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"How much for a room," Chakotay asked the man behind the counter. He was big, burly, bald, and gave Chakotay a hard look over.
"How much you got?"
"Not much," Chakotay admitted.
"Then get out of my hotel," the man said crossly.
"Please, wait," Chakotay begged, "we really need a room."
"Yeah, you and half the city."
"My woman, she's pregnant," Chakotay said desperately. "I don't have anything I can trade for a room, but I can work, all night if I have to. Just, please, give me a bed where she can sleep safely."
The man took a look at Kathryn, who was still asleep in Chakotay's arms. His face seemed soften slightly.
"Alright," he said after a minute, "I'll get you a room for her. But you're going to work from midnight until dawn."
"Thank you," Chakotay said as the man grabbed the key off the wall and handed it to him.
"I'm not doing this for you. If it wasn't for her, you'd be on the street right now."
"I know," Chakotay said as he took the key and looked down at Kathryn.
"You got two hours until you start working. I suggest you use that time to get some sleep. I don't need you napping on the job."
Chakotay nodded as he walked away, following the signs to his room. He didn't notice the shadow following him.
He walked inside the room and locked the door behind him. As he gently placed Kathryn on the bed in the center of the room he took a look around. Besides the bed there was only a tiny closet. The wallpaper was ripped, the only window was boarded up, and occasionally he would hear the squeak of rats. They were also safe, warm, and dry, which made everything else ok, he decided as he lowered himself next to Kathryn.
"Chakotay," Kathryn whispered dreamily. Something had woken her up, and she instinctively reached for him.
"Hey," he said as he settled next to Kathryn. She had turned towards him and started burying her body into his.
"Where are we," she asked, partially awake.
"We're at a hotel in the middle of town. I was able to get us this room for at least tonight."
"How'd you pay for it?"
"I'm working it off. My shift starts in two hours. Go back to sleep."
"Ok," Kathryn said, fading quickly. "Love you."
"I love you too," he whispered, falling asleep with her in his arms. Two hours later Chakotay reported in to Vic, the hotel owner, to start working off the room.
"You're gonna help my cousin Jimmy to patrol the grounds and watch for animals and gangs. You probably don't have to worry too much about wild animals, although sometimes a morent does appear. Nasty fuckers. You've run into one of them before?"
"The day I met Kathryn I saved her from one, almost losing my leg in the process."
"So you know how to use a knife," Vic said. "Good. That will save your life in this neighborhood. While I doubt you'll run into a morent, I can promise you'll run into at least one gang member. Most of them can't wield a blade to save their life, but they like to attack in groups. The two biggest gangs in the city have just declared war, and they keep fighting over territory. Some of the fighting might spill over this way, or at the very least you'll find a couple body dumps."
Chakotay shook his head and said, "Kathryn and I were trying to escape a clan war. Seems like no matter where we go, we can't escape the bloodshed."
"Like that everywhere, kid," Vic said. "I hate raising my kids in this world, but there's nothing any of us can do to change it. All we can do is survive."
"I guess you're right," Chakotay said, "I just wish you weren't."
"So do I," he said with a sigh. "Now enough of this whiney little girl bull shit. Let me introduce you to Jimmy and Kyle," he said, turning to head to the room next to the check in window. "Like I told you earlier, you'll be working with Jimmy patrolling the grounds. Kyle, that is if numb nuts ever decides to show up, will be guarding the food stuffs and other supplies…"
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"They're here," he asked his partner excitedly. "They're finally here?"
"Yes," his partner replied, "but it is not yet time to approach them. Certain events must happen before we can interfere."
"But we don't have time for that! In less than two weeks there won't even be a planet left."
"Patience," she soothed. "The events have been set in motion. We must wait for them to play out."
"How much longer must we wait?"
"Before the sun rises," she said looking out into the distance, a sad look on her face.
"What must happen?"
"I'm not entirely sure," she replied, "all I know is it will cause them great pain and sorrow, and we will blame ourselves for allowing it to happen."
"Then maybe we should go before…"
"No," she interrupted. "We must not interfere. I only hope that the life we will provide them will help absolve some of the pain we will allow to happen to them.
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"Well," hissed the black hooded shadow.
"Everything is in place, My Lord."
"Good," she said, an evil grin invading her face. "There will be no mistakes."
"None at all, My Lord, everything will be done as you instructed," he said bowing. "I have followed the man and the woman since they entered the city. I know the hotel room and how to sneak past the guards. Before sunrise, I will be done."
"Excellent. If you can do this, then you will be second only to me."
"Yes, My Lord, it will be done," he said bowing again and walking away. He didn't know what his Lord's obsession with this one woman was, but he knew enough not to question her or her family. Rakel was not one to be crossed.
'I warned you Chakotay,' Rakel thought as she watched her minion slink off into the night, 'but you didn't listen. Now I will take everything you treasure.'
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"Alright, I'll walk 'round this way," Jimmy said, pointing to the left, "and you walk 'round the opposite way. That way we'll cross half way through. If one of us doesn't meet up the other will know somethin's up."
"Ok," Chakotay said as he started walking the opposite way of Jimmy. The first five laps he was watching every shadow, but soon boredom overtook him and his mind started to wander. This was the moment he chose to strike.
He came up behind Chakotay and wrapped one arm behind his neck. As he brought up a hypospray filled with a tranquilizer he whispered in Chakotay's ears, "Rakel sends her regards and wants me to pass them onto Kathryn."
After taking care of Chakotay he quickly made his way into the hotel. In his rush he missed the one of the aliens take Chakotay's body while the other one quietly followed him.
He quickly found the room and silently opened the door with the key he'd picked up from Chakotay's body. He walked in the room and saw her sleeping on the bed. Pretty little thing. He stood above her, staring, thinking about how long it had been since he'd last slept with a woman. 'Ah I'll wait until after I kill her,' he thought to himself. 'That way she won't put up a fight.'
He brushed aside the excitement that filled him and went to work. He gave her a light sedative to her to ensure she wouldn't wake up while he tied her arms and legs to the bed. That task done, he pressed a hypospray to her neck that would numb her stomach and vocal chords. He wasn't planning on numbing her stomach, but considering what he was going to do to her… well it was the least he could do. He picked up his knife, cut open her stomach, picked up his tricorder, and started scanning. 'There's the little half breed.'
He was just about to fish out the fetus when Kathryn woke up. When her eyes settled on him, he just looked up, smiled, and went right back to work. He saw the confusion in her eyes, watched her internal debate play across her eyes.
"Yes this is real, Kathryn," he said while he worked. "Rakel told me to say hi, by the way."
At the mention of Rakel, Kathryn started the thrash across the bed in an attempt to escape.
"As you can see," he said, annoyance seeping into his voice, "you are securely tied down. Now, the more you move, the more likely my instrument will miss its mark, cut you, and cause some internal bleeding. Now I don't know how much medical knowledge you have, but that's bad."
When Kathryn tried to speak, and failed, he said, "Yes, sorry about that, but I really do hate screaming, which you would undoubtedly be doing right now. If you are wondering what I am doing, Rakel has asked me to kill your baby." When he saw her face he said, "Don't worry, I'm not gonna. That's low, even for me. No, what I'm going to do is remove the fetus from your body, put it in an artificial womb, and then raise it as my own. Always wanted a kid."
After hearing his plans, Kathryn started thrashing more, and he angrily said, "Look, the longer this takes, the more likely it is Chakotay will die." When she stilled, he said, "Good. Now, I gave him a strong sedative, very strong. In fact, if I don't wake him up within the next half hour, it will shut down his body systems, one by one. There! All done," he said, pulling a tube out of her stomach. Holding it closer to her face, he said, "Take a close look at this, Kathryn. It's the only time you'll get to see your child. Now I have orders to kill both you and Chakotay. He should be dead already. Don't worry," he said when he saw her angry expression, "it was a very peaceful way to go."
He put away all his equipment, including the tube. He then took out a hypospray and huge saw-like object. "I've really enjoyed our time together Kathryn, but my orders are to kill you as well and to make it as messy as possible. But don't worry, I plan on sedating you first, you won't feel a thing." She tried to back away from him, but her restrained arms didn't allow her to go far. He easily applied the same tranquillizer to her as he had Chakotay.
He raised his weapon, ready to use it on Kathryn, when he felt a sharp pain in his side. He looked down when he saw that he had a gaping hole where his heart was supposed to be. "Damn," he said as he fell down. He was dead before he hit the floor. The alien who had followed him in took out a tool and quickly stitched Kathryn's abdomen back together, removed the restraints picked her up, and carried her out.
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"This one's life signs are getting stronger," Chakotay heard a female voice say. His head felt like something had beaten it in, and it was hard for him to think. As hard as it was to think, there was one thought that permeated his brain.
"Kathryn," he mumbled.
"Lenear," the voice said, "he's speaking. I don't know if he's fully conscious, but he's almost there."
"Good," a male voice said. "The woman you rescued is in pretty bad shape, but she should pull through."
"Kathryn," Chakotay said again, this time stronger.
"Hold on," the female voice said and it felt like she patted his shoulder, "everything's going to be fine."
"Kathryn," Chakotay said, this time opening his eyes. He looked up to see a female alien, he couldn't even begin to guess the race, scanning him with a hand held device while a man, who he guessed was Lenear, scanned Kathryn.
"Lenear," the woman said, "he's awake."
He quickly looked over from his scanner. "Good," he repeated, and then went on to work on a panel of instruments next to Kathryn.
"How is she," Chakotay asked sitting up.
"She sustained severe wounds in her uterus and was given a drug that slowly shut down her body functions, starting with brain activity. You were also given a dose of the drug. Caught in time, it's easy to treat, but it's fast acting, so the window of opportunity is small."
"What happened to her," Chakotay managed to barely get out.
"The man who knocked you out broke into your room, restrained her, and cut her stomach open. By the time I got there, she was knocked out and he was about to take a huge, moving, serrated blade to her," the woman said.
"The baby," he gulped out. He had to breath deeply just to keep from passing out. He felt his throat tighten and his stomach lurch.
Lenear started scanning her abdomen and said, "I'm not detecting any evidence of a child. Her uterus was cut open we she was found. We can assume whoever did this to her took the fetus as well."
At these words, Chakotay lost it. He couldn't hold back his sobs any longer, and the woman who was sitting on the bed next to him put his head on her shoulder.
When Chakotay had calmed slightly, the woman said, "I know this is hard for you to believe now, but some good will come from all this."
"How," Chakotay choked out, "how can any good come from all this?"
"My name is Telsa, and this is Lenear. We have come to your planet searching for the ones who will save it. We believe you and this woman are the ones."
Chakotay pulled away from her and backed up until he hit the bed's headboard. "What do you want from us?"
"We want you to help us save your planet."
"Save it? From what?"
"An experiment that our people will perform on your people at the end of the 24th century."
"How do you propose we do that?"
"Although more will be revealed later," Telsa explained, "what we are asking you and Kathryn to do is make sure the planet is prepared to defend itself incase Lenear and I are unsuccessful in our mission."
"And what's your mission?"
"That's enough questions for now," Lenear said. "Right now, you need to rest."
"How do I know I can trust you," Chakotay asked.
"Right now," Lenear answered, "you don't have much of a choice."
"Way to be comforting," Chakotay muttered.
"There's comfort in honesty," Telsa said as Chakotay drifted into sleep.