10 True Loves

Title:   you taught me the courage of the stars 
Fandom: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Ship: Nahla Ake/Lura Thok
Character: Nahla Ake
Theme Set: Table 8
Prompt: Heartbreak
Rating: M
Warnings: Blood

"I wouldn't be taking this risk if I could control myself around you," she continues. "I think about you all the time."

"I wasn't aware..."

Nahla reaches down to touch Lura's face. She traces her fingers around the edges of Lura's facial spikes, the places where spongy bone protrudes from thin flesh.

"Yeah, I realized after about the nineteenth time you ignored my flirting that I needed to be a little more forward."

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Title:  peace comes at dawn / yours comes at night 
Fandom: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Ship: Nahla Ake/Zeeren Kelrec
Character: Nahla Ake
Theme Set: Table 8
Prompt: Mercy
Rating: E
Warnings: Edgeplay

He wants to be hurt. It reminds her of old Earth faith, practices in which suffering and pain were considered virtuous, and in other ways it feels too reminiscent of the Klingon concept of honorable death. Like he thinks suffering for Starfleet will grant him salvation. The bruises from her whips and steps and spanks make Kelrec go an unsightly dark blue.

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Title: all of my old haunts
Fandom: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Ship: Nahla Ake/Jett Reno/Lura Thok
Character: Nahla Ake
Theme Set: Table 8
Prompt: Silence
Rating: M

She feels Jett's own lips press into her neck, their bodies enveloping Nahla like a wall of bombs around federation space.

(Finale spoilers.)

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Title: stranger things have been loved
Fandom: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Ship: Nahla Ake/U.S.S. Athena
Character: Nahla Ake
Theme Set: Table 8
Prompt: Rise
Rating: E
Note: This counts to me because she got a yearbook page and interacts with Nahla sort of personally (e.g. "Thank you computer" ep 1, "I'm sorry to say there's no sign of the cadets" ep 10. I'm aware this is a reach.) If you disagree please let me know.

"Thank you, computer, I think I get the picture. You're killing the mood here."

Nahla inhales with a sharp laugh; she must be hallucinating the hint of intrigue that she feels permeate the air around her, slide underneath her blankets, invade. When the computer speaks next, her tone betrays a seemingly genuine curiosity: "The mood, Captain Ake?"

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Title: Worthwhile
Fandom: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Ship: Nahla Ake/Illa Dax
Character: Nahla Ake
Theme Set: Table 8
Prompt: Worthwhile
Rating: T

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Title: And I won't say it if you won't say it first 
Fandom: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Ship: Nahla/Caleb/Anisha
Character: Nahla Ake
Theme Set: Table 8
Prompt: Villain
Rating: E
Warnings: Parent/Child Incest

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