Faith
A/N (personal) - Yay, computer! West VA was nice but technology is great. Anyway I'm back and I see Lena posted ch.5, very good.
A/N (technical)- I kind of forgot to give a timeline. It's sometime after Insurrection and before Nemesis. I don't know how long that gives me to play with so if I screw something up we'll call it A/U.
Ch.6 – The Plot
All great ideas are dangerous.
- Randall Jarrell
Four days prior to Ch. 5
Greetings Deanna,
It has been a long time since I last wrote. I hope you are doing well. Send my thoughts to your mother and Will. The true reason behind this letter is to talk with you about a mutual friend of ours, Beverly Crusher. I have been nudging her back into the social world and I think you'll like what's happened...
Deanna read through the communiqué getting more and more worried as she finished. It was signed:
Cross your fingers,
Reittan
"He's meddling with her life Will!" She exclaimed as Will finished the letter Reittan had sent Deanna. "He's playing cupid and I don't like it."
"Dea, I don't know why you're so against this. Isn't it good that Beverly moves on? I mean clearly the Captain has."
"No he hasn't. He thinks of nothing else. All his other female companions are just an attempt to keep his mind off her."
Will was quiet that was big news for him. Although most of the female crew already knew it.
"I can't let this happen, Reittan will manipulate the situation and have her actually falling for this guy." Deanna paced.
Will was completely confused on the opinion Deanna was taking. Besides isn't the Betazoid job to get in your mind and mess with it. That's why Deanna's a counselor, isn't it?
Deanna knew where his thoughts were taking him so she tried to explain:
"I just don't want to see Beverly pushed into something she's not ready for. Reittan is known to be somewhat of a matchmaker. He's not bad at it but I just don't think this is right for Beverly."
Will still wasn't exactly convinced at Deanna's reasons for being so upset and he had good right to be. Truthfully Deanna's driving motivation was the desire to see Beverly and Jean-luc together. She sensed something in them that was amazing it wasn't explainable. Kind of like what she shared with Will. Call her a romantic but she believed they belonged together and wouldn't accept them with other people.
She had assumed that after a certain amount of time had passed they would come to their senses like they always do... well kind of do. If that didn't happen then she had her ways.
Thus she spent the next day arranging passage on a certain cruise and convincing a certain Captain that he was in desperate need of a vacation. The job wasen't easy but since Beverly had left his personal care had fallen even harder on Deanna's shoulders. Not to mention he had four years of vacation time built up. Then there was the matter of getting Will and herself off duty. Several favors called in and two days later the Enterprise was being controlled by lieutenants and Will, Jean-luc and Deanna set off together for Boltrope V.
I had to get the Captain on the boat somehow so here it is. Expect the next chapter to be of better quality, it's late.