Back out for who knows what...(And back from the movie so Spoilers for Into Darkness)

[admirals]

Last time we did this you sent me somewhere and didn't keep me there. Now I'm glad you didn't, not the best place in the world but I wish you wouldn't think about doing it again. And no, further along won't help your case either, it's actually worse.

So leave me alone, or at least do what you keep promising someone and let me do my job.

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throws hands up PS SPOILERS IN THESE TAGS IF ANYONE IS STALKING

[goldshirt]

[there's really not much Pike could say, in the end. nothing could fix this or make this better, he was still gone. the cause was still something Jim wishes he could have seen sooner. like maybe if he'd gotten to the attacking ship earlier, maybe he could have saved him.

he sobs, there's no other word for it. wet and ugly and maybe it has something to do with the ship he's been trapped on, that he lives in constant fear of losing everyone he holds dear with no control over it, and losing Pike had never been in that equation. like by him not being there, he was safe.

it creases Pike's shirt, how tightly he holds him, pressing tears into the fabric and Jim can feel himself start to panic, and he has the presence of mind to know he needs to stop. he needs to stop before he shakes apart completely and can't come back from it. he inhales, hard, like he's only just remembered how to breathe.]

We got that son of a bitch. [it's muffled into Pike's shoulder, and it shakes like his whole body shakes; a tree buffeted in a hurricane.]