AU in which Jim never joined Starfleet and he’s at Yorktown as a civilian when he sees Spock for the first time. His best friend tries to reason with him, but Jim’s already got a crush on the intriguing Starfleet Officer. For his part, Spock has no idea why anyone would want to hang around him, especially this handsome culturally-sensitive intelligent human who takes him to Yorktown’s museums and libraries and computer labs, randomly stops mid-stride to point out the geometry of the architecture, and occasionally breaks into passionate soliloquies about space exploration. When Spock gets awkwardly shy and reverts to talking about algebraic equations (the way other people talk about weather) Jim treats it like a legitimate conversation topic and they talk math to each other for hours, regardless of the people staring.
Here’s a snippet from the prologue for my as-yet-unnamed sp00qy fic.
…Old hearts are patient and selective.
But when they fall, they are utterly lost.
Bond’s heart lashed out after Vesper’s betrayal. Hot with embarrassment and rage, it shredded itself with recriminations of folly until what was left was a calloused leathery thing, all but impossible to pierce. And so it stayed for years, with only a few shiny spots worn soft by colleagues and friends. Until Madeleine reminded it of older times, older connections, and found a way in.
Nowhere yet, but I’ll start posting once I have a bit more of it done… hopefully around the middle of the month. I have about 5k written, but want to get deeper into the story before I start posting so there aren’t (fingers crossed) long delays between chapters. I’m hoping this year my October story doesn’t run too deeply into November, but rl etc…
Thanks for your interest, though! I’ll blog it here when I start posting on AO3.
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