Kathryn tried to get up off the damp floor where she had been unceremoniously thrown only moments earlier after Marin's conversation with Chakotay. Her mind was foggy from the drugs that she had been injected with and she was having a hard time waking up. She had been in and out of consciousness and now that she was coming to she tried to piece together what had happened since she had awaken in this tiny dark cell. She tried lifting her head to get some respite from the cold but her energy was immediately drained and she once again fell unconscious.
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Marin could hear the cheering the background as his men celebrated their victory. He had to admit it was quite the coup. He had waited seven years to implement his plan and when he had heard that Voyager was actually in the Delta Quadrant and not destroyed and no other than Chaktoay was its first officer he had started planning for this moment. He had seen all the videos that Starfleet had put out both as a show of Starfleet expansion and goodwill.
Marin was, like Chakotay, a master tactician and he used the video of the crew as a means of looking for weaknesses. He had noticed right away that Chakotay had given his allegiance to Starfleet, no he thought to himself not to Starfleet, more so he had given his allegiance to Captain Kathryn Janeway and Voyager. The images of the crew of Voyager had been circulated around the Federation after it had been discover that the ship had survived. Marin had used every contact he had within Starfleet to get the raw data they had as opposed to the manufactured images they circulated to the media. And gotten a better view of how the Voyager crew interacted.
He smiled a self-satisfied smile to himself. Many others would have missed the tell tale clues that the Captain and her first officer were unconsciously putting out there but Marin hadn't missed a thing. He never did. The way she turned to Chakotay, the way his eyes always followed her across the room, the way she looked to him to get his silent reaffirmation. Yes they were connected he just didn't know how connected.
He turned towards where Fiona was standing looking beautiful and so confident. She had been the catalyst to all of this. When Voyager had landed the crew was allowed visitors and Fiona had been able to pass the strict restrictions in place and as one of the family members of the long lost crew she was allowed access to the intrepid ship. Her brother was Fenten, a low ranking Maquis member who had just joined a month prior to Voyager's disappearance so she would not have been on any watch list back then and he had made sure that she wasn't on them now.
She saw him looking at him and lifted her glass of scotch in salute. She had been essential to his plan. His plan had been to take Chakotay and convince him that the fight was not over that there was still much work to do. Fiona had convinced him otherwise, she had convinced him that there was no turning Chakotay to their side. She had told him he would need an incentive to get Chakotay to do his bidding and that is when plan take Kathryn Janeway had come into fruition. Kathryn Janeway become the target.
Fiona had been an expert in blending into the background allowing her to put the explosives in to take out the force field down so that they could blast a hole through the ship and transport the Captain out. She had also put sleeping gas in the vents that would go off the minute the attack happened knocking everyone out allowing them to get away without immediate pursuit.
And now here they were a Starfleet Captain in their cell, a Maquis Captain coming after them and all of Starfleet at the ready for an attack. And a terrorist oddly intrigued by his captive.
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She didn't know how much time had passed when she heard the door to her cell opening and heavy footsteps walking towards her. Immediately she tensed expecting to be kicked or punched again. When nothing happened curiosity finally got the best her and she looked up to see who her visitor was. She saw Marin standing over her with that ever present smirk plastered on his face. The sight of him made her want to slapped the smirk off his face instead she use her renewed energy to get off the floor.
"He won't do what you want him to do" she hissed as he felt his hands circle her arms to help her stand.
"You'll die if he doesn't" he smirked, amused by her continued resistance and belief in Chakotay.
"Do you think that matters to me. Chakotay knows I would rather die 100 deaths than endanger the lives of innocent people." She retorted struggling to get her arm out of his grip.
"Yes he might know that the fearless Captain Janeway would rather die. But ask yourself this Captain: will he be able to handle you, the women he loves, being hurt or worst killed because he wouldn't do as I asked. You see Captain" he called her by her title as a means of taunting her. "Chakotay and I have known each other for a very long time and he knows exactly what I am capable of."
"I been threaten by better" she spit back at him trying to hide how scared she was with a show of bravado.
"Oh I'm sure you have. You are a beautiful women Captain" he lifted his hand to caress her cheek "I'm sure many of the Neanderthals you've run into have wanted a taste of your tight little body" she gasped in surprise as he pulled her up against him. She began to struggle against him trying to put some space between their bodies. "How many Captain" his voice low and menacing.
"You do not scare me Marin so you can stop your pathetic threats" her voice turned cold at the implication of what he was threatening to do to her. Kathryn was a commanding officer in Starfleet and as such she had been given instruction on what to do if ever threaten with rape. She had always known it was a possibility , especially while she had been out in the Delta Quadrant. "Do what you will, quit threatening and just do it. I am really getting sick and tired of listening to you talk" she shot back at him not willing to give him any sense of what she was feeling. She knew to survive she would have to show no emotion.
Marin watched fascinated as she raised her chin at him in defiance at his implied threat and then in a blink of an eye all emotion left her face. He knew this was the Captain that had survived the Delta Quadrant. The fearless leader who had brought the Maquis to heal under her command had made her appearance. Marin knew he would get no reaction from her from now on so he pushed her away the fun he had been having with her no longer there. "You need to know I won't negotiate and I won't back down, I have waited for a very long time for this and our mutual friend knows what I am capable of." He shoved her roughly knocking her to the ground. "He won't want to leave you in our company any longer than necessary and I assure he will do whatever is necessary to get you back safe and unharmed."
"And I know Chakotay and he will not negotiate with the likes of you" she yelled at his back as he walked away.
Kathryn turned away and crawled towards the furthest corner of her cell. She looked around her sparse cell noting there was nothing in the cell that she could use as a weapon. As much as she had proclaimed to Marin that Chakotay would not negotiate her rescue by exchanging the warheads for her safe return. She knew Chakotay would do whatever was necessary to secure her rescue. She knew, where she was concern, he had an almost visceral reaction when she was in danger. Some of the most heated arguments they'd had aboard Voyager had been when she put herself in danger to protect the ship and her crew. And now that he had witness Marin's loss of control when he had struck her and how bruised and bloodied she must look Chakotay was probably thinking only about how to get her out not the repercussion of handing a madman a container full of warheads. Kathryn would just have be on the lookout for a way out of this before the 24 hours were up and Chakotay did something he would regret and she would be unable to forgive.
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