A/N: This chapter was done a while ago, but I finally found someone to go over it for me. Hopefully between the two of us we got most of the mistakes, but we're not perfect. Be sure to review and tell me what you think so far!

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Jenna quietly entered the room and saw Gretchen Janeway staring down at Kathryn.

"Katie, can you hear me," she whispered next to Kathryn's ear.

"All attempts to wake her have failed," Jenna said walking up behind Gretchen. "If she doesn't wake up in the next 24 hours, she won't wake up at all."

"She'll wake up," Gretchen said, stroking her hair. "She's too tough to die like this."

"If her mother is any indication, I have no doubt," Jenna said laying a hand on her shoulder. "I've instructed that no one other than you or Phoebe allowed in here."

"Alright," the older woman responded, not really listening. Jenna left the room as silently as she had entered. When she got outside, she whispered to Derrick, "Alert me when Kathryn wakes up." He nodded and continued to stand guard next to Chakotay.

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Phoebe watched Dr. Hanson walk away and went up to question the two nurses standing by the door.

"I'm sorry I can't let you in," one of them said.

She was just about to demand why when she looked down at his name. "Cuervo? What's you first name? Jose?"

"Yes," he replied.

"Jose Cuervo? Did your parents hate you or something?" When he cast her a dark look she asked, "Why can't I go in?"

"Dr. Hanson's orders," the other one answered. "Ensign Janeway's mother and sister only."

"But I am her sister."

"Our apologies, Ms. Janeway," the other one said opening the door for her.

When she walked into the room she saw her mother hunched over her sister. Kathryn had burns and scratches all other her face and hands. Although that was clearly her sister, something seemed off about her. Phoebe couldn't put her finger on what it could be since she looked like Kathryn, but there was definitely something off. She kissed her mother's cheek and walked out looking for Dr. Hanson.

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Derrick watched Chakotay from the corner of his eye and could tell he was getting restless. He was used to sentinel duty from his days at Starfleet Academy. There you were given a shift and would have to stand guard for hours at a time. If you were lucky you would get a shift on a dorm floor; if you weren't so lucky you were stuck with a shift outside. After a while it gets boring and you have to train your mind to stay alert while you were busy daydreaming. Chakotay didn't have the benefit of the same experience and couldn't seem to stop fidgeting.

"You need a break," Derrick asked him.

Chakotay looked over, surprised Derrick had even said anything to him, and replied, "No, I'm good."

"Are you sure? Because you can't seem to stand still and if you need to take a walk this would be the ideal time."

"Well, ok," Chakotay relented. Derrick watched him walk away and gave a sigh of relief. All of Chakotay's fidgeting was distracting him. Now he could return to his stoic face while inwardly trying to figure out why he had "Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo" by Tracy Byrd stuck in his head.

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Chakotay was relieved when Derrick offered him the chance to take a walk. He felt bad abandoning Kathryn, but Derrick was there.

These next few weeks were going to be the hardest on him. While he waited to be substituted with only Jenna and Derrick for company, Kathryn was going to be surrounded by people, one of whom she was going to get engaged to. That's what drove him insane. He kept a calm front for Kathryn's sake, but inwardly he could hardly contain himself. At night he would pace his quarters nearly going insane before exhaustion would overcome him and he'd pass out.

Then came the day before Kathryn's substitution and Jenna and Derrick allowed them to spend the whole day together in the holo-deck. They ran a program of a secluded pacific island, and it was one of the best days he had spent in a while, despite the shadow cast by the prospect of what was going to happen the next day.

As Chakotay continue to wander the halls, lost in a world of thought, he didn't realize someone was trying to get his attention until he felt someone grab his arm.

"Excuse me," said the guy who had grabbed him when he saw how high Chakotay had jumped, "I didn't mean to startle you, but I was wondering if you could help me. I was looking for Kathryn Janeway's room. I'm sorry I don't know the room number, I just heard she was here and I got here as fast as I could."

Chakotay's stomach lurched for the sixth time that day. "I'm afraid I can only give out that information to her family," he said over the lump in his throat.

"I'm a friend of the family," he said. "Katie and I grew up together, you can check with her mother. The name's Mark Johnson, but Katie always used to call me Hobbes. She used to do it to piss me off," he said, suddenly losing his voice. He brought his hand up and put pressure on his eyes as he tried to catch his breath. "I'm sorry you must be see this kind of thing all the time."

"Actually it's my first day here," Chakotay said, trying, and failing, to hate the guy standing in front of him. "I'll show you to Ensign Janeway's room."

"Really," he asked, relief in his voice. "Thank you so much. Do you need to stop and look it up?"

"No, I just came from there," he answered. He studied the guy walking next to him out of the corner of his eye. After they had walked for awhile, Chakotay asked, "So you two are old friends? You and Ensign Janeway?"

"Yeah, we went to school together. We weren't best friends or anything, it was more like we did whatever we could to get under each other's skin. Then in high school things started to change for me and I wanted to ask her out, but she didn't want much to do with me. Then she got into Starfleet Academy and with our paths diverging so much it was easy to stay friends. I didn't see her that often, just when she came home for holidays."

"What changed," Chakotay asked, his throat getting tight.

"What do you mean?"

"You're not honestly going to tell me feel nothing but friendship for her," Chakotay said stopping and looking at him.

Mark hung his head as he stopped. Shaking it he said, "Your right. I guess nothing ever changed for me; I was just able to tell myself it was easier to be friends when I didn't have to see her everyday."

They started walking again in silence, until Mark broke it, saying, "I almost asked her out the last time she was home on leave."

"What stopped you."

He was silent a minute before answering, "She was home introducing her fiancé, Justin, to her parents."

"Damn," Chakotay said.

"I know," Mark said shaking his head again. After another pause, he asked, "Am I a bad person for this feeling of relief that Justin is gone? I mean, I hate the fact that he's dead," Mark quickly added, "because he really wasn't that bad of a guy. She deserved someone like him, but I can't help this feeling of relief I'm feeling."

"I think it makes you human," Chakotay replied. After yet another silence Chakotay said, "Her room is just around this corner."

"Wait," Mark said grabbing Chakotay's arm, causing him to stop. "I know I'm not family, but is there anything you can tell me about how she's doing?"

"She's stable," Chakotay answered. "She suffered severe burns and was found unconscious on an ice sheet. Her injuries are what you'd expect in that kind of situation."

Mark stood there seeming to absorb all that before saying, "That's not what worries me. She's tough, she can get over all that. I'm just worried about how she's going to be mentally losing her father and her fiancé all in one day."

"It's not going to be easy," Chakotay said. "She's going to need to lean on people for support."

"Kathryn Janeway has never been the type to lean on people."

"Which is why she's going to need you more than ever," Chakotay said over the lump in his throat. After giving Mark a minute to digest that, he asked, "Are you ready?"

"As I'll ever be," he sighed and followed Chakotay around the corner.

Chakotay watched as Mark left his side to go join the rest of the Janeway family. He caught Derrick staring at him with a worried look, but he just ignored him and walked away.

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When Phoebe finally found Dr. Hanson, she was sitting with Nurse Cuervo. They both had their backs turned, and as Phoebe got closer, she overheard their conversation.

"So I guess you talked to Derrick," Jose said.

"I did," Dr. Hanson replied, "and I talked to Mark Johnson."

"I just wanted to talk to him, to try and get to know him. I just wanted to make sure she'd be all right."

"I know," she answered, putting her arms around his shoulders, "and I'm proud of you. Not many people could do what you did."

"I tried to hate him, I really did," Jose said, "but I couldn't. I was looking for a reason to get rid of him, but his whole world just revolved around her." He brought his hand up to his face, and Phoebe guessed that he was wiping tears away, but since his back was turned, she couldn't see for sure. "I'm scared Jenna."

"Of what," Dr. Hanson asked.

"Mark," he answered. "I've done my research on him. He's smart, people love him, he's close friends with her family… What if she forgets about me and chooses him?"

Dr. Hanson was quiet as she thought about her answer, before asking. "What if she does? Would you let her go?"

Jose just looked at the ground and said, "I just want her to be happy and safe. I want to spend my life with her, but I don't want to force her. If she can find happiness with someone else, then I'll let her go. It'd kill me, but I'd do it..."

Dr. Hanson smiled and said, "Great answer. She won't forget about you, Chakotay. You saved her life, you both have a shared experience that binds you together…"

"Like you and Derrick?"

"Yeah, something like that," she answered with a smile. "Now come on, it's cold out here and I've still got to do rounds. Care to join me," she asked, standing and offering a hand.

"I guess," he said, taking her hand and standing. "I got nothing better to do."

"I love the enthusiasm."

He gave a weak smile as they both walked inside. They hadn't seen Phoebe because as soon as they stood up she quietly moved behind one of the posts out of site.

'What the hell is going on,' Phoebe wondered as she looked up at the night sky. She went back inside the hospital, once again looking for "Dr. Hanson." She was going to figure out what was going on and what they did to her sister.

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"That was disgusting," Chakotay said after walking out of a patient's room.

"Welcome to the glamorous world of nursing," Jenna said following Chakotay as she entered information onto a padd. "Why do you think I impersonated a doctor instead of a nurse?"

Chakotay involuntarily shivered as he recalled getting thrown up on three times in a row. "It's like I had a target on me or something."

"You probably do," Jenna said, still working on her padd. "They sense it's your first day and it's their way of hazing you."

"Did you get 'hazed'," Chakotay asked as Jenna handed him a clean scrub top from the bin.

"Yes."

"And did you have to lose your shirt?"

"Nope," she said as she went back to work on the padd.

"Really?"

"Yup."

"Why not?"

"I have better reflexes than you," she said, looking up. She saw Phoebe walking towards her and said to Chakotay, "Go back to Kathryn's room with Derrick, ok?"

"Alright," he said walking away.

"Phoebe, what can I do for you," Jenna greeted while pretending to be concentrating on her padd. Judging by her tense walk she was pissed off about something, and Jenna had a gut feeling it could be her fault.

"What's going on here," Phoebe demanded.

"What are you talking about," Jenna asked, looking up.

"You know what I'm talking about Jenna. You abandon my sister to have pep talks with love sick nurses and patients who can't keep down their last meal."

"Look, I know this is hard for you," Jenna said, feigning anger, "but your sister is not the only one on the planet. I still have other responsibilities and patients and… and… You just called me Jenna, didn't you," Jenna said, realizing everything Phoebe had said.

"That is your name, isn't it? I over heard you talking to Nurse Cuervo, or should I say Chakotay?"

Jenna studied the other woman for a minute before saying, "I think we should take a walk."

"What, so you can kill me and dump my body? I don't think so," Phoebe said walking away. "I'm going to tell Adm. Paris."

"And what are you going to tell him," Jenna said after her, causing Phoebe to stop and turn. "That on one of the worst days of your life, you went outside for some air and you overheard part of a conversation between me and a nurse? Even if you could prove Nurse Cuervo and I have some connection to your sister, you can't prove what that is. Now, I think we should take a walk because I want to make a deal with you."

"What kind of deal," Phoebe asked.

"I tell you the truth, or as much of it as I can, in return for your help."

"How do I know you won't try and kill me?"

"You're just going to have to trust me. I don't want to kill you, I kind of like you and I think your mother has been through enough without me making you disappear."

"Ok," Phoebe said, following Jenna. Before they went outside, Jenna stopped to tell the front desk where she was incase anyone had any information on Kathryn.

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"Is it your testimony that you confided in Phoebe Janeway," Nechavey asked Jenna.

"Nope, I just committed perjury."

Nechavey looked at Jenna as if trying to determine if she was kidding or not.

Jenna rolled her eyes, sighed and said, "Yes, that is my testimony and no, I did not just committee perjury."

"You didn't tell me that you told Phoebe," Kathryn said angrily.

"That's because it was a secret," Jenna said.

This exchange was missed by everyone else because they were too busy staring at Phoebe Janeway in shock.

Conscious of everyone's stare, she nervously looked around until she locked eyes with her mother. "Mom, before you get angry…"

The rest of her sentence was cut off when her mother tried to attack her. "How could you," she shouted as she fought against B'Elanna who had jumped up to grab her as soon as she saw the older woman moving.

When Jenna saw what was going on she quickly moved from her place next to Kathryn and Chakotay, jumped over the railing that surrounded the stand, ran across the court room, jumped over the railing that separated the viewers and the rest of the courtroom, and got between Gretchen and Phoebe.

"Mrs. Janeway," Jenna started.

"This is your fault," she yelled at her.

"Your right, it is," Jenna replied. Her answer surprised Gretchen Janeway enough to calm down. "I was one of the people who pushed for the substitution and put your daughter in a position she couldn't get out of. Hate me for it, not her."

"How could you do this, Phoebe," she asked her daughter. "Or you? How could you just erase a person?"

"We didn't," Jenna answered. "If we wanted to erase your daughter and the real Chakotay we could have, but we didn't. Now you can hate me, but please don't hate Kathryn or Phoebe for this. They just did what they had to."

"Ms. Janeway," Pellowa interrupted, "could you please come to the front of the court and give your testimony to the events that followed.

"Yes your honor," Phoebe sighed as she and Jenna made their way to the front of the room. "How is it you always seem to come off as a compassionate individual instead of the manipulative bitch you really are?"

"It's a perception thing. One person's compassionate individual is another person's manipulative bitch."

Phoebe went to the witness stand and stood next to Kathryn while Jenna jumped up and sat on the railing that surrounded the stand. At Phoebe's face, Jenna said, "I get claustrophobic very easily."

"Maybe we should empty the stand," Pellowa said.

"Except we all have something to add," Jenna said. "If you just leave up one person you'll constantly be changing witnesses. It really is just easier to leave us all up here."

"Your honor, Cmdr. Garcia is disgracing this proceeding," Nechavey shouted.

"Do you ever stop whining," Jenna asked. "Seriously, every word out of your mouth has been to whine about something. No one will answer you, I'm making fun of you, Kathryn has a sex life and you don't… honestly, shut up." Before anyone could respond, Jenna said, "Ok, that may have been slightly uncalled for."

"May have been," Phoebe asked.

"Cmdr. Garcia, would you please contain yourself," Pellowa asked.

"I'll try," she answered, "but it would be easier if someone else questioned us. It's just too easy to make fun of Nechavey. There's two other admirals over there, have one of them question us."

"Doesn't Adm. Paris hate you," Chakotay asked.

"Hate's a strong word," Jenna said. "You don't hate me, do you, Admiral?"

"I think what you did to Kathryn and her family is reprehensible and unforgivable, no matter what the reason."

Jenna nodded her head and said, "Ok, he hates me. So Nechavey and Paris are out, what about the third one over there? He hasn't said anything up until this point. I don't even know his name."

"Geaordan," he answered.

"Have Adm. Geaordan question us," Jenna said.

"Will you stop taunting Adm. Nechavey," Pellowa asked.

"As long as she doesn't talk, I'll have nothing to mock," Jenna promised.

"Adm. Geaordan, would you please question the witnesses?"

"Yes your honor," he said rising. "Ms. Janeway, could you please tell us about the discussion you had with Cmdr. Garcia?"

"Well, we went outside and sat on one of the benches while Jenna started to tell me about her first meeting with Telsa and Lenear…"