Emi

“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

“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.”
― luminousbeings, You Don't Have To

“There is no plan for what comes next.
She may die, and her eyes look into that abyss and feed her with a terror of extinction, of un-being, that is perhaps the legacy of all life.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time

“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