Charlie x David

Charlie x David is the slash ship between Charlie Holloway and David 8 from the Alien fandom.

Canon
Holloway was an archeologist who, along with his girlfriend, fellow archeologist Elizabeth Shaw, discovered a star map by the Engineers, the creators of the human race, across various ancient civilisations on Earth, which led to the moon LV-223. Wealthy businessman Peter Weyland then funded the creation of the scientific vessel Prometheus, which would send a crew which included Holloway and Shaw to explore the moon. Weyland also funded the creation of David 8, an android who was to serve aboard the vessel. David's creation was rushed, which led to several personnel at Weyland's company to express doubt about using him on the mission. Eventually, he was approved and placed on the vessel.

When the vessel neared its destination, Holloway was awoken from hypersleep. When Holloway met David, the former taunted the latter for being an android. When the vessel landed on LV-223, a team which included both Holloway and David left the vessel to explore a large artificial structure. While inside, they discovered a corpse of a giant humanoid alien, presumed to be an Engineer, a large statue and many ampules containing a black substance. David then secretly took one of the ampules for future study. When a windstorm began to approach the site, the crew left the structure. As they were returning, they dropped an Engineer head which they had found in the structure. Holloway and Shaw then went to retrieve the head, and David saved them both.

Holloway, Shaw and David then performed various experiments on the head. When asked by Weyland to "try harder" after receiving disappointing results, David spiked Holloway's drink with Agent A0-3959X.91 – 15, the black liquid from the ampules. Later, Shaw and Holloway had intercourse. This caused Holloway to unknowingly impregnate her with an Alien life form. After sleeping together, Holloway began to feel ill, and son noticed a creature at the back of his eye. His symptoms became more pronounced during a second expedition, which caused him to suffer greatly. Due to this, Vickers was reluctant to let him back on board, in fear of a potential contamination amongst the crew. After being let back in, he begged for her to kill him, and she reluctantly did so with a flamethrower, preventing further contamination.

Fanon
The ship is the second most written ship for Charlie on AO3. However, it is largely overshadowed by David x Walter and David x Elizabeth on David's side. It is also rivalled on Charlie's side by Charlie x Elizabeth. It currently has 2+ written works on AO3.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION