So I won't give up, no I won't break down
Sooner than it seems life turns around
And I will be strong, even if it all goes wrong
When I'm standing in the dark I'll still believe
Someone's watching over me
It always started, inexplicably, as a tingling in his matrix that he knew he shouldn't feel. But feel it he did and the Doctor had long ago given up telling B'Elanna that there was something wrong with him. It took him a long time to realise that there was nothing the matter with him, and even longer to realise exactly what the feeling was.
One day he was thinking about Kes, for no particular reason other than she had appeared in his mind, and the tingling started. It was a quiet day in sickbay, so he thought some more about her and the tingling increased. Then he thought about something else and the tingling stopped. Then he thought about her again and it came back. As a man of science, he knew that there was nothing fuelling the coincidence except his imagination but that conviction did nothing to quiet the tiny voice at the back of his mind that said maybe, just maybe, Kes was watching him.
And if he could be found talking out loud after that, when he was working on his own, it was nobody's business but his.
And Kes' maybe. If she was listening.