This continues the ongoing antics/relationship of the roommates, Spock and Jim.
Spock’s crush, if that’s what it was, as he found that to be such a very odd term, hadn’t gotten any better. Or rather, resolved itself.
He had spent the better part of the Winter Break with his roommate, James Kirk, eating human foods Jim introduced to him as well as watching holiday entertainment. He had found himself very much enjoying their time together, but it never really seemed to move past a friendly camaraderie.
Spock was positive that was his own doing. He was not, as it happened, inexperienced sexually. He’d had a few casual sexual encounters both on Vulcan and Earth. But he wasn’t especially good at forming friendships and romantic pairings.
While it was true he had not come right out to Jim to express an interest in sexual intercourse, all Spock’s usual subtler methods had thus far failed to bring forth an answering response in Jim.
Normally, Spock might think Jim was simply not interested in male sexual partners, but since they had begun rooming together, Spock knew he’d gone out with a few males. He hadn’t to this point thought seriously that it might be that Jim did not find Spock himself attractive.
Winter Break was now over and they were back to their courses at Starfleet Academy. Spock found that meant he saw Jim far less. Because of their different coursework majors, Jim spent study time in a different campus library then Spock.
Spock has told himself that this is a good thing, because it means he will get over this strange affection he has for Jim if he doesn’t see him as often.
But as he returned to their dorm one night, along the way walking from the Science Library, he spotted Jim and he was not alone. Jim was engaged in kissing a female Orion. Spock didn’t linger, but instead quickened his pace.
Once he was in his dorm, Spock brought up his PADD. It might just be time to request a new dorm. Or even to get his own apartment off campus. He had the means to do so, he had just assumed the experience of living on campus would serve him well. No longer certain, Spock contemplated his next action.
When Jim returned to their dorm a short time later, smiling brightly, Spock avoided looking in his direction after spotting the “hickey” along Jim’s collarbone.
Jim didn’t seem to notice. He went into the kitchen for some orange juice out of the fridge. “Want to play some chess, Spock?”
“Thank you, no.”
It probably came out more curtly than Spock had intended for Jim’s smile slipped, but he simply nodded and poured himself orange juice.
Spock had made the acquaintance of a Betazoid just prior to the Winter Break. After sending a quick message to him, Spock reached for his coat.
“Going out?” Jim asked, sounding merely curious.
“Indeed. I have a date,” Spock replied, though he wasn’t sure why he bothered sharing that information.
Jim blinked. “Oh. Okay. Will you be back later—”
“That is uncertain. In any case, goodnight, Jim.”
And though his night with the Betazoid ended up being physically satisfying, Spock returned to their dorm in the early morning hours…empty. Flash Fic, September 30, 2020 Flash Fic, October 21, 2020 Flash Fic, November 06, 2020 Flash Fic, November 23, 2020
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26 responses to “Flash Fic, January 15, 2021”
Aw man. Poor dude. Spock! Jim thinks you’re not interested! It’s the only thing that makes sense! You need to make it clear.
I love these two even though they’re breaking my heart.
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They will be back on Monday
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Oh Spock 😦 you got it bad for Jim
I can’t wait to read more on these two 🙂
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You will see these two again on Monday
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Yay for Monday. Cause blog cliffies? I won’t say they’re the worst, but they’re definitely 2nd worst!
That dance around each other. Not fun. And at least Spock saw Jim didn’t stay with the Orion he was kissing. Oh well, he doesn’t even know getting further from Jim will only make it worse, not better.
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Yes that is absolutely true
Eventually the entire story will go up on AO3 but in the meantime, do you think it is of benefit to link the other prior parts to this story here at the end of this post or it’s not necessary?
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I absolutely think it’s of benefit to link the others here.at the end because these blog flashes don’t have a name to just search through quickly. I for one would always appreciate that!
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Done!
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I have no idea why but I can’t open any of those links. Do you know what I’m doing wrong?
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I don’t! I tried them and they worked for me but maybe because I am the creator? I don’t know1 Very strange.
the dates if that helps are September 30, October 21, November 06, and November 23 if you can find them that way.
Maybe someone who is not the author could try and see if they have an issue too. I don’t know 😦
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yes. Thank you.
It keeps telling me I’m not a member of wordpress.
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Yep I signed out and it tells me the same thing, darn it. Guess I don’t know how to do the links, SORRY
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Try now and see if what I did worked, please thank you
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Oh yeah! Awesome. Thanks. I KNOW you’re too busy to mess with this, but I sure appreciate it.
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Yay! I am glad it worked, I had to google it of course. They can’t make things easy.
I have finished the LAST chapter of MD but have the second to last still unwritten, lol, but I hope to get it done soon 🙂
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Haha. They say 2nd acts .Tough.
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Thing is, I AM logged into wordpress. It just sometimes is weird about it.
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Hey, quick question. Why did you close comments on the others? Reading the first one again, I had a new comment!
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I actually didn’t, That’s a function of WordPress, It closes comments after the post is so old. I think there’s a edit I can do to change that but after so many days pass, WordPress closes the comments
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I swear, their idiosyncrasies. If it’s not jail, it’s shut out altogether.
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Poor Spock! Being subtle is definitely not working. These two need to talk about their actual feelings. Running away to a different apartment isn’t the answer.
Looking forward to reading more of this story.
I have a difficult time scrolling back through these flashes to put them together. On ao3, I always reread the preceding chapter or two, before reading the new one to get the flow of the story in my mind. Not so easy here. But I still love these flashes and chapters! Looking forward to Monday!
❤️💚😘🖖
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Yeah but at least I did link them here in the post for you 🙂
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I don’t know how you linked them. But I worked on trying to read the story in its entirety. First I tried scrolling back, but it was frustrating because I wasn’t making much progress getting to the beginning of the story. So then I typed in roommates in the search bar and found the entire story that way. Very strange though, it was arranged like a newspaper with two columns so I had to shift to the different column to read the different chapters.
But anyway, I’m loving this story even more now. Looking forward to Monday. Hope they can soon share their feelings with one another. I can only presume Jim has feelings for Spock as it’s all been from Spock’s POV. But all signs certainly point that way.
❤️💚😘🖖
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You should see them linked on the post after the word empty.
Flash Fic September 30th, etc. But whatever works!
I think we will remain in Spock’s POV for most if not all of this story, it’s rather a Spock pines sort of story this time 🙂
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As usual…boys, use your words, lol. Subtle obviously doesn’t work for these two, and of course now the both probably think the other one isn’t interested. *sighs* I’m happy to see there will be more on Monday (as in today ;)). Sometimes it’s good to be late, means in this case less waiting :).
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Yeah they are stupid boys but we love them anyway
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