Traitorous Love

Part 7

 

by: AW

 

Rated: M

December 2009

Disclaimer: We all know what goes here, I don't own them.

 

[3 months after part 6]

 

Tom had stopped talking to and about Kathryn and for that she was grateful, she was now 4 days away from her due date and she had been relieved of duty.

 

Kathryn drew in a deep breath. She had been told to report to the holodeck and enjoy some time off, but the problem was because of the ion storm brought on by the anomaly 'Fair Haven' had become the only program being played.

 

She had become close friends with Michael and his wife Fanny, but they were simple folk.

 

They had loved the fact that Kathryn was expecting as they had never been able to have children of their own. *God Kathryn, they're holodeck characters.*

 

That holodeck program had kept Tom out of trouble, and she had to give him credit, it was a great program.

 

The child she carried had dropped low in her belly and she knew that it was not going to be long before he made his appearance.

 

Kathryn's back was killing her. She paused and decided it was time to go to the holodeck and get her mind off what she knew was going to happen in the next few days: possibly hours.

 

She walked through the holodeck doors: It was so beautiful here, she could almost lose herself.

 

She walked into Michael's bar and saw Fanny cleaning up the bar from the previous night. "Hello."

 

Fanny smiled at her, "Hello Katie; you're getting close."

 

Kathryn nodded, "Yes, too close: It will happens soon."

 

Fanny smiled a lovely smile at Kathryn, "The baby has dropped low."

 

"Yes, I know."

 

Fanny looked at her curiously, "Are you sure that you should be walking around?"

 

Kathryn giggled, "When it happens it happens, I can't stop it or start it. I will not stop my life because I'm about to have a baby."

 

Fanny laughed, "I understand, but as Michael says there are times when you have to take it easy and let life take it's course."

 

Kathryn smiled. "Understood; but I think I'll stay for a tea."

 

Fanny nodded and got Kathryn and herself a tea, then she sat down. "So do you think this one is a lad or a lass?"

 

Kathryn knew that at this point they didn't have the medical technology to tell the baby's sex, "I think it's a little boy; but Chakotay wants a little girl: I guess we'll see soon enough."

 

Kathryn gasped as she felt a pressure in her abdomen and then her water broke. She smiled to Fanny, "I guess we'll find out sooner than I thought."

 

"Katie, here let me help you."

 

Then the ship rocked, and Kathryn watched the lights in the holodeck go on and off. "Figures my child picks now to make his presence known."

 

The doctor walked into Sullivan's. He had just finished his sermon, "Captain, we seem to have a problem. The 'town's folk' think that we're demons."

 

Kathryn drew in a deep breath a rubbed her tummy, "I think at the moment that I have larger problems Doctor."

 

The doctor looked down and saw the puddle surrounding the Captain's feet. "I think we'd better get you to sickbay."

 

The Captain nodded, "That would probably be a good idea."

 

Just then Michael walked into the bar from the back room. "Katie, the Seamus and Milo, they seem convinced you and the 'Doctor' here and Tom and Harry, you're all devils."

 

Kathryn laughed, "Devils, surely you don't believe that do you?"

 

He pulled Kathryn out the door, "You're going to have to convince us all: Come here."

 

Kathryn's eyes grew wide. "Where are you taking me?"

 

"I think it's me and the town folk that should be asking the questions. Where did you come from? Why did you invade our village? And the biggest question: What's your real name?"

 

Kathryn's jaw dropped open, "We're not devils, and 'Katie' is my real name in a sense."

 

"Well we'll just have to see what everyone else thinks of that."

 

He forced Kathryn to sit on a chair next to Tom and Harry and tied her up. *I can't believe this, yet another reason to kill Tom.*

 

Finally the doctor was dragged to St. Mary's and tied up with the rest. It had been nearly an hour and Kathryn was unsure what to do at this point. She was not allowed to contact the bridge and stuff was spinning out of control for her.

 

She let out a scream, and Tom looked at her. "What's wrong Captain?"

 

She glared at him, "What do you think is wrong?"

 

"Now?"

 

"No next Thursday."

 

Seamus interrupted Kathryn's tirade, "Tell us the words. How do we banish the spirit-folk to the Other World? "

 

The EMH, in a sort of trance opened his mouth, "There is no Other World. Only Voyager."

 

Milo stared at the group, "Voyager?"

 

"Federation Starship, Intrepid class, registry number NCC74656."

 

Kathryn glared at him, "Shut up doctor." Kathryn screamed as another contraction ripped through her and brought the doctor out of his stupor.

 

The doctor shook his head, "Captain!"

 

"I need to get out of here now Doctor!"

 

Milo stared at Michael as he took the doctor's portable emitter, then he tore it off. "What are you doing, Sullivan?"

 

Michael pushed the button the emitter, and Seamus spoke up. "No man who's gone to the Other World has ever come back."

 

Kathryn screeched again, Michael looked at her. "I'll have Fanny stay with you Katie, she's delivered babies before."

 

Kathryn shook her head, "I need to get back to Voyager."

 

"How do I get to Voyager?"

 

The doctor before he had snapped out of his daze had managed to tell Michael what to do. He tapped the emitter and disappeared.

 

[Bridge]

 

Chakotay watched as 'Michael Sullivan' from Fair Haven appeared. "Michael?"

 

"So this is Voyager."

 

Chakotay nodded, "Have you seen Kathryn?"

 

"Katie?"

 

Chakotay nodded again, "Where is she?"

 

Michael smiled, "She's in good hands I left her with my Fanny. She's had lots of experience delivering babies."

 

"She's in labor?"

 

Michael nodded, "And by the sounds she was making it won't be too long."

 

Chakotay got scared for Kathryn. "I need to have her here with me Michael. That's my child."

 

Michael stared around the bridge, "What is this place?"

 

Chakotay was getting a little antsy with Kathryn in the holodeck in labor, "You've already answered your own question: this is 'Voyager'."

 

"And Katie is the Captain?"

 

"Yes, but I need to get to her now. I know there were problems in fair haven, and people thought we were the spawn of evil, is it possible for you to go and convince them that we're not and maybe I could get Kathryn and the doctor back."

 

[Fair Haven program – Holodeck]

 

Milo stared at Seamus, "How come Katie is in so much pain? I thought Fairies didn't experience pain like that."

 

"Because I'm in labor you imbecile."

 

Kathryn was panting, and Fanny stared at the woman. "It's okay Katie, you're doing fine."

 

Kathryn placed her hand between her legs and pulled it away covered in blood. "Oh god, can you untie our doctor please?" Kathryn was getting hysterical, she couldn't lose this baby.

 

Despite all that had happened her and Chakotay had come to the point where they were happy about the coming baby and happy about the relationship they'd built out of tragedy.

 

She sighed and felt an awful pain, more than just the burning of the child coming down the birth canal: this was worse.

 

Seamus finally let the doctor free and he came over to see the Captain. "We need to get her out of here now!"

 

The Fair Haven folks finally agreed and Tom called to B'Elanna for an emergency transport for Kathryn to sickbay and the doctor to be transferred there.

 

Kathryn opened here eyes once the pain had subsided and found herself in sickbay. "Doctor? What's wrong with my baby?" She saw the doctor working over her son who was oddly blue in color.

 

The doctor worked for half an hour on the baby, and finally called the time of death. Kathryn had not even gotten the chance to hear her son cry.

 

What had started out as a monumental mistake had turned to a gift, and eventually turned to a tragedy.

 

Edward would never know the world, and Kathryn's world had come crumbling down.

 

END PART 7

TBC IN PART 8