Prompt:
I remember the nights when you'd lie with me
When we'd talk and we'd touch and we'd fall asleep
I'd wake up in your arms and I'd feel at ease
Now it's just me and I lie awake
And I toss and I turn and I see your face
When I wake from the dream it won't go away
Oh it's gonna be a long night
-"Long Night" by With Confidence
He was happy. Not matter what was going on, or what trials he might be facing, coming home to her always made his day better. She made him happy. There was no better feeling than that.
He wanted to stay here with her forever, but something unexplained was pulling them apart. He watched as she got further and further away.
"No!"
The word escaped him even as he sat up in bed. Looking around, he saw unfamiliar shapes in the darkness. This wasn't the home he had shared with her. As he recalled where it was he actually was he acknowledged the fact that it wasn't even a place he had chosen but one that had been forced upon him.
Laying back down, he stared up at the ceiling wishing that he was any place other than Voayger. Or maybe the place didn't really matter. What he really wanted was to just have Megan beside him. To be able to lay here with her beside him, and tell her about his day. To complain about Tuvok and his Starfleet rules and regulations and have Megan put everything into perspective for him.
If Megan was with him, being trapped in the Delta Quadrant wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. With her beside him, adapting to life on Voyager wouldn't be such a trial. Megan had always brought out the best in him. She was able to make him see things about himself that remained hidden otherwise and it was those hidden pieces that had made him a better man.
But she wasn't here and he was stuck on Voyager being forced to become someone that he didn't know if he could become.
Perhaps those who hadn't survived the journey here were indeed the lucky ones.