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She was in a small room, it was dimly lit. There were five, child sized beds, lying against the walls, scattered about the room. She saw the woman, who had smiled at, her from hours before, sitting on one of the beds. Was it hours ago, but it felt like days. She had made no attempt to talk to the woman.

"How am I supposed to make friends, if I don't even know who I am." She thought, so she just walked over to an adjacent bed and sat with her head on her knees. If only she could remember a thought, an image, an emotion, something that would tell her anything about who she was.

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Seven looked over at her Captain. Why hasn't she said anything to her? It was quite obvious that she did not remember who she was but Seven could not believe that. This was her Mentor, her captain, but most of all her best friend.

The only words she had spoken to the Captain were said back on the shuttle. The look she gave her sent a cold shiver down her spine. A look of plain confusion. Captain? That word meant nothing to the shivering woman who sat on her bed across the room. She looked helpless, vulnerable. It was not the same Kathryn Janeway she knew.

"I'll have to make contact first then."

Seven started to walk toward her Captain, but couldn't help but think that she was approaching a total stranger.

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As Chakotay entered the briefing room and waited for the other senior staff the report he thought of how many times he had see Kathryn stand by those windows waiting to advise her staff on recent events. Good or Bad the crew always left the room feeling some sort of hope in their heart.

Tom and B'Elanna were the first to enter the room, after Harry. Within 5 minutes the senior staff had all assembled around the table. Chakotay began:

"So tell me the full story Harry."

"I swear we had scanned this planet half a dozen times, hell we scanned this solar system over 10 times and there was no trace of," Harry began, but stopped abruptly to find the right word, "anything. No Human DNA, no Federation signals, nothing. Suddenly, I had located this signal, unlike any of the others. As we moved closer to the system, the signal became louder and more defined. It was a Starfleet signal, with the same codes as we had given Seven. Quickly, I scanned for Seven combadge which we implanted into her skin. That's when I talked to you, Commander."

The room was silence, and filled with many emotions. Fear, anticipate, and hope, anxiety, apprehension, happiness, sadness, bewilderment, anger, and panic filled the room. Tom was the Next to speak:

"So we actually have a chance of getting them back?" he asked the quite room. "We have a lead Tom, that's all it is." Chakotay replied, but feeling the same hope he did.

Tuvok spoke up.

"I will try and run attack simulations, that is if we are going to investigate, Commander."

"Good Idea, B'Elanna , any problems in Engineering?" Chakotay asked.

" A couple of the Eps conduits blew today, but I sent a team to fix them. The Ship is in good shape," B'Elanna responded,"and will be as good as new but the time the Captain gets back." "Good work!" said Chakotay, not ignoring the last comment. He cracked a smile, today was turning out to be a wonderful day.

"Tom, you and B'Elanna work with Tuvok to plan battle simulations for the crew. Harry and I will work on improving the sensors, " ordered the Commander, then looking around the room at his colleges, his friends "I know this has been a long couple of months for you, it has been for all of us, but I know we can pull this off. We've beaten the Borg with lesser odds then this, and now all we have to do is find two missing crewmen. We can do this, we have to do this." He paused for a moment then said, "Any questions? All right then, Dismissed." ________________________________________________________________________