Title: only love can make it rain
Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Pairing: Christopher Pike/Una Chin-Riley (Number One)
Rating: G
Length: 473 words
Content notes: Spoilers through season one.
Author notes: I know how unrealistic this is, but this is fic so I can do what I want. I used the word rimjhim as inspiration for this. The title comes from Love Reign O’er Me by The Who.
Summary: A rare rainy day at the New Zealand Penal Colony leaves Una alone with her thoughts.



The rain had been falling for hours now. Una had grown accustomed to the sound of drops hitting the concrete ceiling of the small one room building she was confined to.

Why it was still raining, Una was unsure. Earth had long ago put a weather control grid in place. A rain storm like this should have dissipated by now. Judging from the muffled sounds of engineers shouting technical terms outside, Una concluded there was a problem with the weather grid above the colony and it would be fixed sooner rather than later.

Like every day she had spent in Starfleet custody, Una found her thoughts drifting to the Enterprise. She wondered about how the crew had taken the news of her imprisonment. Only a few members of the senior staff knew the reason she was apprehended. What had Chris told the others?

She felt a pang in her heart at the thought of Chris. He really had tried to protect her at the end. It was only after Una had stopped him herself that he relented. She couldn’t let him ruin his career for something she had expected would happen eventually.

She loved him far too much to let that happen.

Una felt another ache in her chest. The Talosians had been more than truthful about the thoughts she’d had about the Captain. Still, they’d laughed it off after the encounter. A part of Una wishes she hadn’t. That she’d told him the extent of her feelings.

A sound on the roof broke Una from her thoughts. It was far too heavy to be rainfall. If she didn’t know better, Una would have said it sounded like footsteps.

“Una!”

She looked over at the small window. There, hanging down from the roof, was the grinning face of Christopher Pike.

“Chris, what the heck are you doing?”

Una went over to the window. She noticed the forcefield that was normally in place had been disrupted as Pike climbed in the window.

“Saving you,” he stated, “Now, hurry, we don’t have a lot of time. Scotty and Spock can’t keep their systems down forever.”

Pike reached out his hand. Una took it, shaking her head. He pulled her into him, which Una would have objected to from anyone but him. She saw then the tether that led out the window and up. He pulled them to the window and signalled a thumbs up out the window.

Una felt them being pulled up and out the window. She looked up and saw they were attached to a small shuttle.

“You’re crazy,” she yelled at Pike.

“Maybe,” he replied, grinning at her.

As she felt the tether was being pulled up into the shuttle, she thanked Pike the only way such a rescue could be. She pulled his head down to hers and kissed him fiercely.