Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Characters/Pairings: Michael Burnham/Gabriel Lorca
Rating: Explicit
Length: 42,304 (plus a 64,720 word sequel that doesn't fit the theme)
Creator Links:
LadyFangs | https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1999083/LadyFangs
Theme: huddling for warmth, older characters, au: fork in the road, science fiction
Summary: Michael Burnham and Captain Gabriel Lorca are abducted from the U.S.S. Discovery. They're imprisoned by an alien race whose motives remain unknown...until they are.
Burnham and Lorca only rely on each other, and captivity brings them closer together and makes them confess to feelings long repressed. With days becoming weeks, and weeks to months, they come to accept their new reality, together and with each other. But when rescue arrives, they struggle to re-adapt, and come to realize that what happened between them on that planet can't, and won't, be forgotten.
Reccer's Notes: I rarely read, let alone rec hurt/comfort fic, with or without the protagonists being abducted by aliens. Nevertheless I took a chance on LadyFang's fic and I am so glad that I did. The physical torture isn't graphically described and the build-up to their relationship is surprisingly believable, especially since I didn't start out shipping the characters. I think I kind of might now, at least when she's writing them. She's a strong writer with a direct, uncomplicated style. And as she says in the intro to a new fic she's working on (Joe Miller/Octavia Muss - The Expanse OMIGOD be still my beating heart), she is "a glutton for tragic, doomed couples, unrequited love, and all the pain and heartache that comes with it." She's a doomed ship shipper!
Is this the first Star Trek: Discovery rec at
fancake?
Fanwork Links: Human Nature
Characters/Pairings: Michael Burnham/Gabriel Lorca
Rating: Explicit
Length: 42,304 (plus a 64,720 word sequel that doesn't fit the theme)
Creator Links:
Theme: huddling for warmth, older characters, au: fork in the road, science fiction
Summary: Michael Burnham and Captain Gabriel Lorca are abducted from the U.S.S. Discovery. They're imprisoned by an alien race whose motives remain unknown...until they are.
Burnham and Lorca only rely on each other, and captivity brings them closer together and makes them confess to feelings long repressed. With days becoming weeks, and weeks to months, they come to accept their new reality, together and with each other. But when rescue arrives, they struggle to re-adapt, and come to realize that what happened between them on that planet can't, and won't, be forgotten.
Reccer's Notes: I rarely read, let alone rec hurt/comfort fic, with or without the protagonists being abducted by aliens. Nevertheless I took a chance on LadyFang's fic and I am so glad that I did. The physical torture isn't graphically described and the build-up to their relationship is surprisingly believable, especially since I didn't start out shipping the characters. I think I kind of might now, at least when she's writing them. She's a strong writer with a direct, uncomplicated style. And as she says in the intro to a new fic she's working on (Joe Miller/Octavia Muss - The Expanse OMIGOD be still my beating heart), she is "a glutton for tragic, doomed couples, unrequited love, and all the pain and heartache that comes with it." She's a doomed ship shipper!
Is this the first Star Trek: Discovery rec at
Fanwork Links: Human Nature
