Dusk & Stay by Konstantine (PG)

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Fandom: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE
Pairing: Trip/T'Pol
Author on LJ: konstantine03
Author Website: A Pleasant Interruption
Why this must be read: Dusk is the events of the season three episode Twilight as seen from a Trip/T'Pol perspective. In this story, Konstantine explores what effects Archer's condition and the end of the world have on a relationship between the Trip and T'Pol by showing a "behind the scenes"-style series of vignettes throughout the episode's timeline. It's not a happily-ever-after, or a love story per se, but it is honest and a perfect example of "what if".

Stay, essentially, is a "missing scene" from Dusk and shows us how, sometimes, it's the little things that can mean the most.

Her hand grabbed his, his fingers instinctively tangling with hers. It was gestures like these that worried him most. Made him fear things had gone too far. That they were becoming too dependent.

And dependency was the one thing they could never have.

Dusk
Stay