Disclamier: I don't own the characters. They are the property of Paramount, and whoever else owns the rights to these names.
Will Riker stretched and looked at the diminutive brunette that lay next to him. He could scarcely believe that it had already been 2 years. He remembered the first time he met her, on her home planet. It had been ten years ago. They had both been quite young, her more so then he. He was already a Starfleet Officer, sent to her planet on a diplomatic mission. He was charged with protecting the residents. She was a rebellious teenager who sought equality for an oppressed people. He softly touched her shoulder as he remembered that last goodbye.
"Do you have to go?" She asked
"Yes. I'm being reassigned to The Hood" He was sad.
"Will I ever see you again?"
"Perhaps, probably. Starfleet officers have this habit of reappearing unexpectedly" He laughed, thinking about a certain legendary Vulcan who was dead and then alive again.
She laughed. "Maybe I'll just have to join Starfleet then!"
They both laughed and she surprised him by wrapping her arms around him. She buried her nose deep into his chest. "I just want to remember this moment… this... feeling."
He looked down into that brunette head of hers. "I'll miss you. You are so completely different from anybody I've ever met. If things were different…"
She cut him off. "If things were different you might not have even come here at all. And then where would I be? I like you, Will Riker. You'll always hold a special place in my heart"
He smiled. "I like you too" he thought to himself, LOVE is more like it. Everything about this girl makes me want to hold her forever. "Il be a Captain soon enough. I'll come back for you. If you'd have me."
She smiled. "Still ambitious. How do you know I'll still BE here?"
HE smiled back at her. "Well, wherever you are, I'll find you." Then he surprised himself and her by kissing her passionately. He wrapped his arms deeply around her, and she around him, holding each other tightly and expressing the passions in the kiss that could not be expressed otherwise.
She pulled away first. 'You've got to go. Goodbye Will Riker."
He stood back. "Goodbye." He picked up his rucksack and walked to the transport location, not daring to look back and see the tears filling those gorgeous dark eyes.
"What are YOU staring at?" She asked, snapping him back to reality.
"You, just remembering the day I said goodbye."
She laughed. "I remember. Said I should join Starfleet. The shock on your face when I got on board the ship was worth the years at the Academy."
He laughed too. "Yeah. I did say that Starfleet officers have a way of showing back up when you least expect it."
She sat up and leaned over his back. "I love you Will"
He took her hands and turned around in the bed. "And I love you, Laren."
They kissed again, with that fiery passion of their first kiss, and every kiss since.
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A/N
I love Imzadi, I just wanted to have a little bit of fun with my first Star Trek fic. Hope you enjoyed this Ficlet, and I look forward to drowning myself in Imzadi after I get some 'inspiration'.