A/N: I finished the story and will forget to update if I don't do it all now so UPDATE SPAM!

Nerys leapt to her feet. There, in her doorway, was Odo. He stepped inside and let the doors close behind him. His face was formed so well that he hardly looked like a Changeling. Only his nose and ears remained soft looking. He never could get those right. Nerys shook her head. No, he was there. It was no dream. Odo was in her quarters. Stepping forward she slowly approached him where he stood, very still, just inside her door. Her hand reached out to touch his face but stopped short.

"Odo?"

"Yes, Nerys, it's me."

"Are you really here?"

"I am." With that her eyes grew big and she fell into his arms, her eyes overflowing with tears as she spouted off words and phrases in Bajoran, seeming to only find expression of her grief and happiness in her own language. Odo sighed and tightened his grip around her, allowing his face to fall into her hair. He had always loved the feeling of her hair against his cheek. After a few minutes she suddenly grew still. Odo pulled his head back, smiling wider than he thought he ever had before.

"Odo," she started, sniffing and wiping away tears, "when did you get here, no transports docked today." In her tears this had dawned on her. Odo looked down.

"I got here last night." Nerys stepped back from him. Odo's hands went out, missing the contact and her warmth.

"Last night?"

"On the transport with Judoon." Nerys stepped back again.

"But…but he said you weren't there."

"I told him to say that. I didn't want to interfere with your life."

"What?" The pitch and volume of her voice rose. Odo could tell that not only was she mad, but she was furious. He spoke quickly, hoping to dispel her anger.

"When I left you to join the link I lied. I told you I wouldn't return. I…I couldn't stand the thought of you being forced to pine and wait for me while I finished a task that could have taken me years."

"So you lied to me?" It hadn't worked. She was still growing angrier with each passing word he spoke.

"I spared you. Nerys I…"

"No. You didn't spare me Odo. You CONDEMED me! You forced me into a life of grief and despair because I was forced to believe that the man I loved enough that I would have given up my life for him, didn't love me enough to come back. I was forced to believe that after years of you saying you missed your people but your place was here, on the station, that you had changed your mind. That I wasn't enough to keep you here."

"Nerys I didn't want to you think you had to wait." Odo was desperate for her to understand. Nerys looked down to where his bucket sat, waiting to be cried over for the night. She bent and picked it up and looked at it. When she spoke again her voice was deadly quiet.

"You made me think you didn't love me." With that Nerys shoved the bucket into Odo's arms and walked into her bedroom, trusting he would leave. She fell onto her pillow and sobbed deeply. The truth that she had not even admitted to herself before was just yelled at the man she loved. It seemed to crash down on Nerys. That was why she grieved so much. It wasn't that she missed him. It was that she thought she had been wrong to love him so much. For once anger as well as grief boiled inside of her and she stood and began to throw and break anything she could lift within her room.

Odo left to the sounds of her crying, screaming, and breaking things. His mind was reeling from what she had told him. Not wanting to see anyone Odo reverted to his natural state and streamed through the station until he found a quiet corner to pool in while he regenerated and thought. What had he done.