This is my third voyager story and the idea was inspired by a friend so let me know what you think and I hope you enjoy it.

Constant Fight

Chapter 1

The man came running out from behind a tree with his weapon aimed at Chakotay, Chakotay saw him out of the corner of his eye and turned around shooting him in the chest. He then continued to make his way through the woods; he could here the voices of his team over the communicator.

He heard the sound of gunfire up ahead of him, he turned to Ensign Tolson who was right behind him. Using hand signals the two communicated their plan and Chakotay watched as Tolson began to move off to the left to try and get behind their enemy but he only got a few steps before he was hit in the chest several times.

Chakotay then became aware of Tolson's attacker heading in his direction. He couldn't see who it was but he could tell they were coming toward him He moved a few meters away and hid behind a tree. He listened carefully to the sound of the person's footsteps waiting for them to get a little closer. When he was satisfied his attacker was close enough he quickly moved out from behind the tree and aimed his weapons at the person's chest. Just as he was about to fire he hesitated realizing who it was. Kathryn stood there with her weapon aimed at Chakotay.

"Are you going to shoot me Chakotay?" Chakotay smiled and fired, there was an explosion of red on Kathryn's chest and she fell to the ground.

As Kathryn hit the floor an alarm sounded and a voice announced that the game was over and the red team had won. Chakotay smiled and looked down to the floor where Kathryn was laid. He held out his hand to her and she accepted it. He helped her up of the floor and she laughed.

"That was fun. Remind me to congratulate Tom on his excellent idea. I have to say I never would have thought of having a paintballing tournament. Though I'm not sure using real guns and paint bullets was a good idea, they hurt a lot more than Tom let on and the entire crew now need a shower and a change of clothes"

Chakotay laughed, he looked at Kathryn and saw the multicolored paintball splats on her arms and legs that she had received before his fatal shot to the chest. He looked at his own clothes and saw the paint that covered his arms and legs.

The two of them headed toward the exit where they saw the rest of the senior staff stood talking.

"Way to go Chakotay! You killed the Captain" Tom said by his way of greeting, he was covered in various colored paintball marks. He had been on the Blue team along with the Captain had yellow paintball marks all over his chest.

"Who got you?" Chakotay asked

"B'Elanna" he stated with no shame whatsoever in having been killed by his girlfriend.

"Yeah that was right before the Captain came out of nowhere and shot me" she said laughing and pointing to two giant blue splats on her yellow jacket which indicated she had been on the yellow team. Chakotay turned to look at Tuvok and had to choke back his laughter. He was covered in various colored splats on his arms and legs like everyone else but his chest had that many blue splats on it that you couldn't even see the green jacket he was wearing underneath. He had obviously suffered an horrific death.

"What happened to you?" he said only just holding back his laughter and he could see that Kathryn and the others were having similar problems, especially Tom.

"Mr. Paris felt it was necessary to unload an entire pack of ammo into my chest" Everyone burst out laughing, no longer able to keep it in.

"We should go get cleaned up" Kathryn said through her laughter and Chakotay held out his arm to her and she linked her arm with his as they walked out into the corridor.

"I can't believe you shot me"

"Well did you expect me to let you shoot me" he said laughing.

"No I just can't believe you actually killed me" she paused for a moment, thinking "You hesitated"

"What?" Chakotay asked.

"When you came out from behind the tree and realized it was me you hesitated"

"Yeah I did didn't I"

She nodded her head "Why?"

"It was automatic. I realized I was pointing a weapon at you and I guess my mind automatically stopped me from firing"

She smiled and stopped as they reached her quarters "Well I'll have to remember that for next time"

"Next time I might not hesitate"

"Now Chakotay, could you really fire at me that easily"

"Probably not" he said laughing "I'll see you later" Kathryn turned and walked into her quarters and Chakotay headed for his. It was going to take forever to get all this paint out of his hair.