Amelia looked over to the opposite side of the ready room, her attention constantly moving away from her mother even when Janeway tried to get her attention. She acted as if someone had just walked into the read room with them and her drifting eyes finally convinced Janeway she should look. As she figured, nothing. "What are you looking at Amelia?" Janeway asked the baby pausing and grabbing the side of her head. She had been tortured by this headache for days and no matter what it wasn't getting any better. Amelia glanced over at the door again rolling over onto her stomach and surprising Janeway a little. She was still getting use to the fact her daughter was starting to get mobile. Voyager wasn't going to contain her for much longer. The baby looked back over at the door again holding herself up with her arms and acting as if whatever had been by the door had moved closer to them. The baby rocked a moment losing strength in her arms as her green eyes grew wider and she let out a loud cry. Hearing Amelia crying only made Janeway's headache worse but she couldn't just yell at the baby. Picking Amelia up she thought it stranger still that her daughter hid her face against her shoulder and continued to sob. "It's alright Amelia." She rubbed the baby's back trying to comfort her. As much as she didn't want to contact the doctor again she was a little concerned. The last thing she needed was to be told to rest or have him give her a deep tissue massage. Pressing her com badge she winced at the pain in her head again. "Q, I'm bringing Amelia to sickbay."
"Is everything alright?" He sounded panicked.
"She's fine, just crying again. I just want to make sure it isn't her ear ache again." A few days ago she had experienced her first ailment, an ear ache. Nothing else had been wrong other than her ear hurting her and it went away before the doctor could treat it. Amelia seemed immune to most illnesses, even the Phage apparently, why she had gotten an ear ache and why it had cleared up so quickly was the mystery but it might have been possible as Amelia aged she was more prone to the average aches and pains of an ordinary human child. These were questions she wished she had asked Captain Amelia Janeway while she had been here. Raising a half Q child was a little like wandering in uncharted territory, a little like the Delta Quadrant. At least human children you could predict what to expect from them. There wasn't any data out there on children who were able to shut down a ship's helm controls or teleport themselves around with ease.
Getting down to sickbay Janeway laid Amelia down on one of the beds staying close in case the baby tried rolling off the sides. She had nearly fallen off the bed when Q was suppose to be watching her. In a flash Q was over at Amelia's side scanning her with a tricorder before the doctor even realized Janeway had showed up. "Is her ear ache back?" He asked looking over the scans. Nothing seemed to be wrong with her, she looked healthy enough and the scans weren't bringing up anything. "Hmmm, she was just crying again?"
"No, she keeps looking at the door just like yesterday. Just stares off into empty space."
"You know it was very rare but sometimes babies back on earth in the 21st century use to do that. It was found later in life they had schizophrenia." Q looked over at Janeway. "Not saying Amelia has it, if she did it would show up on scans." He tickled the baby on the belly making her smile up at him. "She seems fine now." Janeway grabbed the side of her head again, her headache was just as bad as before if not a little worse. Q moved quickly scanning over her and furrowing his brows. "You still have that headache?" Reading the scans he just didn't understand it, there wasn't anything wrong with her, maybe it was just the stress. They had gone through a lot lately and she wasn't getting any sleep. Less than two hours a night and once Kathryn got up Amelia woke up and made it almost impossible for the poor captain to get back to sleep. "I should get the doc and have him..."
"Please don't." Janeway interrupted up and put a hand up. "Just give me something for the pain and I'll be fine."
To avoid sounding like the doctor Q knew even if he told her she needed a little vacation she wouldn't have taken it. One of these days he was going to convince her to let Seven or Neelix watch Amelia so he could take her for a walk on the beach or a picnic in the park on the holodeck. Leaning in closer to the captain he got a devious little smirk on his face and wiggled his brows. "You know what else I hear can cure a headache?" She shifted her eyes back to him raising a brow and insulting his manhood without even opening her mouth. It was difficult having the ice queen captain as a fiancee sometimes, especially being human now. Q was never a slave to bodily functions like he was as a human. Sometimes he was at the mercy of his hormones. In fact only two days ago while assisting the doctor in Sevens weekly check in Q had found himself in an awkward situation. Though many of the men on Voyager would have crawled naked through broken glass and fire to just stand next to Seven Q had never really cared about her, nor her appearance. Yet a few days ago it suddenly hit him so bad he had to walk away and hide behind the doctors desk hoping Kathryn didn't walk in on him and question. These Starfleet issued uniforms made it difficult to conceal...excitement. In fact he had been randier than usual, unnaturally so which only furthered rubbed it in his face just how little action he actually got. "Did I mention how beautiful you are today?" He smiled back at her trying to get back on her good side, if she had a good side. She was less bitchy when she was pregnant and had become a emotional mine field nightmare and to be honest she looked like hell.
"That has been the fourth patient this morning to come into sickbay. " The doctor walked over interrupting their little conversation and making Q feel like his backup had finally arrived. "I hope you are having better luck."
"The captain still has a headache, she could use something for the pain. Amelia seems fine however, her earache hasn't come back." Looking back at Kathryn he rested a hand on her lower back almost snapping it back when he got a funny feeling in his stomach, that same sensation he had gotten from staring at Seven for too long. "You have a lot to worry about, I can keep an eye on Amelia, until you feel better." He kissed her on the cheek.
The doc loaded a hypospray and looked over at Janeway. "You know this is only a temporary fix Captain. It would be better if you took some time off. Maybe let me take a few more detailed scans in case of..."
Janeway raised her hand to stop him before he got too carried away. "Maybe another time." He couldn't argue with her, well he could but he wouldn't win. Giving her another dose of pain killer the doctor wondered when the captain would get into the habit of actually taking care of herself. Just as before Amelia's attention moved off into empty space, her eyes following something that wasn't there. This time it was the doctor who noticed it first and started scanning her right away. After a little while of watching her 'imaginary' friend she looked up behind her mother and broke into tears again, screaming as if someone was coming to hurt her. "Amelia?"
"Nothing is wrong with her." The doctor assured Janeway but Amelia wasn't acting like she was alright. She was acting like she was in pain. In an instant the terminals around sickbay started shorting out, even the doctors holoemitters failing as he faded away dropping the tricorder.
Q picked her up quickly fearing Amelia could do serious damage to sickbay if left to continue on like this. "Whoa, alright there Sparky, it's okay." The systems came back online as soon as she was lifted off the bed, the doctor coming back into sight as he looked around a little confused.
"What just happened?" He asked going to pick up his tricorder again.
"That's what happened in the ready room only she didn't short circuit the bridge. She acts like she is watching something then starts crying as though she was in pain." Q rubbed his daughters back feeling a little bad for her. Whatever was happening to her he hoped they could figure it out.
Amelia looked up from her fathers shoulder watching the strange alien woman as she tried to fix her scanner but Amelia had destroyed it. Maybe they would learn their lesson and leave her alone, leave her mother and her father alone, leave Voyager. Watching the alien woman Amelia cooed as a warning. Clearly they had never come across anything like her as she looked back at the baby with wide eyes full of concern. She should be concerned, next time Amelia wouldn't just shut down her scanners and probes. Next time she would stop her heart and see how she liked being a test subject. It wouldn't be so much fun once the Q side of her had put up with enough and gave them a taste of their own medicine.
