Celandine's Chronicle (celandineb) wrote in cels_fic_haven, @ 2010-04-19 12:53:00 |
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Entry tags: | star trek drabbles sulu |
ST drabble: Door to the Future [Sulu, general]
Title: Door to the Future
Author: celandineb
Fandom: Star Trek XI
Characters: Sulu
Rating: general
Length: 200 words
Summary: It's just a door... but it means so much.
Note: For emiime, who wanted Sulu gen, "enlisting".
Hikaru eyed the glass door nervously from the far side of the street, and compared the number on it once again with the address he'd scrawled on a slip of paper last month.
It had taken him that long to find an excuse to come to the city where the nearest Starfleet recruiting office was, and now he found himself disappointed beyond reason at how ordinary, almost shabby, the door looked, set in an unprepossessing row of shops and offices.
Almost, he turned to leave. Then he thought of the life that had been mapped out for him -- working in the family fishing business, marrying suitably, passing everything down to his own children one day. Clenching his fists for courage, he walked steadily across the street and opened the door.
"May I help you?" inquired the woman behind the desk, who was dressed in a trim uniform and whose facial structure showed plainly that she was not human. Hikaru barely managed not to stare.
"I want to enlist in Starfleet. I want to be a pilot," he said, his voice firm.
The freedom of the seas had been enough for his ancestors, but Hikaru desired the freedom of the skies.