Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Deck 4 Garden- Perspectives

Posted by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Deck 4 Garden- Perspectives

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Deck 4 Garden- Perspectives
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Alex looked at her and put a hand on her shoulder. “Faye… what’s wrong? What’s the matter?” he asked softly. He had seen her cry before, more than once. But this seemed different.

Cochrane

Hand rested on the side of the bed, Faye’s head bowed and the sobs intensified. She felt like she was drowning in overwhelm it wasn’t necessarily the bad kind either. “He… us…” Faye moved her hand so Alex could see the carvings more clearly. “The tunnel… is the wormhole. Even when we’re apart we’re together,” she said, sobbing harder, ugly tears running down her face.

~Faye Calloway

Alex let her cry. He stood by in silence, watching her sob and feel what she did without a filter or a tug in any direction. He looked around the room, and he could see the care that went into the design, the attention to things that Faye would appreciate. He nodded to himself as he saw the rotating shelves, the efficiency of the air movers… all done so a woman billions of miles away could grow mushrooms. And Alex smiled. Distance would be a factor, but Alex had a sneaking suspicion that the Lieutenant would be taking some of her accrued time-off at a certain station there in the Delta Quadrant. He made a mental note to look this guy up.

Cochrane

She was sobbing so hard that she struggled to catch her breath at one point and slid down sit on the floor. Then she started laughing. “Oh Gods, Alex, this is all just…” Ridiculous? Wonderful? “You know the part that’s scariest? The feeling that if something did happen between him and I ad it didn’t work out…” She shook her head. “I wouldn’t be okay. And I’m not talking the normal fallout of a relationship goes bad. And yes, as you pointed out that’s the risk.” She wiped tears from her cheeks. “I just don’t know that I could bear the idea of hurting him or destroying either of us all in the pursuit of some sort of happiness.” If there was anything she was good it was casting destruction in her wake. Hurricane Faye…

~Faye Calloway

Alex sat down on the floor across from her and leaned against the wall. “Faye… I think you can go ahead and quit saying ‘if’ something happens between you. I mean…” and he gestured all around them at the structure, “… somethings obviously happened.” and he chuckled and then sighed. “I get that you are scared… I do. But you can’t go through life trying to second guess what bad is coming. And you damn sure won’t be a good commander if you do that. You have to have faith in you and those around you that, together, you will make it through. So you have to have that faith in you and Mushroom-boy. That together you will make it through. Can’t let fear dictate your life, Faye. No matter how much of it you have.”

Alex