Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:51:33 +0000
From: James Leete <leeteey2063@hotmail.com>
Subject: My Maquis Lover - The Return Chapter 2

Disclaimer:

This story is based in the "Star Trek" universe. The use of anything
related to "Star Trek" in this series is not intended to infringe upon the
rights of Paramount Pictures. The author is in no way associated with the
owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise.

All other content or otherwise are works of my own imagination. All events
are fictitious in nature.

Any similarities to persons living, dead, or otherwise are purely
coincidental.

This story contains strong themes of homosexual content, if this offends
you in any way, please refrain from reading further. If you are not of
legal age to read this, please leave now.  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 2: The Re-Launch

I stood in the apartment looking around and realising how bare the place
looked. I hadn't realised it when we first moved in, probably because I had
been so busy with work but now everything was coming together. In 3 days
Voyager would be re-launched. Kathryn had given Chakotay our first orders
and that was simply a shakedown cruise to test out all the new systems and
get used to the ship again. After 6 months it would be nice to get back out
there, but this time there was a difference. This time I was the ships
first officer. Tom and I had just finished packing up the apartment and
were one of the last few people to moving back on board the ship. I was
thankful that a lot of the original crew had opted to stay and come back
aboard some in new positions but many of them back in their old
jobs. "Ready to go?" Tom asked me. I looked at him and smiled. "Yeah." I
replied. "Carter to Voyager 13 cargo containers and 3 people to beam on
board." I said over my commbadge. Tom had Matthew in his arms, who was wide
awake and looking about the place. He was growing up so quickly. He had an
adorable little head of fine blonde hair and dressed in one of his cute
little outfits. We dematerialised in a blue hue of lights and rematerialsed
on Voyager in Transporter Room 1 looking straight at Luke. "Luke can you
beam our containers to our quarters." I said to him. "Sure Jack." He
replied. I smiled and we left the transporter room and headed straight for
the turbolift. I wasn't officially back on duty until the morning so it
gave me plenty of time to set up our quarters and then head up to my office
and set that up as well. It felt weird having my own office now. Chakotay,
I knew, was on board but he wasn't on duty until the morning we left. "Deck
8" Tom called out as we entered the turbolift. Family quarters had been
built and established on board for me and Tom and also for B'Elanna and Tom
Paris so that we had a bigger area to live in. The turbolift stopped on
Deck 8 and we rounded a few corners before arriving outside our quarters. I
smiled to myself as I saw the marking on the door to identify who's
quarters they were. `Quarters of Commander J Carter (First Officer) and
Lieutenant T Walker (Chief Engineer)'

I entered the code into the panel and the doors opened. I knew of course
what our quarters were due to look like having assisted in the design of
the family quarters, but the size of it still made me shocked. They were
huge. As you walked in front of you were 3 huge windows looking out of the
port side of the ship. You had the units in front of the windows for
display purpose with a sofa built in and next to that you a free standing 2
seater sofa and then two chairs so that it was set up in a square under the
centre window. You also had a table and chairs similar to my last set but
this one was set up for 4. You had two desks right by the doors, one for me
and one for Tom. By the table was a replicator on the wall and an
arch. Standing in the middle of the room there were two arches one to the
left that lead into mine and Tom's room and another on the right that lead
into Matthews's room. Going through the arch on the right and into Matt's
room I could see that the room was all ready to be set up and you had his
little storage room for toys etc. with a big window. Going back out of that
room you went back into the main area and through the other arch into mine
and Tom's room. We had a large double bed, two chest of drawers, a door
leading to the wardrobe and then on the back of the wall was another door
that lead to the bathroom and entering there, you had the sonic shower to
your left, the toilet and sink and then you had the bathtub which I had
specifically asked for. "These are the best quarters ever." Tom said in
amazement. I smiled and looked at Matthew who was fast asleep and then said
"Well why don't you put Matthew down on the sofa and we can unpack his bits
before he wakes up and then at least we have his bits done." I told him. He
smiled and said "Let's get to work."

After almost 3 hours we had managed to set up Matthews room, put all his
toys and clothes away, set up both ours and Matt's bathroom, arrange the
living area and set up the main area with pictures and decorative objects
and we were in the middle of sorting out the bedroom when Matthew began to
cry. I looked at Tom and we both smiled. "He's awake and very hungry by the
sounds of his crying. Come on we'll take a break." I said. I went straight
into the living area and picked him up, "What's wrong with my little man
eh?" I said to him and he just continued to cry down my ear. "I know baby
you're hungry aren't you." I said again. I loved him so much and I hated
hearing him cry. I looked at Tom who was just getting a bottle from the
replicator and also picked up a rag for me to use when it came time to burp
him. I got him in my arms and fed him his bottle and he soon quietened down
and was content drinking from his bottle. "Babe do you want anything?" Tom
asked me. "Sure I'll take a coffee." I replied. At that moment the door
chime went off. "Come in." Tom said. The doors opened and in walked
Chakotay. "Sir." I said. "At ease Jack I just thought I'd come down and say
hey." He said. "Well come in and have a seat." I replied. "Thanks." He
said. He sat in one of the chairs. "Can I get you a drink sir?" asked
Tom. "Sure I'll take a coffee, and it's not sir, it's Chakotay I'm off
duty." He said smiling. "Sorry." Tom replied. "So how have you both been?"
he asked. "Fine, busy what with the overhaul and everything but we have
managed to squeeze some shore leave in and relax." I replied. "That's good
to hear. Oh by the way Kathryn sent me your command test scores, nicely
done Jack I'm glad I selected you as my first officer." He said. We
continued to chat for a while longer before he left and we went back to
sorting out our bedroom. Matthew had been fed and burped and was happy to
be back asleep in his crib. After another hour we had our bedroom set up
and Tom had hung some pictures on the walls in both the bedroom and in the
living room. The three I really wanted up were up in the living area and
that was Matthew not long after he had been born, a picture of me, Tom and
Matthew at my mum and dad's and also mine and Tom's wedding picture. I
smiled to myself and was so happy that everything was finally set up in our
quarters and it felt so much like home.

After all that was finished we decided to take a walk up to the mess hall
with Matthew. We entered and saw the place about half full with members of
the crew just chatting or eating and then I noticed one person who wasn't a
member of the crew sat at a table on her own drinking coffee. "You just
can't stay away can you?" I said as I approached her. "Jack, you know me I
lived off the coffee on this ship for 7 years and nowhere else makes it the
same." Kathryn replied to me. "May we join you?" I asked. "Of course I
could use the company." She answered and then spotted Matthew in his carry
and picked him out and held him and he looked at her and smiled. I looked
at him and then her and said "Hey Kathryn, looks like you can be our new
babysitter." I said jokingly. She laughed and said "Anytime, I just can't
get enough of this little cutie pie." I went to the replicator and got me
and Tom a coffee each and sat back down. "So how are things?" she
asked. "Going well, the crew is almost back on board and we are pretty much
set and ready to leave." I explained. "That's good to hear. Because I have
just given Chakotay the nod to get this ship back into space. You have two
days to get this ship ready." she said. I looked at her and smiled. "No
problem." I told her.

2 DAYS LATER

"The time is 06:00 hours." The computer said aloud. I got up as did Tom. I
went straight into Matthew who was wide awake and looking around and
looking at mobile which was spinning around above him that had little toys
on it, one of them being a mini Voyager which I loved. I picked him up and
got him a bottle and fed him, he drained it in no time so he must have been
hungry. I burped him and got a lovely bit of sick on my shoulder which I
wiped away with a rag. I the n bathed him and got him dressed into a cute
little outfit. It was great being on board this ship now. When it was
discovered that several members of the crew were coming on board as either
couples with children or single parents with children it was decided
between me and Chakotay to get a day care centre designed and built on
board with 3 members of the crew being people who would look after the
kids. It was a good idea, and made my life a lot easier. By the time I got
him dressed Tom was out of the shower and dressed and drinking a coffee. I
handed Matthew to him and went and jumped in the shower myself and got
myself ready for the day to come.

After eating breakfast and dropping Matthew off at the day care centre I
proceeded to the bridge. As I stepped off the first thing I noticed was
that everyone was at their stations. I looked to my left and saw Harry
stood working at Ops. To my right was B'Elanna at Tactical who looked at me
and smiled. Tom Paris was down at the Helm, Seven was over at the science
station and my Tom was sat at the engineering station. I walked down the
steps and looked at the engineering station was ready to sit there and take
over but carried on over to the centre of the bridge. I noticed the new
layout of the centre chairs. It was similar to that of the sovereign
class. A centre chair for the captain, a chair to the left for the
executive officer aka me with a console at the side and a chair to the
right of the captain's chair for the councillor on board who I was yet to
meet. I knew he was on board after I received the final crew compliment on
board. I sat in the executive officers chair and looked at the console and
reviewed was going on. Everything was ready, the engines were at standby
mode and people were all reported at being at their stations. As I reviewed
the systems on board the turbolift doors opened I looked over and saw a
young, baby faced man walk on the bridge and come down and over to me. "Can
I help you?" I asked unfamiliar with this person. "Lieutenant Troy Walker
reporting on board sir." He said. I stood up and looked at him in the
eye. "Good morning lieutenant it's good to finally meet you." I said
shaking his hand. "Good to meet you as well commander." He said returning
my hand shake. He took his seat and reviewed his console. I looked at him
and said "Welcome on board, I trust you have made yourself comfortable." I
said. "Yes very much thank you." He replied. We continued to work and after
a short time Chakotay finally emerged from his ready room and sat down in
the centre seat. "Jack I trust everything is ready for the launch." He
said. "Yes sir, we are all set and ready to launch." I replied. "Good, well
I've just spoken to the Admiral and she has given us clearance to launch."
He told me. I smiled and worked the controls. "Jack why don't you take the
lead." He said. "Aye sir." I replied. I stood up and walked to the centre
of the bridge. "All stations prepare to depart." I said over the
comm. B'Elanna nodded at me to say that everyone was ready. "Mr Paris, lay
in a course and clear our departure with the dock master." I
ordered. "Course entered the dock master has cleared us." He said. "Ready
thrusters." I ordered. "Thrusters ready." Said Tom. "Initiate launching
sequence." I then ordered. "Sequence underway." Paris replied. "Initiate
umbilical separation." I ordered. "Seperation complete" replied
Harry. "Takes us out ¼ impulse." I ordered. "Aye sir." He said. Slowly
Paris worked the controls and flew us out of the spacedock. Once we were
clear of the station Tom pushed it up to full impulse as I sat back
down. "Okay well we are going to head to the Savoy testing ground to begin
our shakedown cruise." Chakotay told us. "Mr Paris, set a course for the
Savoy station, Warp 9" Chakotay said. He set the course and pretty soon we
were at warp and away we went. After a few hours at warp we arrived at the
Savoy station. "Well the warp drive works." I said as I checked the check
list. "Now it's time to test the sensor array." I said. "Mr Kim, preform a
scan on asteroid Gamma 171." Chakotay ordered. Harry brought the asteroid
on the view screen and preformed the scan. "Sensor array is fully
operational and the scan is complete. The analysis is complete everything
is working fully." He told me as I checked them over and confirmed on the
checklist that the sensors were working fully. "Now we have to check the
weapons arrays and make sure that the phasers, torpedoes and shielding is
working properly." I said. "Red alert, All hands to battlestations." Said
Chakotay. "Target the asteroid and destroy it." I ordered to B'Elanna. "Aye
sir." She said. She fired the phasers and torpedoes and destroyed the
asteroid with great ease. "Target destroyed Jack." B'Elanna told
us. "Confirmed. That's the last part of the checklist to complete with the
exception of a red alert drill." I announced. "Sir we are picking up a
distress call from a romulan ship bearing 391 mark 25." Kim told us. "Stand
down red alert, Jack advise Starfleet we are abandoning the shakedown in
response to a distress call." Chakotay ordered. I sent the message for the
attention of the Kathryn Janeway as Chakotay said, "Set a course for the
romulan ship, maximum warp. Engage." The ship flew away at maximum warp.

When we finally arrived at the romulan ship I stood and moved over to the
engineering console, where Tom was stood and looked over the console and
worked some of the controls to bring up the power relay diagnostic that was
just finished and it looked okay. "I have the romulan ship, 200,000
kilometres off the port bow." Harry reported. "On screen." Chakotay
said. The viewscreen came to life and there was the romulan warbird moving
slowly. "Scan for lifesigns." I ordered. "There are a number of lifesigns
on board." B'Elanna reported. "Hail them." I ordered. Harry hailed them but
there was no answer. "No response." Harry reported. Chakotay immediately
stood up and said "Paris, B'Elanna, Walker your with me." He said heading
for the turbolift. "Captain, I don't have to remind you that by Starfleet
protocol..." I said before he cut me off. "Good point, it's hard to
remember that I'm not the first officer anymore. Jack you lead the away
team." He said returning to his chair. "Away team your with me." I said
heading for the turbolift. They all joined me in the turbolift as we rode
down to Deck 6 towards the armoury and the transporter room. After picking
up a medical kit, an engineering kit and then arming ourselves with phasers
and tricorders we left for the transporter room. As I entered I saw Luke
stood at the controls. "Ready to transport sir." He said. "Energise." I
ordered when we were all in position. When we rematerialized in the
engineering room of the romulan ship there was a number of romulans running
around trying to put out fires or working the controls. "Who the hell are
you?" one of them asked. "I'm Commander Jack Carter of the federation
starship Voyager, we are responding to your distress call." I said. "I'll
take you straight to the commander." He said leading us to the bridge.

"First Officers log stardate 47215.3 after spending over 4 hours on board
the romulan ship and assisting them with their repairs, Tom and I were able
to help them to bring their impulse engines online but at the expense of
their engine core. But at least we were able to help them on their way
home. As this was my first away mission as this ships first officer it went
down with great success. End Log." I said. The ship was on the way back to
Earth having completed a successful shakedown and also assisting a romulan
warship. I has just finished making out my away mission report in my
office. Wow it felt so weird having my own office that I had designed
myself. I looked at the picture of me, Tom and Matthew that was sat on my
desk and smiled. "Commander carter to the bridge." Said Chakotay. I left my
office and rode the turbolift to the bridge and as I stepped out of the
turbolift the first thing I noticed was that we had dropped out of warp. I
sat in my chair and turned to Chakotay. I also noticed on the viewscreen
that the Enterprise was with us. "What's going on?" I asked. "The admiral
has sent the Enterprise to help with the last part of our shakedown cruise
and that is to see how the ship handles in real combat situations. So we
are going to do a test combat situation. Your husband has just activated
the test combat program, the ship will experience real live damage but
without the hassle of repairs being made. It's the new holo system that
Starfleet engineering has been using for a few months." He explained. "Okay
well let's get started." I said. "Voyager to Picard we are ready." Chakotay
said. "As are we, good look captain." Picard replied. "Same to you
captain." He replied before the channel closed. "This will be a walk in the
park, this ship as faced much worse in the delta quadrant." Chakotay said
aloud. I nodded and smiled. "Red Alert, All Hands to battlestations." I
said. The bridge went crimson red and we were ready. "The Enterprise is
coming about, their preparing to fire." B'Elanna said. "Raise shields,
Power Phasers, Load Torpedoes." Chakotay ordered. They fired and we were
hit. "Return fire, target their engines and fire." I ordered. "Mr Paris,
come about to 146 mark 35 prepare to initiate attack procedure Capa 010."
Chakotay ordered. Paris flew the ship with great skill as B'Elanna
continued to fire multiple shots of Phasers. "They are re-arming their
torpedoes and targeting the port nacelle." B'Elanna reported. "Evasive
action pattern omega." I said. Paris did so but they still hit us. Consoles
exploded and conduits ruptured. "Hull breach deck 9 section 14." Harry
Reported. "Seal it." I ordered. "Target their weapons array, quantum
torpedoes full spread." Chakotay ordered. "Ready sir." B'Elanna
reported. "Fire." He ordered. B'Elanna let rip 4 torpedoes and we hit the
enterprise dead on. "Direct hit to their weapons, they have lost both
phasers and torpedoes." B'Elanna reported. "Target their shield grid and
fire." I ordered. B'Elanna fired again and hit them again. "Direct hit sir,
we won. The computer has registered that we have wounded the enterprise to
the point where in real life we would have crippled them. The system has
shut down." Harry reported. The bridge returned to normal alert status as
the Enterprise hailed us. "On screen." Chakotay ordered. "Congratulation
captain. Looks like those years in the delta quadrant have paid off."
Picard said. "Thank you Captain." Chakotay said. "We will let you continue
on your way. Again congratulations Captain. Picard out." He said as the
channel was closed. "Well done all." Said Chakotay. "Mr Paris continue on
course to earth" I ordered. "Aye Commander." He replied and away we went
again to warp. What a great start to the re-launch of Voyager.