Fic: A Grief Shared

startrekholidays just revealed! I wrote two fics, one assignment and one pinch hit. This fic, we matched on Guinan/Picard. I really thought hard about writing an AU of Time's Arrow where Picard ends up stuck in the past with Guinan instead of going back to the future/his present. So far, my first impulse for Guinan/Picard is very strongly towards writing episode related fic, far more than for other characters and pairings; I think it may be because there's so little Guinan fic that it feels like there are a lot of canon possibilities yet to be explored in a way that most characters and pairings really don't have. This is a short fic, but I'm pleased with it.

Title: A Grief Shared
Author: beatrice_otter 
Fandom: Star Trek TNG
Pairing: Guinan/Jean-Luc Picard
Length: 2363 words
Written For: peasina in Star Trek Holidays 2022
Betaed by: sixbeforelunch 

Summary: During the episode Family, Guinan comes to visit Jean-Luc at the vineyard.

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Jean-Luc had been out wandering around the vineyard, soaking in the sun and indulging in a bit of nostalgia. That one cathartic mud fight with Robert hadn't cured all that was wrong with him, but that plus his decision to return to Enterprise and Starfleet had loosened up a bit of what had been locked tight within him. He could be more present in the moment than he had been, those first days home. There was still a good deal of work to do, putting himself back together from the ruin the Borg had left of his psyche; but he felt better up to it than he had before his leave.

(  Counselor Troi was right when she said that talking about it, instead of ignoring it, was an effective tool toward healing. Much as he would have preferred differently. )

Fic: Not Place, But People

startrekholidays just revealed! I wrote two fics, one assignment and one pinch hit. This fic I was happy to get because I love Lorian, and the whole idea of the other Enterprise that went back in time accidentally and became a generation ship just has so much possibility for fic in so many different ways, that I would love to see explored. (The same is also true of the time the Defiant from DS9 did the same thing.) I enjoyed the chance to write a "what if the older Enterprise survived" and may yet end up writing a sequel, because now I want to know what the elder T'Pol was doing and what would happen if she and Lorian went to Vulcan.



Title: Not Place, But People
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Characters: Trip Tucker, Lorian
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Rating: Gen
Length: 5057 words
Written For: paranoidangel in Star Trek Holidays 2022
Betaed by: VelvetMouse

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Trip leaned against the wall outside one of the many briefing rooms at Starfleet HQ and tried to occupy his mind with the latest paper put out by the Copernicus Institute on hypothetical designs for intermix chambers in warp engines. Nothing he could use on Enterprise, of course; the whole engine would have to be rebuilt, and probably the nacelles, too, but still fascinating.

It didn't work, of course. What was in the briefing room was far more interesting.

Also, it wasn't just his imagination. Everyone who walked by was giving him really weird looks. He nodded to a lieutenant who was side-eying him so hard she almost walked into a wall. The lieutenant blushed and scurried away.

( Obviously, all the gossip about the other Enterprise's crew—and just who Lorian's parents were—had already made it around HQ. Trip wondered if they'd tried to keep it quiet, or if it had been too big for that from the start. )