( STARGATE ATLANTIS )

( DAILY DECEMBER FIC CHALLENGES )

Torchbearer

Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Rated: PG
Category: Culmets. RickyVerse. Angst. Angst with a Happy Ending. Emotional Hurt/Comfort.
Word Count: 1319
Time Frame: Post Season Two, Pre Season Three.
Spoilers: General Series Knowledge Only - Through Season Two.
Summary: You can’t fix a problem you can’t see. Good thing Paul and Hugh have ( Read more... )

Paul ended the call with an order, delivered in his usual acerbic tone with just a touch of the Stamets stare for good measure. The ensign on the other end nodded, mumbled a “yes,sir,” then disconnected, and Hugh chuckled.

“What?”

Hugh shook his head slightly.

“You.”

“What about me?”

“Scaring that poor kid like that.”

“I wasn’t scary.”

Hugh didn’t say ( Read more... )

They didn’t have to do these types of things often anymore.

Isolation was so twenty-third century.

But alas, here they were: confined to quarters for their sixteenth day while Tracy and the rest of the medical staff tried to figure out why they were covered in tiny red spots.

Still.

At least they didn’t itch.

And at least they were confined to their own ( Read more... )

Not in the literal sense of the word.

Still, it was difficult to believe the bear didn’t have a circulatory system.

Because even all of his medical training had a hard time arguing with the heartbeat he could so clearly hear through the bear’s little body.

The fact that said body was cushioning Hugh’s head as it laid on Paul’s chest might have had ( Read more... )

Hugh tried not to think about it.

He was an expert at distracting himself whenever it crossed his mind.

Or at least attempting to - he was only sometimes successful. But still, he tried.

Today, that meant he’d been cleaning again. Well, de-cluttering, at any rate.

He and Paul had storage bins stashed in every nook and cranny shared quarters on a ( Read more... )

Bearly Adults

Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Rated: G
Category: RickyVerse. Culmets-Adjacent. Tilly. Starfleet Academy.
Word Count: 585
Time Frame: Post season four, episode four.
Spoilers: General series knowledge only - through season four, episode four (“All is Possible”).
Summary: There are some things you’re never too old for - even if not ( Read more... )

It helped.

It really did.

But only a little. As much as he loved Ricky, the bear wasn’t enough.

Not on nights like this.

Not when he was broken and couldn’t figure out exactly why; when his nerves were jangled and he was a hair’s breadth away from crying.

No, on nights like this, only one thing could settle him.

But his partner wasn’t there.

And he wouldn ( Read more... )

It’s weird how some customs are so universal.

I guess it’s evolutionary biology, in a way. How the young of nearly every species gravitate toward tiny versions of themselves - or harmless versions of scary predators - as toys.

It’s nurturing behavior practiced by those too young for the real thing - and the rendering of fears into something far more ( Read more... )