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The Strangest Thing by TGuess (NC-17)
Fandom: STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Author on LJ: No
Author Website:
Why this must be read:
This story has a lot of warnings – see below. This story is not for the fainthearted.
“The Strangest Thing” is a powerful, brutal and uncompromising look at rape and torture and the long-term consequences to the victim and to his closest friends.
Spock is imprisoned in a Romulan prison, and subjected to their harshest interrogation techniques. On the Enterprise, Kirk uses every resource he can muster to find and rescue Spock; he involves both Sarek and the Romulan Commander in this quest. But will they be in time?
TGuess does dramatic tension brilliantly, and the rescue sequence is edge-of-the-seat all the way. After the rescue, when many writers would include a few pages of “comfort” and have everything be just fine again, she looks at the hard truth that recovery from this type of trauma isn’t quick, or easy, and that the love and caring of even those people closest to someone isn’t always enough.
TGuess explores the complexities and consequences of lost opportunies and unsaid words, and while she holds out hope she offers no easy answers. (More of TGuess’s work can be found on ksarchive.com).
// Jim… // he silently mouthed, taking what little comfort he could from the now almost nonexistent telepathic link that had once been so strong between them. In his current state of mind, he could only read vague impressions; it was like trying to visualize what a watercolor painting had looked like before it had been abandoned in the rain too long.
On the other side of the door—unknown to Spock—Kirk had also pressed his hand against the panel, and their palms overlapped, separated from touching each other by only a few centimeters thickness of steel.
WARNINGS: Non-consensual sex, Explicit violence, Caveat lector - Incest
http://ksarchive.com/viewstory.php?sid=534
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Author on LJ: No
Author Website:
Why this must be read:
This story has a lot of warnings – see below. This story is not for the fainthearted.
“The Strangest Thing” is a powerful, brutal and uncompromising look at rape and torture and the long-term consequences to the victim and to his closest friends.
Spock is imprisoned in a Romulan prison, and subjected to their harshest interrogation techniques. On the Enterprise, Kirk uses every resource he can muster to find and rescue Spock; he involves both Sarek and the Romulan Commander in this quest. But will they be in time?
TGuess does dramatic tension brilliantly, and the rescue sequence is edge-of-the-seat all the way. After the rescue, when many writers would include a few pages of “comfort” and have everything be just fine again, she looks at the hard truth that recovery from this type of trauma isn’t quick, or easy, and that the love and caring of even those people closest to someone isn’t always enough.
TGuess explores the complexities and consequences of lost opportunies and unsaid words, and while she holds out hope she offers no easy answers. (More of TGuess’s work can be found on ksarchive.com).
// Jim… // he silently mouthed, taking what little comfort he could from the now almost nonexistent telepathic link that had once been so strong between them. In his current state of mind, he could only read vague impressions; it was like trying to visualize what a watercolor painting had looked like before it had been abandoned in the rain too long.
On the other side of the door—unknown to Spock—Kirk had also pressed his hand against the panel, and their palms overlapped, separated from touching each other by only a few centimeters thickness of steel.
WARNINGS: Non-consensual sex, Explicit violence, Caveat lector - Incest
http://ksarchive.com/viewstory.php?sid=534