Fan fiction: Dreaming, and the Perils Thereof (ST:DS9, PG)
Title: Dreaming, and the Perils Thereof
Author: riviyan_questa
Rating: PG
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters contained herein.
Words: 559
Summary: In which Kira's made a few mistakes, and Ziyal is just that sweet. Kira/Ziyal
Warnings: None.
Note: Written for the BIG DAMN HEROES: Awesome Ladies Ficathon.
Dreaming, and the Perils Thereof
When Kira marched after Dukat into the Breen camp on a miserable rock in the Dozarian system, she expected she might have to kill him. She certainly wasn’t going to allow him to kill the girl.
She should have known from the moment Ziyal herself stopped Dukat that she should never underestimate Ziyal’s ability to charm those around her. Kira certainly didn’t think for even one moment that Dukat spared his daughter’s life because of any sort of personal growth on his part.
Maybe Kira simply never expected Ziyal’s charm to focus on her. Now, even fully aware of the way Ziyal only had to smile to captivate the attention of those around her, she didn’t think Ziyal consciously tried to manipulate people. She was just that sweet.
That was why she was so dangerous, Kira thought.
By the time Kira realised it, she’d already convinced Dukat to let Ziyal come to Deep Space 9. Oh, she would have done that anyway-Dukat’s captured bird-of-prey, fighting Dukat’s impossible war, was no place for the girl.
There was a human proverb: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Kira’s biggest mistake, in retrospect, was believing that Ziyal had nothing but some sort of sisterly feeling toward her. And believing that Ziyal held hopes for some sort of relationship between Kira and Dukat for far longer than she actually had. Kira’s mental inventory of her mistakes seemed to grow the more she considered it.
In light of her mistakes, it was no wonder that when Kira found she thought about Ziyal in a decidedly not sisterly way, she tried to ignore it. She tried so very hard to ignore it; Kira was nothing if not strong willed, and there was no reason that determination couldn’t solve this problem. Ziyal most certainly was not holding any such affection for Kira, and besides, Kira loved Shakaar.
By the time the Prophets revealed that Kira and Shakaar were meant for different paths, Kira was quite adept at stopping any thoughts about Ziyal just as quickly as they entered her mind. She did not allow herself to entertain any dream of a closer relationship with Ziyal at all. Dreams in the poetic sense, of course; Kira’s subconscious had thankfully allowed her to avoid dreaming about Ziyal in the non-poetic sense.
Kira’s deep denial and conviction that any romantic feelings were unrequited at the least made her not a bit suspicious when Ziyal cornered her, for lack of a better phrase, before the shuttle would leave to return her to Bajor and the university where she studied. What followed was a strange conversation during which Kira began to re-evaluate her decisions regarding Ziyal, and she came to the conclusion that she had, for one of a small number of times, been wrong about Ziyal’s feelings, and had been for some time.
This realisation came roughly five seconds before the young woman, with an odd look of grim determination, kissed her. The five second head start Kira’d had helped, and she was only briefly shocked before she kissed back. In flagrant and fortunate defiance of cliché, the kiss lasted about the perfect amount of time before it ended, and Ziyal scampered off to meet her shuttle.
The next time a thought of Ziyal entered Kira’s mind, she didn’t tamp it down. Instead, she dreamed.
fin
Author: riviyan_questa
Rating: PG
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters contained herein.
Words: 559
Summary: In which Kira's made a few mistakes, and Ziyal is just that sweet. Kira/Ziyal
Warnings: None.
Note: Written for the BIG DAMN HEROES: Awesome Ladies Ficathon.
Dreaming, and the Perils Thereof
When Kira marched after Dukat into the Breen camp on a miserable rock in the Dozarian system, she expected she might have to kill him. She certainly wasn’t going to allow him to kill the girl.
She should have known from the moment Ziyal herself stopped Dukat that she should never underestimate Ziyal’s ability to charm those around her. Kira certainly didn’t think for even one moment that Dukat spared his daughter’s life because of any sort of personal growth on his part.
Maybe Kira simply never expected Ziyal’s charm to focus on her. Now, even fully aware of the way Ziyal only had to smile to captivate the attention of those around her, she didn’t think Ziyal consciously tried to manipulate people. She was just that sweet.
That was why she was so dangerous, Kira thought.
By the time Kira realised it, she’d already convinced Dukat to let Ziyal come to Deep Space 9. Oh, she would have done that anyway-Dukat’s captured bird-of-prey, fighting Dukat’s impossible war, was no place for the girl.
There was a human proverb: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Kira’s biggest mistake, in retrospect, was believing that Ziyal had nothing but some sort of sisterly feeling toward her. And believing that Ziyal held hopes for some sort of relationship between Kira and Dukat for far longer than she actually had. Kira’s mental inventory of her mistakes seemed to grow the more she considered it.
In light of her mistakes, it was no wonder that when Kira found she thought about Ziyal in a decidedly not sisterly way, she tried to ignore it. She tried so very hard to ignore it; Kira was nothing if not strong willed, and there was no reason that determination couldn’t solve this problem. Ziyal most certainly was not holding any such affection for Kira, and besides, Kira loved Shakaar.
By the time the Prophets revealed that Kira and Shakaar were meant for different paths, Kira was quite adept at stopping any thoughts about Ziyal just as quickly as they entered her mind. She did not allow herself to entertain any dream of a closer relationship with Ziyal at all. Dreams in the poetic sense, of course; Kira’s subconscious had thankfully allowed her to avoid dreaming about Ziyal in the non-poetic sense.
Kira’s deep denial and conviction that any romantic feelings were unrequited at the least made her not a bit suspicious when Ziyal cornered her, for lack of a better phrase, before the shuttle would leave to return her to Bajor and the university where she studied. What followed was a strange conversation during which Kira began to re-evaluate her decisions regarding Ziyal, and she came to the conclusion that she had, for one of a small number of times, been wrong about Ziyal’s feelings, and had been for some time.
This realisation came roughly five seconds before the young woman, with an odd look of grim determination, kissed her. The five second head start Kira’d had helped, and she was only briefly shocked before she kissed back. In flagrant and fortunate defiance of cliché, the kiss lasted about the perfect amount of time before it ended, and Ziyal scampered off to meet her shuttle.
The next time a thought of Ziyal entered Kira’s mind, she didn’t tamp it down. Instead, she dreamed.
fin