Title:Woodstock.
Author: Linstock
Code: Gaila, Uhura
Rating: G
Type: Humour
Warnings: None.
Summary: Nyota shares some family history with Gaila.
A/N: Written for drabble challenge at bridge2sickbay. Featuring: Woodstock. Characters: Gaila, Uhura. Beta reader the incomperable Spocklikescats.
Woodstock.
"Tell me about "Woodstock,",sighed Gaila.
"Again? I've already told you three times, sweetie."
"But it sounds so wonderful…I wish I had been there."
With a tolerant smile, Uhura rolled her eyes; it was Gaila's favourite 'bedtime story'.
"During the 'Age of Aquarius', there was a three-day celebration of 'free love', life, music and peace."
"'Free love' …."
"That's right sweetie - no one owned anyone - everyone went to listen to 'rock' and 'folk' music and 'protest songs' and camp on the land together ... Each person chose what they did, and who they did it with, even sexually."
"If you didn't want to you didn't have to." Gaila sounded like a small child listening to a fairy tale.
"That's right; no one had to do anything they didn't want to. Except deal with rain and mud. But they were happy despite the weather, listening to their favourite music and performers, ingesting mind-altering substances, and 'communing'."
"How many people were there?"
" Five hundred thousand – I've told before – and I know you never forget numbers."
"I know, I just like to hear you say it." Gaila snuggled into her bed, looking over at her expectantly.
Nyota's voice took on the lilting tone of a storyteller as she started, "Long before First Contact, in August 1969, outside Bethel, New York, in the United States of America, a festival took place on a farm near the hamlet of White Lake. At home we still have old photographs my many times great- grandma took, and a holo adapted from a film …."