Do you really think Ehliena would be upset if she was pregnant..?
Seeing as you're so interested... Here's part two...
Just to let you know... with all this double posting... We'll soon be at the end...
Lucy
Ehliena dropped onto the couch, head in her hands fighting for control. “Yes…”
“You and Horatio?”
Ehliena nodded, afraid to talk. Deanna was puzzled, her cousin could not disguise how happy she was and Horatio, though quiet and private with his thoughts often betrayed his feelings with a soft glance in her cousin’s direction.
“Is there a problem between you?”
“No.”
Ehliena’s answer was sharp, then she sighed, “It’s nothing like that… Its….physical… and I’m not talking about anything intimate.”
Deanna raised an eyebrow, completely confused. Now she could understand Ehliena’s dilemma, it wasn’t that her cousin didn’t want to talk about the problem… She couldn’t explain it.
“Describe how you noticed this… situation.”
“I don’t know exactly. The other evening the two of us were relaxing after dinner, Horatio’s become intrigued by other planets and other races since we’ve been involved with these negotiations… He was reading up about the Cardassian home world and I decided to catch up with one of the classics that the Captain leant me.”
“Which one?”
Ehliena chuckled, “Wuthering Heights…” She relaxed a little more, now that she had begun speaking; her mind was able to start putting things together. “Horatio leant back from the display to stretch his back – he’d been hunched over for about an hour I guess, so I put my book down to massage his shoulders a little.”
Her face changed, an element of fear creeping into her voice. “When I first touched his back, it was as if I was touching a sponge, the next minute it was fine. I didn’t think anything of it – I thought maybe I’d misjudged the pressure I needed.”
“But…”
“It’s happened a couple of times since…” Ehliena paused, trying to make sense of what she had felt, “Deanna when Will holds you, you can feel the strength in his arms, even though he’s not using it… It’s just… there…”
“When Horatio holds me, I feel the strength, but it’s as if he is consciously thinking about it… Sometimes I pass him and just touch his arm or shoulder and I feel… Nothing… It’s as if he has an outline and shape, but no substance… Yet you can see that he must have – how else could he hold something, carry something? The other day he was sparring with Geordi… Managed to throw him across the mat – you couldn’t do that without having substance could you?”
Deanna was perplexed; Ehliena was right, “Is he using telekinesis?”
“No, I’d be able to sense it; I know how he does it…” She blushed slightly, “He teaching me too…”
Deanna’s eyes opened wide, “You’re becoming telekinetic?”
Ehliena smiled shyly and nodded toward the table, focusing on the small vase, she was able to lift it a few centimetres. “Its not easy, but I’m getting better all the time.” She moved back to the subject in hand, “What do I do about Horatio?”
Deanna sighed, “I don’t know. Have you spoken to him about it?”
Ehliena shrugged her shoulders, “I’ve tried, twice… The first time, he ignored me and changed the subject, the second time, he told me it was nothing for me to worry about – that it was associated with the transformation – and that it would go away.”
“Deanna, I’m worried, what if he’s sick – something the Symehk get that we don’t know about that can still affect him in human form.”
The Counsellor paused, “Ehliena, if he doesn’t want to talk about it, there’s not a lot we can do.” Joining her cousin on the couch she put her arm around the younger woman’s shoulders. “Look, how about I call mother and find out if any of the other Symehk have had problems. Maybe it is just part of the process and she’ll be able to confirm that and put your mind at ease.”
Ehliena nodded her head, “Thanks Deanna, just being able to talk to you helps. I’d better go, I’m meeting Horatio for lunch in 10 forward before we go back to the station.”