(Originally posted to my Livejournal, CreamSodaAngel).

[Note: Don’t worry, I haven’t gone crazy. I joined a new community that gives you a prompt everyday that you’re supposed to write about. You can write whatever you want, so here we have it. Star Trek related, yes. It’s my PC from Federation Space. And yes, her mom is a bitch. ]

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“What do you mean I can’t go?” Julia demanded, her hands placed firmly on her hips in defiance of what her mother said.

“I’ve told you before Julia,” Victoria replied, a matter-of-factly tone consuming her voice, “You will not join Starfleet.”

Julia couldn’t help but laugh at the older woman’s reply. It had long been Julia’s dream to join Starfleet, do to some good in the universe, to head out on an adventure much in the way her father had. Her passion laid in engineering, not in music as her mother seemed to insist. Why can’t she understand that?

“You were raised better than this Julia,” Victoria continued on her spiel as she continued to change one of the strings on her cello. “I will not have my daughter being some Starfleet stooge when she could be so much more.”

Shaking her head, Julia pulled out a dataPADD that she had tucked into the back of her pants. Turning it, she held it up for her mother to see. “Well I applied to Starfleet and was accepted. You’re just going to have to deal with the fact that I. Am. Going.”

Tucking the PADD back where it had been, Julia turned away from her mother and headed towards the doorway. A few weeks ago she had moved most of her belongings to her father’s place – used up most of her transporter credits to do it – but she’d done it. Now all that was left was a small duffle bag with clothing. Jules just couldn’t take her mother’s attempts to control her life anymore. No more doing what her mother said, no more arranged marriage, no more being locked in her bedroom for hours – enough was enough.

Picking up the duffle bag, Julia slipped on her sandals that were resting at the door. “Goodbye mother.”

Without another word, and without looking back, Julia opened the door and was gone.