[Boimler holds on tightly to her hand. Not enough to hurt, just...enough to make it clear he's a) seriously not having a good time right now physically, and b) that he needs the grounding.]
[It is absolutely not a thing they do, holding hands. When there's affection between them, it's an arm around the shoulders or something. There's a weird innocent intimacy to it that makes him think of what it might have been like to meet her on the playground when they were kids. Whether she would've taken one look at his shy little ass and immediately dragged him off to poke at small animals or something.]
[It's kind of weird. And kind of nice.]
[And definitely comforting, like when your parents hold your hand when you're little and nervous about getting a hypospray at the doctor's office.]
Weirdly tall.
I only want to be just a little under Riker tall.
[He says this like it's a thing he can just politely request, like "hey nanites make me tall." Even thought they don't even do that.]
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[It is absolutely not a thing they do, holding hands. When there's affection between them, it's an arm around the shoulders or something. There's a weird innocent intimacy to it that makes him think of what it might have been like to meet her on the playground when they were kids. Whether she would've taken one look at his shy little ass and immediately dragged him off to poke at small animals or something.]
[It's kind of weird. And kind of nice.]
[And definitely comforting, like when your parents hold your hand when you're little and nervous about getting a hypospray at the doctor's office.]
Weirdly tall.
I only want to be just a little under Riker tall.
[He says this like it's a thing he can just politely request, like "hey nanites make me tall." Even thought they don't even do that.]