- Norwegian Heart
by Camilla Sandman
For disclaimer, see segment 1..
(continued from where I left off...)
Oh God, no! Not Kathryn. It couldn`t be. His Kathryn, dead? No. No. No! All because he couldn`t keep a promise. Couldn`tkeep her hands off just as she was softning up. The dream had almost come true. And he had to ruin it all.
Tears threatened to overcome him. And her voice.. He could almost hear it, calling his name..
"Chakotay!!"
He could hear it, hear it call for him.. He..
"Kathryn?"
He looked up unbelieving, yet hopeful.
"Kathryn!!"
It was her! On the other side of the room, her face plae with concern, worry.. love. On that there was no doubt in his mind.
She spotted him seconds after he had seen her, a light filled her eyes, and she ran toward him, eyes for only him.
He met her on the halfway, ignoring the pain in his back, ignoring the the surprised shouts from the Norwegian. Swinging her around, then holding her as tight as he could. She was alive, in his arms.
Nothing else mattered.
"Chakotay.. I`m sorry.. God, I was so afraid.. I love you.. I love you.."
He pulled back to look at her, at last seeing what he had dreamed for so long.
"Kathryn! I.."
"Hushh.. Not now."
And with that she claimed his lips, and he had never been more willing to give her what she wanted.
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Bu elsewhere, life had more surprises up it`s sleeve..
"Doktor.. Liket av kvinnen vi fant.. Du b�r se p� dette.."
"Hva?? Det er umulig!!"
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The last ray of sun had long disappeared behind the great mountains, even though it was still early. Everywhere, the lights were lit, hundres of lights in the dark. Like jewles.
Kathryn Janeway looked at the sight as if she saw it for the first time.
And in a way, she did. So much she had missed. Funny how life seems so much more precious when it has almost been taken from you.
And when.. you were giving life yourself. A miracle was growing inside her.A smile formed on her lips as she remembered how it had been concived..
It had been just after the avalanche. Being so close to loosing each other had triggered all those emotions carefully hidden all those years.
They had been like fire together. And they almost started one too, being a bit too busy with each other to notice the knocked-over candle. Those firefighters sure got quite a surprise!
It didn't matter. She loved Chakotay, and was ready to tell the whole world. Thewhole of Troms�, anyway.
Funny how you never realize how precious love is until you are about to loose it.
But now she had it, and she was not about to throw it away.
And tonight she would tell him just that.
That she was ready to stay here with him and raise children and.. live. Truely live for the first time in her life.
With one last look at the sparkling sky she turned and walked right into an astonished Tom Paris.
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Even if it weren't the Earth of their time, the crew of Voyager couldn't help but stare at the viewscreen. It was beautiful, even in the previous millenium. And maybe, just maybe, they would find their Captain and First Officer there. Hopes were high.
Even Tuvok could not help but feel a spark of hope. And so they waited for the signal.
Waited for the away team to report in. Tom Paris and Seven of Nine was down there, looking.According to calculations, this was the time Janeway and Chakotay had been transported too.
They had to be down there. They just had to.
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"I had almost given up hope!"
Tom Paris was beaming at her, but Kathryn could feel nothing but numb. Chakotay sitting beside her was quiet too. Tom didn't seem to notice.
"We've been looking for you guys for ages. Seven worked out..."
"Tom!"
"Captain?"
"I..." She hesitated, feeling torn.
Could she? Leave this place? Go back to Voyager and be the Captain again?
"But you're not the same anymore," whsipered a little voice in her head.
She closed her eyes.
"Kathryn?"
And suddenly she saw clearly the choise ahead, and that whatever she chose, life would never be the same. Two paths ahead, each in different directions.
But did she really have a choise?
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"Og over til andre nyheter. Det s�kalte liket av et romvesen ble i daget stj�let fra rikshospitalet i Troms�. Hvem som st�r bak, er enn� ikke avklart. Tyveri hindret en n�yere unders�kelese av liket, og kilder fra vitenskapelig institutt hevder at dette beviser hvilken svidel det egentlig var. Andre mener..."
(And over to other news. The so-called alien body was stolen today from the hospital in Troms�. Who was behind the theft is still not discovered. The theft made a closer examination impossible, and certain sources within the sceintific instutution claims this goes to show what a fraud it really was. Others however..)
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It was a sad day aboard Voyager. The news of the deaths of Captain Kathryn Janeway and Commander Chakotay was a heavy blow to the crew. The body of the K'Mal woman, one of the persuares just before they had disappeared, found dead, confirmed it. They had all vanished in an avalanche.
Only Tom Paris knew, and he said nothing. It was their choise after all.
He gave the Earth one final look before Voyager went back to its time.
He hoped they would be happy.
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It was a magnificent sunrise. The snow still claimed the landscape, but soon it would have to give in. Spring was coming. And so was the sun, showing its face for the first time since the winter had come.
It was a strange country indeed, thought Kathryn Janeway not for the first time. No sun during winter, not even at daytime. And all sun during summer, even at night.
But she liked it.
"Admiring the view?"
She turned to look at him.
"Yes. But it just got better."
He grinned at her.
"Tease."
"I thought you liked teasing."
"Only if I can take you up on it later."
She grinned back.
"Only if Tom jr doesn`t keep us up."
Silence fell for a while, both looking at the sunrise.
"You know, Kathryn, I've been thinking about something."
"What?"
"You know how you said a while back you weren't Norwegian?"
She looked at him, and listened. And as they got up to go inside their small, weathered house just outside Troms�, she realized he was right.
She did have a Norwegian Heart.
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Fini
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