The Past Is Behind Us, Isn't It? | A Star Trek: Voyager fanfiction

Chapter 2-B'Elanna Torres-2371

B'Elanna Torres groaned, she was getting sick of the Val Jean. It was always needing repairs whenever they could stop to make repairs but before B'Elanna or her team could complete repairs they had to dash off again either to run from the Federation or Cardassians.

She was laying on her bed wondering what Elsa was doing right now. The poor eldest Paris child had been married four times to four different men, Elsa wasn't good with boyfriends and choosing them.

Wedding number one, that was fine, it wasn't boring and B'Elanna was fourteen at the point, she was eight when she met Elsa and wedding number one was to shitty boyfriend James, the boyfriend Lauren Paris, Elsa's little sister had mentioned when B'Elanna and her little sister met Lauren.

Elsa was seventeen when she and B'Elanna met, so she was about twenty three when she first got married, that marriage ended in a messy divorce and a miscarriage.

Wedding number two was just mind numbing, it was drop dead boring but she managed to stay awake for the whole ceremony and it was a year after wedding number one, so B'Elanna was fifteen.

After the end of marriage two, the Parises and Torres's had worked out marriage didn't fit Elsa, but she was yet to work that out herself.

Marriage number three, B'Elanna was sixteen at that one, she and Tom were seated next to each other again, only this time they were dating, B'Elanna fell asleep during that wedding ceremony and woke up the next day fully clothed in Tom's bed, she wondered how she got there but never did ask.

Marriage number four, was the same as three however B'Elanna was seventeen, that was the only difference, she did hear though that Elsa and husband four divorced just before B'Elanna was shipped off to the USS Cheyenne.

Her brain had decided to keep remembering her past, so after finally working out that she'd never be able to get to sleep, she decided to walk to Engineering.

B'Elanna sighed she never should've been there, she should've just been booted out of Starfleet, the reason? She punched her Chief Engineer, Ashlyn Madden, it was a whole debacle, and too long to go into detail with.

Now, B'Elanna agreed with Owen Paris that she would go undercover in the Maquis and be given a clean record and given her rank of Lt. j.g back.

There was a part of her that wished she didn't agree, her mind floated to Tom Paris, the man she was in love with more than she cared to admit, but things went awry and Tom was involved in an accident that killed his friends, after coming clean he was allowed back in Starfleet.

She'd loved him since she was sixteen and she found he felt the same, they also grew up together, but they'd had a really bad argument that caused their relationship to dissolve.

B'Elanna huffed, there was no point pretending to be able to sleep, her mind was flooded with memories as she unconsciously fiddled with a pendent Tom gave her for their nineteenth birthday, she never took it off.

She walked to Engineering, where her friend Seska, the Bajoran was.

"Couldn't sleep?" Seska asked.

"No." B'Elanna replied brusquely.

Her heart twinged when she remembered the date, it was Tsarlala's twenty first birthday.

B'Elanna pursed her lips, twenty one? How did that happen? She remembered the day Tsarlala was born, they were still living on Kessik IV at the time.

"What?" Seska asked.

"Thinking, I'm thinking about Tsarlala." said B'Elanna in response.

"How old's she turning?" Seska asked.