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Chapters: 34/42 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), Star Trek Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Number One | Una Chin-Riley/Erica Ortegas Characters: Number One | Una Chin-Riley (Star Trek), Erica Ortegas, Christopher Pike, La'an Noonien-Singh, Christine Chapel, Nyota Uhura, Spock (Star Trek), Joseph M'Benga 

Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Enterprise is a family, Found Family, Illyrian lore, characters voted most likely to get turned on by a starship, Erica Ortegas may fly the ship but Rukiya and Chapel ship it, Rukiya wrote the fluff her all knowing nebula wrote the smut, let Una actually be Illyrian, Repressed Feelings, War Trauma, PTSD, Communication is Sexy, Sexual exploration, Emotional Sex, Building trust, excuse me that is my emotional support pilot 

Summary:

“Don’t leave - don’t leave - ” Erica says between full body laughs. She takes a deep breath and suddenly she is back to absolute sincerity. “Please, stay.”

One time, when Una was an ensign, the helmsman of the King Junior did a barrel roll without the inertial dampeners properly calibrated. Una’s stomach fared better then than against the swooping sensation she feels now. But she is a pilot. It’s not exactly the sort of feeling she dislikes.

***** Una’s never allowed herself to have friends. Erica’s friends are dead. As they grow closer, they discover that they have more than loneliness in common.

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By "where you were born" I mean the home you lived in as a newborn, not the hospital

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whoops lost myself for about eight years there

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Astronauts Poole and Morrison, they’re not a part of all this. Nor am I. And yet here I am. Also being held against my will, unable to call home. Thomas Paine was killed, Sergei. Along with 268 others. That’s why we’re here.

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Five sentence fic: Margo x Sergei

Work, the Problem

Legal pads of equations on her desk, a slide rule next to a calculator, yet the piano was what beckoned.

Music followed rules but also broke them, notes quiet until they were soaring, jazz allowing for improvisation within a form, her hands almost caressing the black and white ivory keys that wouldn’t be hers for much longer.

If only she was the kind of person who could be satisfied with a small life, with wherever the Witness Protection Program would send Sergei and his family to achieve the banality necessary for anonymity.

Instead, she was the Director of NASA, soon to be a defector to the Soviet Union and the safety from the FBI offered by a Roscosmos that would let her continue to do her work.

And she was deeply, deeply in love with a man whose equation was the inverse of her own, his journey to the United States a quiet note of victory while her impending escape to the Soviet Union was a new variation on the ever-dissonant chord of her life: the quest to achieve a job well done.

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My other five-sentence fics for Margo x Sergei on Tumblr: angst and sexy fluff.

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You think “oh it would be useful to learn how to identify my thrifted yarn and clothing” and before you know it you’ve been recruited by fiber witches giving out their spells willy nilly, again

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I find the fact that the closest mountain point on earth to the moon, the highest mountain and the tallest mountain are 3 different mountains to be a tiny bit disturbing

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February 1995 | October 2003 Margo/Sergei + hands

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TIL in 1896 a temporary, one-day city was named in Texas called Crush, where two locomotives were to be smashed head-on for purposes of spectacle. It was, for a few hours, the 2nd largest city in TX with 40k attendees. The collision caused engine boilers to explode, resulting in death and injuries.

via reddit.com

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Peony season. 🩷

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Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

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Although she’s ‘usually the smartest person in the room,’ Wrenn says that Margo isn’t as far along in her career as ‘she would like to be.’ But Margo is taking chances and making a name for herself. (x)