Chilled

Picard is dead?!

Enterprise's blood chilled at those words. She couldn't believe it, she wouldn't. The man of her heart, the one whom she would follow anywhere, travel to any time or place to rescue no matter the cost,  was dead?! It could not be true! It just could not be true!

She needed him. She needed her captain like her crew needed air. But nothing she could say or do could prevent this tragedy from happening. Councilor Troi said she needed time to accept this but there was one thing the half-Betazid didn't think of. No amount of time could heal the starship's broken heart.

...

And when she found Picard, alive and well, her world realigned itself again. And she knew, somehow, that everything was going to be alright.