"Back off or I'll snap Captain Janeway's neck like a twig." The dark eyed man growled, a woman down at his feet, her long dark locks covering her face as she struggled to get back to her feet. Stomping down on her shoulder he started crushing her under his boot, his black eyes flickering back up to the crew with a twisted smile on his face. "After all these years Captain Janeway I finally have beaten you, broken you, your friends, your family can stand and watch you die. I have won. How does it feel?" His boot crushed harder into her shoulder making her cry out in pain, her hand slipping across the the floor as she tried reaching out for the phaser he had kicked out of her hand.

"Not while I'm alive." The bridge door slid open, Captain Kathryn Janeway standing there with a phaser riffle in her hands. "Now let her go."

Four metal spikes rose up on his back, his head tilting to the side as the captain took aim at him. "Who are you?" He growled crushing down onto the other captains shoulder. She cried out again trying to get off of her belly, to escape from under his boot but he was far stronger than she was.

"Captain Kathryn Janeway." Janeway kept her eyes fixed on his face, that fire, that rage making him release a little pressure on the captain still struggling beneath his boot.

"Kathryn...Admiral? That's impossible, I killed you thirteen years ago." He looked her over again, she didn't look like the Admiral he had known, she had been old, weak, pathetic. Easy to crush. It had been necessary to accomplish his job, so long as the admiral was alive he could not have harmed the captain. It had been the only 'weak' chain in her armor.

"Not in this timeline." She growled back steeping closer to him with her riffle raised and aimed. This captain was much younger than the admiral he had slain but he could see the resemblance. Those eyes, so full or fire, so full of courage. She had given him that look thirteen years ago before he slid his steel blade through her chest. He had given her no mercy, hadn't spared her any punishment and yet the admiral had never broken, had never showed fear. She just smiled, almost daring him to kill her. His eyes flickered back down to the captain under his boot, everything he hated most in this world, the one he had vowed to destroy. Once so mighty, so strong, so feared now a pathetic pile at his feet. "Let her go." Janeway warned one more time.

The hulking brute of an assassin smiled back at the Admiral...captain. Pulling his boot off 'his' Captain Janeway he kicked her swiftly int eh ribs making the woman roll across the floor coughing hard. Her hands grabbing her side as she moved towards the phaser. Grabbing it she wheezed pulling it to her chest and turning over so he could see her face. Her lip had been busted open, her nose bleeding but that look in her emerald eyes was that of complete hatred. "Gaveris." The darker haired Janeway yelled, she felt like she was coughing up her own blood but it didn't matter. This was their fight, not Kathryn's. "I'm going to kill you."

"You first, Captain Janeway." She moved to fire at him as he aimed his own pahser back at her and pressed the transporter signal on his chest. The dark haired Janeway fired her phaser while he vanished from the bridge. Her shots hitting the walls behind him. Getting up to her feet the wounded Captain Janeway ran to the spot he had been standing, her eyes wild with a burning rage now as she screamed. Her screams in anger quickly turned to tears though as the darker haired captain dropped to her knees, tears streaming down her face. Her body shaking as she tried to catch her breath and fight through the pain of broken ribs. She had failed again, she had failed her admiral, her teacher, her friend.

Kathryn ran down to the lower portion of the bridge and crouched down by the other captain. The darker haired Janeway wasn't much older than her but she still felt her motherly instincts tugging at her as she wrapped her arms around the sobbing captain. Running her hand through the woman's hair Katrhyn rocked her slightly trying to calm her down. "Shhhh, it's alright Amelia. It's alright, I'm here now."

Two days ago...

Janeway was in the ready room watching over her little girl, her engagement ring had been left in the top draw back in her quarters since it was against regulation to wear it on the bridge or in her case, at all. Q was a little bothered by it, having gone out of his way to replicate her a very beautiful ring only to realize she could almost never wear it now. It was still the thought that counted as far as she was concerned. Smiling at Amelia she laughed a little when the baby girl startled herself with her own hiccups. "Oh wow, where did that come from?" She laughed again when Amy let out another hiccup and looked over at her with a look of confusion on her face. "You're alright." She assured the baby watching her jump again at another hiccup. Kathryn furrowed her brow, not that hiccups were life threatening but she could tell they were bothering Amelia. "They will go away." Unless they didn't, now she was just worrying herself.

"Captain, a vessel just appeared at Voyagers starboard side. Looks like it just came out of warp." Chakotay's voice came over the ready rooms com system.

Leaning over Janeway kissed Amelia on the forehead. "I'll be right back sweetheart. Mommy has to go take care of this." Amelia squirmed in place and flailed her arms wildly clearly wanting to go with her mother to the bridge. "You stay here." She smiled back at her daughter hoping on some level Amelia could understand why she couldn't be on the bridge right now. It just wasn't safe. Leaving the ready room she made her way onto the bridge walking over to her seat and sat down. "Bring it on screen." Kathryn ordered as the image flashed up before them.

"Scans are reading shields are down, weapons have been fired but they are powered down now, the hull seems to have taken heavy damage." Paris read over the scans of the ship.

"Life signs?"

"One, it's very faint." He replied turning to her.

"Beam them to sickbay then. Lets see who we have here."

"Wait captain." Tom paused a moment looking over the scans again. "That shuttle, it's starfleet."

Janeway stood up from her seat and looked back at the shuttle again. It didn't look like anything she had seen before. An image of a winged horse painted to it's side with the words Pegasus write under it. "Bring that ship into the shuttle bay. I want you to take a look at the data logs. Commander Chakotay you have the bridge. Walking over to Ensign Kim she gave him a quick order. "Go keep an eye on Amelia, I'll be in sickbay. Lets see who was piloting that shuttle." The trip to sickbay was almost too slow for her. Once she walked through the door to sickbay she could feel the air of confusion surrounding the place though. Q was off to one side watching as the doctor scanned the patient. Janeway had to admit she hadn't expected what she saw on the bed, she was certainly human, her dark locks pulled back into a sloppy bun, locks clinging to her face and sticking to various cuts on her face. She was dressed in an all white uniform with a red undershirt beneath it and red bands on her sleeves and collar. Even her com badge was different, a slimmer gold badge with a silver loop behind the typical Federation symbol. It was when she noticed the pins on the black shoulder patches of her white uniform that Janeway narrowed her eyes. "She's a captain."

The doctor paused looking up at Janeway, a look of shock on his face. "That's not all Captain, I think I know who she is. She's in our database."

"Who?" She could feel a jolt of excitement. Had starfleet found a way to reach them? Had they sent someone out after them? It seemed this captain was dressed differently, her shuttle wasn't one Janeway recognized, and her com badge was certainly different but perhaps uniforms and com badges had changed. Perhaps her shuttle was experimental, created to come after Voyager int eh delta quadrant. It made Janeway hopeful that this was it, they were going home. Yet looking back at the doctor her hope was crushed, something was wrong. He looked concerned.

"She's in our database but I don't know how this can be possible. According to my scans, this woman is Amelia Janeway." Janeway looked back at the captain, she didn't look much younger than herself. She was possibly thirty five, thirty six, maybe even thirty seven. Not much younger than she had been when getting trapped out here in the delta quadrant. Walking over to one of his terminals he entered the information and pulled up Amelia's DNA putting them side by side. "It's an exact copy." He pressed a few buttons and watched as the DNA was overlaid showing a 100% positive match. "But how can this be, I didn't read anything out of the ordinary that would explain time travel."

Pressing her com badge she tried to contact the team that had been sent to the shuttle bay. "Anything to report from the shuttle?"

"No, we can't even open the door." Tom's voice rang back at her. "This thing is shut up tight. Our pilot certainly didn't want anyone getting in here without permission. I would try Open Sesame but I don't think that's going to help."

"Keep trying." Janeway looked back at the doctor. "Can we wake her?"

"I don't see why not. She's stable now, mild concussion but nothing life threatening." Walking over to the side of the bed he loaded a hypospray and pressed it against her neck. Almost instantly the woman's eyes were wide open, her emerald orbs fixed on the ceiling as she moved quickly and rolled off the bed looking like she was ready for a fight. She reached down for where her phaser would have been and was startled to see there was nothing there. The captain was almost frantic looking over at the doctor, she recognized him and upon seeing a friendly face calmed down.

"Dr. Hanson? Why am I back on Voyager? What am I doing here?" She walked over to him, a look of fear in her eyes. Well clearly if this really was Amelia from another time she still knew him and for whatever reason he had picked the name Hanson? "What year is this?" She stepped back looking at his uniform. "Why are you dressed like that?"

Looking down at his attire he figured if she knew him in her time then he was likely reprogrammed to wear the current starfleet uniform. "This is how I am always dressed." The doctor replied and caught Amelia's gaze shift over to Janeway.

The woman looked like she had been struck by a phaser blast as she looked Janeway over, her green eyes widening as her jaw dropped and she stood in silence. For a moment the dark haired captain shook, tears building up in her eyes as she tried to fight them off. Amelia brushed her sleeve over her eyes and looked back at Janeway clearing away the blurriness. "Is it really you? Mom?" Amelia moved forward quickly reaching out to her with a trembling hand. Touching Kathryn on the face she pulled her hand back and bit down on her lip fighting back her tears. "It's really you? Not some trick?" She rushed forward but stopped herself. As much as she wanted to hug the woman she couldn't just attack her without warning. "I'm sorry." She apologized quickly before finally throwing her arms around Captain Janeway and hugging her tight. Amelia took in a few deep breaths and closed her eyes, her tears streaming down over the captains shoulder as she sobbed. "I'm so sorry. Mom." Amelia was shaking, sobbing and refusing to let Janeway go, she held onto her as if her life depended on it. Slowly Janeway put a hand on the woman's back and patted her lightly not really certain what was happening. Why did she had a thirty some year old starfleet captain sobbing on her shoulder?

After a while, and once the woman's tears actually made her shoulder feel damp Janeway grabbed the other captain by the shoulders and pulled her away so she could face her. She studied her face a little noticing she saw a lot of herself in the other woman's face, her chin, her eyes, her nose. Was this really her Amelia? She had to be. Captain Amelia stood a little taller than her mother, clearly having inherited some of her fathers height. She was a beautiful youthful looking woman but that look on her face. That was the look of someone who had suffered greatly, someone who had gone days with no sleep, who had fought battles that changed her life for the worst. It was the look of someone on the edge of a cliff and staring down death. Someone who was afraid, in pain. "Amelia?" Kathryn finally spoke that single name seeing the other woman's eyes light up a little to hear her name coming from the captains lips.

"It's me." Amelia choked fighting back another torrent of tears. "I, I never thought I would see you again. I've missed you so much. I..." She put her hands over her face breaking down again, nearly crawling down the wall and falling to the floor. Janeway had to grab her by the shoulders again to hold her up. Just as she was about to ask what had happened Amelia stopped crying and looked back at the captain, a little smile crossing her face as she brushed away more tears. "Thirteen years ago I saw him murder you." The words hit Janeway, the grim realization of the future Amelia had come from. "He beat you, he tortured you, and he made me watch it all. He made me watch..." She started choking up again grabbing onto the captains arms as if she would fall over. "And then, he ran that blade through your chest...and you looked over at me and..." She looked her mother right in the eye, that picture coming back to her mind. The image of her mother, that defiance still in her eyes after all she had gone through. "You told me." She paused again taking in a deep breath, trying to follow her mothers last request. "Don't be afraid." It was almost like flipping a switch as Amelia went from nearly falling apart to that stern look on her face. The look of a captain who had gone through her fair share of hard times. It was almost surreal have been laughing at her daughter this morning for being afraid of her own hiccups to seeing this woman standing before her now. Was this truly the person her daughter became? Amelia suddenly remembered why she was here, her eyes wide with fear. "My shuttle, Pegasus, where is it?"

"It's in the shuttle bay." Kathryn replied as Amelia pushed past her and paused as she caught sight of Q. "YOU." Amelia growled, her eyes suddenly bright with fire. Walking over to Q she swung her fist hard into his face nearly knocking him to the ground. She hadn't even missed a beat as she knocked him down and stood over him growling. "HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOUR FACE TO ME NOW." Amelia yelled before Kathryn held her back.

"Amelia." She yelled at the girl. "Stop that." Pulling her away Q stood back up holding the side of his face.

Amelia snapped back pointing at him. "You can go to hell and take the continuum with you." She growled at Q as Kathryn pulled her out of sickbay.

"Amelia that is enough." Kathryn scolded her. Closing the sickbay door behind them she grabbed the woman by the shoulders and stood her in front of her. "That's your father, why did you hit him Amelia? He didn't do anything to you."

Amelia pulled her arms out of the captains grip and glared back at the door. "Not yet he hasn't, and he's not my father, not anymore. I want nothing to do with him. I don't want to see his face ever again, if I see him I'm going to shoot him." She took in a deep breath trying to calm herself down. Clearly she had inherited her mothers temper but hardly her control. What had happened in the future to make her hate Q so much?

"He's mortal, if you shoot him he's going to die."

"Good." She growled back.

"No, not good, he's still your father. No matter what he's done in the future."

Amelia walked away from the door facing the wall on the other side and putting her hand up on her forehead, the other resting on her hip. Even her mannerism's were so much like her own it was almost uncomfortable watching Amelia. "He let you die mother. He could have saved you but he didn't and he was going to let me die too. I begged for him to save you when Gaveris was torturing you. I begged for him to come and stop it, you know he could have but he didn't. And after you were dead and he turned that blood soaked blade to my throat he still didn't come. If it hadn't been for Captain Kim and the doctor I would have been dead. They brought Voyager to my rescue and transported us out of there but it was already too late for you. They couldn't save you, they couldn't bring you back. I tried, I wouldn't let them stop. I stood over you and tried to bring you back but..." She paused turning back to look at Kathryn. "I still had your blood on my hands when he finally showed up, too little too late. He gave me the sob story about how much he loved you, tried to comfort me, told me I had to go on. 'Be brave, it's what she would have wanted.' Liar, hypocrite." Amelia spat the words out staring at the door. "He used you and he used me and as soon as I showed him I wasn't going to be his little tool he had my powers taken away so I couldn't even stop Gaveris." She huffed. "He never loved either one of us."

"That's not true." Kathryn was a little surprised to hear it seemed Q had his powers still in Amelia's timeline, or perhaps at some point he was given them back. "He loves you." She couldn't speak for what had happened during the event of her death in the future but she knew it had impacted Amelia greatly. Knowing the continuum if Q had gotten his powers back then they had stopped him from making a rescue and if Q still cared about her then like he did now then he might have been suffering alone just as Amelia was. "You mentioned you needed to see Pegasus? Your shuttle." Janeway tried changing the subject.

Now that Amelia had cooled off she remembered why she was here. "Yes, Gaveris, he had created a time slip in space. I followed him through in my shuttle to stop him. I had fired at him, hoping I would stop him before he reached his destination." Amelia grabbed Janeway's arm and started leading her along Voyagers halls. Clearly the girl knew the ship well as she didn't even pause to look around. It made her wonder if Amelia grew up on Voyager, when they would make it back to earth. Clearly they had as Amelia was a starfleet captain and wearing a more modernized uniform.

"Gaveris, he's the one who killed me. Why would he come back in time if I'm already dead in your timeline?" Kathryn followed close behind.

"Because, you were not his target. I am." She paused walking towards the turbo lift. "Fifteen years ago I became a captain, almost right out of academy. They said it was the first time since Captain Kirk that someone took command of a ship so young. I wanted to take on Voyager right out of the gate but I ended up captaining the ship USS Falcon. While I was captain of Falcon you sent me out on an easy mission or at least it would have been if not for Gaveris and his men. They destroyed two starfleet ships, hired mercenaries, assassins hired to bring down the Federation. It might have done just that as well, two of their operatives were already positioned in Starfleet, their goal to kill the admirals and destroy starfleet command. I caught wind of the plot, I turned in the information and my mother Admiral Janeway, you, you caught the undercover assassins. It went deeper than that, there was some corruption in starfleet, we started to weed it out and in the process I took out most of Gaveris men. It felt nice at first, being a big hero, a few other captains and myself got a big parade, starfleet named me captain of Voyager even as a reward. It had been my lifetime dream to captain Voyager. I think I cried a little the first time I walked out on the bridge and they called me Captain. It just wasn't the same on Falcon." Amelia paused, a smile stretching across her face. "But that didn't matter, Gaveris wanted revenge, he wanted me dead and he's sworn to do everything possible to do so."

She could understand someone being upset that his men were hunted down and he had lost but why the focused hatred on Amelia? It sounded as though more than just Amelia had beaten him. "But why you? Why not the other captains? Why not the admirals, why not me?"

Amelia exited the turbo lift and stopped looking back at her mother, a serious look caught on her face. "Because I did something I shouldn't have. I regret it every day of my life, it was a mistake but one I had to make to protect the people I love most." She pulled a little smile across her face. "You raised me well, a little too well, be honest, be kind, be good, be compassionate, be brave, strong, I made you proud, constantly proud. I admit there were a few years in my youth I think you wanted to just throw me in a pit and seal it shut but in the end I did EVERYTHING according to your book. Why would I? I looked up to you every second of every day but the one thing you swore for me to promise was to never use my powers to hurt ANYONE. I admit I used them for fun, like party tricks but never to advance myself in starfleet or try to appear better than others and I would NEVER have used them to hurt someone, only help if I saw there was no other way. I used them sparingly, I felt that doing something honestly even if it was harder was the right way. Snapping your fingers can't fix everything, dad told me that." Kathryn found herself smiling with a sense of pride. It seemed she had raised a good woman. "We thought we had gotten most of them from the inside, the others were scattered with Gaveris. No one saw it coming, you were giving a speech about the heroics of the three captains, Captain Harry Kim, Captain Benjamin Riker, and myself. I think I noticed him first, an Ensign in the crowd, I had gone to academy with him. I remember seeing him once. It happened so fast no one had time to react but I reacted. It was like all those games of velocity we always use to play when I was growing up on Voyager. You completely destroyed me every time, for years, you never let me win anything. I always had to earn it and then one year I think even you were surprised when my reactions just got faster and faster and even you couldn't beat me. Like I could see things happen before they happened and react before they even made the first move. I pulled my phaser out and without blinking he was gone. It's not like it was the first time I killed someone but I remember he looked at me and I knew what I had done. He was just a kid, likely just graduated academy, had his whole life ahead of him and I ended it right then and there without blinking."

Amelia paused. "That kid was only doing what I did every day, trying to make his father proud of him."

"The boy, he was..." Kathryn tried to ask but was cut off.

"Gaveris's son, and I blew daddy's little boy away." Amelia motioned as if firing at him again. "I destroyed Gaveris's world so it was only fair he destroyed mine." Had she never shot that kid her mother would have been alive now back in her time. "I never used my powers because there are more practical ways to solve a problem. Sometimes it really is just as simple as snapping your fingers. Snapping someone out of harms way, making a weapon malfunction, making an attacker materialize into a holding cell. I guess you and dad were wrong after all." They walked into the hanger bay together as Amelia looked over at Pegasus. She had seen better days but she was still a lovely shuttle. "For 15 years I have been running, fighting, surviving. My crew under constant danger, everyone around me being killed off. He thought by killing you I would be crippled but he had been so wrong. He thought I was a monster the day I murdered his son, ha, not even close. He saw the real monster the day he spilled your blood and he's afraid now. He knows he can't beat me as I am. He's made me unstoppable, he's made the prey into the hunter. He had to come back to a time before I could defend myself."

Kathryn paused looking back at Amelia feeling fear sink into her stomach. "He came to kill Amelia, my Amelia." Pressing on her com badge, "Ensign Kim, are you with Amelia?"

"Yup, she's just fine too." Janeway let out a little sigh, just because she was safe now didn't mean it would last.

"Don't worry mom, if I can look at my data collected from Pegasus I can figure out if I destroyed him or where in the time slip he exited." Tom was standing outside the ship still trying to figure out the door controls.

"Captain." Tom spoke up before his eyes shifted over to Amelia. "Well, hello there." He raised a brow and tried to put on his seductive tone. Amelia placed her hands on her hips and looked Tom Paris over before bursting out laughing.

"Tom Paris, the one and only? Good to see you Tom. You certainly look, better." Amelia turned back to her mother and shook her head.

"Do I know you?" He asked a little worried she might be someone from academy he had forgotten about.

"I would say so, you trained me as a pilot." Amelia smiled. "And I was only married to your son for almost ten years." Paris looked very confused right now. "Captain Amelia Janeway. I would ask you how he was doing but he's not even born yet is he." Amelia showed a little blush to her cheek as she pulled her arms behind her back. "Well maybe...if I can figure out how to get back home I can try to make it up to him."

"Amelia Janeway as in..." Tom spoke up only to be interrupted.

"Yes, and Pegasus is my baby." She spoke up looking at the shuttle. "Pegasus, this is Captain Janeway." She paused looking over at Tom a moment. "Open Sesame." She felt a little embarrassed saying those words.

"That actually works?" He looked at her with a stunned expression on his face.

"Chief Engineer Thomas Paris programmed Pegasus's AI." She rolled her eyes clearly not amused but she was stuck with it. "Admiral...I mean, Captain Janeway." Amelia had a hard time calling her mother Captain, most of her childhood she had known her as an Admiral. "I can help Cap...Comma...Tom Paris with Pegasus, you go back to your daughter and keep an eye on her. If Gaveris is still alive she;s his priority and trust me Captain he will come for her, for me."