"An impressive observation." Seven spoke up looking over some of the star maps they had gathered in their travels. "You seem to know a great deal about this star system."
"I grew up in a science lab, there wasn't much else to do other than learn." Emily used her restraint to swipe through the maps at an alarming speed and pick out something she found of interest. "You were a borg, you lived aboard a Borg cube didn't you. When you were Borg you were not an individual but now you are. I was grown in a lab, in a biocell and stepped out this age. When I woke up I was not an individual but the captain seems to think I am. I was one of many like you were."
"One of many?" Seven turned to NX117, she still called Emily by her original name or designation. Where the captain felt giving her a normal human name would help Emily better embrace her life on Voyager Seven felt it would only deny her the past. NX was not a human child as Janeway liked to think, she wasn't a Q either, she was a lab rat, an experiment. She was neither Amelia nor Janeway and Q's daughter. Seven knew NX for what she really was and to be honest she didn't much care.
"I am not the first copy of a species they believed could bring them a cure for the phage and I was not the last copy of Amelia. I simply was the only one immune to the phage virus." Emily paused pulling up the image of a nebula 6 light years from their current position. "Either others were made after me, it was the first time I realized I was not...real. My father never told me lies about my origin but looking into those biocells I saw myself by eight times. The only difference was as Q had mentioned even copied directly from DNA tissue taken from myself they ended up all human and were taken to organ processing."
"Then in your survival you are unique." Emily furrowed her brow, Seven was starting to sound like the captain.
"Until I met Amelia. I am no longer unique now."
"You are still unique, your powers are far more inferior than her own." That was meant to be a compliment. It proved in Seven's mind that NX wasn't even an exact copy of Amelia. In NX's mind she had only heard Seven call her an inferior copy which seemed to be the truth. "I have met Captain Amelia Janeway from a future timeline, you are not like her." That seemed to peak Emily's interest, she had chased her 'origin' in her dreams only to be let down. Perhaps now she could finally get the chance to understand Amelia.
"Amelia, she became a captain like Captain Janeway?"
"In that time line, yes, Amelia was her timelines Captain Janeway."
Emily found that interesting, she always imagined Amelia would be more like her, now she was being told that she was more like captain Janeway. At least this is what she understood. Maybe her original reluctance to be around Janeway was a poor choice. If Amelia would become like Janeway then what would make Captain Janeway proud of her would one day make Amelia proud of her. "What was she like? I mean Captain Amelia. Did she mention anything about me?"
Seven turned to look at NX realizing the girl was interested in more than star maps. "She was, distracted, concerned mostly for the crew of Voyager and Captain Janeway's safety. She made no mention of you, there is also a possibility that in her timeline she had never encountered you. The timeline has likely changed greatly since then." It was even possible for their Amelia to never become a starfleet captain, unlikely but possible. Seven used what she knew from discovering her own past and learning 'who' she was to aid NX or Emily in learning who she was. "It's seems you have interest in what the Captain calls, heritage."
"Heritage? What is heritage?" Emily was genuinely intrigued by this.
"It is the genial research of your genetic background."
Tilting her head to the side Emily took a moment to digest this information. "How do I go about researching my heritage?"
"I believe you should consult the captain first, after all you will require access to her files. As your parental guardian she should be more lenient towards you."
Emily furrowed her brow and looked away from Seven. "Is it unusual that I feel no attachment to Captain Janeway?"
"You developed an attachment to your Vidiian handler, it is not at all unusual."
Emily pulled her arms behind her back and looked back up. "I mean, I am more attached to Amelia."
As Amelia's godmother it was her 'duty' to guide and protect the captains offspring. "Amelia is only five months old." She caught that look of hurt in Emily's eyes. "But in these circumstances, I can see why. She was your progenitor, not only through DNA but because it was Amelia's choice to offer it up in exchange for her freedom. Amelia's choice was direct cause of your creation. As Janeway was the direct cause of her creation."
"I hope one day I can view Janeway the way I viewed my father." Emily shrugged her shoulders. "I should talk to the captain about looking into my heritage then."
Janeway had been kind enough to download information onto a PADD for her, so far she had learned many things about the captain and her 'heritage'. The fact that captain Janeway's father was a starfleet Admiral, that on Earth she hailed from mostly Irish bloodline, apparently a people located on a small island territory, and Hungarian, a European people. Her 'family' had been involved in space travel for generations and it seemed she had deep root in the federation. Though it explained her genetic history it still did not tell her who she was, though Captain Janeway seemed pleased she had dove into this study. Finishing her first collection of data on Janeways bloodline she finally glanced over the very short records of ensign Q. It seemed unlike Janeway he had no bloodline of his own, Amelia and herself being the first Q children to ever be created. At least Amelia anyways, Emily wasn't quite Q herself, merely human with Q capabilities and rather limited at that. "This is disturbing..." Emily walked across the captains living quarters and back towards Captain Janeway and Amelia.
"Well, I always knew my aunt wasn't conventional but disturbing wasn't a word I would have used."
"The information on the Q is, deplorable." Awfully big words for a little girl. "And there are several Starfleet officers, am I expected to join starfleet as well?"
"Not much is known about the Q and the Q Continuum, everything we know about them is on that PADD but if you would like more information I am certain Q would help you." She smiled a little when she asked if she would have to join starfleet, it seemed Emily wasn't as eager to join Starfleet as Naomi was. "It's not a requirement, my sister didn't join Starfleet. You can grow up to be whatever you like Emily."
Emily set down the PADD and decided to play at a joke herself. Her father had been notorious for jokes. "Good, I want to be a dancer, with my enhanced agility, reflexes, and your inherited interest in dance I could be a superior dancer." Emily smiled at the captain a moment, unable to hide a lie as well as her father could. Even a little lie. "Though I think work in the scientific field would be more to my liking. I want to be a doctor like my father, perhaps Voyagers doctor can give me lessons. When we get back to earth I can take up a position at a hospital."
Janeway laughed at her idea of what she might be doing once they reached Earth. In fact until that moment it didn't seem Emily cared much about the 'journey' home but she was starting to become more, human. "Well you certainly would be the youngest doctor on earth, maybe you can work with your father, Q." Emily hadn't been speaking of Q when she had mentioned wanting to be a doctor like her father but she had just realized that her biological father Q worked in sickbay.
"So it seems as Seven mentioned, you can not escape your genetic destiny. Amelia will be a starfleet captain like her mother, and I shall be a doctor like my father." Emily nodded her head and looked at Amelia with a little smile. "Perhaps one day even, I'll be the doctor on her ship. Are sisters allowed to serve on the same ship?"
Janeway's expression showed the answer already but having Emily consider Amelia her sister was certainly a step in the right direction. "Ordinarily no, and if you wanted to be a doctor on a starship you would have to join starfleet, but even then they would put you on different ships. Children are not allowed to serve under a captain who is their parents and siblings are not allowed to serve on a starship under their brother or sister, however you could serve on the same ship under another captain." Emily was hopeful for that answer. It might be fun to work with Amelia one day on a starship, she knew there was another set of identical twins who worked here on Voyager. Even if Emily was aged more rapidly than Amelia they were still genetically identical therefore an identical 'twin'.
"What about serving under you? If it takes a long time to get back to earth I might have to serve under you as my captain then, and you are my, my mother, I suppose." She did have a point with that, Janeway hadn't expected for Vogyager to be a generational ship but if they could not find a shortcut back then Naomi, Amelia, and Emily just might end up serving under her and in a worse case scenario one day even replacing her.
"If it takes us that long to get back to Earth, but then you can't expect special treatment on the crew either, neither you nor Amelia could."
"My father never would have given me special treatment either. He would have wanted me to work as hard as anyone else on his team. I expect nothing less from you Captain Janeway."
