"You've picked quite the place to make a new home," she said quietly as she watched the baby shift in her sleep. She jumped up when she heard the doors open, but was relieved to see that it was only Chakotay comming in.
"I was wondering where you were," he said quietly as he came over to join her in her vigil.
"I'm sorry," she said. "I guess time got away from me. I only meant to check on Seven for a moment before comming up here for another, but, you know Seven. . . "
"Do you. . ." he started but stopped after a moment when he saw her shoulders tense.
"No, go on," she said, turning her attention back to the baby so she didn't have to look at him. She had a pretty good feeling about what he was going to say.
"Do you think it was wise to leave her in charge of them?"
"Who else is there?" Janeway asked as she smothed some hair on the baby's head. "They need to be supervised and no one else has borg alcoves in their quarters." The corners of her mouth twitched when she heard him sigh. "Don't worry," she said as she sat back and finally looked at him. "Naomi will find them and soon we'll be tripping all over them as well." they both chuckled a little as they remembered Namoi's early escape attempts as well as her more recent 'research' trips.
"You certainly seem taken with her," he pointed out, changing the subject. Kathryn sighed and sat back in her chair.
"I have no idea why," she confessed. "I've never been the one to sit around and coo over the new babies." Chakotay hid a chuckle as best he could. As far as he knew, she had only ever once held Naomi as a baby. She was a few months old and Neelix had handed Kathryn the baby as he went to catch something the baby had knocked over. Kathryn and Naomi had taken one look at each other and both had started to panic, though Kathryn covered it some what better. "I heard that," Kathryn commented under her breath.
"Sorry," he said. "But it isn't every day you see the great Kathryn Janeway, slayer of Borg, brought to her knees by an infant."
"I was no where near my knees," she said as she turned to look at him. He just chuckled and agreed with her. "Hello again," Janeway said with a smile as she saw the baby wake up. Chakotay looked around for the Dr.
"Computer, locate the EMH," he called out as he watched Kathryn tentatively pick up the baby.
"The EMH is currently in holodeck 1."
"Odd," Chakotay said. "That he'd be there with her here."
"I told him to take his holodeck time, it's only an hour," she said as she rocked the baby before she had a chance to start fussing. This threw him for a moment. "I hear they've started a pool on her already," Janeway said, bringing him back to the moment.
"Of course."
"Mostly for a name, but if we're going to keep her, whose going to raise her. . . stuff like that. Last I heard, Tom and B'Elanna were in the lead to raise her."
"You're kidding, right?" Kathryn laughed and shook her head.
"Not at all. They have no idea of this, of course, but, it'll be interesting to see how it turns out." Chakotay shook his head, trying not to imagine the way this was going to play out. Chakotay turned and grabbed the bottle from the stasis field when the constant rocking was no longer enough to keep her happy. The conversation dried up for a moment as Kathryn negotiated with the baby over taking the nipple but returned quickly and they both seemed rather surprised when the Dr. returned and ushered them both out of his sick bay for the night. The two walked slowly through the halls, talking about this and that but grew quiet as they entered the turbo lift.
"It's going to be fine," he assured her as he watched her posture change from the relaxed stance to that of the firm Captain. "She's going to be fine," he said as the doors opened.
"Of course," she said as she strode out of the lift.
"Kathryn," he said in a hissed whisper as he rushed to catch up with her. He grabbed her hand and didn't let go. "She will be fine, the ship will be fine, we will be fine," he assured her with a squeeze of her hand. "You don't need to distance yourself from this." They both stopped and looked at each other for a moment before she sighed and he smiled as her shoulders relaxed. They bid each other good night and he stood out side her quarters a moment longer before returning to his own.
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