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[cadet_amara]

"Ow..." Amara landed hard on the concrete. She cursed the transporters for the less than graceful enterance for a moment until she realized this was not where she was supposed to be. She had been beaming over to a ship with the rest of the away team. This was clearly a planet. In fact, it looked like Earth. But not her Earth. Earth from hundreds of years ago.

She stood up slowly, looking around for the rest of the away team, but only say strange faces. A few people eyed her curiously, but most just hurried along their way, as if a random woman in a uniform skirt just randomly appeared out of no where any day.

"Where am I?" She wondered aloud. "And what the hell happened?

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[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

"Well... I'd like to be a pilot. Unfortunately I don't do so great in simulations... I didn't say I was a very good cadet... They had me doing field training and..." She shrugged a little. "Here I am."

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, here you are in 2006, New York city. Um, my gain, but.. kinda a big loss for your ship and stuff, and probably you since that's obviously your time." He pressed the elevator button. "I guess more of a bad thing than a good thing, sadly."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

"Your gain?" She raised an eyebrow. "And not really a lose for them. I'm sort of a screw up." She admitted. "Though I wouldn't say it's all bad... it seems to be nice to meet you."

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

He smiled again. "It's nice to meet you too. I just mean, my gain.. meeting you. The girl out of my dreams. That's pretty amazing. But I mean, eventually you'll have to go back..."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

"Except I don't know how to get back." She pointed out, looking around his apartment with mild interest. 21st century Earth.... her history instructors would love this. "So.... in your dream we just... randomly encountered each other? That's it?"

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

"Yeah.." He shut the door behind them when they walked into his apartment. "Then I woke up.. my alarm went off. I have lots of crazy dreams, I just didn't expect them to come true."

His apartment was mostly clean, a few things out of place, dishes to be washed, text books on the table, some clothes on the floor of the bedroom. It wasn't very big, but a decent size for an apartment in Manhattan for someone who made a little above minimum wage.

"Um, let me get some stuff for your knees," he said, tossing his bag next to the couch and walking into the bathroom, pulling open the medicine cabinet. "Are you hungry or thirsty or anything? Is there anything I can get for you?"

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

"Um... water would be nice... if you don't mind." She resisted the urge to start washing his dishes. She was a bit of a neat freak actually, and having everything neat and put away was a bit of a complusion of hers. There must be a reason for why she was here, and why he dreamed about her. She just couldn't for the life of her think of what that could be.

"Have you had dreams like that before?" She asked.

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

Peter came back and handed her a glass of water with a small smile. "If you have a seat, I'll do something about your knees."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

She smiled a little and took a sip of water. "Thanks." She said, taking a seat. "This probably wouldn't have happened if this uniform involved pants."

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that doesn't look all that practical," he said, wiping her knees with an antibacterial wipe and cleaning them off. "But it's New York, lots of feet cross that ground everyday."

He glanced up at her and smiled a little. "Where are you from? Besides the future."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

She never knew how to answer that question. "All over, actually. I think I hold the record for Federation Foster Care placements. But... Mumbai originally, though I haven't been there since I was seven. Have you always lived here?"

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

He leaned back to sit on the coffee table in front of her. "Foster care, huh?" he asked. Then he nodded. "Yeah, always in New York. My parents have like a mansion, that's where I grew up, but.. I like it here."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

"A mansion?" She smiled a little. "That must have been nice.... a lot of space though."

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it was okay," he said with a small shrug. "It was kinda too much for me, but.. My family is sort of like... well, I'm not sure how all of them fit under one roof with egos that big."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

"So here you are... seemingly on your own and a nurse." She smiled at him. "I'm impressed."

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

He laughed a little and put a bandaid on a bigger scrape on her knee. "It's really not that impressive. I mean you were on a starship..."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

"Just as a cadet... and not a very good one." She frowned a little. "If I were I'd know how to get out of here... as it is it seems I may be stuck a while."

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

"You know.. somehow I don't think that being a better cadet would help you any. It just kind of happened, like.. no one understands how stuff happens sometimes," he said with a shrug. "I'll see if I can like talk to a scientist or something. My dad owns this big research firm, I'm sure someone there knows where to find some kind of information."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

"Thank you. I appreciate it." She tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear. "In the meantime... I don't suppose you'd mind if I slept on your couch?" She knew she just met the man, but he seemed sweet, and he dreamed about her. Maybe she was supposed to stay here.

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

He smiled a little. "I don't mind at all, except.. I was kind of thinking you could take the bed, and I'll sleep on the couch. You're the guest anyway."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

"That's sweet, but the couch is more than fine. Don't worry about it." She wasn't about to put him out more than needed.

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

"No really, Amara.. it's okay, you can take the bed. I get up kinda early."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

She shook her head a little. "I don't normally sleep much anyway. Insomnia, you know. And I've slept worse places than a couch."

[lifetimedreamer.livejournal.com]

"Then that's a case for you to take the bed and get some sleep," he said with a smile. "Seriously my mom would smack ke upside the head if I didn't take the couch and let you have the bed."

[cadet-amara.livejournal.com]

She smiled a little, wondering what the deal was with Italian boys and their mothers. "If you insist." She said. "But just for tonight... we can switch tomorrow."