Note: Thanks for reviewing Erin-Turnbull. Chapters 5 through 11 have been uploaded(I've been working on this a while). I don't know the name of Tom & Be'lana's daughter so she is just refered to as daughter. I a have also forgotten what some of the crew members of Voyager were like (except Tuvok and Neelix) so unless you haven't noticed some of their behavior kind of off. Sorry for not posting this information sooner.

Chapter 5

The next morning Tom was released from the brig and the laid in a course for the Klingon homeworld. Tom was helping Be'lana pack when the captain called him to her ready room. When Tom got there she was staring out the window out into deep space. She turned around to face him. "Mr.Paris."

"Yes captain?"

"I want you to know that I think your a wonderful pilot and all...but.I don't want you to do anything like what you did to those warbirds EVER again. Understood?"

"Yes captain."

"Good. Because on this mission I need to know that I can count on you to follow my orders and not do anything thats out of line. Clear?"

"Yes captain." He could still sense a little bit of anger in her voice. Ever since the little run in with the two Romulan Warbirds Janeway didn't seem to be the nicest person on the ship. Whenever someone was in her way she growled untill they moved. No one knew why either...it was as if she'd been posessed by some demon. Whatever the reason the crew eventually got used to it...except Tom was still curious about it. She turned back to the window. "You can leave now Mr.Paris."

"Theres something wrong isn't there?"

She whipped her head around so fast he could hear the rush of the air being blown out of the way. "NO.Theres nothing wrong." She snapped. Suddenly she felt tired and sat down. She had been on her toes about everything they encountered the whole trip. Janeway thaught she could keep it together but when she thaught about it she wasn't so sure.

Janeway finally spoke again breaking the silence. "Ok there is something wrong."

"What is it?"

"Its this whole mission. I'm not sure if I should of accepted it or not. I feel like I'm sending everyone on this ship to they're death or assimilation."

"Sound like you haven't been getting enough sleep."

"I haven't. I try to goto sleep but I end up just lying there with my eyes wide open. I've tried several of the docter's sedatives but nothing seems to work. I need a vacation."

"You need to remember we're just going to check everything out report back to the Federation and leave."

"I know Tom but I just can't get the feeling out of me. Hows Be'lana?"

"Shes not very happy about going to the Klingon homeworld but she stopped complaining about it."

"Good. Why did you choose for her and your daughter to stay there of all places?"

Tom stared for a couple of seconds before speaking. "I wanted them to be safe. It's the only place I know thats a freind of the Federation and far away from the Crion Nebula. I also chose it because of all the Klingons. You know how they get when the Borg are around."

Janeway smiled remembering the time she had been on they're home world when the Borg attacked. A Borg sphere had come and the Klingons had transported two hundred of they're best warriors over to the sphere. Armed with Bat'leths they slaughtered the Borg on baord and took the sphere down to the surface of the planet for study. Many of the weapons they had developed were very useful against the Borg. Except the weapons were only prototypes and still needed much work.

"Yes.I remember. Maybe your right. I think I'll try to get a little more rest on the way there. Dismissed"

"Aye captain."And than he left.

After he left the captains ready room Chakotay ran up to him.

"Hello luetenant."

"Hey there Chakotay."

"Would you please call me by rank on the bridge?"

"Fine. Commander."

"Thank you. I wanted to ask you about this...aperatus you used against those Romulan Warbirds." He gestured towards the conn that still had the X-wing control deck on it.

"Yeah what about it?"

"We can't seem to get it off. The only thing we've been able to do with it so far is pilot the ship manually and set in a course for the planet you chose to leave Be'lana on. I wanted to ask you how to remove it."

Tom walked over to the conn. He hit a switch on the side of the device and the two cables retracted. He pulled it off the conn and saw two marbel sized holes in the conn. "Umm...I'll get a repair team...on that."

"Don't bother. I want you to do it."

"Me?"

"You did the damage...you fix it. By the way...What kind of cables are those?" He pointed at the bottem of the control deck where the cables had retracted to.

"Fiber optic cables."

"Really?"Chakotay reached under the device and tapped one of the holes the wires had retracted to. Both of the cables popped out and tried to latch onto his hands. "They don't look like fiber optics."

Tom looked at him sheepishly. "Ok they're actually borg injection tubes. Seven helped me construct them." Chakotay stared at him disbeleivingly. Seven had been a Borg once. But they were able to remove most of her Borg components so she was almost all human again. "I find it hard to beleive that Seven would help construct such a device. How did you persuade her?" Tom feinged seaching his memory and then blurted out "I'll fix the conn now." and ran off to get a tool kit. Chakotay shook his head and went back to work.