[Meme] Prompt!fic time again :-)

[edenfalling]

I had today off work after all, and I am bored. None of my current writing projects are really calling to me, so... please tell me what to write!

The first six people to give me a fanfic prompt (on LJ and/or DW) will get a ficlet of at least 100 words. :-D

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Fill List:

1. Last Call for cherokee1: 2,250 words, Naruto AU. Sakura and Naruto discuss their futures during their last summer as camp counselors. The sociopolitical details of the AU ended up dominating the fic, despite my occasional attempts to remember the camp setting. Oops. :-/

2. Implications, aka Jim Kirk Loves His Crew for jjhunter: 575 words, Star Trek: AOS. What it says on the tin. (But not like that. Get your mind out of the gutter! :-p )

3. What Is Essential for askerian: 3,200 words, Naruto AU. Sakura went to summer camp to be with her best friend Ino. Somehow over the next two years, she ended up best friends with two jerks instead. Another installment of the summer-camp-and-politics AU.

4. Narutostuck: The Spider and the Flies for runespoor: 2,400 words, Homestuck/Naruto fusion. The eastern countries have reached out to the new government of the Land of Space, inviting the village of Hidden Time to send participants to the upcoming chuunin exam in Konoha. Vriska Serket is very interested in whether her country's new leaders will accept, and ropes her teammates into helping her spy on their meeting.

5. After Frost for hungrytiger11: 4,850 words, Naruto AU. In the shadow of a vote over a bilateral free trade agreement with Thunder Country, Hyuuga Hinata moves on. Warnings for depression, learned helplessness, severely dysfunctional families, and a traumatic backstory involving kidnapping, long-term captivity, and murder. Another installment of the summer-camp-and-politics AU.

6. Trollstuck for explodingfrogs: WIP, Homestuck AU. Wherein the four beta!kids are and always were trolls on Alternia, Sgrub/Sburb does not exist, and Troll Jade Harley is on a quest to keep her friend Aradia from dying. Things will almost certainly get more complicated, but that's a good place to start. (Collaborative audience participation fic! Come play with me!)

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Implications, aka Jim Kirk Loves His Crew

[edenfalling]

Jim leaned against the jammed-open doorway of the turbolift and surveyed the post-attack chaos of the bridge with badly hidden pride. Half the computers were useless slag, several of the usual gamma shift crew were still in sickbay getting patched up, and yet the Enterprise remained on course, repairs were already underway, and his people were practically vibrating with efficiency and ingenuity as they went about their work.

It was a beautiful display of the resilience of the human spirit. Or alien spirit, obviously, but Federation Standard, while a marvel of linguistic engineering, was sadly light on phrases that came pre-weighted with emotional context. (Jim made a note to start a discussion with Uhura on that topic at the next command crew dinner. He was fairly sure he could derail it into a list of his failings as a culturally insensitive boor within twenty minutes if he put his mind to it.)

But anyway, his ship was beautiful, his crew were beautiful, victory was beautiful. Despite the lingering stench of fried electronics. Everything was beautiful -- enough to make even a Vulcan weep. Stoically, of course, and on the inside, but Jim was sure Spock had shed a metaphorical tear over the flawless way his subordinates had behaved during the brief spat with the Bird of Prey whose idiot Klingon commander had thought the Federation wouldn't have the strength to maintain a border patrol after Nero's incursion.

"It is reassuring to see the crew dealing so efficiently with the disruption of battle, despite their average youth and inexperience," Spock said from right behind Jim's shoulder, the sneaky, cat-footed bastard.

"By which you mean, 'Congratulations, Captain, on not fucking everything up like the glory hound I have long suspected you to be,'" Jim muttered back out of the corner of his mouth. He hoped he hadn't twitched.

Spock moved a half-step forward to stand at Jim's side. "I said no such thing."

"Yeah, well, I can read an implication as well as the next person," Jim said. Then he bounced slightly on his toes and smiled despite the lingering pain in his shoulder from where a photon torpedo impact had thrown him to the deck. "But just look at them! We have the best ship in the universe, and I'm pretty sure we have the best crew as well. It's enough to bring tears to my eyes. How about you?"

"Tears are maladaptive in a desert," Spock said.

Jim rolled his eyes. "Metaphorically, Spock. Aren't you proud of them? Vulcans are allowed to feel pride, right? You people wouldn't act half so smug otherwise."

"There is no sense taking pride in fulfilling a task well within one's abilities. Such an outcome is merely to be expected," Spock said. "Excuse me. I must help Lt. Marw'wihhln recalibrate the subspace sensors." He favored Jim with a subtle nod and strode through the organized chaos, neatly threading his way between distracted bodies and piles of debris.

Jim felt a helpless grin stretch over his face.

He really could read implications, even if he usually pretended to miss them for his own amusement. Spock had all but said that he agreed this was the best crew in the universe.

"Yeah, totally crying inside," Jim said to himself. Then he turned and began examining the broken turbo-lift. His crew were giving everything they had, and a little more besides. He might as well pitch in and make himself useful too, before Bones inevitably called him down to sickbay and sent him off to bed.

Re: Implications, aka Jim Kirk Loves His Crew

[askerian]

... d'aww! ♥

Now I kind of want to read that discussion with Uhura though. Jim being all "hay btw i'm actually smart" could be fun. XD

Re: Implications, aka Jim Kirk Loves His Crew

[edenfalling]

I might write that someday. I have thoughts about language in Star Trek; the trick is finding a way to express them in a story instead of an essay. :-)

Hey, as long as you're here, do you want a fic too?

Re: Implications, aka Jim Kirk Loves His Crew

[askerian]

I do want a fic, I just don't know.... ohhh.

okay, yes, I do. I want another scene from the ones you outlined from the Team Seven AU. :D :D :D :D :D Any of them will work, they're all awesome.

Re: Implications, aka Jim Kirk Loves His Crew

[edenfalling]

I will get on that! (Tomorrow. Tonight, I am going to bed. Mmmm, sleep...)

Re: Implications, aka Jim Kirk Loves His Crew

[jjhunter]

"Tears are maladaptive in a desert," Spock said.

Hee! This whole thing is brilliant. Love the 'well within one's abilities' part, and Jim's conversational derailment specialty.

But anyway, his ship was beautiful, his crew were beautiful, victory was beautiful. Despite the lingering stench of fried electronics. Everything was beautiful -- enough to make even a Vulcan weep.

This is where I start losing it - at the fried electronics / everything was beautiful bit; that's where you really had me, and you kept me delighted well past the closing line. Everything I could have hoped for and more - what a treat!

Re: Implications, aka Jim Kirk Loves His Crew

[edenfalling]

Thank you! These versions of Spock and Kirk are way too much fun together.

As for Jim's conversational derailment skills, I am a firm believer that Kirk is always best when he's self-aware about the various ways in which he's a dickhead. (I think Uhura also knows, now, that he's mostly doing it for the amusment value, but that doesn't stop her from rising to the bait -- partly because he picks intelligent topics as a starting point and she gets genuinely frustrated at not being able to continue a proper debate, and also because it's fun to exercise her verbal smackdown skills on someone she knows won't actually be hurt by any insults.)

But the best part about Star Trek, for me, has always been the sense of nakama among the crew, the obvious love they all have for their ship, and the ability to look at the universe with a sense of wonder despite the intrusion of politics, wars, and the disaster of the week. :-)