We made a good team, he and I. I know people couldn't understand why or how. They looked at us and saw the differences, cold logic meets acceptance of a spirit world, Maquis meets Starfleet, cell leader meets spy.
I have you to thank. To you he was a true and loyal friend. That made me take a second glance, look further beneath the surface than I might have otherwise. After all, you two could equally have been held up as opposites. Logic and emotion. No matter all your faith in science, it was emotion that drove you. So I watched, saw and understood. Logic was the overruling precept, but that didn't negate emotion. The emotions ran underneath, true and deep, subsumed to the logic, but acknowledged and accepted. I revised my opinions and kept my eyes open.
As I continued to be drawn closer to you, bound by the spell you unconsciously cast, I noticed something else. As I watched him and drew conclusions, so did he. No apparent emotion but having learnt to see beneath, I saw the protectiveness, the concern that drove what might have been considered suspicion or purely precaution.
And I realized that we had more in common than anyone would ever have thought. The one thing that bound us was more important than any of our differences. And that was something no one else saw.