Another Place

Chapter 5

After 5 hours of being in labor for Kathryn and three broken finger bones for Tom because of the pain Kathryn was going through, the first baby was born. The baby came out crying and for a second, that's all the two could hear. The Doctor showed them the baby then soon gave it off to the nurse to be cleaned.

"It's a girl." The Doctor told the two. "Captain, you are going to need to take a rest before the next babies come."

B'Elanna along with Ensign Jonathan Ryans came into Sickbay. Ryans had an injury on his head and B'Elanna was helping him to a biobed. "Doctor, we need some help here." B'Elanna said. "He got hit in the head and it looks really bad."

"Okay, Mr. Paris, please keep an eye on the Captain, call me over if she dilates back to 9 centimeters." The Doctor said to Tom.

"How am I supposed to know if she's…oh." Tom replied. He would actually have to keep an eye on…damn.

After a couple minutes, Tom looked…in that interesting anatomy of the Captain and realized that it was again dilated 9 centimeters. "Uh, Doc, it's at 9 centimeters." Tom called over to the Doctor.

The Doctor finished with Ryans and walked back over to Mr. and Mrs. Paris. "Okay, Captain, push." The Doc said.

Tom of course took his position to the side of the Captain. Being nice, Tom had been letting Janeway hold his right hand to relieve some of her pain. But, after she had broken several fingers, he switched hands for the second baby. Tom had no idea what he was going to do for the third kid, though.

This one had taken less time to come out and ten minutes after the first baby was out, the second one was, too. The baby was stared at by everyone in Sickbay. "It's another girl." The Doctor smiled. Five minutes after the girl was born, the final baby was coming out. "Mr. Paris, would you like to watch?"

After some encouraging from the Captain, Tom watched her give birth to the final baby. He had never seen anyone give birth, if he had taken another semester of medical classes at the Academy he would've seen it and that would've prepared him for what he saw. Instead, Tom was very taken aback at what he saw. After a couple seconds, the last baby was out.

"It's a boy." The EMH announced. After giving away the boy and it was cleaned up, all three of the babies were given back to the proud parents.

The boy and a girl were given to the Captain. While the other girl was given to Tom. Even though Tom didn't expect to be a father and especially to Janeway's kids, these kids were pretty darn cute.

"So, what are their names?" The Doctor asked. Tom looked at Janeway in hopes that the alternate version of him was able to pick names before he was switched in.

"This one is Phoebe." Janeway said holding the girl. She had named the baby after her sister. Then she looked at Tom.

"That's Joseph then." Tom replied smiling. It had taken him a couple minutes to think of a name, so he might as well go for something run of the mill.

"And that little one is Margaret." Janeway said. The other girl was named after Tom's mother.

Phoebe had taken after her mother in physical features; she had red hair and bluish grayish eyes. Joey took after his father with cerulean eyes and blonde hair. Maggie had taken characteristics from both; she had her father's cerulean eyes and her mother's red hair. They're pretty damn cute, Tom thought. Almost makes me want to stay…

"I'm sorry to break up the fun here, but I would like to do a more thorough examination of the triplets and their mother." The EMH said coming up behind Tom. "That means that you have to go."

"Alright, alright, I'm going." Tom answered. Without thinking, he kissed Janeway on the forehead then handed Maggie to the Doc. After that he left Sickbay and made his way to his and the Captain's quarters.

Tom looked around once inside his quarters and realized that the female Q hadn't shown up. And then realized something he should've realized awhile ago. I'm in the Captain's quarters, Tom thought. This is the lap of luxury until we get back the Alpha Quadrant. And I'm going to be stuck in the Brig for awhile once I get back to my universe. The Captain won't be back until tomorrow or something. When opportunity knocks, I answer.

Later…

"What the hell are you doing?" The female Q asked. She had appeared in the bathtub across from Tom Paris whom was completely naked.

"What the hell are you doing?" Tom shot back. He had been in the tub for only 10 minutes…and yes it was a bubble bath he was taking. Tom tried to reach for the towel he had put so unfortunately out of reach.

"Well, I can see why the Captain and the Klingon stay with you…" Q said.

Tom stared back at her as he moved more bubbles to cover a particular part of his anatomy. "I'm in the lap of luxury, here." Tom answered. "I'm taking advantage of it."

"With a bubble bath?" Q asked.

"Get out." Tom replied. "Get out, now."

"You humans, I don't think I'll ever understand you." Q said.

Afterwards…

"I have a question, if I do something that you don't agree with, will you erase the others memories and just fill in those blanks?" Tom asked, though he knew the answer was 'yes'.

"I've already demonstrated that." Q answered. They were now both on the couch just sitting there for the past half hour.

"But, if I agree, will you turn back time and let me do something different?" Tom asked.

"If I feel like it." Q replied.

"So, if you want, you could turn back time as much as you want? Like after an hour happens you could turn it back, wait another hour and turn it back." Tom asked.

"I'm a Q, of course I can." Q responded.

"…Do you feel like having a bit of fun?" Tom asked.