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Ok as well before we start this is based on the series Star Trek Voyager but with a twist from the original story line and i hope you like it.
Chapter 12: The Long Night
"Oh that's just great, she calls you and off you go running like her little lap dog. It seems like you should be dating her than me." Tom shouted at me in our quarters. It had been 2 months since we entered the region of space that the crew was calling the void. It was a pure black area of space that had no stars and by the estimates of Seven of Nine it would take two years for us to cross. The first month or so had been okay, it gave a lot of the crew the chance to unwind and catch up on things that they really hadn't had a chance to do in so long. As for me and Tom we had re-arranged our quarters, taken a vacation on the Holodeck to Austria on Earth where we went skiing and just basically had a good time. A lot of the crew were rarely on shift. I think I was doing about 4 shifts a week all 8 hours long. But after the first month things started to lose their appeal and the crew was getting restless. As for me and Tom we had started to argue a lot and this was just what was happening now. The trouble was the captain had isolated herself from the crew. She rarely left her quarters and for some strange reason she seemed to only allow certain people into her quarters and I was one of them. She had called me and asked me to go over. I had tried to get her to explain to me why she was isolating herself but she wouldn't tell me. Tom, I knew, was getting pissed off at how much time I was spending with the captain and I'm sure on some level he was jealous of the fact she was monopolising my time. "What the fuck are you talking about?!" I yelled back at him. "Janeway, you care more about her than you do me." He screamed back at me. "Oh get over yourself Tom, Kathryn is my friend and if you're going to be like this then I'd rather spend time with her." I gathered myself together and headed for the Tom. "Don't walk out those doors, we're not done here" he shouted at me. I whirled around. That was it I had enough of him. "Tom, I'm going to say this once more for your tiny little brain to understand, don't ever tell me what to do and stop being so bloody childish. Now I'm going out and when I get back either be in a better mood or go find something to do because I want some quiet time." I told him and walked out the door. As I walked down the corridor I noticed some crewmen stood talking and catching up. I continued down the corridor rounding a few corners before finally arriving outside the captain's quarters. I pressed the door chime and she asked "Who is it?" "Jack" I replied. "Come in." She said. The doors opened and I entered her dimly lit quarters. "Hi." I said. "Hey, take a seat won't you." She said gesturing to her couch as she poured us some coffee. I walked over and sat down as she handed me a cup. "So how have you been?" she asked. "Just the same, Tom still starting fights. I think at the minute it's the only way we actually talk." I told her. She chuckled and said, "Yeah well this region of space will do that to you. I mean look at me." I took a sip of my coffee and said "Yeah about that, listen Kathryn I don't mean to step out of line here but you picked a bad time to isolate yourself from the crew, they need to see you and this ship needs her captain." I told her. "Jack please don't start this again." She said. "Just tell me why?" I asked. "You really want to know why?" she replied. "Yes otherwise I wouldn't have asked." I told her. "I'm selfish." She said. "What do you mean?" I asked. "I made an error in judgement, it was short sighted and it was selfish and now all of this crew is paying my for my mistake." She told me. "Kathryn you're not making any sense." She looked straight at me and said "The Delta Quadrant. I am responsible for getting this crew trapped 70,000 lights years from their families. And that is a burden I have to live with. Up until now I told myself This mission has been a success.' But then we hit this void and I had more than enough time to think back and I realise I made an error in judgement. I mean look at you you're 25 and trapped so far away from your family. You're just a young man and someone at your age should not be away from his family." I held my hand up and said "Okay listen to me, we had this discussion before and now I want you to really listen, this is not all your fault, every member of this crew knows how important that sacrifice was that you made at the start of the journey, but ask one person if they thought it was a bad idea and they would tell straight away NO' because they believe this is a worthwhile mission. They're seeing things that no one has ever come across before. Don't beat yourself up about things that happened it the past. We will get home before I turn 40 I guarantee you that even if I have to design and develop a revolutionary new way of travelling at warp." I told her causing her to smile. "You're right as usual. Now go and make up with your boyfriend and tell him if he keeps arguing with you that I will leave these quarters just to kick his ass." She told me causing me to laugh out loud. I got up and walked out but before I left I said, "I'll pass on the message. Bye Kathryn" She smiled and waved.
As I entered my quarters I was expecting to see Tom and start another fight. I looked around he was nowhere to be seen. I went into the bathroom and looked at the bathtub. 3 weeks I asked Chakotay if I could expand my bathroom and build a bathtub and he had agreed seen as the room next door to my quarters was a unused storage bay. So after speaking with B'Elanna she and I knocked down the wall built another and then built a bathtub similar to what Captain Janeway has in her bathroom. It was a standard issue bathtub with a slight modification, instead of taps I had a small fountain installed that worked on computer activation. "Computer activate the bathtub." I ordered. The computer chirped and the plug hole covered over with a small plate and hot water slowly began to pour from the fountain picking up speed. I added some bubble bath and a bath bomb for relaxation. I then went back into the main area and grabbed some candles and a lighter. After setting them up and lighting them around the bathroom I went back into the bedroom and stripped out of my uniform into my dressing gown. "Computer locate Tom Walker." I asked. The computer chirped and replied "Ensign Walker is in the mess hall." Good then he wouldn't disturb me. I went back into the bathroom and saw the bathtub was now full and the fountain had deactivated. I took off my dressing gown and boxers and climbed in. Having washed my hair I grabbed a small towel and wrapped it around my hair and lay back, closed my eyes and relaxed. I must have been in the bath for about 20 minutes and felt so relaxed. The water was nice and hot, but not so hot that it felt like I was being boiled alive. "Jack are you here?" I heard Tom shout. "I'm in the bath, and if you're here to argue don't bother." I replied. He came into the bathroom and stood before me with a big bunch of roses. I opened my eyes and looked at him. I noticed the flowers in his arms and a bottle of champagne in the other. "What's this?" I asked. "My not so subtle way of saying I'm sorry for acting like the biggest jerk in the quadrant earlier. It wasn't fair of me to have a go at you because Janeway wanted to see you." He told. He handed me the flowers when I smiled and I smelt them. "They're beautiful thank you." I said. I handed him them back considering I was in the bath and he took them into the living area and came back with two champagne glasses and a bowel of chocolate covered strawberries. I looked at him and said "Are you just the cutest." He smiled and said "Does this mean I'm forgiven?" I nodded. He opened the champagne and poured two glasses and handed me one. It was still nice and cold. I took a sip and put it on the side. He then took a strawberry and fed it to me. I smiled at that. "Well are you getting in?" I asked gesturing to the bath. "Am I allowed?" he asked. "I suppose so." I replied. He smiled and stripped off and joined me. I took another sip of champagne and I moved over to him. I slipped in between his legs and lay against his chest. He wrapped his arms around my and let them sit on my chest. "I love you." He said. "I love you to." I replied. He leaned down and kissed me on the cheek and fed me another strawberry. After about 25 minutes in the bath we heard a voice in the main area. "Jack, Tom are you here?" It was B'Elanna. "We're in the bath." I shouted back. She walked into the bathroom and looked at us. "Oh so you 2 made up then." She said sitting on the corner of the bath. This wasn't unusual for her to see the two of us either naked or semi naked. "How did you know we fought?" I asked. "I saw Tom mopping around the mess hall." She said. I smiled at him turning my body to see him and said "Well that's just so cute." He blushed and I kissed him. B'Elanna grabbed a strawberry and ate it. "Hey." I said playfully. She stuck her tongue out and smiled. "B'Elanna." I heard someone shout. "In here." She replied. The door opened and in walked Tom Paris and Harry Kim. I looked at them and said "Hey guys welcome to the show." They laughed and said "Sorry to interrupt." "Don't be sorry why don't we just have the whole crew come in." Tom said. Harry sat down on my toilet lid which was down and Paris sat on the floor by B'Elanna. "Champagne?" I asked. They laughed "Sure why not." They replied. "Then go get some glasses." Said Tom. B'Elanna walked out and returned with 3 glasses. She poured the champagne and handed them to Paris and Kim keeping one for herself. "So how are things going?" asked Tom. "Boring and even more boring. We just came to see if B'Elanna wanted to go to the gym." Said Paris. She looked at them and said "Sure." They rounded off their champagne after we talked for a while and then headed out. Tom and I went back to relaxing and the water was still nice and hot even though we had been in here for a while. They had also helped to round off our chocolate covered strawberries. After spending over an hour in the bath already Tom began to wash me and afterwards I did the same to him. "Do you want to go to the holodeck provided it's free?" he asked. "I'd rather go get something to eat." I said. He smiled and said "okay." We got out the bath and dried off, I went into the bedroom to blow dry and straighten my hair while Tom stayed in the bathroom and had a shave. I got out my hair dryer and started to dry my long hair. It had gotten so long. After I dried my hair I got dressed in to a fresh uniform while Tom sat on the bed waiting for me to finish and do his hair. I got out my GHD hair straightners circa 2009 and completely straightened my hair which took a good 20 minutes. When I was done I went over to Tom and straightened his hair which was shortish, but still long enough to straighten. I then grabbed some hair products and styled his hair and sprayed hairspray in his hair to make it stick. When I was done he put on his boots while I washed my hands. "ready?" he asked. "Yep." I replied and we walked out the quarters and to the mess hall hand in hand.
As we sat in the mess hall eating there were plenty of crewmen up and about. A lot peoples sleeping patterns were really off, as I checked the time and it was 00:30 hours and here I was just eating dinner. "So, when are you next on shift?" I asked. "Thursday at 09:00. You?" tom answered me. "Wednesday but I'm on the bridge in command, from 11:00" I told him. He nodded and said "I'll pop and see you then. What did you want to do after dinner?" he asked. "We could see if the holodeck is free." I replied causing him to smile. "What program?" he asked. "Well I read your holonovel and I think I'm persuaded to run it." I told him causing him to smile again. His holonovel was a gay drama. It was set in the early 21st century circa 2013 in New York on Earth. It told the story of two men who meet in a bar when they are with friends, spend the night together and really fall in love. But when one of them goes missing the other goes all over the world to try to rescue him when he receives a ransom demand. The character that would go missing is Tom and I would play the guy who would do all the searching. "Great, I promise you won't regret it." He said. "But there is a condition to it, when we finish yours you have to play mine." I told him. "What was yours again?" he asked. "You know the Halliwells from the 21st century TV Series Charmed." I told him. "Oh yeah I watched a few episodes but they are all women." He told me. "I know we won't actually be playing the sisters, I found a story in the database which is Gay Themed that relates to the two boys that Piper had, Chris and Wyatt and also another guy who is friend of their family called James who form the charmed ones, but this time the male ones." I explained. "Sounds fun, what characters would we play?" he asked. I took a sip of my drink and said "I would be Wyatt, while you would play James. They fall in love and have a baby together." He smiled and then looked down into his cup circling the rim. "Have you thought any more to us having children?" he asked. I smiled and raised his head with my hand and said "Actually yeah, but I want to do it after we're married." His eyes widened and a huge smile crept on his face "So you really want to have children?" he asked. "Yes, but I want us to plan things out and wait until we're both fully committed to raising a child. And I want to do it once we're out of this bloody void." I said. "Agreed so what get married in about 2 years and then start trying?" he asked. "Yeah that works for me." I replied. He leaned over the table and kissed me. "That sounds perfect. I love you." He told me. "I love you more." I replied kissing him back. "Bridge to Ensign Walker." Came to Chakotays voice over the comm. separating us. "Go ahead sir." He replied. "Tom I need you to take over engineering for the night shift. I have assigned two teams to get to work on conserving more deuterium and I have left engineering short. Seen as you haven't worked for 2 days and Jack was only on shift yesterday I would like you to take charge." He told him. "Understood sir, I'm on my way." He answered. The channel ended and said "So much for the holodeck, I'm sorry babes, will you be okay?" he asked. "Yeah of course, go" I replied kissing him. He got up and left.
As I entered mine and Tom's quarters I sat on the couch and wondered what I could. It was at times like these I got really bored. "Carter to Captain Janeway" I said over the comm. "Go ahead Jack" she replied. "Would you like to come over for coffee?" I asked. "Sure give me two minutes." She said ending the channel. Seconds later the air beside me shimmered and Captain Janeway materialised in a blue hue. "Hi." I said. "Hey, thanks for the offer of coffee." She said. I went to the replicator and replicated a pot of coffee and two empty cups and poured coffee into both of them. I handed her a mug as she sat in one of the arm chairs. I set the mug on the coffee table Tom and I had replicated and sat on the couch. "So I take it you two didn't make up?" she asked. "Actually we did." I said pointing to the roses which Tom had placed in a vase. She went over and looked at them and smelled them. "They are gorgeous." She said. "He brought me them when I was in the bath." I said smirking. "You have a bath?" she asked. "Yeah did I not mention that Chakotay gave us permission to expand the quarters? Can you not tell?" I asked. "Come to think of it, yeah it seems bigger in here now." She said. I took her into the bathroom to show her what we had done and she said "Just like the one in mine." I nodded and we went back and sat and chatted. As we were talking I could have sworn I head lights going off in the corridor. A few seconds later, the lights in my quarters started to go out until the room was pitch black. "Jack?" Janeway asked. "I have no idea." I replied, getting up and fumbling to make my way into the bathroom. Once in the bathroom I turned the light on which was an independent light that I replicated that worked on micro power cell which gave just enough light to light the candles which Tom and I used when we were in the bath. I carried two candles out in the main room to see the captain stood up. "What happened?" I asked. "I don't know but I don't like it. We need to get to a weapons locker." She replied. We went to the door but they didn't open. "Hold on, we have an engineering kit in here which contains a manual release." I said walking with a candle to find it. Once I got the manual release and let us out we walked down the hall with the candles until we got to the weapons locker which was just round the corner from my quarters. Using the manual release I opened the door and the captain helped me force the doors open. When we entered she grabbed two compression rifles and passed me one. The compression riffle was the next step up from a phaser rifle and to me was a lot easier to handle. After charging the riffle and turning on the light beacon which was on the top I looked at the captain and we left the weapons locker and went down the corridor. She led the way and as we walked she held up her hand. "I just saw something." She whispered. We crept further down the hall and saw another light source. As I aimed my weapon the light shone and I could make out Chakotay and Neelix. Chakotay was pointing his wrist beacon at something, a black looking creature that had a strange look to it. I saw it running towards the commander and Neelix and pulled the trigger of my riffle hitting the alien in the side. He turned and looked at me before trying to then run off. This time the captain and I both fired but instead of hitting the alien we hit the bulkhead. "Follow us." Said Janeway to Chakotay and Neelix I led the way to engineering, which was the obvious place to go to. "We should grab a power cell" said Chakotay.
After spending around 20 minutes climbing through pitch black Jeffries tubes we finally arrived on deck 11 where we entered a storage bay and grabbed a power cell before making our way to engineering. While the captain and I forced the doors opened with our riffles, Chakotay and Neelix stood waiting holding onto the power cell. I could hear people shouting on the other side of the door. When we made an opening in the door I slipped my fingers through started to pull the doors apart, and when they were wide enough the captain put her riffle against the door and helped me to push it open. "How about a little light over here?" I heard Tom shout. "We can do better than that; this power cell should be enough to get emergency power back online." I shouted. "Up here, we'll hook it up directly to the EPS Manifolds." Said B'Elanna from the second level where I could see here but holding my phaser upside down and aiming the light up at her. Chakotay and Neelix carried the power cell up the ladders to the second level while the captain and I looked over the core. It was completely frozen. When we saw Chakotay and Neelix on the upper level we both went up the ladder to the second level as we saw power coming back online. I went down the steps to the command console with the Captain and Chakotay while Tom and B'Elanna worked on the engines. I lay my riffle down on the console and started to work. "Janeway to bridge report." Said Janeway over the comm. "The dampening field has been blocked captain, we're surrounded by 3 alien vessels, 17 intruders are on board." Tuvok reported from the bridge. As B'Elanna worked on getting the impulse engines back online, I tried to find a quicker way to bring the warp drive back in case we had to make a quick getaway. "We don't have weapons online." Reported Chakotay next to me. "Tuvok target the ship off our port bow, fire a few warning shots." Ordered Janeway. I watched on sensors as Tuvok fired phasers just scraping the alien's shields. The ship rocked registering that the aliens had returned fire. "Do we have propulsion?" asked Chakotay. "Not yet." Replied Tom. We took another hit and Tuvok reported "Shields are down." The ship started to power down as we saw the core slow down. "Not again." Said Neelix. It didn't last long as the lighting and everything started to come back to normal. I noticed on sensors that another ship was approaching. "We've got another contact on sensors and they are firing on the aliens." I reported. "Can you identify them Jack?" asked the captain. "No ma'am, but they are leaking a rather excessive amount of Theta Radiation." I replied. The ship then hailed us and we knew obviously Tuvok was speaking with them. "I think we found the source of the radiation" said Janeway. After I noticed that the ship had ended communications with us we heard Tuvok over the comm. "Bridge to Captain Janeway" he said. "Go ahead commander" she replied. "We're about to have guests." He told her. "Very well Chakotay and I will meet in Transporter Room 2" she replied and they both turned and left. "Jack, get the rest of the engineering crew that should be on duty up here. We've got repairs to do." Said B'Elanna. "All Alpha and Beda Engineering crews report for duty." I ordered over the comm. I picked up the 2 Compression Riffles that the captain and I had and returned them to the weapons locker.
Over the next few hours I worked with the other engineers to get systems repaired and to get the warp drive back online. I had heard that the captain's meeting with the aliens who had saved us, who were called the Malon, had fallen to pieces. She had also spoken with one of the aliens who had boarded the ship and determined they weren't hostile as we were actually on route to return him to his people. I was on the bridge and looked around. It was nice to see everyone back at their posts and all crew back on duty. Finally we had something to do. We arrived at the co-ordinates. After Chakotay informed the captain, the alien vessels de-cloaked and transported their friend away but not before the doctor ran a full bio-scan of all the aliens and learned they were all suffering from Theta Radiation poisoning. The Malon were killing them. As the next few hours rolled on I continued to monitor the repair crews efforts as B'Elanna was busy making the repairs as well she had me co-ordinate it all. People from the repair crews were coming up to the bridge and giving me reports which I was reading through and then placing them in a case to take to B'Elanna to go through. At 09:00 Chakotay let me finish shift as I had been on duty for over 9 hours. I went back to my quarters to find that Tom was also in bed fast asleep. Just as I was about to crawl in to bed the door chimed. "Come in." I said. The doors opened and in walked Chakotay. "Sorry to interrupt but can we talk." He asked. "Sure what is it?" I asked. "It's the captain, you may have noticed that she has been elusive lately. She has rarely let anyone see her. I know you have been seeing her and I wanted to know if she had mentioned anything to you." He explained. "She did actually. She told me that she believes she made an error in judgement, and that she alone is responsible for stranding Voyager in the delta quadrant." I told him. "I spoke with Tuvok and that's what he also said. She told me the same thing. Tuvok and I feel that she may try to do something stupid and I would appreciate your support if a situation should arise." He told me. "Count on it." I said. "And I also need you and Tom back on duty and I promise you can both have tomorrow off." He said. "Of course what's up?" I asked again. "The Malon are coming over to see what we do with our toxic waste. The captain wants me to give him a demo but I think you and Tom would be more suited to it." He told me. "Where is he?" he asked. I pointed over to the bed and he smiled. "Wake him." He told me. I walked over and pushed him and he mumbled something. "Tom get up we have to be on duty." I said. "Too tired. Tell them I will see them tomorrow." He said. Chakotay smiled and came over. "WALKER UP!" he shouted causing tom to leap up. "Sir." He said. "At ease, but get up I do need you." Chakotay said. Tom rolled his eyes and said "I'm coming." He climbed out of bed still in his uniform. He was that tired he didn't even both getting undressed. After sorting out his hair, we left the quarters and followed Chakotay to engineering.
"What about the Theta Radiation?" asked Impk. "We recycle the energy, use to it power everything from life support to replicators." I replied. We had spent the last hour showing Impk everything about our Warp Technology. "We don't have this kind of technology." He told me. "Oh, our scans of your freighter suggest that you have plasma manifolds. The engineering principle is the same." I told him. "We'd be willing to help you make the modifications. We could even provide you with a few converters." Said Tom. "Here's what we had in mind." Said Chakotay giving Impk, the Malon man, the padd that contained all the specifications that Tom had drawn together. "Ingenius design. Our engineers would be pleased. This... could solve a lot of problems on my world. Unfortunately it would also put me out of business." The Malon explained. I stood gob smacked. "Sorry?" asked Tom. "Your changes would turn the waste export industry upside down. Before long I would be obsolete. You can keep your ideas." Impk explained. This really pissed me off. "You lying..." I said gritting my teeth. "Jack." Said Chakotay but I couldn't stop I just let rip. "We went through this whole song and dance and he never had any intention of working with us." I said. "That's not important, what matters is that we're talking now. We're proposing changes, some of them difficult. But given time this could turn to your advantage." Chakotay said. "I already have the advantage. The Vortex. No one knows about it except me and my crew. By ejecting my cargo here, I cut expenses in half." Impk replied. "I guess mass murder doesn't factor in to your profit margin." I shouted. Chakotay threw me a glare. "If you care so much about these creatures then stay." Impk replied. "We won't let you go on infecting innocent beings." Said Tom. "You've scanned my vessel. You've seen my fire power. You wouldn't last 10 seconds in a conflict with me." Impk retorted. "Get him out of here." Said Chakotay gesturing to the security officers. He brushed past Chakotay and walked out. "So much for helping them." I said. "Part of the problem Jack, was you. If you didn't lash out then maybe we could have resolved this. You're becoming more and more like B'Elanna every day." Said Chakotay. "Sorry sir." I said. "Come on let's go and brief the captain." He said. At that I followed him out of engineering and down to the captain's quarters. After we had arrived and we explained what went on she asked "What are our options?" "We travel through the Vortex and speak directly with the Malon government." Said Chakotay. "Blow the whistle on Impk. We give them the reclamation technology and continue on our way." Said the captain. "However there is no guarantee that they will listen to reason. If Mr. Impk is any indication. As long as this vortex exists the people of this region are in danger." She went on and explained. "Any chance we could destroy it?" asked Chakotay. "I believe so." I said looking at the diagram on the captain's monitor. "But we'll have to collapse it here, where its dimensional radius is weakest. We'd be closing our shortcut out of here." I said. I looked at Chakotay. "2 more years in the void. I can live with that." He said. "Oh but I'm not sure I can. 4 years ago I destroyed the caretakers array to protect the occampa, that act of compassion stranded this crew in the delta quadrant, I won't make the same mistake twice." Said Janeway. "Yeah but Kathryn, this situation is a little different." I said looking at her. "Is it. I'm asking the crew to make too big a sacrifice." She paused and came from behind her desk and looked at Chakotay. "Chakotay, there is no one I trust more than you, apart from Jack of course, you've been a fine first officer. Are you ready to captain this ship?" she asked. "Yes." Said Chakotay looking confused. "Assemble the crew." She told us both as we left. "What was that about?"Chakotay as me. "Isn't it obvious, she plans to stay behind and destroy the vortex. We can't let her." I said. "You're right we can't" he replied.
I sat on the bridge working on my console. B'Elanna was in engineering just checking over a few last things. "Captain on the bridge." Said Tuvok. I stood up and took a formal stance as did everyone else on the bridge. She walked around the bridge and said "Harry how've you been?" He looked at her and replied. "Just fine ma'am." "We missed you captain." Said Neelix. She grabbed his shoulder and said "Likewise." She stood in the middle of the bridge and then said "I'll make this brief. You're orders are to proceed to the vortex. Use whatever means necessary to fight your way past the Malon. I'll stay behind in a shuttlecraft and destroy the Vortex." I knew it. "Tuvok I'll need a class two shuttle armed with Photon Torpedoes. Tom set a course for..." was all she got out before I cut her off. "Forget it, we're not going to let you die out here." I said. "Have a little faith Jack, I'll have a shuttle, plenty of rations. I'll survive" she said looking at me. "Alone in the delta quadrant. No offence but you don't stand a chance." Paris said. "I've made my decision." She said looking at us. "What about us, don't we get a say?" asked Kim. "He's right captain, I'd be willing to brave this void if it meant keeping you with us." Said Neelix. "Tom set a course." She ordered. He didn't move. "Lieutenant I gave you an order." She said more forcefully. He stood and looked at her. "I can't follow that order ma'am." He told her. "Harry take the helm." Said Janeway I looked at him and he didn't move. Janeway spun around and also looked at him. "I'm sorry Captain." He said. Janeway slowly began to move and looked at Chakotay before moving over to seven. "I will not comply." She said. Janeway turned and looked at the doctor. "What's a hologram to do?" he said. She then looked at me. "You're out of your mind if you think I will. As you can see, you're not the only one whose had a chance to look back over time." I said moving from my console. "Yes I can see that." She said. She moved up the steps and over by seven. "You realise you could all be hanged for mutiny. Looks like we need another option." She said. Chakotay looked at me. "Jack?" I liked this, on our way to the bridge we had talked and I came up with a new plan. "We fight our way to the Vortex. The instance we cross the threshold we fire torpedoes and jump to warp." I said. "There would be a massive shockwave on our tail." She said looking at me. "I'll reinforce the aft shielding." Said B'Elanna stepping off the turbolift. "There's one more problem, the Malon." Said Janeway. "Anti-matter waste has weakened the bulkheads surrounding their cargo holds. A direct phaser strike would disable them." Said Tuvok. "You realise it will reduce our chances of getting through." Said Janeway. "The chance is irrelevant we will succeed." Said Seven. "A vote of Borg confidence. Who can argue with that?" said the Doctor. Janeway slapped Seven's console and said "Alright, back to your stations let's do it." I smiled and turned to walk away. "Red Alert. Set a course for the Vortex. All Hands to Battlestations" said Chakotay. Janeway walked down and across to her chair. "You told them, they knew coming in." She said to Chakotay. The ship went into action and away we went.
The ship rocked as the Malon continued to fire spatial charges at us. Paris was doing his best to fly around them. He finally breathed a sigh of relief and Seven said "Captain Proton to the rescue." He turned in his seat and looked at the captain "I'll explain later." I smiled. "Torpedoes armed and ready." Said Tuvok. "Hold your fire Tuvok we'll only get one shot at this." Ordered Janeway. "We're 30 seconds from the vortex." Said Paris. I looked at the viewscreen and saw the freighter coming about. "The Malon are firing spatial charges." Said Seven. "Evade them." Ordered Janeway. We took some hits and the ship shook hard. "Return fire, hit them with everything we've got." Ordered Janeway. Tuvok fired all the weapons we had, waves of phaser fire and torpedoes emerged from the weapons array. The ship took another hit and this one hurt us. "Direct hit to the port nacelle, we're venting plasma." I said. "Can you get us out of here on one engine tom?" asked Janeway. "I believe so." He said. The freighter continued to fire at us round after round of spatial charges. Another charge hit, but this almost crippled us. "Direct hit starboard nacelle. We're riding on inertia, one more hit and we'll be dead in the water." I said. "Jack can you increase power to aft the shields using our main deflector?" asked the captain. "I believe so." I said. I worked the controls and managed to boost the shields. "We're going to ride that shockwave, make it push us to other side." The next few seconds went by and we could see the freighter moving to block us. "They intend to block our path." Said Seven. "Prepare to fire." Said Chakotay. "That may not be necessary." Said Tuvok as we saw a number of the alien vessels moving to fire on the freighter. "The freighter is moving to combat the aliens." Said seven. "10 Seconds!" shouted Paris. "The freighter shields are weakening" reported Tuvok. "Target their cargo hold, time to take out the garbage." Said Janeway at which Tuvok fired a full volley of photon torpedoes destroying the freighter. "We're crossing the threshold." Shouted Paris. No need to bloody shout people can hear you. "Torpedoes" said Janeway as Tuvok released 3 torpedoes from the aft torpedo bay which detonated. I worked the controls and quickly brought the aft shields online and too maximum power. "Shockwave approach 600 metres, 500, 4..." said seven. "Aft shields at maximum." Said Tuvok. "All hands brace for impact." Said Janeway as the ship shook heavily. The shockwave from the blast hit us and pushed us all the way to other side of the vortex. We eventually emerged after being thrown about quite a bit. "The vortex has been destroyed." Said seven. "Are we clear of the void?" asked Chakotay. "Not yet, that little manoeuvre brought us up a bit short we're still 200,000 kilometres from the boundary." Reported Kim. "On screen." Said Janeway. Tuvok activated the screen and we still saw the darkness. "Maintain course." Ordered Janeway. I checked over the damage we had taken, there was some minor hull damage and the warp drive was out, but other than that most systems seemed okay. The turbolift doors opened and out walked B'Elanna and the Doctor. I looked at B'Elanna and smiled as Paris said "There." She went over to him and said "What?" he turned to her and said "I saw something... a star." The doctor looked at the screen "Remind me to check your eye sight." He said to Paris. I stared at the viewscreen and I could see a white light. Paris was right it was a star I stood up and walked over to the centre of the bridge as Chakotay stood from his chair. Harry's console started to beep as more and more stars appeared and we were back in open space. Everyone either stood or sat where they were looking at the viewscreen. "Jack, what do you see out there?" asked Janeway. She came and stood next to me and I looked at her she had tear rolling down her cheek. "I see a densely packed region with thousands of star systems. Looks pretty lively." I said. "Full speed ahead." Said Janeway as we flew through normal space.
It wasn't long after the battle that the captain stood down from red alert and I could hear Chakotay mentioning to her that me and Tom were due the day off tomorrow and she looked at me and said "Bridge to Ensign Walker." I smiled and he replied "Yes captain." "Report to the bridge." She said. "On my way." A few minutes later he emerged from the turbolift and came down and stood by the captain. "Lieutenant carter." Said the captain. I looked up and walked over and stood by Tom. "I'm granting the two of you, an extended day of shore leave tomorrow. And from now your both off duty. I know you have both been working hard so go." She said smiling. I was about to turn to leave when the captain grabbed me by the arm. "Say what you said to me earlier again and I will make sure you never wear that uniform again. But you were right. I was out of my mind." She said smiling. "Noted." I replied. "Now go." She said. I walked after Tom and grabbed his hand as we entered the turbolift and rode up to Deck 6. "Hey you." He said pulling me in and kissing me. "Hey yourself." I said. "Did I mention that I love you today?" he asked. I grinned and made a playful look on my face "Nooo I don't think you did." I said with a grin. "Well then, I love you very much." He said grinning and kissing me. We arrived on deck 6 and walked into our quarters where tom pulled me in and kissed me heavily. He guided me over to the couch where we continued to kiss his tongue exploring my mouth. He moved over trying to climb on top of me. Unfortunately he missed and fell on the floor taking me with him. I landed on top of him and we looked at each other and began to laugh out loud. "You're too cute you know that" I said. He thought about it and then said "Yeah I know." He replied. I smiled and kissed him again as I could feel his growing hard on pressing against my own. He slowly removed my jacket as I did to him. Then in one swift movement he grabbed hold of my shirt and tore it off along with my vest leaving me topless. "Hey that was my favourite uniform." I said. "Woopsie." He replied giggling. I came off of him and removed his shirt and vest before moving back down and kissing him again as our shirtless bodies pressed against each other. I loved the feel of Tom's body. He was so smooth apart from the small trail of hair that led down into his underwear. I began to kiss his neck and work my way down his body. I ran my tongue over his nipples circling them causing him to breathe heavier while I continued to work my way down his body. While I ran my tongue over his 6 pack I unbuckled his trousers and slid them down his legs. After removing his boots and socks I pulled his trousers all the way off before rubbing his tenderness through his underwear. I moved by head down and played with his cock over his underwear. I pulled back the waist band and licked the head of cock which was pulsing. I then pulled his boxers off before taking hold of his cock and plunging it in my mouth going all the way to the base before coming back up and bobbing my head up and down sucking his cock. He moaned out loud as I continued to suck his cock. "Stop!" he said I looked up and said "What? Did I hurt you?" I asked worried. "No, you were just making me very close." He replied. I smiled and went back up and kissed him being careful not to squash his cock. He then wrapped his legs around me twisted me over making him on top of me. He then repeated the same actions to me. Moving down my body and playing with my nipples making them hard and biting them lightly. He then removed my trousers and boxers and taking my cock in his mouth sucking heavily, while he traced my pink hole with his finger before pushing his index finger inside which also made me moan out loud. As I looked down I saw his head bobbing up and down as his finger was probing my butt. He looked up at me with my cock still in his mouth and this really turned me on. He released my cock from his mouth and went over to the drawer in the bedroom and grabbed some lube before coming back over to me and using the lube to loosen my hole. He also placed lube over his cock before lifting my legs in the air revealing my 6 pack more and slowly pushing his cock inside me. I felt a wave of pain for about 2 seconds before it subsided and he continued to push in to me. Once I could feel he was all the way inside he began to fuck me slowly before picking up the pace. "Fuck yeah" I called as he started to pound my arse hard really fucking me. It felt like he was going to split me in two as I could feel his cock hit my prostate over and over again making me squirm and moan loudly. "Oh my god yeah, keep going" I shouted out. I could feel myself start to tense up. He continued to push in and out of me. I suddenly felt myself explode as 5 or 6 loads of cum shot out of the tip of my cock and all over my body. My cock started to go flaccid but Tom continued to pound my arse over and over. I could feel the beads of sweat running off his forehead and on to my body. Eventually he started to tense up and soon I could feel his warm cum filling my arse. He must have shot 6 times up my arse before pulling out and lying back on top and kissing me.
"That was amazing. Here's hoping in two years time you have that much energy to make a baby." I said breathing heavily. "Oh believe me I will." He replied. I smiled and kissed him unable to move. Tom stood up and said "Come on you need to shower." "I can't move, you and you're 8 and a half inch beast have crippled me." I said looking at his cock hanging between his legs. He smiled before placing both his arms under my arm pits and picking me. I finally rose and stumbled a bit before making my way to the bathroom. I heard Tom laugh a little before I turned around with both my hands on my hips looking at him. "What?" I asked. "Well here's hoping in the morning you walk a bit better than you are now" he said smiling. I didn't realise I was kind of walking funny because I could feel how sore my arse was. I smiled and turned and strutted into the bathroom. "Computer activate the sonic shower, and reprogram for a wet shower" I ordered. The shower then chirped as I heard water running and hitting the shower tray. I walked in and saw that an old fashioned shower head had appeared from within the shower. I slowly ran my head under the flowing water getting my hair all wet. I then left the shower forgetting that I didn't pick up my shampoo, conditioner, shower gel and sponge. I grabbed them and went back in and squirted shampoo in my hand before running it all through my hair. "Room for one more." I heard tom say. I could feel him move in behind me as I put my head back under the water as the shampoo was rinsed away. I then grabbed the conditioner and spread the conditioner through my hair while Tom put shampoo in his hair before rinsing it out. I put more conditioner in my hand and ran it through Tom's hair. He grabbed my sponge and poured shower gel all over the sponge before wetting it and lathering my body by running the sponge all over my body paying close attention to my cock and arse getting rid of the semen that had been sprayed over my body and inside my arse. I then took the sponge off him before rinsing it out fully and pouring out some more shower gel and lathering it up and washing tom all over playing his cock some as it was covered in shower gel making it very slippy and soft. It slowly began to get hard again and I turned to him and said "Somebody recharges quickly." He smiled. I then passed him the sponge as I went back under the shower head and watched as all the soap washed away from body. I then put my hair back under the shower head and washed away the conditioner. I then moved out of the way as Tom followed suit. I grabbed a towel as he was and started to dry off my body and hair, before wrapping the towel around my waist and grabbing a smaller towel and dried my hair more before wrapping it around my head. "Computer deactivate the shower." Said Tom as he emerged and dried himself off. I walked over to the sink and cleaned my teeth and shaved while Tom continued to dry his hair and body. He always took forever to dry off. Once I was done I turned around to see him stood in front of me grinning. I kissed him and he said "You taste minty." I smiled and walked out of the bathroom and into the bedroom as Tom went and cleaned his teeth and shaved. While he did I blow dried my hair and straightened it, and I was just finishing as Tom emerged from the bathroom. "Want to do my hair?" he asked. "Sure." I said. I grabbed the hair dryer and dried his hair and ran the irons through it. When I was done I turned off the straightners and placed them on my dresser to cool. I then removed my towel and took off Tom's putting them in the replicator to be dried and cleaned. I then collected both our uniforms and had them cleaned and pressed in the replicator before folding them and putting them away. I looked at Tom who was in bed "God you make a mess." I said. He smiled and said "You make a good housewife." I stuck my tongue out at him and got the room looking tidy. I then went to the replicator and replicated some water before shouting out to Tom "Want a drink?" He was silent for a moment and then said "What are you having?" "Water." I replied. "Don't worry I will have some of yours." He said. I smiled and walked over to the bedroom with my glass. I took a sip and placed it down on the bedside table and climbed in to bed. "May I?" he asked. I passed him the glass and he took a big swig before handing me back the glass. I finished it off before putting the glass down and turning out the lights. I worked my way in to Tom's chest as he wrapped his arms around me. "Goodnight my love." He said. "Goodnight my sweet." I replied. "I love you." I added. "I love you too." Tom replied before I drifted off to sleep.