Familiar Footsteps - Back Post

Posted on 26 Mar 2015 @ 5:42pm by Commander Norvi Stace

548 words; about a 3 minute read

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"Stace, I implore you to reconsider!"

"I won't. So stop asking me to, Bellor."

"You know the consequences of what will happen should anything intimate result of you starting back to that life you have just left."

"Bellor, I never slept with a subordinate as a captain, and I certainly won't as a ensign. It's not my nature to mix business and pleasure. You should know that about me by now. You've known me long enough."

"I've known your stubborn nature long enough, Stace."

"Then you'll know that I wouldn't do anything to jeopardise my standing with the Symbiosis Commission. Or my Symbiont."

"But they want you to further your knowledge of the universe; not slip back into old habits. And certainly not jump back on a career path you have just left."

"I'll make it work. I'm applying for a completely different discipline to Janel anyway."

"You'll happen upon familiar faces through this path. Faces wizened and aged with time. Time that you now have clawed back in the guise of a new host."

"I'm still me, Bellor. Part of me is. But I want this for myself. For Norvi. And I won't have you change my mind."

"I've never wanted to change your mind. Or have ever asked something of you that would hurt you. I'm trying to do the opposite. Smashing head-on into your past life is dangerous. You should cut all ties."

"There are those in the Commission that encourage maintaining friendships from previous hosts."

"I'm not one of them! It's dangerous."

"It's a good job that you're not a member of the Commission then, Bellor. And just an interfering Guardian."

"I have seen Reassociations before and they never end well. Did I tell you about the Xanda Symbiont? Cast out of Trill society. Most likely dead now. Rotting away in the belly of its host."

"That was because of what he did."

"Yes! He reassociated with a previous love!" "

I won't do that! There aren't any in the Fleet anyway!"

"You've met countless of people there, Stace."

"As I have on Trill. I can't shelter my future because of my past. This is what I want to do. And you won't steer me from that."

"I don't want to. I just want you to be wary. And to think about it."

"I have. And I'll most likely visit worlds that I've been to before. Maybe even serve under people I have commanded before. But I'm ready for that. You've seen to that. With your guidance. I'm ready and you're ready."

"I just hope that you are. And that you won't look back on this day and wish you'd chosen something else to spend your life on."

"Like what? Medicine?"

"Don't test me, Norvi. You know that's not funny."

"I'll be okay, Bellor. And thank you."

"For what?"

"Making me realise that this is where my heart belongs without any shadow of a doubt. Out in the stars with Starfleet. Exploring the Universe. Where better to experience new things. To seek out a new life for myself."

"I'll miss you."

"You always miss me. But I'll be back to visit."

"You're welcome in the Caves anytime."

"I know that. And thank you for caring, Bellor."

"Any time."

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