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Notes: Rated PG for mild language and adult situations. Huge thanks to my Beta extraordinaires, Moof and Cori!

Old Acquaintance Be Forgot

Acting Captain's log Lt Cmdr Tuvok: It has been six weeks since the Captain and Commander failed to report back at our rendezvous site. The resupply mission they left on was scheduled to take five days. After six weeks of searching, we believe we have discovered their location. The local government has not been helpful as it appears there is a severe labor shortage on the planet. In an effort to maintain the safety of the crew, I have moved Voyager to a safe distance. Lts. Paris and Torres have taken the Delta Flyer to the planet. The goal is for them to approach the planet seeking jobs. Once on the planet they will make contact with our missing command crew.

B'Elanna walked through the plant eyeing as many of the workers as she could. Scans had indicated two human life signs at this particular plant, and she hoped she could find the Captain and Commander. Her hopes were fading as there had to be thousands of people here. With a sigh, she continued towards the supervisor's office where she was reporting for her first day on the job.

"Well Torres, level six in engineering and level five in quantum fusion. Welcome aboard."

B'Elanna smiled tightly at the shift supervisor as he led the way to the work floor. "I've heard good things about how you treat your employees."

"We try to keep our people happy. I'll introduce you to your department manager and he'll show you around." B'Elanna stifled a gasp when she was introduced to her manager. "Chief, this is your new engineer. Make her feel welcome."

The supervisor handed Chakotay a padd with her work references on it and left the two standing there.

"Chakotay?" B'Elanna asked hesitantly. She wasn't sure if he was acting undercover or if he really didn't know who she was. She didn't see any recognition in her old friend's eyes at the sight of her.

"That's my name." Her heart ached when he smiled at her unknowingly. "We're lucky to get such a skilled engineer as you. Our last one just transferred over to the Atmosphere Filtration facility a few days ago."

"Well, that's good news for me," she recovered. "You, uhm, look familiar. Have we ever met before?"

"No, I don't think so. We obviously aren't from the same place," he laughed. "Let me show you around."

As they walked towards her new work station he commented, "So, when are you due?"

B'Elanna's hand reflexively moved to the small bulge of her stomach, "In about three months."

"That's great. Congratulations." He held a door open for her and then floored her with his next comment. "My fiancée and I are trying to get pregnant as well."

B'Elanna stopped in mid stride. "What?"

He turned back to look at her surprised at her shocked expression.

"I'm sorry," B'Elanna immediately tried to recover. "You just caught me by surprise. I didn't think the plant allowed for fraternization."

"Well they don't, but my fiancée doesn't work here." He stopped in front of her console. "This is your station. If you have any questions I'll be right over there."

"Thanks," she managed to mumble at his departure still shocked by his revelation. B'Elanna watched as Chakotay moved into a small office that had a window overlooking the floor.

B'Elanna had been working for nearly four hours when she caught her first glimpse of Kathryn Janeway. She watched as Janeway strolled across the floor of the plant stopping to talk to people and even once pointing out an error on one of the consoles.

B'Elanna was amazed at how Janeway worked the room. She laughed easily and often at passing comments. This wasn't typical behavior of the Captain she saw all the time, but then Janeway put her hand on the chest of the next person that stopped her to talk. That was a signature Janeway move if B'Elanna had ever seen one. She waited until Janeway was almost next to her console and then deliberately moved into her path.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," B'Elanna said as she purposefully ran into Janeway.

Janeway's eyes danced but they held no recognition, "Not a problem, I should stop talking to everyone and watch where I'm going."

"Yes, you seem to know a lot of people here." She stuck her hand out. "I'm B'Elanna Torres."

Janeway shook her hand, "You must be the new engineer."

"That's what I'm told," B'Elanna sighed as she realized there wasn't going to be any secret messages from this woman that she regarded so highly. Janeway wasn't acting. She really had no idea who B'Elanna was.

"Well, let's hope you're better than the last one," Janeway laughed. "It was nice meeting you, but I've got to deliver these reports to the manager."

B'Elanna stepped out of her Captain's way and watched fascinated as Janeway entered the office where Chakotay was working. He took the pads that Janeway offered him and smiled at something she said. There was no spark between the two that B'Elanna could see. He simply began perusing the information on the padds. B'Elanna hoped they would glance in her direction indicating they were talking about her sudden appearance, but they didn't. She watched as Janeway made her way out of the office and across the floor in the direction opposite of the way she came. B'Elanna checked to see if Chakotay was watching Kathryn's departure the way he always did, but was disappointed to see he was sitting behind his desk reviewing reports.

Tom hadn't heard from B'Elanna yet, but he had managed to get himself a job doing something that was as second nature to him as piloting. He got a job bartending at the local pub. He had learned that most of the plant workers congregated here during their off hours and felt this was the best opportunity to find the people they were looking for outside of the plant. His skills were rewarded when he only had an hour left on his shift. Kathryn Janeway walked into the pub and had a seat at a back booth by herself.

As nonchalantly as possible Tom made his way over to her, "You're a sight for sore eyes."

She looked up from the padd she was reading and narrowed her eyes at him, "I beg your pardon."

Tom felt like he had just been rejected by his own mother. He knew in that moment she had no idea who he was. He stumbled, "I'm sorry. I thought you were someone I knew."

"Well, I'm not," She said dryly and turned her attention back to her reading. When Tom continued to stand there she looked back to him. "Was there something else?"

Tom mentally shook himself. This was too strange. She even dismissed him the same way she did as the Captain, and yet she was definitely not acting like the Janeway he knew. Since she wasn't acting like the Captain, Tom decided it wouldn't hurt to lay on the charm.

"I'm sorry again," He said giving her his best smile. "Now that we've determined we don't know each other, I was wondering if I could get you something from the bar."

She eyed him again and then tapped his left hand. "I don't think your wife would like that too much."

He fingered the wedding band that Janeway had just tapped. "Well, she'll like it even less if I lose my job."

Janeway's eyebrow rose in question.

"I'm the bartender," Tom laughed. "When I asked if I could get you something from the bar, I was merely speaking as a professional courtesy."

"Of course you were," she said laughing with him. "In that case I'll take an Irish coffee."

"Isn't that an Earth drink?" Tom asked

"Yes it is. Do you know Earth?" She asked wonderment filling her face.

"My parents were from there," Tom said. Hoping to spark a memory he commented, "They were involved with Starfleet."

"Starfleet?" She shook her head. "Don't know that one, but it's been a long time since I saw Earth."

"Why is that?"

"Oh, it's a long story. Suffice it to say I'm happy I left, and I've never looked back." She looked down for a moment. "But it's always nice to see another Terran."

Tom sighed. This wasn't going to be easy. "I'll go get your drink."

B'Elanna walked in and sat down at the bar an hour later. Tom flashed her a smile and nodded towards the back booth while he finished with a customer. B'Elanna looked over the patrons in the bar before letting her gaze settle on Kathryn at the back booth. She looked as though she could be sitting in her ready room reading a report. B'Elanna sighed again.

"I know exactly how you feel," Tom said setting a glass in front of his wife. "I spoke with her and she had no idea who I was."

"Same here. Chakotay too," B'Elanna said sipping the drink. She was about to tell him the other Earth shattering news when she heard Chakotay's voice.

"Torres, how was your first day?" Chakotay walked up to the bar. "Hope it wasn't too stressful."

"Nothing I couldn't handle," she said watching him as he motioned to Tom.

"That's good to hear." He turned to Tom who had a hopeful look on his face at being addressed by the big guy. "I'd like a Nebular on the rocks and an Irish Coffee."

Tom's face fell, but he just nodded and began to fix the drinks. "Irish coffee is popular tonight."

Chakotay laughed, "How many has she had?"

"Two already," Tom said setting the drinks on the bar. "How'd you know I was talking about one woman?"

"Kathryn is the only one that orders them, but she drinks enough of them that the Proprietress said it's worth keeping it around." He laughed and started to pick up the drinks.

"Chakotay," B'Elanna said stopping him. She gestured towards Tom, "This is my husband, Tom."

"Really?" He set the drinks back down. "Nice to meet you. I understand congratulations are in order."

Tom risked a glance at B'Elanna wondering what Chakotay was referring to. "For what?"

Chakotay laughed, "Your baby, of course."

"Oh, right. Thank you," Tom said again disappointed.

"The two of you are welcome to join Kathryn and me, if you'd like," Chakotay offered.

"My shift just ended. That'd be great," Tom said as he came from around the bar. They followed Chakotay over to the table and were graced with a full smile from Kathryn when she looked up from her reading.

Kathryn stood up and took the coffee from Chakotay while giving him a kiss hello, "I missed you today."

"I missed you, too," He said wrapping his arm around her waist. "This is B'Elanna Torres my new engineer and her husband. I understand you've already met him."

Kathryn turned towards the younger couple who were desperately trying to reign in their shock. "Small world isn't it? I've already bumped into B'Elanna, and yes, Tom and I met earlier."

"So I hear," Chakotay commented as they all four sat down in the booth. "You're supposed to be cutting back on the caffeine."

The glare Tom received was so Captain-like he almost snapped to attention, but then Kathryn turned to B'Elanna. "My fiancée thinks that if I drink caffeine I won't get pregnant. Now B'Elanna, tell me, did you miraculously conceive because you weren't ingesting caffeine?"

Tom almost spewed his drink at this comment, but B'Elanna stepped on his foot under the table. "You're Chakotay's fiancée? But I saw you at the plant today."

Kathryn waved her hand in dismissal of this comment, "Oh that, I was just dropping off some turnover reports."

"She wanted to see me," Chakotay said with a wink.

"I wanted to see him," Kathryn admitted. "I transferred last week to the Atmosphere Filtration facility."

Some pieces of the puzzle clicked in B'Elanna's mind, "You're the engineer that left?"

"Yeah," Chakotay said chuckling. "We've been together awhile now, but because of the fraternization rules we had to keep our relationship a secret. We were tired of hiding it so she transferred. Are you okay, Tom?"

Tom really wished they'd stop throwing out these comments while he was drinking. He continued coughing but signaled that he was alright. "Sorry, it must've gone down wrong."

Kathryn laughed, "I think we're shocking the young ones, Chakotay. All this talk about procreation, it must be like listening to their parents talk about sex."

B'Elanna smiled and patted Tom's back as he began a new round of coughing.

"Tuvok, we found them," Paris reported once he and B'Elanna were back on the Delta Flyer for the night. What an interesting meal that had been. "We weren't able to bring them back with us. They don't know who we are. It seems like some sort of specialized amnesia. They know parts about who they are, but most of the details are wrong. They're very happy here. We have a plan, but it may take us a couple of days."

Tuvok nodded after Paris explained his plan, "Very well, Mr. Paris. We will hold position here. Contact us again when you have something further to report."

Paris signed off and turned to look at his wife. "I feel terrible about this."

"I know," she said sitting down across from him. "They're so happy here, but we can't just leave them. This isn't their life. It's all a lie."

"And neither one of them likes to be manipulated," Tom sighed. "The Captain just looked so relaxed."

"That wasn't the Captain," B'Elanna stated emphatically. "That was Kathryn Janeway."

Two days later

"That meal was delicious B'Elanna," Chakotay said leaning back from the table. "Thank you so much for having us over."

"It was our pleasure," B'Elanna said as she stood up and began to collect the dishes from the table. "Now, why don't you men go outside for a few minutes so we girls can talk about you while you're gone."

Tom laughed heartily and pushed himself to his feet hoping to guide Chakotay outside, "C'mon Chakotay, I'm sure we have almost the same view of the refinery as you do."

"Employee housing does all look alike," Kathryn commented helping B'Elanna clear the table. "But at least your cooking console isn't temperamental. I've never had as much trouble with anything as I've had with trying to not burn our meals lately."

"It's alright Kathryn, not everyone can cook," B'Elanna sneaked a peak at Kathryn. She knew she could overpower the older woman if she needed to, but she really didn't want to be the woman that underestimated Kathryn Janeway. If she played it just right, she wouldn't have to use physical force. As Kathryn made another trip out to the table and back, B'Elanna secretly palmed the hypospray she was going to use. It was now or never.

"Kathryn, would you mind looking under the sink for a container for this extra food?"

"Sure," Kathryn beamed at B'Elanna. "I guess getting up and down isn't as easy as it used to be for you."

Kathryn squatted down to look inside the cabinet. B'Elanna took a deep steadying breath and made her move. She walked over and stood slightly behind Kathryn's shoulder and pretended to be pointing inside the cabinet. As she gestured to a container in the back of the cabinet, she quickly brought up her other hand to pull back on Kathryn's shoulder. Kathryn was already balanced precariously on the balls of her feet and was easily pulled off balance. B'Elanna brought the hypospray into contact with Kathryn's neck.

"What the hell…" The shocked look of betrayal and anger on Kathryn's face went straight to B'Elanna's core. She caught her Captain as her eyes rolled back and she passed out from the drug B'Elanna had administered. B'Elanna gently laid her down on the floor, and immediately checked Kathryn's vitals to assure herself. She also reminded herself that she was doing this for the right reasons. She gave her unconscious Captain one last look and reset the hypospray before she started yelling.

"Tom! Chakotay! Come quick." It wasn't too difficult to appear frantic when the men arrived in the kitchen as she still felt guilty for rendering Kathryn unconscious. "She said she didn't feel right and then she just collapsed."

Chakotay had rushed to Kathryn's side and after checking for a pulse was now cradling her in his arms. "Kathryn. C'mon Kathryn, wake up."

B'Elanna palmed the hypospray again while Tom took up position across from Chakotay. The desperate pleading in Chakotay's voice was almost B'Elanna's undoing. Tom looked up at her and nodded to her while he spoke to Chakotay, "She'll be alright Chakotay, we'll get her a cold rag and see if that won't bring her out of it."

Chakotay never even registered that B'Elanna was standing behind him. He was so focused on Kathryn that he never saw it coming. B'Elanna administered the sedative to his neck. Chakotay's head snapped up when he felt the hiss on his neck and realized what was happening. He locked eyes with Tom for a moment before the drug took effect and he slumped over. Tom reeled from the intensity of the anger he had glimpsed in Chakotay's eyes. "If he wakes up before we can get him back to Voyager, I think he's going to kill us."

"He'll have to get in line. Kathryn is none to thrilled with me right now either," B'Elanna said stepping towards her husband. "I hate this, Tom. I really hate this."

He hugged her, "I know."

After checking their vitals, Tom left to get the Flyer; leaving B'Elanna to keep a vigil over her two friends. They had already put pattern enhancers into place in the apartment and could now beam through the interference. As soon as Tom could get in the air, he was going to beam all three of them straight to the Flyer. Feeling overprotective, B'Elanna took out the medical tricorder to scan her friends one more time just to assure herself that they were fine. She had been too frantic and guilt ridden to notice it the first time, but this time she gasped when she ran the tricorder over Kathryn's still form. Kathryn was two weeks pregnant.

B'Elanna continued to stand watch over the command team in the lower belly of the Flyer. She had masked their life signs so that Tom wouldn't have to explain their presence as he navigated out of Quarren space. While she waited for Tom to sound the all clear she tried to keep herself busy. She attached Janeway's and Chakotay's comm. badges to their clothes. She smoothed Kathryn's hair so that it was off of her face. B'Elanna couldn't help but stare at these two people that meant so much to her. Even unconscious, they both looked more relaxed than she had seen them in years, and she was taking all that away from them. She wrapped her arms around herself and tucked her chin down hoping that she and Tom had done the right thing.

Tom came down the steps and wrapped his arms around his wife and propped his chin on her shoulder. "They look great don't they?"

"Yes," she sighed. "Tom, I scanned them while you were getting the Flyer, just to make sure they were alright and well…."

"I know," he hugged her tighter. "The Captain's going to be a mother."

B'Elanna stayed quiet for a moment, "What do you think she'll do?"

"I don't know," he commented quietly. "We have to get her back first. I just hope the Doc can reverse whatever's been done to them."

"Kahless, I hadn't even considered that. If he can't get them to remember who they are, we really have kidnapped them." She turned to face him. "We may still lose them. I can't imagine them wanting to stay on a ship with people they don't know for the next forty years."

"One thing at a time." Tom pushed her hair back from her face. "Let's just get them back to Voyager first. Then we'll worry about everything else."