Big Bang: As Sparks Fly Upward (STXI | PG-15 | teamfic)

[jedibuttercup]

Title: As Sparks Fly Upward
Author: jedibuttercup
Series: ST XI
Character/Pairing(s): Kirk-centric teamfic
Rating: PG-15
Word Count: 28,700
Warnings: Some violence; suggestion of past torture/rape of third parties.

Summary: A few months after the destruction of Vulcan, Captain Kirk accepts an unorthodox mission from Starfleet Intelligence that involves an incognito mission across the Neutral Zone to investigate rumors of kidnapped scientists.

Link to Fic: As Sparks Fly Upward (at Dreamwidth)
Link to Art: Art by ileliberte

Acknowledgements: To ileliberte my fabulous artist; maevebran and avamclean, for beta work and hand-holding; blcwriter, for influencing my Jim and Bones; taraljc, for inspiring me to include Number One; and azarsuerte, for issuing the request that led to this plot idea in the first place. Fic title from Job 5:7; chapter titles from Star Trek XI transcript; Romulan words from the Rihannsu to English dictionary.

(x-posted from startrekbigbang)

Comments

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

Ava spoke very highly of this fic while she was betaing it and I've been ever so patiently waiting for you to post it!

I can't wait to get the time to properly sit down and read this!!

[jedibuttercup]

*grin* Ava's commentary was very helpful and reassuring! I look forward to your reaction.

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I am going to dlaod it and print it out, for to read ON MY SICK BED.

*snuggles you with germ-free hugs over the internets*

[jedibuttercup]

*grin* Thank you. I hope you enjoy!

[edenfalling]

There is something funny with your header: it has your name as the title of the story and ileliberte's name as the author.

Also, I would like to say again that I love this story to pieces and, in fact, have already read it twice -- it is that good!

[jedibuttercup]

Thanks for letting me know about the header! I tweaked it when I got home last night before crashing in to bed to fix that.

So glad you enjoyed the fic! I was a bit worried my genfic wouldn't be very appealing amid all the pairing-centric Big Bangs being posted, lovely as many of them are.

[edenfalling]

Actually, I like it better for being gen -- there is never enough genfic in the world.

Oh WOW!!!

[anabels.livejournal.com]

That was amazing! So glad I skivved off all the other things I should have been doing to watch the film yesterday. The story would ahve stood alone but having the film to give me the back story made it even better!

You are a fabulous writer!

Off to complement your equally tallented artist now :)

Bels

Re: Oh WOW!!!

[jedibuttercup]

*grin* Thank you, thank you! When avamclean read it over for me she hadn't seen the movie yet, and confirmed that it still worked for her, but yeah, a lot of the character notes are rooted in new!canon. So glad you enjoyed the fic!

[vicki_rae.livejournal.com]

I hoped you were doing a bigbang fic and you did, yay!!!

I won't be able to read this until Saturday so I'm bookmarking it and really looking forward to reading it.

[jedibuttercup]

*grin* Yeah, that was the main reason I sort of stopped posting the short ones there for awhile. This story ate me alive.

I hope you enjoy it!

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Ohh, I am looking forward to reading this! It's too late to start tonight, so I'm saving it for another time when I can give it the attention I know it deserves, given how much I've enjoyed your other fic.

[jedibuttercup]

*grin* Thank you; I hope it lives up to the anticipation for yoU!

[raiining.livejournal.com]

Oh it was FABULOUS!! I absolutely loved it!

Wonderful storyline, and excellent working-in of Kirk's past. Loved Spock and Uhura in a way I didn't expect to, and really had fun with the gen nature of it all.

Absolutely adored everyone, especially Bones, and again - great plotty, fun storyline with lots of fun extras, like Saavik. Wonderful!


Thank you for this. It absolutely made my afternoon.

[jedibuttercup]

*grin* I'm so glad you liked it! There was so much pairingfic already in the fandom when I started this, I really wanted something episodic and team-y in nature. And as I happened to be rereading The Pandora Principle when I started writing, the storyline just wrote itself. =)