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The Clingy Coworker

The Unexpected Visitor

Moon Beams and Starlight

hi @introvertia i am so sorry that i let this languish in my inbox for ages. i appreciate you sending it!!

The Clingy Coworker:

AOS Spirk AU, mostly Spock POV

Spock is already working at the Academy when James Kirk arrives, first as a student, and then as hired as a lab assistant.

I just think it would be delightfully funny for Spock's narration to be like "I do not understand my new coworker. He stands too close to me and laughs at the things that I say. I thought he did not like me for this reason, until I saw him physically assault someone who insulted me."

"Jim is a valued colleague. Perhaps we could co-write a paper."

Meanwhile Jim is like "i am in LOVE and i don't care if he knows it, i don't care if it takes me the rest of my life but we are getting married"

The Unexpected Visitor

TOS Spirk

Something something diplomacy needs to happen and the Enterprise gets sent to pick up T'Pau and her retinue for some Federation conference or another. However, the unexpected visitor is T'Pring, who has discovered that being bonded to Stonn is not all it's cracked up to be.

She makes a move on Spock, who does not want this and asks Jim to pretend to be his betrothed until she is gone because she won't accept that he is happier single than bonded.

Lo and behold! Fake Dating tropes abound! They fall in love, etc etc.

Moonbeams and Starlight

SNW Uhura/Chapel (vaguely in the future AU)

Chapel and Uhura become pen pals while Chapel is off on her fellowship thing, after the events of S2

In my brain this is rapidly becoming a Fried Green Tomatoes AU?? Chapel has this whirlwind affair with the professor on the fellowship, Roger Korby, and at first everything is great but he doesn't like that she's a veteran with baggage, that she's a little bit wild, that she's deeply ambitious and smarter than he is, and he wants to control her. he threatens to ruin her career if she doesn't marry him, so they get engaged as she figures out a way to escape.

Uhura is the only one that she's telling the details to and the first to pick up on something being wrong, and when Chapel sends her a coded message that she needs an immediate extraction, Uhura, Ortegas, M'Benga, La'an, and Spock take a shuttle and head for her immediately.

Chapel reclaims her spot on the Enterprise and as she's getting resettled and restabilized Pike starts giving her cooking lessons as a calming mechanism

The first thing Chapel ever bakes entirely on her own she brings straight to Uhura as a gift

She asks Uhura why she came for her, etc etc, and Uhura has loved her the whole time, and Uhura confesses this, and Chapel is like "I almost wrecked my whole life leaping without looking. Can you give me time to think about this?" and Uhura says yes

Time passes etc and then Chapel realizes that she loves Uhura too and they kiss etc etc

Hiii darling thanks so much for the ask ♥️

And a random one - what writers do you think influence you the most or have inspired you?

I work linearly because I'm a control freak and need to see where the story is going at all points if I am to actually finish it. Gotta have outlines fully done, then writing fully done and through all its rounds of edits, then in the case of the comic, drawing page by page as I go. I like working linearly too because it makes the scenes I really want to get to a reward, and forces me to finish the scenes I'm less excited about to get there.

OUGH i miss ask games, thank you!

im obsessed with clown dolls

i have a faith in fate

smell of beachball good to me

AH that’s the Nurse Steve fic I started writing a million years ago- so long ago I revised it to make it post-3...and still didn’t finish it, but I keep meaning to.

So the Harringtons went from Hawkins rich to seriously rich at some point and Steve’s parents moved to Chicago and ended up being important philanthropists, donating a lot of money to this one hospital where Steve ended up working as a pediatrics nurse. He’s a great nurse but he also kind of has run of the place because of his parents. Meanwhile Billy ended up becoming an ER unit clerk (running the desk) at a different hospital. At some point they bumped into each other and fooled around but nothing happened after that.

But then Billy ends up working at Steve’s hospital...running the desk in the pediatric unit. And Billy is the first person to keep Steve in line (which usually means sending him home or making him eat)- he doesn’t care how much money the Harringtons gave to the hospital.

And then one of Steve’s favorite patients dies (a little kid no less!) so he’s all angsty and Billy consoles him and then they bang.

We used to talk about Nurse Steve and Unit Clerk Billy stuff at LENGTH in the server back in the day- I basically pictured ER with Billy and Steve (ER was also in Chicago!).  We came up with a million different stories- I still haven’t finished one!

Here’s a tidbit:

Steve dropped a chart on the unit desk and rubbed his eyes. Billy squinted at him, checking his watch. “Why are you still here? Your shift ended four hours ago. I checked.”

“I’m fine,” Steve mumbled. He didn’t look fine. He had dark circles under his eyes. Billy had noticed those dark circles upon first seeing him, and now they were even more pronounced.

Billy was beginning to get the picture. He grabbed the chart off the desk and glared at Steve. “Don’t just drop these here. They go in this slot.” He rapped his pen on a plastic bin screwed into the wall behind him. “I’m not your maid, Harrington.”

Steve only blinked at him and looked around the desk that had been a disaster the day before. “What did you do?”

“I organized this catastrophe you guys were calling a unit desk,” Billy snapped. He answered the phone just as it rang. “Pediatrics...You want to call Dr. Jacobsen’s office number, not- I understand that, ma’am. Yeah, well if you called him three times in an hour and he hasn’t called you back, there might be a reason. If this is an emergency, take him to the ER. Okay, well fuck you too then.” Billy hung up the phone. Steve was glaring at him.

“Colorful,” Steve said dryly. “That’s one word for it.”

“You bitch about it now,” Billy said. “But I’m gonna have this place humming like a hooker’s mouth on-”

It’s inspired countless novels and films, most of which are better than the source of inspiration. I waited a long time to read it and maybe my expectations were too high, but it did nothing for me and I love horror, paranormal, cryptids, folklore and all things spooky. It’s not that great, it’s actually quite dull.