Title: Rising

Author: BrattyPrincess-Nirrti

Disclaimer: Voyager belongs to Paramount, along with all the other original characters, but Samantha's character is mine.

Authors note: This first chapter is set on Voyager in the alpha quadrant going through to the delta quadrant.

Spoilers for Caretaker, wait a second. If you don't want to know what happens in Caretaker, then reading Voyager fan-fic is a bit pointless.........

This can be an AU or in the series, it depends on how gullible you are.

Samantha looked out of the shuttle window at earth with usually dry eyes; the image didn't seem to have the same effect on her as it did when she was younger. She sighed and sat back in the chair next to the pilot and brought her knees to her chin and started swinging on the chair. The Vulcan pilot raised an eyebrow, and they jumped to warp.

"Are you working on Voyager?" Sam asked the Vulcan still swinging round.

"If you mean am I posted on Voyager, then yes I am."

"Why?" she asked with a little confusion in her voice.

"Because Captain Janeway has accepted my-"

"I mean why would you want to work there? In Starfleet actually."

"You don't plan on entering the academy?"

"Hell no," she said.

"Ah," he replied.

"What?" She asked. He just carried on pushing buttons and working on consoles.

She sighed and looked into her bag and got out a PADD and started working on her homework. In a couple of hours they were there.

"That's Voyager: Intrepid class, sustainable cruise velocity of warp factor 9.975, 15 decks, crew complement of 141, bio-neural circuitry-"

"Slow down, my mind went blank back at Intrepid." He just flew them into the shuttle bay and she got up. "Thanks ensign-"

"Vorik," he said. She nodded to him and picked up her bags and left the shuttle onto her aunts ship. She looked at the PADD Vorik had given her, she quickly passed the letter from her aunt meaning to read it later and got to her temporary quarters, she was on deck 4 next to the captain. She set off, smiling at the workmen shaking her head once they stopped looking at her. She heard voices ahead, it was her aunt.

"Were coming up to the first shuttle bay admirals," she was saying. They rounded the corner and Janeway caught sight of a girl she quickly recognized standing still staring at her emotionless. "Samantha," she said. Sam tightly smiled at her. The admirals carried on walking. "We'll talk later, okay?" she said running to catch up with them. Sam just blew out quickly in annoyance, started walking in the opposite direction and entered the empty turbo lift.

"Deck 4," she muttered. The turbo lift came to life and started. It stopped after a few moments and she got out and started walking. She checked the map and found her way to her quarters and went inside with a sigh. She sat into the bed and looked round. The room was a good size with a bed, desk and couch. There was a large window with a great view of DS9. There was also a table and 2 chairs near the replicator. She leaned backwards onto the bed and fell asleep. The next thing she knew was the door was chiming. "Yes," she groaned.

Janeway entered her nieces quarters and looked round, her gaze rested on Sam sitting on the bed. Her hair looked like she had just woken up, but she wasn't going to comment on that.

"Hi," she said almost cautiously.

"Hi," Sam said back. "Our first conversation in 3 years, this could be interesting." She rolled over onto her stomach. "So, how have you been?" she asked a hint of sarcasm in her voice.

"Can you stop acting like that?" Janeway asked.

"Acting like what? She asked innocently.

"Like nothings wrong with you."

"What if there isn't. I'm doing great. I just love my school and all my new friends and this holiday."

Janeway just shook her head and blew out slowly, she wasn't going to lose it again like she had last time. "It was for the best, I-"

"Why me? Why not my sister, she's the one who's actually good at science and math. Even James would have been a better choice then me. Why did you convince my mom to send me to that school." She said getting up and walking round the room. "I mean, its not as if I'm actually learning anything. I'm failing almost everything."

"I know," Janeway said. "I can understand what your feeling but I also know that your failing on purpose and you need to-"

"Don't tell me what to do," Sam yelled at her. "I passed the entrance exam that well because my mom wanted me to get in and I didn't want to disappoint her."

Janeway looked as if she was going to say something then closed her mouth. "I'm glad you did that for her," she said then left. Sam picked up a PADD and threw it against the window angrily. The force field was strong, but it bounced off unharmed. She bent down and picked up the PADD, feeling like the anger had gone out of her. She went over to the table and picked up the comm badge and put it on.

Janeway left the room and walked the few meters to quarters, then changed her mind and walked to the turbo lift and got inside.

Sam looked at the PADD and read the letter her aunt had given her, she read it quickly and winced at what her aunt had said in it, the ship started to move and they were out of space dock.

She out down the PADD and laughed quietly to herself, every one at the Starfleet institute had been dying to be her, getting to go on starfleets newest ship, even some of the teachers had been envious.

The only other person who hadn't been was her friend, her only friend she had to admit. She was also spending her Easter holiday on a ship, her father was a captain and she hated Starfleet also. Sam began to think about people in her class, most of them only wanted to be her friend because she had so many relatives high up in Starfleet. Her aunt, her grandmother still did some work in San Francisco, her fathers many cousins were all in Starfleet, and her father himself. She had noticed that people had started to avoid eye contact when her father joined the marquis.

She shook her head remembering what her friend had said, "The only good thing about Starfleet is there computers; they have the largest selection of movies ever." Her friend was crazy about the old 2-D movies and watched them at every chance she got. She went to her small personal computer, moved it to in front of the couch and activated it. She managed to search through the movies and picked one she hadn't seen. She watched it, before suddenly everything in the room went orange.

She looked out of the window and gasped at the orange –sea was the only word she could describe it. She sat back down and closed her eyes, she hoped that the captain wasn't trying to kill them. Well she did tell her sister that this mission was dangerous but she would take care of Sam. Suddenly they moved and Sam was thrown against the couch again.

Suddenly a bright light came and she closed her eyes and fell onto the floor narrowly missing her head on the table.