Bones looked down at his new charge. She smiled impishly up at him and he resisted the urge to groan. What had he been thinking? Taking on a half augmented teenager was sure to end in trouble. "Alright then."

"D'you have any children?" She asked. Bones sighed. It was going to be a long day.

"I have a daughter. She lives with her mother. I live alone. Or I did." He frowned. "I probably ought to show you where you're going to have to stay for the next however many months."

"About ten months until I'm 18, I think. That would be 18 years not in cryo." She clarified.

"I guess we'll have to work out when you do actually turn 18, for legal stuff." He frowned again.

"This is my place." Bones turned on the lights and Sophia looked around the room. It was a small hallway. She could see several rooms through the open doors. There was a living room, a kitchen and a bedroom. "You'll be staying in here." He pushed open one of the doors. It didn't take long to show her around the flat. He glanced at his watch. "It's getting late. Do you want to go out or I can make something here?" Bones knew he couldn't actually cook to save his life but he felt he ought to give her a choice.

"You don't cook often." She said, looking at one of the padds.

"How do you know that? Has Jim been talking about me?"

She grinned at him. "There's dust on all your pans."

"Alright, I can't cook."
"I can. Do you like drop scones?" She put the padd down and started towards the kitchen.

"Why would you drop a scone?" Sophia rolled her eyes and started pulling out ingredients.

Sophia spent the next few months learning. As far as Bones could tell, she did very little other than read and swim. Most days she would go to the nearby swimming pool for a couple of hours. Sophia felt bad about going behind Bones' back but she knew he wouldn't agree to what she was planning. As well as learning everything she could about the century she had woken in, she was learning about star ship operations and which planets were m-class and not in Federation space, but not too far away either. At some point she knew she'd have to hack the Starfleet database to find out where Khan and his crew were being kept but she was putting it off. She was also looking for a ship which would be big enough for 74 people and had large cargo bays. Bones was completely oblivious to what she was up to.

As Sophia got closer to turning 18, Bones was being given more assignments further from San Francisco. It was useful for her because she was starting to collect a lot of things they would need to form a colony. She knew that she'd need money before long and somewhere to store all the things she would need to buy. A couple of times she had looked at the security around the Starfleet databases. It was thorough. But given time she was confident that she would be able to find Khan and his crew. After a couple of months she realised the enormity of the task she was trying to undertake.

She decided the first problem to counter was money. She would need money to buy a ship and all the equipment. When she had decided what she was going to try to solve it was easy to solve it. For a couple of weeks when Bones was away she dressed in heels, put she hair up and some make-up on and went gambling. She cheated in every way she could. Counting cards and using maths to work out the possibilities of something happening meant she could win far more often than was strictly fair. She never stayed in one place too long, or won so often it was obvious she was cheating. Over the weeks she gained several types of currency, not knowing where they might end up. Sophia had found several possible planets to colonise but she wanted to look at what the Starfleet database said about each one first.

Over the days which followed started to store everything in a large warehouse which no-one else had any interest in. The biggest problem was finding a ship. Very few people would sell a large warp-capable ship to a teenager. Sophia had started to look at ships which were about to be sold to scrap yards. She guessed that she would be able to fix one up well enough to use it to get them out of Federation space. There were several she reckoned would be alright. One of them wasn't far from San Francisco.

Sophia looked at herself in the mirror critically. She was going to see the best ship she'd been able to find. It wasn't perfect but it was big, not too damaged and old enough no-one else wanted it. She had forged an I.D. and had most of her money. Her hair was pulled back into a high bunch and she was wearing just enough make-up to look a few years older. She wore trousers and a t-shirt with long brown boots which were comfortable and easy to run in, just in case.

Sophia dumped her coat on her bed and sighed heavily. The ship was old and in need of repair but she knew she'd be able to sort it with time. She had bought it and some spare parts. The man had sold it to her incredibly cheaply for what it was but she supposed that he didn't believe she would be able to get it running again so it wasn't worth much. It was hidden in the warehouse with all the other things she had gathered. Although it wasn't much to look at she was quite pleased with the ship. She started working on it that day.

Weeks rushed by until the ship was finally ready to go. She had been staying with Bones for six months. When she wasn't working on it, she was getting supplies. She had made a list of everything she could think of which they might need and it kept growing. Bones had noticed that she seemed very busy but she claimed that she was doing a project, and in a way she was. She had found that the money she'd accumulated was running out and had had to go out several times to get more. It was getting to the point that she couldn't just ignore the problem of not knowing where the cryo-tubes were. The ship was working very well, she had almost everything on the list but she needed the cryo-tubes.

Sorry for the delay. We had family over and were busy so I didn't have much time to write. I've also got homework to do and lots of books to read :). Please review, make comments, suggest chapter names, suggest what could happen next etc.