Title: The Imzadi Files – The Survivors

 

Author: Rising Sun

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Rated: PG-13

Summary: Is the love of a woman worth a species?

Classification: Riker/Troi

Disclaimer: Star Trek: The Next Generation characters portrayed belong to Roddenberry Productions and Paramount Television. No copyright infringement intended.  All other characters depicted are purely fictional and any similarities to actual people are purely coincidental.

 

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Story Written December 25, 2001

Personal Log of Commander William T. Riker – First Officer USS Starship Enterprise

 

By the time this mission was over the burring question was “Is the love of a woman worth an entire species?”  I had the added burden to contend with that of nearly losing Deanna to insanity

 

There we were faced with a devastated planet with only two survivors.  That in itself was a curiosity… and while most of my energy was focused on the solving of the problem and the dodging of photon torpedoes and chased at warp nine and beyond I was also pre occupied by the love and devotion being displayed by Kevin and his wife – the survivors.

 

Married over fifty years and the woman proposed. When Data spewed all that information I could help thinking of my Deanna.  What would I do if she proposed to me?

 

Little did I know that the fight for her sanity was about to begin. 

 

That bring me back to the original question - Is the love of a woman worth an entire species? If I had known the devastation that would be wrought on Dee would I have killed that being?  Of course hindsight shows that as an immortal being of immense power I would have had little effect on him, but I think I would have launched myself at him anyway.

 

I knew something was wrong.  I kept watching Dee during the conference. It’s not like her to be distracted; yet there she was missing questions put to her by the Captain then suddenly saying she was sick and walking out.

 

I should have gone to her after the meeting.  By the time I did get to see her she was in a coma yet still going out of her mind.  I have never longed for Luxanna Troi the way I did, as I stood helpless watching my Imzadi slip away from me.

 

Not die.

Not leave me.

But to loose her to insanity!

 

I’d rather loose her to Worf... not that that will ever happen. I’d rather loose her to Worf.

 

As it were “Kevin” brought her back to us.

 

Brought her back to me.

 

“Computer save program.”