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Meddling and Melding by abraxis (M)
Fandom: STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Pairing: Kirk/Spock, past Kirk/Gary Mitchell
Length: 23k
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Profile at ff.net
Why this must be read:
Requiem for Methuselah is not one of my favorite TOS episodes, mostly because Kirk's responses just don't make all that much sense to me.
This story does rely on a Kirk/Spock interpretation of canon, but using that interpretation, it makes the episode make so much more sense to me. The story does go AU in the middle, but the first part -- ever since I read this story, the first part has become part of my personal headcanon, it just makes so much sense to me.
But even without that, it's a good story, and Abraxis stays true to the episode's themes throughout. McCoy in the episode talks about the things that love will drive a man to do, and we see that throughout this fic -- and it doesn't even have to be romantic love, because the love between best friends McCoy and Kirk is just as palpable.
This story is very much about the agonies and the ecstasies of love, and feels so true to character for Kirk, Spock, and McCoy that I honestly do believe some of this is what was going on behind the scenes in TOS.
In Jim's mind, Flint had not been the enemy intent on taking Rayna from him. Spock had. The dream became surreal. The android now stood between Kirk and himself. Jim's heated emotional pleadings flailing hopelessly against Vulcan ice. Suddenly the android disappeared. The arguments were the same but it was Spock himself that Jim was reaching out to, reaching out for. There was the same aching emotional and psychological need but joined with the full strength of Jim's sexuality.
Waves of molten desire radiated from him; desire that spanned the total range of need from intellectual through emotional to pure physical lust. It seemed impossible to Spock, the observer, that anything could stand against the power of it. Even the stones of Seleya would have shook from it. He was not in the least surprised when the image Spock reached out to Jim, embraced him.
The two kissed. For one brief second, it was as if they stood entwined in the center of a yellow sun; a pulsing magma of joyous completion. Then the image Spock pulled its head back and Jim Kirk stared into coldly logical eyes.
"It isn't human, Captain. If you continue in this, you will destroy it."
With these words the eyes of the Spock image died. It became the same broken mechanism that the android had become. All the brilliance died with it. There was only black despair as Jim Kirk held the body to him and wailed in anguish.
The shock of this revelation battered Spock's control. With no thought of ethics nor consequences and a total lack of finesse, he blocked any memories Jim Kirk had of the android as anything but an interesting oddity and any thoughts of his actions as motivated by anything other than duty to his mission.
Meddling and Melding
Pairing: Kirk/Spock, past Kirk/Gary Mitchell
Length: 23k
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Profile at ff.net
Why this must be read:
Requiem for Methuselah is not one of my favorite TOS episodes, mostly because Kirk's responses just don't make all that much sense to me.
This story does rely on a Kirk/Spock interpretation of canon, but using that interpretation, it makes the episode make so much more sense to me. The story does go AU in the middle, but the first part -- ever since I read this story, the first part has become part of my personal headcanon, it just makes so much sense to me.
But even without that, it's a good story, and Abraxis stays true to the episode's themes throughout. McCoy in the episode talks about the things that love will drive a man to do, and we see that throughout this fic -- and it doesn't even have to be romantic love, because the love between best friends McCoy and Kirk is just as palpable.
This story is very much about the agonies and the ecstasies of love, and feels so true to character for Kirk, Spock, and McCoy that I honestly do believe some of this is what was going on behind the scenes in TOS.
In Jim's mind, Flint had not been the enemy intent on taking Rayna from him. Spock had. The dream became surreal. The android now stood between Kirk and himself. Jim's heated emotional pleadings flailing hopelessly against Vulcan ice. Suddenly the android disappeared. The arguments were the same but it was Spock himself that Jim was reaching out to, reaching out for. There was the same aching emotional and psychological need but joined with the full strength of Jim's sexuality.
Waves of molten desire radiated from him; desire that spanned the total range of need from intellectual through emotional to pure physical lust. It seemed impossible to Spock, the observer, that anything could stand against the power of it. Even the stones of Seleya would have shook from it. He was not in the least surprised when the image Spock reached out to Jim, embraced him.
The two kissed. For one brief second, it was as if they stood entwined in the center of a yellow sun; a pulsing magma of joyous completion. Then the image Spock pulled its head back and Jim Kirk stared into coldly logical eyes.
"It isn't human, Captain. If you continue in this, you will destroy it."
With these words the eyes of the Spock image died. It became the same broken mechanism that the android had become. All the brilliance died with it. There was only black despair as Jim Kirk held the body to him and wailed in anguish.
The shock of this revelation battered Spock's control. With no thought of ethics nor consequences and a total lack of finesse, he blocked any memories Jim Kirk had of the android as anything but an interesting oddity and any thoughts of his actions as motivated by anything other than duty to his mission.
Meddling and Melding
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