Knitting Lessons, by blcwriter (PG-13)

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Fandom: STAR TREK:REBOOT
Characters/Pairings: Kirk/Spock (pre-slash)
Length: ~4500
Author on LJ: blcwriter 
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Why this must be read:
Spock's mother knit him a sweater, which develops a hole. Kirk knits it shut-- their friendship develops from there. One of the more amusing bits of fanon to arise after the movie is in regards to an ugly sweater that Spock wears during the movie. It is so ugly and ill fitting that the only logical reason Spock would wear such a garment is that his mother made it for him. This story is stunning and sweet and the image of a barefoot, glasses wearing, knitting Kirk? HOT.

Saying nothing, Kirk waved his hands over the sweater he wore, in much the same gesture their Chief Engineer used when he was displaying some new improvement he wanted the captain to praise.

“You created that garment yourself?” Spock asked, and Kirk nodded, adding, “That green one Bones wears at poker games, too.”

Spock looked again. It was what he believed was called a fisherman’s style, alternating cables and coils, intricate patterns far beyond what his own mother had ever been capable of—and the garment to which he referred often worn by Dr. McCoy was, if not identical, also a well-constructed example of intricate craftsmanship, though before now, Spock had never had any idea that the garments were ones Kirk had knit. It was not something he—or Dr. McCoy—had ever mentioned before.

Then again—Kirk did often not mention the many languages in which he was fluent, the forms of combat with which he was familiar, the mechanical specifications of the ship he had memorized, or many other pieces of knowledge within his possession—he merely used the knowledge when the situation required.

Spock stood and removed his sweater, handing it over.

Kirk snorted even as he turned the sleeve inside out, pulling on the glasses he used when he was reading. He then inspected the hole and took up the smallest of the three sets of needles from the sets he had brought to the table. Spock understood from Dr. McCoy that the man was allergic to the medicine used to correct the pathological deformity of the eye, such that Kirk wore the old-fashioned lenses for prolonged reading and up-close work instead—yet another incongrous thing about this captain of his, given Kirk’s reputation at the Academy as a vain, callow youth who would never let anyone get in a word edgewise.

He would never have expected a barefoot, casual Kirk knitting closed a hole in the sweater Spock’s mother made, glasses perched at the end of his nose, a small smile at the edge of his mouth as sometimes appeared when the captain was pleased with himself for being of use—nor would he have ever expect Kirk to be the one to find the hole in a sweater Spock wore carefully and not all that often, since there was little he had left of his mother.

He suddenly felt embarrassed again, and looked elsewhere than Kirk.
 

Knitting Lessons