Star Trek

im starting to feel like something is wrong.

After another moment (five minutes, or three years), Spock steps out and takes the peeping little one in with him himself.

When Jim stood in the study for a long time again, surrounded by older people with different expressions, his heart sank into his stomach for a moment, and he suddenly wanted to escape.

But he can't.

"So..." the boy lay on the bed with his hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling, still stunned by the truth and lost in Sarek's apology, "T'Kooveh and Sdvasu are a couple?"

Spock didn't expect this to be the first thing he wanted to ask.After listening to the whole thing Jim was silent, he was worried about his little playmate - the earth boy has always been a chirping and lively temperament; after dinner in silence (Jim finally willing to eat with them at the table) , they went back to the room, Jim just lay on the bed and didn't know what he was thinking. Spock joins him after cleaning and tidying up, and the two children lie side by side, staring at the ceiling together.

Obviously there are no stars or flowers on the ceiling.

Spock hesitates. "And that's all you want to say?"

"I don't know what to say. I'm a bit stuck - Sdvasu is the one to blame? He planted me? For money?"

Three questions in a row. "You have other questions now."

"I don't know which of these three questions surprised me more."

"...You have been cleared of suspicion, and my father has apologized."

"Ah, yeah, I'm kind of surprised. I thought he'd be embarrassed for face or something."

"Vulcans don't seek 'face'. So, do you accept Father's apology?"

"It's the same whether you accept it or not. So, what the hell is that finger wrench worthy of Sdvasu's ulterior motives? Is it a family heirloom from your family?"

"It's not completely consistent, but it's not all wrong. It's a symbol of Vulcan-other cultural ambassadors. It's not made of rare materials and doesn't have high value in itself, but it represents a kind of ... right. And this kind of Rights can often be sold for astonishing prices, in…”

"black market."

"...on the illegal market. And Sdvasu wants to sell it to the Romulans. This is a very bad thing, punishable up to high treason."

"But why does Sdvasu need money so much? I thought your salary was enough."

"He was planning to resell his fingertips, quit his job, and go away with T'Kooveh...even though Vulcans don't have emotions, for some reason he has a very...hate for his homeworld. T'Kooveh is seriously ill , we didn’t know it before; and their salary is not enough to support her treatment. The money from finger-tapping is.”

"To save my wife's life?" Jim pursed his lips. "Sounds like a supremely righteous thing to do. I like T'Kooveh and I don't want her dead, but I can't accept blaming me for this reason."

"Me too. Parents think so. Deceit is the root of all evil, even if it's a white lie," Spock said. "Sdvasu will be fired, and I didn't tell me if my father took him to court. T'Kooveh You can stay, and the mother will help her with her treatment and delivery. And you..."

Jim turned his face away, looking at Spock with blue eyes, making the latter suddenly forget what to say.The ten-year-old boy stared at him, stared at him and suddenly laughed.And Spock knows that's not a happy smile.

"And I should go." Jim blinked, hiding his emotions well in the dim light, and extended his arm to him, "Before I go back to Earth—won't you give me a hug?"

Of course Spock would say yes.He always says yes.

The Vulcan boy took his arm, and the Earth boy moved towards him and moved towards him, his clothes and quilts crumpled, and finally moved closer to him. Spock was bigger than him, with longer arms, and rolled him into his arms.The smaller boy shrank himself into this warm embrace, buried him on his shoulder and neck and sniffed, like a puppy: "I probably, no, I will definitely miss your Spocky..."

Spock feels a sense of loss like never before - even with his best friend in his arms.He whispered back, me too.

Earlier he'd gone to ask his father about the image of Jim that had popped up in his head, and Sarek had stared at him for a moment before finally replying, "My telepathic level can't tell if there's a… link between you and James, assuming According to you, you have not undergone a psychic fusion: that is a very intimate affair. Identification will have to wait until T'Pau returns from the Alpha Quadrant."

"But T'Pau won't be back until 10.3 standard days later, and the day Jim leaves..."

Sarek's expression was unreadable: "... two days later."

11.【Spirk】White Lie

1.

Someone told her when she was a child that Romulans and Vulcan were one family thousands of years ago.But she didn't believe it—otherwise, how could she be abducted and sold by the Romulans to work as a female worker in this unfamiliar place?It was a long time later that she realized that being a female worker is already a very good treatment, at least it is only tired and poorly paid, and at least she does not suffer physical and mental damage.

It was an old handicraft workshop, located deep in the desert, unsupervised by anyone, and unable to use automated production for some reasons that she didn't know.She didn't even know that there was such a gray area on Vulcan. No race could avoid dirty agreements, even Vulcan.It was there that she met Sdvasu. She was 15 years old and he was 18. He was handsome and taciturn.

Sdvasu... is not a Vulcan.He is a Romulan descendant with pure blood. Although he is good at disguising, his genes are not deceiving.He had been abducted here by his fellow countrymen and had been working there for eight years.He's hated everyone—Vulcan and Romulans—for years, and not a day goes by without plotting his escape.His plan gradually took shape, the right time and place, but suddenly a little girl appeared.

The little girl looked at him curiously with light blue eyes all day long, and then quickly averted them when he caught his gaze and looked back--with a shy look that was not at all Vulcan-like.

He also became curious about her.

The attraction between people is natural, even if there is no acquired addition, sometimes the chemical reaction is so magical.They started eating together at lunchtime and chatting during the (very rare) breaks.

He could feel t'koove's admiration for him, a girl in her teens who just fell in love doesn't know how to hide herself.One day he asked her if she wanted to see the outside world.

Outside?The girl blinked, she had spent three years in this underground factory in the dark, and almost forgot what it looked like outside.

Sdvasu suddenly grabbed her hand excitedly, and such an intimate gesture made her cheeks glow greenly; Sdvasu stared at her with dark eyes, solemnly: Come with me.

2.

The first escape didn't go well at all.Before reaching the door, they were discovered by the foreman.Those in charge took them back, the girl was put in solitary confinement, and the boy was severely beaten and starved for two days.

It was a week before we met again, Sdvasu was so haggard and T'Kooveh had red and swollen eyes.

"No." T'Kooveh shook his head through tears. "We're not going anywhere. Stay."

Sdvasu touched her cheek with his wounded fingers: "I will definitely take you away."

The second failed, as a Vulcan boy became aware of their escape plan and reported them.

And then the third time.

the fourth time.

the fifth time

……

They were punished more brutally with each defeat, until he found the caning scars on T'Kooveh as well.

He swore he would never forgive any of these people in his life—Vulcans, or Romulans for that matter.

3.

Dawn was a surprise inspection. It is not known who discovered this gray factory and sent it to Vulcan's elders' house.This factory has existed for a long time, and the interests involved in it are too complicated and huge. Some elders who knew about it turned a blind eye and closed their eyes to understand it.But now that the board of directors has been replaced with fresh blood, Sarek, a young and energetic descendant of Surak, cannot just watch such a nasty thing happen on his home planet (it is said that his encounter with the person he loves is also extremely rough, and Sarek hates human traffickers).

No one in the dungeon knew how tortuous the process was.In the end Sarek rescued them, and T'Kooveh regarded him as a god and was willing to be a servant of Sarek's family.The hierarchies on Vulcan are so weird that servants are always higher than workers.

T'Kooveh just wanted to express his unspeakable gratitude, but Sdvasu's understanding was wrong: he thought his girl fell in love with this heroic Vulcan - so his anger, frustration, frustration , hatred mixed together burned the mind, broke up with T'Kooveh, and flew away.