A Foolish Figure

The background:

1.  In the car on the way to my grandparents' on Saturday, someone said something about "beam me up, Scotty" and I said, "that's not actually a quotation from Star Trek." And we had a mini fight, which my mom ended by saying I obviously knew because I was so obsessive (though I pointed out that I had known before I had seen a single episode, since it's one of those famous never-quoted-quotations...because I'm in denial about being obsessive).

2.  I watched the first two seasons of Criminal Minds religiously.  BEST SHOW EVER.  But when Mandy Patinkin left, so did I.  So, I have not watched it in years.

The Serendipity:

Well, just a few minutes ago, my parents turned on an episode, and about two scenes in there was this snippet of dialogue:

Reid:  Technically, no one ever said "Beam me up, Scotty."  The closest anyone ever got is in the season two episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion" in which Kirk says "Scotty, beam us up" and... 

Rossie:  Shut up, Reid.

I laughed.  And then I left, because I didn't really want to watch Criminal Minds.  It always freaked me out, and without Gideon there is no reason to suffer through the freakishness.  Plus, Hotch is such a downer.  An incredibly handsome dower, but a downer nonetheless.

So, this is a story in progress.  I wouldn't publish something in progress if it were one story, but this is just a collection of stories prompted by lines from Shakespeare's Sonnet 116.  I've done the first three so far, and I'll post them as I come up with them.

These stories (like all my stories) are not slash.  Sonnet 116 is a sonnet written to a friend.  I know that some critics disagree, and think that there was something more between the sonneteer and the young man.  I do not. 

This collection was inspired when I was looking for something to prompt me, and I was reading sonnet 116 and realized that the first metaphor, "the marriage of true minds," if literalized, would sort of be a mind meld.  :-)

( Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments. )

This was a second submission for the happy_trekmas exchange--for swiss_kun .  It's McCoy-centric, which is new for me.  :-)

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This was my submission for the happy_trekmas fic/art exchange.  It was for penknife .   All Greek definitions from the Liddell and Scott Intermediate Greek Lexicon.

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