I'll take you home again, Kathleen
a story by
vanhunks
Rating
[PG-13]
Disclaimer
The characters Janeway, Chakotay and other crew/characters on Voyager mentioned at any time during the run of the TV series, as well as the good ship Voyager, belong to Paramount/Viacom. No copyright infringement was intended.
The characters Kathleen O'Clair, Thomas Kiernan, Justin Riley, Katie's parents, Liam and Eileen O'Clair, as well as Michael Sullivan (same name, but different character) are original characters created by the author.
Code
Janeway/Chakotay
Janeway/O'Clair
Acknowledgements
Mary Stark,
for her editing of this story, for making time in her busy schedule to take on this project. The many 'nitpicks' (Mary's words!) were necessary to give this work a more rounded, smooth appearance. My gracious thanks to this wonderful person.
Kat Lady,
for her great insight into the history of Ireland. I leaned on her many times in online discussion, giving valuable information on aspects like education, transportation, social life. She prompted my own online research and the wealth of information was just so much. I could only represent a fraction of it in the story. I hope that I have not let her down. After all, I'm a rookie writing about her heimat.
Sheila - Muse.
Author's Note
This story was written for the Voyager Talent Nights "Janeway Factor" time travel contest. I started this project in April. I had just watched the film "Timeline" and as it happened, Talent Nights was running a contest that involved time travel. I had in mind a certain idea which I must acknowledge here, was inspired by both the film and the contest theme.
I have used the variant of O'Clair in my story, although O'Clare is used in the episode "Fairhaven". Since there are most times variants of the spelling of names and surnames, I decided on O'Clair, since the parts of the story involving this family are original. I beg your indulgence in this instance and hope that you will be taken by the power of the story.
Other notes will be given at the end of the story.
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Summary
When Voyager is hit by a temporal shift, Kathryn Janeway collapses and ceases to exist. Chakotay leads an away team who travel to the past to correct the wrong.
And now for the story:
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vanhunks
June 2004