Fandom: Star Trek Voyager

Pairing: Kathryn Janeway x Tuvok

Words: 1577

AU title: Rejoined

Tags: VOY season 5 episode 10 'Counterpoint', related to previous chapter

Summary: As the Devore inspect Voyager, Prax finds something abnormal in the air around Captain Janeway and suspects she's a telepath. But actually, all he picked up the telepathic bond between her and Tuvok as well as the link with her unborn child.

The Devore beamed aboard Voyager on Decks 12, 11,2 and 1, which Chakotay read out loud.

Suddenly, an old classic piece of Earth music flowed through the speakers around the entire ship.

"Captain Janeway, report to your ready room." a smug male voice said.

"Are all crewmembers ready for the humiliation?" Janeway asked.

"I hope they are." the native American replied.

The female Captain stood up. "I'll be meeting with the head Inspector in my ready room, you have the bridge." and she walked off.

Devore guards were standing in the room, a younger man was sitting on her office chair.

"Goodmorning, Captain." said the man who sat in her chair. "I took the liberty of playing this music throughout your ship, I thought it might help your crew relax. Sometimes these inspections can be… stressful."

"How thoughtful." Kathryn said.

The Inspector looked at one of his guards before looking back. "I replicated some coffee. Black, as usual?"

"Black." She replied staring straight in the eyes of the Devore male who had walked to her left side.

"Prax here still refuses to try it, but then, he's a man of few pleasures." Said the Inspector and nodded to the other men to leave the room.

As they were gone, Janeway placed a hand over the mug.

"Captain, please make yourself at home."

Kathryn sat on the couch, looking out of the window into space while the Head Inspector paced around her room. She didn't mind him much, all she wanted was for them to leave so she would see her beloved Tuvok again, as he together with the telepathic refugees and the other telepathic crewmembers were hiding.

"I've examined your crew manifest from our last inspection. Commander Tuvok, Ensign Vorik: Vulcans. Ensigns Sudar and Jurot: Betazoids. All telepaths, and yet for some reason you neglected to mention them."

"There's a simple reason: they're dead." the Captain lied with a straight face. "Tuvok, Vorik and Jurot died in a shuttle crash about two months ago. Sudar was killed during an encounter with a species called the Kazon." Sudar was the only one who was actually dead, but the Devore didn't know that.

"That's fortunte, for you I mean. If I found you were harboring telepaths I would've had to arrest you for breaking our carnal protocol."

The woman didn't feel good with lying, but she had to. "They were valued members of my crew Inspector, not criminals."

"Perhaps." the male Devore walked closer to her. "Captain, do you trust me?"

"Not for a second." Kathryn replied truthfully.

"Exactly, and why should you? Trust has to be earned, it's gradual. And yet it's the foundation of every relationship, professional and personal. It's also a concept alien to telepathic races, why take someone at their word when you can simply read their mind?"

At that moment, Prax and the guard stepped back in. "We've completed our inspection, they're no telepaths aboard. Only the Captain hasn't been scanned for during any of our past inspections."

"She's human, like most of her crew. They're non-telepaths." the Head Inspector said.

"Still, I have to scan her." The older male walked closer to the Captain, taking out his two-point scanner.

The only woman in the room rolled her eyes as the scanner was pointed at her. She just kept sitting.

But the scanner beeped several times, indicating telepathy.

"She's telepathic." Prax said, eyes straight on the Captain.

"How's that possible?" the Head Inspector, Kashyk, asked.

As Prax was interrogating the Captain, Kashyk looked at the holo pictures in the room that was the Captain's private living quarters.

Now various readings had confirmed that she was somehow telepathic, evaluations by Starfleet doctors previous years had confirmed that prior to five months ago, when Voyager was in Drayan space, Kathryn Janeway was non-telepathic.

"It's impossible for humans to become suddenly telepathic." The Doctor said. He had been called by Prax to bring Janeway's medical files.

The elder Devore didn't listen to the holographic doctor. "The Devore Imperial protocols call for through rough investigation on a person who suddenly gained telepathic abilities so it can be reversed."

"Telepathy can't be reversed medically, reports have proven it impossible!"

Kathryn held up her hand. "Doctor, we'll just tell them the truth."

The hologram couldn't believe what the woman just had said. "You'll sell yourself out! Devore Imperial protocols say that what you've done is charged with Sympathy."

"What is the truth?" the Head Inspector said, having come across the room holding a holodisk.

Janeway pointed at the disk in his hands. "You're holding the evidence in your hand. That holo was me and Tuvok on our wedding day five months ago."

Kashyk activated it, seeing the Captain in a beautiful formfitting dress. Her fingers were intertwined with those of a dark skinned male with slanted eyebrows and pointy ears who wore a Starfleet dress uniform.

"He linked us telepathically, customary for the Vulcan species. We were only married for three months when he died in that shuttle crash, and the only thing I have left of him is our unborn child."

"And as Vulcan genes are dominant over Human ones, the baby inherited telepathy from his father." the Doctor reasoned.

"How long until the child is born?" the younger Devore asked.

"Vulcan-Human hybrids born to Human mothers are born approximately 44 weeks after conception. The Captain is barely 12 weeks along, it'll take another 32 weeks for it to be born." the hologram replied.

"We'll let go this time, but if that child is born in Devore space, we'll be forced to kill it." Kashyk said before leaving the room with his colleagues.

The Captain let out a long sigh. "Set up rematerialization once they're gone."

"Captain, you must come with me to sickbay. I will have to scan your child."

All telepaths, the Brenari refugees and the telepathic crewmembers of Voyager, rematerialized in Cargo Bay 1 with help of Seven and two engineers while B'Elanna rerouted power to the Transporter which Harry was manning at that moment.

When Tuvok rematerialized, he immediately turned to Seven. "Did all go well? This time took significantly longer than any of the past inspections."

"They scanned the Captain, she had to explain the traces of telepathy left in her. The Doctor took her to Sickbay afterwards." the former Borg drone said.

After gaining the answer, the Commander went straight to Sickbay to rejoin with his wife.

She was being scanned by the Doctor, lying on one of the beds.

"Has something been done to her?" the primal Vulcan in him was roaring, ready to tear apart whoever had harmed his wife.

"Not yet, but I wanted to be secure. I don't know what happened in the ready room when the Captain was alone with the Head Inspector. He seemed to be ready to stab her with something to force her body to abort the child you conceived." the EMH replied.

Kathryn frowned. "Why would he do that?"

"You know how Devore view telepaths, discovering a non-telepathic woman carrying the child of a telepathic male when you're enamored with that woman will drive such a man to the extremes. I will make sure that upon next contact with Mr. Kashyk another crewmember will be with you in that room. I'd prefer Mr. Chakotay or Ms. Torres." the hologram said.

"Thank you for voicing your concern." the Captain said. "But is my baby healthy?"

"They're developing normally for Vulcan-Human hybrids from what I can find in the Federation database." the Doctor replied.

"You said 'they', indicating plural." Tuvok stated.

The EMH nodded. "I did. I only just discovered there were two embryos developing in the Captain's womb." he pulled up a holographic scan, enlarged by three times. And as he said, there were two embryos developing normally for 3-month-old Vulcan-Human hybrids.

Kathryn smiled as she viewed the children in her womb. "Oh my, I never imagined having children… this is a welcome surprise." tears of happiness streamed down her rosy cheeks.

Tuvok wrapped his arms protectively around his wife's midsection, and kissed her cheeks. "Ashaya, t'nash-veh ko-telsu, I will protect you with all that I am. If that man harms you or our young, nothing will stand in my way of ripping him apart."

"I know you will Tuvok." she said, moving her hands over his chest and shoulders to his upper arms before laying her head on his left shoulder.

The Chief of Security purred contently at the feeling of his wife in his arms, he felt rejoiced in the fact that he managed to conceive a set of twins outside of pon farr with a Human female. He would come home to Vulcan with a new wife and children, a happy occasion for his clan.

The Doctor was reviewing the scans he made of the Captain while she was being held by her husband and the father of her children. The gender scans indicated that one was a boy and the other a girl. If they'd been on Vulcan, all doctors would have gone crazy.

There was no doubt that Captain Kathryn Janeway would be accepted by Tuvok's clan, she was a woman with status within the Federation and she was carrying Tuvok's son and daughter, not really a lesser achievement.

He looked at the sight of the two lovers in a loving embrace before looking back on the computer screen. "I hope you'll be happy for the rest of your lives."