Ficlet: "Schoolyard Tricks" (VOY, J/C UST)

[icepixie]

Oh, lord. I have committed Voyager fic. Well, ficlet. Someone save me from myself.

Title: Schoolyard Tricks
Rating/Pairing: All Ages, J/C UST
Summary: Very early in their stay on New Earth, Chakotay finds himself unable to resist. Fluff.

Chakotay couldn't keep his eyes off Kathryn's braid as she sat hunched over the table, entering data on a PADD. It was just *hanging* there, reaching halfway down her back, tempting him beyond any reasonable expectation of restraint.

He crossed the room silently, although Kathryn probably wouldn't have heard a targ come crashing through the house, so engrossed was she in her work. He stood just behind her, trying one last time to resist the urge he felt.

It was hopeless. He reached out, grabbed the end of the braid, and tugged.

"Hey!" Kathryn yelped, turning instantly from the PADD and glaring at him. He smiled his best, most innocent smile, and tucked his hands behind his back. Her gazed softened at that, though she pulled her hair over her shoulder, out of his reach. "You're incorrigible. I bet you pulled all the girls' pigtails when you were in primary school."

The words came out of his mouth without really running by his brain first. "Just the ones I liked."

He saw her eyes go wide, and was just about to attempt some damage control when a little smile he'd never seen before, but hoped desperately to see again someday, appeared on her lips. He briefly wondered if he could make an approximation of an inkwell.

The moment played itself out, and she turned back to her work. But he noticed, as he returned to his own computer and the design he hoped to surprise her with, that she flicked her braid back over her shoulder, so that once more it was hanging down her back, completely defenseless, utterly tantalizing. He had a feeling he knew how he was going to tell her lunch was ready.

Comments

[caffey.livejournal.com]

That was different, and I mean that in the best way imaginable. I thought I'd read it all - New Earth wise, that is - but this approach never occurred to me. Probably because I've never had my pig tails pulled at school.

I'm very surprised you're doing Voy fics, though. ^^

[icepixie]

Thanks!

I was inspired by reading this fic, which is All About Janeway's Hair, and there's a fantastic scene in it where Janeway whisks her hair into a braid and amazes Chakotay with the swiftness and ease she does it with. I always loved her hair in the braid (or her later ponytail) too, and this little scene popped into my head because of that, I guess.

I'm very surprised you're doing Voy fics, though. ^^

Oh, god, I wrote probably fifteen or twenty--some pretty long ones, too--when I was a teenager. All of them have been CONSIGNED TO THE FLAMES now, because ow, they were written when I was like fourteen, but...yeah. I think the first fic I ever wrote was a Voyager fic, come to think of it.

It's kind of fun to revisit, actually. They were all so cute and optimistic back in the day!

[caffey.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, I haven't read any of Mary's fic in forever. But yes, I recall that story.

As for writing Voyager fic as a teenager... Erm. *coughs* Right. Been there, done that, added to my ever growing t-shirt collection (and I have tons by now ^^).

It's all kinds of fun to revisit, if you ask me. Now I get to do all the things that never ever occurred to me when I was first involved in that fandom. Maybe because I'm no longer involved - or at least not to the extent I used to be.

[icepixie]

I kind of feel like everyone wrote Star Trek fic of some sort as a teenager. It's a gateway drug.

Now I get to do all the things that never ever occurred to me when I was first involved in that fandom.

YES. Ten years later, things often look either much worse or much better than they did when in the throes of teenaged angst.

[caffey.livejournal.com]

Ten years later, things often look either much worse or much better than they did when in the throes of teenaged angst.

Much better. Much, MUCH better. Stranger and a lot insaner too, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Letting go of sanity does make life SO much easier.