I have never liked the ending of Star Trek Voyager and while not normally a writer I thought I try for once. Captain Kathryn Janeway is my favourite character so she will be my main focus for this though I will try to make an effort to get a family feeling. Whom will I pair her with you ask? Honestly I have no clue yet. Personally I couldn't care less whether it is F/F or F/M the only pairing I hate is J/7... for me that is just wrong from a personality standpoint alone. I read 2 storys like that which friends had said were good but that pairing just isn't working for me. Anyway this story starts a couple months before the actual Endgame just after the events of Friendship One and some Epsiodes never happened. To make it easier the shielding and weapons which had according to cannon been brought back from the future were build by Torres, Janeway and Seven for this story. Last but not least Star Trek Voyager and all its rights do not belong to me and I am not making any profit with this blablabla you all know the drill!

Endgame

Captains Ready Room

Stardate: 54827.7

Captain's personal log:

Over 7 years have passed since we have been thrown into the delta quadrant and it feels weird to know that I missed yet another of Phoebes birthdays. We used to fight all the time and now I am doing everything I can to get back to her and Mom... nothing seems to be enough. Will I ever see them again? I wish I could be in Indiana and even being teased by Phoebes till Mom shouts at us to cut it out... Just like we used to be... I can't even contact them to let them know I am thinking of them as our last mission regarding Friendship One has damaged our long range communications array and we are currently unable to contact Pathfinder or anyone else back home. I am also worried about Chackotay... he still hasn't got over the events involving Teero Anaydis. The mutiny wasn't his fault but he blames himself and still hasn't got over it. He seems overly cautious and is barely doing his duties and I must admit while Tuvok is picking up part of the slack I need my first officer back. I can't even remember the last time I had a full nights sleep but the reports just keep piling up and I don't have the time for even an evening off due to it. All I do is work myself into the ground till I fall asleep then get up and do it all over again.

End log.

"I suppose I better get back to these reports for now, before I drive myself mad." Kathryn Janeway, Captain of the Federation Starship Voyager muttered under her breath, grabbing a PADD from her table just as the door chimed. "Come in."

Lt Torres and Lt Parris came in and looked at each other worried after seeing the amount of PADDS lined up on the Captains desk. B'Elanna spoke up first. "Captain I wanted to ask if you would be interested in Sandrines? We have 4 hours of Holodeck time saved up."

"I'm sorry B'Elanna, Tom but I am too far behind as it is. I need to catch up on my work."

B'Elanna had anticipated this. "You mean Chackotays work, I know for a fact that you are doing his as well as your own and have been ever since Teero." Meanwhile Tom was watching the conversation quietly not saying a word.

Kathryn sighed and gave her a low level glare. "He just needs some time B'Elanna. You especially should be able to understand that."

"Its been months!" B'Elanna held up her hand and visible calmed herself down. "Wait I am not here to argue with you. You are overworked as it is and I do not want to add to your burden. Hand me a PADD please."

"Me as well." Tom now added.

"What?"

"We are part of the senior staff are we not? But more importantly we are your friends and can not watch you make yourself ill like this. Its too much even for you, let us help. Please?" B'Elanna now gave the Captain a look which proved how serious she was.

Tom took over. "We are all worried about Chackotay but we are even more worried about you. It can't go on like this. Let us help. A shared burden is half the burden after all."

Kathryn sighed and leaned back in her chair giving the two officers before her a long look before speaking. "Very well."

"Great I let Harry and Neelix know they can come here tomorrow we will all help you till Chackotay grows his balls back." Tom was grinning at her and B'Elanna had a relieved look on her face as well. "Now which ones first?" Both of them grabbed some PADDS and got to work.

Kathryn was blinking in surprise and a small smile started forming on her face. "Thank you." Then turned back to her own PADD.

Slowly over the next couple days the senior staff helped the Captain catch up. After B'Elanna and Tom started helping her it had taken only another 2 hours to finish all the reports and that night was the first where she had got a full 8 hours sleep in months. She was still exhausted but the senior staff wasn't yet done even if the Captain had no idea. Quietly behind her back they had looked for a way to get her the rest she needed and had found it with the help of a small abandoned M-class planet. The crew had been informed and all agreed to keep quiet till the moment they were starting to land. The planet also had the added bonus of being an ideal hideout for them to carry out the much needed repairs.

Captains Personal Quarters

Kathryn had woken up a while ago and was getting ready for the day when the Blue alert started. Rising an eyebrow she tabbed her communicator. "Janeway to the bridge what is going on?" No answer came though her door chimed instead. "Come."

The Doctor, Commander Tuvok and Lt Torres now came into her quarters. The Doctor spoke up first. "Captain we apologise for the deception."

A full force level 10 glare was directed at all 3 of them."Explain."

Tuvok spoke up first. "Captain, while it became much better over the last couple days it is obvious to all of us that you are still exhausted and need a break. We apologise for going behind your back like this but we are worried about you. We took the liberty of finding a M-class planet on which you could take a couple days break while we would do the needed repairs with the rest of the crew."

Janeways face softened. "How long?"

B'Elanna now spoke up. "We need 2 days to get the ship back into shape while you go and enjoy yourself."

"No I think not." The Captain held up her hand to stop their objections. "I will help you finish the repairs, after that we are all having a weeks break." 1 nod from Tuvok and 2 identical grins were her answer. "Inform the crew and make sure a crew rotation is drawn up so someone is always on board. Dismissed."

The repairs were done in record time and 28 hours later the crew started their shore leave. Commander Tuvok had volunteered to take the first rotation of staying on board with 27 others and so most of the crew together with the rest of the senior staff took their leave.

Ensigns Kim and Wildmann, together with Naomi, Lts Torres and Paris as well as Neelix and Seven of Nine had opted to take their leave with the Captain who they all watched relax for the first in far too long. They had made their camp near some mountains with a beautiful waterfall in the background and were making sure to make the best of this time. Neelix, Tom and Naomi were in the water swimming while Seven and B'Elanna had opted to take a long walk. The time spend worrying about the Captain had shown B'Elanna that there was more to Seven then just an Ex-drone and they had slowly become friends. The Captain had opted to curl up with a good book near the camp and just spend her time resting and talking to Samantha with the occasional dip in the water to keep Naomi happy. So the week flew by.

10 days later the Captain made her way to the daily senior staff meeting. They had left the planet behind 2 days ago and now everything was back to normal. Commander Tuvok, Lt Torres and Ensign Kim were already there with the rest of the senior staff filtering into the room from the bridge.

"Anybody have anything new?" Kathryn asked while drinking her coffee. Tuvok and the Doctor exchanged a knowing look after seeing how much better she now looked.

"Crew morale is up since the shore leave and may I add also that it is a joy to see you so relaxed Captain." Neelix spoke up first. There were smiles all around the table and the Captain allowed herself a small smirk.

In that moment the comm system activated: "Red Alert, Captain, to the bridge!" Lt Ayala sounded anxious even through the comm system and the entire senior staff made their way to the bridge.

"Report!" Kathryn barked just as she came out of the briefing room.

"A borg transwarp tunnel just opened 2 light years from us, 1 tactical cube seems to be coming out. They will be in range in about 15 minutes."

Kathryn didn't waste any time and started barking out orders: "Tuvok deploy armor and ready the transphasic torpedos, B'Elanna see what you can do about our deflector array we may need it. Captain to all hands! Arm yourself and get ready for a possible boarding...

"We are being hailed Captain audio only." Harry Kim now spoke up.

"Lets hear it Harry."

"To all ships, we are a Borg vessel that has been disconnected from the Borg collective. We are tactical cube 29673, we mean you no harm. We are trying to contact the Starfleet vessel U.S.S. Voyager... To all ships, we are a Borg vessel... The Ensign cut the connection at the Captains signal.

"Unimatrix zero..." Commander Chackotay murmured and threw a knowing look first at Seven of Nine then the Captain. "Try hailing them."

"No response." Ensign Kim stated.

"Our sensors indicate that their long range communications system has been damaged." Commander Tuvok announced from his station at Tactical.

"Increase our speed to warp 6 and get us in range Tom, Harry continue hailing them." Kathryn now ordered.

"Aye Captain." answered both officers at the same time.

5 minutes later the atmosphere on the bridge was subdued with everyone following their duties without the normal chatter. "Are we in range yet Harry?" The captain spoke up.

"Yes Captain, they should be able to get our hails now."

"Open a channel." the captain stated, "Borg tactical cube 29673 this is the U.S.S. Voyager please respond.

There was nothing at first then, "Voyager, thank you for responding. We are trying to get a message to Kathryn Janeway. We understand she is your captain."

The captain raised an eyebrow and looked first to Commander Chackotay, then to the rest of the bridge staff. One of the first questions that came to them all was what they wanted from her specifically.

The static voice wasn't quite finished yet. "We would like to request a meeting with the Captain if at all possible, we should be in transporter range within 2 minutes.

"That is agreeable, our scans show that your weapons are currently offline... it would be best to keep them that way." Kathryn stated.

"Understood."

"Voyager out." The captain threw a look at Ensign Kim who disconnected the communication. "How many life signs are on that cube?"

"According to our sensor only 13526, all Borg. Normally there should be between 30.000 and 40.000 on there." Harry answered.

"Any other?"

"No Captain."

"Drop to impulse Tom." Came the order from Commander Chackotay who then turned his head to the Captain. She was sitting seemingly without a care in the universe in her command chair. He wasn't at all sure how she was able to project such an aura... he shrugged and thought to himself that it really shouldn't be a surprise as Janeway thrived on pressure. She hadn't even shown much strain when facing the Borg queen herself after all.

"Don't let them see you sweat Katie!" Was shooting through the Captains head at that moment. At times like these it took all her training and experience to keep the command mask up.

"We are being hailed again, Captain." Ensign Kim informed her.

"On screen."

The face they now saw was very familiar to Janeway and Seven as they had seen him before in Unimatrix Zero, though he still looked mostly Borg his skin looked normal and he had let his hair grow. "Axum." The Captain nodded to him in acknowledgement. Meanwhile Seven had gasped quietly as she had not expected to see him again as she admitted to herself quietly.

"Captain Janeway, it is an honour to see you again. Would it be possible for me to beam over so we can speak face to face? I have some information for you which you will be interested in."

"Everyone on the bridge is already armed." The Captain thought, throwing a look at Tuvok who nodded at her. "We will beam you over."

Axum materialised on the bridge. "Its a pleasure to see you again Captain, we are all pleased to see how far Voyager has come."

The relief personnel retook their stations as the senior staff headed once again to the briefing room. The Captain thought quietly to herself that if they stayed in their much longer she would have Neelix bring them some refreshments and food, then proceeded to introduce her staff. She quietly observed how closely their guest was watching Seven and had to admit to a bad feeling.

Axum drew his attention back to her. "When you freed us from the collective we were on the far site of the beta quadrant. There were 7 of us who could remember our individual lives and had control over our true selfs. We proceeded to disconnect from the central plexus before the Queen could detect us and then set out to free as many drones as we could. Unfortunately we only managed to disconnect half the drones, out of the 150,000 on the vessel. But in time we managed to get control over the vessel and have been looking for other ships ever since to disconnect even more drones. We call ourselfs the Unimatrix Zero resistance. Every time we found a new vessel we proceeded to free more and we now have control of about 135 vessels all over the universe. We are working together to try and free more. Three weeks ago we liberated another cube and found some information which is why we are here now."

The Captain leaned forward. "Which is?"

"I'm afraid Captain that you yourself are now a top priority of the Queen. The Queen wants you captured and on her site. She believes that you have something that they need."

Several sharp intakes of breath could be heard and the senior staff moved startled eyes towards their Captain who as always gave off an aura of calm. "Go on."

"We are planning on going after her ourselfs as we believe that she is the key to free all the drones which is our goal. We have information which leads us to believe that she is about 25,000 light years from here but still in the delta quadrant. The borg space you have already passed a couple years ago to be more specific."

For the next 3 hours Axum outlined the resistance plan to find and kill the Queen, while freeing as many drones as possible. Janeway agreed to let them have access to their doctor as his success in removing implants was something they were very interested in, which was certainly understandable.

As the meeting was breaking up Axum approached Seven of Nine and asked to speak to her privately before returning to the cube. Seven nodded to the Captain who then proceeded to leave the room though reluctantly as she still had a bad feeling.

"Annika I am so happy that we meet in real life at last. I never really believed that it would be possible." He smiled and laid his hand on her shoulder.

"Axum I can't."

"I know I still have nearly all of my implants and don't look too good right now."

Seven turned away from him and looked out over the stars."That isn't it. Voyager... is my collective now, this crew and Captain Janeway especially helped me so much. It is only thanks to them that I have regained my humanity. She especially has become a mentor... more like a mother to me and I do not believe that I am ready to give that up. Not yet anyway, I am not ready..."

"Damn I hadn't expected this. How will I get her to leave now?" Axum looked at her quietly and decided to take it slow. "Its okay I do understand. Why don't we go to this Astrometics lab I have heard about and start downloading the data we have collected.

Over the next 2 days Axum and Seven worked on transferring the tactical data and to convert it into Federation standard. This was slow going as some data which Voyager and the Federation had collected was different from what the Cube collected. The Captain did look into Astrometrics from time to time to check up on their progress but stayed mostly out of it as they were after all the experts. She instead had meetings over Pathfinder with Starfleet command, the Admirals all agreed with her that something was not right about this and she was ordered to collect more information.

It was 2017 hours and the Captain was in her quarters going over some of the data on the Borg movement. "Something isn't right here, I can feel it but what?" Over the years Janeway had learned to trust her instincts and she knew something was wrong now.

The chime interrupted her thoughts. "Come."

Seven entered and held out a PADD. "Here is the information that lead Axum and the others to believe that the Queen is behind us so to speak."

Janeway took the PADD but never looked away from Sevens eyes. "Thank you. Have you eaten?" A slight shake of Sevens head was her answer. "Would you like to join me then? I haven't spoken to you much these last couple days."

"That is... acceptable."

Janeway stood and started moving towards her replicator. "What would you like? Pasta okay?" This time she got a nod as answer.

While eating Janeway watched Seven she knew something was up and was just waiting for her to bring it up.

"Captain..."Seven hesitated and it was clear she didn't know how to start.

"Seven you should know by now that you can speak to me about anything. If I can help I will do so."

Seven was still hesitant. "You... you are planning on going after the Queen are you not?"

"I am planning on going after answers. Whatever we do from here on out I don't think we have much of a choice. She is after me already and sometimes the best defence is to attack. Though we are not going to turn around. We aren't positive on exactly where she is after all. Sooner or later we will meet up with her again of that I am sure." Having said that the Captain moved to recycle the dishes and got herself some coffee which she slowly sipped. Seven was watching her quietly and hesitated again but before she could speak Kathryn spoke further. "You are leaving with him, aren't you?"

Shocked eyes met hers. "How did you know?"

"I am not blind Seven. While I admit I do not fully understand your relationship with Axum it is obvious that you care for him."

Seven shock her head now. "Captain, I am not leaving to be with him. I want to go after the Queen, so she won't come after you, with the help of Axum and the other Ex-drones."

"What if she captures you? Please Seven don't go for that reason. We, all of us here on Voyager, have proven more then once that we can only beat her if we work together."

"She will not get me Captain. Please try to understand."

"No... I order you to stay."

"I will not comply. I can not sit by and watch her come after you. I can not and I will not do that when I can prevent it." Seven could now see that something in the Captain changed. She seemed to pull away emotionally and it was obvious that the decision was made but Seven wasn't quite ready to give up. "Please Captain give us time to deal with her before you do anything."

The Captain stood up and grabbed her night clothing. "This ship is going to leave after we finish repairs tomorrow. This discussion is over." She walked to her bathroom and sealed the door behind her.

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