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by: Cait
Disclaimer: A sad, depressing love story that TPTB would never allow to be told. So I have
defied law and took their characters for a spin in my own little AU!! This story is mine, but the
rest belongs to the all Mighty Paramount!!
Talking about casualties, Chakotay lifted his head, and looked around. Kathryn was still
unconscious on the main console, B'Elanna was sprawled behind him, Tom beside her, hand
outstretched, trying to reach her, both Delany sisters, still forms behind them, and further back
was a mess. Somewhere amongst there, was Tuvok. Chakotay avoided that area, and tried to
get up.
That wasn't working.
Not only couldn't he move his feet to get around, neither were his legs moving.
*Oh no...*
He reached backwards, confident of reaching the med-kit, but failed dismally, falling on the
ground, in a sprawl of limbs. His fall created enough energy and sound for B'Elanna to open her
eyes, and for the shuttle to move on it's precarious limb, sitting halfway between a tree and the
gorge below. It was a long way down, Chakotay had noticed. B'Elanna blinked a few times,
registered on Chakotay, then turned her head, and saw Tom. Her face lit up silently and briefly in
amusement, before expression died, along with her heart. Chakotay crumbled inside. There was
nothing her could do, being the only conscious person aboard, and unable to reach the med kit. He
pulled himself over to her, and cradled her head in his arms for a few moments, bending down
and kissing her forehead, much like a father wishing a child well on their journey. He spoke the
words to speed her spirit to the other world, then lay her back down, and placed his head in his hands.
Then Kathryn cried out.
Chakotay looked up, and met Kathryn's pained face.
Kathryn felt her head throbbing, and a sharp pain in her chest whenever she breathed. She sat up,
only to cry out in agony. She looked around, and noticed Chakotay bent over B'Elanna's
ominously still body. He raised his face and looked at her. She looked at him properly, as she got
up, and moved over next to him, and saw that his legs were twisted in the worst way.
Looking up in panic, he shook his head.
*Oh god...*
She crawled over to sit behind him, and the shuttle moved, not well. They looked at each other as
the shuttle failed to stop its slow decent towards the bottom of the ravine, and Chakotay lent
back in Kathryn's arms. Strong arms encircled strong mind, body and soul, and the shuttle flew
it's last
journey.
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"Sir...we are sensing movement in the vicinity of the shuttle's last transmission."
"Can you get a visual reading?"
"Only just Sir."
"On Screen."
Through patchy cloud, and worse static, the skeleton bridge crew watched, as the Shuttle
Tiderion fell over the edge of the cliff, and bursting into a massive fireball at the bottom,
scorching the sand and melting it around the debris.
"Oh my god."
In disbelief, the only remaining ranking, senior staff member stood up from the Captain's chair.
Former Lt. j.g., now Captain Harry Kim, tapped his commbadge.
"Kim to all crewmembers...."
end.
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