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Jun 19, 2009 16:27

[ Thank God, the damn Ion Storms are gone.Kirk found himself saying that all day. Shtel Nor seemed to be getting back to it's normal craziness. The type where everyone either ran around trying to find something to do or find a new way out. Though there had been a few new additions to the residents (that guy stalking the Promenade, the one with the ( Read more... )

beth: spock (2258.50), rumi: ezri dax (2375), holmes: james t. kirk (2258.50), * mirror arc, [location] promenade, annie: jadzia dax (2372)

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experiences June 19 2009, 23:56:54 UTC

[ from seemingly out of nowhere, a short woman appears next to him, leaning over the railing, too. the spots give her away as a trill ]

Gotta love these old, abandoned Cardassian stations.

1/2 canyonsiniowa June 19 2009, 23:59:34 UTC

[ He snorted, shrugging and toying with the bottle in his hands. ]

Better than an abandoned Romulan station. Their ships are screwed up enough.

[ Kirk looked over at the short woman beside him... ]

canyonsiniowa June 20 2009, 00:01:22 UTC

[ ...and he didn't really mean to stare, but he did. A Trill, obviously. Those spots meant that. Her uniform was similar to the one that Jadzia had... and she had similar blue eyes. Not the exact same, but close enough. Emony had blue eyes too. ]

--Dax?

experiences June 20 2009, 00:25:03 UTC

[ she turns to face him ]

Is that a guess based on the eyes and the spots or something you actually figured out? Not all Trill are hosts to the Dax Symbiont, you know.

canyonsiniowa June 20 2009, 00:27:58 UTC

If there was another Symbiont on the station, I think I would have heard about it by now. Either from Bones through Emony, or from Jadzia.

[ He glanced up and down at her, profiling her. Jadzia and Emony weren't kidding when they said that every host was different. She didn't have the posture of the other two females at all. He offered a friendly smile and his hand. ]

Captain James T. Kirk, NCC-1701 USS Enterprise.

experiences June 20 2009, 00:48:19 UTC

Don't be so sure. Not everyone here is loyal to you, Captain.

[ teasing? maybe. she shakes his hand ]

Lieutenant Ezri Dax, Chief Counseling Officer of the USS Defiant, NCC-75633.

canyonsiniowa June 20 2009, 00:56:41 UTC

[ He shrugged. ]

Not everyone, but I know those two people are--did you say Chief Counseling?

experiences June 20 2009, 00:59:16 UTC

[ she withheld information just then, but it wasn't like he gave her an order to spill it. she knew he was involved with jadzia and would rather not get into the details of her death if she didn't have to. bringing up DS9 would only drop an early hint as to which host she was ]

Yep. I'm a counselor.

canyonsiniowa June 20 2009, 01:06:36 UTC

Seriously?

[ For some reason, that was surprising. The two other Daxes he knew were a scientist and a gymnast... somehow he just never pictured one being a therapist. Kirk was a curious fellow, but he learned from the other two hosts that Dax wasn't always the kind of person to pry answers out of. Especially Jadzia. She was even more of a closed book than he was. ]

...wait, does that mean you're going to counsel the people here?

experiences June 20 2009, 01:37:00 UTC

Why is everyone so surprised?

[ she huffs ]

I was a therapist before I was host, you know. I didn't even want to be joined! It just sort of...happened--but that's not important.

[ shakes her head as if to push those thoughts aside ]

Considering I spent that "fun" ion storm familiarizing myself with everyone's psychological profiles? That's a yes--if they need it.

[ eyes ]

Do you need it?

canyonsiniowa June 20 2009, 01:41:12 UTC

Hey, calm down. Emony and Jadzia are nothing like the counseling type--that's all. Emony would probably just mother you and Jadzia... she sort of, well...

[ He trailed off. Jadzia was like him. Comforting wasn't the best thing they did. Which in retrospect was probably bad for their relationship. Though he had hoped not everyone on the damn station know about that. ]

Unless you got a better way of telling me how to deal with the fact that my dead father is here, my mother is here - who I hardly ever got along with anyways - and the whole fun of me being me trapped here? Probably not.

experiences June 20 2009, 01:53:32 UTC

[ she could've said something about emony and jadzia, having been both women, but instead settles for regarding him with amusement for trying to tell her how her own hosts would regard her ]

Parental relations are always complicated when you put a wedge in it. You know, after I got joined, I went back to Trill to help realign myself. I was still a bit disoriented and confused and when my mother walked in to see me, I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Hi Mom, it's me--Curzon."

[ now, she can chuckle at the memory, when before she would wince ]

Permission to speak freely, sir?

canyonsiniowa June 20 2009, 01:56:34 UTC

[ Curzon? Oh, right that was the host before Jadzia--the guy... well that must have been awkward. ]

I don't see any reason why you can't speak freely. We're on a station, stranded in the Neutral Zone.

experiences June 21 2009, 05:03:20 UTC

It's common courtesy, Captain. If you were my commanding officer, I wouldn't hesitate to give you my opinion without asking your permission, but there's a long-standing understanding that I don't bring things up to him unless I believe it necessary he hear it.

I might have familiarized myself with your counterpart's psychological profile, but I don't know you and I'm not going to pretend to. I am, however, good at reading people and making good, educated guesses. Comes with being a therapist.

You brought up your parents willingly without me having to pry or hint at the topic. That tells me you're at a loss for how to handle the situation and how you phrased it tells me that you...well, you have a touch of abandonment issues.

canyonsiniowa June 21 2009, 07:48:15 UTC

[ That was... impressive. He figured that Jadzia knew this all, and Ezri was a Dax. He preferred to be on good terms with any Dax, so there wasn't a point in hiding information from any of them. ]

Dad was killed the day I was born. A Romulan attacked the USS Kelvin. Dad died saving everyone else... Mom took me back to Iowa, I grew up with my brother and our step-father.

Best way to get to know me, Ezri, is just to go ahead and ask. I like to think I'm friends with Emony... and Jadzia and I are really close.

experiences June 21 2009, 08:33:40 UTC

Emony's friends with everyone. She was big into interspecies relations, wanted to improve them. She didn't understand why the galaxy couldn't just get along--a thought that was, at the time, something that was rare among Trill. Emony got into a lot of trouble for breaking rules, but she was a pioneer in modern thinking.

Jadzia was--

[ ezri hesitates, not wanting to--oh, what the hell. he's going to find out sometime anyway ]

Well, you can say I had a hard time distinguishing myself from my last host for a while, especially when Captain Sisko insisted that I transfer from the Destiny to the station. I couldn't tell him no.

I'm unconventional, too, you see. I never asked to be joined. It was a joining of circumstance and convenience. Only Trill in the sector--that kind of thing. Nevermind that the Trill joined Starfleet to get away from Trill culture.

[ she sighs and shakes her head ]

But, enough about me and my post-joining fretting that's been long sorted out. And so you know, Captain, I know. I know Jadzia well--I ( ... )

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