Here I am again!
Got the update done for The Fling. Yay.
I am now diligently working on April flashes which I should have done in the next few days so that all flashes are done until May.
Leap story will be done this week and ready to go on February 29th. Then…the T’hy’la Bang story will be in very full swing.
Thanks!
A little TOS, post-mission, pre-Motion Picture
“Are you going to stop him?”
Jim smiled faintly. “Stop him? No.”
Bones made a frustrated sound. “Why not, Jim? You’re just going to let him walk away? Leave Starfleet? Walk away from you?”
Jim looked at Bones. In the last year of the five year mission, Bones had been looking older, more haggard. They probably all did. The last five years had taken their toll on all of them. He wasn’t at all surprised Bones had announced to him that he planned to retire. He was done with space, he said.
“Yes.”
“I don’t get it, Jim. Why don’t you call him back right now?” Bones grimaced. “I can still see the back of that stupid hobgoblin. With his Vulcan hearing—”
“No, Bones.”
“But don’t you want to tell him how you feel?”
At this Jim deflated some. “I’m guessing he knows and is leaving anyway.”
Bones made an ugly face. “Wait. What? He knows?”
“I’ve not made my feelings a secret for the last year. I can’t give Spock what he wants.”
“Which is?”
“A life devoid of drama and emotions.” Jim shook his head. “That’s not me. We both know it.” Jim shrugged. “So.”
“And what do you intend to do now?” Bones demanded. “If you aren’t going after him.”
“I’m not. Why are you so passionate about it anyway? You’ve never even liked Spock.”
Bones scowled. “Well. I don’t dislike him. And if he made you happy…but now, well, you’re saying he doesn’t?”
Jim put his hand on Bones’ shoulder. “I’m saying, let it go. I’m not going to force Spock to be with me, Bones. And as for me? I have a promotion ceremony to attend.”
“Still can’t believe you’re going to be Admiral Kirk.”
“Me either. But I had little choice. Come on, Bones. There’s time for us to have a drink.” Jim paused. “I really need one.”
“You can’t save Spock by sheer will, Captain,” Sulu declared.
Jim pressed on Spock’s gaping, bleeding wound. “Watch me.”
“Captain, we’re sitting ducks here in this clearing.”
“Do what you need to do, Mr. Sulu. In fact, that’s an order. But I’m not leaving him.”
“Captain,” Spock said weakly. “Go with the others.”
“No.”
“If you stay then we will both die.”
“Okay then.”
“Jim…”
“I’m not leaving here without you, Spock. So can it.”
“Keptin,” Chekov spoke up. “I have the Enterprise. They can beam us up.”
“Do it. Beam us up. All of us.”
It was much later that Spock looked at him with somewhat droopy eyes as he rested on a biobed, all patched up. Or mostly. Thanks to Bones.
“Captain, you should have left me behind.”
Jim smiled a little and squeezed Spock’s hand. “There’s an old saying from Earth, Mr. Spock. Used by comrades for hundreds of years. You go, we go.”
Spock just stared at him. Jim nodded and turned to see Uhura approaching.
“Stay with him,” he urged. “He’s in and out of it, but he’s doing much better.”
He went to move past her, but she put her hand on his arm.
“Captain, thank you. For what you did down there.”
“I would have done that for anyone. And you’re welcome.”
She looked thoughtful for a moment, looked at Spock and then back to Jim. “He’d want you to stay.”
“I’ve got work and anyway, I’m sure he’d rather have you.”
“No. You’re wrong. Maybe it’s not my place to tell you, but, Spock has…” She stopped, bit her lip, and sighed. “He has very deep feelings concerning you. He doesn’t know how to express them.”
“Lieutenant…”
“And I have a feeling you reciprocate those feelings. I’ve thought so for a long time. Whatever you think about Spock and me, right now, we’re just friends. It’s been that way for a while. He’d want to see you, Captain.”
Jim exhaled. “I do have reports and a few things to do. But…I’ll come back later.”
“So…what I’m telling you…it does have meaning?” She searched his eyes.
He chuckled low. “Yeah. It’s meaningful.” He patted her arm. “Thanks. I’ll be back later.”
“And you should clean up,” she said, arching a brow like her former, apparently, boyfriend. “You still have Spock’s blood all over you.” She frowned. “And your own?” Her gaze went to the red on his shirt. “Are you bleeding, Captain?”
“It’s nothing.”
“Has Leonard checked you out?”
Bones suddenly appeared. “Did I hear my name?”
“The captain is bleeding.”
“Uhura! Damn it. Bones, I’m fine.”
Bones grabbed him and hauled him away. “I’ll be the judge of that, you idiot.”
“Spock.” Jim shook his head when his first officer approached him on the observation deck. “I know what this is about and…”
“You wish to take it back?”
He blew out a breath. “Yes. I mean…no. Not entirely. I meant what I said. I just…I’m taking it back for now.”
Spock stared at him, dark eyes in turmoil. “I do not understand.”
“Yeah you do. Spock, you…you’re involved with someone.”
“It is my intention to-to end things with Nyota. Due to the fact that—”
“No,” Jim said quickly, interrupting. “Don’t make this about me, Spock. I can’t be the reason you two break up.”
“But you are in fact the reason.”
“No,” he said. “If you and Uhura end your relationship it needs to be a mutual decision because it doesn’t work between you anymore, not because I told you I love you.”
Spock visibly stiffened. “It is not because you love me that I am ending things with Nyota.”
“Sure, sure.” Jim snorted in disbelief, turning away. “Were you planning on it? And my confessing my feelings at that time was just a coincidence?”
“No.”
“I thought so. Spock…”
“You misunderstand, Jim. It is not your love for me that makes it necessary to end my relationship with Nyota. While I am gratified to learn of your feelings they are not the determining factor.”
Jim frowned. “I don’t get it.”
“Obviously,” Spock said dryly. “I am ending my romantic relationship with Nyota because of my feelings for you.”
Jim’s face filled with warmth, his chest too. He turned and met Spock’s dark gaze. “Your feelings?”
Spock arched a brow. He held two fingers out toward Jim, who, without thinking, met them with his own. Then Spock moved closer still, bent his head toward Jim’s, and let his lips touch his.
And back to work tomorrow. I always feel vaguely guilty being out sick as I have a ton of work, but, that’s the way it goes.
I got Cadet Ashayam updated so that’s a load off my mind. I am working on Every Four Years Later to appear on February 29th on the Archive rather than the blog. I did finish all my flashes for February already so yay me.
I don’t know what I’m going to do for March yet as far as Flashes because of the T’hy’la Bang story. I have started it. I am not allowed to tell you anything about it, not even the title, which I do have (it’s a song title, I think I can tell you THAT much). You may only get sporadic flashes, it’s really going to depend how confident I feel about the Bang story as I get through February.
PLUS I still have my regular stories to update. I think next up is My Heart Wants to Sigh, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves!
Meanwhile, Friday I have a birthday party to go to after work. Yippee…not.
Er…pretty sure that’s enough to ramble about for now. It’s warm this week here. Don’t need the groundhog to tell us Spring is here!
Oh…PS. I watched a couple of episodes of DS9 while sick and I just have to say that their theme music is just absolutely gorgeous.
As of now, I have only two more things to write for February, as all flashes but the one for February 28th are written and scheduled. I have that one to do as well as the sequel to Every Four Years, my Leap Year story.
I updated The Vulcan Who Fell to Earth as everyone knows. Next week I will try to update Cadet Ashayam.
I haven’t started writing my T’hy’la Bang story yet, but hope to at some point soon. I’d like to have the February stuff done before I even begin to tackle it.
I re-posted the lyrics for my perfect Spirky Spock Love Song if anyone wants to check it out. That’s gotta be a fic title one of these days.
Today is the Lunar New Year, so we decided it would be fun to have a Chinese food fest tonight so the cousin is coming for that. M is making the food and there will be wine for me. HA.
A prequel…
Jim couldn’t remember feeling this bad ever. Mommy must have been worried too, because despite the fact Mommy’s new boyfriend, Frank, didn’t want to be bothered taking Jim to the hospital, because he told Jim’s mommy that Jim was just faking it for attention. That Jim didn’t want Mommy going out with Frank.
“If you had waited too much longer, I’m not sure he would have made it,” the nice doctor said to Mommy. Jim heard them talking near his bed, trying to be quiet. “He’s very sick.”
They left him alone then, to go talk some more, Jim guessed.
But then a man stood over his bed. One Jim didn’t know. But he was not human, Jim knew. He had pointy ears and dark eyes, that were kind when Jim looked at him.
“Are you a Vulcan?” Jim asked, weakly
“Shh. It is okay. Do not speak.” The Vulcan put his hand on Jim’s face. “You have a fever.”
“Mommy says I’m very sick.”
“You are, Jim. But I am here to help you.”
“Are you a doctor?”
“Something like that.” His finger spread out across Jim’s cheek. “Go to sleep, Jim. When you wake up, you will feel better.”
“But…”
The Vulcan smiled very slightly. “All will be well.”
Jim felt a warmth in cheek that flowed from his skin and seemed to envelope him. And his eyes felt so heavy. The fingers moved from his face as he fell into a deep sleep.
Not a whole lot to report that you don’t already know. It’s back to work today after my long weekend. Bummer.
I’m still trying to decide what to write for the T’hy’la Bang. I’d like to start it sooner rather than later. I have an issue here at work with Word now. I can send files back to myself at home that open just fine, but if I work at something at home and try to send it here, they won’t open. This is going to be challenging on a longer fic like I have to write here.
They have a new chat room set up with this group of participants and I did get a nice comment from someone on there saying they were a fan. From the introductions so far everyone will be working on TOS, sigh. I’d like to see mylochkatee sign up as an artist because I am sure she would be amazing but I haven’t seen her on tumblr in sometime, so bummer.
Next up for updating when I get to it is The Vulcan Who Fell to the Earth. I did get my Friday flash done but it’s pretty short. I need to get my February stuff done too so other updates might take a backseat to that while I get those done. I have one Valentine flash done and scheduled but I need one more. Since I am restarting Wednesday flashes in February I think I have seven still to write.
I may revisit the two times a week flashes in the future if it starts interfering with my writing for the T’hy’la thing, but we shall see.
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 