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Chapter 7 – Temporal Rift"Reg, where is she?" Chakotay asked, anger evident in both his voice and his features.
Chakotay had awoken this morning to find Cassie gone, and although her belongings remained something felt wrong, he just knew she was going to do something stupid. Chakotay knew that whatever it was she would have told Reg - the two of them had become quite close in the years since Voyagers return.
Chakotay cornered Reg in his office; he looked somewhat worried and nervous.
"Who?" he asked, feigning innocence. Chakotay could tell from the way Reg was twitching and fidgeting with the pad in his hand that he knew where Cassie was.
"You know who!" he exclaimed, exasperated.
"I don't know… where she is," he stuttered, reddening slightly.
"I think you do, you only stutter when you're nervous," Chakotay stated simply.
"She, she…took a shuttle," he said, looking at the floor, obviously ashamed that he aided her in running away.
"What, where did she take it?" Chakotay asked, his patience decreasing, fear and concern evident in his mannerisms.
"The……….delta quadrant," he cringed.
"She's not…." Chakotay didn't need an answer; he knew what she was up to.
Chakotay bolted out the door and down the corridor making for the shuttle bay; Reg made to go after him but stopped. He knew Starfleet wouldn't be happy about what he was doing, or rather had done. Yet he also hoped Cassie had already gone, he believed changing the timeline would correct a lot of things, not only for Cassie but for the rest of Voyagers crew as well.
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Cassie flew the shuttle gracefully out of the shuttle bay and into space. No one had questioned her, or tried to stop her yet. She was close to the point at which she had to attach the device to her warp drive, so close, nothing could happen now to stop her could it??
She dropped out of warp in order to attach the device that would hopefully take her back to just hours before they had flown through the wormhole. Then it would be up to her younger self. It amused her that she would be relying on her younger self to carry out her mission; she wondered how her younger self would react to what she would tell her, or to her. She tried to think how she would have reacted back then, but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't quite figure out how she would have reacted. So much had happened since she had been that girl, so much had changed; she wasn't the same person she had been then.
She clicked the device into place and returned to her seat at the helm of the class four shuttle. As soon as she sat down she initiated the warp drive complete with device and sped into the temporal fold in space that it created, never looking back on what had been her life.
Fin
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