The Inevitable Truth
by: AW

Chapter 4

Rating: MA
Pairing: J/C
Summary: The Consequences of 'The Killing Game'.
Disclaimer: Paramount/Viacom owns the series and the characters that are related to Star Trek: Voyager, but the story is mine.
Length: 1284 words
Date: January 2018

Chakotay watched the whole scene in slow motion.

He ran up to where Kathryn was and felt for a pulse, he felt a thread one.

He put his hand on her belly and didn't feel any movement.

"Chakotay to the Doctor, can you get someone here right away. Kellin attacked Kathryn. "

"On my way."

Chakotay stared at his wife bleeding out before him and probably losing the child she carried. He turned to Kellin, "I am going to throw you in the brig and let you rot there."

Kellin stared at him and a peal of laughter rose from her stomach. "You have to catch me first." Her cloak went on and she disappeared.

Chakotay tapped his combadge. "Chakotay to Tuvok."

"Yes Commander."

"Kellin attacked the Captain and then disappeared. Can you try to track her? I need to make her pay for what she did to Kathryn and our baby."

He heard a hesitation over the line. "Yes Commander, I'll get right on it."

Chakotay drew in a deep breath and left Astrometrics, headed for the bridge, the Doctor didn't need him looking over his shoulder now. He would hear the news, good or bad soon enough.

[SICKBAY]

The Doctor watched the Captain materialize out of thin air, and oh the blood.

He rushed up to her and began scanning her. Her lifesigns were weak and the baby's lifesigns were non-existant.

"Doctor to Paris. Can you please come down to sickbay, I'm going to need your help."

"What is going on?"

"Mr. Paris, I need you here right away."

Tom looked to Tuvok and knew he was dismissed. He made his way down to sickbay, a fear hitting him for whoever had been sent there and was in so much trouble that the Doctor needed his assistance.

Tom walked into sickbay to see a site he never wanted to see.

The Captain was laying on a biobed with the doctor working over her. "Mr. Paris, I need you to try and save that baby; I'll work on the Captain."

Tom nodded and began scanning the life signs of the child Kathryn carried.

He found none. "Doctor how's the Captain?"

He sighed, "I really don't have time to speak with you about this now. She lost a lot of blood."

Tom nodded and went to try and get the tiny baby boy back.

Tom shook his head, this was beyond bad.

[BRIDGE]

Chakotay walked onto the bridge and saw that his helmsman and his tactical officer were missing. He had to do something to keep his mind off of Kathryn and the baby boy. "Harry, I need you to do a scan and see if you can pick up Kellin on sensors, I have a feeling she's not gone too far."

Harry nodded and went about beginning the scans.

Chakotay looked to Harry. "I have to back to our quarters and search for something that Kellin gave us and which might help us find her."

Harry nodded and Chakotay left the bridge.

[JANEWAY QUARTERS]

He entered their quarters and looked around. Everything smelled and felt like Kathryn.

He drew in a deep breath and then let the tears fall.

He heard a sound the sounded like a transporter but which he knew from experience was Kellin's cloak.

He looked at her hatred in his eyes, "You."

"Is she dead yet? How about your bastard child?" She paused and stared at him. "Well maybe your doctor is more skilled than I thought. I'm sure we'll be seeing each other again."

And her cloak took her away.

Chakotay wiped the tears from his eyes. "Chakotay to sickbay."

"I really don't have time for this now Commander. I am trying to save your family."

Chakotay stared at the door out of the quarters. "Keep me posted."

"Yes, Commander."

Chakotay left their quarters and headed for the bridge.

[BRIDGE]

Chakotay came onto the bridge. "Harry any luck with that tracking?"

Harry hit his panel in frustration. "I have odd readings but I can't pinpoint that it's her yet."

"I got a visit from her. Can you check the readings for mine and Kathryn's quarters, maybe that will help you find her."

Harry nodded and began his scanning once again.

"Tuvok to Chakotay."

"Yes Tuvok, what have you found out?"

"I need to meet with you at your earliest convenience."

Chakotay sighed. "I can meet with you now in the conference room."

[CONFERENCE ROOM]

Chakotay was waiting for Tuvok, waiting for him to give Chakotay news on Kellin and if he had figured out where to find her.

It had been two hours and he had not heard anything about Kathryn.

Was she okay?

Was their son good?

Would they survive?

Tuvok walked into the conference room. "I have found her Commander."

Chakotay stared at Tuvok, "Where is she?"

Tuvok stared at him in typical Tuvok fashion. "She has been here all along."

Chakotay drew in a deep breath, "So do have a way now of tracking her?"

Tuvok nodded, "And I made sure that yours and the Captain's quarters are safe from her. She can no longer beam in unannounced."

Chakotay let go of a breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding in. "Well this is good news; but she can beam onto the ship?"

"It would take too long and too many man hours to try and protect the whole ship, but Harry and I are working on it."

Chakotay nodded, "Good work."

He turned and went to exit to the bridge. "Tell me when the ship is safe from her and her kind."

Tuvok nodded and left the conference room.

"Doctor to Commander Chakotay."

"Chakotay here."

"Can you come down to sickbay please?"

"Be right there."

Chakotay walked out of the conference room and made his way to the Sickbay where his future was going to be foretold.

[SICKBAY]

The Doctor scanned the Captain once more: She would survive.

He waited for the Commander to make his way to sickbay.

The doors to sickbay opened and he watched in slow motion as the Captain's significant other entered the room.

He bowed his head almost wanting to hide from the accusatory glare of the man who would love this woman forever.

Chakotay walked into the sickbay and right up to the Doctor. He stared down at Kathryn's body lying completely immobile on the biobed. "How is she?"

"The Captain will be fine. I repaired all the damage and stopped the bleeding."

Chakotay had a sinking suspicion about the child she had carried. "What about the baby?"

The Doctor stuttered. "We did everything we could Commander. When she came into the sickbay there were no vital signs on your son. I'm sorry."

Chakotay stared at the peaceful looking woman on the bed. He had told the Doctor if it was Kathryn or the baby, save Kathryn. He saw the steady breathing of the woman lying on the biobed.

He had tears streaming down his cheeks for a child that would never know the world.

"Thank you Doctor. We can always make another baby, we can't make another Kathryn."

He wiped the tears from his eyes and told the Doctor to contact him when Kathryn woke up and exited sickbay.

This was not the end just a minor bump in the road.

He hoped Kathryn would see it that was and not give up on them.

He hoped.

END CHAPTER 5

TBC IN CHAPTER 6