This is the epilogue to the 5 plus 1 earlier. Enjoy!
“Happy Anniversary!” Jim called out as he exited their bathroom, dressed only in a towel and rubbing another towel over his hair to dry it.
Spock who still lounged in bed, yes quite unusual but it had been a rather tiring night, arched a brow. “It is not our anniversary. We bonded on Stardate 07.2264. We went through an Earth marriage on Stardate 09.2264. By my calculations neither anniversary applies.”
Jim smiled and went to the wardrobe closet for his uniform. “Yep, all that’s true. We should plan a big celebration for those by the way. It’s been…four…no five years now.”
Spock rose from the bed and walked over to where Jim was fussing with his clothing. “Agreed, if you wish. But I am still puzzled by your comment a moment ago.”
“It’s the fifth anniversary of when you first told me you loved me.” Jim laughed then, turning just a slight shade of pink as he pulled his command tunic over his head. “Lame, huh?”
Spock considered. Leaned against the wall beside Jim. “No, it is not lame.”
Jim smiled. “What are you thinking?”
“I am thinking about when I first realized my deeper emotional regard for you.”
“Yeah? When was that?”
He shook his head. “When you died in the warp core.”
Jim froze, eyes wide. “But you never said anything. Not then. Not after when I was in the hospital.”
“There is an old Earth expression that applies. I did not want to rock the boat. Nyota and I had reconciled during the mission and you seemed enamored of Carol Marcus and she with you. I had no guarantee you returned my feelings and I chose not to take that chance given what the aftermath would be if you did not.” Spock exhaled. “I apologize.”
“You know, it’s okay. I took a long time to say it after I realized too, so I guess I can’t really blame you. And we’re here now, as we are.”
“When did you realize, Jim?”
Jim made a face. “Not sure I should tell you.”
“If you wish to keep the information to yourself, I accept that.”
His husband sighed. “I realized when it hurt so bad that you filed a report behind my back and I got demoted and we weren’t going to be on the same ship. And how much it hurt that you didn’t even really consider me a friend. That’s when.”
Spock moved forward and drew Jim into his arms. “I am sorry, adun.”
“That was a long time ago. We’re good now.”
Spock nodded and held him tighter. “Yes. I love you, Jim.”
“I love you too.”
“And…Happy Anniversary.”
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11 responses to “Flash Fic June 21, 2023 (Plus Two)”
I do love me an epilogue! So good. Happy sigh. That’s exactly what I needed today and I’m so glad you decided to do it.
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I had a moment of sanity that I could take to write it LOL
That moment is gone now! 😀
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Lol! Oh well glad you capitalized on it while you had it 😜
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Moments of sanity need to be chased and captured. Glad you had one and hope you get additional moments for your own sake. 😘
Great 5 plus 1. Lovely to see them years later. It’s cute of Jim to remember that anniversary! Thank you for sharing this story and your moment of sanity with us. Hope RL improves for you! I called out sick for tonight. My asthma is really acting up! 😢
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Ughh, I see I got logged out of WordPress… So now I have to log back in. Not sure why that happens!
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Once all this HVAC/Drywall stuff is behind me I will return to sanity. Right now my anxiety is running rampant.
Hope you feel better soon! And glad you liked it
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Thank you. 💕
I’ve been logged out again!
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It’s your normal privacy/cookie settings. The only way to make it stop is to go into your browser setting and tell it to ALWAYS let wordpress place cookies. That’s the only way I could get mine to stop doing that. Specific wordpress permission. I cull through my cookies every day to get rid of all the trash we get from sources we don’t even recognize – 3rd party cookies. I just always leave “ivanstartrekfic.com” and “wordpress.com” and “wp.com” and that keeps the log-out at bay. For me anyway because I got sick of being logged out.
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Perfect epilogue 🙂
Happy anniversary to the boys ❤
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thank you 🙂
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This is perfect – perfect epilogue. Fun hearing when Jim first knew he loved Spock. And that’s canon, seems to me, since he told Spock he’d miss him and then waited for Spock to return the sentiment – and he didn’t. I LOVE that scene.
Anyway thank you for this epilogue.
I’m a day late – yesterday was….well, I won’t go into details, but my INTERIOR laundry closet was flooded – and that’s just the basic thing that dominoed into others that kept me from reading yesterday. Nothing like replacing a ceiling, but when in constant pain and nobody else to help, it was bad enough.
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oh no!!! I am so sorry about the flood, flooding SUCKS and I know it had to be hard for you because of the pain
Hugs
And thanks!
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