The Doctor and the Chrysanthemum

[Doc Holliday]

"Salmon eggs," Doc replied, "I have never tried them." He then had the look of someone who obviously didn't know how to prepare it. "Um.....how do you make it?"

As he learned by watching and helping before they sat down. He took a small bite to try it. For him, it was different but not bad. He chewed slowly to taste it. "Not bad," he said of it between bites, "maybe just a touch of spice to finish it off." Making up their plates, they would find a table. Doc carried her plate for her to the table.

After a few bites, he smiled a bit. "Midori," he began. "I met her a long time ago on Gas Miner Naha in Sigma 13. At one point I was buying nuclear fuel in the system for the Lanzerate reactor in Omega 49. Anyway, I met her on a stop. It took but a smile for me to like her. My cargo runs became me being her ride home to Honshu quite often." He paused a moment in thought, a drifting smile was on his face while he stopped his eyes from filling with water. "She was so sweet, short but sweet. That smile of hers.....it was alluring. Her specialty was Mahi fish and she loved cooking for my meetings and things. Telling the kids of her death was probably the hardest thing I ever had to do. I miss her so much to this day."

Then he stopped, not wanting to dig too deep into his feelings and continued with his sushi.

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