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AUTHOR'S NOTE: After watching the way that the Enterprise episode Home ended I ran back to the computer to make a different ending (This story). This is my first story for Enterprise, so I hope that it's alright. By the way, isn't it sad that the show is ending: (
DISCLAIMER: Paramount owns everything.
SUBJECT: Star Trek Enterprise fan fiction
RATING: K
SUMMARY: Trip confesses his love for T'Pol, how will she react?
PAIRING: Trip/T'Pol
THE STORY

Trip watched as T'Pol knelt in front of Koss. 'This is not good' he thought.His mind had completely shut down, Why hadn't he told her how he felt? Being in love with her was the best thing that could have ever happen in his life, especially after the hell that he had been through the last couple of years.

Maybe it wasn't too late to speak up. But if he halted the ceremony T'Pol might never forgive him. On the other hand, it was her own mother who had given him the advice of telling her in the first place. T'Pol was different from the other Vulcans. Trip could read her emotions with ease most of the time. He knew that she had agreed to this, but it was against her better judgment. She was only being bonded to Koss to benefit her mother. He had to stop this, it wasn't right, it wasn't fair.

But how was he going to stop this from happening? The ceremony was already coming to a close.

Trip coughed once, drawing T'Pol's attention away from the ceremony, not that she had been paying any real attention to begin with. She gave him a longing look and Trip looked to see if the other Vulcans had been disturbed... they hadn't. T'Pol was still looking at him. Trip had no other choice. He mouthed three little words to her and hoped for the best. He saw T'Pol fighting to stay in control of her emotions and she was on thebrink of not being able to. She swallowed hard and stood up.

"T'Pol?" Koss asked sounding as concerned as a Vulcan could. "Is something wrong?" T'Pol looked at him then over at Trip and back to Koss again.

"Yes." She said her voice fluctuating in tone. Koss cocked his head in befuddlement.

"I can notgo through with this." T'Pol said "I do notlove you, there is nothing driving me to be bonded to you." and with that T'Pol walked away as quickly and as calmly as possible. Trip went after her.

Trip found her sometime later in the exact spot where he had realized his love for her.

"T'Pol?" heasked quietly She did not replied, she had turned her face away from him when she sensed his approach.

"T'Pol... I'm sorry that I ruined you wedding... I just, ... I had to let you know." T'Pol still said nothing. This concerned Trip greatly. What if things didn't work out like he had played them out in his mind?

"T'Pol, would you at least look at me?" He touched her shoulder and she turned to face him. When she raised her eyes to look at him, Trip saw something he had never seen before. Her eyes were red and puffy, only one thing would have caused that.

"Have you been crying?" Trip asked trying not to sound shocked.

"I suppose so, yes." There was a long silence where the both of them just stared out over the ledge. After a while T'Pol asked,

"Do you mean it?" It took Trip a moment to process the question then he replied.

"I wouldn't have said it if I didn't… I love you, T'Pol." She stared at him for a second then without the slightest amount of hesitation she said,

"I love you too, Trip."

Trip smiled and T'Pol returned the gesture. For a moment Trip forgot that she wasn't human.

He leaned in and kissed her and she did the same willingly.

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I hope youliked the story!