Disclaimer: I don't own Startrek or the song Inside the Fire by (the wonderful) Disturbed

I'm a little guilty that I didn't write anything whilst in Liverpool (updated my sketchbook in favour of my dieing notebook) but lookie here, at least I wasn't so lazy in Birmingham!


Inside the Fire

Nero stared into the fierce flames of the fire heating his quarters; he had always preferred the raw burning heat from the mini inferno to the ships standard life support.

Now it haunted him.

He could see the flickering face of his beautiful wife as he had last seen her and a man, about 20, he resembled her.

He had the same smiling mouth and glittering eyes, the tattoos were those of his father's.

'Mine.' Nero thought.

Give your soul to me.... for eternity

Nero sighed, the voice had returned. In the beginning, the first few years, he had rebelled against the offers but now, 15 years and 10 weeks after coming through the black hole he almost welcomed them.

Release your life to begin another time with her

That was just it, wasn't it?

Even if it meant giving up revenge he would do anything for another chance at life with his family, a chance at any kind of life, if only there was some kind of guarantee.

Take the word of an immortal

But Nero couldn't trust anymore, he wasn't even certain he could still love; all he knew was his anger, his aim.

And he knew the fire only haunted him, that the voice only pushed him further towards insanity.

In fact, Nero was quite sure he was walking on air, that he had long ago left the brink of the sane.

But it didn't matter.

He stared back into the inferno in a meditative pose, his straight back cold, unprotected, vulnerable.

"Spock must be killed."

Then he lost himself again gazing at the burning image of his beloved wife in the fire that had long ago collapsed into ashes and cooled.


Insane Nero! (who didn't see that coming, :P) anyway, please review.

Oh, just to say I know Nero didn't kill Spock but that flows better than "Spock must be marooned and forced to watch the destruction of one (out of two) of his parent planets."

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