Well, sorry for leaving you guys hanging all weekend. I had a super time getting up at five in the morning and then horseback riding all day and then going to a party all night. Right not it's like nine in the morning and my eyes are screaming at me so this might be a short chapter.

"Do you think Dad will like to see this?" Miral asked her mother quietly. They were on the Bridge, on the final leg of their journey back to Earth after their two month mission. Miral was at the helm and her mother was standing over her shoulder.

"I'm sure he will." B'Elanna stood up and went back to her Captain's chair.

"Open a channel to Starfleet headquarters." she instructed. The screen flashed a picture of the Starfleet insignia and then opened a link to one of the Lieutenants in charge of the docking station.

"This is Captain Torres of the U.S.S. Euphedes requesting permission to dock."

The Lieutenant smiled at them through the two way screen. "Dock 58, Captain. Welcome home." The screen flashed the insignia once again before revealing the real view outside of the huge docking ports and the ships flying in and out.

"Take us in."

"Aye, Captain." nodded Miral as she set to the difficult task of taking the huge ship into the narrow port.

"Dad. What is the problem?"

"You can't take girls romping through subspace."

"Why not?"

"One, you're not qualified yet."

"So, I can do it, qualify me."

"And you shouldn't have taken her to the Epsilon quadrant, that's sacred."

"Well, yeah. But – "

"There is no but here, son, that area is sacred, no human should be in there, especially not some girl you took a fancy to."

"I didn't just take a fancy to Miral." Q2 shouted. "She means more than that."

"There's a reason why the rift is so small and so well hidden. Do you know what happened to the last outsiders who entered?"

"Dad, settle down, it was just her just that once. No one even knew about it."

"Q, I'm sending you back to that ship. You are not to leave. And you are not to see that girl again."

"What! Why not?!"

"Three girls have died because of your romping already, it's hard to cover up a forth."

"Dad!" Miral ran forward into her favourite hugging arms, those of her now-balding father .

"Miral," he hugged her as tightly as he could, "I can't wait to show you the ships I've been working with. You'll absolutely love them."

She laughed. "Hey, Dad, what do you think of that parking job?" They were still in the hallways of the hangar and could see the ship a few metres away.

"Why?"

"Because I did that."

He put her into a playful headlock and started ruffling her hair. "Well with a father like me, how could you not. It's perfect, Miral."

The two laughed together and tousled each other for a while. "I suppose your Mum will be along soon." Tom finally asked.

"Yeah, she's coming now, but she'll have to spend a couple hours in debriefing. Luckily, since I'm not Starfleet, I don't have to." She laughed again but her father wasn't paying attention to her.

"B'Elanna." he breathed as she came striding toward them. He didn't say anything more but locked her into passionate kiss and held her as close as possible. Miral shook her head and looked away, her parents didn't do well to be separated for so long. She knew she would always be second in her Dad's heart and only hoped to find someone like that for herself, one of these days.

Yah, so the chapter was short and not much happened, but aren't you curious about how Q killed people and what all that cryptic talk with his dad was about. Plus, they're on Earth and we might see some of the other Voyager crew wandering around cough, cough. R&R, thanks.