Star Trek Drabble: Duty
Meditations by two young men on things they should have done. A little angsty. Started out with Spock's and then decided to see if I could play with the idea and apply it to Kirk a little bit. Definitely hard to do with only 100 words.
Kirk's cross-posted to thisismychair and startrekdrabble
Title: Failure
Author: tseecka
Startrek: Star Trek 2009
Characters: Spock
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
It feels like the universe is doing its best to rip him apart. Like it has an unshakable hold on him, and it's tearing him in so many ways at once, every single star screaming at him about his duties and responsibilities. So many expectations.
He's a captain--and a Vulcan, but he's also a human--and goddammit he is a son, and that's the failure that hurts most of all.
So much that he is expected to be. And he sits in his quarters, on the floor, with his hands wrapped around his head and all he wants to be is dead.
Title: Failure, Mark 2
Author: tseecka
Startrek: Star Trek 2009
Characters: Kirk
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
He knows from the outside it looks like he's trying to self-destruct.
It's not that he really hates the world, or the universe, or even just himself. It's not that he doesn't want to try, because he knows what he could do if he just set his mind to it.
It's so much easier not to fail when no one has any expectations of you.
Then Pike has to ruin all that, talking about his father, and that cuts deep. Because now there're expectations.
A son's supposed to live up to his father's memory. It's his duty.
And he's failing miserably.
Kirk's cross-posted to thisismychair and startrekdrabble
Title: Failure
Author: tseecka
Startrek: Star Trek 2009
Characters: Spock
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
It feels like the universe is doing its best to rip him apart. Like it has an unshakable hold on him, and it's tearing him in so many ways at once, every single star screaming at him about his duties and responsibilities. So many expectations.
He's a captain--and a Vulcan, but he's also a human--and goddammit he is a son, and that's the failure that hurts most of all.
So much that he is expected to be. And he sits in his quarters, on the floor, with his hands wrapped around his head and all he wants to be is dead.
Title: Failure, Mark 2
Author: tseecka
Startrek: Star Trek 2009
Characters: Kirk
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
He knows from the outside it looks like he's trying to self-destruct.
It's not that he really hates the world, or the universe, or even just himself. It's not that he doesn't want to try, because he knows what he could do if he just set his mind to it.
It's so much easier not to fail when no one has any expectations of you.
Then Pike has to ruin all that, talking about his father, and that cuts deep. Because now there're expectations.
A son's supposed to live up to his father's memory. It's his duty.
And he's failing miserably.