Title: Baby Blue

Disclaimers: I don't own any of these characters

A/N: So, another oldie (I will get back to uploading my current story too, but I also want to get all my old ones up). It actually took me a lot longer to write than it will to upload (years I think). It was such a great spark of an idea, and yet, like some ideas, it flared out when I tried to blow on it and make it bigger (bad metaphor? sounded better in my head :)) So, here it is, with my random Continuity Notes and everything.

Continuity Note: Yeah, totally fully aware that in all likely hood Kerry, Kathryn, and Beverly would
not have been in the same class, or more specifically Kathryn in regular Starfleet while Bev and Ker were in
Starfleet Medical, but hey, it's my story... :) (Believe me, I've jiggled other character's ages also...)

Continuity Note #2: Yeah, I know, Voyager had another CMO when they were poofed into the Delta
Quadrant. He was male, and was all over one of the nurses when they were going boom into the Delta
Quadrant. But hey, it's my story. So now, there was no dying on top of each other, just Kerry getting bounced
around a bit, and her crutch getting all bent out of shape.

Continuity Note #3: You know what, instead of giving away the rest of the story, I'm just going to
stick with this. I've totally meshed, molded, and generally screwed up the universe that Rick Berman et
al created. Just generally being me... :-D And Kerry has memories up to well, let's just say that she has
memories up to "A Little Help from my Friends.

Rosemary frowned as she asked why Kerry was a patient.

Kerry was surprised, as she had thought that only Abby and her OB knew at this point. "You saw me?"

Rosemary nodded sadly and tugged at her own hospital gown. Kerry looked down and sighed, "I was..." Kerry couldn't speak the rest, and instead signed that she had lost her baby.

Rosemary looked at Kerry with sadness in her eyes. Kerry suddenly didn't know what to do with her hands anymore, and simply let them drop onto the bed. Kerry was surprised when one of Rosemary's hands crept out and clasped her own hands. It was the last straw, she just laid her head down on the bed and fell apart.

"Kerry, are you okay?"

Kerry blinked the wetness out of her eyes and looked up at a futuristic ceiling with things blinking on it. "Wh..what...where am I?"

Kerry tried to move her head, worried that she had been hurt, had lost time, but it seemed to be in some sort of restraint. She couldn't remember anything after falling apart in front of Rosemary. She tried to sit up, but was stopped by a male hand. The female voice was the one who spoke again, "Don't strain yourself Kerry. You're finally back with us. Just rest for a few hours more. We'll talk later Commander."

Kerry's eyes blinked with sleep and her last thought before the sedative kicked in was, 'Commander'?

Kerry opened her eyes and groaned, "God that's bright." The first place her hand went was to her abdomen.

The same female voice from before spoke, "Lights three quarters." And the lights dimmed to a less bright setting. "You probably want to be able to see me."

Kerry steeled herself and moved so that she was sitting up against the back of the... futuristic bed. She blinked, "Lord, I'm hallucinating."

The red headed woman laughed with boundless joy. "No Kerry, although after I tell you what has happened in the last six years you will wish you were."

Kerry furrowed her eyebrows, "6 years. What? Where am I?"

The red head took a deep breath, "You're on the USS Voyager in the Delta Quadrant. You've been in a coma for six and a half years."

Kerry rubbed the bridge of her nose, "Of course..."

The red head's eyes lit up, while the rest of her face stayed reserved, "So you remember?"

Kerry shook her head, "No, that was sarcasm, you have that here in the..." Kerry made quote marks, "future?"

The red head raised her eyebrows, "Yes, yes we do. I'm sorry, it's just that we've been using the EMH, The Doctor, as he likes to be called, for so long. I forget that most Starfleet doctors are sarcastic."

Kerry ran a hand through her hair and did a mental double take as she ran the hand again, "Hell that's short. First thing I do in this...reality..." she looked around, "Grow my hair out. Oh, and the sarcasm is a defense mechanism against the death... or maybe the cafeteria food."

The red head nodded, "So, you've said before." Kerry frowned at this, "What do you remember about 6 1/2 years ago?"

Kerry's frown deepened, "I was a resident at County General Hospital in Chicago Illinois." Kerry paused, "20th Century. Was Chief Resident, then an Attending, the whole acting/interim chief crap, finally actual chief of the ER. But you say I was in a coma?" Kerry wanted to get to the bottom of her situation, figure out what her drink had been spiked with.

The red head nodded, "Who do you remember?"

"From the coma?" The red head nodded seriously again, Kerry decided she might as well start at the beginning, "John Carter, Abby Lockhart...?"

The red head nodded, it was really getting on Kerry's nerves. "Sergent John Carter, he's a Security man, and he and the former Maquis Abigail Lockhart recently got married. Not the first on board, but not the last."

Kerry stared intently at the red head, "You're Katie, Kathy...no, you hate being called Kathy." Kerry blinked, "Kath..."

Kathryn Janeway smiled softly, "Yes. Do you remember anything else?"

Kerry shook her head, "No."

"How about from... the coma...?" Kathryn successfully kept the disappointment out of her voice.

"Kim Legaspi."

Kathryn nodded and looked to the side, "Your first girlfriend, Maquis, and of course, she wound up with Chakotay, and being stranded in the Delta Quadrant with the rest of us."

Kerry blinked, "First girlfriend?"

Kathryn had a slightly alarmed look on her face, "Yeah. You two went out when you were both in med school. Broke up not long afterwards when she quit med school before graduating and joined the Maquis, and you went into Starfleet." Kathryn winced, "You Weavered some good interns when you heard about that."

Kerry concentrated, "Sandy Lopez?"

"Part of one of the Hazard Teams, got us out of many pickles. You went out with her for a bit after Lt. Legaspi broke up with you. Don't really know why you two broke up."

Kerry crushed her jaws together for a moment before she swallowed and took a deep breath. She rolled her shoulders with a wince, "Do I have to stay here?"

Kathryn looked over at a bald man in a blue and black jumpsuit, who simply shrugged. "Of course not. You may even remember something if you are not confined to Sickbay."

"Sickbay." Kerry tried the word out as she slowly got out of bed and looked up as Kathryn handed her a crutch. Kerry stared at it for a moment. "Did you not have one in the coma?"

Kerry shook her head, "Yes, yes I did have one. I just... is there anywhere I should stay away from?"

Kathryn shook her head, "Of course not Kerry. You're the CMO. Everyone knows... they know."

Kerry rolled her eyes, "Great... hey everyone, the Doc's off her rocker... let's see if we can play tricks on her...It'll be just like at County..." Kerry kept up her mumbling as she walked out the door of Sickbay.

Kathryn laughed almost sadly, "Well, she might not remember us. But she is still Commander Kerry Weaver."