Title: Of Redbrick Buildings And Secret Friends
Author: LaurAmour
Universe: STXI
Characters: Cupcake, Pike, Ringo/Lidja
Rating: T (to be safe
Summary: Cupcake's origins, centered around his friendship with my OC Ringo (who is female). Will make more sense if you read Rare As A Pink Diamond first
Disclaimer: Don't own Star Trek. Characters are intellectual property of the actors who play them. I do however own Lidja and Ringo. I make no profit from this work of fanfiction
Notes:. Danny is Cupcake. This is a story about my OC's I introduced them properly in: Rare As A Pink Diamond.
For: The real Danny
Of Redbrick Buildings And Secret Friends
Leaning against the trunk of a tree she looked around, she had felt safe here. Surrounded by the red, brick buildings that had been her school before she had entered the academy, Anne Starr had always felt some degree of safety, here; no one understood the relationship between her and Danny. Lidja, who understood her better than anyone else, could not understand them, why she let him do what he did to her. Nor did she understand why she greeted him warmly every morning, only to get an insult back. No one else heard the tone of his voice; they would just listen to the words. The physical altercations were an outlet for both of them. Of all the people she had known before him he was the first not to underestimate her. It started with pushing and shoving but as they got older they turned to punches and blocks along with locks and kicks occasionally they would throw one another to the ground. These skirmishes were the reason that she had passed advanced hand to hand combat in her first year at the academy. No one noticed that whenever anyone gave her a hard time that he would stand up for her and no one noticed that when she was too upset behind her schooled expression that she could not handle even the warmth behind the insult that he would wait until he caught her alone and would give her a warm
"Morning Ringo" with one arm around her tense shoulders and ask her if she was alright
And no one noticed that on the day of her grandfathers funeral that he wasn't at school, or that he was standing at the back of the town hall or that he hugged her at the wake, but she did
At fourteen she qualified for early entrance to the academy. No one noticed that he followed her two years later. No one knew that she had requested that she be assigned as his student mentor, no one that is except Captain Pike.
She had always brought out the best in him which was why when she wasn't on the recruiting trip in riverside was the first time he had been put on report. To say that Pike was stunned to see his name on the list of cadets who had been involved in, what would become known as the 'Riverside incident' would have been an understatement. Pike had called a meeting with her before taking disciplinary action against those involved in the 'Riverside incident'.
"Ringo, you know him better than anyone, what is wrong with him?"
"I…" she was about to say 'I don't know Sir.'
"Of course! We haven't sparred with him in weeks! That's why he's been acting so strange. I'm sorry sir, this is my fault. How could I be so stupid?"
Pike smiled, although, frankly he looked vaguely confused. A fact that she picked up on, she then proceeded to explain.
After a short pause Pike nodded, his brows furrowed in thought, he sighed.
"I am going to let it slide, this once. What you do, clearly works don't stop.
This will be a multi-chapter at some stage but. No breath holding because it may be a while. Also, please keep any negativity to yourself as this is kind of a personal story and is still kind of hard for me to talk about, so yea, keep your flames to yourself.