The Captain and Chakotay were on the way to the Captain's quarters and the doors swished open and swished closed behind them, drowning out the noise from the corridors. Kathryn looked around to see the whole room dimmed out with candles and a love heart bed. "Chakotay, did you do this?" She asked suspiciously.
"No, it looks just like it did when Q wa-"
"Hello Kathy." Q said walking out of her bathroom. "Chuckles." He sneered, turning his attention back to her. "Do you like it?" He walked closer to her, as to which she backed off. "Don't back away, I've come back for you, we can be together now. She backed off even further and walked straight into Chakotay, who wrapped his hands around her waist, making it clear that she was his, not Q's. "Oh, so you're with Chuckles now, eh?" He stared directly past her and snarled at him. "Not for long." He said, clicking his fingers once, making everything return to normal, and again, causing him to disappear. They could still feel his presence in the room. She turned around and kissed Chakotay passionately, he kissed her back.
"Can you believe we have got to struggle with this again?" He said laughing gently, letting go of Kathryn.
"It's giving me a headache, already, that must be his record!" She laughed along with him, rubbing her temples. Chakotay walked over a sat on her sofa, stretching his arm out along the back, in his silent way of asking her to sit with him. She accepted. She leaned into him and he wrapped his arm around her.
"What do you wanna do about Q then?"
"I…I don't know." Kathryn sighed, getting up and heading over to the replicator for a new coffee.
"I'll tell you what you should do, you should come with me, I'm superior, I actually deserve your love." Q clicked his fingers, taking all three of them to the 18th Century. Kathryn ran across the balcony she was on, but someone caught her arm, she spun around to see Q. He was dressed in ancient style clothing, as was she. She peered over the balcony to see Chakotay, locked in the stacks.
"Why am I here? Why are WE here?!" Kathryn indicated towards Chakotay as she spoke. "STOP THIS!" Q clicked his fingers again, but this time they were in a large manor. She was dressed in a large gown, and he was dressed in a smart suit. Then her partner was dragged in, he dropped to his knees, only supported by the two henchmen either side of him.
"Chakotay!" Kathryn ran over and draped her arms around his neck, sobbing. She cupped his head in her hand and moved it side to side, he had been beaten severely, and he could barely open his eyes. His head fell limply to the left and he was pulled to his feet.
"Kathryn…" Chakotay muttered, earning him a kick in the gut from the man on his right.
"Why are you doing this to us?!" Kathryn let tears roll down her face.
"Take him to the dungeons." Q blanked her and watched as Chakotay was dragged away.
"I said, WHY are you doing this?!" Kathryn picked up a vase and threw it across the room at Q, it hit him directly in the back of the head. "Why are you doing this?" She picked up a lamp. But Q snapped his fingers and they were down in the dungeons, across from Chakotay's cell.
"Don't you see, Kathy? Don't you see how much better of a life you would have with me? I'll show you the sort of life you would have with Chuckles over there, then I will return you to your ship." She eyed him suspiciously. "I promise on my powers." He rolled his eyes and clicked his fingers. Kathryn was in a small cottage house. She had three small children, and Chakotay. She was cooking dinner in a small alley kitchen. Chakotay walked through the door and planted a kiss on her head.
"Smell delicious Kat, what is it?" He hung his hat and jacket on the hooks.
"Sausage and mash." She laid out four plates and called out for their two children. Q rolled his eyes and snapped his fingers, returning the three of them to her quarters.
"Is that really the life you want?" Q demanded.
"I don't care what life I have, as long as I'm with Chakotay." Kathryn snapped back, looking around for him. "Where is he?"
"He's in the ship somewhere, I'll return him after our conversation. You could have such an amazing life with me Kathy, why have him, what does he have that I don't." He sat down on her sofa, doing his best to look innocent, and failing.
Kathryn blinked at him in shock. "What does he have you don't? WHAT DOES HE HAVE YOU DON'T! He is a loyal, faithful, kind, loving, compassionate man, you are a selfish, lousy, cheap man that tries to pick up women by impressing them by making their partners look bad. Chakotay is the best man I've ever met, and if I am ever lucky enough, lucky enough that he is still interested in me, that I do ever get to marry him and have a life like that, I would choose that any day to being a rich, famous woman that lives in a mansion with you. Can you just get out of my life, Chakotay is who I want to be with, not you." She finished, trying to catch her breath after her rampage. A warm pair of arms slipped around her waist. She turned around and looked at her lover, tears were brimming in his eyes.
"Oh Chuckles, you finally made it." Q quipped. "Fine Captain, if that's how you feel, I'll just…leave you alone then." He said coldly, disappearing from the room. Chakotay walked through to her bedroom, and putting on some bed wear.
"Kat, do you really feel that way?" Chakotay asked softly, walking back through. "Y'know, about me being the best thing in your life and all those things that describe me, and, being lucky enough to... marry me?" Chakotay blushed slightly, but noticed she had blushed more.
"Oh, yeah. I meant every word. I never thought I would have to say it, but, it's true." She broke off the eye contact between them, but he pushed her face back to his so their eyes met again.
"Do you want…to…marry me?" Chakotay asked, holding her gaze.
"Is this a…" She swallowed, trying hard not to cry. "A…proposal?" She let a tear trickle down her face.
He pulled out a paper clip from her drawer and one of her earrings from her beside cabinet, making them into a ring. "Yeah, I guess it is." He got down on one knee in front of her and held the 'ring' out to her. She nodded numbly, too happy for words. He slipped it onto her finger and took her into a long kiss.
"Good morning. I made breakfast." B'Elanna chirped.
"Morning to you too. Why have you made breakfast, and why does the room look like this?" Tom rubbed sleep from his eyes while looking around at the room full of boxes.
"Well. Firstly, I got up early and we are getting married next week, I thought I should be a bit more wife-y. And secondly, go take a look in the room we used to store all this junk." Tom chuckled and shook his head, wandering across to the room, and he poked his head in.
"B'Elanna, it's empty?"
"No it's not…well… yes, it is, but have a look in the corner behind the last few boxes. Ensign Wildman site-to-site transported me all this baby stuff, how great is that." B'Elanna finished, watching Tom go through it all.
"Babe, it's great, but I thought you didn't want anyone to know we were trying to have a baby?" He turned around to see B'Elanna holding out a plate to him and a mug of tea.
"I didn't tell her."
"Well I didn't."
"I know, she just said, since we were getting married, we might want to start a family, which we do, but she doesn't know that, and to consider it an early wedding present. I couldn't exactly say no. We can make it into a nursery." B'Elanna said while eating.
"Great. But what are we going to do with all that stuff out there?" Tom said. "And…don't we need special intervention or something for us two to be able to have a child?" B'Elanna nodded as she wiped baked bean sauce off her lovers chin. "When should I book it in for?"
"Sometime after the wedding? We have enough on our minds already with planning it all never mind…" She was cut off by Janeway's voice over the Comm line;
"We are approaching an M-Class planet. We will be there in approximately four six days. You will have a little bit of shore leave, only for three or four days I suspect. The inhabitants of this planet are Palonians and the planet is called Palonia. There are market places, parks, restaurants. It is very much like earth, probably the most similar we have come across before. Janeway out."
"That sounds great, don't you think?" B'Elanna asked, tidying the dishes away into the recycler.
"It does, now let's start sorting through these boxes, we can't have them filling up the living room."
"Chakotay, get Neelix, Ensign Kim, Seven, Tuvok and yourself to the briefing room, quickly." The Captain glanced over to him and gave him a nod.
"Shouldn't I get Lieutenant Paris and Lieutenant Torres too?" He questioned in response.
"Nope." She crossed the bridge towards the ready room, and Chakotay watched as she went.
"Chakotay to Ensign Kim, Tuvok, Neelix and Seven of Nine. Respond." He listened into the quiet buzzing of the Comm line.
"Neelix here Commander, what is it?"
"Hold on Neelix, let me just get a hold of everyone else, is Harry, Seven or Tuvok in the Mess hall right now?"
"Tuvok is playing a game of Kal-Toh over here, but not Harry or Seven. Sorry Commander. But, I can say I might know where Harry is. He came in last night with Seven for dinner, they make quite a cute couple don't you think? They might not be the most conventional of cou-"
"Neelix, were in a rush here, back to the point." Chakotay shook his head at his own thoughts.
"Oh, right. Sorry Commander. Harry said he was helping Seven, but he didn't mention what with or where. Was there something I can help you with Commander?"
"Yes, get yourself and Tuvok over to the briefing room. I'll find Seven and Harry. Chakotay out." He rolled his eyes and stared out into the stars flying past them on the view screen. "Computer, locate Ensign Kim and Seven of Nine."
"Crewmember ensign Kim and Seven of Nine are in Astrometrics." Chakotay sighed. "Astrometrics, respond." He waited, but there was no reply. "Astrometrics, respond!"
"Seven of Nine here, what do you require?"
"Well, finally, what why didn't you and Harry answer you're Comm badge? What were you doing?"
"We were….erm…working?" Chakotay could hear Seven shuffling around.
"Yes, I'm sure you were, but guys, now it's awkward for any of us to go in there. Don't do it in a public place again please. Now get yourselves down to the briefing room. NOW! Chakotay out." He crossed the Bridge towards the briefing room, smiling at several crewmembers who had blushed at the topic of that conversation.
"So as I was saying, we were all ju-" The Captain was cut off by the final two members of the team entering the briefing room. "Nice of you to join us, take a seat." The Captain smiled at the two as they entered, to let them know she was joking. "Right, I bet your all wondering why you're here, and why Tom and B'Elanna are not with us." She watched as heads around the table nodded slowly. "Well, let's talk about their wedding shall we?" Several people leaned over the table, looking enthusiastic. "They have informed me, they will be getting married next week, so, are we doing Hen nights, Bachelor parties? They have also told me their wedding will be on the Holodeck. So, what are we going to do about a honeymoon, or after party?" The Captain looked around at the happy faces around the table.
"What about, the Hen night and Bachelor party on the Holodecks? It means we can have any setting we want."
"I like it Harry, and what about the after party on the planet we are approaching, I'm sure the people there wouldn't mind?" The Captain was jotting all this information down into a PADD.
"Kath-, Captain, why don't we let them have a honey moon down on the planet, I looked into the readings we picked up, and we could get resources and supplies, while they take a week's honeymoon down there? We could land and do repairs?" Chakotay brought up information on his PADD and passed it to her.
"I like that too." She reached her hand subtly across the table and placed it on his, giving it a small squeeze before taking it away. "Now, let's talk details…"