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[mia-cooper]

Ficlet: Casualties of War (K)

From my prompt me post:

@eyetagonthebridge said: It’s spider season in UK atm, I was watching tv last night and a huge one ran across the floor right at me. I shrieked like a little girl!  What if KJ or C hates spiders and needs the other one to spider-wrangle for them? x  

I may not have followed the prompt exactly, but here’s a bit of nonsense.

He’s really outdone himself this time.

“Mr Neelix.” I can hear the ice in her voice, and it sends the object of her ire into paroxysms of trembling. “Would you care to explain why you elected not to follow the correct biocontainment protocols when you beamed this … substance aboard my ship?”

Neelix’s whiskers are quivering almost as ferociously as his voice. “Ah, ah, well, Captain, you see… I, er…”

“Never mind,” she cuts him off, cracking like a whip. “Just fix it. And you, Commander,” she turns her glare on me, “I want you to supervise every move he makes. Personally.”

“Uh…” I’m starting to tremble internally as much as Neelix is on the outside. “Captain, I don’t think –”

“Well, that makes two of you.”

Ouch. She’s really steamed. Still, I try again. “Captain, it might be better if I have Tuvok take over. I’m really busy with the –”

“I don’t care what you’re busy with. Just fix it!” she snaps and stalks off.

Shit.

“Well, Commander,” Neelix has already regained his joviality with the captain’s exit, “where shall we start? Er, why are you backing away, sir?”

I force myself to stand still. “No reason at all. So, where did they all go?”

“Oh, all over the place, most likely,” he says cheerily. “Agile little things, they are. And they can jump like they’ve got springs in their legs. All eight of them,” he snorts.

I cringe.

“And those webs they shoot out are terribly sticky, but you learn to avoid them pretty quickly. Just make sure when you grab hold of one, you get both hands around its belly. It’ll flail around a bit, but as long as you hold on you won’t hurt it.”

I can’t help it: I whimper.

“Is something wrong?” Neelix’s orange eyes focus on me.

“No,” I mumble. “It’s just that … well, I’m not … I don’t really like…”

“You’re afraid of spiders?” Neelix asks at the top of his voice.

“Shh,” I hiss at him, glancing around. Sure enough, half the crewmen in the mess hall are staring at me and snickering.

“They’re perfectly harmless, you know. Just big. And ugly.” Neelix pats me on the shoulder, then chortles. “Who’d have imagined it? A strapping fellow like yourself, afraid of a few little creepy-crawlies? Ha ha ha!”

My teeth are gritted. “Not so little, in this case.”

“Oh, they’re only about the size of a Starfleet padd, Commander. And as I said, they won’t hurt you.”

“Maybe not,” I grumble, “but they’re sticky… and all those legs… and you said they jump.” The last word comes out more like a groan.

I can see Neelix is trying to be sympathetic, but there’s a smirk flirting with the corners of his mouth.

“If you like, I can go first into the Jeffries tubes,” he offers oh-so-helpfully.

“Let’s just get it over with,” I growl.

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“What was that?” My voice is an octave higher than its usual register.

Neelix glances back over his shoulder at me. “Commander?”

I scoot backward in the cramped Jeffries tube, hugging my knees to my chest. “I saw something move. Over there.”

Neelix squints. “You’re right! There you are, my little beauty!”

He scrambles forward and makes a grab for the eight-legged horror. It scuttles sideways. He lunges. The arachnid abruptly changes direction and launches itself directly at my face.

Oh Spirits. The hairy legs! The plump body! The beady eyes! The terror as it spins its slimy, glutinous web from an orifice in its belly!

I’m screaming like a schoolgirl in a haunted house, batting wildly at the Thing that’s malevolently gripping onto my hair with its horrid little feet. I can all but hear its awful thin spidery voice cackling at me. The web is sticking to my face and uniform. I can’t breathe…

“Commander!” Neelix is shouting, grasping without success at my hands. “Hold still! The poor little thing, it’s terrified of you!”

If I wasn’t so preoccupied with being absolutely petrified, I’d laugh. Or slug Neelix in his spotty, spider-loving, non-alien-food-barrel-scanning face.

Finally, with a particularly wild flail of my arm, I manage to dislodge the fuzzy crawler and fling it halfway down the Jeffries tube. It ricochets off the wall and drops to the deck with a splat, then scuttles away into the distance.

Neelix is lying on his back howling.

“What is it? Did it bite you?” I’m still shaking, but I’m his superior officer and it’s my job to keep him safe.

Neelix can barely speak, but he manages to pant out, “Oh Great Tree… your face… oh my, Commander … I haven’t laughed so hard in ages!”

I feel like curling up in a ball and crying.

“Janeway to Chakotay.”

My heart is still racing as I tap my combadge. “Yes, Captain.”

“Have you and Mr Neelix cleared my ship of vermin yet?”

“Uh…”

Neelix leans over and speaks into my combadge. “Hello, Captain, it’s Neelix. Commander Chakotay and I are making good progress. We’ve almost managed to trap one of the little critters, so I’m sure the ship will be de-spidered in no time.”

There’s an ominous pause, then: “Are you telling me you haven’t managed to trap a single spider yet?”

“Err…”

The venom in her voice could out-poison a Terellian tree spider. “Mr Neelix, when you requested permission to beam up three cartons of leola root, I agreed against my better judgment. When you took it upon yourself to circumvent the proper transporter protocols for biomatter, I considered having the whole shipment flushed out of an airlock. But if you don’t contain this infestation, I’ll beam the whole lot into space with you inside. Now get it done!”

Our ears ring in the sudden silence as the comm snaps off.

“Don’t worry, Commander,” Neelix offers, perking up. “I have an idea.”

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It takes two hours to reconfigure the sensors to detect each furry hell-beast and set up forcefields to trap every last one of them, adjust the fields to allow a stun-set phaser beam to penetrate each one, and scoop up each unconscious arachnid into an empty flour sack. The task is made ever more onerous by Neelix’s never-ending chatter about the anatomy of the chubby little creepers, loaded with advice about ‘facing my fears’ as he swindles me into doing the scooping.

But by the time we’ve collected every last one, I have to admit his theory has some merit: I am finding the plate-sized creatures less horrifying. I’m even beginning to take an interest in the brown and bronze striations on their fuzzy little carcasses and the short little front legs that look a bit like kittens’ paws (or so Neelix claims). And when Neelix rhapsodises about their bugged-out little eyes, which he claims are ‘adorable’, I find that I no longer feel as though my spine is attempting to forcibly climb out of my body.

Contrary to Neelix’s optimistic exclamations, though, I doubt I’ll be actively seeking contact with any kind of arachnid any time soon.

Finally, all the spiders are sleeping peacefully in a containment field in Sickbay, and I trudge wearily back to my quarters, desperate for a long sonic shower. My quarters are dark as I step inside, navigating on autopilot. I’ve already stripped off my jacket and started pulling off my turtleneck when something large and furry strikes me in the chest.

Screaming like a startled targ, I hop from foot to foot, brushing frantically at my violated body. How could we have missed one of the horrible creatures? And where the hell did it go? I’ve kicked off my boots and am halfway through yanking off my pants, terrified that the crawly horror has found its way inside my clothing, when I hear it.

That low, throaty, distinctly evil, very familiar chuckle.

Shaking but forcing myself to remain still, I croak, “Kathryn?”

“Lights,” she says, and I blink at the sight of her and almost scream again.

She slinks toward me, all skin-tight fishnet and enormous winged collar, her stocking garters flashing at me through the split in her skirt with every step. As she moves right up into my personal space, her long eyelashes sweep downward and her talon-like fingernails trail across my shoulders.

“Not Kathryn,” she husks. “Arachnia, Queen of the Spider People.”

She hooks a finger into my belt, and I’m starting to tremble for a different reason altogether now.

“I hear you’ve had a very interesting time today with my minions,” she murmurs. “Did the big bad Maquis manage to face his fear after all?”

My hands are busy mapping the exposed parts of her skin under that body-stocking, and my lips find their way to her throat.

“And here I thought you didn’t like spiders,” she purrs, slinking her arms around my neck.

“I’m starting to come around to …”

But the last of my words are muffled as she takes my mouth with hers. And I decide that I like contact with this particular arachnid very much indeed.

[myrcella]

shout out to the amazing j/c community on this hell site:

@leisylaura ☕️ @lodessa ☕️ @coffeematejc ☕️ @quirkette100 ☕️ @angrywarrior69 ☕️ @coffeeblack75 ☕️ @chakochick ☕️ @thesadchicken ☕️ @brittanias ☕️ @mylittleredgirl ☕️ @eyetagonthebridge ☕️ @janewaylover ☕️ @skaldis ☕️ @lokiroslin ☕️ @magdalenejaneway ☕️ @martinemoonshine ☕️ @starg8rocks

(to name just a few) i’m merely a lurker but see you all in my gifsets often and i appreciate you grandly 🤍💫

[ignisgalaxia]

J/C June: Day 30

Q: Free Day (Favorite J/C Anything)

At long last, we have reached the end of this challenge. I’ve gotta say, while it may have been long, it was fun! It was nice to see other JCers’ favorites and why we love this couple so much! Thank you to @chakochick for organizing this event and giving me something to look forward to all month long!

Today I can pick anything to post about, so I’m going to shine a spotlight on all the wonderful JC fanartists and my favorite works from them!

First I’ll start by shouting out a recently discovered artist, @jane-dee01. They do wonderful photo manips that look like art and give us the scenes we wish had happened. Their art is just gorgeous!

Here are some lovely fanarts by DRush that would’ve been lost but have resurfaced thanks to @eyetagonthebridge. They may be pencil drawings, but they’re so good!

I have to mention this piece, “Love Comes Full Circle” by nightwing1975 on DeviantArt. It just might be my favorite JC fanart ever because of how real it looks!

And last but certainly not least, my favorite JC artist, the lovely @dragon-droppings. Their artwork is absolutely gorgeous and in a style that I can’t get enough of. Any of their works could be on here, but I put some of my personal favorites.

I couldn’t put every JC fanart that I love on here since there’s a 10 images per post limitation wtf tumblr, but these are the ones that I love coming back to. For all the other JC artists that I didn’t mention, just know that if I’ve reblogged any of your works, it means I love your art :)

Thank you again to all the people that organized this event, and to those who participated with me! Just because June is over doesn’t mean we stop posting about our favorite space otp. JC lives on forever!

[cheile]

Please welcome PurpleDog, y’all!

 I'd like everyone to welcome Deborah aka @purpledog47 to the wild and woolly world of the tumblr side of fandom! 

For those who don't know her (possibly a lot of you), D has been a Trekkie and P/C shipper since the late 80s and a Voyager fan-J/C shipper since 2012.  She reads and writes in both ships and is on FFN and AO3 both - you can find her on FFN as bevfan here (https://www.fanfiction.net/u/449503/bevfan) and AO3 as purpledog (http://archiveofourown.org/users/purpledog/works). She's a great patient sounding board for your fic ideas – and I'm always grateful when she listens to my off the wall plot explanations LOL. 

Also for the record!  She is the reason I wrote Four.  (So y'all can direct your feels outrage equally from now on ;)  kidding, kidding....) 

Now I'm gonna take a page from @warp6's book and attempt to do some introductions/suggestions of people for her to follow and suggest that you might want to follow her back.  She might even be following you already – just give her time to learn her way around tumblr and she'll soon be binge-reblogging with the rest of us, I'm sure! ;)  I'll try not to forget anyone!  But add to this post if I do :) 

Fellow writers you may know - @angelicsharonraydor (my favorite Kaitlin and future first woman on Mars ;) @joyful-voyager (everyone knows our Laura I think), @jhelenoftrek (aka Helen8462 – the one who wrote my Chak and Naomi adventure so awesomely), @mia-cooper (yes THE Mia Cooper who wrote The Bitter End. among other things...), @missmil (she of the Last Goodbyes trilogy), @rawkfemme (who gave us mini KJ in Thumbelina), @muldyfi (Muldy on AO3), @angrywarrior69 (she defies explanation lol – just get to know her), @carlynroth (with her Counselor series - a super interesting AU), @lodessa (alias Khaleesi and owned by Their Feline Majesties Renly and Tiberius, so you get fic AND the occasional cute creatures), @killermanatee (she's written angst and fluff and even some Mark fic), @ricepips (fascinating little ficlets found only on tumblr.  Say that five times fast lol) @caladeniablue (Red Queen Running – need I say more?), and @devoverest (do not pass go or collect $200 without reading her fabulous Sam Wildman series Traveling Woman – holy shit). 

Other awesome people off the top of my head include @thesearchforbluejello @cleoselene, @klugtiger, @ariella884, @galinaredreznikov, @ailtara, @weary-hearted-queen, @oh-the-profanity, @eyetagonthebridge, @inwaitforsomethingbetter, @quirkette100, @danakathrynjaneway, @captainandhercorgi, @little-tayy, @breezybree, @zjofierose, @ato-the-bean and the ever fabulous @pixiedane. 

In the P/T camp we have @rikerssexblouse (RSB for short), @captacorn, @mollybecameanengineer (aka Sareki) and @alphaflyer – all great writers if you want your P/T fix. 

Fellow VAMBies you might recognize - @gates-hepburn, @katesfire82, @missyhissy3, @kjaneway115, @talsi74656, @capt-nyc (aka Little Obsessions), @cheyfwriting, @spiletta42, @emmikamikatze (aka khurst), @supernovacoffee.  The last two do a daily screencap series "how to (not) look at your captain/XO" – tons of caption/prompt/misinterpretation hilarity always ensues. 

Of course the @voyager-book-club tumblr for all your relaunch needs and @ds9vgrconfessions for fun confessions to read, agree/disagree with and generally discuss. 

Last but not least - our blessed fanartists of talented images @crisisenvyart, @writtenndust and @stasiclaire. 

I know I'm forgetting people and I apologize – so please reblog, say hi to D and if I'm forgetting someone, reblog and add to this post!

[martinemoonshine]

@eyetagonthebridge i agree with you !

31 DAYS OF Chakotay - Day 2 Favourite Season

Ooph, that’s hard! Chakotay was always my fav character, right from season 1 episode 1.

Over the course of the show there were glimpses of so many facets to him and so many complex layers to him either on his own or in his interactions with all of the crew, even Neelix.

Beltran played really well with all of the characters I thought and I’ll be honest, The.Man.is.beautiful! That’s not why I love the Chakotay character so much though. There was a hell of a lot more to him than his good looks. If I have to choose a season, I’ll say Season 3.

[lodessa]

@eyetagonthebridge replied to your post

“In and by myself on this cold December evening, so send me messages or...”

What would you really like for Christmas? Not that I can buy, but I would if I could <3

eyetagonthebridge replied to your post “In and by myself on this cold December evening, so send me messages or...”

  If you celebrate Christmas, that is :)        

Aww! I do. (Yes I’m one of those Jews who still does Christmas because of the society I live in)

Hmmm... I didn’t have to come up with a list this year, since my husband and I are “giving” each other a trip this year.  Here are some of the things I have been coveting though:

Good quality tea infuser(s) (all of mine disappeared and now when I want to use my loose leaf tea I have to use a sieve that’s totally not fine enough and forces me to use one particularly wide mouthed mug or make a whole pot and then I end up wasting a bunch or jumping to warp if I don’t have guests).

Champagne coupe glasses (you know the old school ones that look a little like mini margarita glasses).

A better coffee grinder that I don’t have to run three times to get a passably fine espresso despite having a “fine” setting.

That bluetooth star trek comm badge.

This extravagant laurel leaf circlet.

These gorgeous TNG art prints.

New high thread count sheets and duvet that don’t clash with my bedroom walls (current ones are a soft green (approx hex color: #8accba) and the walls are a lovely shade of blue (approx he color: #95c0e7) so I really want something in a grey/white pattern but california king sized bedding is expensive)

A pasta maker attachment for my kitchenaid stand mixer.

[emmikamikatze]

RULES:  Tell your followers 11 random facts about yourself, and tag 11 people in return! Tag backs are allowed, but you mustn’t repeat any of the facts you mentioned previously! The facts can be absolutely anything! Whatever springs to mind! Let’s get started!

I was tagged by @youngjoycebyers

1.) I used to sing quite well and I still have a secret youtube channel with a few of my recordings and original songs.

2.) I once had an undercut and I loved it. But growing it out was a pain.

3.) When I was a little kid I was so blond my hair was almost white. Now I’m a natural dark brunette.

4.) I’ve never broken a single bone in my body.

5.) I used to study maths, but instead of the bachelor courses for teachers to be, I sat in the graduate mathematics course and got an E for my first assignment. I switched to philosophy and then to media studies after that.

6.) I’m a language nerd. I loved all my language classes (English, French, Latin) in school and my linguistics courses in University. I started learning Swedish and Italian and I would love to learn Spanish and/or Gaelic.

7.) I taught myself to play the guitar, but I’m not very good.

8.) I didn’t study at all for my final exams in school, except for my written history exam and even there I only learned one single topic. I aced my finals.

9.) At my brother’s wedding I saw my dad the first time in 16 years and he didn’t say a single word to me.

10.) I don’t like dogs.

11.) My family would be rich as fuck, if my great-great-grandparents had not been disowned by the Nazis. Now we’re poor as fuck.

I’m tagging @supernovacoffee, @eyetagonthebridge, @fbismostunwanted1158, @notimejustwords and @delete-the-wife

[cheile]

@eyetagonthebridge - way before MsScribe. and unless MsScribe changed her name from “Siobhan”, not the same person, nope.  

“Siobhan” was a lesbian who was invested in m/m slash ships (Chakotay/Paris was the one i remember, because she targeted P/T shippers when she could get her slimy little hands on the information).  

anyone who didn’t subscribe to slash was a homophobe in her book.  one person had to change their home phone number to get rid of her hang up calls.

the most ridiculous part of it all:  the woman was in her late 30s.  let that sink in.

[emmikamikatze]

eyetagonthebridge replied to your post “I have a need for Kate Mulgrew in that copper dress please! For...”

Do you mean this one? https://scontent-lhr3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/14714519_1191467044254428_1522387029634056192_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTM4MDc0OTc0OTgxNjk0NTI0NA%3D%3D.2

YES!!!!

[emmikamikatze]

eyetagonthebridge replied to your photo:breezybree: Janeway: **Pulls out Bertha, her...

Whoever they are, they better run - they made the mistake of hurting her man :D

😂 It’s the name of the rifle!

[lodessa]

@eyetagonthebridge replied to your link “Just Once - Chapter 1 - lodessa - Star Trek: Voyager [Archive of Our...”

Wonderful! So happy you're posting J/C fics again :D Thank you for wrangling your flighty muse to the floor and making her stay put for this :D

Thanks. Hopefully now that I’m back from my trip, I’ll be able to get more written.

emmikamikatze replied to your post “for the fic writing questions meme, #10 and 11 :)”

I just re-read Slip of the Tongue today...what a coincidence.

Awesome. I hope you enjoyed!

[lodessa]

@eyetagonthebridge replied to your post “Hey guys, I could really use some happy/nice things to cheer me up...”

Here you go, chin up. We love you :)

eyetagonthebridge replied to your post “Hey guys, I could really use some happy/nice things to cheer me up...”

Hard not to smile at that! Thanks!

rozeharten replied to your post “Hey guys, I could really use some happy/nice things to cheer me up...”

�� you'll get through it! I've told you I'm now kinda super into voyager, right? Like, I'm actually choosing it to watch when my husband asks me in the evenings. Makes me think of you!

Awww! I’m so excited you are into it now.  I (obviously) got ridiculously addicted.  Can’t wait to hear your reactions in detail!

idinamandalexclaudiacote replied to your post “Hey guys, I could really use some happy/nice things to cheer me up...”

Sorry to hear you are having a rough week! You are so awesome and please don't let people get you down. Have your preferred beverage and watch some kate vids <3

Thank you.  All the love I’ve gotten over the past day and a half has really lifted my spirits (even if I am out of gin!)