Nero, Disintegration (drabble)

[measured_words]

(for the Drabble at the Edge of Forever challenge hosted by yahtzee63)
Nero, Disintegration

Nero regrets the words spit in anger as soon as they pass his lips. They’re not true. He would never surrender to Kirk, but to lose Romulus again? No.

The Narada is crumbling around him, his crew dying. Ayel is already lost. The frustration and pain tear at him as fiercely as the singularity, and his mind is filled with familiar visions of his home – his wife and family – being ripped apart.

At least, he thinks, he will join them soon. Screams ring out around him, and every detail of this end burns into him.

It seems to take forever.

Comments

[bessemerprocess.livejournal.com]

Aw, you made me feel bad for Nero.

[measured-words.livejournal.com]

Victory!

*pets the Romulan*

[longpig.livejournal.com]

I wondered if maybe some of the Romulans on his ship *would* have preferred not to die, but then I remembered Balance of Terror.

[measured-words.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I rewatched that one a week or so again.

Of course, they were military, and Nero's crew were future!miners, so.... who can say? ^-^

[raihu.livejournal.com]

I want to tell you how much I enjoyed this, but I don't have the wordssssss. *foam*

Deliciously tragic. So good.

[measured-words.livejournal.com]

Thank so much - I'm glad it was effective!

Poor Nero :(

[blackmamba-esq.livejournal.com]

Excellent :)

[measured-words.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[iceaffinity.livejournal.com]

Aw. Poor Romulans.

[measured-words.livejournal.com]

*hugs them*

Thanks :)

Also, if you are looking for other Romulan stuff, I will also rec this story about how Nero met his wife, and why he didn't want to just go back to Romulus when they got to the past.

[iceaffinity.livejournal.com]

Not so much looking for Romulan stuff in particular, as happy to find fic about secondary characters. I love seeing them fleshed out in ways the canon doesn't always achieve, looking at different angles. Which is why I was pleased to find good Romulan fic from the movie. ^_^ I hadn't thought too much about what they'd been doing during the 25 years (despite wondering 'why the heck don't they go to Romulus and find a way to convince everyone to evacuate the planet??') so it's good to see variations on what they're thinking and doing.

^_^