How I love that boy (Pike, the Kirk family - gen)

[zauzat]

Title: How I love that boy
Fandom & Pairing: Star Trek AOS, Pike/Kirk (unrequited), Pike/George, George/Winona
Rating: gen
Warnings: none
Genre: drama
Word Count: Around 900
Beta: no
Summary: Written some time ago for rubynye’s birthday for this prompt:
And very often on an Iowa night, I'd see him standing in the yard

Comments

[imachar]

Hmm...damn, okay now I'm sad too...the thread that runs through this is a lifetime of losses and loneliness...beautifully written as always. :(

[zauzat]

Pike has a hard run in this universe. :( And it's given me an idea for another one, equally depressing, but I might hold off on writing that for a bit.

[norfolkdumpling]

Oh my god. My heart. *whimpers*

This is beautiful, and achingly sad. I hope you don't mind, but I'm just going to sit here and imagine that sometime in the future Pike realises that a certain grumpy doctor is actually right there for him whenever he chooses to notice. :)

[zauzat]

Huh, now there is a plot bunny.... Like I don't have enough already. But the trouble with canon is you've got to get the doctor back off the Enterprise. Personally I wish Pike had been captain and they'd all served under him (in as filthy a capacity as you wish to imagine.)

[imachar]

Oh hell yes....a couple of people have actually blown canon away totally to do this, but I can never bring myself to destroy canon that badly...that's why I eventually just got sidetracked and gave him Boyce, who is always there for him (well that and the inspiration of the famous Mark Harmon icon)..

[weepingnaiad]

Oh, bb! Break my heart for poor Chris! I loved the backstory of the three of them, with Chris & Winona circling George.

I'll just pretend that Bones figures everything out and sets the three of them up into a happy little triad.

[zauzat]

Sigh, not a happy fic. In my head this is the TOS-like Jim obsessed with the stars who will eventually die alone. It is unhappy all round, I'm afraid, but at least I'm not going to write those bits. Thanks for commenting.

[rubynye]

You broke my heart so sweetly with this, and now all over again. *clutches heart* Eee, this is so gorgeous.

[zauzat]

It is sweet of you to read it twice. (And I spotted your Pike/Chekov/tentatcles over at the tentacle comm, that was beautifully done. Poor boys!)

[severinne]

Oh, I love Pike in this. There's so much stoic self-sacrifice in him, of course, but I also love the glimpses at his frailties, from the spiteful way he rejected George way back when to the slightly twisted edge of his motivations in cultivating Kirk as a captain and his successor. Those little slips of humanity just make my heart ache for him even more. *snuggles Pike and this fic*

[zauzat]

Thanks for the comment. I'm fascinated by your interpretation which reads a darker Pike than I had in mind. In my head George is the asshole who is transformed into the untouchable hero - he tries to walk out on his wife and little kid - and Pike is a good man in a human way, trying to do his best in a situation that will never be what he wants and he knows it. Your reading is rather more subtle!

[severinne]

What can I say, I definitely enjoy my Pike in chocolatey layers (mmm...) but I'm not sure if it makes my read of him particularly "dark," just human. Pike is above all else a good man who wants to do the right thing, but I did like that he had to draw upon his hurt and anger where George is concerned in order to do the right thing in the first place - he certainly didn't do it for Winona, and rightly so. On the whole, I think it's moments like that which make Pike more realistic than one who constantly self-sacrifices with no thought to what he wants in life. And I definitely saw those things in this fic. :)