Chapter eight- Second chance.
Disclaimer see chapter one.
"B'Elanna, you have to make sure that Vorik is out of engineering before 14:00 ok!" Tom told his wife "Ok I'll kick him out if I have to!" she said with a smile "Captain, you're up early" B'Elanna said when they entered the mess hall "How is the plan going?" the captain question
By 14:00 Paige was in the holodeck when her husband walked through the door and spotted her sat next to a lake. "Paige" he said as he walked up "Afternoon" she said
"So where is Paige?" The Commander asked when he walked onto the bridge the Captain and Tom looked at one another knowing that Paige had the day off.
Seven hours later Paige walked into the bridge when the Captain spotted her she smiled and asked how her day had been "I'd rather not talk about it Captain" she replied the Captain looked at Tom then to Paige an hour later Voyager got a hail when the answered it they found that on the other side was Q "Ah Kathy, I've been waiting for you all this time" he said disappearing off the screen and standing next to Paige. Q bent down and gave Paige a kiss and walked over to the Captain and the Commander "I see that you have my god-daughter with you" Q said the Captain smiled as she walked over to her ready room and said that Q and Paige to follow her "Right Q what do you need this time" the Captain said as she sat down in her chair. "Well it's more like what I can do for Paige; she called me not that she knows that she had done it" he said as Paige looked confused "Q I don't understand" she said sitting down. "Well it's quite simple you can go to earth for a few hours" "Really!" Paige said while the Captain looked shocked at this simple bit of kindness from Q as he disappeared and Paige & the Captain walked out of her ready room "What did Q want this time Captain" Chakotay asked as the Captain sat down. "Paige, what do you think of his offer?" She asked "After the day I have had, I would happy stay there!" Paige said looking away from everyone just as Q popped back in "So made up your mind then!" He said as the Captain looked at her. Paige stood up and said "OK, But if I want to come back you do it!" she said "Deal" he said before they both disappeared. "Captain, what just happen?" Tom asked "Q gave her a choice to see her family!" the captain said "Tuvok get Ensign Vorik up here now will you" "Yes captain!" he replied.
When Q arrived on Earth with Paige a Vulcan woman stood before her "Paige!" she said "Mother," Paige replied as the woman showed her to the house where three males and two females at with two small boys "I'm back" the Vulcan woman said as her and Paige walked through the door "This is Paige" she added as the others looked up "Hello there" a little boy said walking up to her, "Hello" Paige replied she
saw that the others looked just like her "Here" her mother said as she showed here to the kitchen "you must have know that I'd be hungry" Paige said as her mother put some food in front of her "So you do look as good as when I last show you" she said "True, no I don't my bond-mate wants to end the whole joining. And I know what you'll say; it's what he wants so I'll do it for him. Excuse me where is the bathroom"
Two days past and Paige hadn't return the Captain wasn't in a good mood at the fact that Paige, Tom and herself had tried to get everything back on track and he just wanted rid of it. "Ah Kathy, you don't look good" Q said sitting next to her on the sofa of her ready room "Well one of my crew members is missing god knows where" "she's fine I check on her half an hour ago play with some Vulcan children and the her brothers, oh right down to business, she's coming back but I must warn you she's found something out that she really didn't expect" "And prey tell what that might be Q" "She's pregnant but not far along and well the last few day have made her think about a lot of things like what she going to do when you get voyager back to earth" with that Q was gone and Paige return thirty minutes later in sick bay. "Ah Paige, I see that you have returned to us. So I take it your here for a checkup" when Paige entered the mess hall she saw Vorik and Tuvok who hadn't seen her that was until Neelix saw her "Paige" "Neelix, hello can I have tea I've got to get the bridge." Two minutes later she had left and Vorik just stared at the door wondering if he made the right choice ending his bond with her.
Paige stood in the turbo lift, she looked different not from her pregnancy she had cut her hair shorter, her thought were interrupted by Harry Kim entering the lift "Bridge" he said "morning" they both said as they left and the Captain spotted her "Paige. Ready room now"
When they entered the Captain huggedher, "um Captain your hurting me" Paige said before she let go "Q told me about the child!" Paige stood the shocked that he had told her that, but Q has had a soft spot for Kathryn Janeway "Right, apart from the Doctor you know. Ok then." "How are you feeling?" her captain asked "Good, great really!" Paige said "I need to get back to work now" Oh of course go." The captain said waving to the door.
Four long months later
"You don't have much longer to go plus you're not showing much for seven months I'm only four" Paige said walking in to sick bay to see Tom Paris "Morning ladies the doctor with be with you soon" he said walking out looking at the pair oddly "How long until he finds out then?" Paige said sitting on the bed with her hand on her stomach "when are you going to tell him, you know he does have a right to know
that he's got a child" "I know, if I had my way never would be the answer" she said waving her hand towards the doctor's office when a blue ball of light flew from her had. "Wtf was that!" Paige asked with the captain looking at her hand "Captain are you ok" the commanders voice came over the com "Yes I'm fine so is Paige," "what was the weapon that had been fired?" he asked "Paige was it somehow" she said ending the chat. "I don't know how I just did that" she said getting down off the bed just as the Doctor walked through the door. "Right let's check how the pair of you are doing then" he said getting the tri-quarter, two seconds later he looked at her, "Do you want to know the sex of your child" the Doctor said as Chakotay walked through the door "No we don't" he said "I wasn't talking to the captain!" he said as the Commanders eyes fell on Paige "Paige" "Yes now do you" "No, I don't as long as it's healthy I'll be fine" she said getting off the bed with the commanders help "Ah so this is why Paige has been with you a lot birthing classes and pre-natal class" the captain and Paige smiled as the doctor was making a list of thing that the pair of them need to do.
When the two of them entered the mess hall Paige didn't bother to look around. "Evening Neelix. Just some fruit for me and a cup of tea." Paige said as she grabs the coffee off of the captain who was in protests "No, now we both have had to give up things over our pregnancies." Paige said giving the cup back to Neelix "Ah I guess that I'm banned then." "Yes" Paige and Neelix both said.
A few hours later Paige was tending to the Neelix's plants Vorik walked in. "Paige, can we talk?" he said "What about!" Paige replied watering a row of tomatoes "Your pregnancy!" as Paige dropped the watering can "I was sat in the mess hall earlier when you and the captain walked in then I heard something that shocked me." Paige picked the can up as she turned and said "And what would that be?" "That not only is the captain pregnant but you are as well." Paige looked at him "Took you long enough" her former bond mate and husband stood in front of her "I made a mistake cutting you out of my life, you are still my wife, and now the mother of my child" Paige stood there in front of him about to say that it might just be to late when her com badge went off. "Go ahead captain,"
"Can you come to my ready room" "sure I'll be there soon" she started to leave but stopped and placed a hand over her stomach as her baby started to kick, Vorik walked up to her "It's kicking feel!" she said taking his hand, Vorik looked at her and was just about to leave when Paige grabbed his hand and kissed him.
"Enter" the captain said 30 minutes later "You called!" Paige said "It seems that the planet that Voyager is in orbit of needs a female to beam down" "Are you not going to go then?" "Yes I'm going but you have to come since you're my birthing partner!" the captain said leaving her ready room "So you are going to be there at the birth
Chakotay?" Tom asked "No, Paige is her birthing partner" the commander said "Why Paige!" Tom said "Well since she's pregnant as well they have done it all together!" the commander stopped knowing that he had just told Tom something that didn't need to be told just yet. But it was about it get worst as Paige and the Captain left the ready room and Tom couldn't help it he turned and said "So how far Paige" as Paige looked at Chakotay with a death glare "What?" "How far along are you in your pregnancy?" "Right, I'll see you in the transporter room Captain" she said before leaving the bridge "Tom what did you say that for." The captain said looking at Chakotay "He told me" Tom said looking at Chakotay, while Tuvok raised an eyebrow at the pair.
As Paige walked into Engineering she spotted Vorik "Tom knows, the Commander told him and everyone is going find out" she said leaning against the console while him looked at her "really" he said their bond was still there but neither one used it since they spilt. "Paige, are you free tonight?" he asked "Yes, but I was just going to use it to sleep" she said "but if it involved food I could be tempted." She said turning to the door but stopped and turned to face him and kissed him.