DESTINED

By: SuperFreak & FREAK

Disclaimer: The Characters of Tom and B'Elanna and the rest of the Starship Voyager are not ours (although…If paramount wants to sell….). Their friends and families (with the exception of Owen Paris) are ours and we would appreciate it if they would remain that way. Ó 1999 FREAK'S ASYLUM

Note to readers: Due to the fact that when we wrote this, it was written Tom's chapters, then B'Elanna's chapters, which we later switched around, chapter 20 will be Tom's chapter first or it won't make any sense. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Chapter 1

The lights to Lt. Tom Paris' quarters turned on as he entered. Tom groaned and called for them off. He shouldn't have rigged the lights to turn on when he entered the room. He'd have to open the circuit board and rewire…

"Later." Tom moaned, flopping down on his couch. Right now, he wanted to sleep forever, try and get the fight out of his mind.

Once again, he and Lt. B'Elanna Torres had had a fight. This time, it wasn't a small one like before. It was so big, and loud, that Lt. Fred Bristow, B'Elanna's neighbor, had to come over and settle the fight, much to the disbelief of the two senior officers.

By now, the entire crew of Voyager presumably knew of the fight. Tom groaned, knowing that at his next shift, he'd most likely get bogged down with questions from other officers, particularly, Ensign Harry Kim, or maybe even Commander Chakotay. "Just what I need."

The ironic thing was, the fight was all about small things, well, at least, in Tom's opinion. But then again, B'Elanna was half-Klingon, and a female. Not that Tom blamed her, but both species managed to exaggerate things so much. Tom had realized this over his life span, every female acted the same way.

He sighed. Why did he insist on bringing up small things like whether or not B'Elanna spent enough time with him? Or what about bringing up her mood swings (That was mistake #1)? Of course, she had brought up those things about me too, he thought sourly. And I don't have mood swings, he told himself forcefully. Do I?

Tom grimaced. Do I spend enough time with B'Elanna? This was how all his relationships died. And if there was one thing he did not want, that was for this relationship to die. He was going to do everything in his power to stop it from dying.

He slowly closed his eyes, and quietly drifted to sleep.

If there's a way that you could be

Everything you want to be

Would you complain that is came too easy?

Just like the games with you and me

A resolution hard to see

But that's Ok, 'cause I don't see

Things that are plain to see

-Violet

Savage Garden

With a crash, one of the last remaining breakable items in B'Elanna's quarters smashed against the wall. The fragments of the blue vase joined the hundreds of other fragments scattered around her quarters. She had gotten past her original anger at Tom and now she was only mad at herself.

She sank to the floor, trembling. She didn't know why she fought with Tom. Her mother used to fight with her father all the time, that was one of the reasons he had left her and her mother. Kathless, she didn't wasn't to drive Tom away, but that was what she was doing.

She wasn't really sure how the fight had started. All she knew was that it had escalated extremely fast. She and Tom had had other fights before, in fact, they had had a lot of fights before, but this one had been the worse. Lt. Bristow even had to break in, it had gotten so bad.

She chided herself for provoking Tom. If she kept that up, he's certainly leave her. She shouldn't argue with him like that. She didn't deserve a guy as great as him, but for some unknown reason, he put up with her. He wouldn't do that for long is she kept arguing with him.

Her anger returned in full force. She jumped up and grabbed a small terra-cotta clay bowl and hurled it toward something, anything, she didn't care what it hit. After that, two wineglasses, still half full, and several Starfleet pads joined the assorted pieces heaped on her floor. She threw one final object across the room for good measure as she walked into her sleeping area and crashed onto her bed.