Will's POV
Part III
During the war with the Dominion Deanna became frail and depressed. She worried about Betazed and I worried about her. I had no clue what to do to help her through that terrible time, but I tried. When she turned down all food, including chocolate, I became very concerned for her, but she refused to see Doctor Crusher.
Then came the day that Starfleet requested her to go to Betazed on a covert mission to help the resistance's cause. Her mission was to get a cold blooded killer out of a Betazoid mental hospital and bring him to the resistance so they could learn his telepathic killing technique.
This mission was very dangerous and I not only feared I would never see her again, but I also worried about Betazoids learning the techniques of a cold blooded killer. It could have been a change that caused irreparable damage to all of them and that was not something I wanted Deanna and her family to go through.
I was angry because Starfleet decided to send her out on this mission, but Deanna agreed to do it because she felt she had to do something to help her people. There was no way anyone could change her mind. She was very determined to help and insisted that it beat sitting around and worrying about her family and friends on Betazed.
The mission was a success and Deanna returned safely to the Enterprise. Or at least she was physically safe. Mentally, I wasn't so sure, but I was there to listen to her if she needed to cry on my shoulder.
Of course she told every sordid detail she went through during that mission. At first, she was stoic as she spoke of the events that occurred while she was on Betazed and then one day the dam broke. Behind closed doors she used my shoulders to carry her through the emotional release.
In time, she recovered and then one day out of the blue, she asked me to marry her. It took me off guard, but there was no way I could say no to my Imzadi. I was the happiest man on the Enterprise that day and all was well with the universe again.
Now, Deanna and I have nothing but the future to look forward too. It's a future full of hope, full of joy, and full of promise and soon we will be having our first child. This child is apart of the first generation of Betazoids and Humans unaffected by the Dominion war. The lives they will lead was made possible by what happened on Betazed a few years ago.