Author's note: This is the very first Fanfic that I ever wrote. It has never been beta'd and probably never will be, BUT it has been revised from its Original form posted on the old Prodigy billboard. I posted this under Shalee Stewart, I now use Trulyamused. If some of you recognize the story this and always has been my work. I simply changed my user name. For those of you that have read it I hope you enjoy a little nostalgia. For those who haven't, I hope you enjoy it.

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seaQuestDSV

Original Novella

'Collision of Hearts'

Book One of the

Nathan Bridger and Kristin Westphalen

Romantic-Adventure Saga

"Love and Labours of the Deep"

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when alteration finds

Or bends with the remover to remove.

O,no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand'ring bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his highth be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error, and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved."

William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI

Prologue--

In the year 2019, if one could look clearly into the depths, you might chance to see a shadow among the shadows, a shape with a sleek, flattened bow and sweeping curves . . . the seaQuestDSV (Deep Submergence Vehicle) was the most powerful submarine ever built. She was without question the biggest and the best, 1000ft long, capable of diving into the deepest places on earth . . . and when necessary, reaching speeds upwards to 200mph, her fuel being a most abundant resource--seawater. The seaQuest was a vessel of research and exploration, as well as a military peacekeeper as flagship of United Earth/Oceans Organization. Nearly at the end of her first tour of duty, the seaQuest and her crew had for one year, explored, conducted research, went on rescue missions, made startling discoveries as well as some powerful enemies.

During this first tour, the seaQuest's crew had become nothing short of a family. And as sometimes happens within families, members move away to make their own ways in the world. Everyone onboard knew this first tour had been something special. They all had become very close to each other, of course, some had become closer than others . . . coming together in what could only be called a . . . COLLISION OF HEARTS.