"Coffee?" Q walked in with a pot of coffee in his hand.

"Yes please, I think you read my mind." Q was quick to pour her another cup, it seemed she needed it more than he had thought. Janeway set her PADD to the side and looked back up at Q as he poured her a cup of black coffee. "It's been a long morning. I have a feeling it's just going to be one of those days." Not that she was expecting a Borg attack or a warp core breach but at this point anything could happen. She hadn't gotten much sleep last night and already Tom had been late for his shift. She was going to have to talk to him again. That was the third time this week. "I see you managed to get out of sickbay." She took a sip of her coffee and smiled at him as he poured a cup for himself and sat down next to her. "Besides, we were suppose to go out and explore class 5 nebula today but it seems all the shuttles are having problems. Now you wouldn't happen to know something about that would you?" After all, he had brought the coffee, it all made sense once he walked into her ready room with that pot in his hand.

Q rested his feet up on her table and gave her a little smile. "Well, I noticed you wanted to go out there and take a look at the nebula yourself."

"Well I was a science officer long before I was a captain." She reminded him, oh he knew, her intelligence though limited compared to the Q. Still she was one of the smartest humans on this ship, smart enough to see right through him even.

"That's why I love you, pretty and smart. Also says here you were taking Ensign Haris."

"He works in engineering and has trained to fly the shuttles under Tom Paris. I'm told he's one of our better shuttle pilots." She responded knowing where he was going with this.

"And you know I want you in the best of hands when it comes to flying into stellar phenomenons." Q paused bringing up what she had expected him to. "Oh, and the doctor was also on the away team list."

"If you suggest what I think you are it won't be me you'll have to answer to. He wanted to go on more away missions and I need a good medical officer in case something happens."

"But I'm a good medical officer." Q pointed out. "The doctor has been on more away missions than I have and you said when I joined the crew of Voyager that I would get fair treatment. So why haven't you put me on an away mission yet?"

"I can put you on the next away mission that needs a doctor." She was very persistent about having him stay on Voyager but he was just as persistent to go with her.

"But I want to go on this mission." He begged moving a little closer to her. "Kathy please?" Q started giving her his rendition of puppy eyes, something both Amelia and Emily had perfected thanks to him.

"If you went on the mission would the shuttle suddenly stop having problems." She raised a brow and looked at him.

"I'm not certain Captain, I'm not the one tampering with your shuttles, but Tom and I will guard them with our lives until we get out those shuttle bay doors." He smiled before leaning in and kissing her on the lips.

"Well then in that case, I'll leave it to you to tell the doctor he's off the away mission." Q jumped up looking rather excited. "And Q, should I find out that you or...either of our girls have been playing with the shuttles systems again I'll report you to Starfleet command when we get back to earth and throw you in the brig."

"Would you at least come give me conjugal visits?" He teased.

"Get out, go break the bad news to the doctor, and Q, be nice to him, please." Q knew when he was no longer going to be tolerated by the captain. For the woman he had asked to marry she certainly seemed to tolerate him on the best of days and hide from him on the worst of days. Q had done everything in his mortal power to make her happy but he had to live with the fact that sometimes it just wasn't good enough. He hoped proving himself to her not only for her sake but for Voyagers sake and the sake of her crew. He wasn't just a 'fallen' Q, he was apart of this crew, this 'family'. He cared about more than just Janeway, even if she told him tomorrow she didn't love him he would stay on Voyager, for Emily, for Amelia, for Tom and Kim, hell even for the Doctor and Seven. He just liked those two mechanical freaks.

Q was down at the shuttle bay more than a little excited to go on his first away mission. He greeted Ensign Haris in the back of the shuttle with a big smile and a pat on the back. The ensign seemed a little jumpy, less so because this was his first away mission, in fact it was number ten for him. It was just his first time working with the captain directly. He went over everything with Q to be certain everything went smoothly, especially since he had Q to worry about now. By the time Janeway got aboard the shuttle the ensign stiffened up and did what so many other ensigns did at her arrival to their deck when they were not use to her being around. "Captain on the shuttle."

"At ease." Janeway replied taking her seat.

"Already at ease." Q laughed having not even flinched when she got on the shuttle, maybe that was the side effect of sleeping with her, you didn't get so jumpy around her anymore. Not to be misunderstood for no longer having respect for her. Q respected the hell out of Janeway, he just didn't trip on himself...all the time.

"I'm not surprised Q." She taunted back at him, the least he could do was take this away mission seriously since she had let him come with. Q took his seat in the co pilots seat, being Tom Paris's friend had it's benefits since Q was just about as good a pilot now as ensign Haris was.

"Captain we are good to take off." Ensign Haris let her know.

"Good, take us out." She replied as Q sat back in his seat. At warp 6 it was a fast journey to the nebula and everything had gone according to plan. Scanners were fully functional, the shuttle was so far in one piece, and Q was enjoying his first away mission. Checking his consul every now and again he finally turned back to look at Janeway going over the scanners readings. "Take us further into the nebula ensign Haris." Janeway ordered.

"Going to make a minor course correction captain." Q glanced over at him before looking back out the front viewer.

"Did you see that?" Q spoke up glancing back at his own readings. There wasn't anything there.

"See what?" Ensign Haris asked.

"Just, it looked like an electrical storm but...I guess not." Q looked back out the view window again and shrugged his shoulders. "Nothings coming up in my scans..." The shuttle was shook violently as an energy wave rushed through it and shorted out the panels. It blew out Ensign Haris's controls throwing the boy clear out of his chair before striking Q in the chest. Unlike Haris Q wasn't blown clean from his seat, instead slumping over as the shuttle's systems were shut down. Holding his chest he looked over at his own panel trying to choke out his words. "Impulse engines are offline Captain." Pushing himself back up he looked over at the pilots seat and remembered Haris had been hit too. "Haris?" Janeway was already out of her seat checking him from the ground and not a moment too soon as her own consul blew out sending electrical static to burn the hull above it. Rolling out of his own seat Q grabbed the emergency medical kit from under his feet and drug it over to Haris. Pulling out his medical tricorder he scanned the ensign, his vital signs were dangerously low. "I'm going to try and stabilize him." Grabbing the hypo spray he loaded it and pressed it against the ensigns neck. Q scanned him again, the electrical energy had damaged multiple organs in his body, unless Q performed surgery right here and now ensign Haris was a dead man. Q pulled out the lazier scalpel and the cortical simulator. "It's alright Haris, I won't let you die buddy." Q planted the cortical simulator behind his right ear and loaded up another vial into the hypospray.

"Kathy." He handed her the medical tricorder so she could assist him, she knew enough to act as the nurse here on this mission. "Monitor him, I'm going to have to stop the internal bleeding." He used the scalpel to cut into him knowing they had more primitive sutures for this procedure until they could get him back to Voyager. "I'm sorry you are going to have a nasty cut Haris until we get back to Voyager but I need to plug up some holes in your body." He pulled out his tissue regeneration and suture kit. It wasn't as nice as the one on Voyager but it was going to do in a pinch. "The cortical simulator should keep your brain functions going, that jolt to your body could have scrambled your brains but luckily Voyager isn't too far." Once they got him patched up they could start sending a distress signal. Q nearly cut through through Haris's lungs when the shuttle shook again.

"We're under attack." Janeway stood back up and glanced out the side port.

Q continued to try and work on Haris as he looked over his shoulder. Scanning Haris again Q stood up. "What do you need me to do?"

"Save Haris, I'll take care of this." Janeway sat back down at tactical and tried to raise the shields. "Shields are down, I'm scanning for a ship." So long as she could find the ship attacking them she could fire back. The ship shook again. "I found them."

"Alright, you do that I'll do this." He turned back to Haris using the tissue regeneration to close up one of the wounds through his heart, that was the most threatening injury right now. The shuttle shook again. "I thought you said you were taking care of that." Q gave Haris a tranquilizer to keep him under.

"Don't worry Q I have it under control." She fired at the ships shield generator, she couldn't get clear readings from the ship but the condition the shuttle was currently in they couldn't fight their way through this. "How is Ensign Haris?"

"It doesn't matter now, none of us will be doing very well if we can't get out of here." The shuttle shook again. "NO WHAT?"

Janeway looked back at the scanners. "They have a tractor beam locked on us." If she had thrusters she could have fought it, instead Janeway had another trick up her sleeve. "I am going to fire at the tractor beam." Charging up the weapons another surge ran through the shuttle nearly causing tactical to blow up. Jumping up Q pushed her out of her seat and landing on top of her against the floor.

"So sorry." He apologized.

"Haris?"

"Alive, he muttered, for now." Looking back to her seat he glanced over to Haris. "I assume we are still in that tractor beam. Haris isn't in any condition to fight. Help me move him into the container in the back of the shuttle, that locker for samples. It's large enough to hide a body." Letting Janeway up off the floor they crawled over to Haris and lifted him up trying not to be too rough with him as they carried him to the back of the shuttle. Q grimaced under the weight of the man feeling the pain in his chest again. "Oh damn." He nearly dropped Haris but kept going.

"Q you're injured."

"Lets get Haris in the locker and worry about me later." Setting Haris down Q opened the locker and together they lowered him into the locker. Grabbing an emergency respirator he placed it over his face, he would have enough air for a few hours.

"You need medical attention Q, you're bleeding." She tried reaching for the corner of his jacket so she could pull it down and see the injury better.

Q pushed her back shook his head. "No, that's not important right now."

Janeway turned away from him, clearly he didn't need her help right now. "We can still set the distress beacon." Q followed behind Janeway as she sat down and tried to activate the distress signal for their shuttle but the last shake only confirmed the worst.

"Get behind me Kathy."

"Or what, you'll bleed on them?" She growled back grabbing her pahser as the shuttle door opened. Janeway turned to fire on their would be attacker but paused when she saw who it was.

"I have been searching for you Captain Janeway, and it seems I finally found you."

Janeway narrowed her eyes as more men came onto the shuttle raising their own weapons. "Cal."