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              Suspicion and Fear
                     Part 2

     Tom Paris walked down the corridor, heading for his next shift on
the bridge.  He was deep in thought and worry.  He couldn't but help
worry about B'Elanna.  The way she was acting in the mess hall
yesterday, set him on the egde.  She was different.  She looked the
same, but felt different.  All his thoughts were foucused on her, and if
she was alright.  As he walked into a turbolift, he had the thought of
checking on her, but he was already late for his shift, so he decided to
check on B'Elanna after his bridge duty.  He knew he wouldn't forget.

                    **********

     "Stop!  Please!" Ensign Harry Kim cried, as jabs of pain swept
through his body in waves.  A sound like laughter could be heard.  A
woman's laughter, then it blended into a dark and evil baritone laugh
that sounded like roaring thunder.      He couldn't fight back anymore.
Punches and kicks were thrown at him full force.  He sank to his knees,
then the floor.  He couldn't take it anymore, the pain was overwhelming. 
      He cried out in pain, as the red of his blood swept over his eyes
and blinded him.  A darkness swept over him filling his mind, and
conquering his body, chilling him to the bone and paralyzing him with
fear, as he slipped into an uneasy but merciful unconciousness.
 
                   ********
     B'Elanna Torres awoke from a far from peaceful slumber.  She sat
bolt upright in bed and almost screamed out loud.  She did scream
inwardly though.  Her sheets were covered in blood, and her hands were
stained red.  Oddly, she was still wearing her uniform, and that had
blood splattered on it also.  She checked her body to see if she had any
injuries.  But there we none.  It was just as her worst fears expected,
it wasn't her blood.  
     She stood up shakily, and walked to the bathroom.  She stared at
her face in the mirror.  It had traces of blood there too.  She thought,
what had she done?  I don't remember anything.  She was confused.  She
felt like she was going insane!  Her head started to throb, her eyes
were dull, and she felt pain everywhere.  She walked, shaking, to the
farthest corner of her bedroom, then sat there, hugging her knees.  She
was shaking and crying uncontrolablly, mumbling to herself, "Help me.
Please, Somone. What happened? help me. Please....help."

                    **********
     Lieutenant Hayes whistled as he went to fetch something for Neelix
in the cargo bay.  He noticed that Neelix didn't tell him what was in
the canister.  He hoped it wasn't Leola Root's.  He hated those things,
just like everyone else on this ship. He walked in the cargo bay doors,
and found the canister almost immediately.  he smiled to himself, it
wasn't Leola Root's after all!  His day just got brighter, he noticed.
He turned to leave, and he dropped the canister.  
     "Well, this just killed my day." he thought, as his face paled at
the sight of a half dead  Harry Kim, lying in a pool of blood on the
floor.  
     
     Tom Paris just got off his shift on the bridge, when he was walking
toward B'Elanna's quarters to check on her.  His mind never left her
during his whole shift.  He walked up to the door of her quarters and
knocked.  But the doors refused to open.  He knocked louder this time,
but again the same response.  He punched in his security override code,
and ran in as the doors opened.
      "B'Elanna, are you okay..." His sentence died when he saw the
blood on her sheets.  Panic rose in his throat, then he saw B'Elanna in
the corner shaking, her hands stained red.  He ran up to her, and said,
     "Oh my god, B'Elanna?  Are you okay?" 
      "Help me.... Please....."
      She was still shaking, and mumbling,
Fear rose in him, scared for the woman he loves.  He still managed to
say,
       "It's alright B'Elanna, you'll be okay, I'm here."
      
     Lieutenant Hayes slapped his commbadge......
     Tom Paris slapped his commbadge.....
In unison they said,
       "Sickbay, Medical Emergency, Two to beam directly to Sickbay."

     Tom Paris hugged B'Elanna Torres as they shimmered away.


Thats all for now, 
Kate


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