Tegan Chronicles STV Style 3:
What's Left of the Flag 16
The doctor activated himself with all intentions of insisting Captain Janeway return to her bed to rest, only to find that she was already lying on a bio bed sound asleep. He turned to see Seven standing sentry at the foot of Tegan's bed. "Seven, did you need my assistance?"
"No I am fine." She let her eyes travel over his holographic form. "I offered to stay with Dr. Kiser so Captain Janeway could rest."
"Speaking of rest, you need to regenerate."
"I have several more hours before I need to regenerate." She informed him coolly.
He looked around the infirmary. "Why does no one ever listen to me?"
Seven raised an eyebrow but did not answer his rhetorical question.
"Good morning B'Elanna Torres." Seven detoured to the mess hall on her way to regenerate in hopes of catching the chief engineer before her shift.
"Where did you disappear to?" She didn't hide the hurt nor the accusation from her voice.
"I went to sickbay. I did not think it would be a problem, you were after all sleeping."
B'Elanna glared at Seven.
Finally the young blonde spoke. "I do not see what I did wrong."
"You left me to go see her." B'Elanna flapped her hands aimlessly in the air while trying not to draw attention to their argument.
"After I comforted you, you fell asleep on me and I held you for over an hour while you slept. I needed to talk to Captain Janeway about her reasoning behind helping someone who could perform such acts of violence. After we talked I offered to stay with Dr. Kiser so that Captain Janeway would get the rest she needed." She paused for a second and studied her lover's face. "You should not be jealous of Captain Janeway or Dr. Kiser. I do believe you spend more time with the latter. Maybe it is I who should be jealous."
"I'm not jealous." She readily denied the accusation despite the feeling she had when she'd woken up to find Seven was no longer in her quarters. The feeling had only gotten worse when she'd asked the computer to locate her. She had hoped to hear the annoying female voice respond 'Seven of Nine is in Cargo Bay 2' but instead it had stated she was in sickbay.
"I don't believe you." Seven didn't need to hear the soft growl to know that the Klingon-human hybrid was jealous. She looked the shorter woman over, stepped into her space and without lowering her voice proclaimed; "You, B'Elanna Torres, are the only woman I want to make scream my name in ecstasy."
B'Elanna looked around the partially empty mess hall and blushed. "Next time at least leave a note."
"I shall request your permission to leave after we have made wild monkey sex in the future."
B'Elanna lowered her voice. "It wasn't wild monkey sex."
"No it was not." Seven let the corners of her lips curl in a small grin before becoming serious. "I need to regenerate."
She had given up on finding them, her grandmother, her mom, Shadow. She sat back down under the shade of the tree. Oh how she missed them. Missed them, and the others, her team, her family, Cassie, Dana and Maggie were of course part of that family, her family. She hadn't given herself much time to dwell on them since being aboard Voyager. Between working on the Starfleet training and working in the medical labs and sickbay she had little time for grieving. Instead she threw herself headfirst into a relationship with her captain. What the hell was I thinking?
Do you love her? The other voice in her head asked.
"Of course I love her." She answered aloud.
"Tegan?"
The voice was so familiar it caused a smile to melt across her features as she turned to face the five-foot-two doctor. "Janet. Is it really you?"
"Yes, it's me." She smiled softly. "I've been waiting a long time for you."
"I've been here before." She looked around as she stood and stepped up to Janet. "Am I dead this time?"
"No." Janet stared at her with her big brown chocolate eyes.
"Will you stay here with me?" Her voice sounded tiny to her ears.
"For a while but we can't stay too long."
"We?" She searched for others.
"You, me, the rest of them."
"Them?" She questioned again.
"Sam, Jack, Teal'c, Daniel, Cassie, your grandmother Irene and Shadow."
"Why can't we stay?"
Janet tilted her head, a frown creasing her forehead. Tegan had seen that look more times than she could count. "You might never go back."
"Do I have to go back?"
"Only you can answer that."
Tegan smirked. "And here I thought you had all the answers."
"I see you're still a smart Alec." Janet smiled.
Tegan mirrored the expression. "More so now, I've got to pick up O'Neill's slack."
The air around them shifted. "I hadn't even had time to grieve your disappearance when I died. I hadn't given up hope that you were still out there, alive, but I still somehow expected you to be waiting for me."
"Oh Janet, I'm sorry. I—"
"Don't be." Janet shook her head. "I'm glad you weren't dead, but almost four centuries is a long time to wait to see you again."
She looked at her for several seconds before she blinked. "Why did you wait?"
"There's something I wanted to tell you." She started to fade, right in front of Tegan's eyes.
"Janet?" Her voice was panicked as she reached out, her fingers going right through the almost transparent body milliseconds before she completely disappeared.
"Captain, you're awake." The doctor walked over when he heard her stir.
She pushed herself into a sitting position allowing her legs to hang off the edge of the bed she was on. She looked around the room and noticed Tuvok was gone and Tegan was lying exactly as she had been when she had last seen her. "How long did I sleep?"
"Twenty-two hours."
"Seriously?" She slid off the bed and moved away from his meddlesome tricorder. "Someone should have woken me."
"You needed your rest." He frowned. "Would you please stand still?"
She tried to step around him but he anticipated her move and stepped with her. She growled lightly before relenting. "How is she?"
"Dr. Kiser is stable." He shrugged with one shoulder. "I was able to return her to a normal oxygenated environment. She is however in a comatose state."
"Medically induced?"
"I'm afraid not." He shook his head as he lowered the tricorder and let his dark eyes slip over to her prone form. "The good news is she isn't feeling any pain."
"And Tuvok?" She indicated the empty bed.
"I allowed him to leave an hour ago after he promised to eat and mediate as well as not return to duty for another 24 hours. I'm going to have to request that you do the same."
"I don't meditate Doctor." She glared at him. She gave the orders on Voyager, she certainly didn't follow them.
"Maybe you should learn to." He cocked a photonic eyebrow in her direction then let his face return to neutral. "You need to eat and rest for the next 24 hours."
"I just spent 22 hours resting Doctor."
"As Chief Medical Officer I am making it an order, Captain."
"Duly noted Doctor." She grabbed her jacket and pulled it on before yanking the zipper up. "Keep me informed of Tegan's status."
"Yes ma'am." He stared at her retreating back.
"Captain." Chakotay stood as she stepped onto the bridge. "I didn't expect to see you for another 24 hours."
She scowled briefly while thinking of all the different names she could call the doctor. "I only came to check on things before retiring to my quarters."
Chakotay smiled softly. "We beamed Mr. Juroth and Mr. Murdock down fifteen hours ago and we're back on course, heading toward the alpha quadrant at warp three."
"Very well," She nodded her approval. "I will leave the bridge in your capable hands."