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[275] Time Under the Sun (Community)
Title: Time Under the Sun
Fandom: Community/Star Trek fusion
Pairing: Annie Edison/Britta Perry
Rating: general
Prompt: 275 End
Word Count: 400
Summary: Caught in a time dilation.
Notes: Also from a prompt byminoanmiss !
Contains: Near-death experience, desperation.
"So this is how it all ends, huh? You and me on a desert planet."
"I don't know." Annie wiped her forehead again, a losing battle against the sweat that kept falling into her eyes. The sky was red and huge in the sky, and the green-tinted sands radiated its heat back into the atmosphere of GCC-20-3. "Abed would hold out for a last-minute rescue."
"This isn't one of Abed's holodeck simulations." Britta pushed herself off the ground. The ledge of shadowed rock they'd climbed on had been almost cool when they'd got here. Now it was just mildly less uncomfortable than the burning sand. "Statistically, if one of us survives, it won't be me. Security personnel have the best funeral packages for a reason."
Annie closed her eyes. It was too hot to argue that a blue uniform was no protection against heatstroke or dehydration. If she were honest, Britta was right. This was the end. The time dilation was just too great. The crew would have to work it out within minutes to get to them before the end of the week, as time passed for them on GCC-20-3. They wouldn't last that long.
"I would have liked to have children, I think." She pressed the heel of her hands on her eyes to stop them welling up. This was no time to waste bodily fluids.
"Oh, honey." Annie blinked and looked up to Britta's face, scrunched up with sympathy. "No you don't. You want to be admiral one day."
"An admiral can have children!"
"Military brats? No thanks. Stick to saving worlds. You're good at it."
Annie suppressed a sob and reached up to Britta's cheek, tracing a bead of sweat as it rolled down her skin. "You know the other thing that always happens in Abed's time dilation simulations?"
"Attacks from local fauna or civilizations?"
"We already fought the acid worms."
"Ah." Britta's parched lips twisted in a pained smile. "You wanna…?"
"Have done for a while."
Annie may die wondering if this only happened because they were about to die, but Britta pressed her dry lips to Annie's, and her mental to-do list ticked one item off just as the sky opened up above with a crack, and thunder rolled across the mountain range. In its heart was the white pale ghost of a starship.
Fandom: Community/Star Trek fusion
Pairing: Annie Edison/Britta Perry
Rating: general
Prompt: 275 End
Word Count: 400
Summary: Caught in a time dilation.
Notes: Also from a prompt by
minoanmiss ! Contains: Near-death experience, desperation.
"So this is how it all ends, huh? You and me on a desert planet."
"I don't know." Annie wiped her forehead again, a losing battle against the sweat that kept falling into her eyes. The sky was red and huge in the sky, and the green-tinted sands radiated its heat back into the atmosphere of GCC-20-3. "Abed would hold out for a last-minute rescue."
"This isn't one of Abed's holodeck simulations." Britta pushed herself off the ground. The ledge of shadowed rock they'd climbed on had been almost cool when they'd got here. Now it was just mildly less uncomfortable than the burning sand. "Statistically, if one of us survives, it won't be me. Security personnel have the best funeral packages for a reason."
Annie closed her eyes. It was too hot to argue that a blue uniform was no protection against heatstroke or dehydration. If she were honest, Britta was right. This was the end. The time dilation was just too great. The crew would have to work it out within minutes to get to them before the end of the week, as time passed for them on GCC-20-3. They wouldn't last that long.
"I would have liked to have children, I think." She pressed the heel of her hands on her eyes to stop them welling up. This was no time to waste bodily fluids.
"Oh, honey." Annie blinked and looked up to Britta's face, scrunched up with sympathy. "No you don't. You want to be admiral one day."
"An admiral can have children!"
"Military brats? No thanks. Stick to saving worlds. You're good at it."
Annie suppressed a sob and reached up to Britta's cheek, tracing a bead of sweat as it rolled down her skin. "You know the other thing that always happens in Abed's time dilation simulations?"
"Attacks from local fauna or civilizations?"
"We already fought the acid worms."
"Ah." Britta's parched lips twisted in a pained smile. "You wanna…?"
"Have done for a while."
Annie may die wondering if this only happened because they were about to die, but Britta pressed her dry lips to Annie's, and her mental to-do list ticked one item off just as the sky opened up above with a crack, and thunder rolled across the mountain range. In its heart was the white pale ghost of a starship.