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You Don't Have To (Say Yes) You Don't Have To by luminousbeings
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“It was the story of a handful of children who were told to die, and refused. They were told that others deserved to eat, not them, and they fought back. They wanted to live. And we thought, if seven children could lead a rebellion…if they could risk everything for the chance of freedom, then so could we.
...
He recognizes it immediately. It’s the Orion slave girl revolt flag, the background a deep amethyst like the Orion sky, with…With seven stars.Seven children.

Sam. Erika. Tom. Natalie. Kevin. Baby.
And me.”
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“I think I’ve found the worst feeling,” he mutters.
“Helplessness,” says Spock promptly, like he’s thought about this before. “Being unable to do anything.”
“Yeah, helplessness is pretty bad. But for me,” he says, looking at the picture they’ve put up of her, of Natalie and Sam posing together in front of the zoo, holding hands and smiling like the sun, “it’s knowing you could have done something. And you didn’t.”
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“„Do you believe that if someone were to threaten Doctor McCoy’s life and tell his daughter that agreeing to intercourse was the only way to save him, her agreement—her begging for it, even—would not be true consent?”
His insides go cold at the very thought. If Jojo ever…
“Of course. That’s sick. How could anyone—”
“Then why can you not acknowledge the same for yourself, Jim?”
He doesn’t know what to say to that.
It’s true.”
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“In a moment of dazzling, brilliant fear he knows they’ve forgotten about him. They’ve forgotten him, left him, he’s going to die in this cold, tiny, tiled room, curled up and trying to hold back tears and he’s not even hungry yet, he’s—
He’s gasping for breath now, he’s dying, I don’t want to die, Sam, God help me but I don’t want to die, SamErikaTomNatalieKevinBabySAM help me I don’t want to die Idon’twanttodie,I—”
luminousbeings, You Don't Have To
“He doesn’t reply – can’t bring himself to reply – and Kodos pulls Jim’s hair, baring his throat and dragging out a gasp of pain.
“You don’t have to say yes, James. You just have to not say no.”
luminousbeings, You Don't Have To