These Twists and Turns of Fate

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Fluff Meme




R U L E S:
1. Post your character with their name and series in the subject line.
2. Others respond using RNG. Roll 1 - 15 to pick a scenario.
3. Some scenarios have options (A - C). Pick any one from them or roll 1 - 3.
4. If there is no option that fits for you, then feel free to make one up!
5. And there you go, instant fluff~



Scenarios:

1. A little help, please?

A) Lost - You got lost somewhere, like a school or office building or even an unfamiliar city street, and it doesn't look like you can figure out the way back by yourself.

B) Bike/Car Trouble - Your mode of transportation has a flat tire and your cellphone battery is dead while you're in a middle of nowhere.

C) You Shrimp! - You’re just a short fry who can’t even reach the top shelf for an item. Or even if you’re tall enough, you STILL can’t reach it without a second hand. Like maybe, a ball that got stuck on a basketball’s ring.

2. Babysitting/Pet sitting

Your neighbor is going out of town for a few days. They ask you to take care of the pet (or the baby) for the time being. But you don't have to worry! Your neighbor hired someone to help you. You can only hope that person is reliable...

3. Playful Fight - The two of you are having such a nice time together, doing whatever it is you’re up to. Suddenly, one of you just can’t help but start teasing a little. Like maybe pick up the nearest object available and throw it to the other person's face.

A) Food Fight - Didn’t your mom always told you not to play with food?

B) Water Gun/Water Balloon Fight - Well, that’s one way to cool down.

C) Pillow Fight - Grab a pillow or two. It’s game time.

D) Tickle Fight - Who cares about objects! Your true weapon is your god hand!!

4. Hand to Hold - Something terrible just happened. It’s terrible enough to make you cry or flip a table. You don’t want to be alone right now with these feelings.

A) Shoulder to cry on - You’re not done crying and it just hurts to cry on your own hands.

B) Woke up from a bad dream - Did you get rickrolled in your sleep? Did you hear the trololo man’s song within your dreams? Sit up and tell that person to hold you right now!

C) Just had a bad day - Everybody’s against you today. Flop down that couch and start sulking.

5. Stuck/Stranded

A) Stuck in an elevator - You had places to go! People to see! But that can’t happen due a technical difficulty while you were riding the elevator. Fortunately or unfortunately you’re not alone.

B) Stuck due to rain - Just your luck, you forgot your umbrella. Do you wait it out or try to make a run for it?

C) Deserted Island - Due to a miracle, you survived the boat crash and even drifted ashore! Yay! Except... where the hell are you now? And, oh god, is that a dead body next to you? Wait, it moved!

6. Sick/Injury

A) Stuck at Home - It’s your fault that you stayed out the rain too long. Or maybe you just overworked yourself too much. Be careful!

B) Infirmary - Looks like you got into a minor accident. Guess it was a good thing that someone was there to help you to the clinic.

C) Hospital - Still waiting on the results for that last medical exam? Maybe you're EXPECTING A BABY. Whatever it is, at least you've got some company to keep your occupied.

7. Confession

A) In Person - Nothing is more sincere than a direct confession!

B) Love Letter - You’re so traditional. Are you going to put heart stickers, too?

C) Phone call/Text/Email/IMs - Ahh, the wonders of technology. You can even say how you feel through emoticons. :D <3

8. Date

A) Dinner - Whether it’s in restaurant or take-out at home, enjoy a meal with that special someone.

B) Movie - Cozy up on the couch watching a DVD or head to the mall to watch latest blockbuster.

C) Picnic - Grab a basket, grab some food, and pray to god that whoever prepared it knows how to cook. Watch out for ants.

9. New Kid On The Block

You’re new to the neighborhood. Maybe you’re a new student or a newly hired worker. Maybe you even just literally moved in. Either way, you miss your old home and your friends. You’re so lonely. Aww. Don’t worry, maybe fate will be kind to you and reward you with a new friend very soon.

10. A little extra help with work or school

A) Study partner - The exams are coming up! You thought of calling up someone to study with, hoping that it will increase your focus and all those other benefits.

B) Homework pain - You have an extremely difficult homework. You’re at the point where you want to throw it out the window.

C) Overtime at work - It’s shit-o-clock. You’ll never finish these on time. You might as well pull off an overnight at the office, unless a kind soul decides to assist you with work.

11. Hanging Out

A) Shopping - Maybe your victim date doesn't mind shopping with you. Maybe they did. Well, they're here now and they're not getting away from you that easily!

B) At a coffee shop - Maybe it's your first date and the two of you are testing the waters, maybe you bumped into each other. Whatever the reason was, there's nothing like two people just talking over a cup of coffee.

C) At a playground - Nothing wrong with reliving your childhood here. Last one to the swings is a rotten egg!

12. Somebody Save Me!

A) Drowning - Wow, you didn’t even bother checking if your life ring had enough air in it?

B) FIRE! - Good job. You burnt your kitchen and now there’s a forest fire in there.

C) Defending your honor - How dare you forget your rape whistle at home! Maybe screaming will send someone to your aid! KYAAA~

13. Couldn't Make It To Bed

A) Drunk passed out - Looks like you had too much to drink. Think you can still make it to bed by yourself?

B) Slept on the Couch - You’re ridiculously tired and that short nap on the couch became longer than you planned.

C) Fell asleep in the car - Not exactly the ideal place to fall asleep in (carbon monoxide poisoning and all). Luckily, someone’s coming to your rescue.

14. Outdoorsy stuff

A) Stargazing - Maybe you two just enjoy the sight of the sea of stars. Maybe either of you believe in the legend of the wishing star. Either way, the evening sky is shining down for the two of you.

B) Camping - Screw the city! Nature is truly the best! Grab your partner or be dragged off by them and explore to your heart’s content. Watch out for snakes or bears.

C) Field Trip - It’s a class field trip or a work’s group outing! What will you do? Explore every nook of the location you’re in? Stay in your room and play board games? Sneak out each other’s rooms to meet up tonight?

15. Wild card - Roll again, pick anything you’d like, or create your own scene.

Comments

[no_ordinarylife]

He's overheard some of the lectures, eavesdropping unintentionally in a half asleep state as she and Bones converse in rooms close by. Jim knows Bones has ridden her hard on the subject. Jim also knows he can't win. She'll have to tell Bones tomorrow what transpires tonight and they'll both be on the receiving end of yet another lecture. The prospect irrationally irritates him.

Her continued contact soothes and counterbalances that irritation. The tea she made earlier was helpful but he hesitates to ask for another cup. It would mean momentarily losing contact as she went and prepared it. "Do you ever dream, Spock?"

[kosu]

If she could spare Jim another lecture, she would do so; from her experience, lectures do little to bolster his spirits and now is hardly the time to have low spirits. But they're all still a little on edge. Tomorrow will not be pleasant, as she converses with Dr. McCoy and asks about sleep aids.

"As a child, I did. Then I developed better mental control and if I did dream during the sleep cycle, I was unaware. Since the destruction of Vulcan, however, I have had the occasional dream." Not many, not often, but enough that she can understand why a dream would unsettle an individual.

[no_ordinarylife]

He pauses to digest the information. He's not entirely firing on all thrusters right now, the remnants of sleep and his nightmare muddling his thoughts, so it takes him a moment to make the connections. She doesn't normally dream. But since Vulcan-

"Do you relive it?" The question comes out and almost immediately, he wishes he could take it back. It's a wound that's still healing. But part of him really wants to know. Is what he's experiencing normal? Her answer may help him determine that.

[kosu]

"I did." She hesitates, as the rest of her knowledge is not something generally shared outside of Vulcans. But it is Jim, and if Vulcans are in debt to anyone for saving those who remain, they are indebted to Jim. "Most remaining Vulcans who were evacuated from the planet, even if they did not dream, experienced some form of mental disarray for a time. Some reports included mentions of waking visions."

[no_ordinarylife]

A gut wrenching anguish washes over him. A mistake he couldn't possibly right. Lose. Death. My people.

He gasps at the overwhelming sensation, the abruptness of it. The shock is enough to stun him momentarily but just as quickly as it came, it flees.

[kosu]

Spock stiffens, picking up some of the anguish from their contact, the emotion strong enough to be felt through his shirt.

"Jim. Whatever you are feeling, it will pass. Due to your actions, we all survived."

[no_ordinarylife]

It's a monstrous experience, knowing the emotions aren't yours but are present nonetheless, to be felt in all their extremity. The remembrance of Spock's transference hits him at full force on occasion, wrapped up and intertwined with his own emotions. Sometimes he doesn't know where one stops and the other begins. The desire to bury it all is strong.

"'Waking visions'," he finally responds, purposefully redirecting. "Hallucinations?"

[kosu]

Spock now, finally, drops her arms, severing the connection between them, even though the transference has already happened. Her control is not what it once was, and that still shames her, even as it reminds her of how deeply Vulcans can feel. Before she does, though, she projects an apology to him.

"Similar, yes. Reliving the last moments was primary, but many heard the voices of their family or bondmate, or believed they saw such an individual. While illogical, many healers believed it necessary for the mind to heal."

[no_ordinarylife]

The apology is felt as a tide of warmth that spreads across his turbulent mind. The connection ends but her presence remains in the essence of her projection. He doesn't feel alone or abandoned.

He wonders briefly if Spock ever saw or heard her mother. Or if she ever saw a healer herself in the aftermath of Vulcan's destruction. Or if she's truly had a chance to heal. A sense of selfishness eats away at the warmth she's provided.

"I'm sorry." His own apology falls from his lips, heartfelt and spontaneous.

[kosu]

"Your apology is unnecessary, Jim. You are not to blame for the events of that day." Spock has long since come to the conclusion that the only person to blame, Nero, is now gone. It has helped some of her guilt.

Healing takes time, which is one of the things the healer she saw only briefly mentioned. She does not mention that to Jim, as she knows he hears that daily. It has been just over a year, but still she finds she misses her mother (illogically so, almost), and while there are no dreams, certain images or scents can trigger a memory, which are almost more difficult than any hallucination.

"And do not apologize for tonight. You are still in recovery."

"

[no_ordinarylife]

The guilt will always be there to some degree or another. The feeling is tied to the "what if"s and the "I should have"s, possibilities that have no end or means of legitimization. It means looking inward and finding oneself lacking.

Healing and waiting are not things he does well. He's impatient and demanding, especially when it comes to his own body and mind, forcing strain upon himself often long before he's fully ready.

His gaze drifts for a moment before returning to her face. "Thanks for letting me stay. I sorta feeling like I've invaded your space."

[kosu]

Jim is not the only one with guilt. While Spock knows it is illogical, and possibly a result of her human blood, there will forever be some lingering guilt about being unable to save her mother or more of her people. She tries to absolve it, to push it aside with the understanding that it is illogical, but such an emotion is impossible.

The way Jim pushes himself is one reason why McCoy insisted upon supervision, and why Spock hovers. She understands, better than she might have thought she could understand Jim, once.

"You are not invading or intruding, Jim. Were your presence a burden, I would have not extended the invitation." Which is true, but not entirely. Even if it had meant Spock taking the couch in the living room or something equally unfavorable, she would have welcomed him into her apartment. She was concerned for his health, and having Jim there, as reassurance, was welcome. "Cease worrying and focus on healing your body and mind."

[no_ordinarylife]

The imperative brings a faint smile to his face. "That almost sounds like an order."

[kosu]

"I would never presume to issue orders," she says, "as I am simply your first officer. But as a friend, it is a recommendation."

[no_ordinarylife]

He's very grateful to have her, in both capacities. And the recommendation, as always, sounds logical.

"You don't happen to have any of that tea left, do you?"

[kosu]

"There is a sufficient amount for another cup," she says, rising from the bed. "I shall prepare a cup and return momentarily."

With that, she steps out of the room and spends a few minutes in the kitchen, preparing the tea for which he asked.

[no_ordinarylife]

A few minutes is all it takes. When she returns with the tea, she'll find his head has again returned to the pillow. His eyes are closed and his breathing has slowed to an even and relaxed pace. Despite the nightmares, sleep has reclaimed him and for the first time in days, he looks at peace.

[kosu]

Though Spock is normally not one to coddle people, when she realizes Jim is asleep, and without aid, she pulls the blanket up to his shoulders, and quietly leaves to let him sleep.