ST/B7 FIC: Three Fates, Waiting (1/1)

[kangeiko]

Title: Three Fates, Watching
Author: kangeiko
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series / Blake's 7
Characters: mirror!Kirk, Blake
Rating: PG13
Timelines: Pre-series (mirror!TOS), The Way Back (Blake's 7).
Summary: When Jim Kirk is six years old, his parents make a deal on his behalf.
Author's Note: Written for multiverse5000, this was ridiculously hard to write, and is possibly version 8 or 9 of attempt 6 to write this story. Many thanks to queenspanky and mizzykitty for their invaluable assistance; if it makes any sense, it is entirely up to their efforts.


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Comments

[amatara.livejournal.com]

As I don't know Blakes 7 at all, I must admit this fic made little sense to me in the way of plot... but I was fascinated by it, nonetheless. Seeing the Mirror Universe through the eyes of a young Kirk was very effective and genuinely unsettling. Also, the way you switch scenes, which always keeps the reader just a bit off-balance, adds tremendously to the general feel of the story.

[kangeiko]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it, despite the lack of B7 background. You really should look up Blake's 7, btw, it's scary beyond belief.

Quick backstory (which is all in The Way Back, the pilot, so not much in the way of spoilers): Blake was a major resistance leader in the totalitarian Federation until he is captured. Instead of killing him, they reprogram him to be the model citizen, and ship his siblings to another planet. They're executed, and he's regularly sent faked vids to make him think they're safe and happy. Eventually he's approached by the Resistance again, and he hooks up with a bunch of them just in time to have them massacred. He's captured again. This time, they decide on a different approach. Instead of reprogramming Blake, they take a group of children and reprogram them to think that he's molested them. In this way they discredit him, and any evidence he can present about the massacre. It's pretty horrifying stuff - and this is just the first half hour! The rest of the episode (and the series) just gets worse...