NEW KFF: Antonia (Kirk/Quark;PG-13;1/1)

[PB Wrapper]

Posted for PB Wrapper by Karmen G.

Title: Antonia
Part: 1/1
Author: PB Wrapper, c/o ja...@joking.fsbusiness.co.uk
Series: TOS/DS9
Romance Code: Kirk/Quark
Rating: PG-13
Feedback: Of course.
Archive: KFF (http://geocities.com/kirk_fuh_q_fest),
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Warning: This story does not contain much m/m sex.
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Disclaimer: Copyright 2000 by PB Wrapper. This
original work of amateur fiction based on Star Trek
makes transformative use of Star Trek for
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Antonia
by PB Wrapper

"Antonia? What's your interest anyway? Do you have a
buyer for that kind of information? I thought not.
Human sentimentality is the most expensive, the most
over-indulged vice in the quadrant. Who cares who
Antonia is, or more likely who she was. Long dead, if
she ever lived at all. I thought you wanted to know
about the Nexus. I can tell you about the Nexus. It
won't do you any good though, now the Federation has
the thing under wraps, thanks to Jean Luc Picard. Now
there's a man who couldn't spot a retail opportunity
if it reared up and bit him in the ass...

How did I hear about the Nexus? How do you think?
There are two things every Ferengi is born looking
for: the elixir of youth and a female you can trust
with the code to your safety deposit box. I had hopes
of Major Kira for a while, but I've resigned myself
lately to concentrating on the elixir...

Oh, yes, there were rumours about the Nexus, and
certain people brought them to my attention. I went to
take a look and ended up inside. That is no place for
a self-respecting Ferengi. Why? A place where an
intelligent being only has to think of something and
he has it? What can you sell in a place like that?

Enjoy it? You're joking, of course.

Why? Well, how can I put it. Ferengi are not...
dreamers. Not visionaries. Not... well, you might say,
we're realists. And the Nexus is one huge illusion. So
there I was, with a few hundred thousand assorted
characters who'd stumbled in by accident, who all
seemed to content to lie there in a blur of fantasy,
and me with nothing to sell them, not that they'd have
roused themselves to make a deal if I had...

Just lying there? Well... yes, and no. Since it wasn't
real, I can't tell you what they were really doing,
but they weren't spending. The first thing I realised
was that I'd found what I was looking for, and the
second was that I had to get out of there before I
lost my mind. I spent days... or maybe it was years...
looking for a way out. Nothing. In the end, I stumbled
across Kirk. At first, he looked just as blank as the
rest of them. Faint smile, foetal position, dribbling.
But he moved. Just a flicker, a twitch. I shook him
awake. Or aware. I shook him aware of me, but he was
still in the Nexus. He saw what he wanted, not what
was there.

What do you mean, go on?

Why would I care what Kirk wanted? What *I* wanted was
a way out, and from what I'd heard about Captain James
T Kirk, he'd be wanting it too. I just needed to wake
him up to the point where he realised that. So I did.

How? That is none of your business.

Yes, I would like another drink. A triple Pellagrian
moonset. On which the mark up here is outrageous, by
the way.

Thank you. Aaaah. Delicious. You really do want to
know about Kirk, don't you. Well, as I said, I wasn't
seeing the inside of the Nexus the way he was. It was
a nightmarish void to me. Like a shopping mall in a
blackout. You know, this is the best Pellagrian
moonset I've tasted in a long time. What vintage?

25113? You really *do* want to know about Kirk. Okay
then. He was coming round. He was talking, beginning
to talk, not really making sense. I didn't know much
about the guy really, except the Spock thing. It
occurred to me to pretend to be Spock, but I wasn't
sure it would work. I'd heard they had some kind of
permanent mind meld. Probably just a rumour, the kind
of story the updates like to spread, but it didn't
seem worth risking. As for the rest... well, I didn't
really know much else. He wasn't what I expected. He
was small, for a human, and pale. With that and the
dumb smile and the dribbling, I had a hard time
convincing myself this really *was* James T Kirk. Then
I noticed the hard on and it began to seem more
likely. I *had* heard those kinds of stories about
him.

Another? If you're paying.

Mmmmmmm.

What happened then? Well... let's move over here where
it's quiet, and I'll tell you. I realised that there
was something that anyone stuck in the Nexus wasn't
getting, not if Kirk was a representative sample. So
I... well, I decided I was prepared to give it to him
in exchange for his help in getting out of there. Of
course, it was still tough getting through to him, but
I don't think the Nexus had as firm a grip on him as
it did on the rest of them. I've never had sex with a
human male before, but I applied the usual logic:
identify the primary erogenous zones and pretend
they're your own lobes. He began to make connections
with reality again in no time. I'm not quite sure he
was seeing it all the way I was, but he was certainly
enjoying it. He asked me who I was, so I just told him
the first human name that came to mind... I didn't see
any reason to confuse him with awkward introductions.
When the historians say 'Antonia' sounds like a name
someone pulled out of thin air, I can't help just
smiling a little, because that's exactly what I did.
Is something wrong? You're looking a little white. You
didn't have money on Antonia being anyone in
particular, did you? I didn't even know 'Antonia' was
a female name. It was the name of a trader I'd done
business with before I knew anything... Anyway, to cut
a long story short, he suggested that since you could
have whatever you wanted while you were in the Nexus,
all you had to do to get out was to want *that*. Yes,
I know that sounds too simple, but you should
understand that no one else was in any hurry to get
out, even if they'd realised there was an out to get
to, and, as you'd know if you'd ever met James T...

You have? Oh well, then you'll know that when James T
Kirk wants something, he gets it, even if willpower is
the only currency in his account. Once he realised
that I'd only finish what I'd started if he promised
to think me out of there, we struck a deal. Like I
say, I'm not sure that was the way the whole thing
appeared to him, but... well, here I am.

The End

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[Mary Ellen Curtin]

Dear PB Wrapper:

Glad to see your smoke once more! If you've been
posting stories in the last couple months, I missed
'em.

A brilliant take -- funny, too -- on one of the most
perplexing problems in Kirkology. I've long been a
follower of Judy Grans' "Antonia is the horse" theory,
but this one definitely works for me, too.

And you have some A-one lines in here:

>I didn't know much
> about the guy really, except the Spock thing.

I *love* that you don't define "the Spock thing", and
your use of "updates" -- is that your own invention?
Very good science-fictiony touch, just what I like the
most.

And this bit:

>I applied the usual logic:
> identify the primary erogenous zones and pretend
> they're your own lobes.

Words to live by.

And this description:

>He wasn't what I expected. He
> was small, for a human, and pale. With that and the
> dumb smile and the dribbling, I had a hard time
> convincing myself this really *was* James T Kirk. Then
> I noticed the hard on and it began to seem more
> likely. I *had* heard those kinds of stories about
> him.

Completely on the money. Reminds me of Istannor's
Kirk, in a Terry Pratchett universe. This bit is also
Pratchettian:

> Yes, I would like another drink. A triple Pellagrian
> moonset. On which the mark up here is outrageous, by
> the way.

(after this, I know who Dibbler is going to look like, to me).

As far as I'm concerned, you can always write more.
Carry on.

Mary Ellen
Doctor Science, MA
http://www.eclipse.net/~mecurtin/au/
Alternate Universes: Fanfiction Studies
http://www.eclipse.net/~mecurtin/foresmut/
The Foresmutters Project

[J S Cavalcante]

Message text written by INTERNET:ASC...@egroups.com

>I've long been a
follower of Judy Grans' "Antonia is the horse" theory,
but this one definitely works for me, too.
<

Darn--I thought that was my theory. <g> There's never a new idea in
Trekfic, is there? Anyway, obviously I agree completely. Antonia is
definitely the horse (but I loved the Quark story, too.)

LL&P
J S

[tkn...@ix.netcom.com]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:41:29 -0700 (PDT), in
alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated you wrote:

>
>Title: Antonia

>Author: PB Wrapper, c/o ja...@joking.fsbusiness.co.uk
>

So that's who Antonia is - I had an idea she might be the horse. <g>
Now I want to know how Quark got in the Nexus.

LL&P }:)
"T'Rhys" <tkn...@ix.netcom.com>

[J. Juls]

Antonia! Hahahahaha! Hilarious!

Julie

[Moriva]

At 13:41 10/09/00 -0700, you wrote:

>Posted for PB Wrapper by Karmen G.
>
>Title: Antonia
>Part: 1/1
>Author: PB Wrapper, c/o ja...@joking.fsbusiness.co.uk
>Series: TOS/DS9
>Romance Code: Kirk/Quark
>Rating: PG-13
>Feedback: Of course.
>Archive: KFF (http://geocities.com/kirk_fuh_q_fest),
>ASCEML; everybody else please drop me a line, thanks

Wow. This is a much more sinister perspective on the Nexus than had ever
occurred to me, but it makes perfect sense.

It's pretty amazing in a Kirk/Quark pairing that I feel sorry for *Quark*
having sex with a drooling, Nexus-addicted Jim. As to how Jim saw
'Antonia', you got me imagining Kirk opening that bedroom door and finding
Quark lying on the bed as he was in that DS9 ep, when the sexy, semi-naked
holo-image of Kira's body has Quark's head.

What a fabo story.

Moriva
I'm looking forward to a kangaroo protesting at the Olympics, so John
Howard can call it "un-Australian."
-Katisha, Fuh-q member