Loosing You
Chapter 4
Kathryn was just stood naked wrapped in a towel rubbing second towel through her wet hair having just got out the bath. It was at that exact moment her comm terminal beeped in her sitting room signifying an incoming personal call. She glanced at her watch perched on the side of the bath and noted it was just after 8 in the evening. Smiling to herself she knew it would be B'Elanna. It had gotten quite regular over the last two weeks that B'Elanna would comm her in the evenings after Miral had gone to sleep. Discarding her towel that she was using to dry her hair she grabbed the glass of read wine and taking a sip she walked bare foot and still dripping wet wrapped in a towel she went to answer her comm call and tell B'Elanna she just needed 10 minutes to get dressed. As she pressed the button to answer her comm she stood and looked at the screen and took a sip of the wine as the picture flickered into view. However she wasn't met with the face of her half Klingon friend she was met with the face of another old friend. Her eyes turned dark as she met his eyes and lowered the glass from her lips suddenly feeling a lot more exposed than she would have had it been B'Elanna on the other end of the terminal. She could have kicked herself for not noticing that it was a long distance comm that was coming through. She didn't speak it was him who spoke first "Admiral Janeway, have I caught you at a bad time?" there was a hint of a amile on his lips as his eyes flickered slightly from her eyes down the whole view he could see where she stood wet wet and barley covered before him on the comm signal.
Tilting her head she pursed her lips and hissed at him "What do I owe this pleasure Mr. Chakotay?"
Flashing his eyes back up to her face and seeing nothing but anger there he coughed slightly as the hint of the smile faded from him though he noted she hadn't made any effort to cover herself further nor did she seem too embarrassed that her skimpily clad towel was leaving nothing to his imagination. "I wondered if we might talk."
Drawing her brows together and drawing one arm around her and taking another sip of her wine she didn't take her eyes off him as she asked "about what?"
"I wanted to apologise" Chakotay told her pulling on his ear in a slightly uncomfortable manner.
Kathryn raised an eyebrow at him and asked calmly "apologise? exactly what for"
Pulling on his ear Chakotay looked away slightly and asked "perhaps I should comm you at a more convenient time."
Sitting down slowly in front of the terminal Kathryn took a slow, long sip from her wine and looked at him over the rim of her glass. Slowly lowering her glass she asked him calmly "What makes you think I want to talk to you at all?"
"Kathryn please I am trying here."
Running her fingers through her wet hair Kathryn signed and nodded "Give me 30 minutes, then we can talk"
"Thank You Kathryn."
Kathryn was just finishing getting dressed when her comm terminal beeped again. Growling slightly she grabbed a hair tie and hurriedly tied her wet hair up loosely and taking a deep breath went to answer the comm. As she approached the terminal she realised it was coming from earth not a long range signal. Smiling she answered to be greeted by her friend "Lanna she smiled."
B'Elanna smiled back at her, she liked it when her friend called her Lanna, it was like her mother used to call her. Kathryn was a friend, confidant and mother all in one for B'Elanna. "Miral's just gone down. Tom's parents are taking her for the day tomorrow. I was wondering if you wanted to spend the day tomorrow shopping and doing normal things that don't involve a six week old baby?"
Kathryn laughed and shook her head "Grandpa Owen" she mused. Kathryn had always looked up to Tom's dad Owen Paris as a surrogate daughter her own father died, he was also a close friend and her first commanding officer. B'Elanna too laughed at the thought of the stoic admiral trying to entertain a quarter Klingon baby. "Of course I would come spend the day with you B'Elanna" smiled Kathryn "I have a meeting at Starfleet till 11 hundred hours but I can transport staright to you from there?"
"Your on" smiled B'Elanna "You've got a date"
These words through Katheryn back into the present and she gasped and looked at the time "Oh no!" she hissed "talking of dates I have to go!"
"What?" gasped B'Elanna "are you going on a date?"
Kathryn snorted "Not exactly" when B'Elanna looked confused Kathryn sighed and explained "Chakotay, he's going to comm me any moment now"
"that's new."
"he wants to apologise"
"For what?" growled B'Elanna "sleeping with Seven or being rude to you the other night"
"I have to go B'Elanna" Kathryn said with a hint of a crooked smile choosing to ignore her friends comments. "I'll comm you later" When B'Elanna looked angrily at her she insisted "I promise" B'Elanna scowled her before ending the comm signal.
It was only seconds before her comm terminal began to beep again with a long range signal. Brasing herself Kathryn answered the call and was once again met with Chakotay's face. He was smiling, she smiled slightly awkwardly back at him.