AN: :) okay here's part two !!!!!!!!!!!!! lol I hope you like it! It's in between sweet and bitter... you sort out your own feelings lol

She was sad to see him go, but it was apparent that he needed a break. Besides, she had wanted some time to herself anyway. She wanted to revel in the moment of being back at one of her favorite places on earth. She practically grew up here in the summer, when school was months away and it was just her and the open space ahead of her, waiting to be filled with innocent adventures. She laid her arms behind her head, closed her eyes, and allowed herself to float on the water.

"Tomorrow," she said out loud.

"Tomorrow we'll go sailing." She smiled to herself remembering the times they went sailing on the holodeck. It was always something she looked forward to. Sailing took her mind off of things she didn't want to be thinking of. It was thought consuming. That was exactly what she needed; she needed to forget about everything that was happening in her life. She wanted to focus on the good things. They might have been few and far between but they were therapeutic in a strange way. Kathryn opened her eyes and looked up at the night sky. It hadn't been so clear like that since she left this place eight years ago. The clear midnight blue sky was a godsend. It brought peace and clarity, another thing she needed in her life. Sighing she realized she needed a lot of things, which wasn't very common for her to admit. She wasn't a plant who required water every once and awhile and perhaps fresh soil. She was a human being, and she needed to treat herself accordingly. Kathryn found it hard to do so, always worrying about others before she began to think about herself. Selfishness is a good thing but total disregard of yourself isn't safe, in fact it's extremely dangerous. Then again it made for an interesting person, but it also made that person hard to love and to care about. Blinking hard Kathryn continued to look up at the sky. The stars from down on earth seemed more like a rarity, something precious, other than a surplus of things that shinned in the distance. Making her feel like it was different when it was all the same. Same view, just a change of perspective.

"What do you know…?" Kathryn's eyes became wide with a childlike passion. It was a shooting star. Being a veteran of the stars she knew exactly what shooting or falling stars were, space junk to put it bluntly. But it still held the unchanged wonder of such a thing; it still managed to capture the beauty of the universe in such a plain and simple happening. It was still magic… magic she came to appreciate even more.

"Make a wish." She whispered to herself. Thinking quickly before she lost sight of the 'star'. She searched her mind for something worth wishing about. But in the end she could only find the one thing she never intended to think about, let alone voice.

"I… I don't want to die, not like this. I want to die honorably. Not like this, sure as hell not quietly into the night." Her eyes followed the star as it burned itself out over some far away valley. At that moment, she felt like the sky had lost its only light. Now she felt alone, without even the stars to guide her. Just like everyone else in her life, there but not really there. She shivered. She was just starting to notice the cold. Wrapping her arms around herself, she shivered again. This time not with the agony of a cold body but with the agony of a lost and lonely soul, this time she shivered with tears. She stood in the icy night water of the lake and cried. Dying a bit each time a tear created a ripple in the water. There was something poetic about it in a bizarre way, seeing as how the moon in the sky cried with her, as Luna let her precious stars fall from the heavens and rain on the earth. Followed by the earth joining in with the saltiest raindrops ever to fall on a human tongue. Or perhaps it was a sensational taste caused by the mixing of Kathryn's tears and the rain. Feeling sensitive to the cold rainy night Kathryn pulled herself out of the water and started for the walk back to the cabin. It wasn't far, but it was enough to make you cringe, each step reminding you of everything in the world you'd care to forget, however can't. Wrapping her arms around herself even tighter, she attempted to make up for the lack of a towel. She shielded herself from the harsh weather, like she shielded herself from the world. Alone and barely. When her bare feet touched down on the stony path she quickened her gait. Taking half the time to get to the sliding glass door than usual. When she reached to door she hammered it to get in. She couldn't take it anymore, she didn't know what she was so against but she was against it.

"Just a second!" She heard a deep warm voice say, but the voice was so far away. So awfully far away. She pounded on the door even harder.

"I'm coming." Chakotay's distressed intonation felt harsh on her ears, causing her to beat on the door ever harder. When she managed to blink back some of the tears she saw him emerge from the corridor with a robe on and a towel in his hands.

"Chakotay." She mouthed from the other side of the door. She watched incomprehensibly as he unlocked and opened the door. She felt lost in a cold blur. It wasn't until she felt her hands hitting a warm soft surface that she managed to be a trace more lucid. She saw his lips forming her name but she couldn't hear it. She watched withdrawn as he grabbed her wrists in one of his hands.

"My god Kathryn, you're freezing." Finally she could hear him but she couldn't manage to respond properly.

"Cold… I'm so cold." She stammered as Chakotay wrapped his towel around her and pulled Kathryn into his robe.

"The body heat will help, just stay with me Kathryn." She nodded languidly pressing herself against the warmth of his body. With her last ounce of strength she threw her arms around his neck.

"Don't let go." She whispered, and passed out in his arms. He felt her body go limp in his arms.

"Kathryn?" he breathed into her ear.

"Kathryn?" When he didn't receive a response he knew that she had lost consciousness. Taking a deep breath he lifted her off of the ground and carried her to the bedroom at the end of the hall.

REVIEW LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehehe lol do you guys know how long it took me to figure out what I was suppose to say...

I wanted to put respond? LOL I'm slow today its the snow!!!!!!!!!!!! PLZ NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!

lol that's the end of part 2 ... the next chapter is cute hehe I finished it already!!!! by the way she was experiencing mild hypothermia LOL science class