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(This takes place, sometime randomly during season five. There is no real time line to this story. The only real change I made to the characters was keeping Janeway's hair long. It killed me when they decided to go short with it…*sighs* I also chose the ponytail.)
Part 1
I took a sip of my coffee as I turned down the hallway. I was pretty much completely oblivious to anyone around me. I gave a nod to the crew members that caught my eye. Very few were actually out this early in the morning. I was surprised to see the few that I did. I stepped into the turbo lift, telling it to take me to the bridge.
"Report." I said as I stepped off.
"It's been a fairly quiet morning, Captain." Chakotay answered. He was looking intensely at a PADD in front of him. There was more on his mind than just a quiet morning.
"Fairly quiet suggests that at least one thing has caught your eye." I said smiling at him as he looked up. His smile back sent shivers down my spine. No one could do that to me like he could.
"Sensors did pick up something unusual not more than fifteen minutes ago." He said, his attention turning back to the PADD. "There is something we have never seen before about five light years from here."
"Do we have any information on it?" I asked interested. I took another sip of my coffee before putting it on the edge of my chair and walking up to see what ensign Kim had collected on the unknown anomaly.
"Sensors aren't getting anything on it, Captain." The young officer told me. I felt a slight ping of excitement.
"Set a course Mr. Paris." I said with a smile
"Yes ma'am."
"I'll be in my ready room if anyone needs me." I said collecting my coffee cup, and heading to the room just off the side of the Bridge.
I sat down behind my desk and started to read crew reports, when the door chimed, as I knew it would.
"Come in Chakotay." I said with a smile
"I knew you wouldn't be able to resist checking it out." He said laughing when he walked in the door. "I knew that it would be just the thing to put a little kick in your step this morning."
I laughed. "You know me too well."
I'm not sure how, but Chakotay seemed to get more and more handsome everyday. Maybe it was just how well he knew me. He's had the time and the constant closeness to get to know me better than anyone else has. I'm not sure what I would do with out him.
"We've been through a lot together Kathryn, that's what happens." He smiled at me. His eyes looked wistful, as if there was something more he wanted to say but couldn't. "Would you like me to let you know when we get there?"
"Let me know when we come within a light years distance." I told him returning my eyes to the PADD.
"Aye, Captain." Chakotay returned to the bridge.
I sat there in the silence, trying to catching up on the work that I had let get behind. It wasn't major stuff, just stuff that should be kept up for organizational reasons. I was a bit distracted by what we might find out there. We have encountered so many things the five years we have been in the Delta Quadrant. Not all have been welcoming.
I decided that after about an hour of sitting, pretending to do work, to go back out to the bridge to see how much further we had to go.
"Report." I said as I walked on to the bridge. I went to sit in my chair.
"We are about a light years distance away now Captain. We were just about to call you." Tom Paris said.
"What can I say? I have incredible timing." I joked. "On screen."
The large view screen at the front of the bridge flickered for a moment before showing the stars in front of us. Unfortunately that is all there was, Stars. The screen showed nothing different than it had ten minutes ago.
"Well where is it?" I asked.
"According to our sensor readings, it should be here Captain." Ensign Harry Kim said. He was furiously going over the data the sensors had collected
"Tom, hold our position. I'm going to go check with Seven down in astrometrics. She might have something useful. The bridge is yours Commander." I said leaving the bridge. The hiss of the turbo lift was more irritating then usual. It left me feeling uneasy. This whole thing had bad news written all over it. Or maybe I was just getting overly cautious with every moment more I spent in the Delta Quadrant.
When I stepped into the astrometrics lab, Seven already had the data up on the view screen trying to make sense of it.
"What do you have?" I asked her
"It appears to be a rift in space time Captain." She said coolly, but interested. "I'm not quite sure how to explain it. Some thing is there it's just not showing up."
"Is it to small to show?" I asked. I hated being blind.
"No. It appears that it doesn't want to be seen, Captain." She said. I smiled at her choice of words.
"Is there anything we can do to make it visible to us?"
"There might be, but it will take some time." She said carefully studying the data on the console in front of her.
"Let me know when you have something." I told her.
"Yes, Captain."
My combadge beeped. "Janeway here." I said tapping it.
"It's me captain." The Doctors voice came through loud and clear. "I think you should come down to sick bay. We have a slight problem."
"I'm on my way."
I made my way down to deck five. Once I entered the sickbay I noticed four crewmen lying on beds. Some with plasma burns others, others just looked sickly.
"Captain, I'm glad you're here." The Doctor said coming out of his office to meant me.
"What is going on here?" I asked worried.
"To tell you the truth Captain I'm not sure." His brow furrowed slightly. "Three crewmen have come in with plasma burns that they apparently got from nothing, and four others have come in experiencing an extreme viral infection."
"What kind of viral infection?" I wondered.
"The kind we were exposed to about two years ago." The Doctor said quietly.
"The Macovirus?" I asked amazed. "But we wiped that out."
"Yes I know. Which makes it easy to treat now, but no less troubling. I just thought you should know what's been going on down here."
"Thank-you Doctor." I said.
I turned to leave sickbay, when the ship rocked violently, throwing me against the wall. The Doctor rushed over to me tri-quarter in hand. I waved him off
"I'm fine Doctor. Just a little shaken." I lied. My right side hurt like a bitch.
"You have two broken ribs." The Doctor argued. "You are not just fine."
"How did I manage to get two broken ribs? I may have fallen but I did not fall that hard." I stated. The Doctor helped me over to one of the bio- beds.
"Not enough calcium maybe?" The doctor joked.
I tapped my combadge. "Janeway to Chakotay." He rang in a second later.
"Chakotay here Captain."
"What was that?" I asked.
"We're not sure yet. It appears to have come from the special anomaly."
"Keep me posted. Janeway out" I tapped my combage, closing the connection.
I heard the quiet beeping of the scanner as the Doctor ran it over my side. "Hmm." He said perplexed.
"What is it Doctor?" I said slightly annoyed. I didn't need anymore bad news today.
"Well," He started. "It appears as though I have treated these wounds before."
"What?" I said shocked. I tried to sit up forgetting the broken ribs. I groaned in pain. The Doctor laid me back down.
"Try to lie still." He told me.
"The only other time I have had broken ribs while on this ship…" I stopped short.
"Was when the macrovirus was on the ship." The Doctor finished for me.
"What the hell is going on around here?" I questioned loudly.
"As soon as I'm done here you can go figure that out, until then, please lie still so I can heal these fractures." The Doctor said sternly.
I lay quietly on the bed for the next fifteen minutes while he fixed my broken bones. Seven had mentioned that it appeared to be a rift in space- time, but why cause old injuries to resurface? When the Doctor was done, I thanked him, told him to keep me updated and headed to see Seven. If anyone knew what was going on here, she would.
~~*~*~~
I made my way to the Astrometics lab, where Seven was working furiously at the console.
"Do you have any news?" I asked her. I brushed a stray hair from my eyes and placed it back into my ponytail.
Seven gave a frustrated sigh. "No, Captain I have not. For some reason the sensors are able to penetrate it far enough to get a reading on what it actually is. I'm trying to recalibrate, but it will take a while yet. Until then we are going to have to treat it as a enemy and be on the defensive."
"Do you think it attacked us?" I asked her.
"I'm not sure, but until I am, it would be wise to treat what happened as an attack." Seven advised.
"Thank-you Seven." I said turning to leave.
I slowly made my way back to the Bridge. Although the Doctor had set the bones, my side was still fairly tender. It wasn't easy convincing the Doctor to let me leave sickbay. Not that he would have expected me to stay, He knows unless I was seriously injured that there would be no way I would stay in sickbay when something was endangering my ship and crew. When I reached the bridge, Chakotay was pouring over reports, looking slightly perturbed.
"Did we take any damage during the attack?" I asked walking to my chair.
"No and yes." He answered me
"Excuse me?" I asked confused.
"We didn't take any direct damage, but parts of the ship have changed." Harry explained. I looked up at him confused.
"Changed how?" I asked.
"For starters, cargo bay two, has turned back into a Borg command centre." Chakotay said. "There is no Borg." He reassured me after seeing the expression on my face. The last thing we needed were Borg drones walking about the ship.
"What else?" I asked needing to know the status of my ship.
"It appears we are missing torpedoes." Tuvok said. "Although I'm not even completely sure about that. Sometimes the reading is what it should be, other times it appears as though we only have six left."
"Six? There was never a point in time when we were down to six torpedoes." I said confused. Frankly I was starting to get a bit annoyed. "Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?" I asked annoyed.
"Other than we seem to be experiencing some time changes to certain parts of the ship, I haven't the slightest idea." Harry said. "I do believe we should pull away from what ever that thing out there is. I'm almost certain that, that's what's causing all of this."
"I agree. Mr. Paris, bull back from, what ever the hell that is." I ordered.
"Yes, ma'am." He agreed willingly.
"Chakotay, will you join me in my ready room?" I said gesturing him tom join me.
Once we had entered and the door had slid closed behind us, I turned to him. Too fast however and a shot of pain ran through my side. I tried to hide my pain. If he noticed, he didn't say anything.
"We have got a big problem here." I told him. "Not only is the ship experiencing time differences, but crewmen are popping up with old injuries that they have already gotten." I walked over to the couch and sat down. Chakotay followed.
"We can't even figure out what is happening let alone find a way to protect the crew from it." Chakotay sighed.
"There has got to be something we can do." I sighed.
"I'm not sure there is. Until we know exactly what's happening here, our hands are pretty much tied" He said. I turned to stare out the window.
"It's hard to fight something you can't see." I sighed. "This could turn out to be really bad. What if it starts doing things to us that happen in the future? I mean there is probably stuff we face in the future that is ten times dangerous than what we have already faced."
"It could turn out to be bad, but we'll get through it. We always do." He smiled at me.
"What would I do with out you?" I asked smiling at him.
"You probably would get less headaches." He joked.
"This is true." I laughed. "I probably would have crashed the ship by now too."
"I don't think so. You're a strong woman Kathryn. You wouldn't have let anyone get to you more than you do now." He placed his hand on mine. It sent shivers down my spine.
The ship rocked. Harder than last time. It threw me off the couch hitting my head hard against the table. Chakotay managed to stay on the couch, but rushed to me after the ship had regained its balance. I grabbed a hold of his arm to help me to my feet. The two of us then made our way back to the bridge.
"Report." Chakotay said. He helped me to my chair. I was slightly dizzy.
"We were hit with some sort of bio-energy, commander." Harry answered. "It came from the anomaly."
"Captain, we appeared to have moved closer to it." Tuvok said.
"Closer to it? I thought I gave the order to pull away?" I asked turning to Tom. He was sitting at the helm looking confused.
"Captain, according to sensors I did move us away, it just moved us back." He said annoyed.
"How did it do that?" I asked confused.
"Apparently, the bio-electric energy beam was a tractor beam." Tuvok answered.
"I have never known a tractor beam to shake a ship so violently." Chakotay said. "It had to have been more than that."
"Seven." I said taping my combadge.
"Yes captain." She answered.
"Can you come up to the Bridge please?" I asked her.
"On my way." Came her quick answer.
"Seven has been working on this thing since we first spotted it." I explained to Chakotay. "Maybe she can shed some light on this." I felt blood slowly dripping down my forehead. I reached my hand up to whip it away.
"Here let me get that." Chakotay said pulling a handkerchief out of the inside pocket of his uniform. He dabbed my forehead softly, but it still made me flinch. "You should really go down to sickbay and get this looked at." He said.
"I should do a lot of things." I sighed.
"He's right captain. You should get that looked at." Tom spoke up. "It's a bit more than a scratch."
"I'll get around to it." I said. The turbo lift doors hissed open and Seven stepped out. "Just the lady I wanted to see." I said as she stepped out. I pulled a way from Chakotay, and stood up to meat her.
"You are damaged." She said. If she weren't Borg I'd say she almost seemed concerned.
"It's not that bad." I sighed.
"I was talking about you side." Seven said matter-of-factly. I saw Chakotay look up at me out of the corner of my eye.
"Did you get anywhere on the anomaly?" I asked her, changing the subject.
"I believe it to be a being of some kind." She answered. "The weapons they use are made up of bio energy. I recommend, leaving this area of space."
"I agree with Seven." Tuvok said. "It is not in our way home. It would be logical to find away around it instead of staying here to fight it. We have no need for conflict against an unknown species."
"We've tried that already." I said walking over. "We ended up right back here."
"We only moved away." Chakotay said. "What if we were to move away completely? Get back on our original course?"
"It's worth a try captain." Seven agreed.
"Get us back on our original course Mr. Paris." I ordered. "I don't have any other idea's, and I'm not sure if I want to put my crew through anymore of this."
"Aye, Captain." Tom said as he punched in a new set of coordinates.
"Maybe you should go down to sickbay and see the doctor now Captain." Seven suggested.
"I'll be fine." I assured her.
"She's right Captain. You don't need to be here right now." Chakotay said. He gave me a look of concern. "You should go get the doctor to look at that." He said pointing to my head.
"Alright, not to get rid of my headache then to at least stop the nagging." I laughed.
I stepped in to the turbo lift and headed down to see the Doctor. Seven had decided to stay on the bridge. She could do her calculations from there. When I entered sickbay, the bio beds that were full earlier were now empty.
"No more problems here Doctor?" I asked him. He was sitting in his office, concentrating on the screen in front of him. He jumped when I spoke.
"Captain, I didn't hear you come in." He said nervously as he stood up to greet me.
"It's ok Doctor. You looked busy." I said smiling.
"And you look like you've taken another nasty fall." He said taking out is tricorder.
"I'm fine." I insisted.
"Are you experiencing any dizziness?" He asked me.
"A bit. Nothing major." I sighed. I walked over and sat down on a bio bed.
"Yes, well you have a mild concussion, but it could have been worse." He sighed.
The sickbay doors hissed and Chakotay walked through.
"Anything wrong commander?" I asked. He had that look on his face. The look he gets when he's overly concerned about something, but didn't need to be.
"Just something Seven said to you on the Bridge." Chakotay said. "About your side being damaged?"
"It's nothing." I said waving him off.
"She broke two ribs this morning." The Doctor jumped in.
"Kathryn?" Chakotay asked? I nodded. "You should have been resting. Not up on the bridge." He lectured.
"I'm fine." I said for the tenth time today.
"You should take some time to actually rest now." Insisted the Doctor. "Head injuries don't take kindly to not being allowed to heal properly."
"Yes Doctor." I said humouring him. I had no intention of taking it easy, until I was sure we were out of harms way. "Have you had anymore problems this morning?" I asked him.
"No I haven't." The Doctor smiled. "You are the only one who has come in since the seven I saw this morning."
"Good." Chakotay said. "Maybe this thing is behind us."
"Lets Hope." I sighed.
~~*~*~~
(This takes place, sometime randomly during season five. There is no real time line to this story. The only real change I made to the characters was keeping Janeway's hair long. It killed me when they decided to go short with it…*sighs* I also chose the ponytail.)
Part 1
I took a sip of my coffee as I turned down the hallway. I was pretty much completely oblivious to anyone around me. I gave a nod to the crew members that caught my eye. Very few were actually out this early in the morning. I was surprised to see the few that I did. I stepped into the turbo lift, telling it to take me to the bridge.
"Report." I said as I stepped off.
"It's been a fairly quiet morning, Captain." Chakotay answered. He was looking intensely at a PADD in front of him. There was more on his mind than just a quiet morning.
"Fairly quiet suggests that at least one thing has caught your eye." I said smiling at him as he looked up. His smile back sent shivers down my spine. No one could do that to me like he could.
"Sensors did pick up something unusual not more than fifteen minutes ago." He said, his attention turning back to the PADD. "There is something we have never seen before about five light years from here."
"Do we have any information on it?" I asked interested. I took another sip of my coffee before putting it on the edge of my chair and walking up to see what ensign Kim had collected on the unknown anomaly.
"Sensors aren't getting anything on it, Captain." The young officer told me. I felt a slight ping of excitement.
"Set a course Mr. Paris." I said with a smile
"Yes ma'am."
"I'll be in my ready room if anyone needs me." I said collecting my coffee cup, and heading to the room just off the side of the Bridge.
I sat down behind my desk and started to read crew reports, when the door chimed, as I knew it would.
"Come in Chakotay." I said with a smile
"I knew you wouldn't be able to resist checking it out." He said laughing when he walked in the door. "I knew that it would be just the thing to put a little kick in your step this morning."
I laughed. "You know me too well."
I'm not sure how, but Chakotay seemed to get more and more handsome everyday. Maybe it was just how well he knew me. He's had the time and the constant closeness to get to know me better than anyone else has. I'm not sure what I would do with out him.
"We've been through a lot together Kathryn, that's what happens." He smiled at me. His eyes looked wistful, as if there was something more he wanted to say but couldn't. "Would you like me to let you know when we get there?"
"Let me know when we come within a light years distance." I told him returning my eyes to the PADD.
"Aye, Captain." Chakotay returned to the bridge.
I sat there in the silence, trying to catching up on the work that I had let get behind. It wasn't major stuff, just stuff that should be kept up for organizational reasons. I was a bit distracted by what we might find out there. We have encountered so many things the five years we have been in the Delta Quadrant. Not all have been welcoming.
I decided that after about an hour of sitting, pretending to do work, to go back out to the bridge to see how much further we had to go.
"Report." I said as I walked on to the bridge. I went to sit in my chair.
"We are about a light years distance away now Captain. We were just about to call you." Tom Paris said.
"What can I say? I have incredible timing." I joked. "On screen."
The large view screen at the front of the bridge flickered for a moment before showing the stars in front of us. Unfortunately that is all there was, Stars. The screen showed nothing different than it had ten minutes ago.
"Well where is it?" I asked.
"According to our sensor readings, it should be here Captain." Ensign Harry Kim said. He was furiously going over the data the sensors had collected
"Tom, hold our position. I'm going to go check with Seven down in astrometrics. She might have something useful. The bridge is yours Commander." I said leaving the bridge. The hiss of the turbo lift was more irritating then usual. It left me feeling uneasy. This whole thing had bad news written all over it. Or maybe I was just getting overly cautious with every moment more I spent in the Delta Quadrant.
When I stepped into the astrometrics lab, Seven already had the data up on the view screen trying to make sense of it.
"What do you have?" I asked her
"It appears to be a rift in space time Captain." She said coolly, but interested. "I'm not quite sure how to explain it. Some thing is there it's just not showing up."
"Is it to small to show?" I asked. I hated being blind.
"No. It appears that it doesn't want to be seen, Captain." She said. I smiled at her choice of words.
"Is there anything we can do to make it visible to us?"
"There might be, but it will take some time." She said carefully studying the data on the console in front of her.
"Let me know when you have something." I told her.
"Yes, Captain."
My combadge beeped. "Janeway here." I said tapping it.
"It's me captain." The Doctors voice came through loud and clear. "I think you should come down to sick bay. We have a slight problem."
"I'm on my way."
I made my way down to deck five. Once I entered the sickbay I noticed four crewmen lying on beds. Some with plasma burns others, others just looked sickly.
"Captain, I'm glad you're here." The Doctor said coming out of his office to meant me.
"What is going on here?" I asked worried.
"To tell you the truth Captain I'm not sure." His brow furrowed slightly. "Three crewmen have come in with plasma burns that they apparently got from nothing, and four others have come in experiencing an extreme viral infection."
"What kind of viral infection?" I wondered.
"The kind we were exposed to about two years ago." The Doctor said quietly.
"The Macovirus?" I asked amazed. "But we wiped that out."
"Yes I know. Which makes it easy to treat now, but no less troubling. I just thought you should know what's been going on down here."
"Thank-you Doctor." I said.
I turned to leave sickbay, when the ship rocked violently, throwing me against the wall. The Doctor rushed over to me tri-quarter in hand. I waved him off
"I'm fine Doctor. Just a little shaken." I lied. My right side hurt like a bitch.
"You have two broken ribs." The Doctor argued. "You are not just fine."
"How did I manage to get two broken ribs? I may have fallen but I did not fall that hard." I stated. The Doctor helped me over to one of the bio- beds.
"Not enough calcium maybe?" The doctor joked.
I tapped my combadge. "Janeway to Chakotay." He rang in a second later.
"Chakotay here Captain."
"What was that?" I asked.
"We're not sure yet. It appears to have come from the special anomaly."
"Keep me posted. Janeway out" I tapped my combage, closing the connection.
I heard the quiet beeping of the scanner as the Doctor ran it over my side. "Hmm." He said perplexed.
"What is it Doctor?" I said slightly annoyed. I didn't need anymore bad news today.
"Well," He started. "It appears as though I have treated these wounds before."
"What?" I said shocked. I tried to sit up forgetting the broken ribs. I groaned in pain. The Doctor laid me back down.
"Try to lie still." He told me.
"The only other time I have had broken ribs while on this ship…" I stopped short.
"Was when the macrovirus was on the ship." The Doctor finished for me.
"What the hell is going on around here?" I questioned loudly.
"As soon as I'm done here you can go figure that out, until then, please lie still so I can heal these fractures." The Doctor said sternly.
I lay quietly on the bed for the next fifteen minutes while he fixed my broken bones. Seven had mentioned that it appeared to be a rift in space- time, but why cause old injuries to resurface? When the Doctor was done, I thanked him, told him to keep me updated and headed to see Seven. If anyone knew what was going on here, she would.
~~*~*~~
I made my way to the Astrometics lab, where Seven was working furiously at the console.
"Do you have any news?" I asked her. I brushed a stray hair from my eyes and placed it back into my ponytail.
Seven gave a frustrated sigh. "No, Captain I have not. For some reason the sensors are able to penetrate it far enough to get a reading on what it actually is. I'm trying to recalibrate, but it will take a while yet. Until then we are going to have to treat it as a enemy and be on the defensive."
"Do you think it attacked us?" I asked her.
"I'm not sure, but until I am, it would be wise to treat what happened as an attack." Seven advised.
"Thank-you Seven." I said turning to leave.
I slowly made my way back to the Bridge. Although the Doctor had set the bones, my side was still fairly tender. It wasn't easy convincing the Doctor to let me leave sickbay. Not that he would have expected me to stay, He knows unless I was seriously injured that there would be no way I would stay in sickbay when something was endangering my ship and crew. When I reached the bridge, Chakotay was pouring over reports, looking slightly perturbed.
"Did we take any damage during the attack?" I asked walking to my chair.
"No and yes." He answered me
"Excuse me?" I asked confused.
"We didn't take any direct damage, but parts of the ship have changed." Harry explained. I looked up at him confused.
"Changed how?" I asked.
"For starters, cargo bay two, has turned back into a Borg command centre." Chakotay said. "There is no Borg." He reassured me after seeing the expression on my face. The last thing we needed were Borg drones walking about the ship.
"What else?" I asked needing to know the status of my ship.
"It appears we are missing torpedoes." Tuvok said. "Although I'm not even completely sure about that. Sometimes the reading is what it should be, other times it appears as though we only have six left."
"Six? There was never a point in time when we were down to six torpedoes." I said confused. Frankly I was starting to get a bit annoyed. "Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?" I asked annoyed.
"Other than we seem to be experiencing some time changes to certain parts of the ship, I haven't the slightest idea." Harry said. "I do believe we should pull away from what ever that thing out there is. I'm almost certain that, that's what's causing all of this."
"I agree. Mr. Paris, bull back from, what ever the hell that is." I ordered.
"Yes, ma'am." He agreed willingly.
"Chakotay, will you join me in my ready room?" I said gesturing him tom join me.
Once we had entered and the door had slid closed behind us, I turned to him. Too fast however and a shot of pain ran through my side. I tried to hide my pain. If he noticed, he didn't say anything.
"We have got a big problem here." I told him. "Not only is the ship experiencing time differences, but crewmen are popping up with old injuries that they have already gotten." I walked over to the couch and sat down. Chakotay followed.
"We can't even figure out what is happening let alone find a way to protect the crew from it." Chakotay sighed.
"There has got to be something we can do." I sighed.
"I'm not sure there is. Until we know exactly what's happening here, our hands are pretty much tied" He said. I turned to stare out the window.
"It's hard to fight something you can't see." I sighed. "This could turn out to be really bad. What if it starts doing things to us that happen in the future? I mean there is probably stuff we face in the future that is ten times dangerous than what we have already faced."
"It could turn out to be bad, but we'll get through it. We always do." He smiled at me.
"What would I do with out you?" I asked smiling at him.
"You probably would get less headaches." He joked.
"This is true." I laughed. "I probably would have crashed the ship by now too."
"I don't think so. You're a strong woman Kathryn. You wouldn't have let anyone get to you more than you do now." He placed his hand on mine. It sent shivers down my spine.
The ship rocked. Harder than last time. It threw me off the couch hitting my head hard against the table. Chakotay managed to stay on the couch, but rushed to me after the ship had regained its balance. I grabbed a hold of his arm to help me to my feet. The two of us then made our way back to the bridge.
"Report." Chakotay said. He helped me to my chair. I was slightly dizzy.
"We were hit with some sort of bio-energy, commander." Harry answered. "It came from the anomaly."
"Captain, we appeared to have moved closer to it." Tuvok said.
"Closer to it? I thought I gave the order to pull away?" I asked turning to Tom. He was sitting at the helm looking confused.
"Captain, according to sensors I did move us away, it just moved us back." He said annoyed.
"How did it do that?" I asked confused.
"Apparently, the bio-electric energy beam was a tractor beam." Tuvok answered.
"I have never known a tractor beam to shake a ship so violently." Chakotay said. "It had to have been more than that."
"Seven." I said taping my combadge.
"Yes captain." She answered.
"Can you come up to the Bridge please?" I asked her.
"On my way." Came her quick answer.
"Seven has been working on this thing since we first spotted it." I explained to Chakotay. "Maybe she can shed some light on this." I felt blood slowly dripping down my forehead. I reached my hand up to whip it away.
"Here let me get that." Chakotay said pulling a handkerchief out of the inside pocket of his uniform. He dabbed my forehead softly, but it still made me flinch. "You should really go down to sickbay and get this looked at." He said.
"I should do a lot of things." I sighed.
"He's right captain. You should get that looked at." Tom spoke up. "It's a bit more than a scratch."
"I'll get around to it." I said. The turbo lift doors hissed open and Seven stepped out. "Just the lady I wanted to see." I said as she stepped out. I pulled a way from Chakotay, and stood up to meat her.
"You are damaged." She said. If she weren't Borg I'd say she almost seemed concerned.
"It's not that bad." I sighed.
"I was talking about you side." Seven said matter-of-factly. I saw Chakotay look up at me out of the corner of my eye.
"Did you get anywhere on the anomaly?" I asked her, changing the subject.
"I believe it to be a being of some kind." She answered. "The weapons they use are made up of bio energy. I recommend, leaving this area of space."
"I agree with Seven." Tuvok said. "It is not in our way home. It would be logical to find away around it instead of staying here to fight it. We have no need for conflict against an unknown species."
"We've tried that already." I said walking over. "We ended up right back here."
"We only moved away." Chakotay said. "What if we were to move away completely? Get back on our original course?"
"It's worth a try captain." Seven agreed.
"Get us back on our original course Mr. Paris." I ordered. "I don't have any other idea's, and I'm not sure if I want to put my crew through anymore of this."
"Aye, Captain." Tom said as he punched in a new set of coordinates.
"Maybe you should go down to sickbay and see the doctor now Captain." Seven suggested.
"I'll be fine." I assured her.
"She's right Captain. You don't need to be here right now." Chakotay said. He gave me a look of concern. "You should go get the doctor to look at that." He said pointing to my head.
"Alright, not to get rid of my headache then to at least stop the nagging." I laughed.
I stepped in to the turbo lift and headed down to see the Doctor. Seven had decided to stay on the bridge. She could do her calculations from there. When I entered sickbay, the bio beds that were full earlier were now empty.
"No more problems here Doctor?" I asked him. He was sitting in his office, concentrating on the screen in front of him. He jumped when I spoke.
"Captain, I didn't hear you come in." He said nervously as he stood up to greet me.
"It's ok Doctor. You looked busy." I said smiling.
"And you look like you've taken another nasty fall." He said taking out is tricorder.
"I'm fine." I insisted.
"Are you experiencing any dizziness?" He asked me.
"A bit. Nothing major." I sighed. I walked over and sat down on a bio bed.
"Yes, well you have a mild concussion, but it could have been worse." He sighed.
The sickbay doors hissed and Chakotay walked through.
"Anything wrong commander?" I asked. He had that look on his face. The look he gets when he's overly concerned about something, but didn't need to be.
"Just something Seven said to you on the Bridge." Chakotay said. "About your side being damaged?"
"It's nothing." I said waving him off.
"She broke two ribs this morning." The Doctor jumped in.
"Kathryn?" Chakotay asked? I nodded. "You should have been resting. Not up on the bridge." He lectured.
"I'm fine." I said for the tenth time today.
"You should take some time to actually rest now." Insisted the Doctor. "Head injuries don't take kindly to not being allowed to heal properly."
"Yes Doctor." I said humouring him. I had no intention of taking it easy, until I was sure we were out of harms way. "Have you had anymore problems this morning?" I asked him.
"No I haven't." The Doctor smiled. "You are the only one who has come in since the seven I saw this morning."
"Good." Chakotay said. "Maybe this thing is behind us."
"Lets Hope." I sighed.
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