Wake

[mithen]

Title: Wake
Fandom: Star Trek TOS (set during Star Trek: Generations)
Pairing/Characters: Kirk/Spock
Rating: PG
Warnings: Canonical character death
Summary: Spock hears of Kirk's death.
Word Count: 300
Notes: Based on Amanda Palmer's "The Astronaut."

Is it getting harder to pretend

Comments

[dshael]

Thank you so much for writing this. It's what I felt was missing from Generations, and so well done that it redeems the movie for me. This is canon now! I have pronounced it so! :)

[mithen]

Thank you so much! Yes, gah, Spock missing from Generations was actively painful to me, and when I got wondering what he would feel when Jim died...this just resulted very naturally. I'm really glad you liked it!

[mithen]

*pats* K/S are kind of my tragic OTP, what will all the death and second chances and death... fictionalknightpicked the perfect song, didn't she? It broke my heart to listen to it when I realized how well it worked...

[northern_star]

heee!!!

This is just perfect! :D I'm SO glad I randomly picked that song for it. teehee! And what you did with that prompt is absolutely wonderful and perfect and...wonderful and... *cough* I think my brain is stuck on a loop.

*scrolls back up to read it again*

[mithen]

You picked an absolutely perfect song! I knew I wanted it to be about Spock thinking Kirk was dead, and was planning on setting it during "Amok Time," and then...well, what about when, you know, Kirk actually does die? Both times... And then I re-listened to the song and got all weepy and wrote it in one sitting, lol... Thank you so much for it, I found it really satisfying to write!

[mithen]

Oh, thank you so much. When I was writing this I remembered an old quote I loved: "Between feeling grief and nothing I will choose grief," and it fit Spock here very well, I think.

[amatara]

That was... just beautiful. *smiles tearfully* And has made me quite incoherent, too. All I can say is this whole piece is so fitting for Spock, the man he is at that point time, and it filled some kind of need for closure in me that I didn't even know was there.

Also, your final line is one that fits right there in the Hall of Final Line fame... It's perfect. Thank you so much for this.

[mithen]

All I can say is this whole piece is so fitting for Spock, the man he is at that point time, and it filled some kind of need for closure in me that I didn't even know was there.

Oh, thank you. It's funny you say that, because that's exactly how I felt writing it, that I hadn't realized I needed those missing scenes, but I was so happy to "find" them, as it were. I'm really glad the last line worked for you...I don't usually agonize over individual lines but I did spend a lot of time in Preposition Angst ("is it behind his heart? Beneath? Below?") on that one. :)