If I knew...
Part 2

Author: GalaxyCaptain
Disclaimer: They do not belong to me!! Honest. Paramount is the big owner.
Summary: Read the summary in part 1.
Author's Note: I didn't plan to write a sequel but those two on FF.Net asked me and I also got e-mails asking me to do it. I hope you like it as well as part 1. I used a part of the poem again now, but you can find the full version in part 1.
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Talent night! Why on earth did she agree to allow Neelix to hold them? Captain Kathryn Janeway thought. The next talent night was scheduled in one week and now it was a special one. Neelix had made everyone draw a piece of paper and everyone who got YES where to perform. She was sure that he messed up with the pieces because everyone of the senior staff where now scheduled to appear. "I have to talk to Neelix about this" She thought but then told her self out loud "But maybe it will be fun seeing them making a total fool of themselves" As soon as she had finished her sentence she realized something. "Oh shit… I have to perform as well"

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"So, what are you going to do?" B'Elanna asked Chakotay when se sat down beside him in the Mess hall.

"On talent night? Oh that's a secret" He answered her and smiled.

"Come on old man" She said "Tell me, I promise not to tell"

"No, my lips are sealed. It's going to be a surprise" He answered and stood up. "I'm due on the Bridge, so I'll see you later"

Few minuets after Chakotay left, the Captain came in and when B'Elanna saw her she called out to her "Captain, why don't you sit here" When she sat down B'Elanna asked her the same question she had asked Chakotay "So, what are you going to do on talent night?"

"I honestly have no idea. I can't believe that I even agreed to this"

"I've tried to ask Tom, Harry, Seven, The Doctor, Chakotay and even Tuvok but nobody wants to tell me what they're going to do. I haven't decided my-self." B'Elanna told her.

"The last one was easy. I just did a little ballet piece and it was the hit of the evening" Janeway said, remembering the dying swan dance she had done. "Now I'm just dead in the water, so to speak"

"Make that two of us" B'Elanna told her and smiled.

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Tonight would be the night. Two weeks ago Chakotay read an poem. Two weeks ago, he realized that he loved her. Tonight he would tell her. It hadn't been difficult for him to decide what to do, in fact, it had been surprisingly easy. The poem he'd found, he was going to read that and tell the angry warrior legend.

Tuvok had been the first one up. He had done some meditation thing. Seven had been up next with the doctor. They sung a duet from a 20th century movie called Grease. It had actually been really fun and the audience had gone wild . Tom had been up next, he had apparently lost a bet with B'Elanna and was dressed as a clown and did some juggling and other clown stuff. He also had to sing some children song. B'Elanna and Kathryn where up next. Kathryn hypnotized B'Elanna and made her tell everyone her innermost feelings and secrets, the audience didn't know what to think when the act was done. They actually admitted after their act that it had all been made up.

He was the last one on stage.

"Now, last on stage this evening. None other that Voyager's first officer, Commander Chakotay!" He heard Neelix introduce him to the audience. He walked up on the stage.

"Good evening" He said to the audience "I'm going to tell you an ancient legend. I've only told this to one other member of this crew before." He said and then continued "And I would like to ask that particular crewmember to step up here on the stage when I'm done" Some light music could be heard and Chakotay started to read.

"There is an ancient legend among my people. It is about an angry warrior who lived his life in conflict with the rest of his tribe. A man who couldn't find peace, even with the help of his spirit guide. For years he struggled with his discontent. The only satisfaction he ever got came when he was in battle. This made him a hero among his tribe, but the warrior still longed for peace within himself. One day, he has his war party were captured by a neighboring tribe led by a woman warrior. She called on him to join her because her own tribe was too small and too weak to defend itself from all its enemies. The woman warrior was brave, and beautiful. And very wise. The angry warrior swore to himself that he would stay by her side, doing whatever he could to make her burden lighter. From that point on, her needs would come first. And in that way the warrior began to know the true meaning of peace."

When he finished telling the legend, he noticed that most of audience where, well they where amazed by it. Just like Kathryn had been. He had never told anyone besides from Kathryn it before. Then the audience started to cheer wildly.

"I'm not done yet" He said to the cheering audience "Now I would like to ask Captain Janeway to step up here to join me"

When she came up on the stage, Chakotay told her to stand in front of him, facing the audience. Then he began to read again.

If I knew it would be the last time
I would be there to share your day,
well I'm sure you'll have so many more,
so I can let just this one slip away.

For surely there's always tomorrow
to make up for oversight,
and we always get a second chance
to make everything right.

There will always be another day
to say our I love you's
And certainly there's another change
to say our "Anything I can do's?"

But in case I might be wrong,
and today is all I get,
I'd like to say how much I love you
and I hope we never forget.

Tomorrow is not promised to anyone,
young or old alike,
And today may be the last change you get
to hold your loved one tight...

So if you're waiting for tomorrow,
why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes,
You'll surely regret the day

When he finished, the audience was frozen. They knew that they just witnessed their First Officer admit his love for their Captain.

"I should have known" B'Elanna told her self "I should have known he was about to do that..." She was cut off from her thoughts when she heard everyone around her gasp.

Yes, they where kissing on stage, in front of the whole crew. They where finally together.

**THE END**