Ch 9-The Chase
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek Voyager or any of the actors and actresses from the show. I also do not make any money from this story, and I'm pretty sure I couldn't if I tried; alas.
Rating: T, nothing too bad, a few curse words here and there when needed.
Warning: This story has a focus on a relationship between two adult women, if you don't like that or it is illegal where you live to read this sort of thing, please hit the back button now.
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Seven found herself staring wide eyed at B'Elanna as the engineer walked over to a console and restored power to it with a small portable generator. She typed in several commands, which opened the blast doors in the shuttle bay to the bright day outside. It was as B'Elanna turned off her flashlight, Seven found herself snapping back to herself.
"Seven of Nine to Commander Tuvok."
"That won't work Seven." B'Elanna sighed slightly as she removed the power generator from the console and then quickly opened the door to the Delta Flyer.
"There has been some mistake, Commander Tuvok believes you to be the traitor." Seven shook her head slightly in disbelief as Torres stopped and looked back at her.
"Seven, I really want to explain this all better but, I don't have the time too. Tuvok and his team will be here soon, regardless of the force field I just threw up in the Jefferies tubes." B'Elanna watched as Seven continued to shake her head back and forth. "Harry found my last message, it was me warning the Hirogen that if they ever showed up again, I would personally kill them." The engineer dropped down to pick something up off the Delta Flyer's floor. "No one was supposed to get hurt, and they killed almost twenty people on board; twenty!"
Seven felt sick as she asked, "You are the traitor?"
B'Elanna looked at her sadly before answering, "Yes, but it wasn't supposed to go like this. Backstabbing Hirogen, they have no honor."
"They have more honor than you." Chakotay's voice rang out strong from the door way where he stood with a phaser trained onto the hybrid. "Seven get away from her."
B'Elanna leaned casually against the Delta Flyers doorway and sighed. "Hey Chieftain."
"Don't call me that!" He shouted back as Harry Kim emerged from the Jefferies tube. Chakotay raised his phaser to point at her chest. "Traitor, I trusted you, I cared for you. Why would you do this, what made you do this?"
"Please listen to me Chakotay, Harry, the Hirogen were backstabbers!" B'Elanna stood up straight but was cut off by Harry.
"Yeah, apparently, that's your job isn't it?" Harry asked while fighting back tears.
"I'm a spy Harry. While assassination is within my realm of capabilities, it isn't what I was created for." B'Elanna shook her head as Harry's phaser lowered in disbelief.
"A…a spy?" Chakotay's mouth dropped open. "Was there anyone on my ship that actually wanted to be in the Maquis!?"
"Most of them were, and Chakotay even though I wasn't, I care for you an-" B'Elanna howled as a phaser bolt hit her in the chest.
"Liar!" Chakotay roared and charged towards the injured engineer.
Seven found herself moving before she knew what was going on, her left fist connecting with the Commander's cheek, knocking him to the floor.
"You were in on this weren't you Seven? This whole time?" Harry moved his weapon between the two women.
"Harry Kim, you are coming to a conclusion without all the needed data. I did not know." Seven turned to face the angry Ensign.
"I don't believe you, you both played us all. You lied to me." As Harry raised his phaser to fire at the blonde, a small black and gold blur hit him down to the ground.
B'Elanna struck the young man with the back of her bat'leth, knocking him out cold. Looking up to Seven B'Elanna used her sword as a walking stick to help her move back towards the Delta Flyer. "Seven I'll try to explain it to you, but you have to come with me." She paused to look at the blonde woman who still stood over Chakotay's motionless form. "I'll transport you back whenever you want, if you want."
"How can I trust you? You have lied to me." Even as Seven asked she found her feet guiding her to the Delta Flyer.
"Not about everything, not about most things. I do love you and care for you, and I care about everyone on this ship even though I have screwed up badly." B'Elanna stepped into the Delta Flyer before facing Seven again. "There's nothing I can say that will prove to you that I am telling you the truth, but I won't make you come with me. The choice has to be made by you." She opened her mouth as if she was going to add more to it before wincing and grabbing her chest. Stumbling backwards B'Elanna disappeared from sight.
Seven looked back over at her unconscious friends on the shuttle bays floor, before looking back at the Delta Flyer. Clenching her jaw Seven realized that she could not stay here on Voyager and let this woman simply go. With a small nod to herself Seven stepped into the shuttle and quickly shut the door.