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I wrote more femslash K/S, and spent hours more than I had anticipated on it because this section grew in the telling (i.e. it came to encompass multiple episodes’ worth of S'paak restraining both gay longing and seething hatred of certain individuals). So this is just an excerpt from a considerably longer section.
Also, the context of the episode this section draws from merits a massive warning for sexual coercion that is highly relevant to what happens here.
Also, the context of the episode this section draws from merits a massive warning for sexual coercion that is highly relevant to what happens here.
The Scalosians would have trapped the captain for the rest of her life if not for her own ingenuity in conveying information across time, and McCoy’s rapid development of a cure. Of course, he hadn’t known how to get it to Kirk, and had stared when S’paak promptly drank the Scalosian water.
“S’paak, you don’t know what that will do to you!” he exclaimed.
She did not betray herself with an indifferent shrug, but felt the temptation. He knew his field, even if she was loath to depend upon his judgment in many other matters. And they had no other way to reach Kirk. For S’paak, it was an easy risk to take, and within minutes, proved worth it. She quickly found the captain, and was only too willing to formulate a quick plan of attack with her. She would have done more if Jess had asked. Instead, they forced the Scalosians back through the transporter to their own planet, and S’paak handed McCoy’s cure over to Jess. It worked, thankfully; she vanished back into the ordinary flow of time while S’paak repaired the damage to the ship with her usual efficiency.
The silence and emptiness as she repaired consoles were pleasant in some respects; she could not deny that. But her skin crawled enough that when she was done, she hurried to the bridge in a less dignified manner than she would ever have done before others. Without hesitation, she drank down the rest of the antidote.
The other crew members frozen on the bridge began to move, slowly at first, and then at their usual bustling pace, several starting as they noticed her. For once, S’paak could welcome being stared at. She turned to see Captain Kirk smiling slightly at her.
“Commander S’paak,” she said, “my compliments to your repair work and yourself.”
“S’paak, you don’t know what that will do to you!” he exclaimed.
She did not betray herself with an indifferent shrug, but felt the temptation. He knew his field, even if she was loath to depend upon his judgment in many other matters. And they had no other way to reach Kirk. For S’paak, it was an easy risk to take, and within minutes, proved worth it. She quickly found the captain, and was only too willing to formulate a quick plan of attack with her. She would have done more if Jess had asked. Instead, they forced the Scalosians back through the transporter to their own planet, and S’paak handed McCoy’s cure over to Jess. It worked, thankfully; she vanished back into the ordinary flow of time while S’paak repaired the damage to the ship with her usual efficiency.
The silence and emptiness as she repaired consoles were pleasant in some respects; she could not deny that. But her skin crawled enough that when she was done, she hurried to the bridge in a less dignified manner than she would ever have done before others. Without hesitation, she drank down the rest of the antidote.
The other crew members frozen on the bridge began to move, slowly at first, and then at their usual bustling pace, several starting as they noticed her. For once, S’paak could welcome being stared at. She turned to see Captain Kirk smiling slightly at her.
“Commander S’paak,” she said, “my compliments to your repair work and yourself.”
“Thank you, captain,” said S’paak, accepting it as her due even as she committed this—as with so much else—to memory. She stood silently by, not yet prepared to return to the science station, as Lieutenant Uhura accidentally replayed the recording that had tricked them into this disaster in the first place.
McCoy said, “We should send the antidote down to Scalos. Something fast could probably get it to the Scalosians in time to save them, maybe a shuttle could be automated—”
“No,” said the captain coolly. “We can’t afford further delays, and Deela and Rael knew what the consequences of their choices would be.”
“But—”
S’paak glanced from one to the other. “We would be unlikely to reach them quickly enough,” she said. “Nor could we expect gratitude in response were we successful, from what we’ve observed of them, and from what their leader herself expects. Also, the shuttle would be lost. The captain’s decision is eminently logical.”
Even to her own ears, she sounded like T’Pring.
Jessica’s fingers had tightened on the arms of the captain’s chair, but now relaxed again.
“Thank you, commander,” she said. “I can’t imagine greater praise.” She set her jaw. “Full speed ahead, Mr. Sulu. Get us out of here.”
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Tagged: #cw rape #can't really consider wink of an eye anything else #or elaan of troyius for that matter #or... you get the picture. #they don't all happen in the same way in the au but i don't want to completely ignore it either
McCoy said, “We should send the antidote down to Scalos. Something fast could probably get it to the Scalosians in time to save them, maybe a shuttle could be automated—”
“No,” said the captain coolly. “We can’t afford further delays, and Deela and Rael knew what the consequences of their choices would be.”
“But—”
S’paak glanced from one to the other. “We would be unlikely to reach them quickly enough,” she said. “Nor could we expect gratitude in response were we successful, from what we’ve observed of them, and from what their leader herself expects. Also, the shuttle would be lost. The captain’s decision is eminently logical.”
Even to her own ears, she sounded like T’Pring.
Jessica’s fingers had tightened on the arms of the captain’s chair, but now relaxed again.
“Thank you, commander,” she said. “I can’t imagine greater praise.” She set her jaw. “Full speed ahead, Mr. Sulu. Get us out of here.”
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Tagged: #cw rape #can't really consider wink of an eye anything else #or elaan of troyius for that matter #or... you get the picture. #they don't all happen in the same way in the au but i don't want to completely ignore it either