By Coral
Disclaimer: Paramount owns Star Trek.
"So, this is goodbye."
She smiled softly. This was the moment she'd been dreading for... for so long now. Was it really fifty years? Fifty years of wanting... longing... not having...? Fifty years seeing him everyday and never telling him how she truly felt. Fifty years of loneliness, compounded by knowing that he was there for her, but being unable to go to him. Fifty years, wondering why fate had played this cruel trick on her, bringing her her heart's desire, and placing it just out of reach.
Fifty years, building up to this moment.
"No. I love you, Chakotay."
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