here's chapter 6! the first part anyway.

Disclaimer: Everyone knows, paramount owns star trek. I'm just playing with the characters a bit

Five hours later, the first batch of people had already beamed down to the planet and checked in to the hotel Remnysi, recommended by the commodore himself.

Captain Janeway had spent the last few hours giving the commodore and a few of his officials a tour of voyager.

After that, she had managed to squeeze in a few hours of assisting B'Elanna's repair teams in engineering.

It was then that Tom, together with Harry, had cornered her and requested permission to stay on the planet during the duration of their shore leave instead of beaming back up to voyager like they usually did. She had listened to Harry and Tom's recitation of the reasons why they wanted to do this and how everyone they had talked to had also been wondering whether they could do just that, while weighing the pros and cons in her head.

Finally, she had agreed, partly, because she wanted to get back to the repairs, and partly also because she thought that it would be good for the crew to get away as much as they could from voyager after spending months on it without a break, and judging from the number of people who had checked into the hotel, she had made the right choice.

Shortly after that, Lieutenant Carey had shooed both B'Elanna and herself out of engineering, knowing that they were supposed to be on shore leave.

She had just checked into her room and discarded what little luggage she had had beamed down with her. Now she was going around the hotel's compound to 'check it out' as Tom would have put it.