Part One
Disclaimer:
All the characters, Voayager, and the Maquis all belong to Paramount. What I
chose to do with them is my own. This story is NC-17 for m/m relationship and
sex.
Authors
Note: This story is is a alternate universe where thing's are different, yes I
screwed around with details, but you're allowed to do that in AUs.
Tom woke slowly. First becoming awear of
Julian twined around him. Then of the soft thrum of warp engines. Engins that
had a paticular pitch to them... that he hadn't heard in... A smile spread
across his face even without opening his eyes he knew exactly where he was.
Home.
"You look happy." Julian purred
beside him.
Tom opened his eyes meeting his lovers gaze.
"We're home." He murmmered leaning in to press a kiss to his lovers
lips.
"Yes we are." His lover agreed.
"Let's go bug Chakotay." Tom said
gleefully, as he shifted towards the edge of the bed.
"Tom we just got back on board it
wouldn't be a good plan to get your extremely cute butt tossed out an air
lock." Julian said catching his golden lover and pulling him back against
him hand cupping said handsom butt locking their hips together. "Besides
we can have plenty of fun right here."
Tom gave a soft purr. "Mmmm.... how much
fun?"
"All we want. Just think no duty
yet." His lover told him thrusting against him.
The motion drew an involentary gasp from him.
The burst of pleasure took a few moments to fade back so that he could see
straight again. You're right we wouldn't want to waste this. I'll bug Chakotay
once we have duty and he can't get away."
Julian just laughed and rolled the other man
under him neatly pinning him down. "I'm glad you feel that way because I
was going to have my way with you anyway. Besides did you look at the crono...
you know Cha would kill you if you woke him up this early we're on a slightly
different schedually then the rest of the ship right now."
"Okay so we'll amuse ourselves for a
while then have a nice shower since we'll still be up before everyone else.
Then we'll wake Cha."
"Deal." Julian grinned then
captured his lover's lips in a deep probing kiss and didn't let up until he
felt Tom go completely limp against the bed just letting his love have his way
with his body.
*** *** *** *** ***
Chakotay woke to a soft curse and a thump.
Rolling on to his side he watched the Star Fleet ensign scrambling back on to
the couch through the door. Poor kid he'd lost track of the number of times the
younger man had fallen off the narrow couch durring the night. The big man
muffled a chuckle. The first few times had irritated him when he'd been trying
to get to sleep but after he'd managed that he'd barely registered the noise in
the other room but he was sure there had been several more occasions that the
young man had had inpromptu meetings with the floor. But now he was rested and
the sleep tousled and flusstered pup was actually kinda of cute.
Cute.
If Tom heard that he'd never let it go. Not
that it would really be so bad at least Tom was back to torment him. The two of
them were probably up already Tom irritating everyone in sight Julian tempering
his boisterous mate. Actually he thought looking at the crono he was surprised
that they weren't in here, Tom loved to show up and bounce him out of bed in
the morning at nearly ungodly hours. And Julian came along on the pretext of
not trusting the two of them in bed together alone, but some how he always
managed to end up in the bed with them with in about ten minutes. Be it for a wrestling
match, a tickle fight, or a group cuddle.
He'd barely finished the thought when Tom
came flying through the door landing on the bed beside him. "Morning
Cha." He sang out as he rolled over to sprawl on his stomach.
"Good morning. Where's your better
half?"
"Visting with Harry. Seems you've been
ignoring him Chakotay. Not nice." The pilot scolded.
"I came to *my* quarters, went to sleep,
and woke up a few minutes ago." Chakotay protested. When exactly did I
have time to ignore him?"
Before Tom could answer Julian came in to the
small bedroom.
"How's the kid doing?" The captain
growled.
"He's fine." Julian said. "I
had B'Elanna beam him to our quarters so he could find something to wear until
we can take him shopping."
"Shopping?" Chakotay growled
looking almost incredulous. "We're on the run from the entire 'Fleet once
they figure out what you've done and you want to stop and go shopping?"
"Well we don't exactly have a lot
anymore either Cha." Tom said retreating towards his lover. "Between
two or three rather abrupt address changes we kinda have misplaces a lot of
stuff."
"Really Chakotay." Julian chided.
"I would have thought you would want to help Harry he is after all in much
the same situation as you were when you left the 'Fleet."
"How exactly? He's not defending his
home, he just followed you two like a stray puppy." The Captain asked
crossing his arms over his chest.
"He's alone, confused as hell and scared
half to death if you hadn't noticed."
The big man looked at the pair in front of
him Julian was giving him that 'I love you and respect you but I expected
better of you look.' And Tom was glued to his lovers side all the merriment
gone from those infamous blue eyes. Chakotay sighed sometimes he'd swear that
the two of them really were twins echoing each other's emotions as well as
thoughts. Tom blinked at him with those said eyes giving him that look, the one
children get when you deny them something for a reason that they absolutely do
not understand. 'Damn.' He swore at himself mentally.
"I suppose the rest of the crew could
use a bit of shore leave." He said giving in. "We'll find some place
illegal enough that we won't be the ones with the biggest prices on our
heads."
"Sounds good." Julian smiled.
"I think we'll go see how Harry feels about a shopping trip." As Tom
followed him from the room almost bouncing with repressed energy.
Chakotay watched the pair of them go feeling
that he had just been supreemly conned.
*** *** *** *** ***
Outside the captain's quarters Tom and Julian
looked at each other with smirks on their faces as they both ran a short
distance down the corridor before bursting out laughing.
"We are so good." Tom crowed.
"Just think of all the fun stuff we can get. It's been so long since we've
been on a real shopping trip.
"Tom please remember our account balance
isn't all that big." Julian sighed.
"Would you like it to be?"
"*Tom.*"
"Whaaaat?"
"How many times have I told you no
"borrowing" money form other peoples accounts."
The banter continued back and forth all the
way back to their quarters.
When they entered their room they found Harry
fast asleep on their bed. "I thought you said he was fine." Tom
commented softly.
"He kept falling off the couch last
night." His lover told him. "Didn't get much sleep."
"Ahh... at least he's dressed."
"And looks very good in you shirt, is no
doubt where you're heading with this."
Tom just blinked innocently and shrugged.
"Get the padds and let's go." The
dark man said slightly exasperated. No use boosting his lover's ego any
further. "The bridge awaits."
*** *** *** *** ***
Chakotay strode on to the bridge of his ship
later that day he was vaguely disturbed to see Tom and Julian working on two of
the computer consoles. Those two and computers was almost always trouble.
"What are you two up to now?" He
asked moving to the side of the bridge they were currently occupying noticing
Harry Kim in a nearby alcove failing badly at being inconspicuous.
"Teaching the Star Fleet computers
something new." Tom practically giggled.
"What?"
"We're resequencing our DNA."
Julian supplied calmly his eye never leaving the screen in front of him.
"Harry's too." Tom piped up.
"Again What!?!"
"In the Fleet's computers." The
darker of the pair clarified. "They're going to want blood after this
little stunt. So it would be better if our blood didn't much what they think
they're looking for."
"What are you going to do about all the
copies of files running around on ships?" Harry queried from the corner
he'd been watching from and doing his best not to be noticed in.
"Oh that's easy." Tom explained.
"Ships are talking to each other all the time. With all the data being
transferred around no one's going to notice one little subroutine that finds
it's way in there."
"So basically." Chakotay sighed
heavily. "You just virused the entire Starfleet information network."
Tom and Julian looked at one another.
"Yup." They grinned in chorus.
"You two are out of your minds."
The older man groaned.
"Thank you." Again in perfect
chorus.
Chakotay just sighed again and started to
move away then froze as he bumped in to Harry how had moved in closer to try
and get an better view of what Tom and Julian were doing. Chakotay stared at
the young man for a long moment as Harry blushed and ducked his head. Both of
them were oblivious to Tom and Julian exchanging laughing looks and a silent
high five.
The moment lasted until Chell sitting at the
Ops station spoke up. "Sir we just completed another long range scan.
Checking to see if Voyager was pursuing us."
"And…" Chakotay questioned as he
finally moved away from Harry to look over the other maquis' shoulder at the
console.
"Well Voyager isn't perusing us
sir."
"Or at least she isn't with in our
sensor range."
"No sir she's well… gone."
"What do you mean she's gone." Tom
demanded.
"Voyager is gone. There was some sort of
distortion wave that went through the Bad Lands, it hit her and she'd
gone." Chakotay interpreted off the console in front of him.
"How do we know about this?" Julian
asked feeling his lover's body tense beside him. "If we're way out of
sensor range."
"We've been listening in on the Star
Fleet channels with the decrypts you brought back with you." Chell
explained.
"Oh my god what did I do." Tom
breathed out.
"What are you talking about."
"I cut their engines. They didn't have a
chance."
"First off I didn't say Voyager was
destroyed I said she was gone. There's no debris, no warp core resonance. And
second you left then with half impulse they weren't helpless."
"Voyager couldn't even go that fast in
the badlands." Harry offered. "She's too big the fastest we managed
safely was a quarter."
"Tom this wasn't your fault."
Julian said. "Even if you'd left them more power it wouldn't have
helped."
Tom swallowed mutely then nodded. His lover
sighed and drew him down on to his lap wrapping him in a comforting embrace.
Rocking him gently as Tom buried his face against his chest.
"I know." Came the muffled
admission several moments later.
"Good." Julian said still in his
soothing voice.
"This situation has one advantage."
Chakotay said carefully.
"What's that?" Julian asked feeling
Tom tense slightly.
"Everyone is going to think the three of
you are dead." The big Maquis said gesturing to Harry and the two men in
the chair.
"Well there is that." Julian said,
then returned to comforting Tom who was becoming agitated again.
Harry made an odd sound that was a cross
between a squeak and a sob and bolted from the room.
"What the..." Chakotay muttered.
"Well how often do you get declared
dead?" Julian asked in an irate tone. "He doesn't know how to handle
that on top of everything else." Chakotay looked at him expectantly.
"Chakotay I can't be in two places at once you're going to have to handle
this one." The younger man snapped at him. "I'm a bit busy
here."
"Right." Chakotay said awkwardly
leaving the room. Okay where would Harry have gone? There were only two places
on the ship he really knew right now. The Twins quarters and Chakotay's own.
Harry was a bright young man he'd know Tom and Julian would be ending up in
there quarters in the very near future. So he had to have gone to Chakotay's
quarters.