Title: The Holiday Waywards (Not the Holiday Wise) Author: klmeri Fandom: Star Trek AOS Pairing: pre-Kirk/McCoy Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 33943 Setting: AU Summary: Tis the season, and Christopher Pike had a life. In fact he had an expensive bottle of brandy, a backlog of party invitations, and the attention of the pretty brunette at …
[Masterpost] The Holiday Waywards
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2012 – Mission Accomplished!
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Fic is done! The idea only needed 33k words to be born. My muse is hateful. Well, it’s done in the sense that I got down all of the words (ugly or not), completely finished revision on the first draft, and if it had to be posted tomorrow, I could probably put it up without …
[] Update Post
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It’s that time of year again! For the third year in a row I have signed up for space_wrapped. Unfortunately, the posting begins in the middle of December rather than at the beginning, but we can manage to wait those extra fifteen days, right? :) The minimum is 20k words. The counter is set. The …
The Count is Down, Definitely
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One week left until my space_wrapped fic is due to be posted, y’all, and I am down to the last 4k – 6k of you’ve made the mess, now it’s time to REALLY fix it portion of the story. Ugh. Why is this always the hardest bit? I just want to throw the covers over …
The Holiday Waywards: XI
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XI: Pike ~~~ While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both… While the one eludes, the other must pursue: Browning: Life in a Love “You are the biggest asshole this side of the Mississippi! I will kill you! No, first I’ll take my belt to your backside …
The Holiday Waywards: X
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X: Scott ~~~ There is the faith that never fails, The courage in the danger place A.C. Doyle: Retrospect Archer turns without a word and leaves Pike alone with Jim. Chris gropes for the vacated chair and eases into it, not daring to take his eyes off of his son. “Jim,” he questions slowly, because …
The Holiday Waywards: IX
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …