Walking In Someone Else's Shoes

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Sighing, Darian got out of his murky uniform and stepped into his sonic shower. A side glance in the mirror told him that he had his own body back and everything had returned to their normal proportions. He sighed again as he felt the sonic rays cleanse his body, and smiled as he felt Ako squirm in the pouch.

The symbiont wasn't too keen on the the vibrations caused by the sonics, but for non-enlisted crew, water showers were a luxury. The Trill didn't even know whether this ship had an actual pool or not.

It was something to look forward to when the Majesty docked back at Bellicose. Once there. he'd debate whether he'd transfer off this ship and away from this crazy crew, or actually stay around for once and try to get settled in. He did have his friends on Bellicose, and even stayed in contact with a few friends from the Tiger Shark. He wondered if he could count anyone his friend on this ship.

Surely, the counselor might be one? The Trill frowned; he had his share of counselors in his life, and from Ako's previous hosts recalled a fair amount too. Especially the previous host, who'd even been locked up in a mental institution for most of her adult life. Sure, Sianna had been a genius, especially where genetics was concerned, but she'd also been very dangerous, as had been proven.

Darian shuddered, switched off the shower and dressed himself in a clean uniform. Then, against all odds, he went in search for the counselor, hoping she'd just spend some time with him, as friends.

(kedzie)

[Michael Aarons]

=^= Set a course back to Federation space, low warp. I’ll let Admiral Clark know we’re available and see what he has in store for us next. =^=
=^= Aye, Captain. Aarons out. =^= Aarons began to make preparations to return home before adding =^=Shall I have them prepare for prisoner transport of our 'misogynal menace'?=^=
Kay: "Oop..." Kay became flush.
=^=Oh Lord, you didn't leave 'em on the planet did you?=^=
Kay:
Aarons: "Greenwood, where's that sweep you made?" Nik handed him the planetary analysis.
Sovas: "It might help if you apply a decaying exponential search radius from the last known position."
Aarons: "You've been here the entire time?!"
Sovas: "Where else would I be?"
Aarons: "Well you're just so quiet."
Sovas: "Indeed."
Aarons began to look over his reports and spotted something on an unusually high topology for a signature.
Aarons: "Found 'em! Here." Aarons indicated an area recessed in a nearby mountainous range. A strange faint signal was coming from a small congregation of native fauna that was alien to Attis. "Have Transporter Room 1 lock on to that, isolate the signal, and energize."
Nik: "What about witnesses?"
Aarons: "You know, at this point, I really don't care anymore." He and Sovas proceeded to enter the turbolift.
Aarons with Sovas followed by two phaser-wielding security men entered the transporter room. The chief cued the buffer and onto the pad flopped a woman beaten, bloody with some indications of broken vessels, and swelling.
Aarons: "This would be sad if it wasn't so pathetic."
The doctor came out of her work area.
Liz: "I managed to get him back to the way he was. I've been able to relatively solve the behavioral issues in him. All that's left would be at least some time in a rehab colony somewhere. To his family and others he'll be different at first but should begin to regain a fragment of his former life at some point."
Kedzie: "I'm staying out of that one."
Kay: "Dr. ...How did you fix him?"
Liz: "Well you can definately feel free to use the word castrate."
Aarons: "You didn't really...?" A few pointed gestures indicating as his point was made.
Liz: Loosening a devious grin, "Did I?" and she turned her head then "Where'd he go!?" Aarons had disappeared.
Kay: "As soon as T'Rok is ready have him transferred to his custody 'til the proper authorities can deal with him back at base."

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TEG had arrived on the ship and gone to sickbay. As he entered, he bumped into Dr. Janeway, who immediately administered a hypo to his shoulder and told him to take a nap. He left sickbay, went to his quarters, and flopped down on his comfortable firm bed. He fell asleep almost immediately. When he awoke, he found the toga he had been wearing ripped a bit, and found that his his body was back to normal. He got up and decided to take a sonic shower, his hair was a mess, his chops containing stubble, and his whole body, sans where he was wearing the toga, was was almost as dark as the control panel in the Water Closet. As he made his way to the shower he passed a full length mirror, and found himself taking some extra time inspecting himself, making sure everything was in its place. If anything the cerium had actually caused his chest to be beefier, and his arms to be slightly larger. He then took his shower.
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TEG was relaxing, filling out reports, when there was a chime at the door.

"Come In"

The doors parted, and in walked Kay in her feminine glory and splendor. "Do you have a few minutes T?"

"For you? Always."

[kedzie]

Kedzie woke up to find an instruction that told him to go to sickbay for the cure. He wondered briefly how long that had been there, but he didn't know for sure. Nor did it really matter. He went to sickbay, turned back into a female, and then went back to her quarters to change into something more comfortable.

She did that, then went to her office. She was looking over counselor records, and she realized she would really need to talk with all the senior crew at some point. But she wanted to give them a while to re-adjust to their proper gender again.

She was busy looking through the old records and steadily growing hungrier, as she realized she hadn't eaten breakfast. She was about to leave for the mess-hall to find some food when Darian entered her office, looking a little hesitant.

“Hello,” she greeted him. “Do you want to join me for breakfast in the mess-hall?” she asked. If he had eaten already she could forgo breakfast or grab something quickly, and they could do something else, but Kedzie didn't feel much like just sitting in her office.

(Darian)

[lizjaneway]

Liz got everything ready and transferred the prisoner over to security. She was glad to be rid of him, and she noticed she wasn't the only one. Finally heading away from the planet, Liz was happy to be away and back in her own sex. She didn't mind being male, but she preferred to be female. She liked how she had more emotions, and how she was able to be herself more. She could cry if it hurt, because she didn't have to appear tough unless she wanted to.

Liz thought about what it must have felt like for the men on the ship becoming female. ~It couldn't have been easy for any of them. It's not easy being a woman, and they have had a taste of it now. I wonder what they think of all this.~ She thought, and noticed the reports on her desk had gone down a bit.

Trishta walked into the office and smiled. "I am certainly glad this is all over. I heard you healed that man, the one...." she started to say and trailed off. She shuddered.

"Do you want to talk about that?" Liz asked, and Trish only shook her head. Liz didn't understand exactly what had transpired, but she knew it wasn't good. She rememebered healing this girl, and now she looked at her as a new friend, someone who she could rely on if she needed help healing someone else. Trish had come a ways since Liz had first met her, and Liz knew this was a good start for the girl.

"So, what happened exactly to my desk? I didn't know there was magic happening, so many padds and reports disappearing so quickly," Liz said teasing her a little. Trish chuckled.

"Call it what you will, but I figured out how you like things in the database. I have submitted those reports as needed in the profiles of the people we have treated. You can look it over if you like. There was another padd that needed your attention. I left it on your desk," Trish said with a big grin on her face. Liz wasn't sure what was going on. She walked over to look at the padd. She gasped when she picked it up and read it.

Dear Doctor, I think I might be needing your help sometime soon. Its my heart, it feels very heavy when you aren't around. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't see you at least once a day. I hope we can get together sometime soon. Your secret lover

Suddenly someone came in to deliver some flowers. Liz looked very shocked, and wondered who this person was. She looked at the beautiful arrangement. She noticed there was a card with them. She looked at it and then blushed. She hid the card, and sat down to think about who just might be sending these.

"Beautiful flowers, a note, who's the guy?" Trish asked leaning on Liz's desk.

"I just don't know, they are all signed by some guy who wishes to remain unknown for now. I hope to figure it out though, its crazy not knowing who this person is. Who does things like this?" Liz said and sighed.

[Kaylana Cornette]

Kay settled in on an adjacent couch not far from her First Officer. He put down his PADD, smiled genuinely and had successfully put a look of interest on his face.

“Nice décor,” Kay remarked, offhandedly. She and TEG had served together for years now and she just realized she’d never been to his quarters before. On the walls were tastefully displayed artifacts from Earth’s past – old credit cards, phonograph albums, various hand guns and something resembling an old, chrome auto bumper took up a large part of the wall display.

“Thanks, I’m kind of an Earth history buff.” He crinkled his brow slightly. “Are you still in your old quarters?” It hadn’t occurred to him before now as to whether or not she’d moved to the Captain’s quarters.

“Still in the same place – and still with blank walls, I might add. I never have taken the time to decorate.”

TEG leaned forward and rested his elbows on his knees, giving Kay a penetrating stare. “You didn’t come here to talk about furnishings, did you?”

“Not really.” She tossed her long hair back over her right shoulder and realized that was the first time she’d done that since being female again. Her brain quickly took a tangent and she wondered why the desire to ‘hair flip’ never crossed her mind while she was male. ”I’ll think about that later,” she thought. She returned her thoughts to TEG. “I’ve been thinking a lot about BB. I don’t know exactly why but I thought perhaps talking about him might be what I need. And since you knew him just about as long as I did, I thought you’d be the person to see.”

TEG looked pensive for a moment and said, “Maybe this does have something to do with furnishings after all.”

“What do you mean?” Kay queried.

“Well, you’re not moved in to the Captain’s quarters… and you’re not taking the full rank of command… I think you’re afraid.”

“Afraid?” Kay could name a thousand emotions she felt concerning Bill Kruse, but fear wasn’t one of them.

“I think you’re afraid that if you do, it will be as good as admitting BB’s not coming back,” TEG said gently.

Kay took a deep breath and sighed. “You’re probably right on that one.” She looked up into his bright green eyes and smirked. “Since when did you get your PhD in counseling?”

“Oh, I’ve always had a tad bit of empathy when it comes to human emotions,” he replied modestly.

“Ah, so you’re a mind reader too, eh? I knew I should have studied your profile more closely,” Cornette said with an upturned brow. She enjoyed the rapport she had with TEG. He knew when she was joking – a rare quality in most officers – and Kay appreciated his ability to know when she was and wasn’t being serious.

“Not a mind reader, just a Captain Cornette reader. We’ve served on this old girl long enough for me to know when something is bothering you.”

“True,” Kay answered succinctly.

“Hey, would you like a drink or something? We could do a proper toast to Commodore Kruse.”

“Sounds appropriate to me. An Artarian Snow Wine for me, please.”

TEG walked to the replicator and returned with two beverages. They both lifted their glasses as he gave the toast. “To the most cerebral, courageous, colorful and… borderline insane… Captain that ever stepped onto a deckplate.”

“Here, here!” Kay launched a jigger of burning liquid to the back of her throat and smiled broadly.

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Just then the door chimes sounded.

“Enter,” came the response from TEG.

The door opened to reveal a shadowed figure in the door way with the corridor light behind him. His face was hidden but both the Captain and Commander TEG knew right away who it was.

“Please come in Commander Hawk,” insisted TEG.

“I am sorry to interrupt Sir but I need your advice,” Hawk said as he entered the room and realized that the Captain was standing directly behind Commander TEG.

“Oh, I see that you are with the Captain. I will come another time,” Hawk said as he started to back out of the room when the Captain stopped him.

“Commander Wait, I was just about to leave and you may have your time with my FO,” Cornette stated as she notice something odd about Hawks appearance from the shadows that only a woman might notice.

Hawk continued to retreat out the doorway when the Captain said, “Halt mister, do not take another step!”

Hawk froze in his tracks as he began to shake all over.

“Hawk, are you feeling ok?” asked TEG.

“No Sir I have not been myself since the gender reassignment was induced by our good Doctor,” Hawk informed.

“Come into the light Commander,” the Captain insisted.

When Hawk moved into the light both the Captain and TEG almost lost it with laughter. There stood the cool and collected Commander Hawk with eye liner, eye shadow and mascara on his face and his nails were also painted.

“I am not quite myself it seems. I awoke to find myself this way and can not remember doing it. I need help! Sirs,” Hawk pleaded.

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“Do you want to join me for breakfast in the mess-hall?” she asked.

Darian nearly fainted when Kedzie asked the question; he'd never been 'asked out' before...at least not in his lifetime. If he pondered long enough he'd have Ako remind him of dates of previous hosts but they were hardly a comfort. As his joining had been rather forced, and he'd never really trained to become joined, he was still having difficulty coming to grips with all these memories.

Forcing a smile, Darian nodded. "I'd love to," he answered, "and I insist on it being my treat." This time, he blushed deeply. *what did I say now* he wondered, groaning softly.

For once, he actually felt rather comfortable around a counselor; this Bajoran female was rather pleasant to be around and she was more friendly and compassionate than any other counselor he'd ever met. Before he realized it, he found himself admiring her figure and beauty, and his blush deepened more, making his spots stand out.

"I'm sorry," he murmured under his breath, then motioned down the corridor. "Shall we proceed?"

(kedzie)

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After seeing Hawk in 'drag' (for lack of a better word), TEG walked over and patted Hawk on the back.

"Hawk," TEG comforted, "I have a feeling that you are not the only one, in this crew, that will be having a similar problem."

Kay came over to Hawk and added, "Hell, even I have a bit of trouble adjusting."

About this time, TEG noticed a high-pitched whine in the air, and realized the trio was being transported away.

Continued in: "Fun in the Sun"