
Spock opened the door to his apartment the next morning, Saturday, to Jim holding a silver tray packed full of delicious smelling pastries.
“Good morning. Can I come in? This thing is super heavy.”
Spock took the tray from Jim and stepped aside to let the Human in. He then carried the tray into the kitchen and set it down.
“What are these?”
“Cherry Danish. My favorite is cheese, but I didn’t have the cream cheese. They aren’t vegan but they are vegetarian.”
Spock had already scooped one up. “Did you actually make these, Jim?”
“I did. Long ago, before I became a physicist and then a teacher, I did a whole bunch of crap trying to ‘discover’ myself.” Jim did little air quotes with his fingers when he said this. “One of those was a brief time spent in culinary school. My absolute favorite things to make were desserts.”
Spock took a bite of the still warm cherry pastry. “This is…”
“Incredible.” Jim grinned. “I know.”
“It truly is,” Spock agreed. “I believe you could make me these every day and I would be beyond pleased.”
Jim laughed. “So make yourself some tea and I’ll make coffee.”
He moved off to the coffeemaker Spock had bought for him.
As he did so Spock contemplated Jim. He was incredibly gorgeous and just about the kindest, most interesting man of any species he had ever met. Should Spock be stuck here on Earth in this timeline there would be worse things than staying with Jim. But he just didn’t know.
Besides working himself to find a way back home, Spock assumed perhaps his father and other Vulcans might be engaged in the same thing. They would likely have better success than he would. And if that happened, it could be at any time and might afford him little time to say goodbye to Jim, if any.
But there were so many things he could get used to with Jim.
“I was thinking.”
“Yes?” Spock prompted, moving to the electric tea kettle sitting beside the stove.
Jim shrugged. “Next weekend.”
“Yes?”
“Maybe we should, uh, I don’t know. Head to Bodega Bay for the weekend. Well, we could leave Saturday morning, you know, so we don’t have Friday’s going home traffic. Get a room with an ocean view.” Jim smiled over his shoulder at Spock. “Totally casual, of course.”
Spock blinked. Flipped the switch on the tea kettle.
“Bad idea?” Jim asked.
Perhaps.
“I agree that it would be nice to go to Bodega Bay next weekend.
Jim gave him a sunny smile. “Sweet. I’ll get us a room.”
Spock nodded. He would merely have to be careful not to appear to “alien” to Jim. He could do this.
May 5, 2022 at 5:02 am
He’s killing me. I have such feeling for Spock. He’s in such an untenable position and I just want them to be happy!
So good.
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May 5, 2022 at 7:05 am
I want them to be happy too!
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May 5, 2022 at 7:24 am
Spockie – define “too” alien.
It’s like the old prunes commercial. 6 enough? 8 too many? (Yeah, Worf could give you the Klingon answer, but that’s not important now.)
I hadn’t even thought of the idea Spock could just disappear in a blink, with no forewarning at all.
And no way Kirk would ever know why. And most likely, there was not a way back.
T’Pol was still claiming, as Archer was galivanting around the time continuum by the hundreds of years, that Vulcans had determined time travel was impossible. I wonder if Sarek and his friends would be so dishonest. Or maybe Spock could figure out a way to travel freely between times as easily as he did spaces.
It’s like this fic is FULL of possibilities.
And like it has no possibilities, only one horrific inevitable way out. Best of times, worst of times.
Weekend away is good though. Unless Jim blinks and his love disappears from right in front of him.
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May 5, 2022 at 7:39 am
Imagine too if Jim were to go with Spock without word to his family and then he’d disappear and his family just wouldn’t know
All quite the conundrum
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May 5, 2022 at 8:15 am
Ivan, they are in quite a dilemma here! I never considered that Spock might just disappear. That would break everyone’s hearts, including ours! A weekend get away is sounding like a great idea to me… Can I tag along too!?! I hope you can figure out a way to make everyone happy. Hey I know, Spock looks up Jim’s name… Does Spock have some sort of computer like device with him? Idk?! And Spock sees that Jim mysteriously disappeared from the current year… Jim finds out Spock is an alien, and tells his family he’s going where no one has gone before! And then they are happily ever after in the future! No Butterfly effect from him disappearing!
BTW I’m so aggravated that I now have to sign in twice AND I still don’t see your comment notifications AND you don’t get my comment notifications either. Just my awesome luck!!
I’ll try to contact WordPress, who are now inundating me with emails to enhance my WordPress account. 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
❤️💚😘🖖
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May 5, 2022 at 8:31 am
Good luck with that! LOL so sorry
Yeah I actually never saw that butterfly effect movie
I’ll definitely have to come up with something! I don’t know what yet!
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