Disclaimer: We all know the drill, paramount is god, we are pawns *smiles*
Thought I'd try something a little different with this one. Two people point of view. I kinda took the assumption that the reader would be able to figure out who is who. Forgive me if I was wrong. I will separate them though with little **** …*smiles*
I went from walking to my ready room to somehow bouncing off of a cold hard surface. When I landed on the floor, the blood that was trickling from my head had already made it to my mouth.
"That could be the last bit of liquid that you get for quite a while. You should savour it." I heard a cruel voice say. The voice didn't sound as though was coming from any specific direction more that it was all around me.
"Lothos." I said under my breath.
"Yes Kathy?" his voice rang in my ears.
"What am I doing here?"
"Divide and concur." He said.
"What does that mean?" There was no answer. "LOTHOS!" The room was quiet.
My head pounded so hard that it was the only thing I heard in my ears. I somehow through the pain managed to open my eyes and look around the room I was in. You really couldn't call it much of a room. More like a big metal box. The only thing that let in any light was a small window in the to right corner of the back wall. That was it. The rest of it was just all a smooth metal surface.
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Something in my heart told me something was wrong. I looked behind me to where Kathryn had been standing and was more than shocked to see her no longer there.
"Tuvok." I said as calmly as I possibly could.
"Commander, there was no warning. One minute she was here, the next she wasn't." He said. The Vulcan worked as his station furiously, as did the young ensign on the other side of the room.
"Commander there was no signs of disturbance anywhere on the bridge in the last five minutes." Harry said. He had tried to hide it but I could sense the panic in his voice. He wasn't the only one that felt that way, but when it came to Kathryn I simply got used to putting a mask over it.
"Well she couldn't have just disappeared! She has to be somewhere here. Find her."
I have my orders and then continued to her ready room hoping that she would be there. My heart more than sank when when she wasn't there. This whole thing had been ridiculous. There was no way that we could stop this thing from doing anything he wanted to her, and that bothered me than most people would ever know or understand. I picked up one of the pillows on the couch and threw it across the room in frustration, and just continued to do so until I ran out of pillows.
A loud maniacal laughter came over the comm. system.
"Divide and concur," Was all the voice said before fading out.
I walked back out on to the bridge suddenly filled with a strange wave of hope.
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I found myself sitting on the cold floor once again, after an hour or maybe more of trying to see if maybe there was some seam or a way to make a door out of this place. My head hurt too much for me to stand for too much longer, so when it came to that sitting was a much better option. I know that I couldn't lay down, that would just encourage me to sleep, and the fact that every now and then my head started to bleed again just made me think that I was in worse shape then I had originally thought.
My feet were starting to get cold. The metal of the floor was draining the heat from me, and it didn't seem as though there was any heat coming in from the small window.
"Kathryn?" I heard a familiar voice call out.
"Chakotay?"
"Oh god what did he do to you?" He said. I felt him take my head in his hands. I tried to focus my eyes on him but they wouldn't, it hurt my head too much.
"Are you really here?" I said. "Did you transport in? I would have thought that Lothos would have thought of that."
"There was a hole in the field around the area. Harry was able to find a way to exploit it." Chakotay said. There was something not right about his voice. It was too, careful.
"Are you really here?" I asked again.
"Yes Kathryn I am. This is bleeding too much, we need to get you out of here." He placed a piece of cloth on the cut on my forehead.
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"What do you guys think? Am I completely crazy?" I looked at the senior staff sitting around the table. I couldn't tell if they thought that I had completely lost my mind or if they were with me on this.
"I think it is pretty much the only thing that could help us fight Lothos. The question is how to we get in contact with Q?" Tom asked.
"Logical question, normally people don't try to get in contact with us." Q said answering what I was sure was going to be our biggest problem. "Another great question would be why on earth would I want to help you?"
"Q have you ever heard of this Lothos?" B'Elanna asked. I saw his eyes darken.
"What has he been doing now? Have you been pissing him off Chuckles?" Q said.
"No, but apparently Captain Janeway has." I answered.
"Figures. She is quite feisty." I heard Tom chuckle quietly at the more than accurate description of his captain. "Speaking of which where is Kathy?"
"We don't know." Harry answered.
"That's where you would come in." I said.
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I couldn't shake the feeling that something was completely not right with this situation. Why hadn't Chakotay explained to me what we were doing to get out of this place? Lothos was bound to realize sooner or later that he was there.
"Chakotay you can't be here." I said finally.
"We can't leave for another ten minutes when the hole opens up again." He explained. That wasn't soon enough.
"No, Chakotay you can't be here. Lothos will realize that you're here. You can't be here." I kept repeating. I'm not sure why I kept repeating myself. The room had started to spin, making my stomach churn.
"We can handle him for a short period of time." He said trying to reassure me.
"Do you really think so?" I heard Lothos chime in. Chakotay tensed up beside me. I opened my eyes and looked around and couldn't see anything. "I see that your commander is getting a bit cocky."
"Leave him alone." I said, although it wasn't much of a threat. I was too weak to do much of anything, and I'm sure that he knew that.
"Right cause you're in such a place to be giving me orders Kathy." He said. Although there was nothing there I felt something patting me on the hand.
"You aren't going to hurt her anymore." Chakotay said. I felt him get up from beside me, the coldness from the floor and walls and moved right into my bones now.
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To be continued…
*note* If this was too confusing let me know and I'll try and figure out a way to put in some helpers. I'll try to get the next part done by the end of tomorrow.