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1. Love Lies Bleeding by N_Squared

   Fandoms: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   23 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Katrina Cornwell/Christopher Pike
   • Number One | Una Chin-Riley & Christopher Pike
   • Katrina Cornwell & Number One | Una Chin-Riley
   • Katrina Cornwell
   • Christopher Pike
   • Number One | Una Chin-Riley (Star Trek)
   • Additional scenes
   • Fix-It
   • Kat lives
   • Idiots in Love
   • Captain Pike is a good boyfriend
   • I don’t care what the canon says
   • a wee bit of angst
   • But not that much
   • Really this is just my excuse to get these two into bed every other episode
   • Kat is a BAMF
   • Content warning for depictions of major injuries
   • Minor depictions of blood and gore
   • Cowboy Hats
   • Trail Rides
   • Pike is a goner
   • But so is Kat
   • It might not be smut but it’s fluff and something
   • Are cowboys hats a kink? I think this might be a kink
   • There was a shortage of Cornwell/Pike sex in the world
   • Protective Kat
   • ”Touch him and die” vibes
   • because unwanted sexual advances go both ways
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Off-screen torture
   • references to past torture
   • Aftermath of Torture
   • Protective Christopher Pike
   • pushing poor Pike to the edge
   • Sex as Therapy
   • Did I mention this was my excuse to get these two into bed every other (every) episode?
   • There are eight lessons of security
   • Kat and Una are BFFs
   • i will not be taking questions
   • Katrina Cornwell doesn’t have time for your temporal shenanigans
   • A pack of Pikes is called a migraine
   • Canon? What Canon?
   • Welcome to my canon burning party

   Summary

   Kat and Chris got their happily ever after, but what does that look like?

   Sequel to Bear Creek, Montana.

   Additional scenes, fix-it’s, and what-if’s for Strange New Worlds season 1, episodes 2-10 in an AU where Kat lives (as she should have).

   Fic is now complete.

   Series

   • Part 2 of Amaranthine

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   90,128

   Chapters:

   18/18

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