Thanks so much to all the J/P Kidfic Fest participants -- authors and readers alike! The response to the first fic fest of Jupiter Station 2.0 has been incredible.
All of the fest fics can be found in the AO3 Collection, of course, but let's highlight everybody one last time before we go... and thank you all, again, for making this event possible! 🥂
Another silence. The tension in it was not unfamiliar. That old feeling—the unsaid history of two people who joked and commanded and survived side-by-side, but never let the moment stretch far enough to mean something.
Tom broke it with a half-smile. “So… how does it feel? Motherhood via temporal anomaly.”
Always Something There To Remind Me by @divinemissem13
Among the prisoners, one man kept her attention. Not because he was particularly large or alien, but because he was — well, because he was Tom. Kathryn's Tom, or at least he had been once. Back before everything fell apart and their paths diverged so violently. Before he was kicked out of Starfleet, before he was a traitor, before he was a criminal. Before…
Shepherded Through the Looking Glass by @curator-on-ao3
Kathryn Janeway meets a version of Tom Paris who loves her, changing the captain's perspective on her helmsman — and the way the crew might be able to get home.
The Second Gift by @canonantithesis
A sequel to my story, Time and Again … and Again. Read it first or this won’t make sense.
Starts during the 4th season episode, The Gift, where Kes flings Voyager 10 years closer to home.
She also gives them a second gift.
The Peace of Wild Things by @grissomesque
But her eyes are on the case—on her first sliver of hope in all these long weeks. The storm is inside with them now, threading through the fractured roof, forcing rain through the fault lines of the wall paneling. She twists in Chakotay’s arms, desperate, trying to break free, to keep it safe—
“Kathryn, stop fighting!” His voice is tight, strained, and she hears the fear in it but he doesn’t understand.
Xenobio 101, an independent study by @syrena-of-the-lake
A report by Naomi Wildman, Subunit of Ensign Wildman, Captain's Assistant, Fledgeling Naturalist.
When We Get Home by @jadethe2nd
Kathryn realizes instantly when this must have happened. She’d been bitten, an angry red welt appearing on her neck, but the Doctor had checked her over and declared, at that point, that there was nothing to worry about. So she’d gone about her day, and later Tom... Tom had kissed it better. Among other things.
A Kindred Spirit by @darksideofthecoffeebean
At a garden party, Cadet Kathryn Janeway meets her mentor’s son, Tom Paris.
