
Dear Nyota
Things are going extremely well. The captain and I are becoming increasingly comfortable with each other and quite close.
He shows signs of being weaker than normal, due to his extended recovery time, but we have become completely involved with each other (pause to blush), and I am aware you will know what I mean by this. It is…gratifying.
Recently, Jim announced that we would partake in the tradition of being thankful. In ancient history, Humans in this locale took part in the feast-gathering holiday known as ‘Thanksgiving’. The captain wishes to participate.
Therefore, we went to the grocery store to purchase the necessary provisions.
“That is an eight pound turkey,” Spock said as he watched Jim place the frozen headless bird into their cart.
Jim grinned. “Yep.”
“Since you are the only one consuming the turkey is that not a lot of meat for one individual?”
“This is the smallest I could find. Don’t worry, I like leftovers. Turkey sandwiches, turkey omelet, turkey soup, Turkey Tetrazzini.” Jim patted Spock’s arm. “I got it covered. Now…cranberry sauce.”
“Over there.” Spock pointed to a display of cans.
“No, no. Not those. Yuck. I want actual cranberries. Let’s go to produce.”
Spock followed after Jim as he wheeled their cart to the produce section. Besides the turkey in the cart, Jim had already placed a package of cubed cornbread, and packages of powdered gravy mix Jim planned to doctor with some of the cooked turkey juices.
“Aha!” Jim stopped the cart at a display of numerous bags of fresh cranberries. “Now we’re talking.” He added two bags to their cart.
“Do you know how to make those?” Spock asked with no little skepticism.
“Of course I do. You add sugar and cook them in a pan. Besides, I can follow a recipe, babe.” He moved on to potatoes. “You’ll eat mashed, right? Without the gravy?”
“I will.”
“Great. And we’ll get you some acorn squash and green beans too.”
“That is satisfactory.”
“I’ll make a pumpkin pie too. Completely vegetarian, no worries.”
“I am not,” Spock assured him.
Jim picked up a few other things, checked out, and they made their way back home just as the sky opened up and started to rain.
“Ha!” Jim declared triumphantly. “We made it. Barely, but it counts.”
Spock turned toward the window as it started to downpour. “It does indeed count.”
“Now, let’s get this stuff put away so we can snuggle under the covers upstairs.”
“And perhaps a little more than snuggling.”
Jim laughed. “Yeah, okay. You found me out. Way more than snuggling.
Our time here is peaceful and uneventful for the most part. I believe if we spent more than the allotted time here, Jim would become extremely bored. Even now I see at time that he stares off into nothingness, often with a wistful look on his face.
Having experienced so much uncertainly and danger on missions that have risked all our lives, I find this extended version of shore leave quite appreciated.
My final bit of news is that I have made the discovery that Jim and I share an ancient revered bond. We are Telsu. T’hy’la.
It all makes a lot of what I have experienced and felt make more sense.
It is fitting that this is the time of year to be thankful, because I can only be filled with gratitude for Jim and for your urging of me to advise him how I felt. For that and your endless love, support and kindness, I thank you.
I have informed him I am writing to you, so he sends his best, and advised he looks forward to the reunion of our family on the Enterprise.
I am likewise pleased that your relationship with Mr. Scott is progressing at a satisfactory pace.
I must go now, as he has asked for my assistance with the pumpkin pie.
With great affection,
Spock
November 22, 2019 at 4:57 am
I love this. Love love love. The whole epistle style and the cut scene in the middle, Spock’s affection, the playful attitude Jim has. I just love it!
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November 22, 2019 at 7:24 am
Thank you! I will miss these guys when the end of December comes ❤
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November 22, 2019 at 5:23 am
Jim is definitely not holding back with that Thanksgiving feast. He’s gotta feed his Vulcan lol
Loved the letter to Nyota and loving this story 🙂
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November 22, 2019 at 7:24 am
Thank you :0
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November 22, 2019 at 8:01 am
Ok, first of all, Kirk – don’t be dissin’ my Oceanspray!! Blasphemous!
My mother always made her cranberry sauce fresh, and I never admitted to her I liked the Oceanspray whole berry stuff better. But then I think she added orange peel or something, so maybe that’s why.
See, to me, an 8 pound turkey barely even begins to cut it.
I like turkey tacos! Lots and lots. With my homemade salsa.
Turkey freezes well, you know.
I think it’s especially funny Spock believing he needs to explain an Earth tradition to an Earth girl, even though she did not grow up in the area formerly known as the United States! 😊 🌎 🌍 (How cool are those btw?)
But Spock is nothing if not absolutely thorough. (Except when it comes to admitting his feelings to Jim)!
But yeah, the boys have a LOT to be thankful for this year, even though it took injury to get them together.
Agreed, I’ll miss these two also! Maybe a Christmas in July surprise?????? 🤞
Anyway, HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!
And especially to my favorite spirk/pinto writer. And his family and real life friends.
And all his iterations of Kirk/Spock, Chris/Zach.
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November 22, 2019 at 8:29 am
Funny you should mention that as there are 7 of us this year, as there often is, which apparently isn’t that many because a bunch of people last night at the WW meeting were saying they had 13-14 people coming, I don’t think that many could fit in my townhome, but I digress, and we got a 22 pound bird because M wants lots of leftovers. He also makes his own cranberry sauce and is horrified by the jellied canned stuff. That’s what I grew up with. Funny though because we got a can every year but the only one who ever had any of it was my dad. No one else liked it. I will eat a little of the homemade stuff if there’s nothing else to eat, but neither is my favorite. Now I love cranberries in orange cranberry scones though!
And thank you, my friend, I hope you have a lovely holiday next week and I assume you are going to spent it with your son and his family and that they haven’t invited you yet as usual.
I will have one more TG related story on Wednesday with the conclusion of Try to Remember
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November 22, 2019 at 9:23 am
Per usual.
Except, when we talked on the phone earlier this week, I invited my own dam self, so I’ll be there.
But no details of course. I guess I’ll get those next Thursday.
And yeah, I’m the only one who eats it, too. And potato salad and deviled eggs, so I take those myself too.
Remember that old saying on commercials, “the package you take with you gets there first”?
So….that’s my philosophy.
Oh – I make that cherry delight stuff for dessert, except the family doesn’t like regular cherries, so I use the dark cherries. Except a LOT of years they’re just not to be found. I’ve even ordered them from Europe before just to get them.
Found 8 cans at Walmart yesterday. Bought every single one. With no apologies.
Apparently I expect to live 4 more years, since I make it every Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I have to hang on for ST 4.
I saw on tumblr dingleberry or whatever her name is said that if they don’t write them to kiss, she doesn’t even want to see it.
I’ll see it no matter what, but I was thinking. If they have them kiss in 4, what does that do to Tarantinos 5? heehee
It’s worth it just to see what he’d do!
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November 22, 2019 at 9:54 am
You are definitely the only one I know who has potato salad and deviled eggs at TG but I like that about you. I don’t blame you, I would have bought all 8 cans too.
They aren’t going to have them kiss. Not while JJ is still producer. We will be lucky if Spock doesn’t marry Uhura. I will see ANYTHING with those two in it though, besides which I am a Star Trek fan besides being a Spirk fan, so I will be seeing it with bells on as they say and will see it multiple times. And I will see Tarantino’s Star Trek if and when it ever gets made too.
And you better stick around so we can talk all about it
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November 22, 2019 at 10:02 am
Uh…..ahem…..
Not to be….uh….whatever….but I’m still waiting for you to watch Discovery 2nd season so we can discuss it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😶
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November 22, 2019 at 10:06 am
Well yeah but now we are in the Christmas viewing season. And yes, I know. I am terrible. I see all these gifs of Pike and I really want to see him (less I want to see Ethan’s Spock, but he might grow on me) but I love Anson even in his pictures!
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November 22, 2019 at 8:29 am
PS. Those Earth emojis are way cool
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November 23, 2019 at 10:33 pm
I love this chapter! I’ve read it several times. The format of a letter to Uhura, interrupted by some of Spock’s real life preparing for Thanksgiving with Jim that is so domestic and lovely, makes me happy. Sorry about the run-on sentence, but 🤷🏻♀️ It’s how I feel. They truly deserve happiness and a peaceful holiday with one another.
❤
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November 24, 2019 at 10:11 am
Thanks my friend!
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