Star Trek: The Next Generation/Star Trek: Voyager (NC-17)

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Title: Ruby Slippers are a One-Way Ticket by Kaite
Pairing: Picard/Janeway
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: You can find more of Kaite's fic here (scroll down)

Why this must be read:


This is a dark, brilliant story about the things Picard and Janeway have in common. It's one of my favourite stories from one of my favourite writers in this fandom.

Sometimes, if you're lucky, the tornado comes at just the right moment. Whether you're stuck on a dusty farmyard out in Kansas or the sterile environment of mid-24th century San Francisco, you dream about the place on the other side of the rainbow.

You dream about it. That's all it is, a dream, a fantasy, a horror story. Something to scare the children with a dark winter's night.

Children you'll never have. Not now.

It's the place where fairytale monsters come from. You've come face to face with them, held one, touched one, tasted one. It's Theseus lost in the Labyrinth, knowing that the Minotaur is lying in wait somewhere, that it's all just a matter of time. That fantasy place, that far-off kingdom that existed once upon a time, was never meant to be someone's reality, your reality.

Somehow on that yellow brick road, you found your courage, your brain, your heart. Your home.

Ruby Slippers are a One-Way Ticket