halfamoon | Two fics about women in command (Star Trek Reboot)

Both of these feature women leading rescue missions for their captain, both in roughly the same scenario. One focuses on Uhura, and the other is about Number One, who was going to be the first officer in the original Star Trek before the network decided they couldn't stomach women in charge.

Title: Command Decisions
Author: igrockspock
Characters: Uhura, McCoy, Kirk
Summary: Uhura didn't sign on to be a soldier or a killer. That's not going to stop her from getting her captain back.
Rating: PG-13 for violence

She still didn't know how to look at a dead body and congratulate herself on a job well done.

Title: Invictus
Author: igrockspock
Characters: Pike, Number One
Rating: PG
Summary: She'd let him die to save his crew. Just not today.

One lifts her head and peers cautiously over the rocky opening of the cave. The bodies of six soldiers are strewn across the sand, each with a neat black hole on the left side of their chests.