Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Please be patient as I'm lacking a beta, though I am doing my best as a new writer and inexperienced, and I'm creating a couple new characters, though Most of the first several chapters will be up to a certain point in the story. not sure when it'll divert.

Prologue
Kathryn/Chakotay

"Kathryn..." Chakotay whispered. He was stunned to be dreaming of her, especially since it was 7 years to the day of her death, and her sacrifice. Her red hair almost glowed with the same radiance as her smile.

"Chakotay, let her know I'll be watching. I approve of our daughter's choice of partners. I love you, and I came today, to let you know, we'll see each other sooner than you've been thinking. Please don't do something foolish."

The dream slowly faded as Chakotay awoke, on the day of his daughter, Skyla's wedding to B'Elanna and Tom's son, Troi de Paris. They were both Leiutenents, and while Troi had his mother's forehead, he had his father's blue eyes, blonde hair, shoulder length, and bright smile. Skyla's red hair came from her mother and darker skin and brown eyes from her father. Chakotay was disappointed to lose his only daughter, but the two were meant for each other, and he had gained a son, and new family from old friends he already had in B'Elanna and Tom Paris.

"The wedding dress was a golden ember flame style, it was a traditional white, but with the famous Maquis bad girl flair. Their cake was a white and chocolate mousse style, and the gifts and ceremony were indeed beautiful.
"Hey Tom," Chakotay had walked over to the young former helmsman and father right after the Father/Daughter dance with Skyla. The younger man quickly embraced his old friend, and asked "So have you ever found anyone else since our ex-Captain? Not Seven, by chance?"
"No, I just didn't think it'd be right, I've found many of friendships with other women have only lasted a few years, and I don't want to end up with the wrong person. Though they do say that true love never dies, that the soul itself has only one perfect match."
Tom frowned, though provided a silly laugh for Chakotay's sake, saying "Soul mates aren't for the dead, you could move on if you wanted. She would have wanted you to."

After Kathryn had died, Chakotay had been leading the crew of Voyager to the alpha quadrant, but it was taking a while. His now 20 year old daughter had been born on ship, 4 years into their journey, with Troi being born 3 years later, a twin of little Miral, though neither were little anymore. Sometimes it seemed they would take 65 years to get back.

Skyla had just thrown the bouquet, when it appeared to be sitting in mid-air, everything was going exactly as planned, until Q Junior turned up.

"Oh, I'm sorry I'm late... I didn't want to miss my closest friend's daughter's only wedding.. But I got lost on the way to Gamma 4, it was a left, not a right.. And what kind of a guest would I be if I didn't bring along a present?"

"There was a bright flash. And standing in the middle of the dance floor, stood a woman, with fiery red hair, blue eyes, glistening smile, and a golden blue dress.

"Kathryn?" Chakotay whispered, he prayed to the spirits that this was real, that she truly had returned, "I'm not dreaming this time?"

"Hello, Chakotay." She said, walking across the dance floor to his side. "It's been too long. And no, you're not dreaming. I had to beg Q to let me come back. But I'm back for good, he helped me to recover, and it's taken almost this long just to heal from every, uh, problem, with being dead, you tend to have a few lasting scars. Time passes differently in the Q Continuum. It's been a century since the accident in Q's realm, I'd have been back much sooner if I could, but everything was displaced so much temporally, I couldn't remember who I was, but Q has been teaching me a few things, as has my godson."

Chakotay held onto Kathryn as if he'd never let her out of his sight again, and kissed her as passionately at that point as he did 7 years prior, his heart rejoicing as tears flowed freely from his eyes. His Kathryn was back.

Kathryn's slender arms wrapped around him, as they moved along the dance floor, remembering everything since their own wedding day, 25 years earlier, exactly a year after their experience on New Earth...

Author's Note: Is there any way delete these stupid Div tags other than by hand? Kinda want to make the chapters longer, and I don't want to keep going line by line if this copy paste thing is going to keep showing up on all my chapters...