I'm so sorry it took so long -but I have MAJOR writers block and my school is piling the homework on so...oh hell lets just get on with it!
The Andromeda crew and Voyager away team sat in the Andromeda's Mess Hall. The atmosphere was comfortable and lively while they all chatted politely to each other over dinner. Only two people were missing from the scene -Harper and B'Elanna.
Inside Engineering the pair stood poring over a console. Schematics, equations, and simulations scrolled down the inset screens.
"Are you two coming to dinner?" Andromedas' hologram appeared behind them, making them jump at the sudden intrusion.
"Huh?!" asked Harper, turning to face her.
"Are you coming to dinner? It started 10 minutes ago and the others were
wondering where you had got to."
"It started already? Oh Crap!" turning off the screen and gesturing for
B'Elanna to follow, Harper sprinted full pelt to the Mess Hall.
"Nice of you to make it Mr. Harper." observed Dylan as they speeded into the
room and skidded to halt at the table.
"You're welcome." retorted Harper, taking a seat beside Trance and across from Beka, while Torres took one beside Tom.
"So, we were just talking about how Voyager got here." Dylan said.
"Great." Harper grabbed some food and put it on a plate, "Am I s'posed ta jump
up and down with joy or some thin'?"
"No, he just thought you might want to know that's all." Beka said, while
giving him a swift kick shin under the table and look that said [Be Nice, Be
Polite, Or I'll Kick your ass out the airlock!] before Dylan could get any
further than giving him a disapproving look.
"Ow, why'd ya do that?" Harper whined, obviously not getting it.
"Do what?" asked Beka, her innocent face firmly in place.
The conversation went on like this for sometime, until just about everyone
had been kicked at least once. Finally, after they had all finished eating,
each crew compared their findings. By midnight ship's time Trance was asleep in Harpers lap and everyone else had a moment to breathe.
"Basically, we hava problem. Or -YOU have a problem. There's like, no trace
that there was ever even a wormhole here!" summarized Harper, flopping onto his back from his cross-legged position.
"Ya, we kinda figured that out for ourselves Harper." said Beka, yawning.
"So the question is: how do we get my ship and crew back?" asked Janeway.
"Technically speaking, " Harper sat up right again and shifted Trance so that he was more comfortable, "You could probably do it in 4 slipstream jumps -but of course you don't have that. But the hardest bit is still gonna be goin' back in time."
"Mr. Harper, please shut up!" Dylan rubbed his eyes tiredly and wondered, rather absently, how the boy could still be so awake at this time before carrying on, "Captain Janeway I suggest we reconvene tomorrow morning after a good night's sleep."
"That would be a excellent idea."
As everybody got up, which took a considerable amount of effort for some
people, Dylan remembered that the Voyager away team would have to fly back -and no way did any of them: especially the pilot, look ready to fly any
thing. "You're welcome to stay here over night if you wish."
"I think," Janeways answer was interrupted with a rather untimely and very un-captain-like yawn. "We would all greatly appreciate that." her answer received relieved nod and glances from Tom and B'Elanna.
Dyan addressed the ship. "Andromeda, ready some quarters for our guests a.s.a.p."
"Yes captain." came the A.I.'s disembodied voice.
Tyr carried Trance back to her room and 3/4 hour later each member of the
away team and Andromeda crew was tucked up in bed, though Tyr had objected
strongly to the team staying when they knew so little about them.
A/N: HEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLPPPP!!!! I have so badly got writers block with this story!!!!! I know what things I wanna happen but I can't make them happen if you know what I mean. Please e-mail (lucysmeth@aol.com) me if you would like to help me and I'll tell you what I roughly wanna happen!!!!