Home Sweet Home
The following story line is mine. Don't try to copy it cause I'll get mad
In a like vein, Star Trek: Voyager and all characters are the sole property of someone other than me.
"Induce labor?" Deneb repeated.
"It's a very standard procedure" the Doctor said. Kes gave him a withering look.
"You're a week over due" she said gently, "Which is fine, but it might be easier for you if we induce labor now. Otherwise the birthing process could be more difficult that it should be"
"You want to put drugs in me" Deneb said. Both the Doctor and Kes had more than once nearly lost their patience with the girl's "archaic" way of thinking about medicine.
"I don't know why you're so opposed to medicine" the Doctor whined, "You're best friend was a doctor, or so you're always telling me" It was true that Deneb did go on about Bones a bit much in the Doctor's presence.
"He's a doctor, not a meddler! Bones always said you only resort to medicine when nature can't heal herself" she said stubbornly, getting off the bio bed.
"Look, I'll take my chances with nature. You said you can pump me full of drugs so it won't hurt, so what's the difference?"
"I thought you said you didn't like the idea of drugs being 'pumped' into you" the Doctor pointed out.
"Look, women have been using drugs to reduce the pain of labor since my mother was born. Tests have proven there's less stress on the child as well as the mother when she's not in agony. And Bones said the drugs wouldn't get into my children's system once labor began so I'm not so opposed to those particular drugs" she recited the speech as if she knew this argument would be coming up.
"The drugs to induce labor won't harm the child either" Kes tried.
"Nope. Forget it" Deneb said and waddled for the door.
Later...
"Hello, Mother" Deneb greeted Katharine scathingly as she swallowed whatever flavor ice cream she was eating her third time around. She had given the Captain the nickname after their last "serious" conversation.
"Stop mothering me" she had insisted.
"You need a bit of mothering" Katharine had retorted. She didn't use it always, but especially on occasions when she was in a foul mood. Katharine had found the girl to be much more available in her last month of pregnancy than she had in the previous four, mostly because Deneb lacked the energy to hike herself down to the holideck. It had become a tradition for Katharine to stop, at least for a few minutes, in the evening to see how the day had gone and sometimes to share dinner. She felt it was the steady guiding hand the stubborn girl...woman (Katharine tried to think of her as such) needed.
"Good evening, Deneb" Katharine replied, ignoring the fire and ice in the greeting, "I see you've already eaten"
"I was too hungry to wait" Deneb had become blunt in her disgruntled state.
"Hmm. How was your trip to Sickbay?" Katharine asked, though she had already had a report from both the Doctor and Kes, who were both distraught over the situation. Kes because she was worried about Deneb, the Doctor because he had been insulted by her. Again.
"I am thoroughly sick and tired of being pregnant" Deneb snorted, "But I will not subject my body nor the bodies of my unborn children to who knows what kind of unnatural liquid the Doc wants to put in my veins"
"Yes. Kes said you were being uncooperative in that regard" Katharine said. She, however, remembered the last time the Doctor had tried to force Deneb to do something. He wanted a blood sample and Deneb was clearly terrified.
"I don't use the old antiquated way of needles you know" he had tried to tell her, "So there's nothing to have a phobia about"
"Ha! Shows what you know! Don't you know anything about shaping? Classical conditioning? You're not getting any blood out of me, you vampire! What is it about Doctors? Always trying to take my blood? You take enough of it and there won't be any left!"
"Shows what you know" the Doctor had retorted, "The body is constantly producing more blood, so you won't miss it. Besides, I don't even need so much that the body would need to replace it immediately" That didn't reassure her any. She continued to call him a "Holographic Vampire Doctor" and tried to leave. He locked the doors. She screamed and threw a tray of hyposprays at him, which of course did nothing. He tried to sedate her. She had extremely strong will power over her body, no doubt due to her time hopping experiences. She hadn't gone out and he had been forced to open the doors when she'd called to the Captain.
He was therefore not going to try to force her into inducing labor. Neither was Katharine. She dropped the subject and moved on to ones she knew held steadier ground, such as the recent edition of the newspaper, which contained two poems by Mr. Tuvok and an old tribal story by Chakotay.
"I like Chakotay's stuff" Deneb commented, "It's always infused with a deep pride in his culture. And it's always written so well. I'll bet he's a good story teller" Katharine raised an eyebrow in surprise. This was the first Deneb had made any sort of in depth comment about any of the crew. Though she sometimes spoke of Tom, she mainly framed those comments in the bounds of how he reminded her of her younger brother, David.
"Ooo, ooo! They're kicking!" she said. Katharine was always amazed at how excited Deneb got when the twins kicked, usually in unison. (Which the Doctor had diagnosed as "odd")
"You know, the sooner you get out of there, the sooner you can start kicking more interesting things around" Deneb told her children, "Like the Doc's head" Katharine smiled.
10 days later...
B'Elanna saw the woman coming. She wasn't sure she particularly liked the girl who had suddenly appeared on the ship about five months ago. In B'Elanna's opinion, she was acting like a pouting child. She had it rough, but so did every other person aboard this ship. She wasn't the only one who had been torn from her home and deposited in the middle of somewhere she knew nothing about. Tom told her she didn't know what she was talking about. That if she spent half an hour in the woman's presence, speaking with her, she'd know that she wasn't sulking, she was just being careful. B'Elanna thought she was hiding from the world.
However, right now, she didn't like she was hiding from anything. Actually, she was acting a bit odd. She was walking very slowly and was using one arm to lean against the wall, while the other was across her enlarged stomach. Her head was down and she appeared to be breathing heavily.
"Deneb? Are you all right?" B'Elanna asked as she got closer. Deneb's head lifted and she smiled painfully.
"Oh, B'Elanna! Yes, I'm fine. Would you mind helping me to the holideck?" She sounded pleasant enough, but on this ship, and before on the Marquis ship, B'Elanna had become aware of the human signs of pain.
"The holideck?" B'Elanna repeated, "You're in labor, aren't you?"
"Yes" Deneb answered cautiously, "But I don't think I'm quite ready to go to Sickbay yet" she said, "It's not progressed quite that far"
"You can barely walk" B'Elanna observed, taking the other woman's hand and starting to walk with her.
"Humph. I want to go the holideck" she said again, more firmly.
"You're not going to the holideck" B'Elanna said, "You're going to Sickbay" And she began leading the woman there.
"I don't want to go to the..ah!" Deneb sucked in a deep breath and a look of shock froze on her face. Her hand suddenly tightened around B'Elanna's and the half Klingon woman was amazed at how much it hurt. Deneb must be much stronger than her appearance portrayed, which was all well and good in B'Elanna's book. She appreciated strong women. It was one of the reasons she worked so well with the Captain.
"OH! That hurts" Deneb loosened her grip around B'Elanna's crushed hand.
"Come on. Sickbay!" B'Elanna ordered and this time Deneb did not argue. Whether or not this was because she had changed or mind or because she simply couldn't argue anymore was beyond the point.
She had three more contractions on the way. B'Elanna made a note to have Kes take a look at her hand later. She was going to need it tomorrow at work and it wouldn't be much good in it's current condition. (In her opinion, that was the only reason to ever seek the aid of a doctor)
"Doctor! Kes!" she shouted as they entered, "Deneb's gone into labor!" The Doctor of course appeared immediately in front of them. Kes and Commander Chakotay followed a second later from around the corner.
"Ah. I see we've begun" the Doctor observed calmly, "This way" And he turned and walked away.
In a like vein, Star Trek: Voyager and all characters are the sole property of someone other than me.
"Induce labor?" Deneb repeated.
"It's a very standard procedure" the Doctor said. Kes gave him a withering look.
"You're a week over due" she said gently, "Which is fine, but it might be easier for you if we induce labor now. Otherwise the birthing process could be more difficult that it should be"
"You want to put drugs in me" Deneb said. Both the Doctor and Kes had more than once nearly lost their patience with the girl's "archaic" way of thinking about medicine.
"I don't know why you're so opposed to medicine" the Doctor whined, "You're best friend was a doctor, or so you're always telling me" It was true that Deneb did go on about Bones a bit much in the Doctor's presence.
"He's a doctor, not a meddler! Bones always said you only resort to medicine when nature can't heal herself" she said stubbornly, getting off the bio bed.
"Look, I'll take my chances with nature. You said you can pump me full of drugs so it won't hurt, so what's the difference?"
"I thought you said you didn't like the idea of drugs being 'pumped' into you" the Doctor pointed out.
"Look, women have been using drugs to reduce the pain of labor since my mother was born. Tests have proven there's less stress on the child as well as the mother when she's not in agony. And Bones said the drugs wouldn't get into my children's system once labor began so I'm not so opposed to those particular drugs" she recited the speech as if she knew this argument would be coming up.
"The drugs to induce labor won't harm the child either" Kes tried.
"Nope. Forget it" Deneb said and waddled for the door.
Later...
"Hello, Mother" Deneb greeted Katharine scathingly as she swallowed whatever flavor ice cream she was eating her third time around. She had given the Captain the nickname after their last "serious" conversation.
"Stop mothering me" she had insisted.
"You need a bit of mothering" Katharine had retorted. She didn't use it always, but especially on occasions when she was in a foul mood. Katharine had found the girl to be much more available in her last month of pregnancy than she had in the previous four, mostly because Deneb lacked the energy to hike herself down to the holideck. It had become a tradition for Katharine to stop, at least for a few minutes, in the evening to see how the day had gone and sometimes to share dinner. She felt it was the steady guiding hand the stubborn girl...woman (Katharine tried to think of her as such) needed.
"Good evening, Deneb" Katharine replied, ignoring the fire and ice in the greeting, "I see you've already eaten"
"I was too hungry to wait" Deneb had become blunt in her disgruntled state.
"Hmm. How was your trip to Sickbay?" Katharine asked, though she had already had a report from both the Doctor and Kes, who were both distraught over the situation. Kes because she was worried about Deneb, the Doctor because he had been insulted by her. Again.
"I am thoroughly sick and tired of being pregnant" Deneb snorted, "But I will not subject my body nor the bodies of my unborn children to who knows what kind of unnatural liquid the Doc wants to put in my veins"
"Yes. Kes said you were being uncooperative in that regard" Katharine said. She, however, remembered the last time the Doctor had tried to force Deneb to do something. He wanted a blood sample and Deneb was clearly terrified.
"I don't use the old antiquated way of needles you know" he had tried to tell her, "So there's nothing to have a phobia about"
"Ha! Shows what you know! Don't you know anything about shaping? Classical conditioning? You're not getting any blood out of me, you vampire! What is it about Doctors? Always trying to take my blood? You take enough of it and there won't be any left!"
"Shows what you know" the Doctor had retorted, "The body is constantly producing more blood, so you won't miss it. Besides, I don't even need so much that the body would need to replace it immediately" That didn't reassure her any. She continued to call him a "Holographic Vampire Doctor" and tried to leave. He locked the doors. She screamed and threw a tray of hyposprays at him, which of course did nothing. He tried to sedate her. She had extremely strong will power over her body, no doubt due to her time hopping experiences. She hadn't gone out and he had been forced to open the doors when she'd called to the Captain.
He was therefore not going to try to force her into inducing labor. Neither was Katharine. She dropped the subject and moved on to ones she knew held steadier ground, such as the recent edition of the newspaper, which contained two poems by Mr. Tuvok and an old tribal story by Chakotay.
"I like Chakotay's stuff" Deneb commented, "It's always infused with a deep pride in his culture. And it's always written so well. I'll bet he's a good story teller" Katharine raised an eyebrow in surprise. This was the first Deneb had made any sort of in depth comment about any of the crew. Though she sometimes spoke of Tom, she mainly framed those comments in the bounds of how he reminded her of her younger brother, David.
"Ooo, ooo! They're kicking!" she said. Katharine was always amazed at how excited Deneb got when the twins kicked, usually in unison. (Which the Doctor had diagnosed as "odd")
"You know, the sooner you get out of there, the sooner you can start kicking more interesting things around" Deneb told her children, "Like the Doc's head" Katharine smiled.
10 days later...
B'Elanna saw the woman coming. She wasn't sure she particularly liked the girl who had suddenly appeared on the ship about five months ago. In B'Elanna's opinion, she was acting like a pouting child. She had it rough, but so did every other person aboard this ship. She wasn't the only one who had been torn from her home and deposited in the middle of somewhere she knew nothing about. Tom told her she didn't know what she was talking about. That if she spent half an hour in the woman's presence, speaking with her, she'd know that she wasn't sulking, she was just being careful. B'Elanna thought she was hiding from the world.
However, right now, she didn't like she was hiding from anything. Actually, she was acting a bit odd. She was walking very slowly and was using one arm to lean against the wall, while the other was across her enlarged stomach. Her head was down and she appeared to be breathing heavily.
"Deneb? Are you all right?" B'Elanna asked as she got closer. Deneb's head lifted and she smiled painfully.
"Oh, B'Elanna! Yes, I'm fine. Would you mind helping me to the holideck?" She sounded pleasant enough, but on this ship, and before on the Marquis ship, B'Elanna had become aware of the human signs of pain.
"The holideck?" B'Elanna repeated, "You're in labor, aren't you?"
"Yes" Deneb answered cautiously, "But I don't think I'm quite ready to go to Sickbay yet" she said, "It's not progressed quite that far"
"You can barely walk" B'Elanna observed, taking the other woman's hand and starting to walk with her.
"Humph. I want to go the holideck" she said again, more firmly.
"You're not going to the holideck" B'Elanna said, "You're going to Sickbay" And she began leading the woman there.
"I don't want to go to the..ah!" Deneb sucked in a deep breath and a look of shock froze on her face. Her hand suddenly tightened around B'Elanna's and the half Klingon woman was amazed at how much it hurt. Deneb must be much stronger than her appearance portrayed, which was all well and good in B'Elanna's book. She appreciated strong women. It was one of the reasons she worked so well with the Captain.
"OH! That hurts" Deneb loosened her grip around B'Elanna's crushed hand.
"Come on. Sickbay!" B'Elanna ordered and this time Deneb did not argue. Whether or not this was because she had changed or mind or because she simply couldn't argue anymore was beyond the point.
She had three more contractions on the way. B'Elanna made a note to have Kes take a look at her hand later. She was going to need it tomorrow at work and it wouldn't be much good in it's current condition. (In her opinion, that was the only reason to ever seek the aid of a doctor)
"Doctor! Kes!" she shouted as they entered, "Deneb's gone into labor!" The Doctor of course appeared immediately in front of them. Kes and Commander Chakotay followed a second later from around the corner.
"Ah. I see we've begun" the Doctor observed calmly, "This way" And he turned and walked away.