Another Time and Place
Pairing: J/C, P/T, C/7 mentioned only
Rating: T
Summary: During a mission to save her parents Melonie Janeway is sent to 'Another Time and Place', that is totally different but completely the same simultaneously.
Disclaimer: You know the drill Voyager and it's characters aren't mine but Melonie and her siblings are.
Author's Note: Grown Up Janeway kids. I don't have a beta so I hope my technobabble is okay if not just let me know, constructively.
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"Red Alert." Captain Melonie Janeway's voice rang out as her ship, Harmony, took a hit from her enemy The Tooras. "Som, what's our status?"
"Shields at 90% all systems are currently functioning." Som responded quickly seconds later the ship shook "Direct hit, Shields at 85%."
"Fire Photon Torpedoes" Janeway shouts as another hit rattles her ship. She hears her helmswoman yell that warp core is out. Two more hits and the captain is thrown from her chair, she hears shouts of failing systems hears the whoosh of transporters and pain a lot of pain, but then it goes black.
=/\=
Opening her eyes she squints at the lights. A dull sensation hits her as she tries to get up.
"You must stay still, while I treat your injuries" Joe's voice speaks out to hear her, she trusts him so she lies back down
"My Ship. The Tooras, Mom and Dad" Her panic rises and the doctor pushes her gently.
"I'll give you a sedative to help you sleep through surgery."
=/\=
This time when she opens her eyes she is glad the lights have been dulled slightly. She hears voices but is too far to hear what they're saying. Groaning she sits up.
"Where am I?" she asks
"You're in Voyager's Sickbay." Her mother's husky voice tells her, reaching out she grabs her out to her.
"I thought I'd lost you. Are you alright?" she mumbles, looking up she gasps aloud realising her mistake "When am I?"
"She appears to me more confused than I thought Captain Janeway. I'll give another hypo-spray." Melonie backed away.
"Tell me when I am?" Her tone more desperate she looked up at the blue eyes she knew as her mother's. Kathryn felt as if she were looking in a mirror.
"It's 2378. You are on the USS Starship Voyager we have treated your injuries you are in our sickbay. I'm Captain Kathryn Janeway, this is our CMO. What was the last thing you remember?" Kathryn smiled at the woman that looked so much like herself.
"I was on my ship, the USS Harmony. The Tooras were attacking. I…I my parents are, I must return to my ship or I, you this won't exist" Melonie knew they wouldn't understand but this mission she couldn't let her parents down. Too many lives depended on it.
The doctor, on her right, gently moved her head exposing her neck and indeed the tattoo she had to commemorate her father and his tribe. The two recognised it immediately. Melonie herself stood.
"Can you help me?" raising her eyebrow and initiated her inherited Janeway glare.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Captain Melonie…Janeway. My mission is to rescue my parents from not only death but also being erased from time. This mission is extremely important I MUST get back to my own timeline." Melonie stood to her full height announcing her position. The two in front of her nodded.
"I think it best to keep this" she pointed to her tattoo "to ourselves its sort of a giveaway, don't yoou think?" Melonie smiled as the doctor and Janeway nodded "Thanks Jo…doctor. Light duty right?" she said walking to the bathroom as if she knew exactly where she was going.
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Once changed into her uniform it became clear she was indeed from the future. Her combadge was completely different as was her entire uniform. The two women walked side by side approaching the board room.
Kathryn entered and settled her senior members who were anxious to get out of this area of Space as it had brought a lot of damage and attack.
"I have some news. We must stay in this space for a little longer. The situation is more complicated than we first thought." Kathryn explained.
"On who's orders?" Tom piped up, feeling anxious having his pregnant wife was being overworked in engineering.
"Mine." Striding into the room she stood at the bottom of the table. "I know it's hard to take orders from someone else but your existence on this ship begs you to listen and trust me." She smiled at the senior officers who all seemed to nod.
They went over her plan with the minimal information she could reveal. Voyager had been tracking the anomaly and hiding from the Tooras quite coincidently. By speculating the next point she could fly in beam on to the Ship her parents were being held, then beam onto a shuttle, and with Voyager's deflector dish pinpoint her own timeline. What she didn't plan on telling them was she could use the deflector dish and Anson's engineering discovery to contact her ship through the rip
Seven throughout the planning had been completely reluctant not trusting this new Starfleet Captain as they were finishing up discussions on tactical, Seven spoke her concerns.
"I don't believe we can trust you, you have a completely different tactics that seem…violent and underhand how do we know we can trust you." Melonie gritted her teeth reminding herself this wasn't her Seven if anything it was a duplicate.
"The temporal Prime Directive stops me from telling you but let's just say this will change lives if it fails." She sighed but Seven persisted.
"You avoided the question." This time Melonie ignored her completely and turned to Tom to go over the flight plan pattern her herself had created. Straightening her back Seven looked at her own requirements and turned to the Doctor and asked him loudly 'Why do people ask to be trusted but give no proof they can be' that was it Melonie had to leave before she did she turned and spoke in an even tone.
"I need you to trust me so you can live the magnificent lives your command team have helped you achieve." After her speech Seven was quiet as was everyone continued to discuss only looking up when they heard a frustrated shout. B'Elanna looked to Chakotay and he to Kathryn she got up and they both left.
Melonie was slumped by the warp core. She was so frustrated, she missed her parents so much and to be here where she grew up surrounded by those she looked up to and they looked through her, it hurt the most when it was her mother and father, but technically they weren't, just doppelgängers so why did it hurt so much.
"My mom used spend nights here, to calm us down, when she was pregnant" she told the two behind her.
"When were you born?"
"2373, during an attack by the swarm. Daddy says it was hysterical to see the poor doctor repeat himself 'You are the captain. You are in labour, can I help'. She threatened to kill everyone and claimed she'd never have sex again, that never happened of course." She mused now standing close beside her the captain placed her hand on her shoulder.
"You have a maquis sole. I'd recognise it anywhere, in your world am I…" he didn't know what to say
"Yep, good old daddy, who ruined Christmas by getting carried away with his wife. Oh boy did I get my revenge." She smirked leaning into him.
The command team left once she declared work needed to be done. They looked at each other.
"She's more damaged then she lets on." Chakotay realised.
=/\=
Melonie was currently with B'Elanna and Tom making adjustments to a shuttle.
"Are you happy in your own timeline." B'Elanna asks
Coming out from under the console Melonie smiles, "Of course but if the Tooras succeed then I won't even exist. Please tell me you understand. Seven is getting on my nerves and in my world we aren't exactly best friends" Melonie went back under and swapped tools with Tom, they hoped the adjustments would help the engine run smoother and the shuttle slicker and more moveable.
"Do you feel lonely here knowing you don't exist?" Tom asked from under the console.
"A little. I know you aren't close with your father but imagine he didn't know you at all and looked at you like a stranger. I miss my mom and daddy but I will get them back to our family safe and sound. It won' mean much but this one" she pointed to B'Elanna's bump "is one of my brothers best friends, there quite the pair, she was his best man or rather best bird" she smiled at the memory as did the expectant parents.
"Janeway to Melonie" the com spoke
"Melonie here, is there a problem?"
"Yes we've been hailed by a Commander Parpas, do you know him?"
"Yes I'm on my way. Melonie out. Tom I'm all done just keep that tight and don't let it loosen, and we are done" she smiled walking out the shuttle.
=/\=
"I am afraid to tell you I don't know what you mean. I haven't escaped from anyway." Kathryn was having trouble with Commander Parpas already.
"LIES!" he turned to someone "I want the ambassador's security strengthen if he thinks he is going to escape like his wife the he is mistaken" Kathryn looked to Chakotay.
"Commander I assure you I am not married to my commander" Melonie entered seeing the man's green skin made her shudder his tiny eyes blinking over and over.
"There she is. How did you get them onto this ship?"
"Parpas. These aren't my parents, they are from another timeline. They don't know me" the alien man laughed
"Well it looks you existence is over. I'm feeling like a winner so I'll give you 12 hours to try and retrieve them before I use the Temporal Flux Eraser" the transmission ended and the rip disappeared jumping into the helm seat Melonie made sure she followed that ship her fingers racing over the console like it was piano.
"Captain, I am not playing a cat and mouse game with these people. I don't think it wise…"
"Shut up! I'm not letting them go this time, if you want to give up and let him wipe you and daddy from time then be my guest, but I'm not." Melonie snapped. Kathryn raised an eyebrow and pointed to her ready room reluctantly Melonie went with the commander behind her.
"Tell us the truth, now." The Captain and Commander stood in front of her, without meaning it Melonie outright started laughing.
"Sorry it's just you haven't been this mad at me since I crashed the shuttle craft into Grandma Gretchen's shed." The young woman sat down. "Uncle Tom had agreed to take me out for my 10th birthday, KP had snuck onto the shuttle as we practised a land he jumped out and you never believed me, that it was KP's fault I was grounded for weeks. I refused to talk to you and your face when you saw Tom it was so funny. After that we always did thorough searches of shuttles before we left." The command team stood still.
"The Tooras who are they and why did Parpas think we'd escaped?" Chakotay asked sitting next to Melonie.
Knowing the command team no longer cared for the Temporal Prime Directive so she sighed and began to explain "Two weeks ago, in my time, you were both kidnapped, I begged Starfleet to let me take the mission, and I had successfully stopped three of these cases so they allowed me. I chased them, The Tooras, with the Harmony we were cornered and then they sent the message of my…my parents screaming for help. I have to help them. If I don't then Parpas will erase them so that they can win and destroy all four Quadrant's. You have to understand that if that happens neither of you will exist, Voyager won't have been sent after the Val Jean. Neelix and Kes won't have been saved, The Kazon probably would have gotten to the array and discoveries made by my brothers won't have happened because we Janeway kids won't have been created. Do you understand now? How many lives your existence effects?" Melonie stared into the eyes of her non-mother and non father.
"Captain, I say we help her." Chakotay stood placing his hand on her shoulder.
"How dangerous are they?" Kathryn raised an eyebrow at the look the other Janeway gave her
"Well…you know you've beaten loads of dangerous…" a Janeway glare and she broke "Okay so Starfleet have said they are even more dangerous than the Borg but if you don't help me then people will die and suffer and some won't even exist."
"Alright. However I expect you to do this under consideration for my crew, the way you dealt with Seven was unacceptable." Melonie groaned at the demand 'Be nice to Seven' she'd rather scratch her eyes out.
"If you knew Seven like I do you really wouldn't mind but I'll respect it but if she pushes me. I won't be responsible for my actions." Getting up she walked to the door
"What did she do?" Chakotay questioned, he was after all dating her.
"Well let's just say she went overboard on crush. It brought a lot of upset to both my parents" Melonie shyed slightly before leaving.
=/\=
With a new plan she had implemented most of the requirements but still had to deal with the dreaded Astrometrics, Melonie knew that if Seven and her family had gotten on she would have loved Astrometrics, but alas she missed that opportunity.
Seven wasn't there so using her knowledge she gave the deflector dish a temporal push.
"Hello can you hear me?" She asked praying
"Yes! Melon Are you okay? Where are you it's through a rift and…" Anson and Kolopak appeared on the screen.
"Listen I'm fine. I'm on Voyager, a different time and place, we don't exist so everyone is a little different including Seven. Now to business. I need you two to help. "
=/\=
Not far from Astrometrics Seven, the commander and the captain were discussing Melonie.
"She uses incificiant methods. I find it difficult to believe that you, Captain copulated with a member of your crew." Seven stated
"Well even if she is lying she looks like the perfect mix between the two of us. Now she said she wanted to meet us." They stopped hearing voices.
"Kolopak, if she walks through that door I expect you to be professional and tell her what we have done. I mean it be nice."
"I can't believe you'd say that she nearly destroyed our mother just to get dad to love her. I will be civil but don't expect a lot."
"Fine. Now how is things your end is the beam in place. When Voyager sends the probe you must send the beta four transporter signal. Got it"
"Yes Captain."
At this point the three walked in.
"How did you do that? Who are they?"
"Ah you're here. Anson, KP meet non-mom non-dad and non-Seven. You three meet my brothers, Anson the engineer and Kolopak the doctor. They're on the Harmony and no I'm not telling you how but I'll let you keep the feature." Melonie smiled her fingers dancing over the console.
"It's nice to meet you. Is there a problem, Mr Janeway" Kathryn asked as she noted him staring at her.
"Sorry mo…Captain. You just look like my mom, I haven't seen her…excuse me" The young man walked off screen clearly upset. Kathryn's heart broke, to bring such pain to a man she didn't know.
"Mom and he are close. She nearly lost him when Seven did what she did. Anyway KP, I mean Doctor Janeway will explain the plan" Melonie walked over to where Seven was and began discussing what she needed. Anson came back on and listened to his brother tell their non-mother listen.
=/\=
The plan was set and ready. It was the riskiest plan Kathryn had ever taken part in. Shields, weapons, Deflector, transporters nearly every function of her ship had been modified for this plan granted most of it wouldn't last and was really one off but some things like the boast to the deflector dish that allowed transmissions to be sent more efficiently, meaning calling home wouldn't be so problematic and short.
They'd been working for 10 hours and had found the ship protecting the rip, unknowingly the Tooras was cornered. Melonie was positioned and ready. It was going to be fast and quick not a lot of time to think. Voyager was hailed and the transmission was put through to her.
"Well you're early but your out of date ship is no match for mine so I guess you can say goodbye to your parents." All she had to do was keep him talking long enough for Voyager to find her parents with the enhanced bio-scanner then a probe sent through the rip so the Harmony could use their Beta transporter, that was extremely powerful, so that the three people could be brought back to their own time. A light flashed to her right and hitting the button below it she herself would be sent to the ship.
They were weak, pain radiated from every inch of their bodies, still they were curled together. The flash startled them.
"Please, don't. My wife isn't well you'll kill her. Hurt me not her" It broke her heart as she saw her parents so weak and scared, nearing them she attached the temporal shield generators, now it was left to Voyager and Harmony, it would take approximately 3 minutes enough time to activate a bomb, looking at her wrist watch that displayed a timer read 1:30.
"It's going to be ok." She spoke softly to her mother who was in worst shape than her dad. A whimper escaped as a hand clung to her arm, 2:46 this was the longest three minutes ever, slowly she got up.
At the bars she looked at the clock 2:56 throwing the bomb out then running back, praying and holding her parents a blue flash shocked her and she felt heavy.
=/\=
Opening her eyes she recognised Harmony's sickbay celling. She sprang up to see her dad sitting beside her.
"Daddy?" she queried then leaned into him for the biggest, warmest and longest hug of her life. "Where's mom?" he pointed to the bed where Kolopak was still working.
"She has severe injuries but you know your brother he won't stop until she is better or worse come to worse dead 100% dead. What will I do if that happens, Melon?"
"It won't so you don't need to know because it won't happen, okay. Look at me and repeat 'Kathryn will not die she will live and I will love her forever'" her father smiled and repeated his daughter's words
Nearly 10 hours later, after Melonie had gone back to her bridge and Chakotay had fallen asleep watching Kolopak work expertly, Kathryn herself was ready to say hello.
"Chakotay" she whispered, waking he rushed to her side holding her and promising to never let her go.
"Sickbay to the Bridge"
"Janeway here"
"Mom is awake if you Ans want to see her she is fragile but you know it's been a while so anytime now" springing from her seat she ran to the turbo lift ran to Ans' quarters both ran into sickbay and into her awaiting arms.
Maybe in another time and place they wouldn't be a family but in this moment they were and they were close and loved and that was all that mattered.
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Author's Note: I apologise if the technobabble is wrong. I don't have a beta so mistakes are all mine. I hope you enjoyed the general plot line.
Coming soon: Oh Dear God! A Surprise gift awaits the Captain once she and the Commander return from New Earth.
Reviews appreciated be constructive please.
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