#keenser/george is/was a thing and you can’t tell me otherwise

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Whumptober 2022

No. 4 Dead on your feet (can’t pass out)

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He was feeling horrible. All he wanted was to close his eyes. To give in to that feeling of tiredness.

But Keenser knew that he wasn’t allowed to. He had to get out of that mine. He had to call for help.

The Roylan knew that he was the only one who could save the Captain and the rest of the landing party. The humans were already knocked out.

But the gas down here would be too much for him too eventually. At the moment his body was still fighting against it, but what if he wouldn’t make it outside in time?

What if he couldn’t hail the ship? What if they all would die?

It was supposed to be an easy mission. Find and safe an Andorian scientist who had been working in the mine.

They couldn’t have known that there’d be a gas leak. They couldn’t have known that it was lethal.

Time was running out. For the humans. And for the Roylan too. They had found the scientist dead. Apparently he had worked down here too long. The gas had killed him.

Keenser’s vision was blurry. He tried to walk in a straight line but it was getting harder and harder.

He thought about his Captain who was dying at the moment.

James Tiberius Kirk. The son of George Samuel Kirk.

Keenser felt tears in his eyes at the thought of Jim’s father. He had died a hero, protecting his crew and his son.

Keenser had always wanted to be at his side. To serve on the Kelvin. So when he had gotten the chance to serve under Kirk’s son… he had taken it.

He had to protect him. He couldn’t let his Captain die.

When he graduated from the Academy he had sworn that he’d work for them. For his friends on the USS Kelvin.

Many of them had died.

George Kirk had died.

So all Keenser could do was work and fight for what George had left behind.

Keenser gathered his strength one last time and managed to get into the elevator which would carry him to the surface.

He stumbled outside and activated his communicator.

“Enter…prise…. Help.”

It was all he could say before his body dropped to the floor.

They’d save them. The Enterprise would come for them.

It was all he could do for his old friend. To protect his young, stubborn son. And he surely wouldn’t fail at that task. Never!

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