Present Time...

Captain Amelia was rushed into sickbay with three broken ribs and one crushed vertebra. Gaveris had done quite a number on her, his revenge had almost been complete but he hadn't expected one thing. Captain Kathryn Janeway. Just when he got her out of the way in Amelia's future she was still here in the past to ruin his plot once more. Amelia was laid out on the biobed as Captain Kathryn walked into the room. "Q, Amelia's safe, he didn't find her." She put the phaser riffle down and moved over to Amelia as the doctor tried to treat her. "How is the captain doing?"

"The Captain, she's lucky you beamed her here. If you moved her around anymore she might have died. How she managed to stand and walk is beyond me. Her femur was fractured and one of her lungs was at risk of collapsing. Dare I say it, I think she had a higher pain tolerance than you do Captain."

"Much more reckless, I told her not to engage Gaveris alone."

The woman on the biobed came to, she tried to push herself up but stopped when the sharp pain returned in her side. "I have to face him alone, he's killed you once he'll do it again and as mighty and as noble as you may think you are mother .You. If I don't have you I will never become the captain I am today." She laid back on the biobed, her head flopping to one side.

"You need to stay calm, you are still..."

"I heard you the first time Doctor, but believe me when I say I have been worse. All I need to be able to do is sit and move may arms. Tell me doctor, can I do that?"

"Yes but, NO, I'm not letting you leave sickbay. Your going to die if you stay in this condition for much longer."

Amelia nodded her head. "And if I stay here he's going to kill me, the smaller me. If that happens I won't ever be sitting here on this biobed asking you to let me leave. He's back on his shuttle, Pegasus can blow him to hell. Once I get back you can restrain me to the bed if you want. I won't argue, and don't even think you will pull the card that if a doctor thinks a captain is unfit to captain he can pull their rank because today isn't the day to bring that up. I'll shoot me, and trust me my phaser will hurt you." The doctor opened and closed his mouth looking at her and then back to his captain. Was this the captain he served in the future? What were they barbarians? Well if Amelia was ever going to win him favor over she was going to have to try being less of a pain than her mother, not more.

"I don't know how you nor Starfleet operates in the future but with that attitude missy I am surprised you got anywhere."

Amelia smiled, she had always loved his spunk. "In my time we are best friends. It's just that you have given me this speech hundreds of times before, or you will. And every time I come back." Sitting back up she groaned and leaned over a little. "Only, normally you give me something for the pain so I can carry on." The doc glared at her not wanting to 'follow' her suggestions. If it prevented her from going on a suicide mission then it would be for her own good. "Doc, please, I'm leaving this sickbay no matter what. I would prefer to at least not feel like hell when I do."

He rolled his eyes at her before loading one of the hyposprays and pressing it against her neck. "This should last for a little while, don't expect to be running or fighting anytime soon. Pain killers don't fix broken ribs."

Slowly Amelia put her legs over the side of the biobed and slid down catching herself on Q's arm. "Mom." She looked up at Kathryn Janeway reaching out for her. It was haunting, as grown up as she may have been now Kathryn still saw that innocent little girl reaching up for her. Amelia wrapped one of her arms around Q's neck and smiled as her mother took her other arm and wrapped it around her neck. "This brings me back, just like my first day going to academy. My parents walked me to my ride then too." Kathryn and Q helped their grown daughter walk down to the shuttle bay. It was funny, when they had walked her to her ride to the academy she had felt like that would be the last time she would see them too. In that case it hadn't been true, this case, well.

Tom was still working on repairs inside Pegasus when Amelia came limping through the door. "Tom, she's good enough as she is. That will have to do." Amelia called over to him as he stepped down the shuttles ramp. "Thank you." The three of them stopped outside the shuttle as Amelia looked up to Tom, "Many years from now, when you have a son and he says he doesn't want to join starfleet academy, you tell him there is one hell of a captain who needs him on her ship and then when that captain thinks you are all insane for trying to put him on her ship you tell her he's one hell of an engineer and pilot and she won't get anyone better, that she is going to need him. Trust me, she'll believe you." Turning to Janeway Amelia took her arm off of Q and hugged the captain. "And mom, let yourself smile a little more." Janeway smiled at her, that smile Amelia remembered from her childhood, that smile her mother had when she graduated the academy, when she became a captain. "See." Turning back to Q she put her arm around him again and leaned her weight against him. "Father, help an old captain get to her seat?"

"I would love to." Amelia smiled thinking back to her wedding, when her father had taken that lone walk with her and handed her off to another man. It felt a little like that now, only the other man she was being handed over to wasn't someone she intended to spend a lifetime with. Limping up the ramp Q tried to carry her partially as they walked over to the pilot seat. Q helped her sit down, Amelia leaned back in her chair and letting out a sigh. This was it, she was here now, she was ready to take Gaveris on once and for all.

"Wait." She stopped Q before he walked off. Pulling out a PADD she handed it to him. "Don't tell mother, you know how she is about not changing timelines. That's all the information you need to save her. All the leaks, all the corrupt figureheads. Times, dates, locations. Take them down before they contact Gaveris but don't let mother know." She looked up at him, a mischievous glint in her eyes. "I told you, I don't always play by the rules either."

"Like father like daughter." Q laughed.

"I'm more like you than I care to admit." Amelia nodded and sat up again. "Now, get off my shuttle." Patting her on the shoulder again Q turned and moved down the ramp standing back as the shuttle fired up. He wrapped an arm around Kathryn and pulled her close, that look on her face confirming the fear he had been feeling as well. Nearly in the blink of an eye Pegasus was out the hanger bay door and through the forceful. Then just like that she was out of sight completely.

Amelia sat back again looking over in the co pilot seat, that stupid stuffed dog still sitting there. "Pegasus, do you remember the program Thomas installed before he left? The one I made him program into you."

"Yes." The shuttle responded.

Amelia grabbed the puppy off the seat beside her and held it to her chest. "I'm authorizing you to activate it now."

"Understood." Amelia nodded her head with a smile. "Captain Janeway." Pegasus continued. "I have a last video recording for you. Would you like me to bring it on screen?"

"A recording?" She sat up a little more.

"It activated when I initiated your program." She looked over at the small screen and nodded her head.

An image of Thomas showed up on the screen, his dark locks, those warm brown eyes of his, the picture of perfection as far as she was concerned. "If you are listening to this you have clearly done what I asked you to never do, I know I can't change your mind Amelia but I just wanted to say I'm proud to have flown with you all those years and I am going to miss you. You were more than just a captain to me and you will always mean more to me. I love yo..." Amelia shut the video off and looked out the window into the great expanse of endless stars. Once upon a time she could have seen them all, what a grand adventure for a starfleet captain. Feeling the shuttle shake after the first strike Amelia sat back up leaning over the controls and grabbing her side.

"Pegasus?"

"He's dropping above up, port side."

"Fire." Amelia ordered taking over flight controls and turning her shuttle so she could see him. He tried firing his phasers again but Pegasus had gotten the lock on his weapons systems and struck. "Run you coward." Amelia growled as he made an attempt to turn around. He dropped mines behind him hoping to keep her from a pursuit but she wasn't giving in yet. "Try to avoid those mines Pegasus." She ordered feeling the shuttle shake as one hit her.

"Shields down to 95%"

"Keep on him." She shuttle shook again as another mine detonated at her side. "Lock onto his life support systems and fire." The shuttle shook, another mine hitting, this time rupturing a hole through the hull. "Put up a forcefeild around the breach." Her shuttles phasers fired again striking his ship once more. "Now lets blow a hole through him. Charge up your aft canon sweetheart, it's time to finish this."

"Canon charged."

Amelia patted the consul with a smile. "I love it when you get aggressive." Forcing herself out of her seat she stood up planting her hands on the consul and leaning over it. Her sides aching . "Fire." The torpedo was launched, the burst of light flying through the darkness into his shuttle. Amelia watched with satisfaction as his shuttle blew apart, bits and scraps flying away from the mass of the debris field. "Good job Pegasus, just as it should be, what do your scans say?"

"It worked Captain Janeway."

Behind her she saw the beginning of the energy signature as Gaveris materialized onto her ship. Just as she had expected. Once he stood there in his full glory Amelia turned around in her seat, her hands folded and resting in her lap as she addressed him. "Welcome aboard Gaveris. It's been a long run you and I. Time we finish this don't you think?" He tapped his transporter again, likely trying to get to Voyager now. "You should have checked your systems twice before you jumped onto Pegasus. You passed an electromagnetic net that deactivated your devices. You can't transport yourself out of this one." He lifted his phaser trying to fire at her but that too didn't work. "Just the two of us, like old times."

"You'll die Captain Janeway." He growled at her.

Amelia nodded in agreement. "I know, that was my intention." She nodded to the display screen of her shuttle, the numbers counting down. "And you are coming with me. You are trapped on Pegasus, no way of transporting out, no way of shutting it down and from the looks of it we have, about 60 seconds. So what do you want to say to me and make is fast."

He glanced between the display screen and Amelia, his eyes full of hate. "Not without a fight." He replied.

"I hoped you would say that." Gaveris pulled the knife from the sheath on his leg and ran at Amelia while she pulled her phaser. Firing two shots into his chest she watched him swing the blade down. In a second Amelia felt her breath getting caught in the back of her throat, the blade plunged into her chest. Gaveris dropped to the floor after her finger pulled the trigger one last time, his head slamming back against the shuttle's wall. Unable to keep her fingers gripped around her phaser she let it slip out of her hand and drop to the floor. Her other hand reaching for the blade in her chest. She grabbed hold of the handle but couldn't pull it free, she was too weak. "Raise the net..." Amelia coughed knowing Voyager would try to beam her out, Captain Janeway would try to beam her out and she was right. Not long after Amelia was being hailed. Hitting the keys to let the transmition come through Amelia rested her fingers on the screen seeing her face again.

"Amelia, lower your shields, we are getting too much interference to beam you out."

Her eyes glanced over to the timer with a little smile, blood starting to run from the corner of her mouth. "Sorry mom." She choked putting a hand over her mouth. "But as you now know, I'm not coming back, I never intended to come back. I destroyed the only thing that can put me back into my...time. This was a one way mission from the start, I'm sorry I lied to you but I don't think you would have helped me if you knew." Amelia leaned forward choking again, her hand covered in blood now. She didn't want her mother to see her like this but she still had something to tell her. Glancing back at the timer Amelia shifted her gaze to Janeway. "Captain Janeway." She paused putting her hand on her screen, bloody fingerprints sliding over her mothers image. "Don't be afraid." Amelia smiled and closed her eyes cringing as the timer ran out.

Captain Janeway stepped back feeling the ship shake as the shuttle blew up. The image cutting out, nothing but silence. "Mt. Paris?"

"There are no life signs." He responded looking back at his captain as she stood there, the screen switching over to a faint fading blue light where Pegasus had been.

Janeway took a deep breath and let it out. She wanted to cry, no matter what point in time Amelia had come from she was still the captains daughter. Holding back on her tears she thought of what the Captain had told her before the link cut out. 'Don't be afraid.' The same words she had apparently told Amelia before dying. Forcing on a little smile she looked back at the crew of the bridge. "Mr. Paris, set a course for home, for Captain Amelia Janeway."

The Day After...

Q walked into the ready room to find Janeway playing with Amelia on the floor, Rowley sitting down behind them and just watching like a good guard dog. The captain had a big grin on her face as she tickled Amelia and laughed. "Spending some quality time with Amelia?"

Janeway looked up at him with a spark of excitement in her eyes. "Look Q, she's smiling." He walked over quickly wanting to witness it himself. After all this time twisting her face and trying to smile she finally had figured it out. There she was with a big bright grin on her face, kicking her legs happily as Kathryn tickled her.

"It's about time." Q squeezed Kathy's shoulder. "Now she can learn to laugh at my jokes." He teased before realizing Kathryn had stopped smiling. "The future isn't fixed in stone Kathryn. Our daughter, our Amelia is still alive thanks to her. She still has a lifetime in front of her and that future, that doesn't have to become her reality."

"I know." Katrhyn paused looking up at him and resting her hand on his. "But Captain Janeway was still my daughter. It's not easy to, watch your daughter..." She forced a smile so she wouldn't cry. She had been wanting to but she just couldn't.

"It's okay to cry for her Kathryn, I did." He squeezed her shoulder again.