Note: If I was good at writing I would be making money off of it instead of working 16 hours a day in a nursing home. As it is it is just a fun way to relax and live out some fantasies of characters that are never going to do what I want them too…stupid writers. Mistakes are my own and I don't own the characters they belong to their respective creators.

Discord

Captain Kathryn Janeway stared out of her quarter's port side window. In her younger years she found the view to be quite stunning, how she wished she could return that sense of amazement to her life now. Perhaps she was too old now to appreciate it, or perhaps being stranded in the Delta quadrant for four years have given her strange immunity to the wonders of space travel.

She missed home; being thousands of light years away from it had caused her to forget long ago why she had chosen to join Star Fleet in the first place. Her accomplishments so far consisted of stranding not only her crew but the crew of the Maqui here as well. Outwardly the Captain sighed. She'd forgiven herself for that long ago, and her crew had never blamed her to begin with. This crew, both of them, had become a family if her choice had been any different nothing they had accomplished here in the Delta quadrant would have happened. Neelix, Kess, Icheb and the Borg children, none of them would have ever had the chance to bored Voyager, and in some cases they may not have survived.

Then there was Seven of Nine. Seven, simply thinking of her filled Janeway with a sense of pride and longing, lately the ex-Borg had taken up much of her thoughts and she wasn't even trying to. Janeway was starting to slip; perhaps it was time to distance herself from the object of her desire. That would be easier said than done, especially if Seven begins to notice. Kathryn could see Seven now, overriding her security lock to her quarter's and demanding to know why the Captain was avoiding her. Janeway chuckled softly, such stubbornness odd how she found it so irresistible in Seven and so annoying in anyone else.

The ship suddenly lurched nearly knocking her clean off her feet. She steadied herself and slipped into her steely Captain persona all day dreaming an idle thoughts disappearing from her mind. She pressed her com badge. "Report."

"Captain we are under fire, report to the bridge immediately."

"On my way Commander." So much for a bit of rest and relaxation, duty calls. She made her way to the bridge and to her command chair Chakotay had just vacated for her. "Situation."

"Captain, we are being attacked by some sort of spatial phenomenon." Harry Kim stated sounding just as confused as he looked.

"Are you telling me that someone is using a natural phenomenon against us, as in aiming it directly at my ship Ensign? How is that possible?"

"I'm not sure Captain just that-"A violent lurch sent him forward so he was nearly flipped over his console. While he steadied himself he heard Helmsman Taken speak up.

"The phenomenon has…vanished, Captain."

"What do you mean vanished?" Janeway drew her brows together in confusion. She couldn't really be that lucky. First they were being attacked by space, now it just suddenly ceased. Nothing of her time in the Delta quadrant had been that easy.

"Not sure, Captain just that the reading is now…"

"Intruder alert! Cargo bay 2, Captain." Tuvok's hands danced over the controls and Janeway's head jerked up to look at him. "It seems the "attack" was a ploy to board Voyager unnoticed."

Janeway tapped her com badge, "Seven." Silence was her answer. "Tuvok send a team down to cargo bay 2 I want this intruder found, now." Her voice was cold and calm but inside Kathryn was more worried and afraid for Seven than she had been minutes before when the entire ship was in jeopardy. Tuvok obeyed reaching for his phaser and leaving the bridge. "Commander you have the bridge report to me immediately if the phenomenon reoccurs."

"Ma'am." He watched her leave barely noting the subconscious way he thinks of her and Seven of Nine's relationship. Somehow the minute they heard and intruder in cargo bay 2 the entire bridge crew knew the Captain would be heading down to check for herself. They had accepted the Captain and Seven's relationship already, and currently there was not even one to accept.

Janeway fumed all the way down in the turbo lift. She was itching to call for a site to site transport. Seven wasn't responding, but a site to site was a bit extreme while dangerous she could not be sure the situation was life threatening and Tuvok and the security team would already be at the cargo hold. But the damn lift was going too slow for her she wanted…no needed to know Seven was alright ten minutes ago!

Her fear got the better of her, initiating a site to site caused her to arrive at the same time as Tuvok who raised his eye brow in question but refrained from speaking. She went in first, hardly sparing a thought to being unarmed and letting the team go first, which would have been the logical thing to do if having Seven in danger left her with any sense of logic.

Seemed her fear was correct, Seven was lying in an awkward angle as if her regeneration had been prematurely ended and she had collapsed as an effect. She moved to her while Tuvok and the rest of the team spread out to search. "Ensign Kim, what is the current location of the intruder." Tuvok asked.

"Still in Cargo bay 2." Was the response.

Kathryn's ears perked up as she was turning Seven onto her back so she could check her out. Tuvok heard it as well. A sniffling sound, almost as if a young child was crying. Kathryn caught the attention of the rest of the team and held her finger to her lips indicating silence. Tuvok followed the soft sound to a barrel that had been overturned somehow. He bent cautiously and aimed his phaser inside. "Please exit the container slowly and you shall not be harmed. Your presence aboard our vessel requires an explanation."

Kathryn watched a small child slowly climb out of the container, tears streaming down her cheeks. "Don't hurt me…Mommy said I'd be safe if I stayed quite but I'm scared I want Mommy!" Tuvok looked helplessly at the captain; he wasn't sure how to proceed the child barely looked four. The Captain was just as lost as he was.

Seven stirred and the Captain switched her attention back to helping the woman onto her back. Seven's blue eyes were bright with pain and a long gash extended from her chin to her cheek just under her ocular implant. "Captain…" Even her voice was filled with pain.

"Shhh….easy now Seven we'll get you to sick bay and taken care of."

"Mommy?" All eyes turned to the child who looked like she was about to collapse at any second. She started toward the couple on the floor only to stop and look up at Tuvok. "Can I go… she looks like my Mommy…only? Mommy never had jewelry like that."

Janeway glanced at Tuvok and shook her head. If this was some sort of temporal phenomenon and this pretty innocent child was Sevens she needed a few minutes to…assimilate….the information. Seven belonging to someone else, even the thought was pure torture. "Sick bay first, then we can decide what to do about a four year old on boa-"

"I'm Five!" Janeway gapped….two seconds ago the child was crying for her mother. Now she showed no fear and was beginning to develop a belligerent streak that was dauntingly close to Seven's own. Not only that but at a closer look the child had loose blonde curls that clung to her face and shoulders and her eyes were an amazingly clear icy blue. She was the spitting image of Seven. The chilling discovering left Kathryn's heart as cold as the eyes watching her.

"To sickbay Commander escort her I will bring Seven." Janeway bent down and picked the again unconscious woman up ignoring the protests from her crew men. She was stronger than she looked and refused to do another site to site when she could have Seven in her arms and Seven's wounds were not life threatening.