Disclaimer in chapter 1.

As always read and review- and here at last is the anticipated final chapter –thank you for all the reviews. As promised I tied everything up here.

A/N I hope you made the connection with Q's last words in Just like Romeo and Juliet –this final chapter and your Star Trek knowledge. ;)

Chapter 25

Daddy's Little Girl

Angela Jackie stood in front of the memorial for WWII, several marines who were raising a flag over a hill on an island called Iwo Jima. Usually people did not visit this spot formally known as Washington DC, but today it was packed as "The Girl from the 20th Century visits old DC" with reporters, historians, and curious onlookers. Angela Jackie was now in her late 20s, and had just returned from a long voyage.

"My dad once took me to a field near Gettysburg…" she began to speak to her father (Captain Picard) and her audience. "There was a grave site there, a field of crosses, for all the men who died that day." Angela Jackie fought back some tears, "My grandpa and his brother grew up in Maryland, when the war came my great grandpa didn't know what side would win so he split his two sons. One served the south, the other served the north, so no matter what side won, the family could go on. My grandpa's brother died at Gettysburg he was serving on the confederate side, they never found his body, by brother and his family could only hope that someone had buried him, just like the people who buried those people and then put up those crosses did. I doubt that field is still in existence today, but back in the 1940s it was there, I'd remember how my grandpa before he died, would talk about the war. He once told me that man kinds greatest flaw, was war, he was glad that men were willing to stand up and defend what they believed in, but he wished that it didn't have to always end in violence, he never got over his brother's death. Imagine a war that drives a nation apart, brother against brother. My father once told me that someday they'd have a memorial for the war they were fighting then, World War II, and for the wars to come, and he was right." She paused to point at the statue, and then to the others. "WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, War with Iraq… All these have memorials all fought in what could have been a person's lifetime. I recently visited Pearl Harbor, and I can assure you its not how I remember. I remember a once beautiful and tranquil island destroyed by war…ships half sunk in an oil filled harbor, building in ruin, the streets littered with odds and ends, and people devastated, injured or dead, or grieving. What I saw is what I wanted to remember and island a harmonious, peaceful island. I was also surprised to see a new island."

Everybody laughed the island of Liliuokalani became inhabitable in the 22nd century.

"When I originally came aboard Enterprise, I had a fear of the Germans, and a hatred toward the Japanese, not anymore in fact my closest friends are German and Japanese descents. I'm glad to see that the earth can now peacefully coexist not only with each other, but with other aliens." She laughed. "If only I could go back in time and tell my generation that Roswell was real." More chuckles from the audience. "I'm no longer that naïve little girl who got accidentally beamed aboard Enterprise, I've grown wiser, and taller. I got an opportunity to serve in a way I could have never done back home, my generation still limited female in the roles they could play in society, rules my mother admitted when I was little that I was bound to break. My dad was right I do have the opportunity to something I could never do in the 20th century, and I'd like to thank my new dad, for caring for me, nurturing me, educating me and encouraging me to do so." She kissed Captain Picard on the forehead, he smiled and gave a giant bear hug.

"I missed you." He whispered.

"I missed you too." She then turned back, arms linked with her father and her fiancé she laid a bouquet of flowers by each memorial. "This is for my grandpa, and his brother who died on the fields of Gettysburg. For my father and the men that died at Pearl, for my brother who never made it home, and to all the other men and women who served valiantly in all branches of the military in all the wars." She choked on her last few words. She then turned and with her father, and fiancé turned back to the reporters.

"Lt. Picard how does it feel to be back home after being lost in the delta quadrant." Inquired a reporter.

"There's an old book published in the late 20th century," She smiled at her dad. "I picked up his love of classical books. Anyway there was a book that said 'home is where the heart is', and therefore my home was aboard Voyager, and its here back in the arms of my dad and fiancé, and yes even here on Earth, and to answer your question it feels great."

October 12th, 1985

An elderly couple walk up to a new memorial and place a fresh flower bouquet in front of it, together the couple raise their hands in salute.

"To our son, who never made it home, you made us proud, and we love you." Spoke the man in his shaky voice. The women raised her eyes to the sky.

"To our daughter missing since 1942, wherever you are may you be happy, safe, and warm and thriving in life. We miss you, we love you, and were always have been proud of you." The couples then joined hand in hand and walk back to their car.

24th Century

Angela Jackie sat in the National Hall of Records and Census in Chicago. She flips through preserved copies of old newspapers of cities from the late 20th century, she finally came across the article she had been looking for.

December 8th 1985- Honolulu Star-Bulletin: On December 7th 1985, Frank and Lucy Chandler both die of a heart attack in their sleep. They are both WWII veterans, and both had served at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked. They are survived by friends, their two children: Angela Jackie Chandler missing since January 21st, 1942 and son Jimmy Chandler was killed in action June 7, 1967. The family's estate was donated to local charity, the funeral will be held…"

Angela Jackie brushed away her tears, "I'm sorry I couldn't be there with you when you died." She apologized in a whisper to the picture that she assumed was taken in the 1950s above the obituary, "but I made you proud just like I promised, and I will continue to just like I hope my children will to." She closed the book, just then a four-year old boy came bounding up to her with a two-year-old girl in tow.

"Mommy can we go now?" Asked the boy.

"Yes come on Jimmy come on Lucy lets go home."

Well that's all folks – I hope you like it – please review and tell me! I may write another ST:TNG with Angela Jackie later.