October 2405
"She's turned ludicrous Icheb." Hansen sat across from his mentor. "I really think she's gone insane, and yes she's the golden lieutenant, but the big brother in me wants her protected and to kill her at the same time."
"You know we thought that with your Mom at one point." The Brunali professor sipped his coffee. "What is she attempting to do this time that's setting you into irate mode?"
"She has this sick motivating force." The young professor sighed. "She's determined that she'll be the one to bring Janeway in."
"I really think that Seven's personality transferred into your sister half the time. I mean despite the dark hair and sarcasm she is your mother's daughter." Icheb sighed. "None of us really know what the Admiral's intentions were. Kori's clearance is pretty high isn't it?"
"She's Admiral Shelby's adjucate." Hansen paused. "The Admiral is her idol. Kori is the being she tried for years to study. For that reason alone I know she tells Kori everything. The two of them know things that they probably shouldn't."
"Give her the benefit of the doubt." Icheb smiled at his protégé. "Plus Janeway had issues with Kori from day one. It all has to do with her looking just like your mother. She never actually came to terms with your parent's marriage."
"Why do you think that is?" Hansen paused. "Then again maybe I shouldn't ask. It wasn't liked we always knew who she actually was."
"Like I said to Zuxia years ago, the information was classified for you." He sighed. "I thought it was wrong, but you know how the Captain was. I can see why Kori is acting the way she is. Frankly, if it was me I'd be acting the same way. There's an inherent hostitlity in her towards Janeway."
January 2406
Lieutenant Kori Hansen had cut a deal with her commanding officer, all she wanted was 4 Terran days—96 hours. If they did not bring their prey home by then, she would pull totally off the task force. Her 4 day deadline was self imposed for a reason, she was due back in Los Angeles in 8 days. Hansen's priorities were straight, law school came before the glory—she needed stability not glory.
"You were right Lieutenant." The ensign looked at awe as the disgraced Admiral approach the coffee shop.
"Trust me. I know her habits." Hansen crept cautiously towards the coffee shop and their target. "Miss Janeway. We need you to come with us."
"How did you finally manage to track me down?" Janeway barely acknowledged her. "I've been doing everything possible for the last year and a half."
The Ensign looked at his team command. "Should I cuff her Lieutenant, or would you rather do it yourself?"
"Go ahead." Hansen raised an eyebrow at the Admiral. "You just don't get it Kathryn, you never have. We were living with the way things happened. Most of us were happily adjusted."
"Kori? Why?" Janeway looked at her former XO's daughter. "I was doing it for my crew. You would have been able to know your mother."
"I find that tough to believe Ma'am. Who knows when you would have gone back to?" Hansen kept her cool. "Who knows how you could have changed history? The temporal prime directive exists for a reason."
"You don't understand Kori, you just don't understand it." Janeway allowed the Ensign to place her in handcuffs. "I couldn't keep on living this life."
"Just because you had regrets doesn't give you the right to go back and change history Ma'am." The nervous ensign looked at the legend in shock as the young lieutenant chewed into her. "I mean what you were thinking? That you could get my father not to fall in love with her, you never were nor you could be half the woman my mother was. I saw how you looked at him when I was a kid. I was the obstacle, Ben was the easy going kid who did what anybody asked. I was not."
August 2406
"Why?" Hansen slid into the seat outside the cell, her clearance had allowed her a chance to confront one of her best friends. "Why'd you allow her to suck you in?"
"I had a fantasy of what it would be like to grow up like a normal kid." Miral Paris sat up on her bunk. "Didn't you always wonder what it would be like to grow up with your mother alive?"
"Of course." Hansen replied with almost no emotion. "But I know the prime directive exists for a reason. Your parents are devastated by this whole thing."
"They have Amy still. She can be molded into their perfect child." Paris sighed. "You did what you had to do Kori. I did what I had to do. Of course in the long run you made out much better."
"I did not ask for the promotion." Hansen unconsciously touched her third pip. "It's the last thing I wanted going into my final year of law school."
"Sure, you hate being addressed as Commander 4 years out of the academy." Paris put on a sarcastic tone. "You make everyone around you seem like fully lazy underachievers."
"If that's how you feel, I understand." The Lieutenant Commander paused. "Just remember that she's not a god. You shouldn't throw away your life for her Mir. Cover your own ass while you're at it."
"You're such a lawyer." Paris rolled her eyes she was getting tired of life in the brig. IT wasn't what she deserved she had been simply following the request of her idol. "How's Amy holding up?"
"It's been tough. To her you're still the big sister she idolizes." Hansen sighed. "You remember what it was like to be 12 and thrown for a loop, that's what she's going through."
"She'll be okay though?" Paris was worried about her baby sister. "With Mom being sick I'm worried about her."
"They'll be fine, Chris has moved back home. Zu has taken Amy under her wing she needs the distraction." Hansen knew her close friend had yet to even begin to comprehend the situation. "Jenny's still in bad shape. Aunt Riah doesn't think she'll make it more than a few weeks."
March 2407
Hansen slipped into the court room quietly as to not to disturb the proceedings. The Lieutenant Commander crossed one leg over the other and nodded her head as she began to listen with interest. She found Zuxia at the next recess. "What did I miss?"
"They're debating Miral's future right now." The Denoublan sighed. "I would bet money that the good Admiral is going to New Zealand. You know you're all the press is talking about. The chick that turned in the mother hen."
"I did what I had to do. You would have done the same if you were on that team. Unfortunately the fact that the woman hated me since I was an infant just drove me more." Hansen smirked. "I stopped her from changing history. Who knows how many lives I saved? Yours and mine amongst them."
"Hey kiddo." Dalby approached his daughter and Hansen. "Got stuck at the library?"
"I escaped as soon as I could, but it's the price I'm paying for wanting to pass the bar." She smiled. "What's the consensus on Miral? Your daughter the yenta only gave me grief about my impending crucifixition."
"She'll probably get a discharge." Dalby sighed. "She could have said no but she was following the orders of a much Senior officer, whom she still worshiped."
"You don't know Dad." Zuxia interjected. "Look at what happened when we got back in the first place. You and Mariah should have had lengthy prison sentences and you didn't."
"There was vindication long before we made it back. Plus my choices were made on principal, not some random act." Dalby paused. "We'll all just have to wait and see what the final verdict is."
