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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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Might have to see if you can prove me wrong.

[ ...because she could if she wanted to? ]

What if I don't like easy?

Big fan of wrong, ask anybody.

[ true that. ]

Guess it's your lucky day, then.

Pretty sure there's a cop by the name of Al McKowen back in Iowa who'd be quick to assure you the T is actually a W and stands for Wrong and not Tiber-- The other thing.

Never got the names of those cops I kicked the shit out of, but I'm pretty sure they'd have nothing good to say about me.

...Whoa, whoa, slow your roll. Come on, fill in the blank.

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What blank?

[ middle name, faith. it is awefulsauce. ...even if the historiaphile in him secretly adores it. ]

Tiber...

No. Laughing.

Tiberius.

...So that's what that gossip bitch meant, with the JT thing.

[ faith. is not going to laugh, because she doesn't get the reference and because when your name is faith you get a shitton of name jokes. ]

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James Tiberius Kirk. Try giving that one to the cops after you've had seven too many. I get to "Ja--" and then get lost.

Last time I got really shitfaced, not like the cops gave a damn about what the kids were doing in my neighborhood.

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I'd consider that a blessing. George Kirk's shuttle baby fucks up and the whole state knows about it in three seconds and suddenly it's all over gossip holos and your estranged mother's calling you up from her deep space assignment to scream at you about how your father didn't die so you could get alcohol poisoning.

[ apparently it's issues dump. not that this is anything secret, as it's common knowledge back home. little fuck up who straightened his ass up, saved the world and got his own ship and a captaincy to go with it. ]

Guessing you got an important dad, or something?

[ pause. more pause. then a sigh. ] Mine was just another con, doing life for murder. Mom told me he died.

[ he snorts. part bitter, part covering up that uncomfortable pang of sadness that's resonated a bit stronger than it used to in the wake of why his dad died. there's a piece of him that hates george for singling him out like that with such a move and another that hates spock - the one from the 24th century - for failing to save romulus and provoking nero. he gets that's all irrational, but such are the feelings of a human. ]

Not important until he died. Lieutenant on a minor research vessel. On the day of my birth, the Kelvin was attacked by a Romulan ship. Most of the ship's crew evacuated. He rammed what was left of the ship into the Romulans' to buy us some time. I was born on one of those shuttles.

[ and because he needs the light to counter the dark: ] Think being born lightyears away from Earth makes me an honorary alien?

[ he stops the laugh that follows that short. ] That-- I'm sorry. Did you, uh, know him at all?

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[ faith's quiet for a long space of time. she's... not the best at this stuff, kirk. ]

Sucks to that.

[ ...another pause here. ] Nah, they put him away when I was four, he died locked up.

[ kirk is actually rather glad for the lack of commentary. he's gotten sorrys and offers of comfort, hollow and genuine alike all his life, but hardly any of it has ever been wanted. this is his life and he's made the best of it, for better and for worse. pitying him for the lack of a proper father figure? sometimes feels like they're insisting he grew up wrong, that he's defective. if jim kirk's defective in any way, it's of his own doing and nothing george kirk's absence did. ]

Fathers. Who needs 'em?

Not us, I guess.

...Fuck, now I need that drink too.

Ever been on a starship?

Yeah, me and my magical freaking unicorn go on starships all the time. What do you think?

Unicorns don't exist. ...do they?

[ what? faith's from buffy's world, where vampires aren't just elizabeth báthory taken a few steps too far. ]

Well. Want to?

[ jim, you are... about to join the bad choices club. ]

...Sarcasm, babe.

[ sob kirk she really does kind of like you. ]

Dude, seriously?

[ because FUCK YEAH she wants to go on a real spaceship. ]

Hey, you're from the world where demons aren't just horror stories. Just checking.

She's in Speares. Just her bridge. Don't think those damn hamsters'll ever let me have a nine hundred meter long ship.

Be kinda cool, though. Not gonna lie.

...Hamsters can kiss my ass. See you there?

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Normally she's got enough firepower to take out this entire city in the blink of an eye. Couple photon torpedoes and bam. Bye-bye, Taxon.

[ somewhere, both admiral pike and spock are frowning at you while bones shakes his head in the background. oh, jim. ]

She's open. Just come right inside.

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