(for Tim and Dick)

[thedoctordances]

Beverly. A man. She wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea, especially since she had run into Major Winters (who looked about as much like Major Winters as she looked like herself right now), who had revealed that she was his usual self's dead ringer

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[cantstopmoving]

When Dick said he planned to check on Bev, Tim insisted on coming along. She's his (currently her) medical mentor, after all, and Dr. Beverly Crusher complete with exclamation points of geeky Tim glee that aren't any less adorable with Tim tiny and female with eyelashes as long as his arm. Dick can't deny those huge blue eyes and pretty soft mouth anything, especially not if it means he can spend a little more time with her today.

"Should I be jealous of your geek crush?" he teases across his shoulder when he knocks on her door. "Bev, it's Dick. You there?"

[thedoctordances]

Oh shit was the first thing that went through Beverly's mind, which was slightly uncharacteristic of her. "Uh," she called back, her voice sort of a croak, if a pleasantly deep one. "Yeah, be right there, if you don't mind surprises."

Dick was observant and smart, he'd figure it out. She got up from the chair and went to the door, opening it. "Yes, it's me."

[needsarobin]

Tim couldn't be very surprised by the deeper voice coming from the room but her eyebrows went up when Beverly proved to look very similar to three other island residents. Tim spared a moment to consider the elegance of the multiverse's economy of form. Billions on billions of variations in humanity possible and the same patterns showed up again and again. "Good morning, Dr. Crusher," she said in her own changed tone.

[cantstopmoving]

Dick spares a glance at Tim who has an unrecognizable but adorable geek look on her beautiful face, but it's Bev who garners the lion's share of his attention. "Hm." A quixotic smile plays around his mouth as he reaches for her hand. "Still gorgeous. You okay in there?"

It's a study in contrasts, petite Tim's precise professional greeting and his playful personal one. Anyone who knew them wouldn't be surprised. Anyone who didn't...would wonder if they even knew each other.