The question caught him by surprise, making him blink those baby blues at Leonard.
"It's.... amazing," he said, thinking aloud as his thumb rubbed the back of Leonard's hand, more to help him think than anything else. Think and help him remember, because some days he worried he was forgetting, that it had been to long. Hell, it had been - years, even, and the reminder of that hurt in ways he had not expected.
A breath, turning his head up to look at the blank Dome overhead, hating it in that moment more than he ever had.
"Everywhere you look there are stars. They try and describe it as an ocean, but it's so much more than that. It's endless, and every light is a possibility for new life, for something wonderful. When you got into warp, they stream together around you, like you're rushing down a river. It feels like if you just reached out you could trail your fingers through the light stream and pull them back in full of stardust. You have no idea what will be on the other side, but that's the great thing about it. You can always be surprised. It's this great, vast, unexplored territory that we'll never be able to fully map - the possibilities of it endless."
A pause, blinking rapidly as the pain of missing the Enterprise - his home - hit him. Missing his family. Bones and Spock had said that they were okay, but the truth was he didn't really know anything for fact after he died. He needed to believe what they had said, or else he'd drive himself insane, but some nights he wondered. For a second his grip tightened, swallowing back those thoughts, that grief.
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"It's.... amazing," he said, thinking aloud as his thumb rubbed the back of Leonard's hand, more to help him think than anything else. Think and help him remember, because some days he worried he was forgetting, that it had been to long. Hell, it had been - years, even, and the reminder of that hurt in ways he had not expected.
A breath, turning his head up to look at the blank Dome overhead, hating it in that moment more than he ever had.
"Everywhere you look there are stars. They try and describe it as an ocean, but it's so much more than that. It's endless, and every light is a possibility for new life, for something wonderful. When you got into warp, they stream together around you, like you're rushing down a river. It feels like if you just reached out you could trail your fingers through the light stream and pull them back in full of stardust. You have no idea what will be on the other side, but that's the great thing about it. You can always be surprised. It's this great, vast, unexplored territory that we'll never be able to fully map - the possibilities of it endless."
A pause, blinking rapidly as the pain of missing the Enterprise - his home - hit him. Missing his family. Bones and Spock had said that they were okay, but the truth was he didn't really know anything for fact after he died. He needed to believe what they had said, or else he'd drive himself insane, but some nights he wondered. For a second his grip tightened, swallowing back those thoughts, that grief.
"It's the most beautiful thing you'll ever see."