Ficlet: “What About Your First Date? “
Author: ariadnechan
Fandom: Star trek Reboot
Rating: Pg 13 (to be sure)
Warnings: None, only the movie of JJ. Abraham
Word Count: 866
Summary: Ship Wars prompt for 1000 word maximum on the subject of "First Date". Jim talks to his little girl about her parents first date.
Characters: James Kirk and T’Aman
Pairing: Kirk/Spock (team Spork) implied T’Pan/T’Kun
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters, no profit was made. WHY!!!!????
Notes: this fic I mostly a conversation so I italize Jim and “” T’Aman.
Thanks to my friend and beta
jaylee_g “Well what about your first date?”
T’Aman asked his father before going to sleep, She always count her family as a unit of six. Even if Spock bonded with James Kirk and T’Kun bonded with T’Pan weren’t her biological parents and Setrik, was her half brother.
Her mothers were bonded before the death of the planet Vulcan, and the only logical solution for saving their race and not destroying their rightful bond was this kind of marriage alliances known in the very beginning of Vulcan when a house was joint with another, so the offspring of both couples will be children of the same house in alliance.
Her mothers T’Pan and T’Kun were with them almost all year and they could see their fathers Spock and James Kirk only during their shore leave or any relevant events. This arrangement was only logical.
She always wants to know more about their fathers, they were the second Human-Vulcan couple and Spock was the first merge between a Vulcan and a human as herself, so maybe her human emotional need of asking something not as relevant to their history as a family unit or as an historic event, but it was intriguing nevertheless.
Her father tried to be stoic, but a rush of blood merge to the tips of his totally alien round ears. That’s always fascinated her.
”Well, my dear, we had a bumpy ride, as my people say…
“Bumpy?”
Her father puts his hand in the back of his neck, and move his hands unnecessarily.
”We started out hating each other… sort of.”
“But James Kirk knows that is impossible for a Vulcan, even a half one like myself, is incapable of hatred.”
”The emotions run deeper in a Vulcan than in anyone in the universe, that’s why the teaching of Surak and control is so important to achieve. But Spock was ripped of his control when planet Vulcan were destroyed and his Mother, and six billions of Vulcans died at the same time… So Spock tried to choke me to death in the bridge of the Enterprise.“
T’Aman was surprised? She knows she must to meditate about it the next available time.
”So we could say I am the only human who can put deep emotions in Spock. We work together, in fact after the Vulcan-Narada catastrophe the Enterprise started its five year mission, and Spock was my first Officer, so we try to become friends.”
“We knew, at the time, the only things we had in common were the wellbeing of our ship and our mission, But we quickly discovered the we both enjoy chess. I suppose Spock never could think that a human like me could really challenge him and I even won the game more times that he wants to remember…”
“So your first date was a chess encounter?”
”Not really, with chess and the missions we understand little by little that we complemented each other at unimaginable levels.”
“But both of us were very obtuse. We didn’t want to see the evidence before our eyes.”
“Until Spock went into the pre steps of Pon farr. So your father started to act strange, before the real symptoms emerge.”
“He wanted to stay with me all the time! It is truth we flirt, but we never said a word about our feelings for each other.”
”I decided if he was so more close to me now, then maybe I could try with a date. I was a little scared of his reaction. At that point a rejection would cut me in two.”
“The surprise was that one day Spock enters my office and ask me to go to his quarters for a matter of unavoidable importance. After gave to me and the Ensign there a glare of hell, he disappeared.”
”When I went to Spock’s quarters, the lights were down at 70%, he had incense burning, and our chess table was dressed for dinner. There was even Vulcan lyre music, your father is a really good player”.
“So in the dark Spock was playing his lyre, with the light so dim his eyes were bright in the darkness, just like the candles… To my surprise Spock had the same feelings for me as I had for him. We had a delightful meal and talked a lot, and when the Pon farr really emerged we decided that 4 years of flirting was enough, and we bonded.“
“After the Vulcan ceremony we were presented to your mothers because we were a politically correct couple, but we wanted to help the Vulcan race grows, and we found in your mothers the same sentiment and friendship. The rest is history.”
“Father, but what happens after the lyre, what happens exactly in your first date? Explain.“
”My sweet girl, that will be a talk we’ll have in 20 years, if that.“
So her father kissed her in the forehead and sent to her quarters. T’Aman thought about meditating to contemplate the illogical things his Terran father told her, and about the many emotions he said even she could have. But she was really more intrigued about promised talk in twenty years.
The end for now ;)