New Fic: Ring Bearer, Resolved

[jackwabbit]

Ring Bearer, Resolved

Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Rated: G
Category: Double Drabble. Culmets. RickyVerse. Hope.
Time Frame: Sometime after season three.
Spoilers: General series knowledge through season three.
Summary: Some decisions take time to make. Others are made in a heartbeat. And some are both.
Note: Another Ricky story, because I just can’t help myself. Another alternate ending to “Ring Bearer.” This one is less rough than the last two. More to come. Taken together, these tell a larger story.

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Paul had it all planned out.

Since Ricky couldn’t walk, the traditional meaning of the word didn’t work.

But ever since the idea popped into his head one night after one of Hugh’s truly terrible puns had set them on a contest that could only be described as ever-more-terrible with each exchange, he couldn’t shake it.

So he had it all planned out.

He’d have Ricky with him in bed. He’d wait until Hugh worked late so that wouldn’t seem strange. And when Hugh came home – when he came to bed – Paul would ask him to put Ricky back on his shelf in the living room so they could have some privacy.

The box would be under Ricky.

It’d be a surprise. It wouldn’t be a birthday, or an anniversary, or a holiday – just an ordinary day.

The kind of day Paul wanted so many more of.

And so he’d ask.

Hugh would say yes.

It would be the best ordinary day ever.

He had it all planned out.

And what time was it, anyway?

Late, at any rate.

It might’ve been his drowsiness, or Ricky conveniently being right there.

But regardless, Paul breathed a shaky laugh and…

...yeah, tonight.