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where_no_woman2012-10-27 12:14 pm
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Two Gaila Centric Fics
Title: Where My Heart Will Take Me
Fandom: Star Trek: AOS
Characters: Gaila
Word Count: 349
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: It’s been a long road, getting from there to here.
Notes: Written for a prompt of the song Where My Heart Will Take Me by Russell Watson, better known as the Enterprise Theme, I really couldn’t resist writing Star Trek fic for it. Though this is reboot fic, post-movie Gaila.
It’s quiet and calm in the lifeboat. It has to be as there may only be a few of them but they don’t know when or if rescue will be coming so oxygen supplies must be preserved. The fleet is gone, having flown straight into a trap, now its up to the Enterprise alone. They’re probably the only survivors of the fleet let alone the Farragut but they daren’t signal the Enterprise in fear of creating a distraction that Nero can exploit.
Hours later when Vulcan implodes almost all of the survivors on the lifeboat look away but Gaila does not. She watches the planet die and grieves all those they came out here to save. In her head she repeats the appropriate words to bless the dead on Orion, words she was sure she had forgotten long ago.
Out loud she says, “my room-mate’s boyfriend was from Vulcan,” and the others leave her be. It’s not as though she and Spock were particularly close, they’d been utterly different in nature, but it had been nice sometimes to know someone who understood what it was like to be the only one of your species at the Academy. She does remember that for all Vulcan were terribly restrained these days; ancient Vulcans were experts at blood feuds. She hopes Spock makes Nero pay.
Outside the window the stars drift past and Gaila allows herself to get lost in memories as she watches them. Memories of another shuttle journey years before and of a straight forward female Starfleet officer telling her that her fate wasn’t set in stone. That she could be whatever she wanted, even a Starfleet engineer like her if she wanted. Offering practical solutions rather than pointless sentimentality. It has been a very long road from that shuttle to this one and the name of the officer is long forgotten but Gaila does remember she was Vulcan.
Gaila takes a moment to grieve her and all the other Vulcans she never knew before getting up and going to check over the propulsion units; she has work to do.
Title: Goin' Home
Fandom: Star Trek: AOS
Characters: Gaila, Uhura
Word Count: 1346
Rating: PG
Summary: The first time Gaila sets foot on a Starfleet vessel it feels like home, it takes her another twenty years before she's allowed to call it that.
Notes: Gen backstory fic for Gaila, about her journey to and through the academy and the friendships she makes along the way.
guess it's just part of someone's master plan
Fandom: Star Trek: AOS
Characters: Gaila
Word Count: 349
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: It’s been a long road, getting from there to here.
Notes: Written for a prompt of the song Where My Heart Will Take Me by Russell Watson, better known as the Enterprise Theme, I really couldn’t resist writing Star Trek fic for it. Though this is reboot fic, post-movie Gaila.
It’s quiet and calm in the lifeboat. It has to be as there may only be a few of them but they don’t know when or if rescue will be coming so oxygen supplies must be preserved. The fleet is gone, having flown straight into a trap, now its up to the Enterprise alone. They’re probably the only survivors of the fleet let alone the Farragut but they daren’t signal the Enterprise in fear of creating a distraction that Nero can exploit.
Hours later when Vulcan implodes almost all of the survivors on the lifeboat look away but Gaila does not. She watches the planet die and grieves all those they came out here to save. In her head she repeats the appropriate words to bless the dead on Orion, words she was sure she had forgotten long ago.
Out loud she says, “my room-mate’s boyfriend was from Vulcan,” and the others leave her be. It’s not as though she and Spock were particularly close, they’d been utterly different in nature, but it had been nice sometimes to know someone who understood what it was like to be the only one of your species at the Academy. She does remember that for all Vulcan were terribly restrained these days; ancient Vulcans were experts at blood feuds. She hopes Spock makes Nero pay.
Outside the window the stars drift past and Gaila allows herself to get lost in memories as she watches them. Memories of another shuttle journey years before and of a straight forward female Starfleet officer telling her that her fate wasn’t set in stone. That she could be whatever she wanted, even a Starfleet engineer like her if she wanted. Offering practical solutions rather than pointless sentimentality. It has been a very long road from that shuttle to this one and the name of the officer is long forgotten but Gaila does remember she was Vulcan.
Gaila takes a moment to grieve her and all the other Vulcans she never knew before getting up and going to check over the propulsion units; she has work to do.
Title: Goin' Home
Fandom: Star Trek: AOS
Characters: Gaila, Uhura
Word Count: 1346
Rating: PG
Summary: The first time Gaila sets foot on a Starfleet vessel it feels like home, it takes her another twenty years before she's allowed to call it that.
Notes: Gen backstory fic for Gaila, about her journey to and through the academy and the friendships she makes along the way.
guess it's just part of someone's master plan