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And Then, Excuse From Pain by unbearable_lightness_of_ink
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series
21 Jun 2025
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While they submitted to their medical examinations, Spock did his best to keep from watching his captain too closely, but he found his eyes drifting that way again and again.
It was illogical, he told himself, to feel as though he were seeing Jim again for the first time in weeks. The space they had shared in New York had been one intended for a single human. They had breathed the same cold air in that one room, and all but tripped over each other with every movement.* * *
Which is to say, Edith Keeler had to die, so now Jim can't sleep alone, and Spock doesn't really understand grieving humans, but he's pretty sure it's inappropriate to express romantic interest in Jim while he's still mourning someone else, which would all be a lot easier if Jim weren't in his bed, wouldn't it?