“And then he says to me, ‘Now I know how far down the spots go.” Ezri took a drink. “Can you believe? I should have broken up with him on the spot.”
Kira shook her head. “He could always be a bit…insensitive.”
“I finally realized that he didn’t know if he was in love with Jadzia…or Garak. It was a love triangle in his mind and I wasn’t even one of the points on it.”
Kira took her hand; she heard the pain under the humor. “I do think he cared about you, Ezri.” She shook her head. “Do you know what Worf said about the two of you?” She straightened and pitched her voice half an octave lower. “She is confused. And he is a child.”
It worked. The frown smoothed and Ezri laughed.
“He kinda is, tho.”
“You should have met him when he first came here!”
“I have Dax’s memories, remember?”
Kira looked deep into her friend’s blue eyes. She wondered if she forgot that on purpose. Ezri was such a different person from Jadzia, and while she loved them both, she didn’t think of Ezri as Dax. Not quite. Maybe because she had feelings stirring that had everything to do with Ezri, not Dax.
