Since coming to Babylon 5, Timov always had the same dream once a week. She was standing in the throne room of the royal palace on Centauri Prime. Londo and G`Kar were lying in front of the throne, both dead after they had strangled each other. Next to her was a Narn woman she did not recognize and they were crying over the death of their husbands. Then the scene changed and they were both on Narn, looking up to a burning house about to fall on them. The first time Timov had that dream, she had known that it was going to be the way she died. After the house had fallen, she always woke up.

Years ago she would never have thought that she could love Londo like this one day. On the beginning of their marriage she had focussed all her hatred over being forced to marry a man she did barely know, on him. Now, after having gotten to know him better, she had realized that she had been unfair to him. He had been in the same situation after all and he had tried everything he could to make her comfortable.

Slowly she pushed back the covers, careful not to wake Londo and got out of bed. She walked to the kitchen and drank a glass of water. After her mouth did not feel so dry anymore she opened the door to the bedroom of the children. When she was sure that they were sleeping deeply, she sat in a chair and stared at the wall.

A few minutes later she heard Londo´s footsteps. He came to her and put his arm around her shoulder. They remained like this for a while, like they had done so many times before. After a few minutes she finally stood up, took Londo´s hand and led him back into the bedroom, while she already felt his brachiarti move. They did not sleep the rest of the night.

The next morning, Londo´s new assistant had arrived. At first Timov had thought that the young man, who seemed afraid of his own shadow, would not last one hour after meeting her husband.

A few days later Vir Cotto had completely surprised her. He seemed to have an instinctive way to know how he could deal with the people around him. She suspected he had learned this the hard way, so she made a call to Centauri Prime to ask about his family. What she heard made her almost want to go home and attack his uncle, the current head of his house. He had taken Vir in after his parents had died in an accident and apparently beat him half to death a few times when he was drunk.

The only thing stopping her was the attack on their colony Ragesh 3, where Londo´s nephew Carn was working as head researcher. They were careful not to talk about it in front of their children but in the evening, when they were in bed, Londo, Timov and Vir met in the living room of their quarters and listened for any news. When there was nothing, Londo repeated the first transmission from the afternoon. Hoping to find out who the attackers were, he zoomed on their ships. When he recognized them as Narn, he stormed out the door, yelling for G´Kar. Timov and Vir followed him quickly, trying to stop him from doing something he would only regret later. When they arrived in front of G´Kar´s quarters, they found Londo with a weapon he had gotten from somewhere, aiming at G´Kar. Mr. Garibaldi was standing between them, doing his best to take the weapon. During the struggle, a shot was fired. It only hit the wall, but it shocked everyone except Londo enough that he was able to fire a second shot, only barely missing G´Kar. Then Timov was finally near enough to take the weapon from Londo´s hand. She handed it to Mr. Garibaldi, who seemed grateful for her help. Then she led Londo away, keeping his arm gripped, so that he could not run back and try again.

Back in their quarters, she watched as he drank several glasses of brivari until he fell asleep in his chair. Together with Vir, Timov put Londo in their bed and calmed the children, who had never seen their father in this state before, Timov had made sure of that. She fed Jelina, then she took her and Darion to the Zocalo, where she bought her son all his favourite foods, to distract him from what he had just seen.

A while later Darion was getting tired, so she brought the children to Vir, who had offered to take them any time she and Londo needed some hours for themselves. Trying to distract herself from everything that happened today, she went to her favourite shop. After looking through a few dresses, she heard someone announce news from Ragesh 3. When she reached the nearest vid screen, she saw Carn´s face on the screen, telling everyone that the inhabitants of Ragesh 3 had asked for help from the Narn. Although this was obviously a forced statement, she even believed it for a few seconds.

When she got back, the bedroom was dark and empty. After she had searched half the station for Londo, she found him in the council chamber where he and the others present were listening to the same statement she had already heard. When it ended, Londo put his head on the table, hiding his face. Timov moved behind his chair and laid her hand on his arm, before she turned to G´Kar and glared at him. Soon the others left, leaving her and Londo alone in the room. He eventually calmed down and a few hours later, Commander Sinclair told them personally that he had arranged everything for Ragesh 3 to be free again.

This evening they all celebrated together, but Timov silently hoped that life an Babylon 5 was not always like this. If it was she would probably go mad some time in the future.