A love lost and loves sacrifice.
Chapter 10
The federation should be on their knees.
A very angry and worried Chakotay came barging through Tom and B'Elanna's door as he stared at Tom right in the eye and growled "all you had to do was keep her safe!"
Tom melted under the glare of his former first officer and gulped in fear slightly "Chakotay calm down! She's fine" B'Elanna told her old friend and father figure.
"is that so?" Chakotay hissed rounding on her in his angry way. B'Elanna held his gaze and stared back.
"Well…" spluttered B'Elanna who actually didn't know where Kathryn was.
"I think you had better watch the news!" hissed Chakotay as he marched into their sitting room and turned on the small view screen in the corner of the room, immediately Kathryn's smiling face greeted them. A selection on images of Kathryn shot across the screen as the Torres-Paris's stared at it in confusion. Chakotay stared at the beautiful face of Kathryn with his heart pounding and his fists clenched. Tom looked in confusion at the older and larger man unsure why he was acting this way until the news reporter began to talk."
"…Ms Janeway the former captain of the starship Voyager, to some a hero to others a neurotic law breaker but one thing is sure, Ms Janeway served her time. Wouldn't you agree Bob?"
"Oh yes Brian, she served fifteen long years in the New Zealand penal colony. I think she was a hero, she brought her crew home, I am sure there are many a captain who would buckle and couldn't do what she did." came the voice of a second news reporter.
"So the federation now know she has been released and is free. But the question many of us are asking is should she be left alone to live out the rest of her days in quietness or should she be made a public figure open to endless debate?" questioned Brian the first news reporter.
The view screen then showed a sight neither B'Elanna nor Tom had expected to see, a sight that angered Chakotay. A younger man was holding Kathryn, the older Kathryn, hostage with a pahser to her head. He held her on the very edge of a cliff as he forced her to her knees, it looked as though he was either going to push her off the cliff or fire a pahser blast into her skull. "We are seeing live images now Brian" Bob reported. "We have been monitoring this situation all night, there seems to be no change, Ms Janeway has quite a resolve wouldn't you agree?"
"It's the resolve of the Voyager crew I would be worried about." The first news reporter began "they hold quite a special honour for their captain, as soon as they learnt that their former captain was being held hostage many of them have flocked down here. The federation security are trying to keep them back through fear that there presence and support will only anger him and cause him to act."
The image then flicked from Kathryn being held hostage to a group of familiar looking Voyagers who were all stood firmly staring at where their beloved Captain was fearing for her life, "We are talking to some of them now, one Samantha Wildman has something to say to the federation" Brian informed the viewers.
"This federation should be on their knees before this woman, the federation should crumble to offer an apology to this woman. What she did for us none of you can even begin to comprehend, what she sacrificed is beyond your dreams." The older and sterner face of Sam Wildman told the camera "The federation better have her freed from this maniac and punishment for him should be in place."
"Who the attacker is nobody knows, the Voyager crew don't seem to know." Said Brian.
"The Voyager crew didn't seem to know much Brian, I am not sure many of them were aware their Hero was released from prison at the beginning of the week." Bob told everyone.
"Where has she been Bob? And Does the federation not think it curious that Ms Janeways first officer Mr. Chakotay who has been very active in demanding for her release is not her today?"
"Good question Brian, has he finally given up? He does have a very attractive wife, has he finally turned his attention to the woman he is married too?"
"his wife has only just given birth to their fourth child."
"so he is wiping his kids poo while his former captain is being held captive fearing for her life." Laughed Brian to which Chakotay turned off the view screen and marched towards the door of Tom and B'Elanna's house.
"Hay old man where are you going?" asked a very worried B'Elanna as she called after Chakotay.
"You heard them! I should be there!" He hissed as his anger boiled as he wrenched open the front door and stormed outside.
Tom glanced across at his wife who tightened her jaw in a fixed way and grabbed her coat, "were coming with you." She said as her husband who too had grabbed his coat closely followed her.
As the trasnporter been rematerialized the three of them on the busy hill top Chakotay wasted no time in marching up to one of the security officers in a yellow uniform and demanding to know what they were doing to rescue her.
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