Let's Put It Back Where it Belong
by: AW
Part V
Rated: MA
Pairing: J/C, P/T
Summary: Re-write of everything after Equinox
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or episodes, but the story however twisted is mine.
Date: October 2002
Length: 519 words
Author's Note: This happens after Equinox, but assumes that the rest of the series didn't happen as it did.
Three months later.
It had been three months since that fateful day, filled with dreams and tears.
Nightmares and taunting.
Love and hate.
Three months of hell. Kathryn had figured eventually Chakotay would come around and Tom and B'Elanna would come to their senses, but none of the above had happened.
Chakotay had been seen by Kathryn on more than one occasion ushering B'Elanna in and out of his quarters and Janeway feared the worst.
She had lost him for good to a woman fifteen years her junior.
Two weeks later the visits stopped between B'Elanna and Chakotay, and Kathryn prayed B'Elanna's heart had not been broken yet again.
Not by the same man that had stolen Kathryn's soul.
Not at all.
Not too long after B'Elanna stopped her late night visits Janeway watched as three other female crewmembers began their escapades and visits to Chakotay's quarters.
It began with Seven of Nine. And while Kathryn could see why he'd be attracted to her, she was too young, in Kathryn's opinion to go gallivanting around with her first officer. And she had the mentality of a child when it came to sex and the like.
It didn't last long and before Kathryn knew it Nicoletti was stopping by his quarters on a nightly basis.
Again a younger woman. But when Kathryn thought about it, if age were a criteria, then she was the only one on the ship that matched him or even came close.
Kathryn thought about this and decided that even though she was the closest in age after everything that had taken place between the two of them it could never happen.
No matter how much she wanted it to.
So she let his escapades continue.
And continue they did.
Nearly a week later, almost a month after it started she saw yet another woman enter Chakotay's life.
Ensign Jor.
Kathryn just let it go.
Then one day as quickly as it began, it all ended.
Ensign Jor announced her impending motherhood two months later and Kathryn was devastated.
Nine months, they would be home by the time Ensign Jor gave birth. Kathryn thanked her lucky stars she would not have to watch the happy couple raise that baby.
She just couldn't handle it.
On a happier note though, Tom and B'Elanna seemed to have made their peace.
At least there was one happy ending she could live with.
At least there was one happy couple she could deal with on a positive note.
For once she just wished she were part of the happy ending.
As good as the release was with sex with a hologram, she knew she was just kidding herself into believing it was real.
She knew that would never make her happy.
She finally just accepted the fairy tale ending would never be hers.
END PART V
TBC in Part VI