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#it's true and they should sing it always
HEADCANON: You’re Captain Christopher Pike’s Feral SO
Captain Pike x Female Reader
Authors Note: this was partially beta read but 100% written on my phone
◦ Really?
◦ You.
◦ No really, you?
◦ This is Captain Christopher Pike of the USS enterprise and you’re… you.
◦ When the discovery heard that Captain Pike long time SO (or as he told Michael ‘I have a Lady, she means the world to me and I had to pull a lot of strings to bring her over from my ship to here.”) was coming over from the Enterprise, they were expecting… not you.
◦ This got told to your face multiple times, especially by Tilly, not even questioning why she was helping carry your stuff to the captains quarters until she was halfway back to her own quarters and then she was like ‘…wait’
◦ Tilly’s your favourite, tbh.
◦ As Paul Staments once said when the entire ship realised you were Pike’s SO:
“it’s nothing against you, it’s just that you’re… you and Captain Pike is Captain Pike. When you think of who Captain Pike’s Lady would be, you think of someone very… Pikey. Not… you.”
◦ (If you imagine it in Anthony Rapp’s voice it makes total sense and doesn’t sound bitchy at all)
◦ In the crews defence, at no point did you or Pike ever attempt to correct them or let them know who exactly Pikes SO was.
◦ They just knew you came over from the Enterprise, that’s it.
◦ No one’s exactly sure what you do, like one moment you’re working with the ship’s Botanists and they’re like ‘oh okay’, and then the next moment you’re spelunking down a turbolift shute becuase Tilly’s gotten stuck in one.
◦ Even Spock not sure what you do. Do you know how hard it is to confuse a Vulcan?
◦ it’s actually Not that hard but now’s NOT THE TIME
◦ Then people starting seeing the two of you interact, usually in the form of you complaining as Pike took your second, third, it’s only my fifth if you’re going by binary numbers, caffeinated drink from you in the mess hall, shooting you a smile and a comment about how he doesn’t need his crew members all wired up.
◦ And because of well, everything about you (your lack of height, seemingly permanent babyface, etc etc), everyone just assumed that maybe you were a ensign of some sort that he felt a kinship too and was attempting to mentor through the command training program, because clearly you’re a ensign right?
◦ …Right?
◦ Oh, you’re a commander?
◦ *censored*
◦ You being Pike’s SO isn’t even a remote possibility, which is weird because you would think that they would suspect something, considering you’ve left the CAPTAINS QUARTERS IN DAYLIGHT HOURS IN FRONT OF OTHER CREW MEMBERs
◦ Also that one time you sat on Pikes lap during a party one time but everyone thought it was because you were tipsy and nobody noticed the way his hand was resting super high on your thigh and you could get away with it because ???
◦ It’s not until the one MINOR explosion that lands you in medbay and when the Captain hears about you getting some minor shrapnel to the leg and suddenly he’s running to medbay, pale as a ghost, and suddenly people realize this isn’t some weird mentor/mentee relationship but rather some weird romantic relationship.
◦ I mean, they didn’t realize something until you started getting into a very loud argument with him.
(it’s not uncommon for you to start arguments you’re a very argumentative person)
anyone passing by medbay that day saw you on the bed, yelling at him, while he stood there, hands on his hips, dumb smirk on his face like he’s turned on by it.
◦ He kinda is, not going to lie.
◦ Then Someone, yelled something about inches, and that’s when it clicked all across the ship.
◦ The man goes into double digits let’s be reasonable here.
◦ Jett Reno’s been suspicious of you two since the beginning, and it was pretty much confirmed for her one night when she ran into you and Pike stumbling out of his ready room with slightly messy clothes, giggling like teenagers, but it wasn’t her place to say
◦ Which again, begs the question- you?
◦ I mean he’s Captain Pike, he’s like the poster Boy Scout of Starfleet.
◦ You can usually be found scowling in the background somewhere, clutching your beloved caffeinated drink, a scowl on your face, usually grumbling about idiots as you diffuse yet another crisis.
◦ you also don’t like people, really.
Okay you don’t like MOST people, besides Pike, and that’s… questionable most days.
Pike said something about having some tramua from childhood you still need to resolve but idk
◦ Also you drink hot sauce on its own who does that.
So while you could usually be counting on for helping out the various groups and units on the ship, the only person you really opened up too on Discovery was Pike.
How you and Pike became a couple no one, not even Pike, are not really sure.
Okay Pike knows how but his mother raised him to be a gentleman and a gentleman doesn’t discuss dirty laundry.
Unless it’s with Spock and they were really drunk on Klingon Blood Wine and he felt so guilty about it afterwords he swore Spock to secrecy.
Spock does tells it to Kirk and Bones years later because he doesn’t understand why you and Pike were a thing really.
They don’t either tbh
So it’s a understatement when theres a unspoken rule formed shortly after you arrived was that no one got between you and your food.
If someone needed you for something and you happened to be eating during that moment, they could wait.
Even Pike knew not to mess with you unless it was like the entire crew/universe was at stake (and if that was the case he’d get you to get your food to go because in Pike’s words ‘you get bitey when you’re Hangry.’)
◦ That is until some jackass in engineering made Tilly cry over a minor mistake she made, and the day you hear about it, you’re having lunch.
A lunch you’ve been talking about looking forward for six weeks because Pike got his hands on some Bajorian argendi sandwiches for the crew, and it’s not everyday that you get bajorian argendi sandwiches.
Sometimes Pike will make one for you but that’s only after you do that one thing for him, and the last time Chris even thought about asking you to that one thing, it gave Spock a month long migraine so it’s been a hot moment for the two of you.
◦ You have a vanilla latte, a banjorian argendi sandwich on mapa bread, and a new bottle of hot sauce in front of you.
◦ The one thing that would make this day perfect is if you had someone’s you know what to look forward too later but THATS NOT THE POINT
◦ But then Tilly comes into the mess hall, trying and failing to hide her tears right as you’re pouring hot sauce on your argendi sandwich.
◦ You see this and everyone else goes quiet when with a sigh, you push your sandwich away and you walk over to her, and ask if she’s okay and you take her for a walk to talk about it.
◦ When asked about it, Tilly just smiles and makes a joke about how she underestimated Pike’s… girlfriend? Wife? Life partner?
◦ Again what are you?
◦ Jett Reno later sees you dressing down the crew member that made Tilly cry but again, not her place to say anything, she says, as she retells it though with glee.
Captain Pike finding you provocatively dancing in your quarters would include:
•you’ve been signed off work for a few days after having been in a shuttle accident- you’re fine, but the good Doctor decided a few days to just rest and be yourself is a good idea.
•anyway, our dear Captain decides to pay you a visit on your last day of convalescing before returning to duty.
•he’s very surprised when he’s stood outside your door and realises he can hear music. Loud, blaring music! He chimes on the door, asking for entrance, but evidently the music is so loud you just can’t hear! So he uses his Captain’s override and let’s himself in.
•the sight that greets his eyes is certainly not unwelcome! But it’s definitely a surprise!
•the music hits his senses first. The loud beat of the song, accompanied by your singing- which surprisingly isn’t too bad!- crashes over him like an explosion.
•and then he spots you. You’re stood on the coffee table that’s in the middle of your room- you’re lucky enough to have one to yourself! And there you are, in barely there clothing that leaves little to the imagination dancing like you’re in the throes of some passionate encounter or seduction.
•and Pike is seduced. How could he not be?!
•he can’t take his eyes off your hips as you drop and rise, rock and roll, your body sets flames sparking in his veins. He’s lost to your movements entirely. And a rakish smile is stuck on his face. He’s not seen dancing like this since…well, ever.
•it takes you a long time to realise he’s there. But he’s so lost in tracing the movements of your dancing, gyrating body that he doesn’t see that you’ve spotted him.
•it’s not until you hop down from the table, cross the room without missing a beat and take his hands and put them on your ass as you roll against his body that he knows you’ve seen him. And then he’s so awestruck that you want him to dance with you, to touch you and feel every part of you that he’s helpless and completely swept away.
•and you’re delighted to discover that he has a strong sense of rhythm and knows how to move them hips!
•and let’s just say, the dancing doesn’t stay upright for long…and Pike can last for song after song after song!
Captain's log, stardate 2291.6. En route to deliver a crucial shipment of grain to a colony on Setlik II, we encountered something more pressing: a time traveler.
Well, I appreciate all the work you've put into coordinating this mission, but you generally only wanna burn the candle at one end.
I'll take that under advisement.
I think it's safe to say that we don't understand the Gorn.
It's good to be back.
Yes, it is.
Let’s just say I... think the universe is telling me that some fates are inescapable. And even if I could get out of mine... it might just fall to someone else.