S04e01 Stories

"He barely registers the feeling of his phone slowly slipping out of his stiff fingers, and he completely tunes out the crash his phone makes when hitting the floor. It didn't matter. A broken phone would the least of his worries at the moment. His legs soon give out from under him, and he drops unceremoniously to his knees, his hand still holding an invisible phone to his ear. The tears that Spencer had previously been holding back started pouring from his eyes. Thick, ugly tears cascading down his face because Derek is dead."

Burdened with a residual mental link to the unconscious drone in Sickbay, Chakotay tries to escape into a vision quest, only to find that Seven of Nine's presence is a stubborn one... Additional scenes for 'Scorpion Part II' S04xE01. One-shot.