Kes had been their saving grace, pushing them beyond Borg space. Q owed his thanks to her as much as he did Teth but now wasn't a time to miss friends lost. Now was a time for Q to keep his promise to Kathryn and be the father he had to be. After a week in sickbay Kathryn wasn't the only one getting cabin fever. She hadn't been required to remain in sickbay the entire time with the baby but had you asked her to walk away from Amelia for more than a few seconds she would have given you by far her best death glare yet. So long as Amelia was trapped in sickbay so was her mother. Luckily sickbay was where Q worked, though work wasn't what he had done the past week. Now even baby Amelia was dying to get out of this same old boring place where every time the doctor attempted to charm her with baby talk she broke down crying for mommy. Q had spent somewhat sleepless nights getting the captains quarters ready for baby Amelia. He had replicated her a nice crib and a whole slew of cute space themed bedding. He even replicated her first stuffed animal, a little brown puppy dog that looked a little like Rowley. For a second he had considered making her a white bunny rabbit but after remembering his nightmares he couldn't bare giving his newborn such a toy. Walking into sickbay he got a big smile on his face, every day it seemed someone was bringing by something for Amelia or Kathryn, flowers, stuffed animals, a few blankets, Sam and Naomi had even brought by a bunch of pink balloons with Amelia's name on them. No question about it little Naomi was looking forward to getting a playmate.

There was a bunch of pink roses in a white vase sitting on a table not far from the incubator Amelia had called home for the last seven days. Kathryn leaning over the side of the incubator and trying to get their little princess to stop her fussing. "It's alright Amy, I'm just going over here for a few seconds. Mommy will be right back." Kathryn again attempted to step away only to have the baby start up crying again, her whole body shaking as her face turned a bright red and forced the captain to walk back over to the incubator and rub the baby's belly. "I'm here Amy it's okay." She tried to smile, a look of exhaustion on her face. "I don't know why you keep thinking I'm going to walk away and won't come back." The baby calmed down again looking up at her mother and slowly closing her eyes as if she would fall asleep. "I'm just trying to get all your things together so we can get out of sickbay."

"Can I help?" Q walked closer to her as she dealt with their crabby little angel.

"Yes please." She sounded a little too happy to have him there right now. "Is the room ready?"

Q put his arms around Kathryn and kissed her lightly on the nape of her neck. "Absolutely." It was refreshing to be able to hold her again and not have her push him away. It seemed he had been forgiven of all his behavior up until now. All he had to do was keep his record shiny clean now, easy enough with little Amy to look after. Picking up their daughter Q held her close still a little amazed by how small she was. They were lucky at that, according to the doctor she was a fairly reasonable size for a baby born two months early. Lightly rocking her it gave Kathryn a chance to get their things together though Amy stilled fussed about having her mother out of her sight. Cooing into Q's arm he tried to bounce her a little and keep her red alert from going off. "Stop making those funny faces Amy, I know you are getting cranky." He smiled as she scrunched up her face clearly trying to fight sleep. If any child on earth was good and fighting sleep it was his daughter, lucky them. For an infant she could go a looooong time without shutting her eyes, likely all that coffee Kathy drank while pregnant. At least that was the joke he kept telling himself while they sat up late at night, both exhausted and trying to make her sleep. "You know she shares something with you, she is horribly adorable when she gets crabby." Q joked as Amy went into another funny face, just on the edge of screaming and passing out.

"She's adorable no matter what mood she's in." Kathryn replied looking back at him as he still made his valiant attempt to keep her quiet.

It wasn't much longer now before Amelia broke out into a fit and started crying, for someone who was born unable to breath she had one hell of a set of lungs on her. Those stimulants the doc had given her really were working wonders. Either that or she was showing off those strong Janeway genes of hers. Q liked to think it was the later, his choice of mate had been far beyond just Janeway's looks and his feelings towards her though they had played a part. It had been her fighting spirit, her tenacity, her strength and courage. If Amelia had been born of someone else well, she never would have survived what she already had. "Wow, you have a set of pipes on you there." It would be a little funnier if she wasn't so loud and her voice wasn't at such a pitch it could cause your ears to ache after too long. You really couldn't ignore her demands. "I'm curious as to how it's going to work when you go back to being on the bridge." That was if she wanted to go back to the bridge soon. As Captain she could command the ship from where ever she saw fit. She certainly had been doing a damn fine job of it from the sickbay. No sooner had the baby been born Janeway was already in control of the crew again and giving orders to repair the ship, remap their new and current location, scan for any M class planets or sources of energy they could use to refill their power supply, and at the same time rocking their newborn to sleep. She was one hell of a woman, she made the average multitasker envious of her abilities.

Walking over she took Amelia from him and not a moment too soon as they were both feeling the ear ringing effects of their daughters cries. Almost instantly Amy quieted down while Janeway rocked her, speaking more to the baby than Q when she gave her response. "Well I know children are not allowed on the bridge, especially babies but we might be able to make an acceptation for you." It wasn't a great idea being at the center of danger during a firefight but safety wasn't guaranteed anywhere on the ship. That was what frightened her most. She couldn't grantee her daughter could be safe on Voyager but her daughter seemed more than capable of deflecting most weapons fire. "You can stay in my ready room, you just have to be a good little girl and stay quiet." She poked Amy's nose making the baby yawn, the first good sign she was possibly going to fall asleep.

"Quiet? Are you thinking of Naomi? I don't think our daughter is capable of being quiet."

"Mmmm, and where do you think she gets that from." Janeway cracked a smile and glanced back at him. Amy closed her eyes again with another yawn, the both of them holding their breaths for a moment in hopes she would keep them shut this time. It seemed they just might have successfully put her out after several hours of trying to get her to sleep. Right before they could breath out knowing Amy was on the downward slope however she sprang back to life and opened her eyes looking back up to her mother.

"Yes, but she gets her stubbornness from you." Q laughed. "Only a week old and already has an iron clad will." God she would going to be one hell of a trip once she hit her teen years. Q didn't want to rush it. The younger she was the easier it would be to keep her in line, hopefully. Unless she inherited his rebellious nature then they were in for a very long eternity. Or at least until both of them died of old age and left the universe to fend for itself against their little hybrid spawn. "And she is certainly a mommy's girl. Typical, everyone loves you more." He crossed his arms over his chest pretending to be bothered by it. "I don't blame them, you are an amazing captain."

"Well this amazing captain has her arms full with a sleepy baby, if her amazing boyfriend could assist her with packing the rest of their stuff that would be even better." She always knew what to say to make him obey her. More than anything Q was excited to hear her address him as boyfriend. She hadn't ever really called him anything before aside from a thorn in her side. Being upgraded to boyfriend was a good feeling. Seemed like having a baby really brought two people close together.

"Amazing boyfriend, Amy did you hear what your mother just called me?" He brushed his fingers over the baby's head as she started lulling off into sleep again. His eyes flickering back to Janeway with a mischievous flicker in them. "Does this mean I'm allowed to stay in your quarters again?" She hadn't officially lifted his ban from the bridge, her ready room, and her quarters. In the past week she hadn't been interested in going back to her quarters without the baby leaving them both sort of trapped in sickbay because honestly Q couldn't bare it himself to leave Amelia for too long either.

"I would say you have earned it, just don't think you are getting lucky anytime soon. I just don't think it's fair for only one of us to be sleep deprived while the other is well rested. Now that we share a child it's only right we share in both the joys and the trials." She was devious but if that was her way of saying she forgave him then he would take it with grace.

"Oh, by the way." Q remembered something before baby Amelia's name became official in her medical records. He walked over finishing to pack up all the gifts they had acquired over the week. "I know I fought you tooth and nail for her middle name to be Q. I felt some need to have even the smallest claim on her, after all she's got your last name since I don't have one, and you picked her name however I would like to suggest a change before it's set ins tone."

"Oh?" Kathryn raised a brow and looked down at Amelia who was now sleeping soundly. Very gently she shifted her a little so her arms wouldn't get tired. "What do you want her middle name to be?"

Q took a deep breath hoping it wouldn't sound like a silly name. "Keth." He paused knowing it sounded just about as bad as it did in his head. "Now hear me out before you say it's a stupid name. I put a lot of thought into it, as simple as it may sound but we owe two people her life. Teth sacrificed himself to let her live, he knew the risks of leaving her alive but he also knew she deserved this chance, the chance to meet us, to grow up. We also owe Kes a lot as well and honestly if she was still on Voyager I had every intention to name her Amelia's godmother. If not for Kes we would have been trapped in Borg space, Amelia would have been fitted with a robotic arm and one of those...eye thinggies. She never would have been able to live the life Teth had wanted her to have and so I thought Keth would be a good middle name, in honor of the two other people responsible for her life. You know aside from the obvious people, us. We went through all the trouble of making her, they went through all the trouble to make sure she made it here."

"Amelia Keth Janeway. Amelia K. Janeway sounds like a good name for a future admiral." Kathryn smiled watching her little daughter sleep, her expression rather content for the time being. So long as no one made any loud sound to wake her.

"Admiral Amelia Janeway?" Q raised a brow trying to keep himself from shaking his head. "She's a week old and already you have her life planed out up to her becoming admiral? That's a lot of pressure for someone who is seven days old."

"Not as much as being the messiah for the Q Continuum." She tilted her head to the side and reminded him just why Amelia existed in the first place. Putting the bag under his arm he walked over to them again poking at Amelia gently so she didn't wake up screaming.

"Well it's not as if I want her to become grand empress of the place, just set a good example. She can be whatever she wants to be when she grows up, even grand empress of the continuum if it suites her. She's apart of the continuum, part of her anyways. No matter what she does it will affect them all. Even if she does nothing at all. The greatest thing she can do for them is to grow up with your heart. After that well, Amelia has eternity to set them all straight. She's already changed them for the better by living, she has so much to teach them by just being the person she is. That is what they need to understand. Freedom, she is the very spirit of that." Q looked back at Janeway wondering if she knew how much this little girl was going to change the views of those stifled Q's in the continuum. "Lets get going to our quarters." He said the word our with a good bit of glee. "Rowley has been barking up the wall to meet his baby sister. I promise, he won't bark when we go in though, and he won't be jumping or climbing walls either." Q smiled. "In fact he's actually taken up a rather protective post next to the crib. Don't think we need to worry about little Amy with Rowley at her side." It still remained to be seen what the dog would think of the newborn but Q had a feeling he would accept her happily. After all he had created the animal and put loyalty as one of his greater personality traits. That mutt would be loyal to Amelia and Kathryn up until his death, very much the same way Q would be.