Safe Space
Rated: G
Category: Drabble. Crew. Found Family.
Time Frame: Season One. Set During Supernova, Part Two
Spoilers: Supernova, Part Two
Summary: Home doesn't have to be a place, you know.
Note: Written for the Thirty Days of Prodigy prompt of "home."
Zero was the only one who had any idea how things worked.
After all, Zero had once had a homeworld.
The others, not so much.
Whatever fragmented memories they had didn't include belonging or protection.
They didn't understand that home wasn't a place, but a feeling.
And while a place could take on such significance, so could a person.
So it wasn't until they made it to Earth that they realized losing the Protostar wasn't the loss of the only home they'd ever known.
Because there – right there in front of them – was Admiral Kathryn Janeway.
Home.
In the flesh.