A little too late. By Ingela Stern. ^^^^

Captain Janeway and the rest of the senior staff was seated in the conference room for the regular staff meeting, when the ship suddenly shuddered and the internal dampers gave a whining noise as they desperately fought to keep the ship up. Janeway and Chakotay headed for the bridge with Tom, Harry and Tuvok, while Seven and B´Elanna rushed down to engineering . Neelix and the Doctor were the last to leave.

" Report!" Janeway�s voice was crisp and the young ensign at ops quickly let Harry take over, while she did her best to fill the command team in.

" They came out of nowhere, Captain. No warnings no nothing, they didn't�t even show up on long range sensors. They started firing at once."

" Thank you, ensign. Harry, hail them." Janeway stood up and started pacing the floor, she had a few thing�s to tell whoever they were.

" No answer, Captain."

" Send a message on all subspace bands." She stopped behind Tom and put her hand�s on her hips and began talking:

" To the vessel firing on us. I�m Captain Kathryn Janeway of the federation starship Voyager. We are only passing by, we have no hostile intent. Why are you firing at us?"

For a few seconds they were only met by silence, and then the ship lurched again as the ship fired at them again.

" Please stop your fire, or we will be forced to retaliate " Janeway turned around to say something to Chakotay, when she was interrupted by B´Elanna�s frantic voice over the commlink.

" Captain, intruder alert. We need security down here, right away. Captain they are firing at us, they have......." Her cries ended in a lot of static and the only thing heard was an occasional scream and the sound of weapons fire. Tom turned to Janeway, his face all white and she knew he feared for B�Elanna�s life, she was equally afraid, but for someone else.

" Captain, I�m reading some kind of energy signatures, they are here on the bridge." Harry�s fingers flew across the ops.controls, trying desperately to pinpoint the location of the energy signatures.

" Localize them." Janeway and Chakotay were both standing up now, looking around with their phasers drawn.

" I can�t find their source, it keeps moving around all the time. There seems to be more than one source though, Captain. One right in front of you and there is another one beside Tu....." In that moment the bridge turned to mayhem, phasers were fired, people fell all around and then all of a sudden the alien attackers left, just as quickly as they had arrived. When they left they didn't�t just leave a crippled ship, injured and dead crew, they took something as well. Voyagers youngest crewmember was gone and so was Kathryn Janeways one true love..........

A Little too late./part two.
By
Ingela Stern.

Personal log Commander Chakotay:
It's been two days since the attack. Kathryn is still in sickbay and so is
Tuvok, but Tom was released this morning and as well as  B`Elanna. They are
both back on duty as of tomorrow. Samantha Wildman and Neelix is frantic and
poor Kathryn doesn't even know yet what has happened to Seven and Naomi, and
I dread to be the one to tell her when she finally do recover consciousness.
It took less than two minutes for the unknown assailants to get of the ship
with Naomi and Seven and they just disappeared, in fact they were never been
visible at all. Random energy- signatures that seem to come out of nowhere
was the only thing we "saw" of them.ever since they left the ship there has
been no sign of them or their vessel. We have examined every sensor log from
the incident, but there is nothing it's as if they where never here at all. 
I realize that there isn't much we can do until we hear from them or until
one of us get's a clue as to where they are now. All we can do now is hope
they don't hurt Seven and Naomi. I personally hope Kathryn wakes up soon,
even though I dread breaking the news to her about Seven and Naomi.
End personal log.

She heard voices, quiet but calling her name.
" Kathryn, can you hear me? Come on, open your eyes."
She struggled to do what he asked her to do, then she heard the Doctor
urging her to open her eyes and look at him. She slowly managed to do as
they said and looked into the worried and tired eyes of her First Officer.
" Chakotay?" Her voice was hoarse and barely a whisper, but he heard her
and smiled.
" Yes, it's me. How do you feel? Are you in pain?"
She shook her head, reached for his hand and held it tight. He heard her
voice tremble slightly.
" Are the rest of the crew all right? What happened, Chakotay?"
" Do you remember any of the attack?" He sat down on the side of her bed.
She nodded, then hesitated for a moment before she said quietly:
" I remember Harry saying there was some energy signatures he couldn't
locate, then B´Elanna screamed that they had intruders down in engineering.
Then there were shots fired and a lot of screaming, I remember trying to
warn Tuvok, they were right behind him and then everything went black." She
was quiet for a minute than she asked softly:
" What happened, Chakotay. To me, was I shot?"
He nodded and told her about the fateful two minutes that Voyager had been
under attack.
" They came out of nowhere and they disappeared almost as quickly as they
emerged from where ever the hell they came. When they left, everything was a
total chaos for a while. You and Tuvok were down, injury reports were coming
in from all over the ship. After a few minutes we realized that we had three
crewmembers dead, four injured and two missing."
He held his breath for a second as he watched her emotions play out across
her features, horror, sadness, grief and finally dread.
" Who did we loose?" Her voice was strained with pain, he knew what she
felt.
" Lieutenant Moss and Ensign Karya in engineering and Ensign Summer from
Science. Kathryn, I'm sorry. I know how you feel. B´Elanna, Tom and Tuvok
where injured and you off course. Tom and B´Elanna are already back on duty
again and both you and Tuvok will recover."
She was silent for a moment and then she asked the question he knew would be
inevitable.
" Chakotay, who are missing. Is Seven all right." He heard the note of
panic in her voice and knew that she already knew. That the only reason for
the blonde borg to stay away from her side, was if she was dead, injured or
not there at all. He could see her face go pale and for a moment he thought
she would faint, he hastily put his arm around her shoulders. Somehow she
remained awake, her voice shook when she asked him:
" Who else, Chakotay. You said there were two people missing, who is the
second one."
" Naomi." He saw her flinch, she leaned against his shoulder and whispered:
" She is only a child, why her?"
In that moment he wasn't sure if she was talking about Naomi or Seven.

Purple waves of pain washed over her as she struggled to open her eyes. The
moment she opened them she looked into cold yellow eyes and the pain
increased until the only thing she heard was her own scream.
"KATHRYN!!!!!"

To be continued?