They sat on the swing chair under the tree until the sunset and the moon started to rise, sitting low in the sky amongst the endless sea of stars. When they had first arrived home, Kathryn had discovered that she yearned to back on her ship, where she was part of a family flying through this sea, headed towards a common goal. Because out there, on the other side of the galaxy, she had known, for the first time in a long while, the true meaning of peace. Because Chakotay had been by her side.

All it takes is the main attraction

Scattered bones underneath the fashion

Lower life on a higher plain

That's what you want

That's what you're giving away

She had lost him to Seven, and it had broken her heart, because after all those years of telling him to move on only to find that he still stayed by her side, he had finally listened to her.

And it hurt more than she could ever have thought it would. Because it felt like she was falling back into the darkness of the pain caused by all the heartbreak and loss in her life that she thought she'd let go of years ago.

Photogenic, come and get it

You can have it

Take it all!

Schizophrenic, so sadistic

I don't know, I don't know

Politicans, in condition

Dyin' for a curtain call

Counter culture, full of vultures

Bet you think I'm what!

But it was over now. He was back, holding her in his arms, watching the moon rise into the sea that had been their home for seven, long, painful years.

Looking up at the stars, she felt . . . free. She was home at last. On Voyager, they had been far from Earth, but they had been a family . . . a family that had proved its loyalty to her and Chakotay individually and together, personally and together. She smiled as she remembered something B'Elanna had said to her a few weeks beforehand.

Sea without a shore for the banished one unheard

He lightens the beacon, light at the end of the world

Showing the way lighting hope in their hearts

The ones on their travels homeward from afar

This is the long forgotten

Light at the end of the world

Horizon crying

The tears he left behind long ago

"Penny for your thoughts?" Kathryn tilted her head back to look into his deep chocolate eyes, smiling shyly at him.

"Just thinking about something B'Elanna said a few weeks ago."

"Care to share?"

"Nope."