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[dancingmd]

Who: Beverly Crusher
Broadcast: No
Action: Blue Fish
When: May 10 (Mother's Day for anyone who celebrates it)

[Having had her fill of the casino scene for now, Beverly is back on board the Blue Fish, hard at work in their sickbay. She quickly discovered that she is unable to download the Starfleet database from her newly-obtained tricorder to the ship's computers, so she has been painstakingly typing up some of the more important information. Right now, she's going back over some of her own medical logs from the Enterprise, editing typos and adding comments where necessary. It's a slow process, but the more projects she has to work on, the better. Today is a day she'd rather not think too much about.

Unfortunately for her, Atroma is not going to allow that to happen.

Hi, Mom! says a bright, chipper voice. A voice she would recognize anywhere, the most important voice in the world to her.

She stands abruptly, knocking her chair over in the process. Where is his voice coming from? Did he... is he really here? A momentary surge of hope flows through her.]

Wesley?

[He continues to speak, Sorry I haven't written in a while. Things have been so crazy at the Academy lately. We got a new member of the Nova Squadron today, her name is Sito Jaxa and she's from Bajor! She's got a pretty cute nose...

Beverly gasps, feeling as if someone's just stabbed her in the heart and twisted the knife. This is only a recording, and an old one at that, before the incident with the Squadron, before Sito... scrambling around the room, she finds the tricorder where she left it sitting on a nearby table. A small hologram of Wesley is being projected above it as he talks. For a solid minute or two, she simply stares at the hologram, not really comprehending his words.

Anyway, I just wanted to wish you a happy Mother's Day! I miss you! His smile is so wide, so happy, and then the hologram shuts off. Beverly picks up the tricorder and scrolls through the messages. There they all are, every single letter he ever sent her while he was away, the videos she sent back of planets she had visited, holoimages of the two of them together on the Enterprise. She is absolutely certain these weren't here when she first got the tricorder out of the voucher machine. Selecting another letter at random, she hits play. There's no hologram this time, but he's excited: it was his first day of zero-g training. She picks up her fallen chair and drags it over to the table so she can sit and just listen.

Suddenly, it all gets to be too much and she begins to cry. Once she starts, she finds she can't stop, so she just lets it go and falls forward, elbows on the table and head in her hands, desperately hoping no one will see her like this.]

Comments

[dancingmd]

... could and probably would.

The question is should they?

[destinyembrace]

I think they should. It'll certainly let Atroma know we aren't going to let them do this stuff to us without a response. [Gosh, this is bringing out her sassy side...] Besides, it might be kind of fun.

[dancingmd]

[Has Beverly mentioned before how much she loves this crew?

Because she loves this crew.

And Kairi is such a sweetheart, even in her anger. Beverly's smile is full and genuine this time.]

You know what, why not? Let's do it!

[destinyembrace]

Really?

[She kind of expected Bev to go full on Responsible Adult and tell her it wasn't feasible, a waste of resources, etc. But hey, if she's all for it, then why not?]

Okay! I'll hunt down Sokka and Hawke later and let them know. They could probably figure if it's possible or not, right?

[dancingmd]

[Hey, just because she's a mom, doesn't mean she doesn't like to have fun! In fact, Wesley's sometimes more of a stick in the mud than she is.]

Probably.

[She taps her forefinger against her mouth thoughtfully.]

The biggest problem I can see is the difference in pressure on the ships versus outer space. If we filled the balloons in here, they would pop as soon as they got outside, well before they even made it to the Marsiva.

[destinyembrace]

[Kairi is a good student but space physics is a bit beyond her. Physics class was next year at the earliest. Nonetheless, she tries to picture it in her mind, and more importantly, a solution.]

I guess there's no way we could fill them up outside the ship.

[dancingmd]

I can't think of a way off the top of my head, no, but that doesn't mean it's impossible! We won't know unless we give it a try, right?

[destinyembrace]

Right! Maybe Sokka or Hawke can think of something. Even if it doesn't work, it might still be fun to try. We'll have water balloons, at least.

[Good. This is good. If it can make Beverly smile and get her mind off of Wesley, even if just for a bit, then Kairi is glad.]

[dancingmd]

... that's a good point too. Where would one buy water balloons?

[destinyembrace]

Well if we could get balloons and a good source of water, we'd be set. Maybe a station will have some.

[dancingmd]

I'm sure Katara could help us with the water.

[She folds her arms thoughtfully.]

I don't understand a lot about water bending... do you think she would be able to keep the water from freezing outside the ship?

shall we start wrapping this up too?

[destinyembrace]

Oh that's right, she can... bend water. [Still a damn weird concept for her.] Maybe we can try finding her, see if she knows anything? If she can, then we'll definitely talk to Sokka and Hawke. I don't think they'd say no to both of us.

yep yep i'm good with that

[dancingmd]

[She laughs.] No, I don't think they would.

[Impulsively, she reaches over and gives Kairi a quick, yet sincere hug.]

Thank you, Kairi.