Star Trek

Some faint anger, "Don't try to compare the importance of you and Sdvasu in this family."

Spock knows he means it's less meaningful, but it takes on a whole other meaning when it comes to the human child: the anger in Jim's eyes disappears, slowly extinguishing as Sarek's words blew out like candles. There's a cold layer of heartbreak; Spock tenses up subconsciously, he feels Jim's sadness—not seeing it, but…feeling it.It was almost a sting with style.

Jim no longer holds his head up like he did at the beginning, but lowers his eyes, mumbles, and his voice is much softer: "Sorry, I take myself too seriously - I'm just a visitor."

"Jim—" Spock wanted to interrupt his self-deprecation: Jim wasn't just a visitor, he was his friend, and of course he could be his family.

But Jim didn't look at him, turned and ran out.

"Sarek!" Amanda yelled the name of the head of the family angrily, a little helpless, she knew that Sarek's words must have hurt the child's heart; she called out to her son who was standing still, and Spock raised his eyes slightly He looked at her blankly, then reacted suddenly, and chased after where Jim ran away.

Behind him, Sarek sighs heavily, but Spock doesn't hear it.

Jim didn't think about running outside the mansion, but walked through the long corridor and disappeared into a blind spot. Spock chased after him and scoured the bedroom and study, as well as Jim's usual haunts, but he didn't see the blond boy.He ended up walking and watching distractedly as he passed the kitchen, and almost bumped into T'Kooveh, the pot-bellied cook, who seemed to know what was going on, her pale blue eyes looking worried.

She held Spock some distance from her stomach, and told him she seemed to see Jim, and that the boy might be in the garden.

Spock hurried to the garden after apologizing and thanking her.Vulcan's night was still very cold, and even he himself felt a little discomfort caused by the low temperature.In the end, he found the earth boy who curled himself up into a small ball under the flower wall full of Waneti, with tears on his face that hadn't dried yet, frustrated and sad.

Such a small, lost Jim, surrounded by flowers with drooping heads, Spock always felt... a little deja vu.

Where is it?

He doesn't remember.

Spock walked over to his friend, knelt down in front of Jim, and put his hand on Jim's shoulder, but the latter didn't respond. Spock fumbles for words: "Don't…cry, Jim."

"I do not have."

"You are crying."

"I didn't."

"You do."

"I..." Jim was finally willing to look up at him, albeit glaringly, "If I say no, I don't."

Spock is surprised to find that he's even gotten used to his illogical, unreasonable way of thinking: "I can admit you're not crying."

The absence of rebuttals made the child sink down like a deflated balloon again. Jim hugged his legs, chin on his knees: "They don't believe me, Spock. But I didn't take Sarek's stuff—I really didn't. I didn't even go to the study today—I slept late in the morning, Then we ate in our room and played with PADD. That's all, I didn't go to the study." He repeated, "But no one believed me."

"I believe you," Spock replied automatically, hesitating for a second. "So did Mother."

"Amanda too?" Jim raised an eyebrow suspiciously.

"I believe she is," Spock said.

"Okay. You trust me, uh...I know you'll trust me." Jim doesn't look all that excited about it, "But you can't prove it." He curls himself up even more, Buried in his knees, the voice was indistinct: "I almost thought... this would be a home."

Spock doesn't touch him, but he feels Jim's heartbreak.But instead of digging into what Jim was saying, he was focused on something else: his mind replaying scenes like a surveillance camera, Jim laying on their bed, turning around , Rolling around, just passing the morning - he did not go to Sarek's study.

But... Spock was a little confused, why did he see these images?

10.【Spirk】White Lie

Jim fell in love with Waneti's flower wall very illogically. They are very similar to the wisterias on the earth. The deep and light purple waterfalls surround the little boy's grievances, anger, or loss.Vulcan's sunlight was extremely strong. He hid in the shadow of the flower wall and hugged his knees, sweat still dripping down his cheeks.He idly wrapped his fingers around the flower vines, feeling a little hungry.

On the fourth day, there is still no conclusion about Sdvasu's matter. He is angry and does not want to see Sarek (in his heart, the distrust of the head of the family is almost equal to the disapproval of the family), and he does not want to go to the table to eat , the cook T'Kooveh has always liked him very much, and specially prepared meals for him with a big belly.

T'Kooveh is not like a Vulcan full of logic, but a more depressed and unhappy Amanda - unlike other Vulcans, she can smile, but there is always a faint, A melancholy that a ten-year-old cannot comprehend.

Spock went to Sarek's study early in the morning, and all Jim could learn was "to find the root of a Vulcan unique physical and mental phenomenon", and he went there for most of the day, and he still didn't come back after dinner—you know , the meal time of the ambassador's residence has always been unshakable.And this conversation doesn't even include Amanda, who came to the garden to chat with Jim for a while (and failed to persuade) and went back to the living room to knit the two boys: Jim is going back to Earth in a few days, This is a parting gift.

T'Kooveh walked over with a bowl of jelly that Jim didn't name but loved.The day of delivery is not far away, and Jim is a bit regretful that he will not see the birth of a Vulcan baby: a super miniature little pointy ear, how interesting.

He stood up from the wall of the flower wall, and finished half a bowl in two or three bites, while T'Kooveh looked at him like a mother as usual - except for Amanda, this is the most mother-like existence; How long has it been since he saw Been to Winona?God knows.Who knows where she is on duty, who knows if she still remembers that she has two sons.Every time he thinks about Winona, he's angry and confused, maybe a little hurt.

He finished his jelly, licked his lips, it was icy and sweet: "Thank you, T'Kooveh."

This time T'Kooveh didn't take the bowl and chat with him, but looked at him with blue eyes full of worry, hesitating to speak.

T'Kooveh has blue eyes.Different from Jim's own blue, it is a lighter, smoky light blue. When she looks at someone quietly, her expression is always lost.

A woman who is about to give birth but has never seen her husband by her side must have many unknown stories, right?So little Jim, ten years old, thought.

"What's the matter, T'Kooveh?" he asked.

T'Kooveh hesitated for a long time (unusual for Vulcans who are confident in the logic of their language), and finally made another very un-Vulcan gesture: reached out and touched his cheek.Except for Spock, no Vulcan has ever made physical contact with him. T'Kooveh said solemnly, "...I'm sorry, James."

The child's bright eyes were full of doubts, but the woman just sighed silently and turned away.

A moment later T'Kooveh appeared in the living room, Amanda put down the sweater pins in her hand and smiled and asked her what's the matter, and moved to the side for her to sit down.

"No need." She shook her head, "Ma'am, I have to confess one thing to you."

The boy looked in from the window sill, T'Kooveh turned his back to him and couldn't see his emotions, and Amanda sat with a smile, then his expression slowly became serious, and finally stood up, took a deep breath and said something to T'Kooveh , and then the two of them left the living room and walked towards the study together.

Jim followed quietly behind (he was always good at hiding himself), and Amanda went straight into the study without even knocking, Spock and Sarek were talking about something, and she interrupted "without politeness".While the woman was talking to her husband, T'Kooveh had been standing aside, and spock—spock saw him, tilted his head slightly and looked over, unable to understand the expression, Jim raised his index finger and made a "shh" gesture.

ha.That Vulcan wooden raised eyebrow must be saying he's illogical.

Jim stared at it like a spectator for less than two minutes before Spock was sent to close the door, Earth Boy's pouting couldn't stop him.

After another moment (10 minutes, he was sure), Sdvasu was also called in. J