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Chapter 3
Kathryn arrived in the stations medical bay with Tuvok and the Doctor. She could see a group of Tanasi Doctors crowded around a bio bed and she could just see Chakotay between them. Tom was sitting on the edge of another bio bed close by, watching Chakotay and the Doctors intently.
"Tom" Kathryn said as she approached him, his uniform was dirty and torn in a few places from the explosion. He had several cuts and bruises but the only one that appeared at all serious was the one on his head. It had been patched up, though not as well as it would have been if he'd been on Voyager.
"They don't seem to be as medically advanced as we expected them to be" Tom told her when he noticed the direction of her gaze. The Doctor immediately pulled out is tricorder and started scanning him.
"Chakotay took a pretty nasty blow to the head but the doctors said he'll be fine" Tom said turning his attention back to Chakotay.
Kathryn followed his gaze, she could see Chakotay properly from this angle, his uniform and body were in a slightly worse shape than Tom's and his head wound was clearly visible.
"Captain Janeway" A man said as he entered the medical bay and it took her a moment to recognise him.
"Captain Nal, what happened?"
"There was an overload in the plasma conduits, I am sorry that you're men were caught in the explosion"
"What caused the overload?" Tuvok asked as he switched into investigator mode.
"We're not sure yet, our people are looking into it"
"Commander Chakotay is stable now, there's nothing more we can do for him" One of the doctors said as he joined them.
"Is it safe to transport him to Voyager?" She asked, looking over the mans shoulder to where the Doctor was now hovering over Chakotay with his tricorder.
"Yes, you can probably do more for him than we can"
"Under the circumstances" Captain Nal began "I believe we should reschedule our briefing"
"I believe so"
Kathryn moved over to Chakotay's side and gently ran a hand over his cheek before turning to look at the others. "Janeway to Voyager, five to beam directly to sickbay"
Captain Nal watched as the five members of the Voyager crew disappeared "Excuse me, Captain?"
"What is it Doctor?" Nal asked.
"There's something you need to see"
"Commander I don't think you should sit up so fast" The Doctor tried to protest as Chakotay sat up on the bio bed.
"What happened?"
"There was an overload in the corridor aboard the space station, you and Tom were both injured in the explosion" Kathryn explained.
"Is Tom alright?"
"He's fine, he's already returned to duty"
"However you commander" The doctor started "Are to get several hours rest before I'll allow you to return to duty"
"But I'm fine…"
"Commander, you suffered a severe head injury, I insist that you rest for at least the next six hours"
"But I feel fine now, I don't need…"
"Commander" The Doctor said in the same tone he used when Kathryn was being difficult, the one that said 'do as I say or I'll sedate you'.
"Fine"
The doctor sighed "I do believe the Captain is rubbing off on you" he said as he left the room.
Chakotay looked at Kathryn who had an amused smile on her face which he found contagious.
"Try not to do that again" she said as her way of telling him she'd been worried.
"I'll try"
"What am I looking at?" Captain Nal asked as he stared in confusion at the medical read outs the doctor was showing him.
"This is the analysis of a blood sample taken from Commander Chakotay"
"Does his Captain know you're analysing his blood?"
"No but we were curious so we ran both the commanders and Lieutenant Paris's"
"And?"
"And we detected minute traces of a chemical in his blood, he probably doesn't even know it's there"
"Is this going somewhere doctor?" Nal asked feeling slightly exasperated and hoping he wouldn't have to explain to Captain Janeway why the stations medical staff had run unauthorised tests on the blood of a member of her crew.
The doctor hesitated a moment before answering "Commander Chakotay could be the key to solving our problem"
TBC