Naomi came back to her room armed with a bunch of history books after visiting the library after her 5th period literature class. She placed the books on her bed and sat at her desk with the intention of reading more about her time period to get more familiar with it. Suddenly there was a beep and the computer announced in monotone, "Naomi Wildman incoming communication," the screen then changed to that of her godfather Neelix who was currently living in the Delta Quadrant.
"Neelix!" Naomi exclaimed, rather surprised that her godfather was checking in on her, she hadn't heard from him in a while. Not for a couple of months at the least.
"Hello Naomi," Neelix smiled at his goddaughter, "how are things at Fandom?"
Naomi blinked, "how did you know that I was at Fandom?" she asked in surprise, "I mean things are fine here, but I didn't know that I was going until a few weeks ago ..."
"I learnt about it through Admiral Janeway," Neelix replied, "I've been communicating with her rather frequently about Starfleet business and stuff and occasionaly we talk about what's happened to the crew since they arrived back at the Alpha Quadrant ... I talked to the Admiral last week and she said that your parents had sent you to boarding school at Fandom High, it's been a couple of months since I last talked to you so I decided to see how things were going,"
"Oh," Naomi replied, "well things are fine here at the moment thanks," she paused, wondering just what it was about the school that she could tell Neelix without him checking it up with her mother, "it's different to what I expected that it would be," she thought that was a pretty good summary of her experience thus far at Fandom High and it was the truth to an extent.
"Is that different good or different bad, I understand that you weren't happy about being sent there," Neelix asked.
"Different good," Naomi admitted, "I thought that I wouldn't like it but I've met some really nice people here and I've coped better than I expected, I still feel homesick occasionally but I talked to mom last Friday and that helped a bit,"
"I'm glad that you're settling in Naomi," Neelix smiled, "so what's it like and what classes are you taking?"
"It's been a unique experience," Naomi decided to stick with that as she thought about the events of the past week, "but unique is good ... mostly," she added when she thought about what had happened to Marie and how bad she felt for the girl even if she didn't actually know her that well, "as for classes well I'm taking Interstellar Relations, Cross Species Communications, Literature in Action, US Government and Science," Naomi paused, "I've already had Interstellar Relations, Cross Species Communications and Literature in Action,"
"When do you have the other two classes?" Neelix asked
"I have US Government on Wednesday and I have Science on Thursday, I have Fridays off," Naomi replied, "I'm enjoying my classes so far and I don't think that's going to change," she added smiling.
"Well that's good Naomi," Neelix was truly honest about that, he knew how hard it was for his goddaughter to adjust to change and he felt that she was adjusting to the best of her ability.
"So how are things going with Dexa and Brax?" Naomi asked, her godfather had remained behind in the Delta Quadrant with a Talaxian colony and a year ago he had married Dexa.
"Things are going just great here Naomi," Neelix smiled, "thanks for asking,"
"Your welcome," Naomi replied, she paused before continuing, "Neelix have you been speaking with any of the crew apart from Admiral Janeway lately?"
"Apart from the Admiral I talk with Seven of Nine on a frequent basis, we play Katis Kot occasionaly," he replied, "she's been living on Vulcan recently as part of a science research team with Starfleet," he paused, "apart from Seven, Admiral Janeway, your mother and yourself I haven't had the chance to speak with anyone else ... what about you Naomi?" he asked, knowing that one of his goddaughter's biggest fears had been the Voyager crew splitting up and losing the only family that she had known throughout her childhood. It still amazed him as to how quickly she had grown up.
"Well ... apart from you, I see Icheb fairly often, he's at the Academy in San Francisco," Naomi couldn't help but blushing at Icheb's name, "he's been the only one really, he comes over to visit fairly frequently at home ... I've seen Admiral Janeway twice in the past year and I saw Lieutenant Paris last Sunday because he was the pilot who took me to Fandom ... the last time I saw everyone together was at Voyager's one year runion,"
"Well it's been nice talking to you Naomi," Neelix said, signalling the end of their conversation, "I wanted to check up on you and see how you were doing,"
"I'm doing fine thanks Neelix," Naomi smiled.
"I'll try calling once in a while just to see what's going on and stuff like that, I'm glad you're settling in at Fandom, it was nice talking to you Naomi,"
"Same here Neelix," Naomi nodded in agreement.
"I'll talk to you later, bye Naomi,"
"Bye Neelix," Neelix's smiling face disappeared and the web page that she had been researching appeared again.
Naomi reflected the conversation as she read the information on the screen, it was strange to think about how much had changed in the two years that she had been living on Earth. She had never imagined that she would be attending a high school in the year 2006 and she certainly had never imagined that her Voyager family would be scattered throughout the galaxy, she knew that it was a possibility when she was young but she hadn't wanted it to become reality. Her brown gaze landed on the holo photo, which was sitting on her desk, that had been taken at Voyager's one year reunion last year. In the photo was everyone who had made it back to earth, her family ... Neelix wasn't in the photo as he hadn't been able to leave the Delta Quadrant but he had been there in spirit. She often wondered if Voyager's crew was ever going to be reunited again apart from anniversaries of Voyager's return and the answer that she came up with was something that she didn't like to dwell on.
[OOC: Door's closed but knock and Naomi will answer]
