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Ramblings of the Week, March 13, 2017

I intended to take most of last week off of writing stuff to post. I am working on my big bang story, but that’s not going to be posted for sometime.

But then I sort of got the idea for a fic. I didn’t know if I wanted to post it because I am always afraid of people getting Ivan overload and so I initially posted it as “anonymous”. But then I thought a couple of things. One, I should just own it and post it as myself and if people don’t want to read it because they think, oh, God, not again, then so be it, and two, if someone on there cannot stand me, I should be upfront so they don’t get invested in something they aren’t really going to enjoy or want to read.

So, What Happened to Spock, was born. I’ve gotten a comment that I am writing Spock too young for a Vulcan but well…we’ll see.

I’ve read a couple of de-aged fics over the years. One was with Jim where Jim was de-aged after Spock and Uhura got married. He was never with Jim at the point. But they end up raising Jim to adulthood and then Spock and Jim fall in love.

The other was one with Spock where he is separated from Jim until he is a young adult again. Jim gets together with Spock Prime who he is with until Spock Prime’s death. When Spock returns at that point to the Enterprise, Jim is not friendly to a young Spock and keeps very distant until Spock almost dies saving Jim. Then he admits that he does still have feelings for Spock but things are complicated.

I wish I could remember the title or where I read that one. I’ve been trying to google it without success so far.

I’m back from my wine weekend. Had a good time and bought lots of wine. Absolutely stunning weather.

Next up is Forever I Am With You, though I admit I haven’t even started the next chapter. I can’t keep up with all the requests that I update certain fics soon or next so I’ll just go with what I know needs updating. Everything will get that way eventually.

I saw the new trailer for Wonder Woman and good Lord, Chris is hot. It’s ridiculous really. She’s hot too by the way.

It’s been in the 80’s the last several days now so spring has officially arrived here. I’m not terribly sorry to see the rain go but it left some beautiful green hills in its wake.

March 13, 2017

Flash Fic Friday, March 10, 2017

A bit of a self-indulgent mini flash fic this week. I had no prompt, just decided to write this to be obnoxious.

He sat up in bed, his chest heaving with the effort to breathe. He rested his hand on his chest where his heart beat so rapidly, he wasn’t sure it would ever go back to its normal beat.

“Jim?”

Spock came out of the bathroom dressed in a cozy looking bathrobe, his hair wet and vaguely standing on end.

Jim nodded at him. “Hey.”

“The bad dream again?”

“Uh-huh. It got even farther along this time too.”

Spock came to him and sat beside him on the bed, reaching over to rub Jim’s back. “It is not reality, Jim.”

“I know. But it seemed so real.”

“Everyone knows that it is you and I who belong together and no one else,” Spock reminded him. “The very idea that I would have ever been in a relationship with Uhura is absurd.”

“Yeah.”

“As is the idea that a strong and capable woman such as Nyota needs a relationship with a man to be considered relevant.”

“For sure.”

“Or that she has to manipulate said man into putting her on the Enterprise as if her excellent set of skills wasn’t qualifications enough.”

“Uh-huh.”

“And the idea that she would openly kiss her superior officer in front of both their superior officer as though she is incapable of controlling her womanly self or for that matter that she would openly fight with her boyfriend during a dangerous mission in front of that same superior officer.”

Jim smiled a little at that. “You’re right about that. It’s definitely sexist.”

“Yes.” Spock rubbed Jim’s shoulders. “It is you who I love, who I cherish. We’ve always been gay in any universe.”

His smile widened. “Well, maybe not gay. But I’ll go with pansexual.”

Spock shook his head and leaned over to place a somewhat chaste kiss on Jim’s lips. “What do you wish to do for our shore leave?”

Jim cupped the back of Spock’s neck and drew his lips to his. “Go back to bed.”

March 10, 2017

Mid-Week Ramblings

As I indicated in my latest update on AOS, Young and Beautiful, I am taking a bit of a break from posting.

I’ll be around Wednesday and Thursday, but will be working on something else for those days, and then I will be off on my wine tasting weekend in Paso Robles Friday-Sunday. Probably won’t have written anything to post until Tuesday of next week.

I think next up on the spreadsheet is Forever I am With You, so likely that is what I will update some time next week.

And speaking of upcoming vacations, as I think I have said, we are going to Yellowstone Park in June. Well next January looks like we are off on another Caribbean Cruise. The last one was fun and this time a group of us are going and we are getting rooms with Balconies and special spa access and privileges. I think most of the destinations are places we’ve been to but there is one we haven’t which is Amber Cove in the Dominican Republic.

In the meantime, myself and the great grand M are going to Morro Bay for the weekend of April 01. I cannot wait. We have a balcony room with a view of the ocean and bay. This is a favorite getaway of ours.

Last night we went to see Get Out and it turned out to be a pretty decent movie. I thought it was going to be horror but it was more a thriller where you ended up thinking, what is with these weirdos? I think next Tuesday (Tuesdays are cheap here so that’s why we go) we will probably see Logan. We usually wait until the following week to see popular movies until the crowds get a little thinner. Except Star Trek. I must see that right away always.

Speaking of, it seems like they are going ahead with Star Trek 4. I have mixed feelings about this. Of course I want to see Pinto in it and everyone else and the idea of having Jim’s daddy in the form of Chris Hemsworth is an intriguing one. But I don’t want to see more of the Spock/Uhura crap and I know I will and I just don’t want to go there yet again. Everyone but JJ Abrams agrees it’s a stupid, ridiculous plot point. It even made watchmojos list on youbtube of pointless romances in movies.

So yeah, I love Star Trek and I want to see them make more, especially since so many were convinced that Beyond was too much of a failure to make another, and I like to say, fuck you to all those critics and idiots who think you have to make 900 Million or you aren’t a success, but part of me wishes they would just let it go because I know Spock with Uhura will once more be shoved down our throats.

Well, that’s probably more than I wanted to say, but there you have it.

March 8, 2017

Flash Fic Friday, March 03, 2017

My Prompt was a Walk in the Moonlight. This takes place immediately after the events of Star Trek: Beyond

“So I guess this is supposed to simulate moonlight,” Jim commented as he and Spock walked along a path on Yorktown.

“For what purpose?” Spock inquired, hands linked behind his back.

“To appear romantic I guess.” He shot a quick glance at Spock. “Not that we’re trying to be romantic or anything.”

Spock appeared to dismiss that bit of silliness without further thought. “As this is a space station, there would be no moonlight, so to produce artificial moonlight for aesthetic purposes is highly illogical.”

“Okay, Spock.”

“Furthermore I have never quite understood Terran fascination for moonlight. It is merely the reflection of light from the sun and there are no magical properties.”

Jim nodded wearily. “Okay, Spock.”

“Are you all right, Captain? You seem particularly out of sorts.”

“Just tired I guess. You can go back to doing whatever it was you were doing. Mission reports. Or-or, you know, socializing with Uhura.”

“Since you have just barely recovered from your recent engagement with Krall, I suspect you would benefit from additional respite.”

Jim sighed and stopped to lean against a pillar, gazing up at the artificial moonlight. “It’s just the last few hours of my birthday, I wanted a little walk. But I guess you’re right. Walking on Yorktown isn’t quite what it would be on Earth or some other similar planet.”

“What has happened to the doctor?”

And Jim tried not to think that Spock was attempting to push his pathetic captain off on Bones, but really, it did seem like that.

“Called away on a medical emergency. Really, Spock. It’s fine. You can go.”

Spock took half a step closer. “Does it hurt?”

Jim knew by the slight shift of Spock’s shoulders toward his eye that he meant his black eye. “Just a little. I’ve had worse. How about you? How do you feel?”

“I am fully recovered.”

“I doubt that.”

“I assure you, Captain, I am functioning at optimal levels.”

He smiled a little. “That’s good to know.” He paused. “I think…I’m procrastinating, of course.”

“Procrastinating?”

“I need to call my mother. Today isn’t only my birthday.”

“I understand,” Spock said with a sharp nod. “Unfortunately, it is not something I can assist you with, Captain.”

“Yeah, I know.” He moistened his lips. “She cries. Even after all this time.”

Spock said nothing to that, he just looked vaguely uncomfortable. And who could blame him? So was Jim.

“I will leave you to it.”

Jim nodded and watched as Spock, shoulders stiff, began to walk away, away from the fake moonlit path. “Spock?”

He stopped. Turned. “Yes, Captain?”

“We’re-we’re friends, right?”

“Indeed.”

“Because lately, I don’t know, we seem to have drifted away from that a little.”

“Perhaps,” Spock acknowledged. “I apologize for my part in distancing us.”

“No, it’s all right.” He straightened from the pillar. “Just…I really don’t want to be alone right now, so, do you think, even though it’s fake and all, you might just walk a little further with me?”

For a moment, Jim was sure Spock would refuse his pathetic, whiny request. But then he returned to Jim’s side.

Spock gestured to the path. “Shall we?”

Jim smiled and fell into place next to his first officer.

March 3, 2017

Flash Fic February 24, 2017

A lost article returned to it’s owner was my prompt.

“Ambassador Spock?”

Spock stiffened before turning around. It was still odd to be called ambassador. That was a title more suited to his long deceased counterpart. And yet…it was what he was now.

He turned to face the young officer.

“Yes, Ensign?”

The ensign looked impossibly young. Blond hair, blue eyes. It reminded him of—

But no.

The ensign cleared his throat. “I was going through the admiral’s things. And I found this.”

He held out his closed fist toward Spock and Spock had no choice but to open his palm to receive it.

It was a simple gold ring with Vulcan words carved into it that were far too familiar and painful now to think of. It felt heavy and burdensome in his hand now and yet he closed his fingers around it and pulled his hand close to his side.

The ensign’s tongue came out and licked at his lips. “I-I think he’d have wanted you to have it, sir.”

For a moment words were too difficult to form but Spock made himself nod. For a long time he merely stared at the young man.

Until finally, reddening slightly, the ensign turned to leave.

“Thank you, David,” Spock managed to say.

David stopped, but he did not turn around. “You’re welcome.”

February 24, 2017

Random Stuff

So the SO got Alton Brown’s latest cookbook for Christmas. Every Day Cooking or something? I don’t know. Last March or the March before, I forget now, we actually went to his live show at the Pantages in Hollywood. I got him the tickets that Christmas before. But I digress. He got the cookbook.

In the last week he has made two of the recipes out of it and I have loved both. I will not say what they were because I am aware those that read this are very very fussy about food and I don’t want anyone to say “Yuck” or whatever. Suffice it to say, they were both delicious!

I’ve been thinking about the last few days how so many “hero” tales have the similarity of the “mentor/father figure’ dying on the hero. There are many examples and our Kelvin/AOS Jim is among them.

Luke Skywalker loses Obi-wan

Frodo loses Gandalf – yes Gandalf didn’t really die but Frodo doesn’t know that on his quest to return the ring.

Harry Potter loses Dumbledore

(you get Richard Harris because to me he made a far superior Dumbledore)

Jim loses Captain Pike

I’m sure there are others I am just not able to think of at the moment. But it’s a common theme in hero stories I think. Just an observation I had.

I’m up to about 5000 words on my T’hy’la Big Bang story. I think I check in March 03. It has to be at least 10,000 words and so if I do stick with that length I’m already half done. Pretty cool.

Tomorrow’s another flash fic day and you can expect a sad one.

February 23, 2017

Flash Fic February 17

Today’s prompt: A perfect away mission and an experiment gone wrong.

“God, that was awesome,” Jim declared as he stepped down from the transporter room. “That was one of the best missions yet.”

“Oh, you think so, do you?” Bones asked, his voice laced with sarcasm.

“Sure do. Don’t you?”

“Oh, gee, I don’t know. Maybe you ought to think about why maybe I didn’t think it was so awesome.”

Jim patted Bones’ arm. “The slugs?”

“You might have warned me about them.”

“I forgot.”

“They consider them a delicacy and an honor to offer them to you, doctor,” Spock said from beside them.

“Well, it’s no honor to me.” Bones shuddered. “I think I’m going to have nightmares for years involving a pretty girl coming toward me with a slug caught in tweezers. Ugh!”

Bones rushed ahead of them and out of the transporter room.

Jim smiled at Spock. “Well, I guess I’ll see you later on the bridge, Mister Spock.”

“You are not going there immediately?”

“No, I’m going to get cleaned up in my quarters and file a report on the mission. I should be there within half an hour.”

****

It was much later when Jim was preparing for bed when the chime of his door indicated he had a visitor.

“Come,” Jim called out as he pulled his tank top over his head.

To his surprise, Spock walked in.

“Hey, what can I do for you?”

“Jim.”

He smiled. “Is this a special occasion? You’re calling me Jim.”

“Yes. I…it is an experiment.” Spock took several steps closer.

“Calling me Jim?”

“Negative.” Spock hesitated a moment and then was suddenly up in Jim’s space. “This.”

And Spock kissed him. And kissed him. And kissed him.

“Jesus,” Jim said as Spock went in for his lips again.

He couldn’t breathe.

Wait. He can’t breathe.

Jim shoved Spock away.

His eyes wide, an expression of hurt on his face, Spock stepped back.

Jim pointed to himself, desperately gasping.

“You cannot breath?” Spock guessed.

Jim nodded frantically. And then he was out.

****

He woke lying on his back in sickbay.

“Welcome back, Jim,” Bones declared.

“I’m alive?” he croaked.

“Sure are.” Bones switched the biobed so that Jim was sitting up. Surrounding his bed besides Bones was Spock, Uhura, and Nurse Chapel.

“What happened?”

Bones smirked, looking at Spock. “You’re allergic to Spock.”

“Leonard,” Chapel admonished as Spock turned slightly green. “You’re allergic to Plomeek, Captain. Mister Spock had Plomeek soup for dinner. He still had trace amounts of it in his mouth.”

Spock turned greener still even as Uhura smothered a laugh.

“Oh.” Jim frowned. “Well, that sucks. Does that mean Spock can never eat Plomeek and kiss me at the same time?”

“Pretty much.”

“Fortunately it is not something I am able to have often,” Spock said, his back ramrod straight, his gaze over Jim’s head.

“There’s a shot we can give you if it happens again. Maybe Spock better keep a supply handy if he continues to decide to kiss you.” Bones chortled.

Chapel rolled her eyes. “Come on, let’s leave them alone. You interrupted my date with Ny, so if you don’t mind, I’d like to get on with it.”

The three of them left and it was just Jim and Spock.

Jim smiled. “Well.”

“I apologize for causing you to have an allergic reaction, Captain.”

“That was definitely no fun,” Jim admitted. “But the part just prior to it was.”

Spock arched a brow. “Was it?”

“Perhaps. I think you ought to continue with that experiment of yours,” Jim said with an encouraging smile. “I’m pretty sure you’ll get better results.”

Spock leaned over him, his lips mere inches from Jim’s. “I am a scientist after all.”

February 17, 2017

Ramblings of the Week, February 13, 2017

I think I am finally on the mend from my illness. I manage to sleep through the night without waking up with an absurd amount of coughing. I wouldn’t call myself 100%, probably more like 80% but it’s so much better.

I posted the first chapter of my Cinderella Spirk story, When I Fall in Love. I had thought of having this story be the one for the T’hy’la Big Bang and I discovered as I sat down to write it that it just wasn’t going to work for that. The minimum word count for that is 10,000 and I think I intend to keep my entry to about that. So never fear, I am sure I will come up with something for that.

The reaction to my short Valentine’s story, The Rose, has been mostly positive on AO3 (I did have one person think that Jim was cruel to Bones, but you know life isn’t always roses and wine and everything fine).

I am currently working on the next chapter of Young and Beautiful. I don’t actually think it was next in my spreadsheet, but I just felt like working on it.

I have been playing this silly game on my phone and right now they have a special game going where you can get a special pink fish for Valentine’s Day. Well, as most of those games do, they want you to spend money on their “free game” and last night I went a little nuts (it happens) and spent $50 on extras for the game just to get through the extra game to get the special pink fish. After I got her I just went, what the hell did I just do? I confessed my sins to my SO who was aghast to say the least. Ugh LOL.

February 13, 2017

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