By:AW

Published in Unicorn Press. Editor: Nancy Border & Pat
Hayden.

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Date With Destiny II

1. A New Beginning

I don’t expect my love affairs to last for long
Never fooled myself that my dreams would come true
Being used to travel I anticipate it
But all the same I hate it wouldn’t you

So what happens now
Another suitcase in another hall
So what happens now
Take your picture off another wall
Where am I going to
You’ll get by you always have before
Where am I going to

Time and time again I’ve said that I don’t’ care
That I’m immune to gloom
That I’m hard through and through
But every time it matters all my words desert me
So anyone can hurt me, and they do

So what happens now
Another suitcase in another hall
So what happens now
Take your picture off another wall
Where am I going to
You’ll get by you always have before
Where am I going to

Call in three months time and I’ll be fine I know
Well maybe not that fine but I’ll survive anyhow
I won’t recall the names and places of each sad
occasion
But that’s no consolation here and now

So what happens now
Another suitcase in another hall
So what happens now
Take your picture off another wall
Where am I going to
You’ll get by you always have before
Where am I going to

Don’t ask anymore (9)

I made a mistake three months ago that will change my love forever…if only I had thought of the consequences of my actions beforehand…

Two months later…

Kathryn arrived at her sister’s house in Indiana. As much as she had moved all over the place, her sister had resisted, and stayed where she was always safe and warm. Kathryn Janeway showed up on her sister’s doorstep five months after leaving Chakotay, it had taken her nearly that long to deal and come to terms with the consequences of her foolish actions that day. She rang the doorbell, and heard someone coming to the door.

A tall man about 30 answered the door. This must be her husband. What am I thinking?

“Hello? Can I help you with something?” He looked at this woman, there was something familiar about her, she looked like someone he knew or should know.

Kathryn pulled her coat to her tighter, despite the heat; she wore a coat that covered her deep dark secret. Her skeleton in the closet. “I’m Kathryn Janeway,” she could see the comprehension in his eyes, the understanding. “I’m Phoebe’s sister.”

His jaw dropped, he quickly closed his mouth. This was the long lost sister. The one that had been presumed dead, the ghost come to haunt their lives. It
had taken Phoebe months to get over her disappearance and assumed death. She had nerve, coming here after all this time. “What do you want? Do you have any idea how much pain you’ve caused us?”

Kathryn hadn’t even thought about the fact that her presence might be unwanted. She had always assumed, when she did return, that she would be welcomed, by her family at least with open arms, never with a cold shoulder. “I’m sorry, maybe this is a bad time.”

The man in front of her was outraged. “Bad time? There isn’t a good time. Phoebe hoped and prayed that you were alive for months, years, and when you finally come back, you disappear. How can you just waltz in her like none of these years had gone by?”

Kathryn felt the tears welling up behind her eyelids. She was unsure of how to answer this pained man in front of her, possibly her only link to her sister,
whom she still loved so much after all this time. “Just tell her I’m okay. Will you do that for mer?”

She saw the hatred in the man’s eyes. At least she found love.

“I’ll see what I can do. I’m not making any promises, you’re one chapter in Phoebe’s life she has closed and dealt with. You’re one Pandora’s box I’m not sure we’re ready to reopen again.”

Kathryn felt as if she was losing her last link to reality and to her life. Her hand slowly wandered to the small swell where Chakotay’s child lay. “Please? Just consider it.” Her hand dropped at her side as she felt her life shatter before her very eyes.

The man in front of her closed the door on her; the last thing she saw was his pitying look. She had become a stranger in life, and an object of pity. Some
day…

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