Rating: PG
Codes: T (R/T)

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Setting: Deanna's thoughts to Will after he left her
on Betazed in "Imzadi".


"One more perfect day"


You left. I told you no goodbyes and you listened. I
thought goodbye would be final and not saying it... I
don't know what I thought that would mean. It feels
just as final. And twice as painful. I find myself
watching the stars and I can't seem to breathe. I am
here and you are gone. I wait because I believe.

Breathe some faith into my chest.
Lay me down,
I need the rest.
Ever since the sky turned grey
I've waited for the perfect day.


I fell in an instant. And for that instant it was
magic. You showed me a world I had never imagined.
Now it is all I can do. Imagine you were still here
or I was flying with you. My life had been fulfilling
and true. You came and brought the light I had never
known, had never thought I needed. You showed me what
love could do. It was perfect for a time.

Hey now -
It seems you've always
Touched me like the sun.
There's no escape for the broken-hearted,
There's no return once you've lost your way.

I was forced to choose. You, the light of love; or
the only world I had ever known. What was I to do,
what would you have had me do? I made the only choice
I felt I could, and regretted it in an instant. Only
that instant was too long. For neither of us had ever
felt the power of love, and you couldn't deal with
it's pain. You turned to what you knew so well and
escaped in that instant, just when I had changed my
choice. I was angry, I was hurt, I was .... resigned.
The light went out.

Blinded by a crazy light
I fell into the darkest night.
Those magic ties, the two of us,
I couldn't see it turn to dust.

But the life I had fulfilled by once wasn't one I
could go back to. I had found what I never knew I was
searching for and turning back wasn't an option. So
no goodbyes, I couldn't allow it. I can't allow it
now. Not from you and not from me. Not in my heart
and not in my soul. My destiny is clear as it has
never been.

I say a prayer now
Your love's departed
That you'll come back to stay.
Bring back the perfect day.


I sit and I watch the stars for you. Knowing one day
I will join you. Be it here or - somewhere out there.
Where only our imagination can take us. We will have
one more perfect day.

the end

Lyrics to "Perfect Day" by Roxette:

From the album "Joyride"

Breathe some faith into my chest.
Lay me down,
I need the rest.
Ever since the sky turned grey
I've waited for the perfect day.
Hey now -
It seems you've always
Touched me like the sun.
There's no escape for the broken-hearted,
There's no return once you've lost your way.
I say a prayer now
Our love's departed
That you'll come back to stay
And bring the perfect day.
Blinded by a crazy light
I fell into the darkest night.
Those magic ties, the two of us,
I couldn't see it turn to dust.
Hey now -
It seems you've always
Reached me like the sun.
There's no escape for the broken-hearted,
There's no return once you've lost your way.
I say a prayer now
Your love's departed
That you'll come back to stay.
Bring back the perfect day

 

End