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Three Isn't A Crowd If You Don't Want It To Be

Posted Dec. 5, 2022, 12:28 p.m. by Lieutenant Sharah Fayth (Chief Star Fleet Medical Officer) (Jennifer Ward)

Posted by Major General Charles Tenkiller (Vice-Commander, Colonial Customs and Defense Agency) in Three Isn’t A Crowd If You Don’t Want It To Be

Posted by Lieutenant Sharah Fayth (Chief Star Fleet Medical Officer) in Three Isn’t A Crowd If You Don’t Want It To Be

Posted by Major General Charles Tenkiller (Vice-Commander, Colonial Customs and Defense Agency) in Three Isn’t A Crowd If You Don’t Want It To Be

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Sharah lifted the glass and drank. She felt a bit light headed. She watched Yavia disappear down the stairs. “I don’t think anything phases her.” She moved over to where she had set the bonsai down and set her hands against the soil, and inspecting each of the branches and buds. “We should plant a paw-paw tree for her.”

Sharah

Charles looked at Sharah and said “We? Like… you and I? Are we at the planning future endeavors together aspect already?” with smile. His enthusiasm, effecting, and comfort with the entire situation was genuine, even if he had some confusion about it; but he was excited by the prospects that the near future held for the three of them… all emotions that welled up and off him without any hint of him trying to hide it.

Tenkiller

Sharah smiled as his emotions hit her. Not just surface ones, but deeper stronger ones. He wasn’t attempting to hide them, he knew she would feel them, and that was a gift. She picked fallen leaves out of the pot, crumbled them and then worked them back into the soil. She peeked at him from the corner of her eye. “I suppose we are in some ways. It is part of your culture, and I,” she touched the flowers on the tree gently, “have a talent for growing things. If not together, then perhaps you and Yavia will let me give it to you as a gift, a thank you.”

Sharah

Charles smiled and stepped up to her, standing behind her. He put his hands on her waist and set his chin gently on her shoulder. “No thanks is needed. We… all three of us… are in this together. What happens to one of us, happens to all of us. We are a… what… I have no idea what to call us. A team? A cooperative? A… throuple?” and he laughed softly and let her go, careful not to intrude on her space for too long.

Tenkiller

His closeness was strangely welcoming and very needed, and all the more precious for his care and caution for her. “Throuple?” There was confused amusement in her voice. “I don’t know. I feel very confused and weirdly comfortable. Ask Yavia. Deltans have more words for love and relationships than the Inuit of Earth have for snow. Throuple has a nice sound to it, though. Doesn’t it?” Finally satisfied with whatever she was doing with Hooe she turned leaning back against the counter. “But thanks are needed, in words and actions and in thoughts and feelings. It is a way to show those that are precious that their efforts are seen, and that they matter. Too often it is over looked and people feel taken for granted. Thanks is not given out of obligation, but out of care for those that care for us.”

“Well, you don’t have the lion’s share of confusion in this. Humans don’t typically have relationships like this… not a lot, anyway. Its not taboo or frowned upon anymore, but was back in the day.” and he smiled and laughed. “Its is weirdly comfortable, ain’t it? Thats a great way of framing it.” He looked at her for a long moment, something akin to affection in his eyes. “You have a great mind, you know that? And I do mean all of it. You are an amazing person, Sharah… and I’m really glad you are here.”

Sharah shook her head with a slight grin. “Betazoids don’t either, typically. People assume a lot because our wedding traditions include nudity. But the truth is we may love many people in our lives, but we devote all of ourselves to one person. The ultimate gift is to find your Imzadi and spend your life with them. We have the capacity to continue to love someone even after the relationship is over. That is not unique to Betazoids though. Love is unique and only the people involved should have a say on how that looks and whether they accept it.” She stared at him a long moment before she ducked her head, his words having a noticeably profound effect on her. Betazoids were notoriously honest though, even if Sharah was used to keeping her privacy from most of world. “I am glad to be here…I think, but it scares me.”

She turned back to the pot, “She needs sunlight.” Which should be easy to get in a house with so many windows.

Sharah

“How about over by the living room window?” Charles suggested. “She’ll get enough sun, but nothing too direct.”

Tenkiller

Sharah picked up the pot. The care with which she carried it was reminiscent of how one might carry a pet or small child. She set it down carefully and turned it slightly, so the sun would hit the branches. Hope felt quite happy, to Sharah, in her pot, unphased by all the jostling. Then she moved across the room and resumed her earlier seat on the couch. “She likes being planet aside again with real sunlight.”

Sharah


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