<USS Avalon> "Across Time and Space" Cmdr Skyler

"Across Time and Space"
Cmdr Skyler
 
"Lyta you have the bridge until I  return."
 
Silently Skyler left her chair and walked into  her office. She had many 
thoughts and feelings on her mind that she needed to  somehow organize. Most of 
them concerned the ship from the future, the  "Banshee."
 
Walking over to the window she couldn't help but  look at it, how different 
it looked than the Avalon did. Leaning against the  edge of the window she 
couldn't take her eyes off of the ship. The ship  that her niece was Captain 
of. 
She wished she had gotten to spend more time with  her. To talk to her. It 
always seemed as if there was never enough time. Time  was always slipping away 
in 
one shape or another. She wanted to remember as much  of this time as she 
possibly could.
 
From what she had learned the Banshee was from  the future and possibly a 
different reality. She wondered what she herself was  like in this different 
reality. Was she the same person she was now? Had she  experienced the same 
things 
in both realities? The thing she wondered most about  was her family.
 
In the reality that Grace supposedly came  from, had Celeste died? Had Soliel 
died? Or were those aspects unchanged in both  realities? It was all quite 
confusing, but then most things temporal usually  were.
 
She still couldn't believe how much Grace looked  like Melanie and Celeste. 
Those eyes and her voice reminded Skyler so much of  her mother. What did Grace 
think of her? What was she like in the other reality?  Was she then as is was 
now? Georgia, what was Georgia like in this other  reality?
 
So many questions, yet she wondered if they  would ever be answered? She 
placed her hand on the cool glass, almost as if she  were trying to reach out 
and 
touch Grace.
 
I wonder what she is thinking at this very  moment? What she is feeling? Does 
she even want to talk before it is too late  and the Avalon is gone?
 
She stood there with her eyes closed and her  hand on the window. She opened 
her mind, knowing full well that there was a very  good chance that Grace 
would have hers blocked. She had to at least  try.
 
Grace, if you can hear me please listen. I  wish I could see your face again? 
 To talk to you and spend some time with  you. If you were to see your mother 
now, you would see a mother who was never  more devoted to anyone than Soliel 
was and is to you. You were and  always will be her "wee poppet." You are so 
much like her. So much like Celeste.  You appear to have turned out to be a 
wonderful and beautiful woman, one that as  your Aunt, I am proud of. Even 
though we only met briefly, I feel a connection  with you. You may not, which 
is 
fine. Before your mother reentered my life,  Georgia was my only family, then 
there was you, or will be you. It is all so  confusing yet I wouldn't trade it 
for anything. I wonder what you think of all  this? Was I a good Aunt or was I 
distant? If it is the latter I am so sorry. As  anyone can or probably has 
told you, I was never really good with  people.
 
You probably aren't even hearing any of  this, but if you are, I hope that 
you will want to talk. I will not undergo  another mind wipe for fear of 
forgetting you. I don't ever want to forget  you.
 
A lone tear started to fall down Skyler's face  as she opened her eyes to 
again look at the Banshee. Thinking to herself she  wished she could tell 
Melanie 
and Georgia, but knew she couldn't. Not knowing  what else to do, she pressed 
her lips to her fingers and placed them back  against the window. Willing her 
thoughts and feelings across time and  space.
 
Would there come an answer? Only time would  tell.....

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