Response: Raszenfraz: In the episode "Vis a Vis" Tom told Seth that when he was a teenager he did an 'old ritual' and stole his father's car. It ended up at the bottom of a lake. Now, I never said that the car previously was a land car, not a hover car; just to point out.

The Power of the Q- Ch. 11- Another

I walked into the turbolift, and called for the holodeck's deck… maybe that would ease the shock of a wife, but maybe I should do something about the kid that looks like it could be born any second… The turbolift stopped nearly immediately and B'Elanna came in. She smiled at me, I smiled back and she called for Engineering. As soon as the doors closed she started to kiss me.

Let me say just this: a kiss between B'Elanna and I feels a lot more right than a kiss between Janeway and me. B'Elanna stopped kissing me and asked…

'How could you?' Tameth interrupted my thoughts. 'I love her! Just forget B'Elanna and think about someone other than yourself!'

'You want me to take this?' I heard Jack ask Culnac and Culnac nodded. 'First off, Janeway doesn't love you. Second off, you're married.'

"Have you had breakfast yet, Commander?" B'Elanna asked suggestively.

"No." I answered.

"Good," she smiled. What's she getting at? I thought. "be in my quarters in half an hour." I nodded and the lift stopped at my deck.

I began to walk out, but B'Elanna grabbed me and pulled me back. This kiss was more of a bone crushing one.

"Don't be early, or Harry might get suspicious." She whispered after she stopped kissing me. "He still believes that I have to work today… good thing we both took the day off again, huh?" I smiled and left.

I walked through the corridors and made my way to Holodeck 2. Sandrine's was already in use by someone.

"Computer," I started. "who is in Holodeck 2?"

"Lieutenant Samantha Carey." It replied.

Whoa, Sam married Joe and not Greskrendtregk? That's odd… hey, how did she make Lieutenant so fast… this place is confusing.

I walked into Sandrine's and saw a very pregnant Sam sitting on a couch. I walked over to her and she stood up.

"Uh… Lieutenant Paris, I didn't know my time was up." She stammered. Then she started to walk away and I grabbed her.

"No, Lieutenant," I smiled. "you're time isn't up, I just thought I might join you since we both are stuck in this very weird place."

"Oh thank the gods!" Sam said with relief. She sat on the couch and I sat across from her in a chair. "I thought I was alone. This is just too strange, me being married to Carey. I only thought of him as a nice guy, but I'm married to Greskrendtregk."

"Believe me, I know how you feel." I smiled.

"Oh yeah?" Sam said challenging me. "What could be worse than marrying someone on board that you only thought of as a friend?"

"My story." I replied. "Let's see… where to begin? Okay, well, I'm married if you can't tell by the ring. I'm married to Janeway… or rather Kathryn Paris." Sam started to laugh. "Oh wait it gets better. She's pregnant and due any day now. But here's the ringer, I'm cheating on Janeway with B'Elanna." Sam started laughing harder.

"Wait a second." Sam's laughter slowed down to a small smile. "I just saw B'Elanna and Harry kissing in the corridor half an hour ago." She looked at me in confusion.

"That bit-" I started.

"Tom!" Sam interrupted. "She's not cheating on you; I think she's cheating on Harry with you. Geez, this is some ship we're on. I'm sorry that this ships me doesn't have such an interesting story as yours, me nor Joe are cheating on each other. So… who do you think did this?"

"Q." I stated.

"You think Q did this?" Sam asked. "Are you sure it's not some random… thing that did it?"

"That random thing is Q" I said leaning back in the chair.

"Why would he bring us here?"

"Why does Q do anything?" I asked waving my hands in the air. "He's probably trying to mess up my life even more."

"Well maybe-" Sam was cut off.

The ship started to rock back and forth. We were probably under attack.

"Commander Paris, report to the Bridge immediately." Tuvok's voice came over the comm.

"I'll be there soon." I replied. "Well I guess I'm going to miss my date with B'Elanna." I said to Sam while leaving the bar.

Sam smiled and turned off Sandrine's. We both got in the turbolift and I called for the Bridge while Sam called for Sickbay. After a few seconds, the turbolift didn't move.

"It should've started by now." I looked up.

"It's probably broken because of whatever happened." Sam replied. She walked out of the turbolift and I followed. "There's a Jeffries Tube near here."

When we reached the Jeffries Tube, I pulled the cover off. Sam got in first and I was half way in when I heard some transporter beams. I looked up and saw five two and a half meter men that were different shades of blue and green. Their sharp teeth were pointed outwards and they had facial features like a human, except them having those teeth and all. The center grotesque alien looked at me and yelled, "Surrender, your ship is defenseless!"

I looked at him and in a split second I had grabbed the Jeffries Tube cover and pulled it on after I got in. I heard weapons fire against it and tried to seal it, knowing it wouldn't last long. Sam was looking at me in confusion, but knew that it was time to crawl, fast. We were in the next section when we heard a hatch open, we crawled faster.

"Sam, we need to split up, those aliens are gonna get us." I said. "You go in the direction of Sickbay and I'll go to the Armory." Both of us were breathing heavily, but we didn't stop crawling. "Leave your commbadge here, just in case." I took of mine and as did Sam. We split up, me going up and her going right.

The aliens probably saw my legs going up the ladder because once I got to the top of the ladder, one was climbing it. I closed the hatch separating us and went left, but the aliens found a way to get around the locked hatch. No matter what I did for the next seven minutes, the aliens caught up and evaded every obstacle I threw at them. Suddenly, I felt something grab me and pull me towards a hatch that led to a corridor. When I was pulled all the way out of the tube, I noticed it was an alien that had pulled me out of the Jeffries Tube.

He or she or it pointed its gun to my head while I was laying down. It hovered over me. "Tell me where your Captain is or you'll die."

"No." I responded.

"Fine, I hope you had a good life." It smiled then pulled out a knife. "Your skin will be useful to us I believe, I hope you don't need it." It put the knife to my stomach and smiled.

Right as it was about to cut me open, it froze. Everything froze, like someone had pushed pause on this whole thing.

"How does it feel, Paris?" I heard a voice say. "How does it feel to be on the brink of death? Have you seen your life past before your eyes?" It was Q's voice.

"What are you talking about?" I asked. "I've had near death experiences before; someone's going to come along and save me."

Then Q appeared and walked over to me. He crouched down next to me.

"I would've thought that Jessica's death would've shown you that anything can happen." Q smiled. "But this time, it's completely different."

"How?" I asked.

"I'm here, able to save you, but I won't." He responded, still smiling.

"Why? Why won't you save me?" I asked, still laying on the ground and coming up with more and more questions.

"Because… I don't feel like it." He turned his back, stood up and started to walk away. "This is the end of the road, Tommyboy. Like the alien said, 'I hope you had a good life.'"