#parisxtorres

We know, it’s not September. It won’t be September for a long time. Are you feeling aimless because of a lack of P/T in your life? A little let down by the new year which feels so much like the old year? Are you cold as we enter deepest January and the temperature dips? In the mood for some mushy stuff? We at paris-torres-month have the solution for you: Fever February!

No, we’re not mocking Covid, we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of 🔥 Blood Fever🔥 one of the top five best Tom & B’Elanna episodes of all time! We’re also celebrating our love for Lisa Klink, the original P/Ter and writer of that episode and several other ones that set our P/T-loving hearts aflame.

How are we celebrating? With prompts for fics & video clips, & daily posts of all the best P/T kisses! Like SeP/Tember we’re inviting every P/Ter to participate. Unlike SeP/Tember, we’ve slimmed down the prompts (less is more), to themed days of the week. Behold, our handy dandy calendar of P/T goodness:

What the heck is a Songfic Sunday, you ask? Easy: Sunday’s theme is ‘songfic’. Write a fic, post a music video, or make a gif based on a song, or a few lines of lyrics, or just stick in some lyrics that you love!

Missing Scene Mondays - pretty obvious, write yourself a P/T missing scene or coda.

Trope Tuesdays - we all know what fanfic tropes are, right?

Wildcard Wednesdays - any fic that doesn’t fit with the rest of the daily themes.

Twisted Trope Thursdays - take your favourite trope & turn it on its head! Hilarity will ensue. (push those two single beds together to make one big one, or have Tom & B’Elanna deliberately & exhaustively try to make a non-surprising pregnancy)

Fixit-It Fridays - is there an episode or scene that you think would benefit from more P/T? Here’s your chance to fix that!

Smutty Saturdays - do I really have to explain this one? 💋 🔥 ♥️

We’ll be posting a sign up sheet so stay tuned. Yes, OF COURSE, you can pick more than one day. Yes, OF COURSE, more than one person can choose the same day! And once again we ask you to treat our favourite couple with loving care: don’t split them up (February is the month of love, after all), don’t kill one off, don’t kill one of their children... you get the idea. Please, no affairs or polyamorous relationships. DO make Tom & B’Elanna the central couple/relationship in your story, and please tag it with #fever february so we can find it and promote it.

We’ll see you soon! Tell all your P/T friends!

Let’s have another!

And a fic, horray!

“I can’t imagine a time I wouldn’t have found you fascinating.”

The Day of Honour: the day when Klingons reflect on their behaviour of the previous year to determine whether or not they’ve behaved honourably. B’Elanna hates it. She doesn’t want to be judged or evaluated (unless she blows everyone away with her brilliance), and she hates all that Klingon crap anyway. Too bad Tom took the idea—and her holodeck programme—and ran with it.

B’Elanna has a very. bad. day. On top of the unwelcome reminder of her Klingon heritage, she has to deal with an emergency in engineering, that Borg being assigned to her department, Neelix’ version of Rokeg blood pie, her spat with Tom over the programme, the failed transwarp test, AND having to dump her warp core.

Plus, she misses dinner with Tom.

And then she almost dies when they beam into space after their shuttle explodes.

At least she gets to tell him that she’s in love with him.

I love this episode because it’s a bridge between Voyager & the Dominion War episodes of DS9. And Tom gets to grow up a little & begin to contemplate his relationship with his father with both of them as adults. Plus, gets to comfort B’Elanna in her shock & grief. I hate this episode because it’s kicks off her depression, which is a painful thing to watch.

And here’s my fic contribution to today’s prompt:

Bonus crappy collage of kisses:

And today’s fic:

Wait! Another bonus crappy collage! Feeding B’Elanna:

B’Elanna has the best expressions in this episode. And the opening scene with them in the shuttle is pretty much all I remember about it. 🤷‍♀️