A love lost and loves sacrifice.

Chapter 9

Where is she?

"Don't look so worried B'Elanna." Said a weary Tom as he looked over his mug at his wife who was now pacing a whole in the wooden floor of their living room.

Rounding on her husband B'Elanna asked, "Where is she Tom?"

"Maybe she went out for a walk." He suggested but even to Tom it sounded slightly weak.

"Without telling us?" B'Elanna snapped back.

"She is not a prisoner B'Elanna." He reminded her as he turned back to the PADD he had been reading before his wife had started her tirade about their missing houseguest.

"Tom please." Hissed his wife in angry warning.

"What?" he asked back of her throwing the PADD down on the sofa next to where he sat giving up on trying to read it.

"That's not funny." B'Elanna told him as she sank into the large armchair opposite her husband.

"It wasn't supposed to be." He told her watching her cautiously.

"So where is she then?" B'Elanna asked for what felt to Tom like the hundredth time in the last twenty minutes.

"B'E how am I supposed to know? I don't know any more than you." He said trying to sound reassuring but all the while inside he was slightly worried.

"Her bed hasn't been slept in." chipped in Miral as she came to sit in the main sitting room with her parents.

"I know that," hissed her angry and worried half klingon mother as she snatched a slice of toast from her druthers breakfast plate.

"So where is she?" asked B'Elanna as her daughter glared angrily at her.

"Stop asking that B'Elanna." Said a very worried Tom who was trying his best not to seem worried at all.

"Well what else am I supposed to ask right now?" yelled B'Elanna as she rose to pace the floor once more.

"Look let's just think about this logically." Said Tom as he held his hands up surrender to his angry wife.

B'Elanna spun round and glared at her husband who could be very annoying at times, "Ok so now my husband has decided to turn into a Vulcan."

"B'Elanna!"

"Ok, right yea, logically." Agreed B'Elanna "I didn't see her for most of yesterday, I thin she did go out in the morning."

"Yea, she went to see Chakotay." Agreed Miral

"She what?" Yelled B'Elanna as she looked from her husband to her daughter in horror as both seemed to know this fact.

"she went to Indiana to see Chakotay." Nodded Tom as he tried to remember if anything was said in their conversation the night before that might have suggested where she had gone.

"How do you know that Tom?" asked a very shocked looking half klingon.

"She told me." He told his wife truthfully.

Gesturing towards her daughter who was now making more toast in the kitchen B'Elanna asked "So was that before or after she made things up with Miral?"

"She went out before but I was talking to her yesterday evening after she had talk to Miral." Said Tom as he was beginning to feel slightly worried, something told him this just wasn't right.

"When was that?" snapped B'Elanna fuming that nobody thought to tell her this little piece of information when all the while she was giving Kathryn space.

"Well I don't know." Shrugged Tom.

"Think!" his wife yelled at him.

"Humm… maybe about 5 or 6 ish." He suggested.

"so I didn't see her after that, nor did Miral so you were the last one to see her." B'Elanna told him.

"great." Tom mutter rolling his eyes.

"so?" his wife demanded from him.

Looking agitated and confused Tom looked at B'Elanna shrugged and asked "so what?"

"what did you two talk about?" she said as though this was such an obvious question.

"I don't know, stuff." Tom told her truthfully not thinking his conversation with Kathryn would have made her go missing.

"what stuff Tom?" B'Elanna demanded feeling exasperated.

"does it matter?" Tom asked her slightly unsure why it did.

"yes" B'Elanna hissed back at him.

"well I don't know, prison," Tom suggested trying to remember what it was he talked with his former Captain about. "how she doesn't leave here much and the other Voyager crew." Then remembering she pointed out even though B'Elanna thought it was obvious "Oh and Chakotay."

"were going to have to tell him aren't we?" she asked sounding really worried now.

Crossing his brow and looking down at his wife's worried eyed Tom asked confused "tell him what?"

"that we lost her." Snapped B'Elanna as though this was obvious.

"B'Elanna, we haven't lost her, she just had one night out! And anyway I didn't see him coming to spend his time with her." Tom reminded her.

"maybe she's there." Said a slightly hopeful B'Elanna.

"with Chakotay?" asked a sceptical Tom.

"yea"

Tom looked at his wife with a worried expression and asked "do you really want to alert him to the fact that we lost her?"

"I thought we didn't loose her!" B'Elanna snarled sarcastically.

"she's a woman in her sixties, she's not a little kid." Tom reminded his wife, really there was nothing they could do about it right then.

"maybe she's has gone back to see Chakotay." Suggested a very serious, and hopeful, B'Elanna.

"I don't think so." Said Tom shaking his head seriously.

"why?" she asked worried as she realised the seriousness of her husband's last comment.

"it didn't go so good" Tom cautiously told his wife not wanting to break her confidence.

"why what happened?" B'Elanna asked him with wide eyes.

"I don't really know, two of six was there." Tom told her which was truthfully all he knew.

"great" sighed a very exhausted B'Elanna who realised how dipterous Two of Six and Kathryn together would be. Realising that they still didn't know where Kathryn had gone B'Elanna asked "well where else has she gone?"

"I don't know do I?" said Tom as he glared at his wife shaking his head.

"so did you tell her where any of the others live?" B'Elanna asked Tom.

After thinking for a minute Tom told his wife seriously "no"

"what about when you told her where Chakotay lives?" she asked him looking into space and trying to think about where Kathryn could be.

"I didn't, I thought you did" said Tom as he slowly met the eyes of his wife.

" no" she told him shaking her head as worry fanned across her face.

"oh." Whispered Tom as he looked like something hard had just hit him in the stomach.

"Miral!" B'Elanna called to her fifteen-year-old daughter "Did you tell Kathryn where Chakotay lives?"

"No, she went long before I talked to her." Miral told her parents truthfully as they exchanged worried look.

"Did you tell her where anyone else lives? And of the other Voyagers?" Tom asked her.

"No, why? You don't think Kathryn as gone to see the Voyagers do you?" Miral asked.

"Well why not?" asked B'Elanna rounding on her daughter as though she knew something.

"What if Chakotay or Two of Six told her?" asked Miral looking form one parent to the next.

"Well that's a point" pointed out Tom.

"Do you want to ask him?" asked a nervous B'Elanna while Tom merely glared silently at her in frustration, clearly he didn't want to risk alerting Chakotay to the fact Kathryn had gone missing.

"Maybe the same person who told her where we live told her were the others live" suggested Miral with a shrug.

Both of her parents shot the heads round the stare at their teenage daughter until B'Elanna slowly turned to her husband and said "there's a point how the hell did she know where we live? Who told her?"

All three of them looked at each other in silence, there was something they had not thought of, something that now really needed an answer, along with where the hell is she?

More to come soon….SORRY FOR THE DELAY… I felt this short chapter should be added as one on it's own.. more someing tomorrow so all you have to do is wait a few hours! Yay!... Thank you for your support. I found one of my older fanfictions so I have spent the last few days up loading that one but more to come tomorrow for this one so watch out!... Thanks. X