My Love for You Chapter 10, a startrek: voyager fanfic

Day 1

"I'm glad we worked things out with Harry." Tom said, holding his partner's hand.

"Yeah, me too. Still feels a bit awkward though, don't you think?" She questioned, returning his affections by wrapping her hand around his.

"Mh-hm." As the couple entered the mess hall, many eyes watched them as they walked towards the counter to get some breakfast. "Why is everyone staring at us?" Tom turned to see B'Elanna was just as puzzled as he was. "Neelix, why is everyone staring at us?" Tom asked the bustling chef as he passed by.

"Ah, Tom, B'Elanna, everyone is waiting to see if the love contest is still on, even though Harry took down the betting ring, everyone has still taken sides." Neelix looked at them, a look of sheer astonishment struck both their faces. They looked around and realised it had gone quiet while almost everyone waited for their answer. Tom pulled B'Elanna aside, out of anyone's earshot.

"What do we do?" B'Elanna asked frantically.

"Whatever you want to do, Be, I don't mind, you make the call." Tom kissed her forehead gently, then the tip of her nose while he waited for her answer. No one was looking at them anymore, and the noise had begun to get louder again.

"I think we should go through with it, I had some…ideas…planned." B'Elanna winked at Tom and walked over to explain to Neelix their decision. "But…Neelix, tell them after we have left, please." B'Elanna looked at him fiercely, and he nodded in response. She walked back over to her partner and entwined her fingers in his, leading him out the door. As they left they heard a loud cheering from the Mess Hall and realised Neelix had not hesitated to inform the crew of the decision.

"Hey, sorry I'm home late." B'Elanna kicked off her boots and walked straight into a hug from Tom.

"It's fine, don't worry about it." He guided her to sit down at the table, he had set out candles, and home cooked a beautiful meal. He sat down in the chair opposite and poured her a glass of wine. "You look tired, busy day?" Tom stated, carving the chicken and placing some on B'Elanna's plate.

"Like you wouldn't imagine. First, the Warp-Core starting fluctuating for no apparent reason, then three of the Gel-Packs burst and finally one of the systems in Jeffries Tube malfunctioned." She began devouring the meal in front of her, much like Tom, and they ate in silence. After the meal was finished, Tom carried B'Elanna through to the bedroom and they got changed, he then walked back through and to the Living Area and loaded up a couple of scary films, with popcorn, drinks. He took the cushions of the back of the sofa to make it bigger, then dragged the table in front. He placed a fluffy blanket over the back of the sofa to soften in and spread another blanket out over the entire new set up. It looked amazing. He heard B'Elanna finishing up in the kitchen and quickly gathered the quilts and pillows from bedroom and laid them out. He ran over and stood outside the door, just as she was coming out. "Hey." She leaned up and kissed him, again he picked her up and carried her over to the makeshift bed. "What's all this?" She said as she settled down under the covers, inviting him to join her.

"I thought we could watch some movies?" She nestled into him as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulled him close. It wasn't long into the second movie when Tom realised B'Elanna had fallen asleep in his arms, he turned off the TV and covered her up with the duvet. He rolled over and held her tight in his arms, he fell asleep soon after.

Tom awoke in the middle of the night with a start. He looked around to see that B'Elanna had rolled away from him in the night, he gently climbed out of the sofa-bed and padded across the room. B'Elanna stirred as he left, but Tom didn't notice, she rubbed her eyes sleepily and propped herself up on one elbow, watching as he went. She got up out of bed and followed him into the room he had gone to, she stood in the doorway for a few minutes before padding over to him, wrapping a blanket around herself and him.

"What's wrong, babe?" She tried to look into his eyes but they were clouded with tears. He looked around at her and placed a kiss on her forehead, hugging her close. She could sense something was wrong, Tom didn't often cry, but this was more than just a bad dream, something had really happened. "Babe, tell me what's wrong, don't cry, everything's okay." She murmured. She lay down and he lay next to her. He pulled her up on top of him and she lay on his chest for a while, listening to his steady heartbeat.

"Be?" Tom whispered, breaking the silence.

"Yeah?"

"I'm sorry. I am so sorry." He loosened his grip around her as she rolled off him and sat up.

"For…what?" She asked cautiously, her stomach tightening into knots.

"The way I treated you, before we became friends, even in the early stages of our friendship, how I sometimes still treat you." He replied, through sobs.

"What do you mean?" B'Elanna was extremely confused as to what had suddenly brought this on.

"I was, I am, such a lot to handle. I'm argumentative, I'm closed off, and I'm not very good at understanding…I'm a 'pig'…" Tom trailed off. B'Elanna swung a punch and hit him right in the shoulder. Hard. "OW! What was that for?!" Tom shouted angrily, rubbing his shoulder and sitting up to face her.

"For being such an idiot Tom. What the Hell brought all this on? Why are you suddenly apologizing? What happened?" She regretted what she did and shuffled over to him, she began to rub his shoulder but he pulled back and stood up, then he began pacing.

"I…I had this dream. It was at our wedding, but it went…wrong. As I was walking through the crowds everyone started saying things like 'I'm surprised you got a woman like B'Elanna to go out with you, never mind marry you' or 'you treat her so badly, you're going to be an awful husband' or 'you ca-"

"I get the point. But why would it make you so upset, it was just a bad dream, none of it's the truth." B'Elanna cut him off. He stared at her and went to sit next to her on the bed.

"But don't you see, it is true. I treated you so badly back then, I was so arrogant, and rude. And I'm always late home and I neve-" B'Elanna kissed him softly, but he deepened the kiss. After eventually breaking off the kiss, he cupped her face and stared deep into her eyes. "I am sorry. I will make it up to you, Be. I promise." He said, hoping she would accept his apology.

"You don't need to, I don't care who you were then, I care about who you are now, and to me, you're already perfect. You don't need to make anything up, you don't need to apologise, and I don't want you to change, I want you just the way you are." She smiled and kissed him, stronger this time, with more passion, he gently lifted the pyjama top she was wearing over her head and she removed his pants with great ease. He lowered her onto her back carefully and lovingly, he kissed along her forehead, down her nose to her lips. He kissed his way down her neck and along her core. He looked deep into her eyes and she pulled him down for another kiss.

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Day 3

Tom was sat at the helm when a message flashed up all over the screen. "Err..." Tom scanned around but quickly covered it up after realising what it was.

"Everything alright over there, Lieutenant?" The Captain asked, stepping up out of her chair.

"Yeah, yeah, everything's fine." He replied, while desperately trying to cover the screen. He turned back around and read what had flashed up on his control screen;

Hey FlyBoy! I've hacked into your controls, so now I can send you messages whenever I want! You can send them to me too, If we get caught though, were dead. I believe your lunch break is starting in a few minutes? Meet me in Jeffries Tube 21C. Hurry, hurry, hurry…

Tom's heart jumped in his throat. He send a short message back, she had attached a reply button, which was great because he didn't have a clue how she'd managed this.

Hey Babe! Check this out! Now I can actually look forward to going to work each day, knowing I'll be able to talk to you! I'm on my way, don't go anywhere…

"Captain, can I go for my lunch break, please. I really need to go." Tom pleaded. The Captain looked from Tom, to Chakotay, and then back to Tom.

"What's the sudden urgency?" She asked, sitting back in her chair, looking at him curiously.

"Something came up…I mean I need to go to Sickbay…I mean I just remembered something…" He looked at her hopefully and fidgeted around, unwilling to make eye contact.

"Sure..." She said, slightly confused. The whole crew on the Bridge watched in silence as Tom jogged to the Turbolift. He looked impatient enough even before the doors were closed. The Captain turned to Chakotay and raised an eyebrow suggestively. "What do you think was up with him?" Kathryn looked flabbergasted.

"I heard B'Elanna took an emergency lunch break much like that ten minutes ago, after finishing something she'd been working on all week. When Ensign Ayala tried to hack into what she'd been doing with Murphy and Niccoletti, she had encrypted it so they couldn't get in. I bet Tom didn't have time to encrypt it." The Commander jumped up and offered his arm hand to the Captain, he helped her up and they walked over to the helm. They spent twenty-five minutes looking through all the helm notices and eventually found;

After reading the message, and scrolling down a little further, they found;

Hey Babe! Check this out! Now I can actually look forward to going to work each day, knowing I'll be able to talk to you! I'm on my way, don't go anywhere…

"So? What do you think the punishment should be?" Chakotay asked, quitting off the messages on the helm and taking his seat next to The Captain.

"Well…we have to give them a proper punishment, but… we could also have them download this information to our data PADD's, so we can talk wherever, whenever…" She placed her hand gently on Chakotay's, and he wrapped his hand around hers.

"I like the sound of that, and what about… three days in the brig? Not too long, but enough to prove the point?" He looked across to her as she considered it.

"Okay. When Tom gets back I'll ask him to come into my ready room and ill inform him, you take both our data PADD's down to engineering, get the information and then take B'Elanna to the brig. Oh, and while we are on the topic of these two, I have spoken to the man in charge of the planet we are approaching, and they said they have a very high-maintenance star, or moon, or something orbiting their planet, but it's just a sandy beach world, very, very small, and normally one family at a time would book it out and spend time there. They said they would give it to Tom and B'Elanna for a week. They also said the rest of our crew could take shore leave on the main planet." Chakotay nodded as they took all this information in.

"Shall we brief the senior officers then?"

"Get them to the ready-room, I'll meet you in there." He watched as she walked to the ready room, looking around for someone to take over the responsibility for now. "Ensign, you have the bridge." He nodded to a young man as he padded over to the ready room.

"B'Elanna?" Tom shouted as he crawled through Jeffries Tube 21C.

"Here!" She shouted back to him. He began crawling in the direction she shouted from, he turned a corner to see a small picnic blanket, a bottle of champagne and several pizzas laid out.

"What's all this? It must have cost you a fortune of replicator rations." He admired the beautiful meal laid out in front of him.

"No actually, I had Neelix hand bake them, but don't worry, I only let him use Earth-Ingredients. There is no Leola-Root-Pizza. Although, he was thinking of serving that tonight in the Mess Hall." Tom chuckled as he pulled her into a kiss.

"What pizza do we have then?" He licked his lips in anticipation.

"Err… cheese and tomato, pepperoni and a chicken one. Is that okay?" B'Elanna asked cautiously, hoping she had chosen the right ones.

"Absolutely! Now, Champagne?" Tom pulled two glasses out of the basket she had and popped the cork off the bottle. He poured two glasses and handed her one, while he picked up a piece of pizza. She waited as he tasted it, she really wanted good feedback, she had made that one herself. "Wow. This is really good. I'm usually not fond of plain pizza, but I like this one!" Tom said, taking another bite.

"Oh, I'm so glad, I actually made that one myself. Neelix made the other two." She took a bite from a piece of chicken pizza.

After a while, they had both eaten until they were full. B'Elanna was packing the rest of the leftovers into a picnic basket, along with the champagne and picnic blanket. She initiated a site-to-site transport and sent them back to their quarters.

"We can have the rest later." She said, sitting next to him, leaning against the back wall. He wrapped his arm around her and pulled her into him.

"Thank you. That was really sweet. By the way, any particular reason you chose this Jeffries Tube, or just a coincidence. It's just quite far from Engineering and the Bridge." He looked at her intently, waiting for her response.

"This is our tube, only we ever come in here, this is the first place we had a picnic, the first tube we were in where you told me you loved me, the first tube we were in when we first…slept together. This tube has a lot of memories. It's our tube." She looked up in to his ocean blue eyes, melting as he met her gaze.

"Good. I wasn't sure if you had remembered." He kissed her, but it soon grew more passionate. B'Elanna moved onto Tom' lap and ran her fingers through his hair, ruffling it up and making it scruffy, She loved it when it was scruffy. He placed gentle kisses along her neck, then kissing her again.

Tom re-entered the Bridge and silence fell across everyone. All eyes turned to him and he blushed profusely. He smoothed down his hair and brushed the dust off his pants. He continued his walk towards the Helm.

"Tom?" He gritted his teeth and turned to face his Captain.

"Yes?" He mustered up as much enthusiasm as he could find, trying not to sound annoyed.

"My ready room please. Chakotay." She gestured towards the said room and made her own way towards it. Once in the ready room, Tom found himself sat down, but his commanding officers peering over him. "Now Tom… We found this on the helm after you left." Chakotay placed a PADD down in front of him with a picture on it. His eyes widened as he saw it and he began shifting uncomfortably in his seat.

"I…err…we…I mean..." Tom couldn't find his words and averted his eyes from the picture.

"Tom, it's okay. We are going to allow you to keep and use this, but, to try and follow Star Fleet regulations, I am going to have to sentence you to three days in the Brig, B'Elanna too." Tom closed his eyes and breathed deeply. 'Wow. Right before my wedding I'm being sentenced to three days in the Brig. Unbelievable.' He thought. He stood slowly and began to walk out of the door. He reached engineering and stood outside B'Elanna's office, he waited for what he knew would follow. The inevitable came, and he heard his fiancée's loud screaming; "Right before my wedding, really?!" and "I can't leave my engines for three whole days!" But the one that struck him most was "So I can't even message the man I'm in love with without being arrested?!" He was so surprised, she didn't particularly like public displays between them and he she was screaming about how much she loved him in engineering. That was why it angered him so much when they dragged her out, unconscious from being stunned. He lunged at Tuvok, shouting and swearing, but Tuvok just stunned him as well.

When B'Elanna awoke, she realised someone else was in her cell. She looked around to see Tom on the floor, shirtless and sweaty, doing press ups. He was looking really scruffy. She also noticed the lights were out in the centre of the Brig, meaning it was night and guards were only on duty outside the doors. She saw his jumpsuit on the floor in the corner, along with all her clothes. When she looked down, she smiled at the fact that he had gotten her changed and put her in his under top, just like their pyjamas. She watched him for a while, and when it looked like he was finishing, she quickly tucked herself back under the covers. He came over and crouched in front of her, she opened her eyes enough that she could see him but so he didn't know she was awake. She used to do that when she was little, even in Star Fleet academy when she just wanted her roommate to be quiet. He swept her hair away from her forehead and kissed her gently, pulling the covers up over her.

"Night Babe." He laid down on the floor beside the bed and pulled a spare blanket over himself. She opened her eyes and looked at him, lying there on the floor so she could have the bed. She leaned of the side of the bed, and kissed his cheek.

"Why are you on the floor?" She asked. He rolled over to face her.

"I thought you were asleep?"

"No, I have been up for about an hour actually."

"Doing what, why didn't you tell me?"

"I was enjoying watching you…work out." She blushed as she said it and he laughed slightly.

"Oh do you now. Well, lucky for you I work out non-stop in the Brig on when I was in…the federation…jail." He went quiet as he spoke, turning his eyes away. He didn't like talking about his past, he wasn't proud of it, he always thought she would be ashamed of being with someone who has a past like his, that she might leave him. She pushed his chin up to meet his eyes with hers.

"Stop thinking like that." She scolded him. "It's not going to happen."

"Thinking what?" He tore his eyes away from hers, trying to hide the fact that he knew exactly what she was talking about.

"That. Thinking I'm ashamed of you and going to leave you. I don't care about your past. I've not exactly had the best past either! I don't care, I love you for who you are now, not who you were then." She leaned off the bed to kiss him. She wrapped her arms around his still sweaty shoulders and he wrapped his arms around her. He pulled her off the bed onto his chest, laughing through the kiss. She pulled back, and shifted her weight so she was comfy. "Am I too heavy?" She looked down at his blue eyes, looking embarrassed.

"What?"

"Am I too heavy?"

"Yeah, I heard you, I meant, what do you mean?" He looked at her pointedly and propped himself up on his elbows, she went to move off him but he pulled her back down. "Since when have you ever been too heavy to lie on my chest?"

"Well, I just…I don't know. I though since you went on the floor instead of getting in with me…" She turned away, but stayed where she was.

"Oh, Be. I didn't want to disturb you. Plus, that bed is smaller than a single bed, never mind what we're used to. I wanted you to be comfy." He leaned up and kissed her quickly, she peered down into his eyes.

"I'd be comfier if I was with you." She said, stroking the side of his face.

"Are you sure, I don't mind sleeping down here."

"I'm sure." She leaned down and kissed him again. "And thank you for your top by the way."

"Aww, your welcome, I wanted this to feel as normal as possible for you. He picked her up gently and they lay on the bed together, quickly falling asleep.

Day 4

"B'Elanna." Tom nudged her but she didn't wake up. "B'Elanna!" She began to drift awake.

"Hey, what time is it?" She rubbed her eyes and tried to move, Tom still had his arms wrapped tight around her, so she couldn't

"Oh sorry." He loosened his arms, but she nuzzled back down and he retightened his hold. "It's just coming up to eleven-hundred hours. She looked at him, startled.

"How do you know what time it is so accurately?" She basked in the warmth between them, it was particularly cold in the Brig, and she made a mental note to talk to the Captain about it.

"Well, remember when I spent thirty days in the Brig? I got used to meal times, shift changes and etcetera and I remember."

"Oh. Well, why did you wake me up?" She snuggled into him further.

"Because, err…Vorik's here." He loosened his grip on her considerably, worried what her reaction would be. She sat up slowly and looked around.

"What is it, Vorik?" She finally focused on him in a corner of the cell.

"Well, I thought you might get bored in here, and want something to do, instead of just sit here…with Lieutenant Paris." He eyed Tom with a look of hatred for a split second, but quickly returned his focus to B'Elanna.

"What you've brought me, id it absolutely vital?" She questioned viciously, having seen the anger in his eyes, directed towards her partner.

"Well, no, B'Elanna but-"

"It's Lieutenant!" She barker, wrapping her arms around Tom.

"But you're not on duty, you're just in the Brig!" He looked astounded at himself after he had said it and regained his 'Vulcan's have no emotions' stance. "Err…sorry…Lieutenant. Would you like me to leave the parts? All that needs doing is them being sorted out."

"No. I am spending the entire three days here, right where I am, in Tom's lap." She didn't realise how bad what she had just said really sounded until she saw the expression on Vorik's face. She turned to see Tom smiling at her in his special way that was just for her, with his eyes wide and eyebrows raised. She quickly decided how to do play this but quickly decided what to do. She leapt onto Tom, knocking him straight onto his back, she lay on him, running his hands through his hair, and he had barely wrapped his arms around her he was so surprised by her sudden course of action. It was Vorik that finally broke them off by coughing in an I-want-to-get-your-attention-but-not-too-obviously kind of way. She sat up and he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, clearly flustered. They both watched as anger and jealousy flicked across his face. "I'm sorry Ensign, what was it you needed?" She looked at him and tried not to laugh as he attempted to find his words.

"Vorik, just leave them in that corner." Tom pointed to where he had shed his uniform before exercising and hers before giving his top for her pyjamas, but he instantly regretted it. Vorik placed the box down and looked back at Tom.

"Very well Lieutenant." Vorik went to turn around but decided to get his own little bit of revenge. "I remember the last time you were in here, as and Ensign." B'Elanna picked up on how Vorik was treating her partner and decided it was unacceptable. "It showed that you were, are, unreliable, not very loyal, un-trustworthy, never mind how you abandoned B'Elanna for an entire month…" He made his way to leave, Tom was fuming, but decided to leave it.

"Vorik. I never considered that before. Maybe you're right." She left Tom, who looked wounded, and wandered over to Vorik. Walking around him slowly, she said; "Good thing too, do you want me Vorik?" She stopped in front of him and leaned in close. "Do you?" He looked overheated. "And you do make a good point, but do you know what Vorik, you will never be what Tom is, he is my best-friend, my lover, my shield, and he is mine. I will never be your, because you are none of those. Don't ever come and talk to me again unless it's strictly work related." She went and sat back down on Tom's knee, who had now swung his legs off the edge of the bed. "So don't ever come in here and talk to him like that again, and I do remember when he was demoted, and I remember when he was promoted. So he's been demoted and then promoted back before you have even been promoted. And one final thing, I don't care that he was demoted for being un-loyal, un-trustworthy and unreliable to StarFleet, but I know he will never be any of those to me, and I'm proud of him for what he did, so back off." Vorik stormed out immediately, raising the shield. B'Elanna turned to Tom, but he was looking at her with tears I his eyes.

"I thought I had actually lost you to Vorik then. Don't you ever do that to me again!" He wrapped his arms tight around her. And pulled her back down to where they were before they were so rudely interrupted.