Reboot ficlet: "This Thing" (Pike/McCoy)

[syredronning]

Tiny fill is tiny... all is mine, including the errors.

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They don't do it in Pike's office, the Academy restrooms or classrooms. They stay away from the bars everyone goes to, from the city clubs and the restaurants.

When Pike picks him up, it's always in the dark far away from the campus, and then they drive to a place they've never been before and will never drive to again. In the beginning they stay in the car and it's quick and intense and dirtyfuckgood. Later they take some hotel room, and it's always Pike who checks in and pays it all. There's a large bed and a shower and they're at it all night, because time is precious and sleep is secondary.

Then they start renting a cabin in the woods for the weekends. When Pike picks him up in bright daylight in the middle of the city, McCoy stares into the eyes of a fellow cadet across the street.

"We should stop seeing each other," he says roughly as Pike accelerates.

"Why?"

"You're getting careless. You shouldn't risk your career for this."

Pike looks at him with a strange smile on his lips. "You risk it too."

McCoy doesn't find a good answer.

That night, Pike says the L-word, and McCoy stops meeting him because whatever this thing is, it's not worth losing the bit of his life and future he's managed to rebuild from scratch.

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Comments

[cupidandpsycho.livejournal.com]

Eep. Bones is right but... *sad face*

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

*hugs* In my mind, they'll end up together anyway *G* Thanks for commenting!

[illariy.livejournal.com]

Oh man, yes, this is believable and I think it's the right decision but damn, does it leave me all wibbly and sadfaced. :-(

Thank goodness there's your Draws-verse to go to for comfort. ;-)

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

McCoy and Pike somehow always end up together in my brain, so there's always hope *G*

And yeah, Draws... the universe where I just ponder to discard 25K of stuck story in favor of rebooting my plans :P

*hugs*

[firstlaw.livejournal.com]

wow, that last line was a killer! PErfect build-up to shatter into pieces! :-)

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I come to make happy-ends hard to work for *g*

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

OUCH. :-(

(But good!)

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[merisunshine36.livejournal.com]

WTF this is amazing! No, seriously, let me repeat it with capslock. AMAZING. It's tightly engineered yet such a rich look into their relationship. So many details in a tiny space, like Pike paying for everything, gradually being more careless about how he displays his feelings, etc. \o/

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Glad it met your taste ♥

[exiled-mind.livejournal.com]

Awww, you crush my heart.

Weirdly enough, I mean that in a good way :)

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Thank you! As I love me a good happy-end for them, there's always hope :)

[severinne.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. Thank you so much for this, because I've been really wanting some honest and true Pike/McCoy today and I can't seem to write it myself and you've suddenly got so much of them down to a wee little ficlet and... wow. Yes. Perfect.

Every detail of this rings wonderfully true, even though I want to both cuddle and slap McCoy for his decision at the end - yes, it's a risk, but it's almost like he feels that having this new career is the only thing he's entitled to, like his relationship with Pike isn't something he has also built from scratch and earned. My poor, angsty boy. *g*

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

like his relationship with Pike isn't something he has also built from scratch and earned

I think it was my inner severinne writing this ficlet here *G* Whenever I write them during the Academy, I see a very insecure McCoy when it comes to relationship, and one of the themes in his life seems to be suffering - he's inviting it IMO. I only wonder whether he already did that in his childhood/youth, whether it came with the death of his father, or whether Jocelyn ruined him the most in that regard.

After his failed marriage, I think he'd run from every relationship attempt that has the potential to become a failure.

Academy Pike, OTOH, is IMO a little too much used to get his way, but a relationship isn't the same as sitting in a captain's chair and giving orders.

Ah, meta love! ♥

[hari-kari.livejournal.com]

Lovely and sad. Well done.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[f-vikus.livejournal.com]

AND YET.

A tiny fill packing a big wallop.

*cries* You have a way with words. Here's Pike being all hopeful, and McCoy laying the rules down.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

*offers tissues* Ah well, I think Pike might be a little too much used to getting all he wants without having to negotiate, and McCoy is a little too willing to give up things before they could hurt.

But in my brain, they'll always have a happy-end :)

[leftarrow.livejournal.com]

NICE.

For whatever reason, this pairing is one that I'm usually into as an exception, rather than a rule, which is a damned shame, really.

Because WOW do I like them here.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I love both Pike/Kirk and Pike/McCoy a lot, so I mostly end up writing the threesome because I want them to be as happy as possible (yeah, closet romantic). Their relationships are so different, with different weak spots, it's like a gigantic ballpark for a writer *G*

[weepingnaiad.livejournal.com]

*wibbles* Now you have to write the next part... you know where McCoy's no longer a cadet and Pike won't let him give up on them because this hurt too much.

Lovely, though!