"Challenge" Story.

By Katie Grist, (kgrist@hotmail.com)

Disclaimer: Paramount owns all, but I own this story.

BTW: I havent actually seen "Random Thoughts" yet, I've only read the
reveiws, So if my idea for what was in the box is totally unbeleivable, I'm
sorry!



     "10 cc's of Trianaline."
     B'Elanna Torres heard the Doctor's voice, as if from far away.
     "It's not working." She heard Tom say in frustration.
     Suddenly, she felt the hiss of another hypospray, and then she opened
her eyes.

     "She's awake." The relief could be heard in Tom's voice.
     "I'll leave you to finish her treatment." The Doctor smiled at the
look of gratitude that Tom gave him. "And I'll inform Captain Janeway ion
Lt. Torres' condition."
     Tom smiled back and was glad that The Doctor had been tactful enough
to leave him alone with B'Elanna. It was the third time in as many weeks
that she'd nearly died, and each time Tom's heart had been gripped by an
ice-cold hand until he'd found out that B'Elanna really was alright.
     "What happened?" B'Elanna asked groggily. "I feel like a photon
torpedo detonated in my head."
     "Well, it seems that The Doctor missed something when he was undoing
the damage that the Mari did to you, and it effected your brain."
     "Great." B'Elanna replied sarcastically as she sat up. "By the way
Paris, where's Kes? Why wasn't she helping The Doctor?"
     *Paris? Kes?* Tom thought to himself. *She hasn't called me Paris for
ages, and Kes has been gone for weeks!*
     Tom scanned B'Elanna with his tricorder.
     "Uh, Doc, I think we have a bigger problem than we thought."

     B'Elanna sat morosely in her quarters.
     The Doctor had explained that when the Mari had messed with her mind,
it had screwed up more than was previously thought.
     Because the weren't familiar with her Klingon DNA, they'd accidentally
removed some of B'Elanna's memories, specifically the ones from the past
four or five months.
     So, B'Elanna had been sent to her quarters, while The Doctor, who was
blaming himself for the whole thing, worked furiously to find a treatment.
     Tom had walked B'Elanna home, but he'd been strangely distant. She
wondered what had happened over the past few months, and if something had
affected their once warm friendship.
     B'Elanna flopped back on her bed, and caught site of a picture of her
and Tom, from Neelix's luau, on the bed-side table. Beside it was a purple
scarf, made of some sort of silk.
     Picking up the scarf, B'Elanna let it run through her fingers. She
marveled at the softness of the fabric, and wondered who might have given
it to her.
     Suddenly, she felt it stir something inside her and memories began
flooding back.
     She remembered Seska's traitorous holo-program, The 8472's and the
Borg, Kes leaving them for a new existence, floating with Tom in an EVA
suits, professing her love for him, many other things, and finally, running
the silk scarf that Tom had brought her from the Mari planet, through her
fingers.

Finis.....