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Start Date: 06/15/2024
Last Update: 10/15/2024
Post Date: 11/?/2024
Chapters: 1
Summary: TBA – For McSpirk Big Bang 2024
The Holiday Waywards: IX
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2
IX: Kirk ~~~ Who mourns for Adonais? Oh, come forth, Fond wretch! and know thyself and him aright. Shelley: Adonais Pike thinks he is prepared to do this with his son. He isn’t. Not when the bright lighting enhances every terrible mark upon Jim’s face. It’s only because of his iron will—and Archer’s subtle shift …
The Holiday Waywards: VIII
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1
VIII: McCoy ~~~ We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed and gleam and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly! yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever:— Shelley: Mutability “Leonard,” Christopher says, lowering his voice even though he is standing next to McCoy’s chair, “think for a minute. …
The Holiday Waywards: VII
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5
VII: Uhura ~~~ When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible. Nathaniel Lee: Oedipus Through the mirror, Pike and Archer watch Nyota Uhura take a seat at the table in the interrogation room. The young woman is not just lovely but beautiful in the kind of way …
The Holiday Waywards: VI
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2
VI: Pike ~~~ Our storm is past, and that storm’s tyrannous rage, A stupid calm, but nothing it, doth ‘suage. Donne: The Calm Chris and Jon relocate to Archer’s office in the aftermath. “Shit,” Jon curses for the umpteenth time, looking at Pike’s bloodied arm. “It’s just a scratch,” Chris reassures him. The older man …
The Holiday Waywards: V
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2
V: Sulu ~~~ Now every friend is turn’d a foe In hope to get our store: Dryden: You charm’d me not… The fire in Hikaru Sulu’s eyes tells Chris this chat is going to be fun. The deputy-guard is barely out of the door before accusations start to fly. “You bastard,” Sulu says furiously, “what …
The Holiday Waywards: IV
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5
IV: McCoy ~~~ The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone. Fitzgerald: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur Pike has seen Leonard McCoy in many states of mind but nothing that …
The Holiday Waywards: III
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6
III: Spock ~~~ He did not overlay them, superimpose The new upon the old and blot it out, But laid them on a level in his work, Making at last a picture; Browning: Cleon Pike’s facial muscles twitch of their own volition. The maddening silence of the room becomes too much, and he has to …
The Holiday Waywards: II
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2
II: Chekov ~~~ How cam’st thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, II, ii The arrest report reads: Pavel Chekov, Age: 21. Chris does a double-take at the waif-like person shuffling into the interrogation room next to one of Archer’s deputies. Chekov stays quiet, shoulders hunched, while his escort clicks open the …
The Holiday Waywards: I
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8
I: Pike ~~~ We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; Arnold: Empedocles on Etna “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what fun…” The twang of a singer is a mellifluous undertone in the bustling bar. Someone …
For the Sake of Nothing, Part 28
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7
Title: For the Sake of Nothing, Part 28 (28/28) Author: klmeri Fandom: Star Trek AOS Pairing: pre-Kirk/Spock/McCoy Summary: The epilogue. Previous Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 …
For the Sake of Nothing, Part 27
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9
Title: For the Sake of Nothing, Part 27 (27/28) Author: klmeri Fandom: Star Trek AOS Pairing: pre-Kirk/Spock/McCoy Summary: A secret (identity) is revealed. Previous Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | …
For the Sake of Nothing, Part 26
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3
Title: For the Sake of Nothing, Part 26 (26/28) Author: klmeri Fandom: Star Trek AOS Pairing: pre-Kirk/Spock/McCoy Summary: Emotions are sorted through; promises made. Previous Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 …
For the Sake of Nothing, Part 25
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3
Title: For the Sake of Nothing, Part 25 Author: klmeri Fandom: Star Trek AOS Pairing: pre-Kirk/Spock/McCoy Summary: A friend tries to help. Previous Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 …
For the Sake of Nothing, Part 24
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1
Title: For the Sake of Nothing, Part 24 Author: klmeri Fandom: Star Trek AOS Pairing: pre-Kirk/Spock/McCoy Summary: Things between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy begin to work themselves out. Previous Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 …
Merlin-y things
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0
Because I could not help myself I had to go here and see some hints about what to expect from Merlin this season! Basically, this stopped me in my tracks: Colin revealed in the same interview there will be a three-year gap between Series 4 and Series 5. WHAT? Wait, that sort of makes sense… …