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By: Amy Michelle Bitter

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                                =/\= Chapter Seven =/\=

        Tom Paris paced his quarters.  He had to get B'Elanna back.  She was the
only person that meant anything to him.  He couldn't go on living without
her.  He stopped pacing, something had to be done.  He left his quarters and
headed towards the shuttlebay.

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        "Captain, a shuttle is leaving the shuttle bay," Tuvok reported.
"Lieutenant Paris is on board."
        "Open a channel,"  The Captain said.
        "Lieutenant Paris, just what do you think you are doing?"  Janeway asked.
"Get back here now, that is an order."
        Tom appeared on the view screen.
        "Captain, I have to do this,"  Tom said.  "I have to help B'Elanna."
        "Tuvok, use the tractor beam.  Get him back here,"  Janeway ordered.
        "He's gone to warp, Captain," Tuvok explained.  "I can't get a lock on him."
        "Helm, lay in a pursuit course,"  Janeway said.

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        B'Elanna wandered through the corridors of the Kazon ship.  Phaser in hand,
she walked through the corridors looking for a way to contact Voyager.
B'Elanna entered a room and walked over to a control panel.  A figure began
to materialize in the corner of the room.  B'Elanna raised her phaser and
pointed it at the figure.
        "It's only me,"  Tom said. "Put down the phaser."
        "Tom," she said lowering the phaser and ran over to hug him.
        "Come on, let's get out of here," he said.
        MajCullah entered the room followed by two other Kazon.  One of the Kazon
ran over and grabbed the phaser from B'Elanna's hand.  Tom grabbed his
phaser and raised it.  MajCullah fired his phaser at Tom knocking him to
the ground.
        "Tom!"  B'Elanna yelled moving to where Tom lay on the ground.
        "I'm okay," he whispered to her.
        "You're not going anywhere,"  MajCullah said.
        Tom pressed his commbadge.  "Paris to shuttlecraft, two to beam up."
Nothing happened.
        "It's useless to try,"  Cullah told them.  "Your shuttle has been
destroyed.  Take them to a holding cell."

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        Voyager came into transporter range of the Kazon ship.
        "I've got a lock on them,"  Tuvok said.
        "Beam them out of there, and get us as far away as possible,"  Captain
Janeway ordered.

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        The Kazon moved to grab Tom and B'Elanna.  The two of them began to
dematerialize and then found themselves on Voyager's transporter pad.
        "Tom's been hurt,"  B'Elanna informed the Captain, who had come to meet
them in the transporter room.
        "Beam him directly to Sickbay,"  Captain Janeway ordered.  Tom
dematerialized once again.
        "Are you all right B'Elanna?"  The Captain asked noticing the bruise on
B'Elanna's face that MajCullah had given her.
        "I'm fine,"  B'Elanna told her.
        "You should go to Sickbay anyway and let the Doctor take a look at you."
        B'Elanna turned to walk out of the transporter room, but turned back around.
        "Captain, before I was taken, Cullah shot Chakotay.  How is he?"  B'Elanna
asked.
        "B'Elanna, we need to talk,"  The Captain said as her eyes filled with tears.

                                =/\= TO BE CONTINUED =/\=