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A/N: I read another story with this plot and thought it should be shorter. So I wrote it.
Summary: Kathryn has some news for Chakotay. JC
Some News
As she stood in the turbo lift she wondered how to say this. Should she talk around it a bit, ease into it so to speak? Should she just be blunt? Should she wait? Should she..? The lift doors opened onto the Bridge. Oh well, best just to get this over with.
She walked directly to her ready room, signalling Chakotay to follow her. She felt she would be sick if she talked. Walking into the ready room she stopped in front of her desk, simply stopped, her back still to Chakotay who paused a few feet behind her. She couldn't say it. The silence stretched on for a couple of minutes until finally Chakotay gently prompted, 'Captain?'
She turned around at the sound of his voice, her face giving away nothing but a slight nervousness. 'Chakotay,' she started, in a steel-laced Captain's voice, 'as your Captain I have to inform you that I'm pregnant.' She gulped and her expression became more open, her voice so soft it was no more than a whisper. 'As Kathryn, I want to tell you that you're going to be a daddy.'
She looked so vulnerable. At least, until he let out a whoop and whirled her around; then she laughed delightedly.
Fine