Far from Home

A/N This is about my o/c Kara Riley, 17 years old, who gets plucked from modern day into the future by a wormhole that the starship enterprise is investigating and finds out she can't get back, how will she cope with life in the future when she is dropped onto a ship 50,000 lightyears from earth. It's set about 2 years into the Enterprises 5 year mission to explore deep space.

Chapter 1

Kara sat in her bedroom scrolling through Tumblr on her laptop, she could hear her little brother Jayden playing on the PlayStation in his room down the hallway, it was a typical evening for her, she'd just turned 17 recently and she wasn't really sure what she's going to do with her life, she's smart and has always got high grades in school, so she knows she has a lot of options but she's never been able to settle down to one idea.

Her mum had left half an hour ago to go to work for the night, money has been tight recently and even though Kara has gotten a job at a local restaurant it's not been enough so her mum has taken on a second job in the evenings just to keep them up to date with rent and make sure they have enough food for the three of them. Her dad left when Jayden was still a baby and that was 10 years ago now so it's been difficult, but she has always found solace in the imaginary worlds of her movies and books. Her mum doesn't get it and is always telling her that she should be out with friends but Kara never liked to have a great deal of friends, just a few close ones that she talks to regularly online and that is enough for her.

She looks up from the screen when she hears a strange whistling noise coming from the hallway, thinking it's probably Jayden messing around she gets up pulling on her favourite hoody and walks out of her room. She freezes this can't be Jayden she can see his door and it's still shut, and she sure as hell hopes he stays in there, there is a dot of bright light about 3 feet off the floor that is slowly getting brighter and bigger. When it reaches about 5cm in diameter she notices that it seems to be spinning and a slight breeze has started to wrap itself around her pushing her towards the light. She knows that this is when she should be running away but she's too terrified to move and it feels as though her sock clad feet are glued to the floor. As the breeze gets stronger pieces of paper are sucked towards into the slowly forming vortex which is now almost 40cm wide and swirly violently, when the first piece of paper hits it the light flashes even brighter and the paper vanishes.

Finally, it's as though all at once Kara's brain finally breaks free of the shock that it had been stuck in and she tries to step back, turning towards her bedroom door and trying to get away but the wind picks up suddenly to a speed she wouldn't have thought possible without ripping the walls apart. She can only imagine this is what it's like to be stood inside a tornado because she is being forced forwards and she has no time to try and grab hold of anything to anchor her. Her feet slide along the floor roughly before she suddenly plunges head first into the light. The light encompasses her body and she has to shut her eyes against it, the feeling of being inside it is almost unbearable it's as though every part of her is being crushed all at once and she's spinning and falling all at once, she's certain that she's going to pass out if it doesn't end when all at once everything stops and she's really falling now. Panicking she puts her hands out to try and grab something not even thinking anymore just acting as she falls through the air, all too soon she feels herself collide with something hard and she's knocked out instantly.