Fic: A Quiet Empire (1/1, Teen)

[nonelvis]

Title: A Quiet Empire
Word Count: 13466
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Michael Burnham/Mirror Gabriel Lorca
Characters: Mirror Philippa Georgiou, Mirror Ellen Landry, Mirror Gabriel Lorca, Michael Burnham
Additional Tags: no happy-ever-after, No Romance, Non-Violent Non-Con, mind games and general effed-upness, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary: Canon divergence AU from "What's Past is Prologue." Lorca wins the battle in the throne room, and Michael must make good on her promise to stay with him.

Notes: Re-emphasizing a couple of points from the tags: while this is noncon, it is nonviolent ... just still, y'know, messed up. Also, this is not a fic where Burnham and Lorca are going to get a happy ending.

Immense thanks to lizbee for her beta services, especially for her attention to canon detail. You'd think an American who grew up with Star Trek would be more familiar with it than an Australian, but you'd be very wrong.

Read it on AO3

Comments

[nenya_kanadka]

Fascinating premise! I might heed the warnings and not read this one, but it's not something I've seen done yet and tbh I prefer this idea to a HEA for these two. So kudos to the general idea? :D

[nonelvis]

I'm glad you liked the premise, even if you're not going to read the fic ;) I have to admit, I certainly didn't expect to be writing noncon (nonviolent or otherwise), and I personally consider this at the outer edge of dubcon ... but it's so close that the noncon warning makes more sense. And while I love the pairing once they enter the MU, I don't believe for a minute that they would live together happily forever -- which is why this story has been stuck in my head since that episode finished airing.

[nenya_kanadka]

Oh, so I'm not the only one that dubcon/noncon has snuck up on! :P

(Currently writing slavefic that appears to actually kind of be on the dubcon side of that line too? Heh the fine distinctions we make for fic purposes!)