Star trek belongs to Paramount, but this is my own story. So Paramount GET OUT! Others are welcome!
We sat in silence for minutes, while she gathered enough courage to look into my eyes. I didn't say a word, because I was afraid of scaring her off to tell me her story.
She was so beautiful, as she sat there next to me. I hadn't seen such a beautiful woman like she was then. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, that thick, red mass of her hair was unusually dishevelled and she was very small and slim. At that moment she looked young, very young. She was surely tired, but I need to know, who injured her and why.
"Kathryn, I know, that all you want is a hot bath and a long sleep. But I don't plan to allow you to go back to your quarters until you tell me your story. It doesn't affect the ship, because you would have already told it to me. I am your friend, please trust in me."
She hesitated to speak: her lips opened and closed several times. After a big swallow she finally articulated a sentence.
"I don't know where to start." her voice was barely audible.
"I think the beginning would be the best choice."
"But it's a long story."
"We needn't to go to the bridge in the next two days, except in emergency, so we have time." She turned her head away to lock out my smile.
"I am thirsty!" It was obvious, that she tried to play for time, I saw her to do that so many times...but I gave her a cup of tea with sugar. She didn't see what I get from the replicator, so she shuddered when she tasted the hot liquid, but drank all of the tea. I was aware of that she hated tea, especially with sugar, so she would have been very thirsty. I didn't feel any guilt, because she needed that energy and she would have refused the food. I had already learnt her. The tea at least would keep her awake for enough time to finish her "long story".
"Do you remember, when the ship's material were divided into two parts? When Naomi was born?" she asked, when the tea took its effect.
"Do you mean in the vidiian space? When the other captain exploded the other ship to avoid us from their attack?" She nodded.
"After that we had to repair the whole ship. While I was working on a relay in the Jeffries tube 6854, the sixth circuit of the life support exploded and started to burn. I tried to get out, but the hatch stuck. I felt the smell of the burning panel and I think, I passed out. When I recovered, I saw a young woman, repairing the panel. She sat back to me and I supposed that she is B'Elanna. She was as slim as B'Elanna, the hair-colour was the same but didn't wear uniform. I asked her what had happened, and why didn't she wear her uniform. When she ordered me to lie still, I realized, that I was wrong. Her voice was familiar, but I didn't know how. Furthermore I had strong headache, so I couldn't do anything, just what she said. But the biggest shock was ahead. When she finished the repairs, turned to me to check my state on. I saw myself."
"Was she the other captain?"
"No, nope. I said I had seen myself, but it isn't precise. I saw a young, about 20-year-old pale woman, whose face was just like mine. She wore a pair of soft beige trousers and a green pullover with a Vulcan-style embroidery on it and a pair of Vulcan moccasin. Even her brown hair was cut in a Vulcan-style." her voice started trembling, so I could prepare for the worst. "But her eyes...their shape were mine, but...but..."her eyes were suddenly full of tears again. I was curious what kind of eyes were in our visitor's face, and why was a pair of eyes so terrible, that she had to cry on it.
"She had eyes, hadn't she?" asked her, to ease the memory. I missed the moment: her voice went expressionless, when I heard her words.
"Yes, she had. She had your eyes." She couldn't surprise me more, even if she had told me that we arrive to the Earth tomorrow.
"What...?"
" SHE HAD YOUR EYES! I MET OUR DAUGHTER!" This time I was in silence and Kathryn saw me. She suddenly turned to be angry.
"You allways want me to love you, and when I finally tell you, that we will have a daughter in the future, you don't say anything! Say something! Chakotay!!!"
"Sit down and stop crying! Are you sure, that you met our daughter?"
"Yes. I found her traces when I went back to the tube. Not too much, only a few DNA fragments, but those were the mixture of yours and mine."
"I don't understand why she let you saw her."
"She didn't wear uniform, so she didn't belong to Starfleet. Although, she told me few things, that I couldn't intercept then. She said to quote:"That's your luck, Starfleet, that there is somebody, who loves you and your pair very much, otherwise I wouldn't be willing to come here. You have never been so kind to me to save you only for yourself." When I asked her why, she said that we had altogether four children and she was our third child. She was adopted by a terran couple and I sold her and after all I destroyed her life."
"Didn' t she say anything else?"
"No. When I was found, I was unconcious. I woke up in the sickbay and I didn't know, what to do. I went back to the tube and collect data. After I checked that it was real I started to thinking on her words."
"What was your conclusions?"
"She said she was adopted, I sold her and she was the third from our four children. I think we'll have two children when Voyager goes back to Earth and I will sell the third baby to get you back from prison. That's why she hates the Starfleet and I suppose she hates her adoptive parents too, because she said, I destroyed her life."
It sounded very painfully. I wanted to help her, but I couldn't. It's not a casual thing to see into the future, not even in the space!
"Kathryn, have you ever travel in the time?" she shook her head "It's not sure, that this is the future, it could be a paralell universe too, or the material partition affected the time-line for a short period of time...or anything else"
"It was real. She was sent here, she didn't want to come."
"But she came here, so I suppose she wanted to be born despite she hated everything."
"I don't even know her name..."
"She wasn't allowed to tell her name, because you could change the time-line. Would you give your daughter to a couple, when you are aware of the baby hates them? I don't think so. We don't know her name, and that's right."
"I will lose our baby..."
"It's not sure. Is it enough to avoid our relationship?"
"It's just the first reason."
"What's the second?"
"The second reason is I love you!"
To be continued on Reason Nr.3
