50 Chances | G - R | Star Trek: Voyager
Title: 50 Chances
Prompt: Table Delta
Challenge: 1sentence
Fandom: Janeway/B’Elanna, Janeway/Seven, B’Elanna/Seven, Star Trek: Voyager
Requested by: welshred & kitnkabootle
Rating: G - R
Word Count: 1869
Disclaimer: Not mine. Wish they were. Please don't sue.
Author's Note: I really like the idea of this challenge community, so I decided to partake in each of the prompt tables. This is my second attempt and I really hope I managed to do justice to these characters and teacup-sized plots! All mistakes are mine. Let me know what you think! Comments are love!
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#01 - Air
Whenever she sees disappointment cloud Janeway’s blue-gray eyes as a result of her actions, Seven loses the capacity to draw a breath until she’s corrected her errors.
#02 - Apples
B’Elanna sat in stunned, irritated silence for nearly a minute before joining her wife and daughter in laughter as she wiped the applesauce from her face.
#03 - Beginning
The exact moment when B’Elanna’s love for Kathryn Janeway began could not be easily pinpointed by the engineer, but she knew that it ended the very minute the captain exchanged vows with someone else.
#04 - Bugs
Seven stared down uncertainly at the wide-eyed child’s worried furrowed brow and, suppressing the urge to stroke her finger against the girl’s cheek, whispered quietly, “A complete scan of your crib has determined that there are no bed bugs to be found, Miral.”
#05 - Coffee
Janeway’s voice is husky from sleep and arousal when she leans close to B’Elanna’s ear and whispers, “Every time I sip from my coffee today I will be thinking of what you taste like when you come.”
#06 - Dark
Janeway denied her lover’s request to turn down the lights, wanting nothing more than to see their entwined bodies bathed in the yellow glow of the ship’s artificial illumination for the first time.
#07 - Despair
The warm dampness of Kathryn’s clammy hand manipulates the counselor’s business card into a warped, wrinkled mess; the thin bit of cardstock unmistakably resembles the disaster she’s made of her life on Earth and as another wave of despair washes over her, she wonders if Deanna Troi is truly the only option she has left to fix it.
#08 - Doors
The Doctor stands just outside the doors of the cargo bay, making yet another bet with himself regarding whose stasis tube he will find Seven of Nine standing beside: the captain’s or the engineer’s.
#09 - Drink
Though Seven’s mind is dull under the hazy effect of too much champagne, she maintains enough clarity to recognize the pale hand that creeps up the length of her inner thigh.
#10 - Duty
All of Engineering has noticed that Lieutenant Torres has begun her duty shift late for a fourth day in a row, but the spring in her step and the cessation of her infamous temper is enough to persuade the crew to look the other way.
#11 - Earth
A silence settled over the bridge crew as the image of the blue-green planet grew larger on the view screen, each knowing that they would soon be leaving one home to rejoin another.
#12 - End
Chakotay felt something in Seven’s lips change as they kissed and he prolonged it for as long as he could, knowing that it would never happen again once it ended.
#13 - Fall
“I don’t know how or why or even when it happened, Tom…I just fell in love with her.”
#14 - Fire
Desire rose up within Kathryn like a flame as B’Elanna’s mouth began trailing hot kisses down the column of her throat, and as the captain closed her eyes and imagined that her lover’s lips belonged to Seven of Nine, she knew she would be burned alive.
#15 - Flexible
Trapped together in the confined space of a Jeffries tube, Janeway noticed for the first time how lean, lithe, and flexible her chief engineer truly was.
#16 - Flying
Harry Kim’s eyes widened with shock and confusion when Seven tightly grabbed his arm in the corridor and said, “You were wrong to liken love to the sensation of flying; it is like drowning.”
#17 - Food
With carefully timed precision, B’Elanna has managed to synchronize her mealtimes with Janeway’s; food tastes better in the captain’s company.
#18 - Foot
B’Elanna stared impatiently at a blank spot on the wall as yet another speech began, wanting nothing more than for the damn party to end so she could kick off her dreadfully painful heels and collect on the foot rub that Kathryn promised in exchange for being her date.
#19 - Grave
B’Elanna knew she had dug her own grave when she fell in love with Kathryn Janeway, but what a way to go.
#20 - Green
Q followed Janeway’s line of vision and, plastering a conspiratorially lascivious grin to his face, said, “Orion slave girls have nothin’ on Seven of Nine, do they?”
#21 - Head
“Yes, we’re seeing each other, no, you can’t watch, and get that damn grin off your face before I slap it off you.”
#22 - Hollow
The Doctor watches as Janeway’s hand slips through Seven’s as she guides her out of sickbay and wonders if this hollow feeling is simply a malfunction; it wouldn’t be so bad if it were a disturbance in his holomatrix because, unlike the other possibility, that emptiness could actually be eradicated.
#23 - Honor
And just like that, B’Elanna’s own body had stripped her of the chance to go out like a true Klingon with some semblance of honor; instead of dying like a warrior, she would be slowly eaten away by a disease that had only been cured in the Alpha Quadrant.
#24 - Hope
Seven caught sight of the captain and the engineer holding hands beneath the table in the mess hall and felt her hope shatter.
#25 - Light
Seven hefted the box into her arms as if it weighed nothing and waited for Kathryn to point out where in their new San Francisco home she wanted it to go.
#26 - Lost
B’Elanna never realized how much she enjoyed Janeway’s casual touches until she no longer received them.
#27 - Metal
When B’Elanna brought Seven’s fingers to her mouth, she was surprised to taste only the evidence of her own arousal and not the metal of her Borg-enhanced hand.
#28 - New
Seven watched with detached curiosity as a blush crept over B’Elanna’s cheeks and wondered if the engineer’s obvious attraction to the captain were a new development or if it had existed long before she came to the starship.
#29 - Old
Janeway felt twice her age as she observed the other two women wrestling each other in the lush green valley, denying another invitation to indulge in their playful, youthful horseplay.
#30 - Peace
It would be so easy to appreciate Seven’s cool wit and keen intellect, but B’Elanna will never be able to make peace with her simply for the fact that they are in love with the same woman.
#31 - Poison
Seven did not enjoy this feeling of “love” and resolved to overcome the malady, believing it to be poisonous and dangerous and unnecessary.
#32 - Pretty
“Don’t be so quick to try to change the way you look, Annika…I used to think I’d actually be pretty without the Klingon half of me muddying up whatever looks I had, but when I saw myself as I’d be simply as a human, I didn’t look like me and that was ugliest of all.”
#33 - Rain
When Seven felt the warm rain on her face for the first time since her childhood, she wept.
#34 - Regret
The two women groaned and exchanged rueful glances as they pondered the specifics of the temporal mechanics that would return them to the proper century, neither wanting to focus on the headaches that would undoubtedly arise as they worked to get home.
#35 - Roses
B’Elanna stuffed the bouquet of roses into the recycling unit with a growl, cursing as a thorn gouged itself into her wrist; she should have known better than to expect her lover to remember their two year anniversary.
#36 - Secret
Sitting in his chair in the conference room, Chakotay sensed that a secret was being kept, that something had changed amongst the three female officers.
#37 - Snakes
“If these snakes are anything like Earth’s, you need to put your lips around the wound and suck out the venom,” Janeway admonishes with a grimace of pain as she pulls down her pants and exposes the bite on the back of her upper thigh before adding, “now suck.”
#38 - Snow
Seven cradles the diminutive engineer in her arms and blows her warm breath against B’Elanna’s icy fingers, hoping that the ship’s sensors will penetrate the snow-laden landscape with enough time to save the petite woman from hypothermia and frostbite.
#39 - Solid
As Janeway clutches the chief engineer’s warm, solid form to her chest in a strong embrace, she wonders if B’Elanna puts herself in these dangerous situations just to find excuses to hug her when the danger has passed.
#40 - Spring
Kathryn had barely made it through the dense brush by the time B’Elanna and Seven had stripped themselves of their uniforms and sank into one of the hot springs they’d discovered.
#41 - Stable
Their intent had been to take the horses out for a canter along the dusty trails; they made it as far as the first ample pile of hay.
#42 - Strange
A strange twinge strikes B’Elanna’s heart as she catches sight of the former-drone cradling Miral in a most tender and caring way; if B’Elanna didn’t know better, she’d have assumed the child was Seven’s.
#43 - Summer
Janeway turned her face towards the sun and basked in the summer’s heat, reveling in a way that she never could in the holodeck.
#44 - Taboo
“I had no idea Ellipharian culture was so adamantly opposed to the sight of two women holding hands,” Kathryn said sheepishly to her security officer as he regarded her through the metallic slats of the holding cell, “now get me the hell out of here.”
#45 - Ugly
B’Elanna’s temper was black and ugly and raw; Kathryn hated the sight of it but knew she would have to learn to understand it if their relationship were going to grow out of its infancy.
#46 - War
Janeway nursed a cup of ratkajino as she attempted to listen to Tom’s telling of a recent battle at the outpost he’d been stationed at, tuning him out at times as she stole glances of his wife as she played with the children across the room; she wanted to care about the whispers of another war, but the bloodshed and political turmoil could not compete with B’Elanna’s smile.
#47 - Water
“There’s no way I’ll be able to go another round unless I have a glass of water,” B’Elanna muses with a smirk before nipping Seven’s thigh with her teeth, “and I really, really think you’ll like what round three has to offer.”
#48 - Welcome
Kathryn welcomed the heady lull of the noxious gases once she knew that B’Elanna had been transported out; if death chose to claim her life, she could at least die knowing that the woman she loved would live.
#49 - Winter
“Seven years stuck across the galaxy,” Kathryn says, slipping her hands inside B’Elanna’s fur-lined pocket to protect them against the cold, “and the hardest part of it all is coming home to my first Indiana winter without my mother here to welcome me.”
#50 - Wood
If this were their home on Earth, B’Elanna would have already torn down each oak panel of their bedroom door to confront her wife after a fight like this; but it’s not-they’re on a newly commissioned vessel-and she cannot override the captain’s own security authorization that has completely sealed the automatic door.
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Prompt: Table Delta
Challenge: 1sentence
Fandom: Janeway/B’Elanna, Janeway/Seven, B’Elanna/Seven, Star Trek: Voyager
Requested by: welshred & kitnkabootle
Rating: G - R
Word Count: 1869
Disclaimer: Not mine. Wish they were. Please don't sue.
Author's Note: I really like the idea of this challenge community, so I decided to partake in each of the prompt tables. This is my second attempt and I really hope I managed to do justice to these characters and teacup-sized plots! All mistakes are mine. Let me know what you think! Comments are love!
-
#01 - Air
Whenever she sees disappointment cloud Janeway’s blue-gray eyes as a result of her actions, Seven loses the capacity to draw a breath until she’s corrected her errors.
#02 - Apples
B’Elanna sat in stunned, irritated silence for nearly a minute before joining her wife and daughter in laughter as she wiped the applesauce from her face.
#03 - Beginning
The exact moment when B’Elanna’s love for Kathryn Janeway began could not be easily pinpointed by the engineer, but she knew that it ended the very minute the captain exchanged vows with someone else.
#04 - Bugs
Seven stared down uncertainly at the wide-eyed child’s worried furrowed brow and, suppressing the urge to stroke her finger against the girl’s cheek, whispered quietly, “A complete scan of your crib has determined that there are no bed bugs to be found, Miral.”
#05 - Coffee
Janeway’s voice is husky from sleep and arousal when she leans close to B’Elanna’s ear and whispers, “Every time I sip from my coffee today I will be thinking of what you taste like when you come.”
#06 - Dark
Janeway denied her lover’s request to turn down the lights, wanting nothing more than to see their entwined bodies bathed in the yellow glow of the ship’s artificial illumination for the first time.
#07 - Despair
The warm dampness of Kathryn’s clammy hand manipulates the counselor’s business card into a warped, wrinkled mess; the thin bit of cardstock unmistakably resembles the disaster she’s made of her life on Earth and as another wave of despair washes over her, she wonders if Deanna Troi is truly the only option she has left to fix it.
#08 - Doors
The Doctor stands just outside the doors of the cargo bay, making yet another bet with himself regarding whose stasis tube he will find Seven of Nine standing beside: the captain’s or the engineer’s.
#09 - Drink
Though Seven’s mind is dull under the hazy effect of too much champagne, she maintains enough clarity to recognize the pale hand that creeps up the length of her inner thigh.
#10 - Duty
All of Engineering has noticed that Lieutenant Torres has begun her duty shift late for a fourth day in a row, but the spring in her step and the cessation of her infamous temper is enough to persuade the crew to look the other way.
#11 - Earth
A silence settled over the bridge crew as the image of the blue-green planet grew larger on the view screen, each knowing that they would soon be leaving one home to rejoin another.
#12 - End
Chakotay felt something in Seven’s lips change as they kissed and he prolonged it for as long as he could, knowing that it would never happen again once it ended.
#13 - Fall
“I don’t know how or why or even when it happened, Tom…I just fell in love with her.”
#14 - Fire
Desire rose up within Kathryn like a flame as B’Elanna’s mouth began trailing hot kisses down the column of her throat, and as the captain closed her eyes and imagined that her lover’s lips belonged to Seven of Nine, she knew she would be burned alive.
#15 - Flexible
Trapped together in the confined space of a Jeffries tube, Janeway noticed for the first time how lean, lithe, and flexible her chief engineer truly was.
#16 - Flying
Harry Kim’s eyes widened with shock and confusion when Seven tightly grabbed his arm in the corridor and said, “You were wrong to liken love to the sensation of flying; it is like drowning.”
#17 - Food
With carefully timed precision, B’Elanna has managed to synchronize her mealtimes with Janeway’s; food tastes better in the captain’s company.
#18 - Foot
B’Elanna stared impatiently at a blank spot on the wall as yet another speech began, wanting nothing more than for the damn party to end so she could kick off her dreadfully painful heels and collect on the foot rub that Kathryn promised in exchange for being her date.
#19 - Grave
B’Elanna knew she had dug her own grave when she fell in love with Kathryn Janeway, but what a way to go.
#20 - Green
Q followed Janeway’s line of vision and, plastering a conspiratorially lascivious grin to his face, said, “Orion slave girls have nothin’ on Seven of Nine, do they?”
#21 - Head
“Yes, we’re seeing each other, no, you can’t watch, and get that damn grin off your face before I slap it off you.”
#22 - Hollow
The Doctor watches as Janeway’s hand slips through Seven’s as she guides her out of sickbay and wonders if this hollow feeling is simply a malfunction; it wouldn’t be so bad if it were a disturbance in his holomatrix because, unlike the other possibility, that emptiness could actually be eradicated.
#23 - Honor
And just like that, B’Elanna’s own body had stripped her of the chance to go out like a true Klingon with some semblance of honor; instead of dying like a warrior, she would be slowly eaten away by a disease that had only been cured in the Alpha Quadrant.
#24 - Hope
Seven caught sight of the captain and the engineer holding hands beneath the table in the mess hall and felt her hope shatter.
#25 - Light
Seven hefted the box into her arms as if it weighed nothing and waited for Kathryn to point out where in their new San Francisco home she wanted it to go.
#26 - Lost
B’Elanna never realized how much she enjoyed Janeway’s casual touches until she no longer received them.
#27 - Metal
When B’Elanna brought Seven’s fingers to her mouth, she was surprised to taste only the evidence of her own arousal and not the metal of her Borg-enhanced hand.
#28 - New
Seven watched with detached curiosity as a blush crept over B’Elanna’s cheeks and wondered if the engineer’s obvious attraction to the captain were a new development or if it had existed long before she came to the starship.
#29 - Old
Janeway felt twice her age as she observed the other two women wrestling each other in the lush green valley, denying another invitation to indulge in their playful, youthful horseplay.
#30 - Peace
It would be so easy to appreciate Seven’s cool wit and keen intellect, but B’Elanna will never be able to make peace with her simply for the fact that they are in love with the same woman.
#31 - Poison
Seven did not enjoy this feeling of “love” and resolved to overcome the malady, believing it to be poisonous and dangerous and unnecessary.
#32 - Pretty
“Don’t be so quick to try to change the way you look, Annika…I used to think I’d actually be pretty without the Klingon half of me muddying up whatever looks I had, but when I saw myself as I’d be simply as a human, I didn’t look like me and that was ugliest of all.”
#33 - Rain
When Seven felt the warm rain on her face for the first time since her childhood, she wept.
#34 - Regret
The two women groaned and exchanged rueful glances as they pondered the specifics of the temporal mechanics that would return them to the proper century, neither wanting to focus on the headaches that would undoubtedly arise as they worked to get home.
#35 - Roses
B’Elanna stuffed the bouquet of roses into the recycling unit with a growl, cursing as a thorn gouged itself into her wrist; she should have known better than to expect her lover to remember their two year anniversary.
#36 - Secret
Sitting in his chair in the conference room, Chakotay sensed that a secret was being kept, that something had changed amongst the three female officers.
#37 - Snakes
“If these snakes are anything like Earth’s, you need to put your lips around the wound and suck out the venom,” Janeway admonishes with a grimace of pain as she pulls down her pants and exposes the bite on the back of her upper thigh before adding, “now suck.”
#38 - Snow
Seven cradles the diminutive engineer in her arms and blows her warm breath against B’Elanna’s icy fingers, hoping that the ship’s sensors will penetrate the snow-laden landscape with enough time to save the petite woman from hypothermia and frostbite.
#39 - Solid
As Janeway clutches the chief engineer’s warm, solid form to her chest in a strong embrace, she wonders if B’Elanna puts herself in these dangerous situations just to find excuses to hug her when the danger has passed.
#40 - Spring
Kathryn had barely made it through the dense brush by the time B’Elanna and Seven had stripped themselves of their uniforms and sank into one of the hot springs they’d discovered.
#41 - Stable
Their intent had been to take the horses out for a canter along the dusty trails; they made it as far as the first ample pile of hay.
#42 - Strange
A strange twinge strikes B’Elanna’s heart as she catches sight of the former-drone cradling Miral in a most tender and caring way; if B’Elanna didn’t know better, she’d have assumed the child was Seven’s.
#43 - Summer
Janeway turned her face towards the sun and basked in the summer’s heat, reveling in a way that she never could in the holodeck.
#44 - Taboo
“I had no idea Ellipharian culture was so adamantly opposed to the sight of two women holding hands,” Kathryn said sheepishly to her security officer as he regarded her through the metallic slats of the holding cell, “now get me the hell out of here.”
#45 - Ugly
B’Elanna’s temper was black and ugly and raw; Kathryn hated the sight of it but knew she would have to learn to understand it if their relationship were going to grow out of its infancy.
#46 - War
Janeway nursed a cup of ratkajino as she attempted to listen to Tom’s telling of a recent battle at the outpost he’d been stationed at, tuning him out at times as she stole glances of his wife as she played with the children across the room; she wanted to care about the whispers of another war, but the bloodshed and political turmoil could not compete with B’Elanna’s smile.
#47 - Water
“There’s no way I’ll be able to go another round unless I have a glass of water,” B’Elanna muses with a smirk before nipping Seven’s thigh with her teeth, “and I really, really think you’ll like what round three has to offer.”
#48 - Welcome
Kathryn welcomed the heady lull of the noxious gases once she knew that B’Elanna had been transported out; if death chose to claim her life, she could at least die knowing that the woman she loved would live.
#49 - Winter
“Seven years stuck across the galaxy,” Kathryn says, slipping her hands inside B’Elanna’s fur-lined pocket to protect them against the cold, “and the hardest part of it all is coming home to my first Indiana winter without my mother here to welcome me.”
#50 - Wood
If this were their home on Earth, B’Elanna would have already torn down each oak panel of their bedroom door to confront her wife after a fight like this; but it’s not-they’re on a newly commissioned vessel-and she cannot override the captain’s own security authorization that has completely sealed the automatic door.
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