Q continued to bounce Amelia on his knee as she chewed on a teething ring. Since she had started cutting teeth she was having those horrible mornings, horrible afternoons, and even worse nights. Her mouth was in a lot of pain and it even prevented her from eating despite the medication she was getting to numb her gums. This morning had been no different for the little baby as she started out crying with her fingers in her mouth and looking up at Q for help. He had managed to give Kathy another two hours of extra sleep while he entertained Amelia. It was easier not being mortal, as a Q again he didn't need sleep, it was juts a luxury he used an an excuse to cuddle Janeway while she was sleeping. Once it got around to the normal time when the captain woke up to get ready for her day Q picked up Amy and carried her over to the bed so he could set her down at the foot of it. "Go on, go wake your mother up you little monster."

Amelia had been a fast learner, crawling was one of her specialties along with sitting on her own without falling over, though it still happened. She moved with the greatest speed possible across the bed before she tripped herself up on the blankets and fell forward but that would not stop the baby on a mission. Pulling herself back up she cooed at Janeway, her random noises were not sounding more like words but they were sounding more intentional and less instinctual. Amelia finally reached Janeway, reaching a hand out and grabbing her mothers nose. "Say good morning Amy." Q encouraged her to poke at her mother until the captain woke up. "Give her a kiss." The baby had discovered the art of kissing a few weeks ago which was fine so long as you didn't dislike being covered in baby slobber. What was even more impressive was her ability to actually blow kisses, another concept she had grasped quickly only because people paid a lot of attention to her when she slapped a hand over her mouth and pulled it away to look like she was blowing a kiss.

The baby girl leaned forward drooling on the side of Janeway's face and giving her a 'kiss' before she fell forward and accidentally hit the captain a little with a balled up fist. That certainly had woken the captain up as she opened one of her eyes and rubbed the other before noticing one side of her face was a little wet. "Say wake up mommy, I'm hungry and wait for no one." Q laughed as Amy got back up and just yelled. She didn't yell anything, just a very long yell, picked the vowel of the week and shouted it in Janeway's face.

"Morning." She smiled at her daughter and reached up to her as Amy fell back over. "Daddy teaching you bad habits this morning like hitting people?" She continued to rub her eye before sitting up in bed a little more and picking the baby up. Amelia was far more active and independent now that she was mobile but when it came to Janeway she would always lay back and cuddle up.

"No, I told her to give you a kiss not a mean right hook." He corrected Janeway.

"Oh, so that's what that was." She laughed. Amelia curled up in her arms and smiled up at her mother, laughing a little herself when she saw her mother laugh. Amy liked to make others think she was such a happy baby when in reality she was a fairly fussy one. She had been from day one, never able to decide if she wanted up or down. For you to hold her or leave her alone, and certainly the worst if she was hungry or just wanted attention.

"At least she is finally happy. Spent the past two hours walking up and down the hall screaming. I'm sure everyone on this deck was happy about that."

"Who was screaming? You or Amelia?" Janeway teased him as Q handed Amy her teething ring.

"Both of us." He tickled Amelia in the side, she was just about as ticklish as her mother was and like her mother she would take only so much of it before it went from being funny to making her angry. Unfortunately in Amelia's case angry and crying were the same thing. "I hate seeing her in pain. She looks so pathetic and just wants me to help her but I can't." Being a Q again had it's advantages, he could understand Amelia with ease and help both the girls with their powers or correcting 'accidents' but at the same time it made him feel helpless when Amelia looked up at him and just kept asking for him to help her and all he could do was give her more medicine and something to chew on. "I'm also taking Amelia to meet someone today so you can captain your little captain heart out and not worry about her."

Janeway smiled at her daughter. "Quite the opposite, I'll be twice as worried." She was just barely alright with being away from Amelia for a few hours at a time before she tracked him down and took her back. It was no wonder Amelia had a problem with being clingy to her mother. The little girl had been improving on it, Janeway not so much. Luckily Emily helped her with that, her attention had to be split on two children and a ship with a crew of 148. Janeway would never have in a million years become a stay at home mother but if they had been back on earth she would have taken some time off work to look after Amelia. She just never had that luxury here in the delta quadrant. Voyager needed it's captain and Amelia needed her mother. At some point Janeway told herself it would get easier but it never really did. Luckily Q was a stand up father in his own right, even with his powers and ego back in full.

"Kathy, I haven't lost her yet have I?" Janeway continued to cuddle her daughter acting as though she wasn't paying attention to Q. "Besides we have fun together, she's starting to take after her papa." He made a funny face at Amelia riling up a laugh from her.

"I know, that's what I worry about. One of you is more than any one person can handle." She paused as Amelia sat up more and rested her head on Janeway's shoulder. "It's not that I don't trust you, I just..."

"You're a good mother, a overly protective one but a very good one. Besides we won't be away for long, when we get back you can cuddle her all you want."

Janeway looked back to Amelia and ran her fingers through the baby's dark little curls. "Do you want to leave Voyager and go with daddy to who only knows where?" Q started making a bunch of funny faces at her so Amelia would giggle more and 'sway' her answer a little. Janeway rolled her eyes and glanced back to Q leaning in a little closer to him and kissing him on the lips. "I guess daddy's convinced me, that's what I get for bringing 'home' this witty, charming, and silly man isn't it."

"You think I'm charming? What about dashing?" He leaned in a little closer and wrapped an arm around her. "That's alright I think you're hot." And then sometimes he wasn't so charming and more blunt or painfully honest. He certainly never held back from speaking his mind.

"So just who are you going to go see with our daughter?"

Q turned on his heels putting her fingertips together and tapping them lightly with a devious little smile. "Oh, just an old friend from the Alpha Quadrant." Before she asked he raised his hand. "No I can't tell anyone you are alive and Voyager is coming home or send letters home. I'm on thin enough ice Kathy, they even considered letting me stay dead." He ran a hand over his chest where he had been mortally wounded. "And I don't know about you but being dead is a real drag on my social life." He walked back to her side, "But you know if it was up to me, I would send you back home in a heartbeat."

"I know." She still looked a little disappointed. Just as she was expected to follow starfleet protocol she knew Q had to obey his own set of rules. The continuums version of the prime directive, even if he bent it quite a bit by maintaining a relationship with her.

"Don't look so sad Kathryn, I'll make it up to you." He couldn't take her home but he would do something nice for her. Amelia was a little above the ordinary laws set between Q's and humans since she was part Q after all and now that he had his powers back it was time for Q to start teaching his baby bird how to really use those wings of hers. Emily on the other hand, the continuum hadn't quite made up their mind on her. She was more human than Q but still a member of the continuum. "I promise."