Star Trek XI: Black City / White City

[appelwagon]

Title: Black City / White City
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy, past McCoy/Jocelyn & McCoy/Pike
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Not mine. :(
Warnings: Mangled attempts at historical fiction, some race fail vocabulary due to the time period

Summary: Two ways Kirk and McCoy might have met at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

Notes: This is the twisted lovechild of two of my

Comments

[appelwagon]

Haha, thanks : )

[awarrington]

This was beautifully written and evocative - I love all the details you include of the era. How hard it must have been for homosexuals back then. You paint a portrait of a man running from himself and I love that it takes Jim to pull him up short.

I may be the first, but I doubt I'll be the last who would love to see a follow-up of what happens next.

Thank you for writing and sharing this. x

[appelwagon]

Oh, thank you <3 The first one kind of got away from me and became much bleaker than I'd thought, but it's hard to imagine any sort of non-hetero relationship back then that could resolve well.

Thank you for your lovely comment!

[awarrington]

The first one kind of got away from me and became much bleaker than I'd thought

It was bleak, but I think, realistic.

I applaud your writing skill for being able to convey so much in the atmosphere and emotion in such constrasting ways between the first and second stories. Brava! :-)

[tourdefierce]

This is beautiful, bb. I love how floaty and vivid your images are and how troubled Bones is with his past.

And Jim, goodness! His eagerness and obviously tender heart is fabulous. This is wonderful and I loved it!

[appelwagon]

Thank you! <3 I'm glad you liked it.

[sail_aweigh]

I absolutely loved this. You painted such evocative pictures with your words and I could see each segment so vividly. The first one was so gritty and dark, it felt almost claustrophobic and the second one just left me feeling lighter than air with so much hope! Wonderfully done.

[appelwagon]

:D I was going to start with the White City section & end with the Black, but I didn't want to end things on such a depressing note. I'm glad it worked for you - thanks for your kind words <3

[sangueuk]

I adored this fic so much!

So many beautiful phrases but these two lines really affected me.
It still strikes him as morbidly amusing, that the mysterious workings his body should finally betray him, one of the south’s premier surgeons.

and

For a brief, terrible moment, he hates Kirk for his bravery.

Beautifully written and so emotional. You manage to create two entirely different moods in the two sections, and each were as compelling as the other. I loved that it was McCoy taking the right path which led him to happiness but that also this was a function of his environment, one dark and stifling, the other light and hopeful. Amazing sense of place and beautifully paced fics, thank you!

[appelwagon]

It's always so interesting to see which lines stick out - I almost deleted that first one, and added the second one in last moment, so I'm so glad to hear they worked for you!

Thanks as always for your lovely comments, they do my heart good : )