HEADCANON: You’re Captain Christopher Pike’s Feral SO
Captain Pike x Female Reader
Authors Note: this was partially beta read but 100% written on my phone
◦ This is Captain Christopher Pike of the USS enterprise and you’re… you.
◦ When the discovery heard that Captain Pike long time SO (or as he told Michael ‘I have a Lady, she means the world to me and I had to pull a lot of strings to bring her over from my ship to here.”) was coming over from the Enterprise, they were expecting… not you.
◦ This got told to your face multiple times, especially by Tilly, not even questioning why she was helping carry your stuff to the captains quarters until she was halfway back to her own quarters and then she was like ‘…wait’
◦ Tilly’s your favourite, tbh.
◦ As Paul Staments once said when the entire ship realised you were Pike’s SO:
“it’s nothing against you, it’s just that you’re… you and Captain Pike is Captain Pike. When you think of who Captain Pike’s Lady would be, you think of someone very… Pikey. Not… you.”
◦ (If you imagine it in Anthony Rapp’s voice it makes total sense and doesn’t sound bitchy at all)
◦ In the crews defence, at no point did you or Pike ever attempt to correct them or let them know who exactly Pikes SO was.
◦ They just knew you came over from the Enterprise, that’s it.
◦ No one’s exactly sure what you do, like one moment you’re working with the ship’s Botanists and they’re like ‘oh okay’, and then the next moment you’re spelunking down a turbolift shute becuase Tilly’s gotten stuck in one.
◦ Even Spock not sure what you do. Do you know how hard it is to confuse a Vulcan?
◦ it’s actually Not that hard but now’s NOT THE TIME
◦ Then people starting seeing the two of you interact, usually in the form of you complaining as Pike took your second, third, it’s only my fifth if you’re going by binary numbers, caffeinated drink from you in the mess hall, shooting you a smile and a comment about how he doesn’t need his crew members all wired up.
◦ And because of well, everything about you (your lack of height, seemingly permanent babyface, etc etc), everyone just assumed that maybe you were a ensign of some sort that he felt a kinship too and was attempting to mentor through the command training program, because clearly you’re a ensign right?
◦ Oh, you’re a commander?
◦ You being Pike’s SO isn’t even a remote possibility, which is weird because you would think that they would suspect something, considering you’ve left the CAPTAINS QUARTERS IN DAYLIGHT HOURS IN FRONT OF OTHER CREW MEMBERs
◦ Also that one time you sat on Pikes lap during a party one time but everyone thought it was because you were tipsy and nobody noticed the way his hand was resting super high on your thigh and you could get away with it because ???
◦ It’s not until the one MINOR explosion that lands you in medbay and when the Captain hears about you getting some minor shrapnel to the leg and suddenly he’s running to medbay, pale as a ghost, and suddenly people realize this isn’t some weird mentor/mentee relationship but rather some weird romantic relationship.
◦ I mean, they didn’t realize something until you started getting into a very loud argument with him.
(it’s not uncommon for you to start arguments you’re a very argumentative person)
anyone passing by medbay that day saw you on the bed, yelling at him, while he stood there, hands on his hips, dumb smirk on his face like he’s turned on by it.
◦ He kinda is, not going to lie.
◦ Then Someone, yelled something about inches, and that’s when it clicked all across the ship.
◦ The man goes into double digits let’s be reasonable here.
◦ Jett Reno’s been suspicious of you two since the beginning, and it was pretty much confirmed for her one night when she ran into you and Pike stumbling out of his ready room with slightly messy clothes, giggling like teenagers, but it wasn’t her place to say
◦ Which again, begs the question- you?
◦ I mean he’s Captain Pike, he’s like the poster Boy Scout of Starfleet.
◦ You can usually be found scowling in the background somewhere, clutching your beloved caffeinated drink, a scowl on your face, usually grumbling about idiots as you diffuse yet another crisis.
◦ you also don’t like people, really.
Okay you don’t like MOST people, besides Pike, and that’s… questionable most days.
Pike said something about having some tramua from childhood you still need to resolve but idk
◦ Also you drink hot sauce on its own who does that.
So while you could usually be counting on for helping out the various groups and units on the ship, the only person you really opened up too on Discovery was Pike.
How you and Pike became a couple no one, not even Pike, are not really sure.
Okay Pike knows how but his mother raised him to be a gentleman and a gentleman doesn’t discuss dirty laundry.
Unless it’s with Spock and they were really drunk on Klingon Blood Wine and he felt so guilty about it afterwords he swore Spock to secrecy.
Spock does tells it to Kirk and Bones years later because he doesn’t understand why you and Pike were a thing really.
So it’s a understatement when theres a unspoken rule formed shortly after you arrived was that no one got between you and your food.
If someone needed you for something and you happened to be eating during that moment, they could wait.
Even Pike knew not to mess with you unless it was like the entire crew/universe was at stake (and if that was the case he’d get you to get your food to go because in Pike’s words ‘you get bitey when you’re Hangry.’)
◦ That is until some jackass in engineering made Tilly cry over a minor mistake she made, and the day you hear about it, you’re having lunch.
A lunch you’ve been talking about looking forward for six weeks because Pike got his hands on some Bajorian argendi sandwiches for the crew, and it’s not everyday that you get bajorian argendi sandwiches.
Sometimes Pike will make one for you but that’s only after you do that one thing for him, and the last time Chris even thought about asking you to that one thing, it gave Spock a month long migraine so it’s been a hot moment for the two of you.
◦ You have a vanilla latte, a banjorian argendi sandwich on mapa bread, and a new bottle of hot sauce in front of you.
◦ The one thing that would make this day perfect is if you had someone’s you know what to look forward too later but THATS NOT THE POINT
◦ But then Tilly comes into the mess hall, trying and failing to hide her tears right as you’re pouring hot sauce on your argendi sandwich.
◦ You see this and everyone else goes quiet when with a sigh, you push your sandwich away and you walk over to her, and ask if she’s okay and you take her for a walk to talk about it.
◦ When asked about it, Tilly just smiles and makes a joke about how she underestimated Pike’s… girlfriend? Wife? Life partner?
◦ Jett Reno later sees you dressing down the crew member that made Tilly cry but again, not her place to say anything, she says, as she retells it though with glee.
