<USS Avalon> Re: Comfort and Convenience

"Comfort and Convenience"
Counselor Cailin Danaan
 
 
        Cailin, before she had even  started her first shift, made sure to 
send a general memo to the entire crew. In  it, she introduced herself and let 
them know that they were each free to come to  her any time or to contact her 
if they wanted to set up an appointment. She had  never been like most 
Starfleet trained counselors, in that she didn't  immediately set up an 
appointment 
with each and every crew member. She liked to  let them come to her on their 
own, when it was comfortable and convenient for  them. 
        So far she had not had many  come to talk, mostly the younger, junior 
crew. No one on the senior staff had  come to her yet. Give it time, Cailin, 
she told herself.
        One of the interesting  things she'd shared with Jack, whom she was 
continuing to communicate with, was  the amazing number of pregnancies on 
board. Almost everyone she had spoken to  had mentioned the fact that there 
were 
three or four women on board who had  gotten pregnant around the same time. A 
couple of them were carrying multiples.  The Tuathan couldn't imagine being 
pregnant with more than one child. 
        Of course, now that she and  Jack were friends again, and there was 
the possibility of more between them,  she'd begun to dream of having at least 
one--with him. Of late, she'd had  several in which one scene stood out 
clearly: she and Jack were sitting together  on a sofa. A child, a girl, 
crawled up 
to them, pulling herself to a standing  position using Jack's leg. He would 
then pick her up, as he and Cailin laughed,  and the two of them would hug the 
child, then kiss.
        Shaking her head, Cailin  brought herself out of the reverie. They 
were about to make first contact with a  new species, and she had to be ready 
in 
case she was called upon.

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