#pig-wings

CLARK KENT

oKAY TO STAY WITH ME HERE BUT IMAGINE!!! The expanse universe without the protomolocule. Holden, Naomi & Amos all still work on the Cant but they just miss working together because Naomi and Amos leave before Holden joins, but he only stays on for a couple of round trips before deciding actually, woking on a ship isn't what he wants to do.

What he actually wants to do is run a little flower shop, that has access to more rare finds because of his family connections. So he leaves the Cant, and has a little money saved up and buys a really run down shop space on Tycho (everyone tells him he should be on Ganymede because they're already growing all basically all the food, but that's exactly why he doesn't want to be on Ganymede), and gets like 3 shipments of seeds & plants from his parents and he. sets up shop.

Only Holden has never really lived on a station before or by himself, because when he was in the Navy he was always surrounded by people, and then the Cant didn't give chance for much alone time, and before that he had like. 8 parents. James Holden has never been alone. But now he is. And he's starting to realise there's a bunch of stuff about living and surviving he doesn't know.

Which is how he meets Naomi. He's probably being ripped off by some street vendor because he's an Inner and just kind of clueless, and at first she thinks nothing of it. Let them rip him off. But then she sees him a little later on sharing the food he'd bought with some hungry kids and then even later she sees him again at his shitty little shop talking to a bunch of teeny tiny seedlings that are just sprouting, surrounded by a planter full of flowers.

Naomi's seen plants before, in pictures or from afar or half dead, but she's never seen flowers. Let alone ones in bloom. So she's a little wonderstruck as she watches him talk to the them, and water them and maybe singe a really off key song. Which makes her smile, and maybe let out a laugh before she can stop it, which gets Holden's attention who smiles at her. Invites her in and tells her all about the flowers he's growing.

ANYWAY they have some cute little bonding and teasing moments and Naomi, somehow(not hard, i just fully believe holden is always willing to give up control to naomi), kind of takes over fixing up the shop for him. Which brings Amos into the picture, because the two of them know how to survive on the station, but Holden seems like he knows how to live. And it's just a cute story about them all learning to live and love and survive together. The End😌

hope you like it!! thanks for sending one!💜

how the HECK am i supposed to anwser this oh my GOD uh uh uh okay let’s see

Ahahaha thankee!!  This is for @fadagaski as well who asked the same!

FIRST: the first two sentences of my current project

The truly funny part here is I don’t even have the beginning of this fic yet lmao. Setup is the bane of my existence.  And small talk.  So lol I’ve literally just jumped right into the steamy bits.

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🌍 What is your dream AU?

I didn't think it was possible to like Naomi even more than I did but reading Nemesis Games and Babylon's Ashes proved me wrong!