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  seat. She knew she wasn't as good a pilot as he was, but she

  had o try. The engineer sat down in the pilot's chair

  and began to input commands.

  The shuttle avoided another attack. B'Elanna looked up and saw

  the reason why, Voyager was firing on the Hirogen ship. Smiling

  in delight she typed in another command to take the shuttle to

  the other side of Voyager.

  "Just keep them at bay long enough for me to get inside,"

  B'Elanna whispered as she rounded the ship.

  A moment later, Voyager hailed her.

  "B'Elanna here, Captain," she began to explain. "Tom's been hurt.

  He needs medical attention immediately."

  "We'll try to keep the Hirogen at bay, B'Elanna. Get that shuttle

  in."

  "Aye, aye, Captain. Torres out."

  B'Elanna maneuvered the craft as gently as possible behind

  Voyager. All the while, she could see the Hirogen ship being

  pounded by phaser fire. It barely fought back, they must be

  losing power. She prayed silently that Brizat would survive the

  attack and see his family again.

  The half-Klingon saw the shuttlebay doors opening for her. She

  slowly and cautiously moved the craft toward the doors and held

  her breath as she eased the shuttle inside. She only let go of

  her breath when she felt the shuttle land on the platform.

  "We're here," she said to Tom, who only moaned.

  B'Elanna then saw her husband disappear in a blue beam. Wasting

  no time, she quickly left the shuttle and headed toward Sickbay.

  B'Elanna sped through the corridors of Voyager en route to

  Sickbay, her own injuries and exhaustion temporarily forgotten.

  Her only thought was to get to Tom as quickly as possible.

  Entering Sickbay, she saw that the Doctor and Kes were already

  working on her husband and the medical arch had been activated.

  "Is he . . . . all right, . . . Doctor?" B'Elanna blurted out in

  between breaths. She approached the head of the biobed and

  brushed her hands lovingly over his hair.

  The EMH looked up from his patient at the sound of her voice, and

  noticed her bedraggled appearance. "We are just completing the

  examination and I've given him a strong dose of anti-toxin. I

  think he'll be fine given time, he needs to rest. From the looks

  of it," the EMH replied looking her over with a discreet eye,

  "you should have been beamed into Sickbay as well, Lieutenant.

  In fact," he turned to his assistant, "Kes, will you help

  B'Elanna up on to the other biobed."

  "Of course, Doctor," the petite Ocampan replied.

  "But Doctor?" the half-Klingon argued. No one was going to

  separate her from her mate.

  "No arguments, Lieutenant. That's an order!" the Doctor replied

  firmly as he grabbed his medical tricorder.

  "But Tom? The children?" she continued to argue but surprisingly

  didn't offer any resistance as Kes settled her down on the biobed

  next to Tom's.

  "Mr. Paris needs his rest and so do you. The boys are doing

  fine, I wish I could say the same for Mr. Kim and Ms. Lerise."

  Noticing B'Elanna's quizzical expression, he quickly added:

  "Let's just say that looking after Kyle and Lucas was a little

  bit more challenging than they originally bargained for. Believe

  me, both the boys are just fine and you both can see them as soon

  as you wake up."

  That being said, Kes injected a hypospray into B'Elanna's neck

  and the half-Klingon quickly fell asleep.

  Chapter 22

  The next morning, there was several people waiting in the hall

  outside of Sickbay to see the two patients.

  Harry and Alera tired from another restless night trying to get

  the boys to sleep, sat just outside of Sickbay with Kyle and

  Lucas. Each boy commandeered a lap and was eager to see their

  parents again.

  The Captain and the First Officer stood on the other side of the

  hall talking between themselves, every once in a while the words

  'Hirogen,' 'Tom,' and 'B'Elanna' could be heard, they were

  obviously talking and making assumptions about what Tom and

  B'Elanna had experienced at the hands of the Hirogen. Even

  Neelix and Tuvok had made a brief appearance before they had to

  return to their duties, but they promised that they would return.

  Finally, the Doctor came to the door and bade them all to enter,

  but warned them not to stay too long. When they walked in, they

  saw that a newly healed and well rested Tom and B'Elanna were

  both sitting up in bed, in fact the two biobeds had been pushed

  together. Upon waking that morning, both insisted that if they

  had to stay in Sickbay for the day that they be as close as

  possible. The EMH not wanting to upset them for a change

  relented and now they sat, both in bed, side by side, eagerly

  awaiting the arrival of their guests, but in particular their

  boys.

  Seeing their parents for the first time in what seemed like a

  long time both boys squealed with delight. This elicited grins

  and laughter from not only Tom and B'Elanna, but from everyone

  else too. Alera passed Lucas to Tom and Harry deposited Kyle

  into B'Elanna's eager arms. For a while the only conversation of

  any kind to be heard were the questions and comments the parents

  directed at their children. Which in turn were intermingled with

  answering giggles and laughter from the boys. Obviously all were

  thrilled with being reunited. The on-lookers looked at them and

  exchanged knowing looks at each other. Each deciding on their

  own, that their own personal visit with Tom and B'Elanna would

  have to wait until the boys were through--and by the looks of

  things that could take a while.

  "Tom, B'Elanna, we'll come by later for the debriefing" said the

  captain, "Chakotay and I are looking forward to hearing what

  happened."

  Tom who had just given a giggling Lucas a wet raspberry on his

  belly button, acknowledged the Captain with a nod of the head, as

  did a smiling B'Elanna who was tweaking Kyle's pert nose. With

  a wave of her hand the Captain and her First Officer exited

  Sickbay.

  "Well, I guess you two--excuse me you four--would like some time

  alone." chirped Harry. "What do you say we come back for the

  boys in an hour?"

  "That'd be fine Harry," B'Elanna said.

  "And thank you for looking after our little Flyboys," Tom added.

  "I understand that they were a handful?"

  Harry was tempted to tell the two all of the trials and

  tribulations that he and Alera had to bear while they were

  gone, but suddenly none of it seemed to matter. "They were no

  problem at all, what gave you that idea? They were good kids."

  "Little angels, both of them," Alera said with a sweet smile.

  She was glowing inside for she could sense the absolute joy that

  flowed from the four on the bed. She then grabbed Harry by the

  hand and led him out of Sickbay.

  "They look so happy," Harry remarked as the Sickbay door slid

  shut behind them.

  "They sure do. By the way, Harry, did I ever tell you that we

  ha
ve a history of twins on my side of the family?"

  Finis

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