I've really enjoyed this story so decided to write a bit more today. Hope you guys like it.
"Anna" She muttered under her breath, the captain moved to the girl's side and watched as the doctor repaired the damage to her face. She did look familiar. Janeway turned the girls face to face her and she placed her hand on her shoulder. The realization hit Janeway who's eyes welled up with tears. "It is Anna" She replied to the doctor. "I haven't seen her since she was 11, when we left for this mission, 7 years ago" She smiled looking at the girl. "She's beautiful" she reached up and placed a hand on the girl's head.
"Yes she is, just like you" the Doctor responded looking at her smiling gently.
"What's she doing out here?" The captain voiced her question.
The doctor shook his head. "I don't know Captain but she needs to rest now, if you'd like to come back later I can wake her for you" he responded.
She nodded. "Yeah I have to finish on the bridge and, I guess tell the crew, or someone" she nodded moving away still in a state of shock. "Take care of her doctor" she replied before leaving the sickbay without a glance back.
"Your daughter?" Chakotay asked in the meeting room looking at his Captain who was staring at her senior staff.
"You never told us you had a daughter" Seven of Nine responded bluntly.
The captain looked over at the beautiful Blonde. She nodded, she guessed this would be a challenging topic for her to talk about.
"You're right Seven I didn't" She hesitated. "When we got stranded here in the Delta Quadrant, my focus was on the crew" she sat down gently in her chair. "The crew was my first responsibility, I knew Anna was safe at home, my job as Captain was to get this crew home" She sighed "I guess in all the years, it was less painful to remember the life I'd left behind."
Be'lanna looked up. "I understand what you mean Captain, I think we all miss our family back at home, but we choose not to think or talk about them because it hurts too much"
The room fell silent in acknowledgement of this fact. The Captain smiled "Well now that you've all been brought up to speed, dismissed."
The room filled out all apart from Seven of Nine.
The Captain sighed "Seven what is it?"
"I find it curious Captain"
"What?"
"Well" Seven's cortical implant above her eye raised. "There was no mention of a daughter in your file"
Janeway shot her a look. "You've been through my file?"
Seven looked at her and stood up. "Only the Starfleet file, never personal files" she responded.
Janeway placed a hand on her shoulder. "Fair enough Seven, and no she isn't mentioned there… it's a long story for another time okay"
Seven nodded and left.
'Why am I so nervous?' Janeway mused pacing outside sickbay. 'She's my daughter' she kept reminding herself. But she didn't know how to approach this, would she have to be Kathryn or Captain? How would her daughter perceive her? It had been 7 years. The girl had grown so much from the young 11 year old she's left behind on earth. How could she explain everything to her?
Taking a deep breath she walked into the room. Her eye's cast around the room and at first saw no one but the young man on a bio bed.
"Doctor?" she called looking around the room.
"Captain" he exclaimed walking out of his office. "Welcome back" he walked up to her. The look of confusion he saw in the captain made him move closer.
"She's fine Captain, she's in there" He said motioning to the room on the other side of his office. "She's a very bright young girl" He smiled.
Janeway nodded and moved towards the room, inside her daughter had her back to her, looking at the plants in the shelving unit. She had bright blonde hair tied up in a plait that ran down her back. Janeway could tell it was dyed, she used to have red hair like herself.
"Anna?" Janeway spoke, realizing her voice was now just a whisper.
The girl turned around, her deep chocolate brown eyes sparkled with tears.
"Mum?" She whispered back. Time seemed to stop in that moment. All of Janeway's hidden feelings from the last seven years spilled out and before she knew it she and Anna were wrapped up in a hug, both crying and both on the floor.
"Why are you here?, I mean how did you get here?" Janeway asked sitting on a biobed next to her daughter who was receiving her last overview from the doctor.
Anna looked down sadly. "Well, you wont be happy" She muttered. Janeway placed a hand on her knee. "I'm happy you're here" she smiled.
Anna nodded "Well okay, you knew the wormhole you were using to talk to Starfleet?" Janeway nodded remembering how a few days before they'd run into their ship they contacted Starfleet through a wormhole using a probe in the center to bounce off the messages. "well, I wanted to talk to you" Anna started looking at her comrade who was still under the doctor's anesthetic. "I've always said if we got a chance I'd want to join you. Starfleet wouldn't let me talk to you so Sami, he…he took his shuttle craft." She stammered. "He'd been working on that shuttle for months, he bought it and it wouldn't even turn on, he fixed it up. We took it and he said he'd get me to you, and we flew through the wormhole" Janeway stood up and began pacing.
"I know it was dangerous" Anna began looking at her mother. "we flew through the wormhole and hit the probe on the way through, it collapsed the wormhole and we got flung out before we reached you, and that's where you found us". Janeway looked at her daughter. "Anna, why would you do such a dangerous thing, have you any idea what could have happened to you, to BOTH of you?" She began the anger and hurt hitting her voice.
Anna began to tear up. "It can't be any worse than it's been the last 7 years of my life!" Anna yelled back turning her back on her mother. "You haven't been there… you don't know what it was like. Stuck on earth, left with a family who wasn't even mine. Lost and Alone!" Anna burst into tears and Janeway stepped back as the Doctor placed a hand on Anna's shoulder.
"Captain, this isn't good for her, she's still tired and needs to remain calm" He looked sympathetically at the Captain. "Maybe you should come back tomorrow, once you've both had a good night's sleep and thought things through?"
Janeway nodded and moved to her daughter's side. "I'm so sorry Anna, I don't know what you had to deal with on earth, but I'm so happy you're here now"
Anna leant against her mother's neck and sobbed. "I've missed you so much"
The captain held her daughter and vowed that from then on she would do whatever she could to ease the burden her daughter clearly held.
Okay Dokey Chapter two, I was so excited over this story that I just HAD to follow on.
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