chakotay: ({ I don't want to feel like this)
commander chakotay ([personal profile] chakotay) wrote in [community profile] tampered2014-01-02 11:03 pm

I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away

When; January 4th
Rating; PG for now
Characters; Chakotay [personal profile] chakotay & Kathryn Janeway [personal profile] directives
Summary; Voyager's command team deals with the mistletoe curse... a long time later
Log;


He'd meant to stop by earlier, a day or so ago, but with things going the way they'd been, he hadn't had a chance. He'd intended to give her a few days to cool off, so she wouldn't greet his face with a burst of embarrassment disguised as professionalism. Well, he's wearing his uniform only today, as a sign that he's not taking anything that happened between them under the mistletoe too seriously. Cold it might be, but the symbol of strength he needs to show now is more important. Hallucination or not, that wolf had been right about some things. He and Kathryn needed to remain a team. Whatever happens with their personal lives needs to be set aside in the face of a situation their command relationship needs to take care of. And everything involving the City falls under that category. At least for now.

So that's why he's entering the labs now and looking around for her. He'd picked up a small pocketwatch on a chain, something that could sit in a pocket or be tied on a belt loop and not be in her way but would still provide a better and easier way to tell time than constantly looking around for a clock. And it could, hopefully, be a symbol of the time they'll have to get their relationship back on track. Their command relationship, at least. He'll always be there for her, through time and beyond. She will never again be alone.
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[personal profile] directives 2014-01-25 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, yes, but see — that approval has to go through me. And if I'm suffering, they're suffering with me."

She's kidding, of course. But if someone was better suited to alpha shift, they were damned well staying on it unless they gave her a good reason for the move. And being annoyed by the Doctor is hardly a reason. If it were, Tom would've wormed his way out of his sickbay duties years ago.