Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters. I don't make any money off this. I'm just happy somebody made the characters and the universe they live in so I could play with them.

Author's notes: The important one: This is slightly AU. Why? Because, Chakotay and Janeway have a kid and have been married since New Earth. Wow, how'd that happen? Well, not going to get into specifics (I'm not your sex edu. teacher) but they stayed on NE long enough to get together. So in this story, their daughter Madelyn is around the age of six.

I started writing this after I saw the trailer for the Liam Neeson movie, Taken. I was inspired and wanted to give our characters that sort of situation in their universe. Have no fear, I'm posting this in parts (cause it is long) but it is finished. So, no worries that you will be left with an unfinished story.

Lastly, then I promise we'll get on with the story, Thanks have to go to QS, my beta extraordinaire, without whom this might be buried in a folder somewhere with a lot fewer commas. That being said, all mistakes are mine cause I still play with it even after QS sends it back to me.

Taken by Cheshire

"Janeway to Chakotay."

He chuckled as he tapped his comm. badge to answer. He'd only left the planet earlier that morning. He couldn't imagine what she needed already. "Go ahead."

"Why are you laughing at me?"

This only made him laugh harder because he could hear the mix of exasperation and amusement in her voice. "I wasn't laughing at you. I was laughing at something Paris said."

Tom raised his eyebrow, overhearing the conversation.

"You never laugh at Tom's jokes. Admit it, you were laughing at me."

"Okay, I confess." He could hear the tones of their home alarm system being input. "What are you doing at home? I thought you had that conference today."

"I do. In thirty minutes, but I can't find the PADD with my speech notes on it. Do you know what I did with it?"

He could hear her footsteps and knew by placement that she was searching the kitchen first. "All of your PADDs were in your study last time I saw them."

"I took all of those with me to the office this morning, and the one I worked on last night wasn't among them."

Chakotay cleared his throat. "Did you ask Madelyn?"

He could practically see Kathryn stop in midstride halfway down the hall as she walked towards her study in the house.

"No, I didn't ask her. Why?"

He hated ratting his daughter out, but there was really no way around it. "She had a PADD with her this morning at breakfast."

"Damn. Maddie?"

He listened as Kathryn's footsteps headed back up the hall to the entrance way. "She's still with you?"

"Yes, I'm dropping her off at Mom's before I leave. Maddie, honey, did you have one of my reports this morning?"

Chakotay could hear his daughter's answer easily over the open comm. line.

"Is that Daddy? Can I talk to him?"

He intervened. "You're just going to have to go look in her room, Kathryn. It'll be faster than asking her what she did with it."

"Fine. Here, talk to your daughter."

Chakotay heard the quiet click and then the muffled handoff as Kathryn took her comm. badge off and handed it to her daughter.

"Dad?"

"Hey, baby, how was your day?"

"We went to see the Phoenix today!"

"Did you get to touch it?" He heard her laugh at him.

"Of course not, Daddy. You aren't allowed to touch it."

"You're right, I forgot." Chakotay was about to ask what else she'd seen on her class trip when he heard Kathryn's voice again. "Who's Mom talking to, honey?"

"I don't know."

He could hear Madelyn take a few steps towards the hallway.

"There's a couple of men with her."

"With her?" Chakotay exchanged a look with Tom, but before he could ask his daughter to clarify, he heard a muffled thump and then glass breaking. If he placed the sound right, the only glass was an antique china cabinet in the hall. "Madelyn, is Mom…"

"Maddie, run!!"

Kathryn's scream tore across the open comm. line, freezing Chakotay's blood in his heart.

"Mommy?"

"Get the kid."

"Don't you touch her! You stay away from her!"

Muted thumps accented grunts as the sounds of a struggle followed Kathryn's desperate roar.

"Madelyn? Madelyn!" Chakotay was on his feet, unable to remain sitting. He could vaguely hear Tom's voice putting in a call to Starfleet Security. "Madelyn, listen to me! Get out of there!"

"But they've got Mommy…"

The scared crying of his daughter seared his soul, and he hated himself for his next words. "Mommy can take care of herself." More crashes as it sounded as though Kathryn was definitely putting up one hell of a fight. "Maddie, listen to me. I want you to run into the kitchen and use the emergency transport like we showed you. Maddie? Are you listening to me? Go to the kitchen. Go now."

"Don't let the kid get away."

A frustrated growl of a scream that Chakotay easily recognized as Kathryn was silenced with a loud thud, and he sank into the command chair, wondering if he'd just heard the death of his wife while praying that his daughter would escape. Tom's voice echoed across the bridge as he argued with someone over a separate comm. line, but all Chakotay could concentrate on was Maddie's sobbing, heaving breathing as he imagined her small hand clenched around Kathryn's comm. badge. She just had to push the button on the control panel in the kitchen, and she would disappear in a ray of light, materializing at a random selection of secure places.

His hope died less than a second later.

"Daddy…it won't work…the lights aren't on…Daddy…they're coming."

"Maddie, listen to me. Hide. Crawl into the pantry or one of the cupboards, and close the door. Do it now."

"Okay…Daddy….please…help me…"

Her cries tore at his heart. "Maddie, I want you to listen to me. I need you to be brave. I need you to keep Mommy's comm. badge for as long as you can, okay? Those are bad men that were with Mommy." He almost choked as he forced the next words out. "They're going to take you."

"Daddy?"

"I'm coming for you. I promise."

Before he could say anything else, Madelyn screamed.

Thank you also to splv, Maja, and Meg for reading parts of this at some point or another and highly encouraging me to keep going!