<USS Avalon> Nowhere Revisited

Nowhere Revisited

 

By Lt. Joshua Garrity

 

 

Josh dropped again into the office he?d dubbed ?Nowhere? and went to the 
cabinet, removing his sketchbook. Turning towards the back of it, behind the 
designs and schematics, he found what he was looking for. The picture of his 
brother Zachary and a young man he?d never met named John Forrester, who?d 
recently passed away as well.  He remembered clearly drawing it, and giving it 
to the captain in this very room, yet here it was. He went over the entire 
meeting, replaying every word, every action, every thought in his head and 
considering the fact that it might have been a dream, then rejected that idea 
outright. It had happened, he was certain, exactly as he remembered it. He had 
no doubt.

 

Therein lay the problem.

 

There were two huge problems whether or not his memory was accurate at this 
point. The first problem was that the men pictured were not both dead. John 
Forrester, he?d come to learn, was still very much alive and only now beginning 
his tour of duty aboard the Avalon. The second problem was the picture itself. 
If he?d given it away, how did it come to be again in his sketchbook, still 
very much intact?  

 

Looking toward the desk at which the Captain had seated himself during that 
visit, his curiosity got the better of him. There was, of course, one more way 
to determine whether or not his memory had become faulty. He opened the desk 
drawer, and nodded slightly. It was there. The data chip the captain had left 
there. Theoretically, it was the one from Forrester himself that the captain 
had come to view following his death. Except Forrester wasn?t dead. The captain 
shouldn?t have come with the chip because his son still lived. The chip 
shouldn?t be here. The picture should not have been drawn. Events had been 
altered. But when? And which, if either, was the ?correct? timeline?   

 

Was it possible both were wrong?  



                
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