Fic: Observations, Ch 257

Jan 18, 2009 00:32


“Spock?”

“Yes?”

“I want to do it.  The bond, I want to do it.  We should’ve done it a long time ago.”

“Events have proceeded in their course.  There is no way to change that.”

“We’ve waited this long, been through all the shit the universe can throw at us.  I want to do it.”

I kissed him softly.

When we separated, he looked at him, blue eyes searching.  He smiled.

“What do you see, t’hy’la?”

“You.”

He put his hand to my face.

“Remember way back, right before that crazy Deneva mission where you got infected with that Cellulite thing?”

“I recall that period.”

“You said that you thought life was meaningful because we make it meaningful.”

“An imprecise summary, but I believe that was the general idea.  Why do you bring it up, Jim?”

“Because I think I want to raise the stakes.”

“How so?”

“Life is meaningful, Spock, because I have you.”

Without it, can life hold any meaning?  Without it, is it possible to hope?  We ask of the universe an eternal question: “Is this all that I am?  Is there nothing more?”

It presents us with an answer.

“Because against all the fucking odds-don’t quote them at me, I know they were, probably still are, stacked astronomically high-but despite that, we’re alive.  You’re still here.”

He took my hand in his.

Simple feeling.  A single touch, clean and whole.

“We’ll get through this.  I promise you.  I promise you.”


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