Advent Day 23
“I hear something.”
Spock looked up from his PADD. “Like what?”
Jim frowned. He took a long sip of his coffee. He was seated at the dining room table. He was still wearing his pajamas and robe. His hair was adorably rumpled and at present he wore a pair of wire rimmed spectacles that only seemed to enhance the shade of the blue of his eyes.
“I don’t know.”
“Then how do you know you hear something?” Spock went back to his messages.
“Hmm. It sounds, I don’t know, like a faint rustle. Or scratching maybe.” Jim nudged his foot against Spock’s. “Whatcha reading?”
“One is a message from my father.”
Jim’s lips twitched. “What does dear old dad have to say?”
“He intends to retire his ambassadorial duties,” Spock said, musingly. “And is considering recommending me to replace him.”
“Oh?”
“Only if I am interested,” Spock clarified.
“And are you?” Jim put his coffee down. “You heard that, didn’t you?”
“What, Jim?”
“Maybe we have a rat!”
“On the fourth floor of a high rise apartment building?”
“Well. Come on, you didn’t hear what I heard?” Jim pushed away from the table and stood, taking his coffee with him to the living room. He stopped before the Christmas tree that had been situated by the picture window of their apartment.
Spock sighed and put his PADD down, following Jim. “Do you think I should say no?”
“If you didn’t hear it, yeah.”
“No, ashayam. To Sarek about the ambassadorship.”
Jim, hands on hips, turned to face him. He had removed the glasses and stuck them in the pocket of his robe. “What do you want to do? Do you want to say yes?”
“It would mean brief periodic separations between us.”
“You aren’t answering the actual question, Spock. Do you?”
“I do not know,” he admitted. “It is worth considering. But I do not wish to be parted from you for excessive lengths of time.”
“I don’t want that either but we’ve survived worse.” Jim turned to face the mantle of their apartment where two stockings had been hung.
Spock watched him carefully as Jim walked toward the stockings.
“It’s coming from here, I know it. I’m telling you somehow a rat got into one of these.”
Spock arched a brow.
Suddenly Jim yelped and jumped back as something squirmed in the stocking with the name Jim stitched on it.
“What the—?”
A moment later a furry black head with slightly rounded ears with tufts of hair coming out of them appeared and mewled.
“Oh my God!” Jim rushed to the stocking and scooped up the fluffball kitten, who immediately began to purr at being held.
Spock smiled. “Do you like her?”
“Do I like her? Are you kidding? She’s the cutest thing ever!”
“Merry Christmas,” Spock said. “I put her in there this morning. I was surprised you did not realize sooner.”
“You devil!” Jim grinned. “She’s so sweet. I love her. And I love you.”
He came to kiss Spock, who kissed him back ignoring the paw that came out to swipe out at his chin.
“You should say yes,” Jim said, softly.
“To?”
“Your dad. We’ll work it out, Spock. Whatever it takes, we’ll always work around everything as long as we are together.”
“Yes, we will,” Spock agreed.
“And I now have this adorable companion. I think I’ll call her Holly.”
“That is purrrfect.”
Jim laughed. “You are.”
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13 responses to “Do You Hear What I Hear?”
Awww! The best one yet! I’m grinning like a fool now.
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LOL thanks 🙂
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This is perfect! Or should I say purrfect. I love them and I love the cat and I love the whole thing.
That’s excellent!
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thanks for the suggestion 🙂
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Being a fan of kitties, I especially love this one!
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yeah I’m a fan too ❤
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Kitten in a stocking! ❤️
I love the use of the song with this 🙂
This was great!
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thank you! 🐈
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This is incredible Absolutely incredible.
I love Kris’s idea. But you didn’t just take the idea. You built this entire thing around it, starting with gorgeous Jim in the glasses and his eyes and coffee and robe and everything. And the Sarek story.
I don’t know. I can’t decide which is best. They’re each best on different levels for different reasons.
It’s like the Academy Awards with all their different categories, and you win them all.
Now I plan to take a nap today so I can open the last one, the longest one, at midnight oh one tonight!
The kitten.
I love cats. Or used to.
The idea that the kitten started purring because Jim held Holly.
My cat never purred. Never really let me hold him. He would jump on me in bed for just a few minutes – as long as I made really no moves toward him. I never ‘held’ him. So I have this tiny heart hurt as I read it.
THIS is what having a kitty is supposed to be like. And I’m so glad Spock got Jim the exact right kitty!
I’m jealous. (my last one that got that weird disease and died WAS like this one. HE was a joy, so at least I got to enjoy that one for a little over a year.)
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Keep in mind that’s 12:01AM Pacific time 🙂
Yeah the suggestion was a kitten in a stocking so this is what you get. Pretty cute, right? I love the idea of Spock gifting Jim this for Christmas. It certainly doesn’t make up for Spock being absent sometimes but it’s something anyway.
My first cat was a black cat like this one in the stocking and it was a disaster. I had no clue how to deal with a cat as I had grown up only having dogs. He was not very happy with me nor me with him. I ended up moving from the apartment I lived in at the time and I got rid of him. I regret not having put more of an effort into it. It was years later I got two stray kittens that still stay in my heart to this day, years later. Then of course I got Crazy who purred when I first picked her up much the way Holly does in this story. I only had Crazy 6 years and I still miss her. I love Luna to death though, she is a treasure, but she doesn’t want you to pick her up. She will sit in your lap though and she does sleep with us.
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oooooOOOOOOooooo.
As Roseanne Roseannadanna said, nevermind.
I’ll catch it first thing in the morning. MY time! LOL
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Spock, you old devil! Acting like you didn’t hear anything!!! What a purrfectly lovely surprise for Jim.
It would be lonely for them both if they were apart for long periods, so Kobayashi Maru this dilemma. There’s got to be a way to have Spock be the ambassador and have Jim with him. They will somehow work it out if Spock takes the ambassador position. They might need an assistant ambassador?!!
❤️🐈⬛🎅🧦 ❤️💚🖖🎊
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they might at that LOL
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