Gaila Memorial, 1/3

[spockchick]

What if Gaila didn't come back. Three memorials from her friends.

JadeDropped in a gap opened up by inquiries, repairs and shock, he tours the cities and towns of Scotland with his hands jammed firmly in his coat pockets, and his eyes on nobody. An exclusion zone fits about him like a bell-jar

Comments

[zizi_west]

This is a touching story -- introspective and it adds some dignity and complexity to both Gaila and Scotty as characters.

I don't want to assume that that DVD extra scene is the primary writing prompt but this is a nice response to all-too-frequent characterization of the "good time gal" female character who is too often simply the butt of a joke.

I always appreciate it when writers strive to show that female characters like Gaila can be both bawdy and complex -- the real-life women such characters seem to be based upon always are, in my experience.

[spockchick]

Thanks Zizi, I didn't see the DVD scene till after I'd written 2/3 Gaila memorials. It may affect the 3rd tho as that will be Kirk. At least they did the decent thing and chopped it. I assume, since Gaila is smart enough to get into Starfleet that there is a lot that lies beneath.

[hopefuladdict]

Crying...again.

[spockchick]

Thank you very much.

[teaoli]

So lovely and affecting. I feel somehow wrung out with despair and regret while being at the same time swaddled in the memory of love and beauty.