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"Hey Kathryn wait up." Kathryn turned around and sighed, she should have expected he'd follow her. Desperately she looked for an escape. 'Q this would be a good time for one of your magnificent little distractions.' "Sorry Kathy your on your own, I was deeply hurt before." 'Damn!' Grudgingly she turned to face Chakotay.

"Commander what can do for you?" She said with a sickly sweet smile immediately Chakotay got suspicious. He slowed to a halt before her almost knocking. 'Yeah way to be dignified old man.'

"I just wondered what that was all about. What about Q and his little games? He's messing with you again isn't?" She looked into Chakotays eyes; they were full of concern and pity. She couldn't stand knowing that he didn't even mean it anymore and something in Kathryn snapped, 'what does right does he have to feel for me?' She fixed him with a cold, penetrating stare.

"I'm quite fine commander and to be honest with you, even if I wasn't it's none of your damn business. Don't you have to be on the bridge?" With that she turned around and walked straight for the nearest turbolift leaving a confused looking Chakotay in her wake. Chakotay was even surer that something was wrong with his captain. Usually when she was angry or had a problem she would wait until they were in private before telling him. However today she was standing just outside one of the busiest places on the ship and with a lot of officers around. She didn't even lower her voice. He shook his head in confusion. 'Caffeine, she drinks too much coffee.' He turned and headed for the bridge, anything to refrain from putting Kathryn in a worse mood. Chakotay just hoped that he didn't run into seven. He wanted to end it but it was a small ship. Tension was something they could do without. He would just keep avoiding her for now.

Q was watching the exchange between Kathy and chuckles with extreme amusement. He was even more determined to make the beautiful captain his. He had had feelings for her before he realised that that tattoo baffoon did as well. 'Nothing like a bit of competition to make the stakes more interesting!' Q knew he could zap Kathy any time he wanted to and make her fall hopelessly in love with him (he had done it many times before) but this time he was resolved to try it the mortal way, flowers, chocolate and of course Coffee! Q suddenly had the most genius idea of his existence, which if he did say so himself was a pretty stupendous life! All he needed for this part was him, Chuckles and Kathy. But it was too soon first he needed to try and woo Kathy. Just to put her in the mood, plus he needed to agitate Chuckles just enough to make his plan work.

Kathryn paced her quarters, head in hands. She let out a growl and another PADD flew across the room to join the ever-increasing pile that had accumulated since she had arrived. 'How could I have been so stupid? Now he's going to know something happened.'

"Such an idiot!" Kathryn had finally worn herself out and she collapsed onto the couch. She hated men. Her life seemed to consist of loosing the most important and special men in her life. First Justin and her father. Their loss had affected her in a way that she had never thought she would recover from. But of course she was a Janeway, she bounced back but of course life was waiting to throw her another curve ball. Mark Johnson, the geek from he past comes back and worms her way into her heart. No she never loved him with the same passion as she had Justin but there was a kind of comfort feeling that patched up the hole in her heart. But of he was ripped from he. Yes he was alive, but he was light years away. He was also married to someone else. That had hurt a lot. Knowing that she had caused him the pain of thinking she was dead. Driving him into the arms of another woman. Then there was Chakotay! He was her rugged Maquis. She had thought he understood, that he would wait for her until she was ready. He had practically said so. Never in simple words but in that legend on New Earth and when he told her she would never be alone, just before the borg alliance. But no she hadn't killed him or left him on the other side of the galaxy but she had driven him into the arms of another woman. Berating herself for being weak Kathryn stood up and rubbed her eyes. 'This is nonsense, no sense in wallowing in self-pity. Life goes.' There was a flash behind her and Kathryn found herself lying in bed next to Q.

"Miss me?"