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[ today finds captain janeway hit with her very first curse. she's young again, standing at the threshold of change wherein a tragedy that has yet to occur will help drive her into the captain's chair. but for now, she's simply a scientist, a recent graduate of the academy who, from her perspective, has found herself sucked into some temporal anomaly while in the midst of her first assignment. at this point in her life, she's very dedicated to her field, and has no aspirations of setting her sights on command. in fact, when commander chakotay insisted that she'd one day be wearing red with four pips pinned to her collar, she laughed, because that's not her. maybe that's another kathryn janeway, one who doesn't mind being called by her first name,but it's certainly not the one who prefers to be called katie.

after being ordered out of her uniform, katie found a decent change of clothes, pocketed her combadge and grabbed the archaic device the commander had insisted was the primary means of communication in this place, and set out on a morning jog around the city. later in the afternoon, she'd stop for a breather in xanadu and pull out her older self's cell phone to fiddle with it some and ask the network a very important question. ]

Does anyone know where a girl can get a decent bowl of ice cream in this place?

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I have no idea what you're talking about.

[ Nope, he refuses to be embarrassed by his own jokes. Jim turns to ask the attendant Is there any possible way you could make a strawberry ice cream number even half as gorgeous as this young lady?

You're welcome, Kathryn. ]

Whatever you say, Blonde Banana.

[ confident and unashamed. careful, kirk. she likes that in a person. (this is going to be so awkward later when she's back to normal.) ]

C'mere, you have to see this. [ Waving her over to the glass of the counter, he points to banoffee ice cream and a very blue bubblegum flavor next to it. ] You want to make mine more adventurous too? I want to mix together something from opposite ends of the crepe spectrum. Don't question that it exists, by the way.

[ she leans forward, giving the ice cream flavors the once over. ] You'd be surprised by the things I believe exist. [ twenty-fourth century quantum cosmologist, after all. though she's been telling anyone who asks (or when it comes up) that she's an astronomy nerd. not quite the same thing, but the easiest way to explain any space slip ups that might happen. ] Let's do it.

[ While one very nice, delectable strawberry crepe is whipped up for his partner in crime, Jim encourages the second attendant to put a host of ever more varying dollops inside his own. Bubblegum, banoffee, banana slices, something with nuts and chunks of a bright pink fruit he doesn't honestly believe exists (I bet they made that one up).

By the time they're handed their cold afternoon snacks, he has to use two hands to unironically hold onto the monster. ]

Holy crap. You're sure you don't want any?

[ she eyes the monstrosity of sugar and calories he's been handed, giving him a look that seems to say, "this was your idea." ]

I'll think about it, provided I have any room left over after I've finished mine. [ taking the lead, she heads out the door for one of the tables situated on the shop's patio. ]

[ He doesn't want to admit defeat and unfold the lot, so it gets sort of ... squashed together, cupped like either a very large baby or wriggly puppy. He sucks ice cream off the backs of his fingers where it dribbles, reclining in the shade with a sigh. ]

When did you arrive in the City, Katie?

This morning. I know, I know -- I'm handling it all really well for a newbie, but when you've moved around as much as I have, you get used to seeing new sights and unfamiliar territories. Kind of like being a kid again, only without my father boarding a ship and not being seen for a few months' time. [ that last part isn't a lie. edward janeway would be in deep space for months without word back to his family.

she takes a bite, grabs a napkin off the table to wipe her hands on, too much of an admiral's daughter to lick her fingers like he's doing. ] I guess you could say I'm hoping I'll wake up in the morning and have one really crazy dream to tell my friends about.

As long as you don't wake up as a dog, that's something that happens. Happened. [ It was a dark time, okay. ] Hopefully you won't be here for long, seems like the luckier ones get shipped back first.

I saw someone's memories being broadcasted over the cell network. I guess they weren't lying about this curse business.

[ magic's not something she believes in. she's more willing to believe someone or something has the ability to bend time and reality through clear, plausible means. ]

The only thing we're still figuring out is how. There's some kind of pattern to the waves of disturbances but none of them really match up.

[ Mouthful of ice cream, oops. Brain freeze. ]

[ she regards him with an odd look of a scrutinizing sort as he suffers from that brain freeze. ]

Sounds like you know what you're talking about.

I work in the labs, you get to know people. I studied some engineering with the help of a friend, never expected to be putting it all actively to use like this.

[ What he wouldn't give for Scotty to turn up and overhaul everything Jim's been working on. ]

[ the older kathryn is wishing similarly for b'elanna, but the only klingon in starfleet that this kathryn's aware of is worf. ]

Engineering, huh? [ that gets a grin out of her. her father was an engineer who found his way to a captain's chair and the high rankings of the brass. he was now putting that engineering expertise of his to work in helping to develop new starships. he was currently working on a prototype whose name she didn't have the proper clearance to learn. (little did she know, this very prototype would end up being her father's undoing. in just a few short months, he'd perish when the terra nova crashed into one of tau ceti prime's polar ice caps. ] Never thought to go to school for it and broaden your horizons in a more official capacity?

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[ That gains a laugh and he has to put his crepe down on a pile of hastily arranged napkins, forsaking it as he clears up his sticky fingers. There's a nice hint of nostalgia in her curiosity, diluted from Pike's interference in Jim's life but no less pleasant for the reminder. ]

Actually, I majored in what people back home call command classes. I just think if you're going to be around a bunch of machines then you should know how they work, or enough to botch them back together when they fry.

[ her eyes go wide for a second before she catches herself, focusing on finishing off the rest of her crepe while she gets her expression back in order.

so, what are the odds that she's run into one of the starfleet officers present in the city? commander chakotay did warn her that they were around. he also warned her that they treated her differently, with respect and a sense of admiration that she wasn't ready to deal with yet. (and for all the reasons she didn't want to be admired, apparently. she wasn't captain material. she wasn't.) she had a choice: call him out on it, tell him she was ensign kathryn janeway of the uss al-batani and she knew that one day she'd be captain of some ship named voyager.

or she could leave it alone, feign ignorance, and be known as katie instead of captain janeway. she was much more comfortable with the former, and if her assumptions were wrong, she'd be outing herself as starfleet and disobeying commander chakotay's orders. ]

Command. You sure you're not navy? Coast guard?

Kind of.

[ Jim looks like he might refrain from explaining for a moment, then there's a visible 'Nope' that passes over his features and he points upward. ]

How amenable are you to the idea that my ship's up there and not in the ocean?

[ ohgod he is one of the starfleet officers! ]

Astronaut, then?

Sure. [ If that's her guess, he won't pick at the semantics. She might be a 21st century girl, after all, and subsequently gets no arguments that might frighten her. ] Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise but, like I said, Jim's fine.

You're not talking about the aircraft carrier, are you?

I think all that really counts here is that it's a ship.

[ Anything else is supplemental and he doesn't want to freak out the pretty redhead he's buying a late lunch. ]

A ship you'd rather be on than here.

[ she empathizes more than she'll allow herself to say. she was just getting to know the al-batani, but it was supposed to be home for a while and she'd like to get back to it. ]

Everyone here would rather be back home, I'm not the exception.

[ Sliding a dollop of melting blueberry over. ]

Try this, it's disgusting.

I guess I should be asking who wants to be here, instead.

[ she eyes that dollop warily, and against her better judgement reaches out and takes it, eating it right off her finger. she makes a face as it goes down, wrinkling her nose in disgust. ]

Oh god, why did I do that? You're right, it's gross. So gross.

[ and yet — though her current incarnation is presently unaware of this Very Important Fact — a million times better tasting than leola root. ]

[ Up she goes in his estimation. ]

Got much going on back where you came from?

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