Zimt was tired. The race exhausted her. It was a very good race, fighting against two girls, who get used to cooperating. It was quite a challenge and enjoyment for her, but exhausting. After the announcement of the results she went directly to her assigned room, to have a shower. Since none of her roommates was there, she just threw down her clothes and jumped into the shower. It was a big luxury to have shower with real water, and she took advantage of the small indulgence.
But the little indulgence didn't last too long. Her commbadge was chirping. She stifled a curse and exited the bathroom, rubbing her wet hair with a towel. Zimt almost reached her badge, when a whistle concert woke her up that she was no longer alone. She quickly covered herself with the towel, and she looked indignant.
"How could you come in?" Zimt asked the little group.
"We are sorry" Kathryn Janeway smiled sweetly, while she and her husband covered their sons' eyes. "We didn't think that you..."
"But you are quite a view, Zimt!" Peter grinned.
"Peter Beckett, your eyes look like a snail's. I recommend that you put your eyes back in place!" Zimt said sweetly.
"Don't worry, I am also a doctor, after all" Peter was grinning. "I've seen a naked woman before!"
"And does your girlfriend agree with this?" Zimt smiled back. " Judging by her gaze, you won't look too much naked girl in the future!"
Zimt pointed to Amelia Janeway, who looked furious. Moreover she and her klingon friend began to send the male part of the group out of the door.
"You've grown a lot!" Kathryn told to Zimt. "When we found you, you were this small" she smiled to the young woman, and showed the old height at her knees.
"Time flies" Zimt answered, and collected her clothes. She vanished again in the bathroom, and came back fully dressed.
The two mothers and their daughters were waiting for her n the room. The younger part were angry at her, but the mothers turned to her with interest.
"Where are you now?" B'Elanna asked her. "It seems you are at the Starfleet."
"I am on the USS Stargazer, at the medical department."
"Oh, that's very good!" the half-klingon praised her.
The conversation basically stopped here, and they all just stared at each other in silence. Zimt was the one, who had enough from the awkward silence, and said farewell to the others.
"She left quite a hurry" Kathryn noticed, and B'Elanna agreed.
"I recommend her not to undress in front of other men, or else..." Amelia said through her gritted teeth.
She had to realize, that Zimt had a gorgeous figure, and her curves were better than hers. Zimt had bigger, more shapely breasts than hers. She understood that Peter preferred to stare at her, but that didn't make her any less angry.
Amelia Janeway became more angry, when two hours later she, Peter and her parents had to travel to the Stargazer with Zimt, piloting a shuttle. She was aware, that the young woman fulfilled an order, but she was irritating her. Peter's gaze always wandering to the temporary pilot. Zimt was professional. She drove and landed the shuttle with an elegant ease.
In the hangar Deanna Troi was waiting for them.
"Welcome on board of USS Stargazer" she greeted them. "I will show you your quarters."
"Would it be possible for the young ensign to accompany us?" Chakotay asked politely.
"I am sorry, but her patient is waiting for her" Deanna refused the indirect request. She gave Zimt a tablet, and a hypospray. "Please, hurry!" she added, full with concern.
The young woman said goodbye to the others, and ran toward the mentioned quarters.
Commander Seven of Nine was in a bad mood. Her quarters were in dark, and the woman was sitting on her couch, curled up, and hugging the yellow duck of her daughter.
"Leave me alone!" she cried to the doorbell.
Zimt entered, and a cup was flying toward her. She quickly stepped aside, so cup was breaking on the wall, instead of her head.
"Zimt?" she asked in a weak voice.
"Yes, that's me" she answered in a soft, soothing voice.
She read the story of the abduction of the Commander's daughter, and that nobody could soothe the Commander since then. She tried to, hopefully without using the hypospray, she got.
"Elle..." Seven started, but her voice showed her shock, and wasn't able to continue.
"I have read" Zimt said, and stepped to the older woman.
"Elle will die!" Seven said in shaking voice. "And nobody wanted to find her!"
"She hasn't been born yet" Zimt tried to soothe her, and hugged the Commander. "Shhh, cry! Cry out everything!"
Seven obeyed, as she was waiting for the opportunity. Her body was shaking, and she clung to the young woman, suffocating. She desperately was calling Elle again, and again. Zimt was gently caressing her back, and let her cry out all her pain.
"Don't worry for her" she said, when the Commander stopped crying. "She is probably with her parents in this moment."
"And if someone is torturing her? If she is starving, or she couldn't sleep, because she left her duck with me?"
"You love her very much, don't you?"
The Commander nodded.
"I decided to stay with her, and leave everything behind. I love her. I want her. But her father also vanished."
"Maybe they are together..."
"Maybe..." Seven's tears began to flow again.
"Maybe you, yourself sent her here, and brought her back. Who knows the temporal fighter's thinking?"
"Me? A temporal fighter?"
"Who knows about the future? Maybe, all you could do is to find her father, and start her life!" Zimt caressed Seven's hair. "Do you know, where is he?"
"All I have is a location in the Delta quadrant."
"Then you should go there."
"We will go there. Captain Picard will bring me there, and only after that fly to the destination, given by Starfleet."
"It is okay, isn't it?"
Seven nodded.
"In this case, you can't do anything. Don't you want to sleep?"
"I can't" she refused.
"I could give you a weak sedative..."
"Yes, please!"
Zimt, helped her to lay down in bed, and she snuggled into the bed next to her, because the Commander didn't want to sleep alone. She was used to the presence of her daughter. Zimt gave her the hypospray, she was listening the Commander's breathing for a while, and she also fell asleep. It was a long day.