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Can you write for Pike, Kirk and maybe Bones (both AOS) where the reader and them are dating but not married and she gets bullied bc of the relationship (she is not a senior officer and some people think she uses her partner for advantage) And their partner finds out and is angry! Thank you 😊
i'm glad you like my writing! i love star trek, and i hope my late response doesn't stop you from sending me star trek requests lmao. i also can't tell you how much i love these types of angsty requests lol. protective bf and partner worrying about the power imbalances/not wanting to confront? i love it! i hope you enjoy it!
c.w. - someone insinuates the reader is "slut" in jim's
christopher pike
this man is so quick to clock something was wrong when you enter his office biting your lips raw as you hand him his lunch. he takes your hand, bringing you down on his lap, putting a thumb on your lips to stop your biting.
"hey sweetheart, why don't you tell me what's on your mind? something's eating away at it." he murmurs, pecking your eyelids, cheeks, and finally your lips as you ponder how to explain the situation to him. so, you settle with asking him a question in return.
"do you think i'm influencing your power at all? like manipulating you into doing things for my use?" you ask him, tucking your head into his neck, heart cracking. you didn't want him to break up with you, in fear that he'd realize that he was giving you some sort of special treatment somehow, and that you were manipulating him accidentally to do so.
"sweetheart, look at me." he brings your face up to look at him, his own heart cracking at the way you look forlorn, tears slipping from your eyes. "i don't think it's manipulating if you're asking me if you're manipulating me. what brought this silly idea into your head?"
he's soft, brushing his thumbs under your eyes to take away the tears. he strokes your cheeks until your feeling better to speak.
"some of the other lower officers i suppose finally found my ranking was the same as theirs, so have started making snide comments my way about my position, saying that i was manipulating you into giving me better things." you tell him, shrinking under his gaze that you have come to recognize as a good stern talking to face. it's the one he gives you when he feels a mission is to dangerous, and you're being stubborn. (it always ends with him coming with you, never wanting to shrink your independence, but always wanting to ensure your safety.)
"these officers will learn how i use my power, and in what way i can wield my power without the manipulation of others. i'll bring them into my office later for a discussion of consequences, but maybe this once i'll let you manipulate me into what consequence it should be." he says, as he moves his hands to your waist to stroke you there. "but let it be known, you never have manipulated me into a decision i didn't want to make. sure, i've taken your advice or suggestions, but you've never made me choose something else."
he then pulls you in for a kiss, your lips now buzzing, thinking that you were one lucky person to have him and his reassurance.
james "jim" kirk
you were in jim's chair, yapping with chekov, uhura, and sulu. you are all discussing your days, what you weren't looking forward to in your duties, all before you had to head out to help bones in the medical bay. you know that jim doesn't usually mind you in his chair if he's not there, always thinking it's cute to see you in the chair. but today was going to be a different scenario, as one of the ensign's had something to say.
"you know, it's very convenient that you're dating the captain. i'm sure it takes a lot of guts to sleep to the top, and even then, i'm sure you're not even his girlfriend. he just keeps you around because of that, and you get to have special privileges that we don't have." you feel yourself get warm, the rest of the crew and you about to defend yourself, before you hear jim's voice behind you.
"now, that's not how you speak to the captain's girlfriend. get out. we'll talk about what your job will look like you're remaining time on the ship, but when we return, you're off this ship." he says, walking over to you, holding your face in his, eyes curious about how you were feeling.
"thanks jim." you choke on your words, feeling the sensation of tears burning behind your eyes as you try to blink the feeling away, the tears desperately wanting to spill. he pulls you up, then sitting you on his own lap as he takes a seat at the captain's chair. he makes you look at him while the other crew members escort the guy out, comforting you with small affirmations.
"you know it doesn't matter what our positions are. for all it could be, you could be in charge, and the dynamic wouldn't change between us." he says, drawing soothing circles on your hips as you calm down.
"thanks jim." you murmur, leaning into his neck, knowing you couldn't have asked for a more understanding man, who knows you wouldn't use him for his power.
leonard "bones" mccoy
leonard was sipping coffee at his desk, flipping through paperwork before attending to some patients, exhausted by the sheer paperwork he had. he decided he'd finish some after hours, as he walked out of his office, wanting to help decrease the busyness of the intake of patients.
he decides to stop by your station first, wanting to check in on how you were holding up. but he's quick to rush to your side when he sees you cowering with a patient in your face. he's by your side in enough time to hear how what the man says to you, and to see your relieved face when you see him.
"you're only in this position because of your boyfriend, there's no way you're competent enough to know what's wrong with me. good timing that he's here now so that way i can get the correct facts." the patient said as he faced leonard.
"now that's no damn way to speak to a lady. i want you to apologize to her, and it's no account of me that she got to her position. she's just that intelligent, and earned her spot here." leonard said, sticking up for you. "now, i'll stay here as she explains what's wrong, and i'll stay to back her up."
you took a breath as you aimed to explain the problem, now without a hitch, with the man who looked humiliated. as you wrap up, you usher the man out of the med bay, leonard follows you to have a chat with you as soon as possible when the man got out of ear shot.
"would you like me to talk to jim about that man?" leonard asked, concern coloring his eyes as he looks over you for anymore emotional distress.
"no, that's okay. just felt slightly embarassed, and want to be with you right now." you told him, curling into his embrace.
"alright, that i can do. come with me to my office, you can rest on my couch as i'm finishing up paperwork." he said, dragging you with him to follow through with those words.
Grew up as an odd child out due to her neurodivergence & Specific interests.
Abandoned by her parents.
Spent time in foster care & abused
Felt abandoned by her brother, who didn’t care for her after their parents left.
Got into good colleges regardless of a difficult childhood
Has three doctorates in anthropology, forensic anthropology, and kinesiology
Did work with genocide victims and 9-11 victims
Joined the Jeffersonian
Successful Author
Forms a bond with Booth.
Had to do the investigation on her own mother’s murder
Deals with her father, who is a criminal and lied to her
Forms a family with her team at the Jeffersonian, later adding Sweets to this bond.
Is targeted by any serial killers
One of her own interns is murdered.
Has two children who help continue to open her up to life
Has to live on the run away from Booth
Loses sweets
Booth is put in jail, and they are separated again.
They quit their job temporarily but come back.
Booth ends up gambling again, which damages their relationship.
Injured at the end of the story but able to return to work
Temperance “Bones” Brennan deals with a lot of traumas throughout her life and a lot of love throughout her life. She has been abandoned and hurt as well as surrounded by the love of both her birth family and, just as importantly, the family she was able to build at the Jeffersonian. The people she found loved her with all their hearts and would do anything for her. The way the people she found can open up the hurt heart she had is beautiful.
She struggles completely reasonably with opening herself up. Having your parents and brother abandon you and then being mistreated by foster parents and peers will make you unable to form close bonds easily and cause damage to your views of how relationships work.
Brennan’s intelligence and skill at her work are impressive and regarded as some of the best in the world, and she holds this with a sense of great pride. Her ego built around her intelligence can also be problematic because she can use it as a shield against having a real connection.
Brennan struggles to truly understand and process emotions due to her neurodivergence. Her skill to deal with her emotions is to try to rationalise them. She blocks other people's emotions at the end to not let herself truly bring the feelings in from the outside world. Her own emotions might be turmoil within the walls she built, but she keeps those on the inside. And her own affect can become confused.
Her emotions often come out in fits and bursts. In the beginning, they come out in times like when she has to deal with her parents or when children and animals are harmed. We see that there is a dissonance for Bones with her emotions, not understanding what she is showing and feeling and disliking showing it. Later in the show, when she learns to allow her inside emotions, her affect and others to flow together.
High intelligence can also create an ego. Brennan experiences this and it causes friction with people who work with her who are of equal stature, like Cam and Clark. Being Bennan’s version of “smart” can cause her to disregard people who have emotional intelligence.
One of Brennen’s earliest close relationships we see is with Angela, a person who seems very different from her. She is spiritual, artistic, flirty, open and leads with her heart. However, they match each other in intensity of love for each other. That’s what matters the most to Angela. Brennan also believes in Angela’s skills, asking her to come work with them at the Jeffersonian. Brenna knows Angela's art and technology skills are good enough to warrant the trust. They also both have abnormal childhoods. Angela, having a rocker father and mother who seemed to have never been in the picture, was adopted, or for some other reason. Angela also helps Brennan with her books. Angela supports Brennan through emotional situations, giving her advice when she struggles to know what to do. Angela is the only person Brennan communicates with when she’s on the run and Angela is extremely angry with Booth when he halts the marriage due to Pelant. She is the first piece of a family Brennan built.
Hodgins and Brennan have a less defined relationship, but are close, going through many things together, like being buried by the Grave Digger. They are both supportive when the other goes through hard times and work to catch people who put the other in dangerous situations. They respect each other’s work in their fields. He is Angela's husband and the father of her child, making him Brennan's family that way, but their friendship also makes them necessary for their family to work.
Cam and Brennan butt heads to begin with. Brennan does not like feeling like she is out of control in what she considers to be her space. Brennan has a deep need for control due to all the out-of-controlness she experienced as a child. She feels intellectually superior and more important. Brennan learns to see Cam as a necessity within the system. They come to not only respect each other but also consider one another to be part of the family. They invite each other to family-style events like weddings and celebrating child births. They come to help each other during hard times.
Brennan originally had a relationship with Zack Addy as her first intern, whom she shows a great deal of love. He is much like her, showing neurodivergence to an even stronger extent than she. He is very much like a little brother to her. When he betrayed them, it affected her; she talked Zack into helping them. She proved to Zack that he loves Hodgins more than his overall beliefs. She still shows affection for him, even touching foreheads. When they see each other again, we see Zack kidnap her in an effort to prove his innocence. She sides with him being framed for the crime, and helps get him exonerated. Her love for Zack shows that her ability for familial love existed even before her long-term relationship with Booth.
The group of Interns she has over time means a lot to her, and she cares deeply for them. When she loses parts of her memory at the end of the show, she remembers things about them as they mean so much to her.
Arastoo: He is part of the Family as the husband of Cam and she shows great respect for him as a scientist as well as a person for the trauma he suffered as a young person.
Clark: He becomes a Doctor and they clash once he takes charge of historical anthropology. She comes to respect him after seeing his work. While originally finding their family dynamic non-conducive to work, he becomes friends with the whole squad. Clark comes to help when they need it.
Daisy: She is one of the interns Brennan seems to like more than the others. Taking her with her when she leaves on a sabbatical later taking her on her "bachelorette party”. She is also more folded into the family as the Fiancée of Sweets and mother of his child.
Finn: Brennan and Cam are willing to take him in as an intern and Jeffersonian employee with his background in crime. Brennan finds his background to be non-pertinent in most situations. This shows her logic-focused worldview can be part of compassion.
Fisher: His sardonic pessimism and her general flat faculty can comically conflict. He also once offered her his sperm, which she turned down. For the most part, they get along generally well, Fisher even loving her novels.
Fuentes: Doesn’t get along with Brennan to begin with, as he is flirtatious and arrogant.
Jessica: She helps Brennan learn about social media.
Oliver: Probably the intern she gets along with the least, like most, she thinks his know-it-all and blase attitudes to be grating. But she also often states his genius status is warranted.
Vincent Nigel-Murray: She sometimes shuts down his fact giving, but he is well-liked and cared for by Bones; his death affects her deeply, being a catalyst for her relationship with Booth. She awkwardly brought a flower to put on his casket.
Wendell: He is helped out by Brennan to be able to stay in the Jeffersonian because she respects his work and she cares about him. She also shows compassion when he has cancer.
Sweets is a psychologist, so originally, she dislikes him because she doesn’t like his profession. He needs science to fit her rigid view of “logic” to trust it. His usefulness in helping re-solidify her and Booth’s working relationship isn’t something she finds necessary. Sweets ends up finding his views of them smashed funnily when he learns Booth and Bones first met they almost had sex.
Over time, Sweets and Brennan learn to respect each other, and as they work together if she never loves psychology. On a more personal level, Gordon Gordon points out that Sweets is imprinted on them like a baby duck. Brennan and Booth deeply love Sweets as a family member. They take him into their house, Brennan expressing when he leaves that she wasn’t sure about bringing him into their house, but then was very unhappy about him leaving because she actually loved having him around her; she does care for protecting him. Losing wounds her family.
Max and Brennan’s relationship improves over the years. Starting off distrusting due to his lying. Bones is still hurt from him leaving and having had their childhood been uneven before her parents left due to their criminal history. When he shows back up, he is still tied into criminal activity, even leaving with her brother for a period of time. He shows his love in ways like killing someone, but he comes back and turns over a new leaf, and they learn to trust again. Her own time learning to open up due to her relationships in the Jeffersonian family and Booth makes this easier. By the time she has Christine, she is willing to let him watch her, though this almost blows up when he leaves his phone behind when taking her out. But he becomes a common babysitter for Christine and then Hank. When he ends up being ill, Brennan is quite hurt he didn't tell her. He dies protecting their family, showing how devoted to protecting her he truly was.
Brennan and Booth are the core of the show. They meet and have an immediate attraction, but don’t end up acting on it, and in subsequent meetings, they are annoyed with each other. We see more of the traditional 20th-century and early 21st-century belligerent couples à la Harrison Ford. They quickly show a softer bond. Earning a warmer connection through shared experiences and the ability to see others' hurts. They attach to people and then have trouble letting go due to traumas in their childhood. Booth’s fierce attachment and stated willingness to kill and die for her, even before they are romantically together show a devotion that is appealing to her, even if she brushes her off. It lets her believe someone will protect her for the first time since her parents left. Brennan learns to not see herself as much of an island; her identity turns away from being someone who holds people at arm's length, to being part of a partnership.
Booth and Brennan are very different people; like with Angela, this seems to actually make their bond stronger. It causes Brannan to see things differently and make their connection better. Booth learns to see outside of his constricted worldview from his military, cop and religious training as well as abuse. Brennan learns to trust instinct more. Even later, being willing to put Booth’s instincts on the same level as her facts as data worth taking into consideration in making the correct choices.
They got through many stages in their relationships. Going through fights which break the team completely, both dating other people, facing a fracture when Booth wants to try for romance but Brennan still fears losing her safety and Brennan being ready but Booth being with someone else. Finally, they get together when Brennan is pregnant.
Once they are together, they still struggle with Pelant and a conspiracy, causing horrible strife. They don’t lose love during those times, but it causes strain. When she's on the run, she feels out of control again, once more turning inwards and having to re-adjust to life When Bones thinks Booth is backing out of their marriage for a period of time, she feels betrayed due to her finally opening herself up for a permanent loss of control over to Booth and him backing out. She realises he is not doing that, and we see the connection become closer. Breanan has to kick him out for a period of time when he puts her and their children in danger due to his falling back into gambling addiction. He breaks the stricture of protection that Booth promised to Brennan. They can come back together afterwards.
Learning to let Booth inside her world is one of the biggest signs of Brennan becoming more vulnerable. She can be more outwardly affectionate and connected. She still struggles with reminders of her own traumas, but her ability to connect has healed appreciably.
Brennan is a protective mother and very wants to have her children have a better life than she did. Having them does help her continue to open up with people, while also making her very willing to do things she wouldn’t before to keep her children safe.
While all of her connections change throughout the story, none of her friends ever attempt to change her core. They all love her intellect, different perspectives and awkward humour. All of her fellow science-focused colleagues respect find her mind to be invaluable. Her interns, for the most part, look up to her in their field of study and are excited to work for her. Her colleagues like Cam and Hodgins enjoy her company outside of work as well as the above-stated professional respect.
Angela loves her for who she is; she wants to help her where she struggles, but would never want Brennan to not be her. Always being fond of her and wanting to spend time with her and be involved in each other's lives. Booth and Bones widening the others is key to the story, often saying "you taught me that" to each other, showing how much their differences matter to each other; they don't want the other to not be them, then they wouldn't be in love.
She is loved for her specialness, not despite it. If she didn't think her way, she would never solve her crimes, and everyone knows it. Brennan learns to love others with their other creativity, and they love hers.
Brennan is a woman who had a lot of love inside her and got to relearn that she had that in her and that it was okay to share and receive it. She gets to love and be loved for who she is, she just had to be found by people who helped heal the walls around her to be able to let is the right people.
Autism:
Difficulty processing her own emotions
Difficulty processing other people's emotions
Difficulty with social cues
Doesn’t understand “unwritten rules”
Improper affect
Info dumping
Literal about things
Needing to explain jokes
Puts everything through her lens of anthropology rules filter in order to understand it
Trouble making friends
Trouble noticing when she and others are giving off body/nonverbal cues of emotion
Special interests
Unaffected by certain sensory input at certain situations (like bodily decay at crime scenes)
Repeating phrases
Rigid thought structure
C-PTSD:
Anger when reminded of trauma
Anxiety around trauma reminders
Avoidance of trauma reminders
Fears of abandonment
Hypervigilance
Isolating
Obsessive thoughts
Need for control
Nightmares (transient)
Relational difficulties
Rigid schema
Strong emotional responses, even if they are often expressed awkwardly
I've recently watched J.J. Abrams' 'Star Trek' and I feel like Karl Urban's Bones is the type of guy who unironically loves 'Hotel Room service' by Pittbull.
My New Headcanon: Booth is totally a closet Swiftie
Ok, so i had this epiphany the other day whilst listening to the new version of Red on loop (and trust me when i say this has many layers and may get added to as i continue watching bones (currently on S8E4).
Booth is totally a T. Swift fan. He’s a romantic who kinda loves stereotypical gender roles and fairytale love stories. He would never admit this to the outside world bc hes so obsessed with his “Manliness”, but from the first time he heard Love Story on the radio back in 2009 (post brain surgery) and just perfectly pictured him and Bones as he listened to the lyrics it was kismet (and boy do we know that man believes in fate).
Some dot point details to follow:
- No one really knows the depth of his obsession, bc he generally saves listening for when hes alone or with Brennan (and/or later on with Christine) cos he knows shes sorta oblivious.
- He could swear he was almost outed when she had Love Story stuck in her head and was humming its tune on the platform and everyone was staring at her, but they all (except Angela) just convinced themselves that surely the great Dr Brennan wouldnt know Taylor Swift.
- Brennan mentioned at one point that Russ’ daughters were big fans and she was buying them tickets to go to a TS concert for Christmas and he immediately insisted on going as their chaperone for “their safety” bc hes an fbi agent after all so theyd be safest with him as all concerts always have crazy fans (not to mention they were getting the best tickets in the house and it sure beats the last time he went to a TS concert and got shitty tickets right in the back and wore a disguise).
- He listened and cried to “Breathe” after the happenings of the 100th on repeat, and thought of it again after TDitP.
- Two of his favourite songs are “Our Song” and “Oh My My My” because they remind him of the perfect relationship and remind him of Pops and his Grandmas story.
- He used to sing “Safe and Sound” to Christine when she was little as a sort of lullaby and still sometimes does when she needs comfort or asks him to.
- Her upbeat songs are his favourite to work out to (he especially likes “Shake it Off”, “We are Never Getting Back Together” and “22″.)
- He really wanted to punch John Mayer, Joe Jonas and Jake Gyllenhaal for causing her grief, but liked Harry and is happy for her and Joe Alwyn.
- Brennan doesnt really care for Taylor Swifts music/cant really tell it apart from other music but she has to admit that song about dancing in the precipitation in a very nice dress always makes her smile.
- Also as Christine grew/grows up he made sure she had Taylor Swift in her cd collection so he had a good excuse to have it in the house and an even better reason for going to her concerts. Christine doesnt like Taylor Swift as much as her Dad thinks she does but she will never tell him that.
haha ok, thats enough rambling for now.. i reserve the right to come back and add to/edit this post..
Feel free to let me know your thoughts/add your own parts to this etc etc.
