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[tiberiuskirk.livejournal.com]

Kirk stood outside the doors to the severed bridge of the ship he hadn't seen in over a year. There used to be a hallway here - to the right, sickbay and to the left, the transporter room. Both were gone, sent home along with the people they'd accompanied. Sickbay had vanished months ago with Doctor McCoy, but the transporter room was a more recent disappearance, gone with Uhura. Both she and Spock were now absent from Taxon.

Part of him was glad they were gone. No-one deserved to be here. Better they be home, leading the lives they were supposed to than here in sometimes apocalyptic hamsterland. The other part was angry and jealous; felt abandoned and alone. Irrational, he realized, but hey, he was only human.

He took a step towards the doors and they parted obediently, granting him access to the Enterprise's remaining piece. Once on the bridge, he lifted the tablet he'd known was on all along into view so he could look at the screen directly. For once, he'd actually turned it on himself and wasn't just the tablet glitch that plagued Taxon's residents.

"To those of you who knew them, Commander Spock and Lieutenant Nyota Uhura have been sent home."

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[aregulargirl.livejournal.com]

Max hasn't been going out of her way to avoid Kirk -

Well, that's a total lie. She has been. But residual awkwardness about what had happened (or what she'd tried to make happen) between them when she'd been in heat aside, she likes Kirk and it's never a good thing when someone you know and care about gets sent home.

"Sorry to hear it."

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[tiberiuskirk.livejournal.com]

For the record, Kirk's not holding it against her. Regardless of the fact that he's unaware of her transgenic nature and the feline DNA that gets the better of her at times, this is Taxon. Sometimes this place makes people do things that they otherwise wouldn't. It's all water under the bridge on his end at this point.

"Thanks, but...I'd rather them be there than here. They they belong there."

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[aregulargirl.livejournal.com]

He doesn't sound like he's feeling awkward about it, so she pushes past her own initial feelings and settles in a chair as she sets her tablet on her lap, pushing a lock of hair behind her ear.

"Yeah. But it still kind of sucks being the only one here you know from home." She's guessing on that part, but speaking from experience. "Did you just find out?"

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[tiberiuskirk.livejournal.com]

He nods by way of answering the second question. As for the first...

"Lieutenant Torres is still here," he explains. "She's from my world, just...a century and some change ahead of me."

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[thenormalsquint]

Home? Wait, what? I thought we were all stuck here forever.

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[tiberiuskirk.livejournal.com]

Forever until the rodents decide to toss you back. Until then, we're stuck in the boat.

[voice]

[thenormalsquint]

Hamsters and rodents. There needs to be a list of alien nicknames tacked up somewhere.

[She's only a little serious, but it would help the new kids get with the program.]

So once you're gone, do you stay gone? Please say yes.

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[stacked]

[ faith waits a second before responding to this one. kirk's buffy's ex, which is... not a new thing for her, but still.

...on the other hand. ]

Wanna go get wicked fucking trashed?

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[tiberiuskirk.livejournal.com]

God, yes.

[ not even a question. these past few months have sucked and getting mind numbed for a bit is a big do want. ]

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[stacked]

Atta boy.

[ this is as gentle as faith can do; she can't comfort, can't reassure because she's selfish and if she could make the freaking hamsters bring people like ethan and dean back, she would. in a fucking heartbeat. but she can offer a way to not think about it, for a while. ]

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[glowingseer.livejournal.com]

Are you okay? [ which is... admittedly not the smartest question to ask, but somewhat appropriate. ]

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[tiberiuskirk.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[ translation: no. ]

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[glowingseer.livejournal.com]

Sure you are. Because people who have lost friends in this place are always okay after learning about this fact.

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[skort]

Spock's gone?

[ kara sounds rather sad at that. ]

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[tiberiuskirk.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm sorry, Kara, but he's been sent home.

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[skort]

Well... better home than here, right?

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[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

It's probably not the most amazing idea for Buffy to say anything here, but she knows how much Kirk cares for his crew, and she knows that he's very good at giving the impresssion of being fine when he's anything but.

"I'm sorry Jim."

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[tiberiuskirk.livejournal.com]

That's the very truth of this situation. Acting fine when he's not. Classic Jim Kirk.

"Thanks." A beat, then, "They're better off back home."

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[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

"We all would be," she sighs, wistfully. There's a lot of unfinished business back in Tibet that she'd like to get back to, on her end of things.

"Seems like we're practically veterans." It's certainly occurred to her that Kirk is one of the few people left that's been here almost as long as she has.

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[numbersnfigures.livejournal.com]

So you can go home...

I'm sorry that you lost your friends.

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[tiberiuskirk.livejournal.com]

But only if the aliens choose to send you back. We don't get a say on our check out dates.

...thanks.

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[numbersnfigures.livejournal.com]

I see...

Has there been any kind of noticeable pattern as to who gets to go back and when?

[aklingonside.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry."

The words were nowhere near enough, but they were the only ones left from their world and she felt compelled to answer. She liked Kirk - not just because of the legend that went with his name, but because he was the sort of person she could see herself respecting enough to serve under - and he needed to know that she'd stick by him. It wasn't much, but it was something.

Besides, she understood the bond between captain and crew. Voyager was more than just a ship, as Captain Janeway was so fond of telling them. It was a home and a family and she'd been pulled away from both. The Enterprise and it's crew must have meant the same to him.

[tiberiuskirk.livejournal.com]

An apology in regards to the situation from her was perhaps the only one he'd accept without any false gratitude in the form of something uttered as casually as a remark about the weather. If anyone in Taxon understood how this felt, it was her. She didn't have any of her crew here, but she was without one all the same. Being that disentangled from a well-oiled machine made of people performing the specific tasks in order to make the ship they called home function was something that was difficult to explain to those who'd never been a part of such a thing.

"Thank you," he said, sincerely. "History needs them for their appearances in the archives."

[aklingonside.livejournal.com]

"History needs you, too," B'Elanna pointed out. "You're going to get out of here eventually."

She didn't just believe that, she knew it. The only problem was that there was no way of knowing when he was going to be sent back to his ship.

"Where are you?" B'Elanna added, getting to her feet as she decided, rather impulsively, that Kirk shouldn't be on his own while he dealt with his loss.