Hello All, 

As I was trying to correct a few typos, I discovered you can't do that
with Yahoo, unless you save it as a draft. =*+(.  So I started
retyping it.  As I retyped it, I began adding and changing.  To
prevent what happened yesterday, the program crashing and losing
everything!!!! I will be posting it in two parts.  That should also
help those who can't handle more than 20k.

Standard Discliamers:

Voyager, Star Trek, and characters are Paramount's.
Lady is Lionel Richie's.
You Decorated My Life is Bob Morrison's and Debbie Hupp's.

THE ENCHANTMENT CONTINUES PART ONE

        B'Elanna sat in her bed gazing around her quarters.  Today was the
last day she would spend here.  At 1700 hours, she and Tom were
getting married.  It seemed so strange not to be waking up cuddled
next to him.  They had agreed to spend last night apart.  Tom insisted
it was bad luck to see the bride before the ceremony on the day of the
wedding.  She thought he was joking, but Tom's voice had serious
overtones, as if he did not want to tempt fate.

        Tonight she would become B'Elanna Torres-Paris.  She looked down at the engagement ring that sparkled on her left hand. She had not taken
it off since Tom had slid it on her finger the night of the party. 
Never in her wildest dreams had she ever imagined finding a love like
this one.  Tom accepted her for who she was.  Her Klingon side neither
frightened or repulsed him.

        Rising from her bed, she walked to the replilcator and got some
Tarkalean Tea and toast.  She sat on her couch and ate her breakfast
quickly as she mentally sorted through all she needed to do before the
wedding........

        Tom sat on his couch drinking coffee.  He could not believe how
nervous he was.  Tonight, B'Elanna would become his wife.  His father
had let him know so often how much of a disappointment he was to him,
that nothing he ever did was good enough, that he was such a screw-up,
that Tom doubted any woman would ever truly love him enough to want to
marry him. Then, after his father had disowned when he was court
maritaled over Caldick Prime, he believed what his father had said
even more.  He had dated a lot of women after that, but his cocky,
smart-ass attitude had sabotaged every "relationship" he tried to
have.  If he acted like a jerk, then no one would get close enough to
hurt him as his father had.

        He smiled as he remembered how Captain Janeway had given him a second chance when they had all be tossed into the Delta Quadrant.  Her
mentoring had been a tremendous influence on him.  It had helped him
turn himself around.  When she had given him the field commission, she
had given him a new lease on life.  

        Slowly, but surely, his self esteem had risen.  He had actually began to feel he was not the loser his father said he was.  With his new
found self esteem, had come a much more pleasant personality.  Of
course, Harry had befriended him since day one.  It had taken longer
for B'Elanna to befriend him.  For a long time, she had only seen him
as a pig, but as she saw the changes in him, she had become his friend
too.

        It was when the Vidians had taken them prisoner that he first began to fall in love with her.  He hadn't pushed her though.  Finally, on the Klingon Day of Honor, when they were floating in space, about to
die from lack of oxygen, she admitted she loved him.  Three days later
when he gave her a chance to recant the statement, but to his great
joy, she had readily affirmed that she did mean it.  Then, thinking he
did not feel the same way, she began to tell him that she did not
expect him to share those feelings.  He simply had said, "Shut up."
and kissed her.....Now at 1700 hours, they were getting married.  He
smiled at the thought............

        B'Elanna had just finished packing the rest of her things.  Most of her belongings were already in Tom's quarters.  Tom and her quarters
she corrected herself with a smile.  Harry and Susan would move the
rest of them while she and Tom honeymooned in Holodeck 2.  Crew
members had generously agreed to forego the use of Holodeck 2, knowing
one day they might want to do the same thing.  Neither Tom nor
B'Elanna wanted to spend their honeymoon on any planet.  They had too
many bad memories of disasterous away missions.  Like when Tom had
been falsely accused of murder, or when B'Elanna had almost ended up
having "violent thoughts"purged.  They had decided not to take any
chances with unknown alien customs and laws.

        Her door chime sounded, startling her our of her reflections.  "Come in." she called.  The door slid open, and Captain Janeway walked in.

        "I just came to check on you.  Wedding days are always hectic and
nerve wracking.  Have you eaten lunch yet?"

        "Lunch?" asked B'Elanna.  "Is it lunch time already?"

        Janeway chuckled.  "It's past lunch time.  It's 1330 hours.  You'd
better get something to eat.  1700 hours will be here before you know
it.  And you're supposed to be in Holodeck 1 at 1530 so Susan and I
can help you get ready.

        B'Elanna smiled.  "Would you like to eat with me, Captain?"

        "I've already eaten, B'Elanna, but I'll be glad to keep you company." she answered.

        Meanwhile, Tom was puttering around his quarters.  In a couple of
days, he and B'Elanna would be living here.  He wanted everything to
be perfect.  A few hours from now, Harry and Chakotay would arrive,
and they would begin to get ready for the wedding.  B'Elanna knew the
pride Tom took in having his commission back, and had insisted they
all wear their dress uniforms.  Tom looked at the living area with a
critical eye.  B'Elanna's crystal vases stood on various surfaces in
the living area.  Harry was going to make sure they were all filled
with roses before Tom and B'Elanna returned from their honeymoon.  

        He walked over to the couch and picked up her blanket.  He held it to his face, inhaling her familiar, beloved scent.  Sighing, he placed it back on the arm of the couch.  Soon he thought dreamily, they would be together forever............

        His door chime sounded bringing him back to the present.  "Come in." he called, wondering who it could be.

        The door slid open, and Chakotay walked in.  "Hello, Tom.  Kathyrn is checking on B'Elanna, and suggested that I check on you.  How are you
doing?"

        "I'm nervous as hell."  admitted Tom truthfully, running his fingers through his rumpled hair.

        "That's normal, Tom.  Have you eaten lunch yet?"

        Tom shook his head.  "All I've had today is a cup of coffee."

        "Then you need to eat.  You don't want to pass out at your wedding."  advised Chakotay.

        You're right."  Tom answered.  "B'Elanna would never let me forget
that."  He walked over to the replicator and proceeded to order some
lunch.



End of Part One------Part Two will come ASAP.  

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