HELP I've read literally all the Kathryn/Beverly fic on AO3 in the past week and I am obsessed and more people need to write more and anyway I just thought the good folk of Tumblr should know.
i love you nyota uhura i love you christine chapel i love you deanna troi i love you beverly crusher i love you tasha yar i love you lwaxana troi i love you kate pulaski i love you ro laren i love you keiko o’brien i love you jadzia dax i love you kira nerys i love you leeta i love you moogie i love you ezri dax i love you kathryn janeway i love you b’elanna torres i love you seven of nine i love you t’pol i love you hoshi sato
Come to me now (come to me now)
And rest your head for just five minutes
Everything is done
Such a cozy room (such a cozy room)
The windows are illuminated
By the evening sunshine through them
Fiery gems for you, only for you
- Our House by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
listen I wrote this for myself to see if I could, and because I really wanted to read it. It’s silly and self indulgent, but if slow burn janewayxcrusher sounds like your idea of a good time, check this out:
I wrote almost 100k words about what if Beverly had been on board Voyager - what if the universally famous “I’m fine I don’t need a doctor” Kathryn Janeway fell in love with a wildly accomplished doctor
Updates once or twice a week, and I have everything but the very end written. Just needs some editing 💕
Welcome back! "There's something between us." for Janeway/Crusher, please?
Ah yes, my super secret favs.
"Don't ignore me, Kathryn."
"I'm not-"
"There's something between us. Surely you feel it too..."
Kathryn closed her eyes, still facing away from Beverly. She had tried to escape the Starfleet brass at the gala, but now a certain doctor had cornered her. Their last meeting had ended...badly.
"I'm not ready," she whispered, trying to keep her tears beneath her closed eyelids. Seven years in the Delta Quadrant had taken its toll. Meeting her future self...and a whirlwind of a year back on Earth. It still felt foreign, to be on solid ground for so long.
Beverly was practically glowing in her service whites, her red hair tucked neatly back in a bun. She walked up next to Kathryn, careful not to touch her, but just close enough that it seemed intimate.
"I don't need Captain Janeway..." Beverly's voice was even and calm. "I just want Kathryn."
"I'm not..." Kathryn took a deep breath and opened her eyes to stare out at the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance.
"Ok."
Kathryn took a chance to glance in Beverly's direction, which turned out to be a mistake. Blue eyes stared at her with more understanding than Kathryn thought physically possible.
"Beverly, I want to be who you want...but I'm not there yet."
Beverly gave her a sly smile and then nudged her shoulder playfully, "But you admit it. There's something here..."
Kathryn threw back her head and laughed, the earlier tears forgotten now. Leave it to Beverly Crusher to corner her, demand that she admit her feelings, and then become the most understanding woman in the universe.