Drabble: Beloved (Star Trek: AOS, Spock/Uhura, G)

[seraphcelene]

A quick little something, just because I wanted to ...

Title: Beloved
Author: seraphcelene
Email: seraphcelene at yahoo dot com
A/N: 173 words, Star Trek-reboot, pre-movie.



She is loved, or in love. He isn't sure how to tell the difference, but whichever it is shines beneath her skin. It's in the way that she walks, her stride long, shoulders back, her hair swaying just above her hips. It's in the hello smile she flashes at the other cadets, incrementally brighter for the ones she already knows.

This is what Spock thinks, what he sees, the first thought he has in relation to Uhura. It's a somewhat distracted, abstract thought until it's not. Later, he will think of his mother and her parents and how she, too, is loved.

Uhura smiles and waves her way to a seat near the front of the room. Touching hands and shoulders, a brush of cheek in place of a kiss. The class isn't small, exactly. She doesn't sit in the front row, doesn't sit dead center. She doesn't have to, everyone knows that she is Uhura. To Spock she is Nyota. She is ashayam.

Comments

[lettered.livejournal.com]

This is awesome.

...I hope you make more.

[seraphcelene]

The likelihood that I will EVER write Trek fic again is insanely small.

But thanks. I am glad to know someone likes it and I trust that you're not just being nice because my drabble looks all lonely without any comments. :)

[lettered.livejournal.com]

Nope. Not just being nice. Uhura is so bright in this. She's the brightest thing. But she is neither the center of the universe, nor the force behind it. She's just smart and bright and know's what's what, and is unafraid. She makes me happy, and this vision of her at the Academy is what I pictured without knowing it.

How come you probably won't write Trek fic again?

[seraphcelene]

I really wanted to read how they met and everything I had read to that point was unsatisfying. What would attract Spock's notice first? I didn't want it to by anything initially too deep, just something that would be very different from his own lived experience and I kept picturing the way Zoe Saldana walks into the bar at the movie's opening. In the commentary, J.J. Abrams says that the way she walks into the bar tells you everything you need to know about Uhura. Although, I hope that's not true, I thought that infectious joy and confidence would be a great attractant to someone as restrained as Spock.

Trek fandom scares the crap out of me. There just seems like so much to know and I don't know it and wouldn't have a clue about where to begin. Of course, it's always possible. Witness the HP fic. I am terrified by that fandom, too.

Have you read yahtzee63's Break? It's a marvelous piece of Spock/Uhura. Not how they met, but how they came to be a couple. I love how detailed it is and it feels very true to the characters a la the reboot. I am quite in love with it. :)