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FIC: Nobody puts Baby in a corner (Star Trek: XI)
TITLE: Nobody puts Baby in a corner
FANDOM: Star Trek: XI
PROMPT: where_no_woman @ lj: Movie Quotes
Nobody puts Baby in a corner
PAIRING/CHARACTERS: Gaila, Kirk
RATING: PG
WORDS: 280
Nobody puts Baby in a corner
It is almost expected that those who have been deprived of a childhood will lack an ability to be playful should they make adulthood. And yet, just as often, they react like Gaila and retain an almost childlike joy in life, as if every moment is filled with wonder.
This makes people think her gullible, naïve, stupid; she isn’t.
James T. Kirk should have remembered that.
I need you to read it, he had said, it’s too hard for me to say in person.
Not until 3 o’clock tomorrow, he had said, will you promise me that, 3 o’clock exactly?
You’ll see why.
I’m sorry, the email says, presumably because it is too hard to say in person. The download finishes, the lights flicker with the screens; feeling something akin to panic, Gaila turns around, tries to find out-
“What is this? What’s going on?”
The screens and lights steady, the simulation comes back online and Jim goes back to smugly issuing orders. Orders that –
Oh.
That feeling she has is not panic. It’s hurt. Sharp, deep, molten-wire-around-her-chest hurt.
(I think I love you)
Jim had said, you’ll see why, and she did.
“How the hell did that kid beat your test?”
“I do not know.”
Gaila has a sweet smile and an easy laugh and the shining eyes of a country-girl. This makes people think that she wouldn’t hurt a soul, that she is helpless and weak; she isn’t.
James T. Kirk should have remembered that, too.
Gaila bites the inside of her cheek until she is sure the tears are gone, throws her chin up and spins around and says, “Commander Spock, I know how he did it.”
FANDOM: Star Trek: XI
PROMPT: where_no_woman @ lj: Movie Quotes
Nobody puts Baby in a corner
PAIRING/CHARACTERS: Gaila, Kirk
RATING: PG
WORDS: 280
It is almost expected that those who have been deprived of a childhood will lack an ability to be playful should they make adulthood. And yet, just as often, they react like Gaila and retain an almost childlike joy in life, as if every moment is filled with wonder.
This makes people think her gullible, naïve, stupid; she isn’t.
James T. Kirk should have remembered that.
I need you to read it, he had said, it’s too hard for me to say in person.
Not until 3 o’clock tomorrow, he had said, will you promise me that, 3 o’clock exactly?
You’ll see why.
I’m sorry, the email says, presumably because it is too hard to say in person. The download finishes, the lights flicker with the screens; feeling something akin to panic, Gaila turns around, tries to find out-
“What is this? What’s going on?”
The screens and lights steady, the simulation comes back online and Jim goes back to smugly issuing orders. Orders that –
Oh.
That feeling she has is not panic. It’s hurt. Sharp, deep, molten-wire-around-her-chest hurt.
(I think I love you)
Jim had said, you’ll see why, and she did.
“How the hell did that kid beat your test?”
“I do not know.”
Gaila has a sweet smile and an easy laugh and the shining eyes of a country-girl. This makes people think that she wouldn’t hurt a soul, that she is helpless and weak; she isn’t.
James T. Kirk should have remembered that, too.
Gaila bites the inside of her cheek until she is sure the tears are gone, throws her chin up and spins around and says, “Commander Spock, I know how he did it.”