A New Dawn

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I stood there shocked, 'it couldn't be, it just couldn't!'

"All these years, a lie?"

"No everything'-"

"Everything! You not being my father is pretty big, or maybe that's just me."

He sighs, "I mean everything I've said, every good and bad memory, all of that was real, all of it!"

I close my eyes, taking a deep breath, "I hate when you do that, reason with my logical side, that is."

"Why not?" he asks.

Nodding, I let curiosity get the better of me, "So, who are my parents?"

"I knew your mother, Destiny, in another life, she was one to reckon with," he says smiling, with a far off look in his eyes, "she gave you to me personally. I don't know anything about your father, she never told me who he was and I never asked."

'Destiny, my mother', for some reason I felt no sudden twinge in my heart, at her mention, no sudden surge of emotions. 'She wasn't my mother, biological mother maybe, but no, she wasn't my real mother. My real mother had died years ago, Destiny was not my mother'.

"She's not my real mother," I say out loud, I don't know why I felt the urge to say it, maybe it was to prove I was right, if so, I didn't know who I was proving it to.

I start to walk out of the house, letting my feet take me wherever they wanted. I hear footsteps following me, but I ignore them.

"So where are we going," dad asks, catching up.

"Don't know," I reply, still walking.

"Alright then, you seem to be taking this rather well."

"Logically," I pause, "or maybe it's shock." I didn't feel like I was in shock, nothing seemed blurred and my memory recall didn't appear warped, everything was clear.

Eventually I stop at a precipice overlooking the great city of Terra Novus. The Starfleet HQ, towers over all other buildings, not to say that they are small in the least, the smallest building I saw had to be at least five storeys.

"Nice spot, is this where you go when you have those walkabouts?"

"Sometimes."

He nods, "How's it going with the ship you're building?"

"Oh, it's finished, state of the art, I could sell it for over five times the amount I made it for, if I wanted."

"Not bad," he says, genuinely impressed, "will you?"

"I'm not sure yet, I'll have to take it for a test flight first."

"I know what you mean, you mightn't get much time though, they're talking about conscription at the White House."

I sigh, "It's really coming to that? I'd hoped they would try a diplomatic route."

"We did, but 'the Altarians' don't trust us with their technology anymore. Apparently we're greedy, we want more than we can handle."

"They have a point I suppose, we should find out everything we can about the things we have before we get more. I mean what's the point in asking for more, when we don't know what we don't know what we have."

"The President says, 'why stop now, when we can get even more?' it's probably the Joint Chiefs putting words in his mouth, their afraid they might lose their job. I'm surprised the President is letting them take so much power."

I sigh and frown as I sit down on the ledge, my legs dangling over the edge, "I guess I better take that test flight, no use in fighting the inevitable."