Fic: Avenues, original K/S (mentioned), G by mithrel
Title: Avenues
Author: mithrel
Pairing(s): Mentioned original K/S
Rating: G
Summary: He’d never. Not in this reality.
Notes/Warnings: None, except the obvious spoiler warning. Makes brief mention of events in Court Martial, The Menagerie, This Side of Paradise, Amok Time, and Turnabout Intruder, plus the movie, of course.
The sharing-of-thoughts thing had been freaky. Not only because he had just met the man, no matter what he said. Not only because he hadn’t thought Spock was capable of grief like that.
When the…other Spock was in his head, things…leaked through. Things that he would never in a million years consider.
In the other timeline, he hadn’t met Spock until after he had been posted to the Enterprise as Captain. Spock had already been serving with Captain Pike. When he came aboard, they were wary of each other, but didn’t have anything like the animosity he and Spock had now.
They formed a cautious friendship, based mostly on the fact that they had to work together, and not really worthy of the name “friendship” at all, but it had grown over time.
He’d trusted Spock enough to defend him when he was court-martialed over…Talos, was it?...and Spock figured out the fact that his own court martial was rigged. Spock had trusted him enough to ask him to Vulcan for…something important, he wasn’t sure what. When Spock had been taken over by the spores, his counterpart had said some horrible things, but he’d had to, to snap him out of it. Spock had attacked him, but been immediately sorry, offering to put himself on report. And Spock had recognized his counterpart when he’d switched bodies. They’d done this a lot, over the years, sharing thoughts, enough so that they’d formed a permanent mental link.
That wasn’t all that came through, though. Spock and his counterpart had been…he didn’t even want to think about it. He wasn’t sure when it happened, maybe after the…pon farr, that was it, he’d been to Vulcan for Spock’s pon farr, and Spock had almost killed him. His counterpart must be more different from him than he thought, he’d never even consider…the species thing wasn’t a problem; after all, he’d been willing to sleep with that Orion girl, and she hadn’t been anywhere near the first. But he’d never done it with a Vulcan…he wouldn’t dare even think about it around a Vulcan woman, since they were supposed to be telepathic, and now he knew that for a fact. And certainly never with a man, especially not with Spock. Maybe it was possible in that other universe, but not here.
When the mind meld (that’s what it was called, a mind meld) finished, he didn’t say anything about it to the older Spock. He knew full well that none of that was meant to come through, that he wasn’t supposed to know anything about his counterpart’s life, and probably the only reason it had come through was that this Spock wasn’t used to shielding against him. So he agreed to the plan, and Spock told Scott how to beam them back to the Enterprise.
When he got back to the bridge, he was convinced the older Spock had been hallucinating…or maybe he had, given the fact that he’d never melded before. Drawing on what he’d seen in the other Spock’s mind, he baited him. Spock was obviously angry, but he didn’t do anything about it until Kirk accused him of not loving his mother…then he almost killed him, which he should have expected, but it still took him by surprise.
After that he put the entire thing out of his mind…he was the captain, and he had to keep Earth from suffering the same fate as Vulcan. It wasn’t until after the Narada was destroyed, and he was back on Earth, that he remembered Spock at all.
He’d done well, destroying the drilling rig, and he supposed he could admire him, grudgingly, although he doubted he’d ever be friends with him, and certainly not…well, anyway.
When Spock appeared on the bridge of the Enterprise to offer his services as first officer, he’s surprised. He would have thought the Vulcan would want to stay the hell away from him after what had happened. But he remembered what the older Spock had said-“I have been, and always shall be your friend.” Spock wouldn’t make a good captain-he was too “by the book,” and if he had intuition (his older self did, after all) he’d probably never listened to it in his life. But he would make a good first officer, and might even manage to keep him from going off half-cocked. And, thinking about it, he realized that a great deal of what made the older Spock so different was down to his influence.
So he accepted. They had a lot of bad blood between them, for all that Spock would deny it, but it was just possible that they could be friends after all.
Author: mithrel
Pairing(s): Mentioned original K/S
Rating: G
Summary: He’d never. Not in this reality.
Notes/Warnings: None, except the obvious spoiler warning. Makes brief mention of events in Court Martial, The Menagerie, This Side of Paradise, Amok Time, and Turnabout Intruder, plus the movie, of course.
The sharing-of-thoughts thing had been freaky. Not only because he had just met the man, no matter what he said. Not only because he hadn’t thought Spock was capable of grief like that.
When the…other Spock was in his head, things…leaked through. Things that he would never in a million years consider.
In the other timeline, he hadn’t met Spock until after he had been posted to the Enterprise as Captain. Spock had already been serving with Captain Pike. When he came aboard, they were wary of each other, but didn’t have anything like the animosity he and Spock had now.
They formed a cautious friendship, based mostly on the fact that they had to work together, and not really worthy of the name “friendship” at all, but it had grown over time.
He’d trusted Spock enough to defend him when he was court-martialed over…Talos, was it?...and Spock figured out the fact that his own court martial was rigged. Spock had trusted him enough to ask him to Vulcan for…something important, he wasn’t sure what. When Spock had been taken over by the spores, his counterpart had said some horrible things, but he’d had to, to snap him out of it. Spock had attacked him, but been immediately sorry, offering to put himself on report. And Spock had recognized his counterpart when he’d switched bodies. They’d done this a lot, over the years, sharing thoughts, enough so that they’d formed a permanent mental link.
That wasn’t all that came through, though. Spock and his counterpart had been…he didn’t even want to think about it. He wasn’t sure when it happened, maybe after the…pon farr, that was it, he’d been to Vulcan for Spock’s pon farr, and Spock had almost killed him. His counterpart must be more different from him than he thought, he’d never even consider…the species thing wasn’t a problem; after all, he’d been willing to sleep with that Orion girl, and she hadn’t been anywhere near the first. But he’d never done it with a Vulcan…he wouldn’t dare even think about it around a Vulcan woman, since they were supposed to be telepathic, and now he knew that for a fact. And certainly never with a man, especially not with Spock. Maybe it was possible in that other universe, but not here.
When the mind meld (that’s what it was called, a mind meld) finished, he didn’t say anything about it to the older Spock. He knew full well that none of that was meant to come through, that he wasn’t supposed to know anything about his counterpart’s life, and probably the only reason it had come through was that this Spock wasn’t used to shielding against him. So he agreed to the plan, and Spock told Scott how to beam them back to the Enterprise.
When he got back to the bridge, he was convinced the older Spock had been hallucinating…or maybe he had, given the fact that he’d never melded before. Drawing on what he’d seen in the other Spock’s mind, he baited him. Spock was obviously angry, but he didn’t do anything about it until Kirk accused him of not loving his mother…then he almost killed him, which he should have expected, but it still took him by surprise.
After that he put the entire thing out of his mind…he was the captain, and he had to keep Earth from suffering the same fate as Vulcan. It wasn’t until after the Narada was destroyed, and he was back on Earth, that he remembered Spock at all.
He’d done well, destroying the drilling rig, and he supposed he could admire him, grudgingly, although he doubted he’d ever be friends with him, and certainly not…well, anyway.
When Spock appeared on the bridge of the Enterprise to offer his services as first officer, he’s surprised. He would have thought the Vulcan would want to stay the hell away from him after what had happened. But he remembered what the older Spock had said-“I have been, and always shall be your friend.” Spock wouldn’t make a good captain-he was too “by the book,” and if he had intuition (his older self did, after all) he’d probably never listened to it in his life. But he would make a good first officer, and might even manage to keep him from going off half-cocked. And, thinking about it, he realized that a great deal of what made the older Spock so different was down to his influence.
So he accepted. They had a lot of bad blood between them, for all that Spock would deny it, but it was just possible that they could be friends after all.