Rec: Need To Know
Okay, you know how, sometimes, you can read a story that is so incredibly wonderful that you will be grinning a big goofy grin the entire way through? And then you immediately read it again because it is that good? And then you want to rec it to people you know? Yeah, um, I'm on the last step there. Except the only specific person I know who is likely to adore this... is me. So I am reccing it to EVERYONE EVER. So there.
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Need To Know (10523 words) by
ellen_fremedon
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who, Star Trek
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Captain Jack Harkness/Naraht
Characters: Captain Jack Harkness, James T. Kirk, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Dahai Lohor Naraht
Summary:
Jack loves working the Federation timezone. You meet the most interesting people.
Yes, it is a Jack/Naraht story. Yes, Jack Harkness. Yes, that Naraht. Yes, it is the best thing ever and hits all of my kinks so very hard. Boy am I glad I found the "Interspecies" tag on AO3.
I assume everyone knows who Captain Jack is by now, but you are probably less likely to be familiar with Naraht. Naraht is from TOS profic; he's a character in a bunch of Diane Duane's novels, all of which (Rihannsu and otherwise) take place in the same universe. He is a cheerful, bright, adventurous ensign (later lieutenant) in the sciences on the Enterprise and manages to save the day in the first two Rihannsu books. He is also a Horta, the first in Starfleet. You remember them. From "The Devil in the Dark." Yeah. I saw the character line and went OH BOY OH BOY NARAHT. He is awesome.
So, um, I have a big big (and, um, occasionally personally shameful) kink for interspecies fic; this is possibly (I am still not quite sure why I like xenokink so much, but it is a theory) a subset of my kink for negotiation generally in fic. Like, the BDSM stories where they actually have to work out what they each like? I am there. And in some kinds of interspecies fic, where they have to go "wow, we are really different! how cool!" and then basically figure a relationship out. Naraht, for example, is a silicon-based being shaped like a giant rock, who secretes corrosive acid and does not actually possess sexual desire. But they will make it work! Because they want to! Bulletproof kink, I tell you. Ahem.
And all this generally plays very well with the IDIC of Trek, but this story does one better on IDIC and not only tolerates Naraht but loves him. Naraht's canonical skills -- and the reason he is so in demand on the Enterprise -- include the ability to eat stuff and give a readout to six decimal places of the elements in whatever it is. And this story posits that no one until Jack notices that Naraht is pretty much having a deliciously sensual experience here, eating decadent tasty rocks in public. It makes me feel kind of guilty on behalf of, say, Spock, thinking back on Naraht's duties, to think they were all basically using him -- but the whole thing is very plausible. And I really love that someone finally gets Naraht and he is allowed to have a sensuality. Even giant rocks need love!
So of course Jack buys him dinner (so many different rocks!) and a pleasant evening is had by all. And it is so incredibly sweet and awesome and the food porn is great (I actually did not think I was very much into food porn; apparently I was wrong! and it's not even actual food by human standards!) and the porn porn is great and really, what else do you want in a story?
(I think my favorite part is after they are interrupted by Scotty and Kirk, who see only a meal and not a seduction, and we get this: He sounded proud, proud and truly confident for the first time all evening-as who wouldn't be, finding out he had a broader erotic imagination than James T. Kirk. Oh, geez, Naraht. Yes. It kills me, it really does. And finally someone understands him and it's okay! I didn't even know I needed this story, but apparently I really, really did.)
Also there is curling.
I do not know how well this works if you don't know Naraht -- it might still work -- but I recommend it if you like the genre of crossovers where Jack Harkness shows up and generally makes people feel better about their sexuality. See also:
dsudis's Signals That Sound in the Dark (Jack/Aral Vorkosigan) and frostfire_17's Hi, I'm Captain Jack Harkness (Jack/Chewbacca). So, um, yeah. You should read this. It is excellent.
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Let me try this fancy AO3 reccing button:
Need To Know (10523 words) by
ellen_fremedon
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who, Star Trek
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Captain Jack Harkness/Naraht
Characters: Captain Jack Harkness, James T. Kirk, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Dahai Lohor Naraht
Summary:
Jack loves working the Federation timezone. You meet the most interesting people.
Yes, it is a Jack/Naraht story. Yes, Jack Harkness. Yes, that Naraht. Yes, it is the best thing ever and hits all of my kinks so very hard. Boy am I glad I found the "Interspecies" tag on AO3.
I assume everyone knows who Captain Jack is by now, but you are probably less likely to be familiar with Naraht. Naraht is from TOS profic; he's a character in a bunch of Diane Duane's novels, all of which (Rihannsu and otherwise) take place in the same universe. He is a cheerful, bright, adventurous ensign (later lieutenant) in the sciences on the Enterprise and manages to save the day in the first two Rihannsu books. He is also a Horta, the first in Starfleet. You remember them. From "The Devil in the Dark." Yeah. I saw the character line and went OH BOY OH BOY NARAHT. He is awesome.
So, um, I have a big big (and, um, occasionally personally shameful) kink for interspecies fic; this is possibly (I am still not quite sure why I like xenokink so much, but it is a theory) a subset of my kink for negotiation generally in fic. Like, the BDSM stories where they actually have to work out what they each like? I am there. And in some kinds of interspecies fic, where they have to go "wow, we are really different! how cool!" and then basically figure a relationship out. Naraht, for example, is a silicon-based being shaped like a giant rock, who secretes corrosive acid and does not actually possess sexual desire. But they will make it work! Because they want to! Bulletproof kink, I tell you. Ahem.
And all this generally plays very well with the IDIC of Trek, but this story does one better on IDIC and not only tolerates Naraht but loves him. Naraht's canonical skills -- and the reason he is so in demand on the Enterprise -- include the ability to eat stuff and give a readout to six decimal places of the elements in whatever it is. And this story posits that no one until Jack notices that Naraht is pretty much having a deliciously sensual experience here, eating decadent tasty rocks in public. It makes me feel kind of guilty on behalf of, say, Spock, thinking back on Naraht's duties, to think they were all basically using him -- but the whole thing is very plausible. And I really love that someone finally gets Naraht and he is allowed to have a sensuality. Even giant rocks need love!
So of course Jack buys him dinner (so many different rocks!) and a pleasant evening is had by all. And it is so incredibly sweet and awesome and the food porn is great (I actually did not think I was very much into food porn; apparently I was wrong! and it's not even actual food by human standards!) and the porn porn is great and really, what else do you want in a story?
(I think my favorite part is after they are interrupted by Scotty and Kirk, who see only a meal and not a seduction, and we get this: He sounded proud, proud and truly confident for the first time all evening-as who wouldn't be, finding out he had a broader erotic imagination than James T. Kirk. Oh, geez, Naraht. Yes. It kills me, it really does. And finally someone understands him and it's okay! I didn't even know I needed this story, but apparently I really, really did.)
Also there is curling.
I do not know how well this works if you don't know Naraht -- it might still work -- but I recommend it if you like the genre of crossovers where Jack Harkness shows up and generally makes people feel better about their sexuality. See also:
dsudis's Signals That Sound in the Dark (Jack/Aral Vorkosigan) and frostfire_17's Hi, I'm Captain Jack Harkness (Jack/Chewbacca). So, um, yeah. You should read this. It is excellent.
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