Review – All You Need is Love
All You Need is Love is about the aftermath of a very special first birthday party, in October of 2162.
All You Need is Love Background
In Between Days, the Arrangement
Plot
For Malcolm Reed who, in canon, never had a family and was never close to anyone, I wanted to fix that in my Star Trek fan fiction. In Temper, and then again in Fortune, I had already established that Lili O’Day Beckett would have his only child, Declan.
wall painting of the Beatles Story museum. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Declan, who is born on Halloween, lives on Lafa II with his mother and her husband, Doug Beckett. But Doug is generous (it is an open marriage) and so Malcolm, when he is on three years of paternity leave (and afterwards, as he purchases the place) lives in a house up a little rise from the Beckett house. There are a lot of visits as such a little baby needs to nurse. The arrangement is such that Doug and Lili will have Declan live with them and their two children together, Joss and Marie Patrice. Malcolm is well aware of just how much he owes them, particularly Doug. Doug is pretty gracious about things, particularly considering the violent and jealous history between the two men. But Malcolm in particular understands he has got to keep the peace as a gesture to Lili.
He is also abundantly aware of how his life has suddenly and irrevocably changed. As a person who had been utterly devoted to duty, the idea of living an emotionally open life starts off as a somewhat foreign concept. But by this time he’s getting used to opening up and showing what’s inside of him.
Music
Of course, the theme music for this little story is the Beatles’ All You Need is Love.
Story Postings
- All You Need is Love on Fanfiction.net
- All You Need is Love on Fictionpad
- In addition, All You Need is Love on Wattpad
- All You Need is Love in context
Rating
The story is rated K.
Upshot
I like the little domestic scene, and I particularly enjoy how Malcolm feels comfortable enough to break down at any time. He knows that Lili will never make fun of him or otherwise belittle or cheapen his emotions. All he has ever needed is love.
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