[ He recovers quickly from the halted step, watching her eyes as she thinks, as she speaks. It's incredibly touching how hard she's trying, considering how often their conversations have turned toward such topics, her attempts to understand and empathise were why Q - the other Q - had profited from her adjudication of his case. She almost casually took these concepts and wound them around the softest of platitudes, and he found himself smiling gently down toward his collar.
Oh, she was a clever one, yes, but of her traits her cleverness could be repeated. It was the entire package that made her Kathryn Janeway; both the steely surface and the mysteries that lay beneath it. And she did something nobody had ever done for him - not actually ever - she made him feel better.
And what better way to thank her, he supposed, than to mimic her earlier action of gratitude and understanding, and with one hand brushing her hair aside, lean forward to brush a gentle kiss against her temple. ]
action - the dialogue is gorgeousss
Oh, she was a clever one, yes, but of her traits her cleverness could be repeated. It was the entire package that made her Kathryn Janeway; both the steely surface and the mysteries that lay beneath it. And she did something nobody had ever done for him - not actually ever - she made him feel better.
And what better way to thank her, he supposed, than to mimic her earlier action of gratitude and understanding, and with one hand brushing her hair aside, lean forward to brush a gentle kiss against her temple. ]