The conference room cleared out quickly after the morning staff meeting. There had been yet another engineering mishap during the night and Janeway knew now that it was more then just wear and tear. Finding out what was going on was priority now, everything else including Seven's scans had been put on hold, but when Seven had followed Janeway to her ready room Janeway knew her Astrometrics officer wasn't going to let her investigation go so easily. In a way Janeway was grateful for this. Her instincts were screaming at her that there was more going on here then she realized and that somehow their guest was involved.

"What do you have, Seven?" Janeway asked as she poured herself another cup of coffee and then leaned against her desk.

Seven stood in front of Janeway with a padd in her hand. "I found two warp signatures coming from the rips in space I showed you yesterday." When Janeway's eyes flickered Seven knew she had the older woman's full attention. "The first trail ended somewhere near the moon in which Lieutenant Torres and her team had mined the dilithum."

"And the second?" Janeway asked suddenly leery of the answer. Her conversation with Di Vinci had left her on edge. She wasn't comfortable with what he'd been hinting at.

"Was lost inside an ion storm." Seven answered very mater of factly.

Janeway reached out for the padd that Seven held and the younger woman handed it over without a word. The second ship's course was charted to the ion storm, the same ion storm they had avoided, the same ion storm that had tossed around Llennodo's ship. Janeway took a deep breath and then put the padd down. "I think it's time I had a real conversion with our guest."

The crew logs had been amazing to watch but nothing in them was helping Llennodo find Bruening. If she couldn't find him by lunch she was going to go to Janeway and tell her what was going on, or at least that's what she was telling herself. She was even practicing what she was going to say in her head as she called up yet another duty log. "Computer, play the next chief engineer's log." She called out as she reached for a fresh cup of coffee. B'Elanna's face appeared on the small screen as Llennodo sat down and she couldn't help but smile. The look on the woman's face told her someone had pissed her off.

"We nearly missed getting back to Voyager on time. I don't know what's wrong with this guy, I mean he's had nearly seven years to get use to his job but he still acts as if he's green and fresh from the Academy. I had thought he was getting better, he was for a while, but lately he's slipped back into old patterns." B'Elanna paused as she pinched the bridge of her nose and then suddenly went on. "Oh and then to top it all off when Delvine finally did come out of the cave he acted as if the collection tub he was hulling weighed as much as a small shuttle. Turns out he'd only filled it about half full. I really don't know what I'm going to do with him. I can't expect Mahoney to baby-sit forever."

"Computer pause playback." Llennodo called out suddenly. "Delvine. She was complaining about him in the mess hall last night." Llennodo said aloud as something in her gut told her to look into the details of the away mission B'Elanna had been talking about. She had to be getting close. She was running out of time. The call she'd gotten while she was on the holodeck had been the computer telling her that some of the components on her list had been replicated. This morning she'd been awoke with news that more had been replicated. The good news was that Bruening was falling back on a plan of action she was familiar with, the bad knew was that that plan of action involved bombs.

"Computer scan for the bio signs of an Ensign," She looked down at her screen with B'Elanna's report and nodded. "Ensign Markus Delvine."

It only took a moment for the computert to come back with the answer that Llennodo had expected. "There are no biological readings for Markus Delvine on board Voyager."

She could feel her pulse quicken. She felt like she was finally on the right track. "What about his comm. badge?"

The computer beeped and then replied. "The comm. signal assigned to Markus Delvine is active and on board."

Llennodo couldn't help but smile as she shot to her feet. "Where is it?"

"Jeffries tube 37, section 4B, level 2." Came the computer's reply.

Without hesitation Llennodo moved over to where the secured overhead was and opened it. She shifted through her things until she found her phaser and pulled it out. As she attached her holster to her hip she ordered, "Scan the body attached to the comm. badge for bio signatures."

This request took a little longer then the others but it gave her time to reach for her restraints and a transporter tag. When the computer did reply it was music to Llennodo's ears. "The scans match the biological signatures in bio file gamma three three zero two."

Llennodo's smile was as bright as it had been in a long time. "I've finally found you, you son of a bit.."

"Such colorful language, Ms. Nonnahs."

Llennodo spun around on her heel wide eyed. "Captain Janeway."

The look on the Captain's face was hard and expressionless. It was her command mask at it's most severe. She walked closer to the young woman, taking in her surroundings, her gaze falling upon the phaser at the woman's side before meeting the other woman's eyes. She didn't say anything at first, she simply looked at the woman, and then finally she said. "Who are you and why are you on my ship?"

Llennodo was frozen in place under Janeway's stare. She could feel the knot forming in her stomach that always twisted her insides when she was on the other end of that look. Llennodo took a deep breath forcing her self to be the Starfleet captain she was trained to be rather then the child she felt like. "I'm not a threat, Captain. I'm here to help you."

Janeway looked the woman in the eyes, refusing to turn away from what she saw there, though she wasn't sure she wanted to see it. "You lied to gain access to my ship, how does this not make you a threat?"

"Because I came here to help you and the only way I could get onto Voyager was to lie." Llennodo replied. Her mind was spinning trying to think of Janeway's next question before she asked it, but Janeway wasn't predicable. How much should she tell her? How can she explain without doing damage to anything? This kind of dilemma was the reason she thought the temporal project was a mistake. The temporal prime directive was in place for when something like this happened accidently, would it be able to withstand straight up sanctioned time travel?

Janeway's voice became as cold as ice as she asked again, "Who are you?" She was tired of games and wanted to know what the hell was going on onboard her ship. "And don't bother lying, I know about the tear in space that your ship caused. I know that its temporal signature is different then this time's and I know the wrap signature it left behind is Federation."

The breath trapped in Llennodo's lungs made the woman feel as if her chest were burning. Her heart was pounding so loud she was sure the other woman could hear it. She should have known that something like this would happen with Seven manning Astrometrics and Janeway's need to poke at things. "I can't tell you who I am." She finally admitted. "All I can tell you is that I'm here to help, and that I need you to trust me."

"What did you say Ensign?" Seven asked as she worked. Harry had come in to work on an internal scan that B'Elanna requested and had been chatting as per usual. Seven had every intention of ignoring him as she normally did but something he'd just said had caught her ear.

Harry looked up from what he was doing with a smile. "It's just a game I play when I'm doing routine things like this. I try to see if I can spell words from other words backwards, but they have to be real words with real meanings. I was asking if you'd noticed that if you spell Llennodo Nonnahs backwards you get Shannon O'Donnell."

Seven looked at Harry oddly for a moment as she processed her thoughts and then she suddenly turned and left the room. The Captain had asked her to find out more about the spaceal tears and about the woman who was hold up in their shuttle bay, but nothing she was looking at was helping. As she headed for sickbay to get a medical tri-corder she wondered if this burning sensation in her abdomen was the pull of human instinct that Janeway talked about.

"So you expect me to believe that someone has come back in time nearly thirty years, to take the place of one of my crewmen in order to destroy my ship," Janeway repeated after hearing Llennodo's explanation. "And you've come here to stop him. Why? Why should I believe you? Why should I not think that it's you causing all the malfunctions."

Llennodo was becoming more and more frustrated. She'd explained that she was here to get Bruening and that he was here to blow up the ship, and that he had stolen an experimental temporal drive. She didn't want to give her every detail, figuring that her safest bet in maintaining the integrity of the time line was to keep it at a minimum but Janeway wasn't having any of it. Llennodo stood there with one hand on her hip, her eyes closed, and her other hand pinching the bridge of her nose, it was an almost perfect imitation of how Janeway looked.

"Captain," She finally said when she opened her eyes. "This isn't the first time you've run into a situation like this."

Janeway was taken aback at the young woman's stance but didn't show it. She knew who she was looking at but for some odd reason her brain just wouldn't or couldn't make that final leap. She could already feel the headache settling in, and the mention of her past run ins with time just made it worse. "You're from the Relativity?"

Llennodo shook her head. "No. Relativity is far far more advanced and way way down the time line. I have worked with them though which is how I know you and Seven have worked with them as well."

The computer beeped at her. It warned her that more components had been replicated.

Llennodo sighed in frustration. "Computer, take all of Voyager's replicators off line and maintain a lock on that bio-sign."

"Now you wait just a minute!" Janeway protested when the computer acknowledged the command. She was about to tap her comm. badge to call security but didn't get a chance. The young woman standing across from her shot her hand out and grabbed hold of her wrist.

"There's a man on this ship building a set of bombs." The younger woman said in a hard, firm tone. "I don't have time for your doubt. I need you to trust me."

Janeway started into the young woman's eyes. She watched the play of emotion there as she said, "You've done nothing but lie since you got here. Why should I trust you?"

"Because up until now I've never really lied to you!" Llennodo said heatedly.

An auburn brow rose as Janeway asked, "Never really lied?"

Llennodo was frustrated and before she could stop herself she said, "Anything I may or may not have done as a kid, like the time I said I was going rock climbing with Naomi, but really followed the away team to the abandoned Hirogen ship, doesn't count."

"You might as well tell her the truth." Seven said as she boarded the shuttle. "We are all aware of who you are even if some of us are having a hard time accepting it." She looked pointedly at Janeway before allowing her gaze to take in the younger of the two redheads.

Both Janeway and Llennodo looked at Seven. Seven didn't say another word she simply walked over and scanned Llennodo with her tri-corder.

"That isn't going to work." Llennodo told the tall blonde woman. "Not without using this." She reached up to her secure overhead and pulled out a hyperspray, which she handed to Seven. She watched as Seven scanned it, she watched as the ex-Borg's left eyebrow rose, and then titled her head to the side as the woman injected her. The moment the contents mixed into her blood stream her nanoprobes came out of their dormant state and the pathogen masking her bio-signature was quickly targeted, as were the surgical implants she'd used to hide the silver of metal over her right eye, the half starbrust behind her left ear, and the full starbrust on the back of her left hand.

Janeway blinked, her mouth open in a surprised oh shape, and her hand reaching out to touch the face of the young woman standing before her. She brushed her fingers over the implants and then looked once more into the young woman's blue eyes. How had she not seen this the moment she saw her on the view screen? "Gretchen?"

The young woman smiled weakly and a bit sheepishly as she said, "Hi Mom."