Snippet #15
Jul. 25th, 2003 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gilascaveChakotay
There are a lot of things he had planned to be, by this point in his life. A lot of things that, as a child and as a youth, he had clearly and determinedly explained to his elders. His plans. His ideas.
His dreams.
None of them included this. None of them included a fight for freedom. None of them included the ideas behind the Maquis, much less leadership.
Looking back, he could see that he'd never had a choice. The things he'd been brought up to believe had invariably turned his path to this -- to that, at least. He isn't sure his childhood had prepared him for all of this.
Delta Quadrant. Trapped on a Starfleet ship that intended to imprison him.
Falling in love with someone he didn't trust and wasn't sure he liked.
He wonders if he could get a message to his younger self, which of these things he would warn him most about.
There are a lot of things he had planned to be, by this point in his life. A lot of things that, as a child and as a youth, he had clearly and determinedly explained to his elders. His plans. His ideas.
His dreams.
None of them included this. None of them included a fight for freedom. None of them included the ideas behind the Maquis, much less leadership.
Looking back, he could see that he'd never had a choice. The things he'd been brought up to believe had invariably turned his path to this -- to that, at least. He isn't sure his childhood had prepared him for all of this.
Delta Quadrant. Trapped on a Starfleet ship that intended to imprison him.
Falling in love with someone he didn't trust and wasn't sure he liked.
He wonders if he could get a message to his younger self, which of these things he would warn him most about.