*The basis of my story comes from the episode 'Silent Enemy', (at least, i think it was 'Silent Enemy'!) where Trip mentions his girlfriend Natalie breaking up with him. This is my twist on why she broke up with him.*
~*The italics are flashbacks*~
A mother's wish
25 years ago...
Natalie Beille held her newborn daughter in her arms. The little girl was asleep, her small curls of dirty blonde hair resting on the top of her head. Natalie smiled down at her, just watching the little girl sleep.
"What are you gonna name her?" asked Natalie's best friend, Sanya.
Natalie kept looking down at her daughter. "Taryn. I always liked the name Taryn. And so did Trip."
Sanya sighed. "Are you going to tell him?"
Natalie looked up at her friend. Sanya just didn't understand. "No. And you know why?"
Sanya shook her head.
"Because I don't want to ruin his career. He worked too hard, too long to get where he is. He deserves to be up there. I'm proud of him, and I don't want to crash his dreams. Because, knowing Trip, he would come back here, to Earth, and stay here with me. He'd let all his talents and dreams go to waste just to be with me. I'm not going to let that happen."
"Nat," said Sanya, "I respect that you're trying to help him, but shouldn't he know? Why don't you let him make the descision? And what about Taryn? Shouldn't she have the right to know her father?"
"No. I've made my choice. Someday she'll understand. She'll understand that I made the best choice, for all of us."
~*~
25 years later...
"So you see?" said Taryn, "She made the descision to not tell my father. That descision, based only on what she thought was right, was maybe the deciding factor in my father's death."
Aeryn looked at her friend, carefully considering her next words before speaking. "Taryn, the descision that your mother made 25 years ago, it's over. There's nothing you can do about it now. You just have to live with it." she said gently.
At Aeryn's words, a small smile graced Taryn's lips. "That's where you're wrong. Today, at 10:30am, a temporal annomaly will open near one of Jupiter's moons, Io. It will be open for 4.7 minutes, then close and disappear. I'm going to take a shuttle and go back in time to save my father."
Aeryn studied her friend, trying to decide if Taryn was crazy or not. "Ok, let's say your idea works and you do go through time. How do you know what point in time you'll end up at?"
Taryn smiled. She was clearly excited now, discussing her plan in full detail now. "The annomaly analyzes the lifeforms that pass through. It seems almost sentient somehow. Anyways, when the lifeforms pass through, it searchs their thoughts and pinpoints a time that they wish to go to. If I were to think of, for example, World War Three, that's where it would take me."
"How did you get all this information?" asked Aeryn, impressed that her friend had thought this far ahead.
"Starfleet had already documemted this phemonemon before. Guess who found it first?" said Taryn.
Aeryn sighed. "The Enterprise."
Taryn smiled. "Exactly. Now if you'll excuse me, it's 08:56, and I need to get to the shuttlebay."
*That's it for now, more later, R&R please!*