Just a matter of Genetics.

Kathryn’s eye brows shot up now that she took the time to see it, there was some resemblance. But what the hell? The younger looking around slowly still not lowering the weapon. “Wait…What ship am I on?”

“The Intrepid (I think that’s right) class starship i U.S.S. /I Voyager.” Chakotay replied stopping rubbing his head to tilt it not understanding what was going on.

The young Janeway blinked in astonishment lowering the gun as a reaction. The Captain sized the opportunity and wrenched it from her hand. She didn’t seem to notice instead she sat there mouthing the word “Voyager.” for a moment then shook her head. “Impossible…No it just can‘t be….Voyager crashed…it was destroyed…over 20 years ago… ”

This made Kathryn drop the gun she had wrenched away. She sat there staring in shock. “What?” The younger woman nodded. “Wait…..Wait…Holy spoots…I’m in the past aren’t I?”

Janeway just nodded. “It would appear that way.” The young woman laid back down slowly almost in shock when Tom piped up.

“So…I mean what do we call you…cause you know there might be some confusion if we called you…Captain or Kathryn…or even Janeway.”

Both redheaded women looked at the Ensign. “Katie will do I guess.” The younger one shrugged looking at a black wrist band that was hidden under her sleeve. It had a small view screen. The others crowed a little closer to watch. Perhaps Katie thought her wrist com could tell her what in the seven hells was going on.

The young redhead stood on the bridge of a ship that the Voyager crew could only describe as incredibly advanced. The view screen appeared to be just turning off. Katie sighed her shoulders shagged a little as she walked toward the door.

“Commander Troi you have the bridge.” A smaller dark haired woman nodded and relayed the same command to the next down the chain following the taller woman out into the hall.

“Captain?” The younger dark haired woman touched her taller supier on the shoulder, causing the older woman to stop and turn around. “Eh?”

“Look I’m sorry…I know that because of the federations inability to except the fact that you may be the late captains off spring and refusal to run a D.N.A. test…makes you consider yourself a woman without a past….but look at it this way…you have a bright future? ” Commander Troi finished lamely and quickly running her hands through her hair nervously after having spit that sentence out quickly.

Captain Katie turned around fully, she just had to let out a chuckle at her second officers attempt at condolences. “It’s truly hard to believe you’re the daughter of Counselor Dianna Troi.” She stated shaking her head. Amelia Troi just nodded sheepishly. Unlike her mother the young fourth batezoid was shy, clumsy and had a very hard time speaking her mind. She had other quality’s that made her a great commander but all in all she would make a lousy counselor.

“Trust me Captain your not the first one to see that short coming a few light years away.” An idea suddenly sparked in Troi’s head that was both along the topic of conversation and may make her friend feel a better about the uncertainty’s of her lineage.

“Speaking of that, maybe it’s a good thing Starfleet is unwilling to except you as the late Janeways off spring… It leaves you without a legacy to live up to…I mean you of all people surely would be quickly irritated by people constantly pointing out your genetic pitfalls.”

“They already do.” Katie sighed shaking her head as she walked away. The commander simply sighed herself and began her way to follow the captain toward the cargo-bay. 18 of 20, their latest Ex borg take-on and their new science officer was there and the captain and the lady borg were not a mix to be had unsupervised for reasons that one may come into bodily harm.

The Leo, Katie’s Nova class Starship had many dissimilated ex-borgs on it not all of them stayed some became crew members though. It was the Leo’s mission to take the research found in the wreckage of the Voyager and put it into action rescuing and disasimilating borgs there for it had a specially trained crew of irreplaceable value. Most of which was made up of the for mentioned no longer borgs themselves. Despite the captains objections Starfleet had chosen the blond ex borg as science officer.

It wasn’t that Juu, 18 wasn’t user friendly? She had a very nice personality if you knew how to handle her but she had this habit of seeing the captions remarkable attributes with more of a science-project like quality. She was constantly trying to run tests or studies and a number of other things. Which annoyed and irritated the other older woman who not unlike the borg only wanted to be considered human in the first place to no end.

Katie walk through the hall, Troi following. The suddenly something accrued to the commander. “Captain?. Have we had this discussion before?” The redhead tilted her head slightly. “I don’t think so…it feels eerily familiar but why do you ask?”

The commander nodded. “Your going in there to ask Juu if she has the EMH from the Voyager wreckage operational?.” The captain blinked but nodded.

“Yes I was…I have this strange feeling I outta duck to.” As soon as the redheaded woman turned around the same blue rip appeared and she stumbled right into it.

After that the tiny screen went blank. Katie sighed. She was no closer then she had been before. But she did remember having sensations of De’savu all week. Her commander and science offer had told they were as well. Then apparently she had suddenly fallen into a rip in mid air?, It just didn’t add up.

The doctor who in all his wisdom had been standing silently, watching all these events unfold, noticed something. He steps forward approaching the young Katie and cleared his throat in that authoritative way of his.

“If you don’t mind me pointing out.” He stating grabbing the young woman’s shoulders and pulling her up, he carefully maneuvered her between bodies until she was standing next to Seven. He back up one the women were shoulder to shoulder. Letting Janeway, curious as to where he was going with this step beside him.

“I definitely see some almost family like resemblances, Don’t you Captain?” Janeway’s eyes widened as they swept each female. It was absolutely true.

The redhead was tall, slender, muscular, had the same ridged facial structure. Except for her for mentioned hair color (well Janeway noted her bangs WERE blond.), the fact that her right eye brow was not a shining metal implant, their stances were fairly different but had the same ridged unease, she was pound for pound every inch a younger more attitude filled spunky and not mention human like Seven.

Tom who had caught onto this, laughed after taking a long inspection of both of them.

“Your right Doc.” His wide green eyes looked up at Katie.

“Hehe…hey, hey, you Katie say, “It is irrelevant.” He plead nearly falling over with laughter. Seven who through all this had her eyebrow raised at that comment notched it up more. Katie tilted her at the ensign as if she thought he’d escaped a mental ward.

“I’d hit you for that if I didn’t have more respect for the mentally damaged.” Tom ceased his laughter and look at her. “Wow fireball...definitely the captains temper.”

Janeway stepped in between them throwing Tom a tired glare. “It’s interesting and the resemblance is there… but lets not push this…I’ll show you to some spare quarters Katie and the rest of us can get back to work or other things.” She threw Seven and smile which was faintly returned.

Kathryn and Katie were walking toward the unoccupied quarters in of voyager, When a thought struck the older captain. She had heard it on the woman’s ‘Diggi-band’ and seen with her own eyes. There was an almost very real possibility that this young woman could be her daughter I B her and Sevens daughter /B /I .

However the hell they had managed that, but she had Janeways name, sir name and there was just to much resemblance between Katie and Seven for Seven not to have some kind of direct relativity to her. Janeway had to take a sharp breath, it wasn’t that she wasn’t happy about this, if it was true that meant that she and Seven had a child. Which almost made the starship captain grin with glee. Except it seems that the kid had no knowledge of them and apparently Voyager had been destroyed.

So she honestly didn’t know what to think, as always though she was wary of the situation. She was getting paranoid with age and being repeatedly deceived so far from home. Of course she would offer the woman hospitality and return to her honeymoon. But she would be sure to have the crew watch her closely, she wanted to know more about what was going on.

Janeway sighed audibly, Katie looked over to see what was going on and got a half smile in return.

“Here are your quarters, enjoy them. I‘m sure somebody will show you around if you ask.”

Katie nodded and headed into the quarters for a nap…she certainly needed one in her opinion.

Kathryn one the other hand caught up to Seven in one of the hallways and grabbed her arm steering them back to the holodeck grinning that wide grin.

“You and I my dear have a date with the holodeck. Not to mention each other..”

Seven smiled softly and shook her head a little. “Considering what’s going on don’t you think we should perhaps be more accessible?” Janeway grinned up at the taller woman.

“Oh we are…We still have your com-badge and…” The redheaded captain held up her own com-badge with an even wider grin and a sparkle in her eyes that made Seven chuckle softly. “I nicked off Chakotay while he was unconscious.”

Seven chuckled again and wrapped her arms around her love pecking her lips softly. “Alright then…You’ve convinced me.” Kathryn laughed and mock rolled her eyes.

“Well that was easy. If I had known marrying you would take the fight out of you I’ve have done it sooner.”

Seven raised her implant again in confused and mock sighed removing her arms from the other woman. “Very well... Captain.” She gave a curt nod seeming to switch back into her shielded persona the captain had ‘affectionately’ dubbed drone mode. But there was a certain purposefully added sway to her hips as she walked away that made Janeway grin and resist the urge the blush.

“Wait up Annika.” Janeway caught up to her as they rounded the corner toward the holodeck. Kathryn always called her Annika when she acting more human and usually when they were off duty. It was her way of trying to convince Seven her little drone act hadn’t scared her even for the tiniest second.

Kathryn rolled her eyes when she noticed Sevens look. They entered the holodeck and switched the setting to Private. As the holodeck created their program Seven leaned down and picked up the smaller woman holding her close in her arms starting to walk to the cabin. She knew she was one of the only people Janeway wouldn’t protest being carried by. Because with Sevens enhanced borg strength it wasn’t really a problem to heft the other woman’s weight. Although she knew her dear captain would much rather be the one doing the carrying.

Her since of male-like chivalry and bravado brought things like that on when it came to their relationship. But with the weight of Seven not to mention the weight her implants added and the fact that their heights were different, she didn’t see how that was going to work. Although she could recall one time in private where the captain had insisted on ‘baring’ her weight. She ended up with a twisted disc for it to.

Kathryn looked up at Annika noticed she had gone quite…Seeing the soft blush on the other woman’s cheeks. It didn’t take long for Janeway to put two and two together to figure out what she was thinking. The captain herself blushed remembering that certain ‘incident.’

One year ago

Janeway groaned as she sat down on the biobed. It didn’t take long for the doctor to swoop over to her, like one overly-large loudly singing locus. Janeway rolled her eyes in a cranky manner as the doctor chirped his usual chipper hello.

“Well good morning Captain…You don’t have an appointment, so what brings you by?”

Janeway tried to shrug her shoulders but that turned out to be a bad idea and she ended up just wincing in pain. The doctor looked at her with his classic quizzical look. He grab his medical scanner and ran it over her shoulder.

“Why captain it appears you have a slipped disc?” His manner was more questioning then an actual statement. He looked her over and went to get a hypo-spray of some pain meds, so the captain would be more comfortable when he reset her arm and fixed the disc.

“I always tell you not to work to hard but do you listen to me? No, no the big brave Captain must endure all.” He went on yammering something like that when the sickbay doors opened again with their familiar whoosh and another person entered the room. Seven of Nine stood there watching the two of them her own neck slightly bent and blood trickling down her biosuite.

Doctor turned stunned to see the blood on Seven and quick grabbed his tricorder again. He reached her in no time wearing a concerned look, scanning over her.

“And just what has happened to you , Seven?” He asked reading the data the tricorder gave him. Her wound was a bite mark? Not only that but a human bite mark. He looked up at Seven to notice her exchanging a different series of glances with the captain ranging from concern to explanatory to a slight eye roll. If he didn’t know any better he’d have to sworn they were somehow communicating telepathically.

Or had Seven just gotten very good at reading facial expressions and returning them, while he wasn’t looking? Hating to be left out of things the Doctor shot them both stern looks and places his hands on his hips.

“Alright, you two what’s going on here?” The captain looked away from whatever facial expression based conversation she was having with Seven over to the Doctor.

“Its nothing…Look could you just fix my shoulder now?” Janeway asked a touch of impatience in her voice. The doctor looked at the two of them again and shook his head.

“I refuse to treat either of you until I get an explanation as to how these injuries were sustained.” He stood firmly in place and nodded his head just a little more to reassure himself then anything. Both of these women had nasty habits of shutting down his program if he got nosier then they liked. But he was confident even with their combine intelligence that they wouldn’t be able to figure out how to treat these wounds properly themselves.

Kathryn rolled her eyes and looked at Seven again. “Can he do that?” She asked the borg woman knowing she had the entire Starfleet manual memorized by now even better then the captain herself did.

Seven gave her a thinking look then concluded. “I believe he can yes…” After a short pause she added, “But you are the Captain.”

Kathryn sighed again and nodding at Seven she got up and stood next to the hologram whispering softly to him though Sevens hearing could pick it up just as easily. After a few moments of quite whispering the doc stepped back with a stunned look on his face. Making a few mouth movements possibly attempting to speak. But when nothing came out he cleared his throat and eyed the two of them.

“Let me get this straight, you two were doing a position from..” He couldn’t even say the next word on the first try. “Karma sutra and you.” He pointed to Janeway. “Tried to balance all of Sevens weight when you ended up falling off the bed twisting your shoulder…Then you accidentally bit into Sevens neck because of the pain?” The poor hologram looked as if he were about to faint if it were at all possible.

Kathryn groaned. “Computer deactivate EMH.” With that the doctor disappeared, stupor and all. “Seven look up bite wounds and shoulder injuries.” Janeway said moving over to the medical cabin. Seven nodded and headed for the work station.

The two women fell onto the soft couch in the cabin laughing still snuggling into one another’s arms. At the time the situation had been quite embarrassing for both of them, Janeway was sure if it were at all possible to die from sheer embarrassment she would have at that moment. But now seeing as they had both survived somehow, it was just something to giggle at.

Seven smiled softly, it was one of her rare full smiles only seen in Kathryn’s presence. The captain sat up and kissed the blonde’s nose then down to her lips pressing hers more firmly against the soft lush ones beneath them. Unsurprised by the faint taste of strawberries and chocolate.

Katie was walking along silently, she had tried to sleep but couldn’t. Then again it was nothing new for sleep to be an exercise in futility for her. She kept feeling waves of nausea, dizziness, among other things. Even now that the feeling seemed to have subsided it wads hard to stand, her legs, arms and eyes simply weren’t responding to her.

She turned the corner and walked into the next available room. Finding herself in a mess hall of sorts, or at least it looked as if it had been built to be to be, weather it was originally or not.

I ‘Odd’ /I She thought to herself, ‘but considering my current situation its hardly much.’ Shrugging her shoulders to herself, she strode in slowly flopping herself in a seat after her stomach gave a lurch protesting going any further.

“Ugh.” It as almost a surreal feeling as her head hit the table.

“Are you ok?” Came another voice from slightly above. Katie opened her eyes and pulled her head up quickly.

“Ahhhh.” A response to the sharp pain in the back of her neck. Her eyes fell on an orange fuzzy man-like creature with a Mohawk of shaggy blonde orange hair and a mullet draping over his neck.

Neelix waved a furry hand in front of Katie’s face. “I asked if you were alright, you look alittle pale.” He chuckled.

“Then again I wouldn’t know if your suppose to be that way or not.” Sure he had heard of the new guest of board, news traveled fast around here, nearly breeched the wrap ten barrier most of the time. So he had also heard all speculation and rumors that were swirling around her as well.

“I’m alittle dizzy, that’s all.” She said sitting up more.

“Oh, perhaps I can get something for you?” She gave a nod and he went chattering away with suggestions, she couldn’t hear nor was she entirely sure she wanted to.

“Just some tea, Chai.” She said making it easier for him, he nodded and scurried away, still chattering. She couldn’t hear him, the ground rushing up to her quickly, hardly registered at all. Neelix turned around and rushed back over touching Katie’s shoulder. He taped his combadge and signaled a medical emergency as the few crewmen already in the mess hall moved to help.

Harry and Be’lanna who happened to be on their lunch breaks at the time hurried over to the woman. Torres pressed her fingers to the woman’s neck.

“Her pulse is slowing, here, Harry help me pick her up.”

The young man nodded and grabbed Katie’s legs when B’Elanna took her shoulders, together with Neelix stumbling along beside them they carried the young woman to sickbay. The doctor was milling about as usual, he turned around to look over the scene as B’Elanna and Harry carted their new arrival in with Neelix dancing about beside them murmuring frantically. L.t. Torres was trying her best to ignore him but her sour face was tell enough that it wasn’t working.

“She was in the mess hall and just collapsed, I didn’t do anything.” He said with mild panic, if any of the rumors had a grain of truth to them. Like most rumor’s tended to have, then the captain was libel to be levied with him, if the girl was injured seriously.

The Doctor grabbed his tricorder and scanned Katie over several times blacking out Neelix’s rambling as he frowned distinctly. “You might wanna get captain Janeway for this.”

“She’s…” Neelix started but was instantly cut off by the Doctor.

“ I Our /I Captain Janeway,” He clarified to the furry being with mild distain.

Neelix nodded and rushed off out the sickbay door, the doctor rolled his eyes and tapped his combadge.

“Doctor to Seven of nine.” He called to Seven’s combadge thinking that Captain still didn’t have hers. There was a long pause on the other end before Sevens breathy reply finally came over the com.

“Proceed Doctor, what is it you require?” Came the blondes cool voice over the com.

The Doctor paused an gave a small sigh…Pure dramatics on his part as he had no actual need to breathe.

“You and the Captain may want to comer to sickbay its going to awhile to explain.” He said at a loss for anything more to say.

So Captain Kathryn Janeway, was once again standing in full uniform in sickbay, on her honeymoon! Of all times…But the doctor had assured her it was important and he had damn well better be right! She noted dryly to herself as she turned toward the young woman sprawled almost lifeless on the biobed. Neelix still spilling apologies behind her, she turned toward him with a motion of her hand stopping his small tie raid.

“Please, Neelix I’m sure you had nothing to do with it.” She said giving the furry man as much of a sympathetic smile as she could muster. Neelix relaxed visibly as the small sparse frame of the doctor came into view.

“She’s absolutely right, Mr. Neelix you may relax, you had nothing to do with our guests current condition.” He turned to one of the many medical screens and hit some keys. Janeway and Seven of course who had tagged along for sake of nothing better to do stepped closer as well.

“Actually she appears to have some sort of a virus.” He said keying up a few pictures of cell strands. “Quite similar to the Phage,” He brought up a picture of the genetic structure of the Phage disease. Janeway to his right visibly paled. A disease similar to the Phage? Well the doctor wasn’t lying, they looked very close to one another from what she could see of the scans.

The little voice in the back of her mind blinked to life. ‘Told you it was to good o be true.’ It mocked softly causing a sting to run through her. The hologram cleared his throat before continuing giving the Captain his own stubble version of the stink eye for ignoring him for the moment she had lapsed into thought.

Beside her she heard B’Elanna gasp as well, she had never been a friend to Phage or any of its carrier’s, she had stuck around in the medical bay because her duty shift wasn’t due to start for another twenty minutes and she was incredibly carious of the Janeway impost ring, Seven-look-a-like.

“But, from what I can tell, instead of actively and aggressively attacking the cellular structure of the carrier, this Virus aggressively accelerates the metabolism of its carriers.” Janeway nodded behind him looking over some of the tricorder scans he brought up.

“So for all intensive proposes, she should be faster, stronger, and considerably more durable then the average human.” Seven surmised after examining the data.

“Correct.” The doctor nodded toward the blonde. “But I can’t tell anymore then that, not without taking blood.” He turned toward the captain. Kathryn nodded to him after a moment of thought.

“Do it,” She said shortly, normally Starfleet protocol forbade taking blood samples without consent, but it also had a by-law that said a captain or medical officer could over-ride the privacy protocol’s surrounded blood samples if the subjects life was in immediate danger. While Captain Janeway didn’t exactly know if it was, she had dealt with the Phage in the past and she considered not knowing about this possible new strand of a grave danger to her crew. So it took precedence in her mind.

The doctor nodded and loaded up an empty vile into the hypo-spray setting to draw blood instead of inject medication. He pressed it to the unconscious Katie’s vein, the container filled with red liquid in an instant or so. He ejected the cartridge and put it snuggly into the sleeve of one of the medical analyzers.

After a moment the analyzer whirled around like a fast moving tilt-a-whirl

Ride. It took five minutes as the captain, her chief engineer and her new wife stood waiting breathlessly for the results. B’Elanna was lost in thought, like hell was she giving away anymore of her bran tissues for the Phage research, not even the Captain could strap her down for it.

Janeway was equally lost in thought, intrigue by this hole situation and angry that she was once again dragged away from her bliss for business let alone more of the Phage. Seven just stared at the floor her ice blue eyes studying it carefully always as sure sign her analytical mind was mulling over every possibly before they were even brought to light.

The analyzer finally came to a stop, the doctor brought up the results on a screen and bent over pouring over them. “Amazing, simply incredible.” He said softly continuing his close study.

“Well what is it!” The half klingon finally barked moving to look over his shoulder. The hologram sighed and punched a button, bringing the results up on a larger screen so al three women could study them for themselves.

“As I said, the virus is indeed hyper accelerating her metabolism. So many of her physical and mental processes are sped up to a near-super human level of functioning.” He paused for a moment giving a small smile when B’Elanna gave him her own far less stubble stink eye, obviously enjoying ramping up her extreme temper.

“But..” He continued rolling his eyes abit at the Chief engineer. “Its degrading her blood structure, rapidly decreasing her ability to regenerate blood, or form platelets. With as fast as her body functions, its nearly impossible for her blood system to keep up. Her body can’t stop her blood from literally growing old and dieing inside her, or simply going bad.”

Janeway nodded herself, Seven and B’Elanna now intently studying the data for themselves.

“Then why she still alive?” B’Elanna finally asked. “From what your saying it would take, at least hundreds of full transfusions, over her entire life-time to keep her sustained.” Seven looked at the short woman next her for a moment then back at the data scanning it al over carefully, she had caught something, a very similar electrical signal in the results and wanted to make sure of it before she said anything.

Janeway looked over the Doctor. “Could she be getting all these transfusions? Is that why?” The doctor intern shook his head.

“I highly doubt it Captain, the blood still matches her genetic signature, with as many transfusions as she’d need, it wouldn’t by a long shot.” Kathryn frowned intently about to argue back when Seven finally turned around, her cool blue eyes shining. She took a breath regarding her wife for a moment then turned to face them all.

“Nano-probes.” She said slowly. “Borg nano-probes.” Seven clarified though she didn’t need to. The hologram nodded taking over the explanations.

“Exactly, they go around stimulating the cells that cause blood regeneration and health, because of them the disease’s effects on her blood structure are minimized.”

“Then what’s the problem with her!” B’Elanna barked throwing her hands up.

I know another clif hanger and another short chatper, sorry about that, its taken me a long time to up-date this because alot has hapened to me lately but i should be up-dating this story again soon. For now enjoy this chapter.