DEEP SPACE: "Meridian" - REV. 09/27/94 - ACT FOUR         50.

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					DERAL
			I said I would... and I will.

					DAX
			I know what you said... but what do 
			you want?

					DERAL
				(a sad smile)
			To be with you...

					DAX
			But you're worried about your people.

					DERAL
			There are so few of us, Jadzia... 
			and now that Meridian has a future 
			again, they need me.

	Dax sees that Deral is faced with an impossible decision... 
	and that there's only one solution.

					DAX
			Then you have to stay.

	He looks at her, not understanding.

					DERAL
			And lose you?  No.

					DAX
			What if you didn't have to lose me?
				(off his look)
			What if I stayed here with you?

	Deral looks at her, touched by the offer.

					DERAL
			I wish you could... but it's not 
			possible... your molecular structure 
			wouldn't survive the dimensional 
			shift.

					DAX
			We could use the transporter buffer 
			to match my quantum matrix to yours.

	Deral hears the certainty her voice.