Small Ficlet: "Remembrance of Things To Come", Kirk/Spock, G.
A small (and I mean small) new Trek ficlet for you...
Title: Remembrance of Things to Come
Author: Gigi Sinclair
Rating: G
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Summary: Things are different this time around.
Seeing Jim again brings forth a rush of emotions in Spock for which he is not quite prepared.
His memory is good for his age, for any age, but it is difficult to reconcile this impossibly young man with the Jim he knew at home. This Jim is more like the old Kirk's son David, a boy who will now likely never be born.
Nero did not achieve his ultimate goal, but he succeeded in wreaking havoc with the past in ways Spock is certain no one onboard the mining ship ever considered. They are all changed because of what Nero did.
Now, Jim is reckless, careless in a way he never was when he had a father to live up to, rather than a father's legacy. Spock's younger self is motherless, homeless, charged not only with the burden of his mixed heritage but also with the knowledge he is a member of a dying race.
Spock knows that when they come together here, it will not be as it was for him and his captain. It will not be the logical continuation of a relationship deeper and more meaningful than any they have known; it will be an act of desperation, an impulsive, irresistible attempt to fill the limitless void they both feel.
Spock hopes his younger self will succeed, that he and the young Jim will be able to complement and complete each other in this new reality as they did in the old. Still, as he leaves for the Vulcan colony, he finds himself inexpressibly grateful that he can remember the way things were.
Title: Remembrance of Things to Come
Author: Gigi Sinclair
Rating: G
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Summary: Things are different this time around.
Seeing Jim again brings forth a rush of emotions in Spock for which he is not quite prepared.
His memory is good for his age, for any age, but it is difficult to reconcile this impossibly young man with the Jim he knew at home. This Jim is more like the old Kirk's son David, a boy who will now likely never be born.
Nero did not achieve his ultimate goal, but he succeeded in wreaking havoc with the past in ways Spock is certain no one onboard the mining ship ever considered. They are all changed because of what Nero did.
Now, Jim is reckless, careless in a way he never was when he had a father to live up to, rather than a father's legacy. Spock's younger self is motherless, homeless, charged not only with the burden of his mixed heritage but also with the knowledge he is a member of a dying race.
Spock knows that when they come together here, it will not be as it was for him and his captain. It will not be the logical continuation of a relationship deeper and more meaningful than any they have known; it will be an act of desperation, an impulsive, irresistible attempt to fill the limitless void they both feel.
Spock hopes his younger self will succeed, that he and the young Jim will be able to complement and complete each other in this new reality as they did in the old. Still, as he leaves for the Vulcan colony, he finds himself inexpressibly grateful that he can remember the way things were.