's feeling the cool night air for the first time. The sun having just set, the first stars beginning to prick the evening sky and what more importantly fully brought him to this setting and place.

The site magnetically all inspiring the shipyards adding to it, with the stars his blue eyes rested on leaving only awe and what furthermore lay beyond Iowa - the Americas and earth his home planet always intriguing him and fuelling his imagination.

His thoughts now coming to a sharp halt thinking again of the father he had never once known or met. With it being that huge loss - to something he had never really known or could fully comprehend being something he carried with him at all times. Though he equally tried not to think about it to often.

With what he felt at this moment – that same intrigue and yearning for something beyond this lonely outpost being something which could only have come from one place….

As his features now clouded with no one filling his fathers place. The chasm left causing further friction. With a mother who he indeed loved though failed to understand. With the countless father figures who had filled his childhood and adolescence only leaving distrust and resentment.

His blue eyes closing in pain the thoughts compounding to the feelings he could in no way control and what little he did know about his father only added to the enigma and pain.

As his blue eyes went heaven wards to the stars and the fact today was his birthday a significant one at that. With his mother giving him something unexpected. With the information gained from her on his father being slight at best and that they had both named him.

His features managing a smile and the one thing she had told him often enough. As he dug into the top pocket of the jacket revealing the old style Star Fleet pin the gift from his mother on this day of days.

As he took in its far deeper significance that it had been the last thing his father had given to her before the attack on the Kelvin and it had been a token of love for there unborn child and a good luck charm.

His blue eyes snapping open at that thought gripping the pin tighter feeling blood trickling from his palm, as he now realised the grip, the pin falling with the action as his features turned stubborn.

The trickle of blood from his palm, following the same path as the old rustic pin to the rick soil beneath the blood loss minimal as his right hand came back to the Star Fleet Pin. Seeing it sparkle in the dying light as he lifted it knowing it gave another link to a father he barely had any real knowledge off.

With his rebellious nature causing his mother and brother greater concern and though his older brother had gave him some clues. The subject of their father was one discussed only when the need arose and the fact he partly blamed him for his death.

One he could not blame him over and a thought he could not shift either – that he was somehow responsible for his own father's death as he swallowed hard. Tucking the pin back, into the jacket pocket his gaze once more, going to the vast cosmos up above.

With landing himself in a whole heap of trouble being something, which seemed to come naturally. Even more so with women as his serious thoughts changed sphere the right of passage already having been made.

His blue eyes shifting of the stars above as he now made a move and though this date should be one of celebration. It was always one more enriched with a depthless pain that struck deep to his very heart and soul.

With what he had inherited from his father being something he seemed more often than not to fight against. That joining the Star Fleet was not one of his top priorities even though he was now just age enough that he could do.

As he started the bike his blue eyes falling back the other way and the light which flickered some way of in the far distance, his mother's house and his home with going back there.

Something he would rather not do at this moment his unruly hot headiness already having left its mark and the fact he was more than capable of looking after himself. With his head turning instead in the direction he was now heading.

To a place he was coming pretty familiar with and the individuals it seemed to draw Star Fleet members quite often among them and though younger than most to getting a pass into it.

He more than had the means - as he smiled mischievously his thought's gone from their earlier deep emotions to what his youth was yet to accomplish. As he now hit the open road, pushing the bike to its maximum.

The Iowa landscape blurring his thoughts merging to one to the father who had given his life, saving him, his mother and countless others with that fact alone telling him what kind of person his father had been.

As the earlier pain now returned finding a new alcove and it was something he could not fight. That it ruled his every emotion and heart…..

TO BE CONTINUED