Posted by MrsPicard:
I've always been curious: how did you come up with Beverly and Chakotay? I mean, I'd never have thought of this, I always thought J/C was the most common relationship when it comes to Chakotay (or perhaps Paris/Chakotay, too
). Not that I mind your C/C idea, not in the slightest!
I love to see Bev with another man, that keeps her away from Jean-Luc!
C/P is probably our favorite Voyager pairing (second to our own Voyager pairing of C/original character)--there's some really good C/P stuff out there :thumbsup:. We never liked J/C--we like the individual characters but firmly believe that one of the few things TPTB did right in that series was never putting them in a canonical romantic relationship. There was some flirting with it, but in the end Chakotay tells her in a seventh season episode (time-travel so it's pre-Caretaker Janeway) "There are some lines we never cross." :thumbsup:
That said, we find Chakotay
absolutely yummy. He's tall, dark, handsome, sensuous with a hint of depth and mystery and did we say
? He had so much potential in Voyager and we were severely disappointed with what they did to that character, so we turned to fanfic to 'fix' that--do what TPTB wouldn't.
We started writing our own Voyager series Twist of Fate in late 2000, the first Twist of Fate story was Blessing of the Sky Spirits posted in January, 2001. While doing research for one of the stories in that series, we noticed that Startrek.com had 'adjusted' Chakotay's birth date to fix something TPTB did in Season Seven, which changed the dates that he attended Starfleet. That change put him at Starfleet Academy at the same time that Beverly was a med student and before she married Jack. Given our adoration of Chakotay
. . . that had potential
. Since Beverly tells Deanna about a week-long, toe-curling affair that she had before she met Jack, we decided, given that Chakotay could curl our toes anyday (those dimples--
), he was a perfect candidate for Beverly's toe-curler. We wrote an Academy Days story called Playing Doctor that told of that affair and then later, post-Endgame, we reunited them in Incendiary (Playing Doctor was posted as a prologue to Incendiary here)
Playing Doctor/Incendiary
That's the PG-13 version. If you like the naughty bits in your romance, Whoa Nellie's Sci-Fi Romance Website has the full version and several other stories that couldn't be edited down enough to post here (too much smut, not enough plot
). Because it's virtually all NC-17 material and out of deference to BBS rules, we don't link directly there from here. On our author page is a link to our fanfiction.net bio page and the links to our websites is there--sorry about the inconvenience, we just don't want to offend anyone. The Picard and Vash Romance fanfiction site has stories that include the P/V pairing. Any stories that don't include P/V are on the Sci-Fi Romance website including two P/C (yes, Picard/Crusher) stories. One is the totally MU story we wrote called Career Advancement and there's no way we can link to that from here (HEAVY NC-17 ALERT!) and the other is our award-winning interpretation of the episode Attached and the 'dream' that they reference in that final scene. We did an edited down version for here:
Connections
but there's also an NC-17 version on the Sci-Fi Romance website.
Anyway, that's how Crusher/Chakotay came to be. Ironically, we've had to tell several fans of the pairing that it's not canon--we've gotten e-mails from people saying that they'd forgotten that those two knew each other. We take that as high praise since the two of them have never met in canon, but apparently our characterizations are good enough that people can truly see the two of them in our stories.
We have way too much fun with our fic sometimes . . .
Warmest wishes,
Whoa Nellie
Why him? Just because he introduced Jack to Beverly? 
