Faith
Ch. 3 – Smile
Never frown for you never know when someone's falling in love with your smile.
-Author Unknown
Beverly headed off to work early the next day and strolled around headquarters sanctuary. A quiet place laced by a path that was lined with flowers and trees. It was late spring and the flowers still bloomed beautifully. As her eyes and feet wandered the path she came upon a man kneeling in one of the beds. He held a small trowel and was working the dirt. Behind him was an antigrav cart full of what looked like a cross between tulips and daisies. She slowed and observed him. He was of medium build with muscular arms and brown wavy hair which was highlighted with several streaks of crimson. At first she thought he was human but as she got closer he noticed a trail of light brown markings down his face and neck indicating at least part Trillian.
As she neared he began to sense her scrutiny.
"Beautiful out here this time of year, isn't it?" He said as craned his neck to look up at her. He recognized her immediately, the woman from John's Beverly Crusher, he doubted she recognized him so he kept quiet.
Just my day she thought as she recognized who he was, the man she'd blown off at the bar. She hoped he didn't recognize her and decided not to say anything.
"Yes, it's quite nice."
They were silent a moment. Torias struggled to get one of the palates off the antigrav cart without the loose hydroponic topsoil falling off. Beverly caught one end of it to help him stabilize it. They lowered it to the ground together.
"Thanks."
"No problem."
She knelt to the ground and asked:
"Need an extra pair of hands?"
For the next hour or so they both planted all the flowers on the three palettes the cart held. They carried on polite small talk. He asked where she got her gardening skills and she told him of Nana. Other than that they didn't speak much. When Beverly finally stood up her hands were black as well as the knees of her uniform.
"Thanks again."
"No problem... well I guess I should get to work sometime to day."
"Yea... well I'll see you around."
She was already walking off to her office where a certain Betazoid had been observing her through his office window.
moving slow but i'll get there