Je: |
Ah. I knew you wouldn't come to me.
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P: |
No. Not under these circumstances.
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Je: |
We have unfinished business.
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P: |
Yes, we do.
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Je: |
Why didn't you come to meet me that last day in Paris?
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P: |
I was afraid.
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Je: |
Oh. I didn't want this.
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P: |
What?
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Je: |
The truth.
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P: |
Oh, you want me to lie.
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Je: |
Of course. Nice, soft painless lie.
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P: |
Oh, I got days confused. I thought it was Thursday, when it was
Wednesday. I went to the Cafe Furan in stead of Cafe de Active.
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Je: |
Oh, that's better. It was raining and you couldn't find a cab.
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P: |
Uh-huh.
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Je: |
I waited all day. And it was raining, rained the rest of the
week. I went to the Starfleet headquarters, looking for you. But
you've already shipped out. So, come on, Jean-Luc. Let's hear the
truth.
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P: |
It was fear. Fear of seeing you losing my resolve. Fear of staying.
Losing myself. Feeling that neither these choices was right in(?) that.
And that either would have...
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Je: |
For a long time, not a day went by I didn't look up into the sky
and wonder.
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P: |
Each time I returned to Earth, my thoughts were filled with you.
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Je: |
I've thought a lot about this over the years. And perhaps you were
leaving out. You're greatest here(dear?). The real reason you've left...
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P: |
Which was...
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Je: |
That lie with me. What else somehow made you ordinary?
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P: |
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You're wonderful. And am I that transparent?
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Je: |
Only to me.
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Cr: |
How should I talk to you, Professor Manheim? I beg you are really
something. Deanna.
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To: |
I wanted to see how he was doing.
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Cr: |
The same. Nothing I do seems to make any difference. That's
not why you are here.
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To: |
I thought I was the empath. Are you all right?
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Cr: |
Why wouldn't that be? The guy one of the medical wonders in the
galaxy dying in my sickbay.
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To: |
That's not what I meant.
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Cr: |
I don't think I want to talk about what I think you mean.
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To: |
Captain Picard...
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Cr: |
I can't compete with the ghost in his past. No one could.
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To: |
She's not a ghost. She's here right now.
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Cr: |
She may be in here and now, but it's the ghost he sees. Excuse me.
I have to get back to my patient.
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