Unbelievable
By Lorien
Disclaimer: All belongs to Paramount.
Setting: Insurrection never happened, this is how I saw Will proposing.
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Feels like I'm standing in a timeless dream
Of light mists of pale amber rose
Feels like I'm lost in a deep cloud of heavenly scent
Touching discovering you
Deanna was bored. And not just any kind of bored. She was so bored that she
wouldn't have minded listening to her mother babble on and on about those holy
rings and the crusty chalice that sat sacredly in their home on Betazed.
Her shift would be over soon, she could probably go annoy Beverly a little,
or maybe even Worf. Data was always interesting to talk to, now especially,
with his emotion chip. Deanna ruled out Goerdi, she knew he would be in engineering,
either that or talking to his girlfriend Leah. Honestly, it was all the man
did.
Sighing, she stood as Data entered with the rest of the night shift brigade.
He greeted her with a neutral "Counselor." And Deanna replied with
a smile, "Hello Data." She took the seat next to the right of her
second officer, hoping for some sort of anomaly or quantum fissure or SOMETHING!
Just something to get her out of this boredom sitting.
Data unexpectedly came to her rescue. "Counselor, is there something I
can do for you? I have observed that this is your usual time of rest."
"Yes Data, you're right. But I'm not very tired right now, and I'm extremely
bored at the moment."
"Ah. Boredom. A feeling consisting of having nothing in particular to occupy
your time."
"Yes that's correct. You know, on second thought, I'm going to Ten-Forward.
I'll see you tomorrow. Good night."
"Good night."
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Those days of warms rains come rushing back to me
Miles of windless summer night air
secret moments shared in the heat of the afternoon
Out of the stillness soft spoken words
Jean-Luc and Beverly were cuddling in the far corner of Ten-Forward as Deanna
was on the other, reading a western with a cup of hot chocolate in the other
hand. She had actually went to check on Will before deciding on coming, but
she found out he had already turned in for the night.
The large room was starting to empty, for all except the remaining senior officers.
Deanna turned off the PADD and gulped the rest of the hot chocolate, decided
that her captain and best friend probably wanted some time alone.
As she was just about to stand, a tired looking Will sluggishly walked to the
bar, ordering the usual glass of synthehol. He turned and broke into one of
those heart-pounding smiles that made Deanna melt into a nice little Betazoid
puddle.
"Hey Will."
"Hey yourself. What are you doing her so late?"
You've got me almost melting away
"I couldn't sleep. Didn't feel like it."
"Me neither. I kept dreaming of Alexander's western on the holodeck for
some reason."
"Really."
"Yes really."
A beat passed between the two, as they stared into each other's eyes. It was
something they did often, even when they were just friends. It was just something
that the two did unconsciously.
"You haven't been by lately."
"You have really blue eyes."
"What?"
"Nothing. I just thought you would've liked some time to yourself with
the offer to captain the Titan and everything."
"Oh."
"So are you going to?"
"Maybe. It depends."
"On what? The captain's recommendation? I'd say you've pretty much got
it buster."
"Buster? I think those westerns are getting to you Deanna."
"They. Are. Not. I just thought that if you wanted to captain the Titan,
don't let me stop you, you should take it. It might be your last chance...you..."
"Be my wife."
"...never know."
Deanna stared at him with her wide brown eyes that he loved so much and asked,
"Why? I mean, that was pretty sudden, don't you think?"
"I know, but as you know, I was trying to sleep, and all I could think
about in bed was how I was going to be leaving the Enterprise soon, if I take
the captainship, and everything was just so perfect, and then something made
all of it shatter into little shards of glass. I mean, I could actually see
it all shatter. I would be leaving you behind, under no doubt, the discretion
of some new pompous fool of a first officer who thinks he could look at my Imzadi
that way, when clearly..."
"I'll be your wife."
"...you're not interested."
"Will! Don't look so surprised! I'll be your wife. Just tell me something."
"Anything!!"
"Why are the captain and Beverly laughing at us?"
Turning his head, Will saw this captain and CMO smiling and pointing at them.
"I have no idea."
From across the room, Jean-Luc yelled, "It's about time, Number One!!"
Exotic sweetness magical time
End