Need To Know / by ellen_fremedon (NC-17)

[makoyi]

Title: Need To Know
Author: ellen_fremedon
Fandom: Torchwood, Star Trek
Genre: Crossover, PWP
Pairing: Jack/Naraht
Length: Medium (10,523 words)

Author's Summary:
Jack loves working the Federation timezone. You meet the most interesting people.

Review:
Found this rec'd on fancake as the best truly-omnisexual!Jack fic and decided I had to read it.  It is that, and also a fantastic sci fi. I usually avoid food kink as a personal squick but I didn't pay attention to what I was getting into and then this appeared and I had to keep reading:

Excerpt:
"I'm not asking you to spawn," Jack said. "I'm asking if you'd like to have dinner with me." He leaned down and spoke low. "I want to watch you enjoy something else as much as you enjoyed that hull plating," he said, "and I want to know you're letting me." Just the thought was making his heart pound, and he was pretty sure Naraht could tell. Anyone watching should have been able to tell, should have seen in his face what a wonderfully, filthily carnal proposition he'd just made to this sweet young thing, and yet people were walking past as though their conversation couldn't be anything but professional. "That's what I want," Jack said. "But only if you want it, too."

I so rarely read straight PWP (I'm gray-ace so not really my thing) but that part actually really speaks to me (in some ways better than things written by other aces) and I almost never see that kind of thing represented so I had to come and share it here, and the story is so well written and wonderfully science fictiony, even the food part, that I didn't even mind the food kink.

Need To Know (on AO3)

Comments

[stardreamer]

Hey, that just made me notice that I'm not getting fancake posts on my reading page. I haven't changed anything; did they and I missed it, or is there a glitch somewhere?

[makoyi]

It's just a quiet month - the last post was a week and a half ago and that one did come through the Reading page, there's just nothing to see since then. I had to go tag searching to find something new to read.

[stardreamer]

And now that I've read the story, I completely agree with your assessment of it. This is something that shouldn't work, or at the very least should be complete and utter crackfic -- and yet somehow it does work, and the entire scenario is perfectly plausible, and it's an absolutely lovely story that I will want to go back and re-read for sheer enjoyment.