AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hi! Before you read this story, you should know one thing.
There is a fictional character I made up who plays a mojor part in it so
please, bear with me! Three reasons why I created her:

#1) I thought B'Elanna needed a best friend other than a man (ya know, Tom,
Harry, and Chakotay) (no offense, or anything)

#2) Since Kes is leaving Voyager (waa!!! I guess it is: na na, na na na
na,m hey, hey, goodbye! to Kes!) and I'm not feeling too sure about Seven
of Nine (no offense to anyone who likes her, for I can sum it up into three
words: She's an EX-BORG!) I decided to create another woman on the senior
staff

#3) I have full control over her, as in name, gender, species, tastes,
looks, rank, status, ect. ect. ect :-)

You get the point!

DISCLAIMER: Paramount owns the characters (except Lt. Whitney) and the
ship, I just fiddle with their computer, beam in without setting off any
alarms, and fool around in the holodecks! (it's fun, too :-)

On with the story!
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    The four senior officers walked onto the bridge and immediatly saw what
was wrong. A large purplish-green nebula stood directly in their path. It
was the plasma particle cloud that Tom and B'Elanna had encountered in the
shuttle the day before. Tom and B'Elanna looked at each other, their eyes
wide with surprise, as they headed for their stations.
    "Mr. Kim, what do the sensors indicate?" Tuvok asked from the Captain's
chair. Harry checked the sensors, "It's a plasma particle cloud, 10,000
kilometers wide and 1,000 kilometers long." he said in disbelief.
    "This is what you two were talking about at lunch, isn't it?" Heather
asked. Tom nodded and tapped some controls into Voyager's helm. Slowly,
Voyager backed away until it was a good distance from the cloud, although
it was still quite large on the view screen.
     "Yes, it is, although it's larger than it was in the past." B'Elanna
replied for Tom, staring intently at the view screen.
     "Lieutenants, please explain what you are talking about." Tuvok
ordered. Tom and B'Elanna looked at each other.
     "You'd better call a senior staff meeting, Tuvok, for it's a long
story." Tom said. Tuvok raised his eyebrows. He considered what Tom had
said and nodded. Tapping his commbadge, he said, "There will be a senior
officers' meeting in five minutes."
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    "...And that's what we know." Tom said, finishing explaining what had
happened to him and B'Elanna. B'Elanna clutched his hand fearfully under
the table. She still wasn't sure that they were actaully on a Voyager,
although the theory about the different realities was quite believable. Tom
squeezed her hand back.
    "So the question is, Tuvok, how do we get back to our reality?"
B'Elanna questioned.
    Tuvok thought about it and replied, "I suggest we wait until the
Captain and Commander get back from shore leave before we make any rational
descisions." he said, "Although, I'd like for you, Lt. Whitney, and you,
Kes, to research on different realities. Ensign Kim, continue to moniter
the anomily. Lt. Paris and Lt. Torres, you may continue on as you normally
would have. I'd suggest that I asign you different quarters but I doubt you
will still be here when they fall through."
    Tom and B'Elanna nodded, "It's all right. We'll rotate sleeping on the
couch and bed." B'Elanna said, a small smile on her face. Trust Tuvok to go
through everything in one sentence.
    The Doctor spoke up, "With your permission, I'd like to run a series of
scans on both of you."
    Tom and B'Elanna nodded, "Sure." Tom replied for the both of them.
Tuvok got up, "Dismissed." he said, and walked out the conference lounge.
Everyone looked at each other, then at Tom and B'Elanna.
    "How different is your reality from ours?" Kes asked curiously. The
emotions she sensed from them were almost the same from the Tom and
B'Elanna she knew, although some emotions were very vague where they had
been very strong from the Tom and B'Elanna from her reality. She would have
to check with Heather before she made any theories about their feelings
towards each other.
     B'Elanna shrugged, "From the stardate, we're a year into the future.
No one's dating or married." she said.
    "Yet." Tom added. B'Elanna kicked him. "Oww, what was that for?" Tom
asked. B'Elanna just glared at him. Everyone smiled, but the two
lieutenants didn't notice, for they were too busy glaring at each other.
    "You two certainly act like the Tom and B'Elanna we know." Neelix
commented. This time, both B'Elanna and Tom glared at him until he was
squirming in his seat, realizing his mistake.
    "I suggest we all do as Lt. Tuvok ordered us." the Doctor said.
Everyone reluctantly agreed and got up.
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    In Sick Bay, the Doctor and Kes ran test after test on them. When the
Doctor was finally satisfied, Tom and B'Elanna went back to their quarters.
    "I can't believe you said that!" B'Elanna nearly shouted as they
entered their quarters. Tom sighed and followed her in, "I said what?" he
asked.
    B'Elanna turned and glared at him, "You know exactly what you said.
That no one's married yet!" she yelled. Tom winced, "Take it easy!" he
said, "I thought you were all for the Captain and Commander getting
together." he added, grinning. She faltered for a minute, then swore under
her breath, "You know what you are?" she asked, pacing around the room. Tom
sighed and sat down, "What am I?" he asked, watching her pace around. She
came out from the bedroom, "You're pathetic!" she screamed.
    Tom winced again. He knew that the switch in the timeline was hard for
her, but he hadn't guessed this hard, even after what had happened last
night. He had realized as soon as the word left his lips he would be sorry.
He hadn't meant to say it but on the other hand, it did make sense. But
then... He stopped thinking about. *Better take one day at a time.* he
thought.
    "Look, B'Elanna, I didn't mean to say it. I'm sorry that I even
mentioned it." he said, getting up and walking near her, not sure what to
expect. She just glared at him, then her gaze softened. She looked down at
the floor, "I'm sorry." she said, barely above a whisper. Tom hugged her,
"It's okay." he whispered back. Then Tuvok's voice came over the comm.
system, "Senior officers to the conference lounge. Captain Janeway and
Commander Chakotay have returned." he said, and the comm. channel cut
short. Tom and B'Elanna drew away.
    "Let's go." B'Elanna said, and the two walked out of 'their' quarters
and to the turbolift.
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    When the two lieutenants walked in, they saw, to their dismay, that
they were the last ones there. They quickly sat down, pleading silently
that their two commanding officers wouldn't notice, but the Captain and
Commander's faces were wreathed with smiles, standing next to each other at
the head of the table. They obviously had some VERY good news.
    "Want to give me three guesses about what you two are going to say?"
Heather asked, trying to keep a straight face; but in the end, she ended
grinning from ear to ear.
    Captain Janeway laughed, "I don't think so, Heather, altough I don't
doubt that you wouldn't guess correctly." she said. Commander Chakotay put
his arms around Captain Janeway, "We'd like you eight to be the first ones
to hear this - Kathryn and I are getting married." he said. Cheers rang out
in the conference lounge. Tuvok got up and shook Chakotay's hand,
"Congradulations, Commander." he said. Chakotay smiled, "Thanks, Tuvok.
That means a lot, coming from you." he said. B'Elanna ran around the table
to hug Captain Janeway. Altough she wasn't HER Captain, she was still happy
for the couple. "I'm so happy for you!" she said softly.
    The Captain returned her hug, "Would you like to be my Maid of Honor?"
Kathryn asked. B'Elanna smiled, "I'd love to!"
    "No hard feelings?" Kathryn asked. B'Elanna was extremely puzzled at
first, but then remembered something she had read in her logs. It had been
six months ago, a week after Kathryn and Chakotay had first started
'officially' dating. B'Elanna had felt left out because she could never
talk to Chakotay alone anymore - the Captain was always with him. She had
gotten extremely jealous, but in the end, she talked it out with Chakotay
like Tom had advised her to and everything had been patched up.
    "No hard feelings." she replied. She stood to the side as Heather and
Kes came up, hugging their newly engaged Captain.
    Tom, Harry, Neelix, and the Doctor shook hands with Chakotay. Everyone
was extremely happy for the Captain and Commander, and Heather said later
that people had been placing bets on when they would become engaged for at
least three months. Everyone took turns congradulating the two newly
engaged commanding officers.
    The Captain and Commander tried to continue on the meeting as usual but
it was no use. No one could stop smiling. B'Elanna leaned over to Tom, "I
don't think we should tell them now." she whispered, as Tuvok droned on and
on about the Nesaphi, which was an alien life form that attatched itself to
Voyager's hull and started to disitigrate it. *Neelix's 'space critters'.*
Tom thought.
    "I agree. We'll tell them later." he whispered back.
    "It's always later, come to think of it." B'Elanna whispered back,
aware that the Captain and Commander were too busy exchaging looks and
listening to Tuvok to notice their mini conversation.
    Tom smiled and nodded slightly, and B'Elanna leaned back over to her
chair, trying to concentrate on Tuvok but failing, for her thoughts kept
straying back to...Tom. She hated to admit it, but they were. *I wonder
what he really meant, about people not being married yet. Could it be
possible? Had he meant...* her thoughts were interrupted by Tuvok.
    "Lt. Torres, you said that you had information concerning the plasma
particle cloud?" he asked.
    Tom was about to answer for her but B'Elanna cut him off. She had
decided that it was definetely not the time to tell Kathryn and Chakotay
about how she and Tom weren't really the B'Elanna and Tom that they knew.
    "What? Oh, it's just that if we could redirect the plasma particles if
we did some modifications to the deflector grid and collect some of the
plasma particles and use them for extra replicator rations. I can do the
remodifications within the hour." B'Elanna replied quickly. Tuvok was about
to pursue the topic but Captain Janeway and Commander Chakotay stood up.
"Do it. Very good, all of you. Dismissed." Captain Janeway said, and she
and the Commander walked out hand in hand.
    Kes cocked an eyebrow up, "Well, I've got quite a few replicator
rations to collect." she said, smirking. Harry groaned good naturedly and
Heather smirked, "Pay up, Harry." she told her husband, smirking as well.
    Harry rolled his eyes, "I can't believe I married you." he said
jokingly. Heather just smiled playfully and leaned over and kissed him,
"Remember? We share replicator rations now." she reminded him.
    He just grinned, "Right, but you're always using my share as well as
your share." he retorted. Now it was Heather who rolled her eyes, "That's
not entirely true. I had to use a weeks worth of replicator rations plus
all of mine for part of your birthday present, and that was the only time.
Besides, I thought husbands and wifes were supposed to share everything."
she replied. Everyone laughed, minus Tuvok. He waited for everyone to calm
down, then got down to business, "Lt. Torres, may I ask why you purposely
lied to the Captain and Commander about the particle cloud?" he asked.
    B'Elanna sighed, "Tuvok, that was definitely not the time to tell them
that we were imposters.Besides, what I said was true. We could collect some
of the plsma particles using the deflector gid." she said. Tom squeezed her
hand for support. She squeezed back. He was always there for her it seemed,
and she liked the thought of that.
    Tuvok sighed, "Perhaps that was not the best time, although sooner or
later we wil have to figure a way to return you and Lt. Paris to your
time." he said, standing up. Everyone walked out in silence. Heather,
Harry, Tom, and B'Elanna headed for the turbolift, for it wasn't their
shift. They could hear quiet laughter coming from the Captain's Ready Room,
obvoiusly where she and her fiance were talking.
    "Why don't we go to the Mess Hall for dinner?" Harry suggested. Tom and
B'Elanna shrugged and Heather smiled, "Why don't we go to the holodeck
first and then have a later dinner in the Mess Hall?" she suggested, "And
then we can start to figure out a way to get you two back to your reality."

    Everyone nodded at that. "Deck 10." Harry said, and the turbolift
descended down the shaft.
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    The four officers had tons of fun on the holodeck. They ran a mystery
and it was super. By the time the four had uncovered the mystery, it was
2100 hours.
    "Shall we?" B'Elanna asked, referring to going to the Mess Hall. Harry
looked up from shutting the program down. Heather stood next to him,
working on a PADD. "After you." Tom said, and the four headed to the Mess
Hall.
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    Kathryn sipped her coffee, "Did you notice that Tom and B'Elanna were
having a little conversation during the meeting?" she asked Chakotay who
sat opposite of her.
    Chakotay nodded, "What do you think that was about?"
    Kathryn shrugged, "I have no idea." she replied offhandedly.
    Chakotay smiled, "I think we should ask them about it." he said.
    Kathryn's eyes grew large, "Chakotay, it could be a private matter! I
know you're B'Elanna's best friend, but that doesn't give you the right to
question her personal life!" she said, then added, "Would you want her to
question you about our personal life?"
    Chakotay shook his head, "No, but why would Tuvok know about it if it
were personal in the first place, and if he did, I don't think he'd
question her about it in a senior staff meeting." he explained. Kathryn
nodded in comprehension, "Why don't we?" she asked, "Computer, location of
Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres."
    "Lieutenant Tom Paris and Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres are in the Mess
Hall." the computer replied, and the two got up and walked out of her ready
room and headed for the turbolift, nodding to Tuvok on the way.