C5 FS: Back on the Beach

A/N: I have altered this chapter, so here is the revised chapter. Thank you very much for the reviews. Shinzon, yes, cannot leave him out (he might be in the next chapter).

"No, not He** this is a beach." Q stated with a gleam of irony.

"What is going on here?" Picard sounded flabbergasted.

"A picnic or as you say a walk in the park. I need you to go to Leila's home world with her for a little. I will then send you back to your very important business." Q acted as it he was ordering a nice wine instead of kidnapping a Star Fleet Captain.

On Kapellia

They were both teleported in a flash of light as Q smirked at them.

Picard opened his eyes in an off white room that was rather large and almost felt like a garden. "Where are we?"

Leila looked nervously at Picard. "This is my room. Now that I am graduated from school, I have my own place. I believe I need to take you to the Explorium."

"What is that?" Picard had calmed down as he seen that Leila was nervous. He turned to her vanity and saw colorful hologram recordings of her past. One that caught his eye was of her as a young child with both of her parents. They were a striking family filled with obvious energy for life laughing with each other.

"The Explorium is a vast holding of information that has been brought from the far stars there is also some information of my planet's history. There is something in the database you must see for yourself. Follow me." Leila walked to a panel on her wall and held her palm up to it. Lights flickered on, and she spoke a command in her own language. The machine scanned Leila and Picard with a translucent blue beam and displayed the information it needed about them on the panel for inspection.

Leila was pleased and kissed Picard lightly on the cheek then spoke in words she had heard him use before, "Make it so."

In a wave of energy, they were teleported to the closest Explorium that was only a few hundred miles away. Picard gaped at the facility, which also felt like a Victorian garden. There were cultivated plants everywhere his eyes explored. Picard found the fabrics that hung from the walls to be make of a silken material as he lightly touched a piece of the rich green fabric. Leila took his hand as he almost stepped into a mirror that was placed parallel to a miniature waterfall that ended in a fish filled pond. "These fish have small legs." He remarked.

"Yes, I noticed the ones in the hologram program you helped me make did not." Leila unknowingly touched her hand to her hip where a recording of her hologram program from the Enterprise was stored in a pouch. What Picard did not know was that she had also recorded in the personnel of the Enterprise, including him.

The technology was all but hidden from the naked eye Picard mused. He followed her to a room that looked like a balcony behind more of that lovely dark green fabric. It seamed to over look a small patch of garden, but a screen was taking up most of the room. He then understood it was for a holographic projection of the facts stored. What marvelous devices they have to use for studying history and other peoples.

"Ok, I'm going to access a series of information for you. Just watch and see." Leila was glad that she was giving him this bit of information he needed.

"What does this have to do with Earth and the Crystalline entity?" Picard started watching ships from Kapellia go to another planet and land.

He watched as the Kapellians were greeted by what looked like Vampires. The new aliens were taller and appeared to be a strong people like the Klingons. They exchanged items and the Kapellians were on their way. They went to another planet that was obvious farther away. Picard recognized what it was and gasped for breath. "That is a Dysonsphere close to their home world?"

Leila smiled, "Yes, the beings are called Remadds, but they are given different names by other peoples that sound similar. The Federation will come into contact with them later."

Picard watched the Kapellian ship enter the sphere and once again exchange items in a trade. The ship then returned back home using a different technology then Picard had ever seen. There was a burst of energy and the craft was dematerialized as if in a transporter beam. Within seconds, the craft was at the Kapellian home world.

Leila touched a few places on a hologram of a console that was on the balcony as Picard watched out over the expanse of a garden the things she typed in.

She brought up a disk and handed it to Picard. "This has everything on it you need to help the Remadds in the future. When you see beings like these who are searching for their home world, give this to them."

"Surely this can't be everything. What did Q tell you?" Picard turned and peered into Leila's sparkling eyes.

"No, this isn't everything. Q told me how my parents died in a Q war that will happen in your future. Soon you will meet my mother and help her, as I am helping you now. I was a Q when I was a child then my family was banished to the planet my parents helped. We were made to be the same as they were biologically. There are things I cannot tell you. I regret kidnapping you, but this gives you a way to fix several things in your future." Leila took Picard's hand and pressed it to her cheek. She moved his hand so she could lightly graze her full lips across the warm skin on his hand.

"Will this some how help save your parents?" Picard could see the pain just under the surface of her beautiful eyes.

"No, if I save my parents or try to stop them from doing what caused our down fall, millions will die I believe. Your own planet would even be in jeopardy without Q, possibly your entire galaxy. I was planning on asking Q for help on that." Leila had the appearance of seriousness that provoked Picard to want to know more.

"Q is more of a trouble maker. I doubt his absence would be disastrous. What do you know that makes you think this?" Picard now had both of her hands in his.

"Watch out over the balcony, I will turn the hologram back on." Leila stated after she kissed one of his hands and released them both.

Picard watched as Q appeared in the form of a hologram in front of Earth. He started talking to a race of aliens that looked more slender then the ones she had just showed him. The leader had long white hair and wild looking eyes. He held a hand up and Picard could see what looked like suction cups on his palm. The alien held his hand to Q's chest and nothing happened.

"You Wraith are all alike. Walk right up and suck the life out of everyone. So, you believe that humans and other beings not like yourself are just here for your food in the food chain. Well, let me tell you that all life in this galaxy is protected by the Q, and we are far more advanced then your puny little race." Q sneered at the life sucking being as it hissed at him.

"I don't know who you are, but how are you able to stop me from using your life source?" The Wraith leader hissed again at Q wondering what kind of technology could interfere with his feeding from his life-source.

"Because I operate in the fourth dimension. I do not need a physical body to live as you do. I kind of come and go as I please. Every life in this galaxy is under my protection and if you take even one life or go one foot into this galaxy, I will wipe out your entire race." Q leaned to the side as if he was unimpressed with the rabble before him.

"We shall see. Everything has to feed. These life forms you call humans feed on animals, and we will feed on the humans." The wraith was acting haughty.

"Very well, come with me." Q smirked. With a flash of light the Wraith leader and Q was gone. In a few seconds, they reappeared and the Wraith appeared a little haggard where before he was dressed immaculately. He bowed to Q and stayed that way until Q waved a hand at him.

"We are leaving. Our people will never return. You have my word and my vow." The leader was swiveling in fear as his subordinates looked on in horror.

"Oh, you will never come here or you will suffer the consequences I have shown you. I am a man of my word. Now, off you go." He waved his hand and the entire Wraith ship disappeared and in seconds reappeared at their home world.

The hologram program stopped and there was silence. Picard seen the state of Earth and knew that it was still in the pre-warp state when the killers came to claim it. Q saved the entire galaxy from those Wraiths. Picard continued to think over the ramifications of such actions by Q.

"Q is protecting our people?" Picard breathed.

"Yes, and he protects my people as well. The Wraith is an evil race that hibernates then wake and feed. They will continue to feed until all of the beings in their regions are in the threat of extinction. Q is also the one who told me to tell you about the Horta. In the future, as I have seen it without using the Horta to help, is a very bloody one for your people. The changelings of the Crystalline entity invade your worlds and start by only killing a few. I believe I heard you call them terrorists. I am honored to have been able to help avert this incident." Leila smiled and leaned forward to give Picard a hug.

"No, thank you for showing me these things." Picard held her close to him as he relished the warmth of her soft skin.

"Remember not to tell anyone of the disk I gave you. Only use it when you see the people I first showed you." Leila rested her head upon Picard's chest and relished his strength.

Picard stood holding the beautiful Kapellian thinking what might have happened to Earth if Q had not intervened as he had. Only a hand full of humans on Earth instead of the Federation we have today. They would have feed on the Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans and all of the other beings that live in this galaxy. No one would have been safe. We would have only lived to be mere food.

"What else did Q show you?" Picard wondered out loud as he breathed in the sweet fragrance of her hair as he ran his fingers over the soft expanse of violet.

"He showed me alternate dimensions where things are different. Besides, seeing what happens with the changelings, I have seen people close to you die and you for that matter. In one, there was an ancient force that was released from the underworld into your dimension. It took over a woman's body as she tried to save her love." Tears filled her eyes, "One day you will find your true love, and she will be more precious to you then all others, even the Federation."

Picard released her slightly to peer into her glowing eyes. "You will always hold a very dear place in my heart. I know not of this love in the future, but know I care for you my dear one."

Leila gave Picard a light kiss on the lips and stepped back from him. "Thank you for the time we have shared. And thank you for your kindness to my mother, Amanda. Well, the kindness you will show her. Keep Riker away from her ok?" With a smile, everything vanished.

The Enterprise

Picard was back in the holodeck as if nothing had happened. He used the computer to try and locate Leila, but she was gone. He knew what he had seen was real as he still had the disk. When he asked everyone later, all they could remember was receiving information about the Horta and acting on it. He reviewed the hologram programs to find she had made one of herself in the garden he had helped her make.

Picard entered the program she made for him and it was a duplicate of the other. When he approached the pool, he saw a holographic figure turn to face him. It was Leila.

"Hello, I made this program for you. I wanted to say bye to you in case Q cuts your visit to my home world short." The hologram of Leila that was one hundred percent realistic smiled at him.

"We did get to say good-bye." Picard could not believe he was talking to the hologram as if it was his violet beauty (Deleted Scene).

Not much time passed until Q was back on the Enterprise. A glint of recollection flashed in Picard's mind when he remembered Leila thanking him for being nice to her mother who was a Q called Amanda. The young lady that Q was trying to take was that Amanda. This is Leila's mother. What was that she said about Leila and Riker? I had better keep an eye open, two for that matter.

From that moment on, Picard tried not to influence Amanda Rogers in her decision.

Q entered Amanda's quarters and spoke to her for several minutes. He waved his hand and there was a violet girl in the room with them.

Q smiled, "If you come with me, you will have a daughter named Leila." He held his hand out to the violet girl and she walked over to his side.

"Mother? You look younger then the last time I seen you. And you're still a Q." Leila was trying to control her emotions. She seen Amanda hold her arms out, and Leila fell into them. "Oh, how I love you!" Once again, she was wrapped in her mother's loving arms and filled with peace.

"I will go with you Q. How could I say no?" Amanda held the young lady and started to wonder whom the man was that she married.

"One thing at a time. There is a problem in the future. Amanda, you and your husband will be killed, but I will go fix it so that will not happen this time." Q smiled warmly at both of the gorgeous women before him.

"Q, is there anyway you can tell me what ends up happening to Picard and the Crystalline Entity?" Leila looked up from the safety of her mother's arms.

"Well, you have to come with me back to the beach and wait there. Once I take your mother to the Q, I will come for you. Sound ok?" Q had a hint of an evil gleam in his eye at the thought of playing more tricks on Picard.

"One thing, is that man still tied up on the beach of the island?" Leila flushed darker and looked up at Q.

"Why, do you want him to be there?" Q tipped his head.

Amanda watched them both, "What man?"

A/N: What do you think so far? Please Review. I have another chapter in mind. Shinzon it is.