Kathryn was forced to remain in sickbay so the doctor could keep an eye on the baby in the event any major organs started shutting down he could stabilize them until they could get little Q back into her own brain. Teth walked out of sickbay following Q not at all surprised by it's ability to move far beyond any distant little Q was capable of. "I know, you are shocked I can pass beyond where you offspring could. That is because unlike she I am not tethered to this world by any physical means. When the accident happened even her own tether to her physical form was severed. I am now nothing more than pure energy condensed down into a psychical form. Likely not much different than yourself Q." Though the child's memories had pinned Q as something much like his daughter, an energy being, all powerful, unlimited like his long lost kin it seemed he was fairly human now. "You will find I'll be capable of moving around the ship effortlessly." Teth added pulling a rather awkward smile across little Q's face. It was strange seeing the girl smile at him now, he had grown so use to seeing her mothers smile pulled on her face so many times. His own expressive green eyes looking up at him, her mothers elegant yet daunting profile when she lifted up her chin. Now all he saw were those empty black orbs that seemed to reflect the abyss, that strange smile that didn't belong to Kathryn, and a strange sense of unbreakable grief.

"You mentioned fighting this being we encountered, to keep him from harming Q as he had harmed your own people. What happened to them?"

Teth continued to walk the halls with Q towards engineering so they could find more appropriate tools to disrupt energy fields. He was even interested in viewing the transporter room in the event they could separate their energy signatures and save them both. "My people were once a proud and powerful race, we had evolved beyond most beings shedding our physical forms and ascending as pure energy into the stars. We remained around our planet, living freely as one in the atmosphere to look down on the primitive species bellow us. Guarding them, our old home, we were harmonious and foolish. Likely no different than your own species Q, though we rarely took physical form. After shedding our bodies we could no longer take on a solid form unless the choice was made to retain it and live among the primitive beings. It seems you yourself have fallen from your own assention. To live with Captain Janeway?"

"Prying in my private life? I thought I was the one asking the questions here." Q snapped back.

"You would be correct, you did ask the question." Teth nodded it's head and folded it's hands acting more Vulcan that a Q. "We lived as naive beings, thought all powerful, above all with flesh until he came to our world. The Nexus. He has been called by many named by many races, the end times, the great serpent, demon, devil, the abyss, but ours came to call him the Nexus. A being of pure energy and great power. He too evolved as we did, shedding his physical form but unlike us he was different. He was a dark presence where we were light. Hatred where we were love. He could not harm physical beings, his powers locked away by others in the past but he was still able to harm other beings of pure energy like himself. He came to our world seeking a child who was born, a child who was not to be born. A child conceived of my own people and a member of the primitive race bellow. He seeked to have his influence over the physical world once again and he believed to enter the body of this child between worlds he could command both the physical and nonphysical world. We fought him, held him at bay so he could not impose himself on the child. In the end my species were all but destroyed. He had killed us one by one and absorbed our powers, our energy only making him stronger. He consumed my brothers and sisters until I alone stood in his way."

Q listened patiently before opening his mouth, a hint of concern held in his words. "And the child?"

Teth lowered it's head, his eyes closed. "I was left no other choice, I destroyed the child to prevent Nexus from taking him over. I used what power I had left to trap Nexus in his place, in my cage. I never thought again other beings like myself would find him, I never thought again other beings like myself would mate with flesh beings t create a child between worlds but now he knows. He knows she is out here and he will try to find her and possess her so he can rule again. I lost all of my people to stop him, I do not wish for another to make the same mistake."

"It must be hard, being the last of your kind, to have this burden on your shoulders, to be alone." Q added, he couldn't imagine if he was the last Q left. How lonely it would become.

Teth opened his eyes again, fighting back what appeared to be his own tears. "It was not as difficult as the choice I had to make to stop Nexus. To lose my people was difficult yes, but to lose the one I loved, to sacrificed my own child. No pain can describe the lose of a child. When I saw there was no hope I made a choice, the choice that will haunt me until the end of time. To let my son become the monster, to be erased little by little, or to spare his suffering and take his life myself." Q looked Teth over as the being showed some small light to his empty black eyes. "His smile, I will remember the most."

"So if a creature like my little Q puts everyone at risk then why save her?"

Teth looked back to Q, a more sincere smile crossing his face. "Because I have to believe there is another way. I won't make the same mistake again. I won't let Nexus claim the life of another innocent. The thing he wants most could be the thing that can destroy him." Teth seemed determined to succeed this time, to make little Q the instrument of Nexus's destruction. With her fathers agreement to help she could do that, he knew from sharing this form with her that she was everything his son had been and more. Reaching engineering Teth paused ignoring the stern glance of Torres as she worked to get the warp core operational again. Walking through the room he picked up tools and looked them over before setting them down. "This one might work." He passed it off the Q and walked over to Torres. "You, you are in charge of this section of the ship? Repairs, the little one remembers you as a fixer. Can you work with the teleporter? Would you know to set it up to specific calculations to separate two energy signals?"

"I ah." Torres paused and looked over to Q. "Yeah sure."

"Good, I'll write up the specifications I'll be needing on a PADD and hand it off to you, in the meantime I would like to borrow one of your tricorders. The medical ones won't work on this body." Teth turned back to Q, that look of worry still trapped on the mans face. "I will make sure this process has the least negative effects on your captain and child." Teth nodded and crossed it's hands behind his back.

For hours a small crew worked tirelessly in transporter room one trying to make the calibrations Teth had asked for. If done correctly they could pull the separate entities apart with little to no negative effects. He would be free to return to his battle with Nexus, hold him off long enough for the crew and ship to escape. Meanwhile the hope was that the young Q too would be separated and more than capable with reconnecting a link with it's physical body. He would try to instill some parting advice on the younger being, projecting itself though exciting and useful would prove to be reckless. He hoped that at least would prevent the younger being from getting into another situation like this. "How much longer is this going to take?" Q asked pacing back and forth wishing he could help. If he still had his powers he could have snapped his fingers and fixed this situation.

"A few more hours Q, be patient please." Teth spoke in that still tranquil tone he had put on to keep those around him calm.

"Won't we need Kathryn here when we separate the two of you?"

"Yes, but any physical beings will be warned to stand back. One or both of our energy signatures could become volatile during separation. They may experience some instability and fluctuations during separation as they try to reestablish themselves. I would even ask you to stand aside despite having been a creature of energy yourself. Golden light correct? That's what you look like. I can see it in the back of her mind, the gold light you become when you don't take human form. Ours was blue, like a net of stars that stretched across the expanse."

The way Teth spoke was almost a little sentimental, it made Q miss the Continuum. Perhaps it wasn't the most exciting place but it was still his home. "Maybe one day when this Nexus is gone you can come to the Q Continuum. You might not be a Q but you would be welcomed there."

Teth paused, his fingers moving away from the console he had been working on. "It's a kind offer, thank you."

Q glanced back at him. "That is unless you hurt my kid or Kathryn, then I might be forced to end your life shortly after."

Teth cracked a little smile hoping Q was only joking. The being had to hold more faith in him than that. "I shall keep that in mind and remember not to get this wrong."