Members of the crew were disturbed by the yapping of the small pup running around deck five. Seeing the Dalmatian was certainly out of the ordinary and raising questions. As Amelia bounced between the legs of one of the crewmen she let out a playful bark, enjoying her adventure and turning to look back at the ensign nearly falling down. That was when a pair of hands lifted her up off the ground and made her whine. Feeling the scruff of her neck in someone's grip her back legs tucked and her tail curled up. Blue grey eyes looked over the Q that had changed her into a puppy as she continued to wine. "I see you are causing trouble, so typical." The Q scoffed at her. "Having fun?" Amelia groaned at him, her eyes shooting off over his shoulder. "You would like that would t you. Unfortunately for you junior I'm better at it. Can't do much without those powers can you." Amelia started to struggle in his grip, kicking her back legs and growling at him. "Fuss all you want pup but I'm turning you back. You've had enough fun for one day and I promised Q I would look after you." He was about to snap his fingers when a stream of liquid poured onto his mock starfleet uniform. His eyes wandering to where Amelia had just peed on him, a look of satisfaction on her face. "Oh, so we are playing this game? You're on kid, prepare to lose." Amelia swung again and snapped at Q making him drop her as she started running away. "So much trouble missy." Snapping his fingers he vanished again in a flash.

Amelia had turned tail tucked between her legs as she ran along the hall trying to catch a familiar scent. "mama" Amelia thought to herself recognizing a particular perfume. Her ears perked up a little more as she ran to the scent, paws thumping against the floor once more, partially clumsy on her four legs. Sometimes it felt like they had a mind all their own. Letting out a few barks Amelia looked up to the tall legs that everyone seemed to have but these particular long legs were familiar to her. "Mama, mama." Amelia thought to herself excitedly and barked up at the captain, her tail wagging out of control now. trying to balance up on her hind legs to catch Janeway's attention Amelia ended up losing her balance and falling over onto her back only to have much softer, kinder, gentle hands reach down and pick her up from under the arms before her hing legs were cradled and she was pulled close to her mothers chest. Amelia whimpered excitedly as she licked her mothers face, her tail moving so quickly you could hardly see it. "Amelia." The captain sounded relieved holding the puppy close to her again. "I was worried sick."

"You know captain you have to admit, she makes an adorable little dog. Maybe we should keep her this way." Paris joked only to be shot a death glare. Tapping his com badge he called sickbay. "Doctor, we are bringing Amelia to sickbay"

It was a short trip to sickbay as Chakotay, the Captain, and Paris walked through the doors with the puppy. "What is the nature of the medical emergency?" The Doctor asked until he saw the puppy and then shot a glare back at Janeway. "I'll have to remind you I'm a doctor Captain not a vet."

"That's the problem doctor, this isn't a puppy. It's Amelia."

The Doctor looked the puppy up and down, a look of judgment upon his face. If the captain was playing with him than this wasn't a funny joke. "You have to be joking me. How did this happen? Wait, let me guess. Q?"

"Yeah, but not the Q you are thinking of, the other one." Paris added as the Doctor raised a brow. "The other other one." Damn, there were a lot of Q running around, the Q continuum must feel a little empty now. The doctor looked back at the puppy, the scans were telling hims she was just a puppy, no stitch of human DNA and no sense of her Q half. Amelia was according to his scans just a little puppy and nothing else.

Looking between the Captain and then to Chakotay the Doctor looked a little confused. "And what do you want me to do about it? I can't turn her back, I don't have that kind of ability. It's impossible."

"There has to be something you can do?" Chakotay asked having a little hope for Amelia. He knew having her stuck as a puppy would bother the captain, even more so now knowing it meant Amelia wouldn't live long.

"Nothing, I'm a hologram, not an omnipotent being. I can't create miracles and I can't pull a human out of thin air."

Janeway set the puppy down on a table as Amelia stood up and wagged her tail. At first she yawned and then stepped forward making a hacking sound. After a little burp and a loud choke before hacking something up. Janeway was quick to reach for the puppy as she threw up a a chunk of rubber she had chewed off of a crate or cart. Once Amelia had thrown it up she sat up straight again and started to wag her tail more. "Well, if there is nothing you can do we will have to puppy proof the ship. At least until we can find Q to turn her back or Q comes home to fix this." Amelia yawned at sat down leaning up against Janeway letting out a little whine. "Mama, I'm tired." Amelia thought to her mother, her grey puppy eyes looking up to the human woman. before another yawn escaped out of her mouth. Standing up she wiggled her little butt and jumped down off the table landing on her feet and then rolling over upon the ground. Not so graceful but better than she could have done in her human body. Janeway still worried about her though, rushing to her side and getting down beside her. Quickly the pup got back up and started prancing towards the door barking and bouncing up and down. "Chakotay, I'm giving you command while I take Amelia back to my quarters. I hope you can forgive me but..."

"It's alright Captain, I understand." He smiled at her and got down on his knee as Amelia ran a small circle. "You stay out of trouble, the captain already has enough to worry about with you as a baby." He could only imagine what she might get into as a puppy now.

Walking out the door with the puppy prancing behind her Janeway kept a close eye on Amelia. The pup ran up to her and grabbed onto her pant leg pulling at it a moment before barking again. "I wish I knew what you were trying to say." "Pick me up mama, my legs aren't long enough to keep up." Amelia thought as she barked up at the captain again. It seemed her mother didn't speak fluent dog, funny since she seemed to understand Rowley. At least Amelia spoke fluent dog, she spoke fluent everything. At least she understood everything, more so she spoke fluent gibberish. As Amelia feel further behind Janeway finally stopped and picked her up. "Finally, my legs are so tired and I have four of them. That should be twice the everything." Amelia thought as she licked her mother's face and watched the rest of the walk from the safety of her arms. The doors to their quarters opened wide as Rowley darted out and jumped up at the captain sniffing Amelia. He had never met another dog before let alone a baby one. He was a mix of excited and confused as he sniffed Amelia more intensely and made her wiggle in her mothers arms. Barking down at Rowley Amelia tried to keep out of his reach. "Down Rowley, calm down, sit."

Typical of the dog he obeyed the captain's every order, funny how even the dog knew to listen to Voyager's captain. She waited until Amelia was set down on the bed before calling Rowley back in. "Rowley, easy." Janeway ordered him so the dog would run beside the bed and sit down to sniff Amelia from a comfortable distance. Amelia sniffed back wagging her tail cautiously before she barked at Rowley and made the dog shy away. He whimpered and barked back at Amelia before dropping into a play bow. Groaning Amelia sat down and barked at Rowley again. "You two, no arguments." Janeway scolded them both, well shoot, she could understand dogs. Sitting down beside Amelia Janeway picked the puppy up again. "It's alright Amelia, once your father gets back he'll fix all this." Janeway laid down on the bed tucking the puppy up against her. "Mama, you do so much for me, you always have. I'm so thankful for you, I wish I could tell you." Amelia whined and licked her mother's face. "I love you." She huffed and nuzzled her nose under Janeway's chin. "And some day I'll look after you as you had looked after me."