The Power of the Q- Ch. 10- Alternate
It had been about a week or two since I last saw Q, and life has been okay. Harry keeps trying to talk to me about Jess, but I feel like only the Captain will understand. This reminds me, there was an incident that happened recently, that we just got back from. Maybe humans weren't yet ready to travel at Warp ten.
This brings me here- in Sickbay -for three days. Luckily, I took the symbiote out before the jump to Warp ten. Now, I have Culnac back in, along with the guys. Janeway woke up about one minute ago, and it's kinda awkward still. Sure, she said that it wasn't my fault earlier, but still, I did it with the Captain.
She's the Captain, and I did it with her.
'The one time I'm not there, you do it with the Captain.' Tameth says, rolling his eyes. 'Was it good?'
I can't remember anything.
'Dammit, why does everything good happen when I'm not around?' Tameth whines.
"Little problem, Tom?" Janeway asked. She probably saw me roll my eyes at Tameth.
"Nothing, Captain." I answered a little embarrassed.
"Tom, we're going to be in here together for three days, I think you can call me Kathryn." Kathryn smiled. "I have a feeling Tameth was saying something."
"Yeah Cap…Kathryn," I smiled. "he was complaining about things happening when he wasn't around." I turned a little red after that comment.
"Tom, I've been meaning to ask you, when are you going to let Tameth have his day off?" Janeway asked.
"Between you and me?" I asked; she nodded. "Never." We both smiled. "I don't think him being out and about the ship while you're in here is smart."
'Dammit!' Tameth screamed.
"Is he mad, yet?" Janeway asked.
"Yeah, completely, he's ready to hurt something or someone." I smiled.
"Now I feel sorry for Jack and Culnac, him being a 'Klingon hero' and all." We both laughed for a couple of seconds.
I stopped laughing and stared at the ceiling. Janeway…Kathryn started reading her padd.
"What's this about a 'Klingon hero'?" the Doctor asked coming out of is office.
"Nothing, Doc, just trying to pass the time." I answered.
"Good, now I hope you two will be good for Kes, I have Holodeck time so I plan on being there." He smiled and transported himself to the holodeck. I noticed that Kes was at the Doctor's desk, not paying any attention to us.
"Don't do it, Lieutenant." Kathryn said still reading her padd.
"Do what, Kathryn?" I asked innocently, turning my head towards her.
"You were planning on doing something you weren't supposed to, like sneaking out." Janeway put the padd down and looked at me.
How the hell did she know? I thought. She wasn't even looking at me!!
"It's you, Tom." She answered. "Why else would you look to see where Kes was?"
"Maybe I wanted to call to her." I said.
"Yeah right." She smiled and picked up her padd again. "Be a good boy, and stay put."
"Okay." I answered. "Why would I want to go out in this ugly Sickbay clothing anyway?" I asked her.
"I'm sure you didn't even get that far in your plan." She answered.
I turned my head and stared at the ceiling. Five hours passed, or what felt like five hours, it was probably only five minutes. I turned my head towards Kathryn.
"What're you reading?" I asked. Janeway looked at me.
"A novel." Kathryn answered.
"What's it about?" I asked.
"It's a mystery." Kathryn looked at the padd again. "One detective, Frank Dericks is trying to find out who kills his sister. I just finished. It turned out that one of his closest friends, Jacob Riener, killed his sister because she didn't love him. Frank's sister was a prostitute, and slept with Jacob for money, and he thought she loved him."
"I hope you aren't relating this to real life." I answered.
"No, I know Jess wasn't a prostitute, and Q wasn't your friend as I recall." She looked at me worried. "Is there something you want to talk about, Tom?"
"Nope, I'm fine." I answered, and stared at the ceiling.
"The Paris mask has gone up." Janeway said.
"I beg your pardon?" I asked.
"Your father used it, too. Whenever something happened that was personal, he would put it up, and claim everything was fine." Kathryn sat up.
"I'm nothing like my father, Captain if you haven't noticed." I said.
"You two have your differences, but all in all, you're both virtually the same." I sat up.
"I'm not here to talk about my father." I said angrily.
"I know, neither am I." She answered.
"Good, now, if you don't mind me, I have somewhere to go." I smiled and got off the bed. I started to walk towards the door.
"I wouldn't do that, Tom." I heard Kes call. "The Doctor might get a little too angry."
"Geez, do all of you women read minds?" I asked going back to my bed. Janeway smiled.
I laid back down on the bed and fell asleep after ten minutes. The problem was that when I woke up, I wasn't in Sickbay. I was in someone's quarters. I turned over and saw Janeway about to walk out of the quarters. She noticed me and came over.
Then something odd and very wrong happened, she kissed me, very passionately. Once we stopped, I noticed that she was pregnant, very pregnant.
"I have to go visit the doctor, honey." She smiled. "I'll meet you for lunch?" I just nodded.
As soon as she left, I walked to the bathroom and was about to take a shower when I noticed the ring on my finger. I nearly hit my head on the sink when I found out I was married…to Janeway. At least I hope it was her and I'm not cheating on my wife with Janeway. I got up and took a shower and changed into blue jeans, white t-shirt, and white shoes.
I walked to the computer and looked through mine or some other guy's personal logs. Janeway and I got married before we went on Voyager, Cadlik Prime never happened and neither did me joining the Maquis. What I read next scared the living daylights out of me.
It seems that me, or hopefully an alternate me has been cheating on Janeway with B'Elanna. And B'Elanna is dating Harry, so she's cheating on him with me.
'Hey, remember when you asked us if your life was a soap opera?' Tameth asked, he started to laugh. 'I think the answer is yes.'
Only one person could be responsible for this, Q. I'm going to kill him.