FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Part three
By: Lauren Taylor

B'Elanna sat in her quarters, unable to move, unable to do a thing. After
Harry had died, she ran to her quarters, and basically had a nervous
breakdown. Tom had called after her as she ran out, but she didn't pay
attention to him. 

Now, as she looked around her quarters from where she was hiding in a
corner, she saw the objects strewn everywhere. The picture of her and
Harry, broken in half, laying on the floor next to the broken vase and
the PADDS scattered everywhere. She was in a corner of her quarters, with
her knees to her chest, and tears running down her face. How long had it
been since Harry had died, she wondered. How long had it been since her
life had been ruined?

Security had placed personnel outside of her quarters, since she was the
only one that had survived, and people feared that the murderer might
come after her.

<ding, dong>

B'Elanna said nothing, but the person came in anyways. 

"How are you doing?" a voice, Chakotay's, asked her.

She didn't answer. 

"B'Elanna, I know this is a hard time for you, but you need to tell Tuvok
and I exactly what you saw so that we can find the murderer." he
explained to her as he sat down on the floor and put his arm around her.
She looked up at him with tears glistening in her eyes just as Tuvok
walked in. Chakotay motioned for her to come and sit on the couch as she
told him everything she'd seen, which wasn't much. She told him that she
just saw someone's arm holding a phaser, and that they left a few seconds
before Tom came in. She couldn't say much, it was still hard for her to
talk about. Chakotay knew that, so he just left her alone and walked away
with Tuvok, just as Tom came in the room. He stood at the door and talked
with Chakotay for a few minutes, and then walked over to B'Elanna. The
two of them wrapped their arms around each other and cried...

The next morning, B'Elanna awoke to see that she was on her couch, with
Tom sleeping beside her, his arm around her waist. She wiggled her way
out from him, and went to change into a clean uniform. While she was in
her bedroom changing, she heard some people entering her room. She heard
Tom calling out her name, so she ran to see what was going on. The last
thing she saw was three security officers taking Tom away, and Chakotay
watching them.

"What the hell is going on?" she demanded. Chakotay turned to her with an
almost sympathetic look on his face.

"Tom's been arrested for the murders." he explained to her.

TO BE CONTINUED

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