Blueberries 11
Kathryn had been walking for hours. It had started to rain as she came upon a small hill that lead up to the blueberry field. For a moment she was very sad. She recalled the childhood memory of bringing her own children to this very place to pick the tasty fruit. She sighed at the memory thinking of how the years had passed so quickly. It wasn't until she thought of him that the tears began to flow. She had loved him for far too long. She wanted the tears to be gone, she tried desperately to force them back into her soul, but her own body betrayed her. Her own body seeked the release of emotion that she had trapped within herself for years. She closed her eyes and tried to calm herself. She tipped her face to the rain, trying to remember a time when she was at peace.
A sudden noise from behind her took her out of her current state. She turned, puzzled. There were very few people that walked to the isolated field, and even less would attempt it during a storm. She saw a top of a head and then she heard a voice call out for her.
"Kathryn?"
"Kathryn, where are you?"
At that moment she wanted to hide. Kathryn Janeway had never hid in her life. But at this moment she wanted nothing more then to dash into the field and lose him. But she knew he had already spotted her. She tried to calm herself and she made one last effort to hide the fact that she had been crying.
"Kathryn, I am glad I found you. I think we need to talk."
She turned to him, hoping that he wouldn't see the fact that she had been crying.
"What do you want Chakotay?"
He instantly knew as soon as he saw her eyes that she had been crying. He wanted to ask her why she was crying but he knew that she would pretend that she only had something stuck in her eye. He knew that she always had to be the strong one, that she would never break down in front of him. Because for her that would have been the ultimate weakness.
He paused slightly.
"You."
She pretended that she hadn't heard that phrase echo from his lips. She would overcome this and she would under no circumstances be swayed by this man. This handsome man, who always seeked to protect her from everything. This man who had been her friend for years, this man who she had always wanted.
She wanted to turn away from him. But when he took his hand and touched her soft face. The tears began to flow again.
"Kathryn, I love you. I promise that you will never regret a day you spend with me. I will always look for your happiness. I will strive to give you the peace that you seek in your life. So if I may show it outwardly, and wear my heart upon my sleeve, it only goes to show you how deep a heart can bleed when I love you the way that I do."
She was silent. And then all of a sudden she fell into his chest and began to cry. Chakotay wrapped his arms around her, and let her cry. He kissed the top of her head, as the rain poured around them. When she had cried her last tear, she looked up at him. He smiled and kissed her lips. They were finally together.
Years later-
"I still can't believe it Mike. Kathryn died so quickly after Chakotay."
Mike watched Phoebe as she laid a blueberry branch on her sisters grave. He put his arms around his wife.
"They had many years of happiness together Phoebe. But they could never be apart. There love was just too strong for this world to separate them for each other."
Mike took a look at both graves. "You better always protect her Chakotay. We will miss you both."
Mike took Phoebes hand as they walked through the blueberry field together. Their children came running after them, showing the blueberries that they had picked.