With an unknown threat looming on the horizon, the crew of the Normandy band together on a mission that tests the limits of their endurability. Yet even in the midst of a mission gone awry, sometimes people find what they weren't even looking for. ME1, Shenko.

She had long finished the contents of her mug, but kept it in her hands. She stared down into the empty void, unable to admit that she needed to leave and get some rest. Her throat tightened on words that needed to, but couldn't be said. They sat together, instead, in comfortable silence. The sounds of the ship a gentle mother humming her soothing sounds around them. [Shenko]

"She had always sworn to herself that what he wanted, what they both wanted, could not exist on Voyager, but it was getting harder to remember that." Over a few days of downtime, Janeway and Chakotay complete the long, slow slide into each other that began so many years ago. JC. Set in Season 4; follows my Scorpion tag, "Incunabula."