Disclaimer: I only wish Voyager was mine, but Paramount owns them and it is our duty to speculate what they don't see fit to reveal in the series, and are too lazy to make a movie. If only they would see it our way...
A/N: This story is pretty much explained in the title. It's rated 'T' for language, and I hope it doesn't bore you. Please read and review.
Banned From Coffee Chapter 6 - Admiration
The briefing room was silent after the Captain had made her announcement.
Everyone looked at her with wide eyes filled with amazement, mainly the eyes of Tom and Harry, the only two who didn't know. Seven and Tuvok just looked at the person they had grown to love, their hearts filled with gratitude for her.
B'Elanna was the first to break the silence, since she had found out before her husband and his best friend. "Congratulations, Mum," she said. The attention immediately redirected to her, the last comment seen as almost instant death if it had come from the mouth of someone else.
A sudden shudder of the ship rought the senior officers back to reality, out of support and care, and ready to respond to the situation arising.
"Janeway to the Bridge!" She said into her comm badge. "Would you mind telling me WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?"
The slight chuckle that went around the briefing room was quickly silenced with a death glare Tom Paris was used to receiving. "Captain, those unidentified vessels have followed us and fired unprovoked again. They are now attempting to contact us." Ensign Parkins was sounding slightly stressed, not being used to Bridge duty when things were actually happening.
"Ensign, hold them for a minute, we will be on the Bridge to answer the hail ourselves. Janeway out." She tapped her comm badge to terminate the conversation with the junior officer on the bridge. "Now. all of you," she looked at her senior officers each in the eye. "I don't want any of you to say anything about what we have talked about in this room today. I will tell the rest of the crew about my pregnancy when I am ready, and when they are ready." She received confused looks from most of the people in the room. "I am only two months pregnant, it won't show for another six weeks atleast, so when this excitement dies down and everything is back to normal, I will inform the crew. But now, everyone report to your stations on the Bridge, we have work to do!"
Murmurs of "Aye Captain" and "Yes ma'am" were heard as all the members stood and left the briefing room onto the Bridge. The Captain was the last to stand and leave the room, all the while thinking not only about what was happening behind the doors which had just closed, but also thinking about the reactions her officers had displayed with her confession. They had shown nothing but admiratoin, admiration and understanding.
As she turned to look at the empty briefing room behind her, standing at the doors to the Bridge, she thought about the tiny life growing inside her. Then, as the ship shuddered again, her thoughts were brought back to the aliens firing upon them, and, making sure her Captain's mask was firmly in place, she strode confidently onto the Bridge and ignored the caring looks coming from the people who knew about her 'secret'. Oh well, she thought, it was just going to be another day in the Delta Quadrant.
