Neighbours Sequel - As yet untitled
By CJ
Rating PG-13
Disclaimer: TPTB (Paramount) own all things Trek, I'm just borrowing a few of their characters and I promise to put them back once I've finished with them (be it reluctantly though!)
Summary: Tom goes to find B'Elanna to tell her the events of what he heard in Neighbours. Then he has a little problem :)
Author's Note: Decided to write this cause I kinda just left the last one hanging. There will be more parts to this, as of yet I don't know how many. Enjoy!
"Chakotay you were great!"
"Thank you Kathryn, you weren't too bad yourself" He gave her a wide grin.
They were sitting on the floor in her bedroom with their backs to the wall.
Kathryn once again began to laugh as she recalled what had just occurred. Chakotay joined her.
She caught her breath long enough to speak.
"I haven't had so much fun since...I don't know when" She wiped away the tears from her cheeks.
Chakotay looked at Kathryn with blurred vision, he'd been laughing so hard, that he was now crying.
"Whatever possessed you, Kathryn, to play that kind of prank on Tom?" Chakotay asked still laughing at what they had done, 'If only it had been for real he thought'.
Kathryn stood up, offered him her hand. He took it and stood up in front of her.
"I just felt like livening things up around here and paying back Tom for all those pranks he's played on me and everyone else. Everyone was getting so serious around here...myself included" She smiled up at him "And what better way to liven thing up!" She gave him that grin that she had especially from him.
"This is an evil side to you, that I have never seen before Kathryn."
Kathryn went serious.
"I know...it's great isn't it!" She gave him a deep throaty laugh.
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Tom entered the Mess Hall, looking for B'Elanna. Shift change hadn't happened yet. Those about to go to their station were eating now.
Tom spotted Harry near the window at the back of the room and decided to sit with him and wait for her.
"Tom!" Neelix called from behind the counter.
"Hi Neelix!"
"What can I get for you?"
"Anything leola-root free, thank you"
Neelix feigned innocence.
"Would I give you leola-root, knowing only too well that you weren't keen on it Tom?"
"Do you really want me to answer that Neelix?"
Tom smiled and Neelix chortled. At one time Neelix would have been hurt by Tom's comment. Now he took Tom and everything he said and did in his stride - life was less complicated that way.
"I actually have a treat for you Tom" Neelix moved over towards the oven and opened up the door.
"A treat? For me? What is it?"
"Pizza!"
"Neelix..." Tom looked at the pizza with hungry eyes "You know what?"
"What?"
"I've grown to like you over the past six years and I now consider you to be a real...pal!"
They gave a friendly laugh, Tom took his pizza and made his way to where Harry was sitting.
"Harry my boy...look what our delightful chef made for me. Pizza!"
Harry looked at the pizza and smiled "It's delicious Tom, you'll enjoy it."
"What...and here was me thinking he had made it especially for me"
Harry grinned "So Tom, where's B'Elanna? I thought you were meeting her for dinner."
"I am, she just hasn't finished her shift yet"
Tom began picking at the toppings.
"I'm early, I needed to get out of my quarter's and tell someone what I heard"
Harry narrowed his eyes and looked at Tom "What have you heard?"
"Who's heard what?"
Tom and Harry looked up to see B'Elanna standing beside them.
Tom stood up to kiss her
"Tom here, has heard something and he's about to share it with us"
"Now there's a novelty" B'Elanna smiled at Tom and kissed him before taking her seat opposite Harry.
"Well it's kind of what and who really"
"What are you on about Tom?" asked B'Elanna, now picking at her Pizza topping.
"I heard two of our commanding officers having a very good time in the captain's quarter's"
Tom waggled his eyebrows for emphasis
Harry and B'Elanna looked at one another, then back at Tom.
"So?" They both asked in unison.
"I mean having a *good time*. There was thumping and noises and you never hear 'oh Chakotay' and 'sweet spirits Kathryn' on the bridge now, do you?"
A shadow covered their table as a person made themselves known.
"You called Mister Paris"
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