Otter's Rock

fandom5k authors have revealed! So I can reveal what I wrote. First of all, thank you to my recip violet_pencil for having some great prompts, that was lovely. It's such a help to get an idea that inspires me, but which I also know my recip will also like. The relationship and pairing sent me in a direction I'd never considered before, and also I think in the process I figured out a bit more of why the Prophets are the way they are and why Sisko is important to them.


Title: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Author: Beatrice_otter
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Characters: James T. Kirk, Benjamin Sisko
Written For: violet_pencil in Fandom 5k 2024
Rating: Gen
Length: 5,787 words
Betaed by: Greenygal

On AO3. On Squidgeworld. On Ad Astra. Rebloggable on Pillowfort. Rebloggable on tumblr.

Benjamin Sisko was watching the heat death of the universe. Benjamin Sisko was helping the Bantaca Spire be erected in B'Hala. Benjamin Sisko was trying to comfort Kasidy over his entering the Celestial Temple, and failing because he could not collect enough of himself in one time and one place to give her the attention and care she needed. Benjamin Sisko was watching Cardassian soldiers use tractor beams and force-fields to remove the Orb of Harmony from the ruins of the monastery at Choddosh. Benjamin Sisko was in the Celestial Temple, teaching the Prophets about linearity for the first time using baseball as a metaphor. Benjamin Sisko was watching Kai Kira direct the Vedek Assembly to begin considering her successor, because she was going to retire to the monastery of Basyo Ume in nine weeks. Benjamin Sisko was watching the star that would one day be named B'hava'el coalesce and begin to burn.

( Benjamin Sisko was no longer corporeal, but he had a headache anyway. )

Reveals are finally here!  I had a lot of fun with this especially brainstorming with TexasDreamer01 and figuring out how Trill-and-its-secrets would be different in the AOS universe than it was in the Prime universe.  Texas was awesome and so much help, you guys.

Title: Anatomy of a Secret
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series
Author: beatrice_otter 
Written For: shopfront  in Worldbuilding Exchange 2020
Brainstorming help and betaing: TexasDreamer01 
Word Count: 11000 words
Rating: Teen
Summary: Old memories are stirred up when a group Trill scientists come the station, led by one Jadzia Dax. Though she claims to be the daughter of Benjamin's old friend, Curzon Dax, she is more than what she seems, and some secrets can't be kept forever.

On AO3. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.


( You seem a bit more interested in this batch of scientists than you normally are, Nerys observed as she and Commander Sisko walked to the airlock where the Trill team's ship would be docking. )

Title: Tashlich
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Characters: Worf, Jadzia Dax
Betaed by: kass
Word Count: 1,890
Summary: Worf has always clung to custom and tradition to be his anchor.
AN: thank you to the folks who run the KLV translator, Klingon language errors are mine.
AN2: this fic draws heavily on the fourth-season DS9 episode “Sons of Mogh.”

Read it at AO3

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( Worf pressed the chime to Captain Sisko's office and waited for a reply. )