Since the Hirogen attack Q had been away from Voyager more frequently claiming her had business to take care of in the continuum. It would have all been well and fine if not for one little problem. Since Q had gone off more often Amelia had decided to tackle one more major life step, walking. Being half Q seemed to come with a few benefits, mostly being Amelia learned to do everything normal human children could do in about half the time. The drawback being she was very good at running, not so good at keeping her balance. Janeway chased her younger daughter down the hall less so trying to catch her and more so trying to make sure when her daughter fell over it wouldn't be into the side of the ship. Typical of her children as well Amy wouldn't even settle for holding onto her mothers hand in the event of an emergency. She was much more content cutting free and going off on her own. Only eight months old and already deciding she was a free spirit, independent of both her parents now. "Amy, oh no." Janeway rushed forward grabbing the back of her daughters shirt when the baby tried following an ensign into his quarters. After being exposed even to the minor tug from her mothers grasp Amelia teetered on her feet and finally fell back on her butt looking up at Janeway with a sort of betrayed expression. "You can't go into other peoples quarters Amelia." Janeway explained as Amelia's look of betrayal turned to teary eyes and a frown. Slowly but surly Amelia broke down crying as thought getting knocked off her feet made it impossible for her to ever walk again.

Kneeling down Janeway picked the baby back up and got her back on her feet. "You're alright Amelia, you just took a little spill." She brushed her daughter off and smiled as the little girl finally stopped crying and blabbered at her in her usual gibberish. "I'm not quite sure what you just said but I'll take that as a sign I have been forgiven." Amelia smiled at Janeway ever being the little charmer. It was almost impossible to take her down to planet side when they were getting supplies or making trades. Even just getting a little shore leave. No matter where she took Amelia the little girl was quick to attract attention, sometimes good and sometimes bad. Mostly people just gushing over how absolutely adorable Amelia could be and then there were moments when Janeway was trying to explain her daughter wasn't a threat. Heck she even had to convince a peaceful species that Amelia hadn't been their long promised messiah. When your daughter was both charismatic and could turn an animal into a humanoid to spare it from being sacrificed it could be a difficult task convincing others she wasn't a god. Even if her father liked to think of himself as one.

This time the captain kept her grip on her daughters hands as they continued to walk down the hall, Janeway doing her best to keep up with Amelia since she was so intent on running everywhere. Keeping at a half jog the captain came across Tom Paris and B'Elanna, the pair looking over to the captain and smiling as they watched her hold onto Amelia desperately and trying to keep pace with the growing kid. "Heading to the bridge with our young Ensign captain?" Tom asked laughing when Amelia slowed down and looked over at the two Lieutenants.

"No, just being taken on a tour of deck ten." The captain laughed.

"Well you know what the say, every captain needs to know their ship. I guess you are just starting Amelia off early. By the time she's ready to take over she will know the place inside out." Torres joked.

"Oh, I'm not sure I'll be ready to retire by the time she wants to take over. If she had it her way she would be the captain right now." Amelia certainly thought of herself as the boss. Amelia pulled one of her hands from her mothers grip and started trying to walk away from her again. "And I better keep going before she runs off on me again." Janeway laughed keeping a good grip on her other hand when Amelia did what she always did when she wanted to escape but couldn't. In a bright flash of light Amelia was gone making Janeway panic and reach up for her com badge so the members of her crew could get a lock on Amelia's whereabouts. Every time, her daughter never failed to flaunt her natural Q given talents. Before Janeway could reach her com badge however a voice rang over the intercom system, Sevens voice.

"Captain Janeway, Emily has gone missing." Looking back up to Tom and Torres Janeway finally hit her com badge feeling more panicked by the minute.

"What do you mean gone missing?"

"I believe she used her transportation ability." Seven responded. "She was in astrometrics with me learning about pulsars. When I turned around she vanished."

The captain shook her head knowing that was impossible, Amelia was more than capable of transporting herself and others about the ship, she could even go off the ship if she really wanted to but Emily didn't have that kind of power. The girl could hardly transport a cup any farther than arms length from herself. Emily certainly couldn't transport herself. "That's impossible. Amelia must have transported her somewhere." Janeway pinched the bridge of her nose wishing Q was here to track down his girls. After all wasn't he suppose to be on Voyager to make sure someone could correct any 'accidents' they might cause with their powers? "Leave it to Amelia to wait for her father to be away to do something like thi..." The captains voice was cut off as she vanished up in a spark of bright light like Amelia had. Tom and Torres both ran to the spot the captain had been but knew there was nothing that could be done to get her back.

While her crew nearly went to red alert over the captain vanishing into thin air Janeway reappeared in a large white Greek styled looking room. Ancient pillars towering over her head with a large white room resembling an old world court room a little. Standing in place Janeway circled around looking at the scene with confusion and alarm until a familiar figure dressed in black robes ran her way. "Kathryn." Q ran towards her and threw his arms around her. "I'm sorry I couldn't come and get you. I wanted to give you a warning before they started the trial but I wasn't allowed to leave."

Janeway pushed him back shaking her head. "Trial? What trial?"

Q held her shoulders looking at her with a heavy sigh, concern crossing his face. "Amelia's trial. The council was trying to decide what to do about Emily, questioning why she is here...Kathryn, they want to strip Amelia of her powers. She's in a lot of trouble right now. They are even talking about exile for both the girls. Claiming they are too dangerous to be left in human care." Janeway glanced around the room pulling away from Q and backing up.

"Where are they? Where is Emily? Amelia?"

"Safe, for now. They are being kept in holding until the trial is over and their fates are decided. I'm so sorry Kathy." He held the captain again feeling he was partly to blame for all this. If only he hadn't lost his powers he could have kept better track of his daughter and they wouldn't be in this trouble. "Don't worry though Kathy, we are getting our girls back. The Q I got to represent us, he's respected by the council."

"Who is it?" She asked turning her head to see a flash of light and a familiar face.

"Who else." He spoke up with a cocky grin.

"Qpid." She had come to give Q's 'old friend' the nickname since he seemed to revel in a long dead title of Cupid, god of love and in his case disaster. After having switched their bodies and tormenting them he was going to represent them in a case? Janeway looked back at Q hopping he knew what he was doing, for the sake of their daughters.

"The one and only." Qpid smiled dawned in his own black robe, his hair slicked back like a character in a 50's gangster film. He certainly had a flair for something, Janeway wouldn't call it fashion or vanity but it came damn close to it. Qpid always seemed more focused on his appearance than some other Q she had met, not that she had met many, just more than most. "Might I add Captain you look...saucy." Janeway glared back at him making him move back away from her a little more. Preferably from out of arms reach where she might grab him and throttle him.

"How are they going to put a baby on trial?" Janeway asked, honestly even if he daughter was a bit ahead of the learning curve to normal human babies she was still just a baby none the less.

"They aren't putting a baby on trial, they are putting a Q on trial." Qpid replied looking his nails over as he always did.

Q stepped over to her trying to explain when the 'judge' and jury walked in. Kathy recognized the man sitting down in the judges seat, the General Q who had made the deal with her Q. Given him the chance to change the continuum and bring peace by creating a hybrid, by creating Amelia. Another familiar Q stepped out, a female Q with long red curls, the female Q that had come aboard Voyager. "What is she doing here?" Janeway asked raising a brow. As she recalled she didn't much like that Q, after all the woman had called her a bitch.

"She's representing the other side. Unfortunately." Q responded. Nothing better than his ex working to destroy not just his work but his daughter. She had never been behind the whole hybrid thing anyways. From the start Female Q had made it clear she thought letting the Q bloodline get 'watered' down would cause nothing but trouble. How smug she was thinking her warnings had been correct. As the general, judge Q took his seat he waved his hand allowing the jury to finally seat themselves as well. "We should go take our seats." Q moved her to the front left side of the courtroom where he pulled a chair out from the table for the Captain. When Q, Janeway, and Qpid were all seated the judge nodded his head.

"The prisoner please." At the back of the court room the doors opened, two Q's dressed like 'security' officers, armed with Q weapons at their hip that looked surprisingly like phasers now. Janeway had come to the continuum a few times and it seemed every time the place changed along with the people. Q was always quick to remind her they only made it look this way so her tiny human mind could understand it. He had finally come to a point now it seemed where he didn't bother explaining the continuum to her anymore. The two grey dressed security Q walked on either side of a female Q, older, early to mid twenties from the looks of it. Despite her age change Janeway knew who it was almost instantly. The Q was dressed in a long blue dress, her dark curls put up into a half bun with a cascade of spiraling dark locks falling over her left shoulder. Blue butterfly clips were attached to the side of her bun, the wings trembling on the blue sparkling wings making them seem almost alive. The female Q had large blue/green sparkling eyes and feminine sharp features. A near perfect reflection of a Captain Janeway had once met.

Standing up from her seat she looked over at the graceful young Q. "Amelia?" Her attention moved down to the girls wrists shackled by what seemed like chains, oddly out of place for the otherwise modern looking weapons on the security Q's hips. "Why does she have chains on?"

Q grabbed Janeway's wrist coaxing her to sit back down. "They are not chains, that is only how your mind perceives them though to a Q they might as well be. It's another one of the continuum's works of 'justice'. A restrain designed to keep Q's from using their powers while on trial. Dreadful things." Q shivered clearly having been in his daughters place more than once. Seemed it was genetic, causing headaches for the continuum and coming before the council. Stopping Amelia at the table near her parents she was set down in a chair beside the captain, the girl turning her head and smiling at Janeway.

"Hello mother." It never ceased to amaze Janeway how unearthly Amelia looked as an adult, she even put the female Q to shame. Her very being seeming to shimmer with an other worldly light the other Q didn't have.

"Amelia, you are...all grown up." Janeway commented seeing the girl smile even in the face of her own trial. She hoped Amelia didn't have her fathers arrogance thus preventing her from realizing the potential danger she was really in. "How is this possible?"

"I'm a Q mother." Amelia tilted her head to the side as if it was obvious. "Partially anyways. I can change my appearance any time I like, I simply chose not to." Amelia confirmed nodding her head. "Naturally by changing my age my mentality and personality matures as well."

"Why haven't you ever changed before?" It seemed it would be easier to survive on Voyager if Amelia took an older form. One where she was more than capable of defending herself.

"I'm human as well mother, I'm not like other Q. I have been given the opportunity to experience a full life. Why would I sacrifice that for the sake of vanity or power? Besides I take pride in who I am, all of who I am and I do like being human as much as I am certain you do." For someone her age she certainly was mature, especially for a Q. As sad as that sounded Q's liked to do everything the easy way with the least effort. Amelia here scarified being a true 'Q' in order to be a human and a normal child. Amelia glanced around the courtroom showing a slight look of concern. "Though I suppose this had put a mark in my ideal childhood. Father assured me after the trial he would erase my memories of this to spare me so I might continue to 'enjoy' my human lifestyle." Being burdened with the memories of being an adult Q with her full capabilities would be a bit of a drag on her 'innocence'.

Qpid leaned over the table looking at Amelia with a big grin on his face. "I think you should stay like this, you are...well." Almost in perfect unison Q and Janeway both looked over at him, Q looking like he could put his fist through his best friends chest. "Just saying she's, lovely." His desire to save her life was renewed. Even if she went back to being a little baby she would grow up and Qpid was a patient Q. More so than his friend Q. He would wait around for a century for her.

"Court is in session." The judge announced looking over to Amelia. "This, Q...is facing charges against the continuum. Her use of her powers and disobedience to our laws has lead to not one but two serious problems." He leaned over his stand looking down at Amelia but like the good captain Janeway Amelia looked back at him unphased by his glare. He couldn't frighten her, especially when she knew she hadn't really done anything wrong. "Your first offence being the creation of another Q without permission from the the council." He pointed to the door as two more security Q drug in another figure, still a young scrawny wild eyed looking Emily. Her attention darting around the room frantic making her look like some sort of wild animal. The poor girl was trapped between seeing the continuum for what it truly was and the illusion the Q had made for Janeway. Her mind not quite advanced enough to comprehend or even register what she was seeing. No way of understanding this place she was in, this continuum. Unlike Amelia Emily didn't belong here, not with her broken fragmented mind. Torn between mortal and 'god'. "And a poor recreation at this, damaged, unpredictable, uncontrollable."

Amelia stood up turning to look at Emily as the girl walked towards them, her eyes still moving about wildly. Unlike Amelia she wasn't chained up, there wasn't a need to chain her. Her abilities were so poorly developed she was no threat to the Q or the continuum. Hardly a step above a normal mortal. To the other Q she was a sad reflection of what could have been this mighty Amelia to guide them into their uncertain future. It seemed their 'messiah' had broken a rule to play god and make this sad shadow but to Amelia Emily was no shadow. She was family. "Emily." Amelia cried out to the young girl, for the first time between the two Emily was the small one, the helpless baby standing before the towering adult Q. Something strange happened when Emily heard Amelia's voice. Her wild glances all came to a single focus on the illusion around her and the one thing that wasn't an illusion, Amelia. Looking over the older Q Emily let tears run down her face, let out a sigh of relief.

"Amelia?" Emily ran to Amelia throwing her arms around her 'sister' and feeling the older Q hug her back despite her restraints. For the first time in Emily's life she felt everything was set right. Her chance to finally meet the person she had dreamed of her whole life. The Q who had made her, someone above and beyond just an 8 month old baby who lived on Voyager. Her Amelia.

"I promised I would never leave you." Amelia smiled lifting the girl off the ground with relative ease and cradling her more like a daughter than a sister. The judge nodded his head as the two Q reached out and pulled Emily away, the girl flailing her arms and reaching back out for Amelia crying for her. "Give her back." Amelia shrieked grabbing her skirt and lifting it a little as she stepped towards Emily and her 'captors'. "Leave her alone she isn't apart of this, it's me you want to punish not her."

"She's evidence." The judge confirmed.

"She's not evidence she's a little girl, a human girl at that. Mostly human anyways." Amelia reminded herself, poor Emily, neither half Q nor whole human, something lingering between. Like a sickly fawn born too small and never able to grow into a strong graceful adult like it's siblings.

"But not completely human is she." The judge nodded. "And how may I ask is that possible? When Q can only be created by other Q?"

Amelia looked back to Emily, she had never meant for Emily to get hurt. Never meant for her to be afraid, to be apart of this. "Because I made her." Amelia admitted looking back at him giving him her mothers famous death glare.

"And why would you go an try to invent another Q?"

"I was lonely." Amelia admitted. "I was the only Q like me, I was alone. I wanted company, I wanted a friend, a sister. Someone who could think like me, who understood what I did, who saw the world as I did. Someone to share with. You can't understand that, the rest of you have been cut from the same cloth but not me. I'm different. I'm not like you." She looked to Emily seeing the girl was no longer crying but instead watching Amelia with wide eyes. "Neither of us are like you. We are a breed all our own." Slowly Emily let a smile cross her face watching her 'sister' her progenitor. Emily had always known on some level Amelia was a mother to her, not quite the same as a mother figure as she had come to see Janeway but Amelia had been the flesh and the 'spirit' she was cut from and created from. Hearing Amelia finally say those words brought a sense of peace to the girl. An answer to who she truly was. She hadn't been a mistake cooked up in a lab, she had been someone Amelia had wanted from the start. Someone she created so she had someone in her life who could be closer to her than her own parents. Someone who truly understood her. "I knew the day the Vidiian's tried to acquire my DNA what they would do with it and so I left more than simple cells behind. I left a piece of myself behind knowing that she would find me no matter what. It was apart of who she was, for us to be together, never apart. It's who we are. A breed between worlds, forever outcasts of both sides but we belong somewhere now." Amelia smiled back at Emily. "You belong."