Chasing the Sunrise by kianspo (PG-13)

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Hello, I’m aprilleigh24  and I’ll be driving the van for Star Trek: Reboot this month. I adore this fandom- there’s such a wealth of talented authors and fabulous storytelling within it, beginning with this lovely story:  

Fandom: STAR TREK:REBOOT 
Pairing: Spock/OC (light), T'Pol, mentioned: Sarek/Amanda, T'Pring
Length: ~9 300
Author on LJ: kianspo 
Author Website: LJ Master Post

Why this must be read:

This is Spock as I love him: brilliant and searching for his place in the universe. This is a slice of life piece where a 15 year old Spock explores friendship, love, life, and makes choices that will define him for years to come. (A prologue to a longer fic; reads beautifully as a stand-alone.)

At that point, Spock’s social skills were a strange combination of over- and underdeveloped. As a son of a Federation Ambassador, he was schooled in dozens of social guidelines practically from the moment he learned to talk. Sarek considered it necessary to occupy as much of his son’s time with studying as possible, and, in his view, diplomatic education was an ideal outlet for Spock’s excessive energy. Since he was twelve, Spock had worked as Sarek’s de facto aide alongside trained diplomats who were actually paid for it.

As a result, Spock felt completely at ease escorting the wife of the Andorian Ambassador and her daughter to an art exhibition; or defending the Vulcan tradition of putting their children through the Kahs-wan ordeal to the Denobulan attaché and invoking no less than fifteen different cross-cultural references to prove that it was hardly barbaric at this day and age; or entertaining junior members of the Tellarite delegation by trading insults with them on the issue of Vulcan’s less than welcoming attitude toward the new trade agreement.

He was well versed in dozens of subjects, starting with Federation politics and border disputes and ending up with plagiarism charges brought up against a deaf Centaurian composer who saw music as combination of colors. He could discuss them freely, without the risk of offending anyone and taking after his father in how he navigated the most controversial topics in a way that maintained peaceful and agreeable atmosphere.The trouble was, Spock had absolutely no knowledge of how to interact with people his own age, nor had he any idea of how to go about interpersonal relationships. He had never had friends or even companions, and had never had any person’s interest directed at him unless this person was a teacher or an instructor. (Well, apart from that one time when the Deltan Ambassador had brought his son with him, but Spock was very deliberately not thinking about that experience. Ever. Again.)

Chasing the Sunrise