How To Save A Life- Chapter 13
Deep Space Nine
"You did what??" Jadzia asked. Tom Paris had just told Jadzia Dax everything that he had gone through and everything she needed to know. "You decided to save my life and that means that some Bajoran would die in my place?!?! Go back, Tom, go back!"
"What, what do you mean?" Tom asked.
"Go back in time and let things happen like they're supposed to. I don't want a Bajoran to die when I was the one who's supposed to die." Jadzia replied.
"But it took me so long just to get to this point…" Tom started.
"Tom, I want you to go back and just let me die." Jadzia interrupted. "You can stop time or whatever you do right before I'm about to die and say goodbye to me. But I don't want that man to die when I should be the one dying."
"You can't be serious." Tom said.
"I am, now go." Jadzia replied then gave Tom a hug.
After Jadzia and Tom stopped hugging Q stopped time. He and Q, who had made himself apparent, appeared on the Promenade. Time was still stopped and Tom looked at Q with obvious dismay.
"All of this for nothing." Q said with a small smile.
"No, not for nothing." Tom muttered.
"That's right, now you know that even if you could save her, she wouldn't want it." Q added.
"No, I'm going to save her again." Tom replied. "Just, this time I'm not going to tell her."
"Are you serious?" Q asked.
"Completely. Now let's get to it." Tom answered.
Q snapped his fingers causing time to start again and making him disappear. Tom waiting for a little bit, making sure that this was the right thing to do. Then after a few seconds, he walked towards Jadzia and began to go through it all over again.