Day 8

So, here we are.

Still can't really believe it, that they've actually resumed course without us. Tuvok in charge and God-knows-who flying the ship.

So I'm stuck here with Mr and Mrs We-had-no-option-but-to-sacrifice-ourselves-for-the-Greater-Good. No option? They've got to be kidding; we didn't even try. I've a good mind to take that type nine shuttlecraft and fly off at oh... all of warp four, and find some friendly Vidiians all by myself.

I can't believe either of them!

I'd never have taken Janeway for such a pushover. She never usually gives up that easily. I can only presume she's still on some insane guilt trip for destroying the array, and she sees this as her punishment or something twisted like that. Wish she'd have just replicated her herself a hair shirt and let us go after them.

And he's no better! Where's the Maquis tactical genius when you need him? What's happened to him? I guess it's her influence; she's softened him up. Although he was quite happy to disobey her orders when it suited him over Seska and that transporter module. But now it's all 'Yes, Captain', 'No, Captain', 'Three bags full, Captain'. And that's another thing, what's with the 'Captain' thing still? I mean she told us to call her Kathryn and it's been days now, eight days actually, but hey, who's counting? Took me all of five minutes to remember to get her name right.

And I know I'm still not exactly his favourite person, after all that went down with Jonas; I did give him a pretty hard time. But that was two whole months ago now, so I wish he'd stop glaring at me like that.

Got to admit he can cook though, whatever that was he made last night was really good, tasted kind of like baked Risan beans. Hopefully we won't have to sample the delights she can whip up again. I sure wouldn't want to be stuck down here on my own with her when the replicator packs up.

But, then again, eventually, if we're going to be here for months or years even, I might've preferred just her. It's just my luck to get myself stranded here with just about the only man on the ship who'd be ahead of me in the Janeway stakes if anyone was ever going to get in there.

Back on the ship I've seen a few sparks fly between them on those rare occasions when she allowed herself to actually look at him. It's the same down here, most of the time she seems to go out of her way to keep her distance from him, and it almost seems like she's purposefully looking somewhere past his left shoulder so as not to notice him.

He's a lot things, most of them seriously annoying, but you can't really miss the fact he's not bad looking, I'd have to concede that. She seems pretty skilled at not noticing though. Even when we stripped to our boxers to swim in the river the other day. Neither of us was doing a very good job of pretending we weren't checking her out in that wet vest and those too-short shorts, but she didn't seem to even want to sneak a peek. Wonder how long that'll last? Is she really going to keep herself to herself forever? I mean she's the only woman on the whole damn planet!

Then again, yes, she just might. I wouldn't put it past her.

I suppose I should be grateful I'm marooned with these two instead of say, Neelix and Tuvok, or the Doc and Chell… It could've been worse. Then again it would've been a lot more fun down here with B'Elanna and Harry. Wonder whether Harry'll find himself moving in on my first choice of fellow castaway. I know I've seen him watching her too once or twice. And now, of course she'll be missing a friend.

I really hope we're going to get somewhere with finding a cure soon, before the ship's too far ahead to ever catch up. Because even that rehab colony back in New Zealand doesn't seem so bad right now; at least there was a final release date to look forward to.