Cyber Cafe
Disclaimers:
If I owned the characters and their ship don't you think I
would have put everyone out of their misery by now? Here's
to Paramount!
Rating:
PG-13
Cyber
Café
Kathryn
was exhausted. She had only arrived on the rebuilt Dorovan six
days earlier but she was already shattered. Twelve days ago she
had waved goodbye to her mother and boarded the transport to take
her where she was now. She was in search of first officer or
ex-first officer if you were being picky. She had looked
everywhere she had originally thought of and a few that came to
her on the spur of the moment but had seen no sign of him.
Desperately in need of new ideas she was walking along the
promenade of Dorovans busiest city. Spotting a coffee bar she
decided to take a well-earned break.
Walking
in she noticed the consoles on every table.
Sort
of like a 21st
century cyber café
She
laughed to herself as she sat down. Activating her console she
punched in her mothers connection.
"What
can I get for you?"
"Coffee.
Black." She replied to the waitress who had posed the
question.
"Kathryn!
Hi!" a voice exclaimed from the monitor.
"Hi,
Mom"
"1
black coffee for table 7"
"You
what?" a young man replied.
"The
lady at table 7 asked for a black coffee. Actually she said
Coffee. Black.' Like she was ordering from a
replicator or something."
A
large man glanced up from his paperwork to see the waitress take
the large mug of coffee and head towards table 7.
"How's
it going Kathryn?"
"I
haven't had much luck"
"Well
you won't find him by drinking coffee!"
"I
know but would you look at this thing," She laughed waving a
huge, now empty mug at the screen, "I'm in
heaven!"
"And
no doubt they've already gone to get you another one!"
"Another
Coffee. Black. For table 7!" the waitress shouted.
"I'll
get that one!" the man stood up deserting his work.
"B'Ellana
was looking for you she wanted to know if you'd had any
luck."
"I'll
contact her later I promised I would."
"Actually
Kathryn," Gretchen Janeway said looking over her
daughter's shoulder, "I have to go now. Gretchen
out."
"What?
Mom-"
Kathryn
turned round to see what her mother had been looking at and came
face to face with a very familiar tattoo.
"Typical!
I search for you for six days solid and I find you in a coffee
bar of all places!"
"You
were looking for me?" he replied sliding into the seat
opposite her.
"Yes
I was. Why have you got my coffee?"
"Because
I told Laura I would serve you."
"You
work here?"
"I
own the place"
"You're
kidding! I would have thought after Voyager you would have run
from the stuff!"
"I
kind of acquired a taste for it! Kathryn, why were you looking
for me?"
The
look in her eyes told him all he needed to know and she could see
he saw it but told him anyway.
"I
love you Chakotay, I always have done. I want to know if
you'll give me a chance."
He
pulled her across the table and kissed her with all her might.
"I
Love you too Kathryn Janeway I knew my coffee bar would bring you
too me in the end!"
Smiling
so much she thought her face would ache for days she kissed him
with increasing passion.
"So
you found him then!" Tom Paris' face appeared on the
monitor next to them, "and about time too B'Ell has
just gone into labour!"
~~~Finis~~~
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