Being So Close

Pt22(2)

*Ok- You can stop emailing me, I wrote the next part here it is--- I had a lot of work to do yesterday sorry---

After another hour of walking they finally reached the stream. Kathryn remembered it well. She remembered how many times she had crossed an old log to get to the other side, and fell in a few times as well.

All three of them looked for a way to get across and then Chakotay smiled at Kathryn.

"Guess what Kathryn; I guess you get to relive those memories again." He pointed to a log that had fallen ahead. Kathryn cringed at the fact that she was going to have to do a balancing act at her age. Even worse, if she fell in now she would never be able to give Chakotay a hard time about his "fire starting" abilities.

Greg and Chakotay reached the log, just as Kathryn let out a small scream. Chakotay turned around instantly and ran over to her. He noticed what she was looking at. A corpse lay suspended by some rocks and logs. He gave her a hug, and kissed her head. She cuddled him for a second, and then whispered thank you to him.

Greg didn't ask what she had seen. He figured it had been a body. He himself had seen several on their trip thus far.

When the three of them made it to the other side of the log. Kathryn silently took a deep breath of relief that she hadn't fallen in. She looked at Chakotay smiled and pointed to a small hill surrounded by pines.

"The cabin is up there Chakotay, if it still is standing."

Chakotay shook his head. "It's still standing Kathryn."

"How can you be so sure Chakotay, it's been 40 years!"

He took her hand. "Because someone has a fire going." Kathryn looked up at the cabin and noticed the smoke resonating from the chimney.

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Seven had just placed another log on the fire. She turned to Pheobe and smiled. "Its going to be cold tonight, you should be grateful that you are not outside."

Pheobe smiled back at Seven, and clasped the sides of the cage. "And you should be glad that I am not outside of this cage either, otherwise you would be inside of it."

Seven rolled her eyes. "You seem a little ungrateful; after all I was the one who saved your life."

This time Pheobe had to laugh. "Seven you really are clueless, I cannot understand why Chakotay or any man would ever give you the time of day, and by the way, your hair is messed up again!"

Seven immediately started the process to make herself pretty again. Fixing ever loose strand of her hair until every piece was perfectly in place.

She opened the door, to get more firewood, when something caught her eye. In the distance she saw three people making their way toward the cabin. Then she saw one of the mans faces and recognized it. It was Chakotay. She became very gritty until she saw the face of Kathryn Janeway.

She slammed the door shut, and looked at Pheobe. Somehow she was going to have to keep her quiet. She realized that it would be impossible to keep her quiet in the cage, so she grabbed the cage door and opened it.

Pheobe propelled her body out of the cage, grabbed a log from Seven's fire stash and held it next to her. "If you even step one closer to me, I will knock your head off Seven." It was then Pheobe heard a voice that she knew. It belonged to her sister. As she made her way toward the door she kept her eye on Seven. Pheobe had just opened the door, when Seven propelled herself at Phoebe.

The two of them rolled outside of the cabin. Wrestling one another.

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Chakotay's head went up when he heard screams. But what he saw he couldn't believe. Wrestling in front of him were Seven and Pheobe.

Kathryn had just come up from behind Chakotay when she also looked up.

Kathryn was at a loss for words. In front of her walking toward her, was her sister. "Kathryn got her bearings and began running toward her sister. The both stopped a few feet in front of one another. Tears running down both of their faces. Finally the shock wore off and they embraced hugging and crying.

Greg ran toward Pheobe when he saw her. He closed his eyes and opened them thinking that he was dreaming.

Pheobe saw him coming and whispered something to her sister that made her let go. Pheobe stood in front of Greg.

She put a smirk on her face and called out to him. "Are you ever going to be close enough to me so that I can actually hold my future husband?"

That did it for Greg. He ran over to her and scooped her up in his arms.

Seven lay on the ground unconscious.

Pheobe turned to Kathryn and Chakotay who stood over Seven's body.

TBC