Here's number three. Nice and short. Hope you enjoy!
DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN STAR TREK
3. Ash
When a fire burns all that is left is the ash of what if burned. When Jim Kirk was told that he would no longer be Captain of the Enterprise he felt like his fire had burned out and he was the remains of it.
The Enterprise had been his life. That's where he finally decided that he would change. He would settle down. He wouldn't stop taking risks because that's what he did. But he didn't take them needlessly as he used to. That was progress at least.
Yet the young former captain sat there feeling like there was no more oxygen, he felt like a fire that had run out of fuel. Leaving nothing but ash in his wake.
It was a funny feeling. He had used the ash to cover the pod. At the time he hadn't thought what that meant. But now he saw that it was the remnants of something that once was great.
Like a fire that consumes a forest, it burns brightly, harming anyone who gets in its way, the fire eventually runs out of fuel. In its wake it leaves nothing but ash.
Jim Kirk never wondered what it felt like to be ash. It was something was debris. He thought that he was the ash his father's flame left behind.
After all ash just covered up the next greatness, the life that would flourish after a fire. When his ship was taken from him, he knew that's what had happened. The new life had finally pushed past his covering.
How was it? I may be able to stretch this to 200, fairly easy, so let me know if you'd be in in for the long hall! Later!~IF