"Well, I guess it's too bad that I am the Captain then, and I don't have to take orders from you. Janeway out."
The EMH stood in sickbay, his mouth agape. He was absolutely disgusted. Frustration growing, he tapped his comm badge again.
"Captain, if you do not report to sickbay immediately, I'm afraid I'll have to declare you unfit for command and alert Commander Chakotay."
She did not respond. "Captain Janeway!" Still nothing. "Computer, locate Captain Janeway." The EMH huffed out in exasperation, having been rudely cut off by the Captain herself. The Doctor was in no mood for this cat and mouse game.
"Captain Janeway is in Jeffries tube 11, subsection 14, deck 12." The computer answered. The EMH furrowed his brow at the information. Captain Janeway had been on her way to her quarters from the transporter room. Deck 12 was nowhere near either of those locations.
"Sickbay to Commander Chakotay," the EMH was quickly becoming aggravated and hoped that the commander would be able to help him sort this all out. His call, unfortunately, was met with silence. "Commander Chakotay, please respond!" The silence in sickbay was deafening. "Computer, locate Commander Chakotay." He knew the commander had planned on going to meet Captain Janeway in the transporter room after her farewell banquet, and the Doctor had no idea why he wouldn't answer the hails.
"Commander Chakotay is in Jeffries tube 11, subsection 14, deck 12." The EMH couldn't understand it. Why on earth would they both be in a Jeffries tube immediately after her arrival back to Voyager? There were no ship malfunctions that he was aware of that would require any attention, let alone attention from the captain or commander. With a sigh, the Doctor tapped his comm badge once again.
"Sickbay to Lieutenant Tuvok," he knew at least one crew member that wouldn't fail him.
"Go ahead, Doctor."
"I'm sorry to bother you, Lieutenant, but I am unable to locate the captain or commander. Commander Chakotay was supposed to bring Captain Janeway to sickbay for a routine decontamination visit after her farewell banquet, but after a rather odd communication with the captain, I am unable to hail either of them, and the computer has them both located in a Jeffries tube on deck 12."
A slight pause, "Alright, Doctor. I will look into the matter and have Captain Janeway report to sickbay as soon as I locate her." Tuvok was at his station on the bridge, and Harry was at his own, concern painted plainly on the young man's face as he listened to the communication. "Mr. Kim, please accompany me to locate the captain. You have the bridge, Mr. Paris." Both men nodded, Harry quickly following Tuvok into the turbo lift.
They stood in silence for a moment before Tuvok spoke, "Computer, locate Captain Janeway and Commander Chakotay." Harry didn't understand why Tuvok would request said information when the EMH had already done so, but knew the Vulcan preferred to be thorough.
"Captain Janeway and Commander Chakotay are in Jeffries tube 11, subsection 14, deck 12."
"I just don't understand it," Harry spoke, looking at the older man for validation.
"Neither do I, Ensign, but we will soon get to the bottom of it. There is an old earth saying, that 'the simplest answer is most often the right answer' and I have found that to be true nearly all of the time. I'm sure there is a logical reason for the captain and commander to be in the Jeffries tube."
The only way to access said Jeffries tube was a long and arduous climb from deck nine, across tube fourteen, nearly spanning the entirety of the ship and down into the bowels of deck 12. When they finally reached subsection 14, they were met with an empty corridor.
Tuvok was perplexed and Harry concerned when all they found in the Jeffries tube were two comm badges. There was no sign that either of their command team had in fact even been in the Jeffries tube. Tuvok palmed the comm badges and put them in his pocket.
"What if something happened to them?" Harry could hear the concern in his voice, but he couldn't help it, and his anxiety was quickly growing as worst-case scenarios kept moving through his mind.
"Still unlikely," Tuvok thought for a moment, "The logical next course would be to check the captain's and commander's quarters. I'm sure we will find them there, and if we do not, then we will begin a deck to deck search. There are a finite number of places they may be."
They moved as quickly as the cramped space allowed, finally back into the corridor and to the nearest turbo lift that would take them to deck three.
When the doors opened, Tuvok turned to Harry. "Ensign Kim, I would like you to check Commander Chakotay's quarters. I'll check the captain's. We will meet back here." Harry nodded, turning away from the Vulcan and heading down the corridor.
Tuvok moved the opposite direction, reaching Kathryn's door and hitting the call chime. There was no answer. Feeling anxiety as much as he was able, he tapped the door chime again. Still, he was met with silence. Sighing softly to himself, he entered the emergency security override code and opened the door.
His dark eyes swept over the room quickly, taking in the general disarray of Kathryn's quarters. He was glad in the moment that he had sent Harry in another direction because the young man would have been highly uncomfortable with what the Vulcan had found.
The room was a complete mess; there were flower blossoms strewn about the floor. A coffee mug lay overturned and its contents had stained the carpet near her sofa. There were bubbles slowly drying on the carpet and clothes strewn about; a white tropical dress, white panties, and a man's Starfleet command uniform and boxer shorts. There was an aroma in the air that Tuvok could only describe as a very strong aphrodisiac-like pheromone that seemed to be coming from the flower blossoms themselves. There was also a strong scent of human arousal in the air that stopped Tuvok in his tracks. He could hear feminine giggling and a man's groan coming from the captain's bedroom. Not wanting to encroach on what seemed to be a very private moment, and not wanting to see anything that could not be unseen, he set the comm badges on her desk and slowly backed out of Kathryn's quarters, closing and sealing the door behind him.
"Lieutenant Tuvok to sickbay."
"Go ahead. Did you find them?" The EMH sounded aggravated and a bit concerned.
"Yes, I have found them. I'm afraid the captain and commander are...indisposed at the moment, but they are perfectly safe. I can guarantee they will both be making a trip to sickbay first thing in the morning."