Rated: M
Pairing: J/C
Summary: Is Seven really 'Ample' enough for Chakotay?
Disclaimer: The characters always belong the Paramount, and some of the script, but the story is mine...thank god for small favours.
Date: November 2003
Length: 310 words

Ample choices. Chakotay had had ample chances and choices to make short work of Kathryn Janeway, and her refusal to take him into her life.

And Kathryn, well Kathryn had ample reasons not to do just that. Not to love him and not to make her his own.

So today, he sat and waited. His new girlfriend, Seven of Nine, had t & a for all of them, yet she was missing the one thing he had always pined for and hoped for, the love of Kathryn Janeway.

So today he looked at the woman by his side and realized that no matter how ample her breast size, or her butt cheeks, they would never be Kathryn, and so they would never be ample enough.

He dressed himself and left Seven's new quarters. He walked down the hall to where he knew Kathryn laid to rest every night. He rang the doorbell and sure enough a sleep deprived Kathryn Janeway answered the door.

"Chakotay what's wrong?"

Chakotay explained the situation in words that were so low that they were only for Kathryn to hear. Kathryn nodded and led him into her bedroom.

The explorations that took place that night did one thing Chakotay hadn't expected.

It proved that what Kathryn lacked in the places Seven might have, she made up for with her talents and love.

Today was the first day of the rest of their lives.

And the last day either of them ever spent alone again.

THE END