The Inevitable Truth
by: AW
Chapter 20
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: 950 words
Date: August 2018
[2 WEEKS AFTER PART 19]
Kathryn rolled over in bed. It was almost 0800 and she had to be on the bridge by 0900.
She got the maternity uniform out of her closet and donned it.
She slowly opened a line of communication to Chakotay's vessel.
His face appeared in front of her and she smiled. She hadn't spoken to him since before the Cardarssians had joined their fight and she knew he would be pleased with her new uniform and the fact that she was no longer in a fight with the Cardassians. "Hey handsome."
He stared at her. "Well Kathryn it has been a while."
She smiled at him and stood up showing him her new girth. "The girls are happy they're not being squished in a size four spacesuit anymore."
Chakotay's hands approached the screen and he almost looked like he wanted to touch her. "You look beautiful Kathryn."
She ran a hand over her children. "Easy for you to say: You don't have these two dancing on your bladder all day."
He smiled. "It will all be worth it Kathryn and now that the war is coming to a close, I know that I will be stationed on DS9 and so will you. You have no need to hide the pregnancy anymore and I can be proud to be a father to those two little ones."
Kathryn blushed, "I just don't know what to do."
There was a shot fired and Chakotay watched as his wife almost went down and then he saw a transporter beam take her away."
And then he saw her reappear.
[CHANGELING VESSEL]
Kathryn got her bearings. She was on a vessel and a woman approached her.
She recognized her as the female changeling.
"Hello Adrmiral."
Kathryn stared at her and refused to answer.
She glared at the changeling. "Why have you brought me here?"
"You are a great part of the Federation, you can give us information."
Kathryn glared at the woman. "I will never betray the Federation."
"You got the Cardassians to abandon us, and now we want to know why."
Kathryn stared at the female changeling. "We really didn't have anything to do with it. We were beginning the negotiations and Dukat stopped and let saying that we would finish the negotiations later."
The changeling stared at her. "This was not your doing?"
Kathryn let an incredulous sound escape her. "I think it was more your doing than mine."
The changeling approached Kathryn and pointed to her belly. "You had better be telling me the truth. We wouldn't want anything to happen to your baby."
Kathryn stared at the Changeling, "The only reason we allied ourselves with the Cardassians was to end this was and to stop the suffering."
The female changeling stared at Kathryn. "You allied yourselves with the Cardassians, why should we believe you."
She let out a small laugh, "Because someone has to start trusting someone."
[DS9]
Kathryn felt herself go weightless and she once again found herself in her bedroom in front of the computer. "Chakotay. I have to go, I have to save the Federation and the Alpha Quadrant from themselves."
Chakotay started at the mother of his children, "Just take care of that precious cargo."
Kathryn nodded and raised her hand to her communicator. "Janeway to Sisko."
She heard a pause over the line. "Yes, Captain."
"I need to speak with you. I think I may have found a way to end this war."
[SISKO'S OFFICE]
Sisko looked to his second in command. "I hope she didn't sell her soul for a peace treaty."
"You don't think she'd do something like that?"
He sighed, "I've read her logs from the Delta Quadrant, she is unorthodox in the way she deals with things."
"She has so much to lose though."
"So do we all."
Kira smiled at Sisko, "I guess now we just wait for her to show up and hopefully fix our issue."
Ten minutes later Janeway walked into the Captain's office. "We have to get the Cardassians to back off on the Founders so do we. They said they are willing to back off. I know that Odo has the cure for the founders, we can trade that for them to back off."
Kathryn let a hand fall to her abdomen. "I don't want my girls to grow up being afraid of the world they live in."
[9 HOURS LATER – MEETING ROOM]
Kathryn stood outside the meeting room. They had created a meeting for the various factions of the Alpha Quadrant.
Kathryn smoothed her maternity smock over her almost five month baby belly and got ready to enter the conference room when Tom approached her. "Ready to make history?"
Kathryn blushed, "I am not here to change history."
Tom chuckled, "You never were; but you always did."
Kathryn rolled her eyes at Tom's comment, "All I want to do is help restore paradise." She paused, "I want to make a better place for my daughters."
Tom looked at her understanding her plight. "I understand and I want my daughter to grow up in a good place too."
Janeway grinned, "Congratulations Tom."
He smiled back at her, "Thanks, but let's make sure that the Alpha Quadrant is a safe place for our daughters before anything else."
She nodded his way and they headed into the conference room, headed for all of their future."
END CHAPTER 20
TBC IN CHAPTER 21