A Midsummer Night's Dream (Star Trek: TOS story)

Fanfiction
Title:	A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author(s):	Greywolf the Wanderer
Date(s):	2001
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Genre(s):	slash
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Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
External Links:	A Midsummer Night's Dream
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a Kirk/Spock story by Greywolf the Wanderer.

It was published in the print zine Beyond Dreams #3. When it was published online, the author said:

All praise to Jenna and Dusky for their help editing! I've made some very minor changes, mostly correcting something we argued over, since I have come to agree they were needed. Nope, ain't gonna tell ya what.  ;-)>

Summary

"Kirk returns from a night out to the cabin he is sharing with Spock and in his drunkenness goes to Spockʼs bed, revealing his feelings but not remembering their lovemaking the next morning."

Reactions and Reviews

2001

This story was actually answering one of my [kira-nerys] own challenges in the K/S online festival. And I absolutely love it, which I was probably bound to do, since the scenario is one I've been longing to see handled for a while now.

It starts out with Kirk coming home totally wasted, and ends up happily seducing Spock. They have glorious sex, (classic Greywolf) but when Kirk wakes up the next morning, he remembers nothing.

Spock is too controlled, and a little bit scared, to actually tell Jim what happened the night before, so he decides to try but this technique of being inebriated. Perhaps this way, our Vulcan reasons, he'll lose enough inhibitions to tell Kirk the truth?

We get to see Spock deliberately making himself drunk on sweets. Seeing Spock without his inhibitions is adorable, not to mention hot. Spock as a drunk, losing control is also an absolute hoot, as well as McCoy's and Kirk's amused and slightly worried reactions to his drunken state.

A Midsummer Night's Dream has Greywolf's special handprints all over it (that's paw prints really) which makes the story one of my favorites in Beyond Dreams 3. Dream is different in the way that it's pretty much devoid of angst, and it's fun to see the furry one write something as sweet (pun intended) and light-hearted as this. Yum.

Greywolf is one of my favorite authors, so I was very pleased to see a new story by him in Beyond Dreams 3, "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I thought this was a delightful story, and a bit of a change of pace from many of his stories, which tend to be serious, intense, and full of angst. I enjoy those stories, but enjoyed this more lighthearted story as well. (I am going to give away the plot now, so be warned).

This story is written in the first person, told by Spock. He, Kirk, McCoy and some other Enterprise crewmembers are on a diplomatic mission that turns into shore leave. They have to share guest quarters, which are cottages and only have one bed (ahh—that ever popular device for getting our Captain and Vulcan together, because of course Spock and Kirk share a cottage).

One night Spock goes to bed before his Captain comes to bed, and at first thinks it is a dream when Kirk starts making love to him. A wonderful love scene ensues, and one happy Vulcan is the result. (I love the way Greywolf writes his love scenes, and this story was no exception. I like this line after Kirk has penetrated Spock: "I was full and warm and safe.... I wrapped my arms around him and held him close, determined to make the most of this.")

The next morning, to Spock's dismay, he finds Kirk was drunk and has no memory of the previous night. Spock thinks of telling Kirk, but is afraid Kirk might feel as though he took advantage of Spock, as though he forced himself on Spock. Spock decides that he might be able to get up the courage to tell Kirk how he feels if his controls are lowered, and Kirk might believe him more readily that way. How to lower his controls, though, he wonders? By getting drunk—the premise in this story is that Vulcans will get intoxicated not on alcohol, but on sugar! Spock deliberately eats too much sugar at a banquet the next night, planning to get a little drunk, but instead getting a lot drunk. There are some amusing scenes of our intoxicated Vulcan, and Kirk and McCoy helping him back to the room he shares with Kirk. I like the way McCoy's care and concem for Spock is shown in these scenes. Once inside the cottage and alone with Kirk, Spock might be more intoxicated than he'd planned, but not so much so that he forgets the whole point of his plan—which was to seduce his captain. The story goes on from there, and is satisfactorily resolved for all concerned. This story was fun to read.

2006

A complete change of pace and direction to the rather dark tone of the previous story here. All three main characters, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are on shore leave on a very nice, tropical planet called T’Leilan’i with very friendly and hospitable natives, having just concluded a trade agreement. Although a somewhat predictable start with Kirk coming back to the cottage he shares with Spock when drunk and ending up making love - to Spock’s delight, this one had a nice twist to it, in that Kirk cannot remember what happened next day. Spock comes up with an unusual solution to the problem of getting Kirk to recall what he wants him to remember. The fact that Spock’s plan doesn’t work out quite as he expected but has the right outcome in the end anyway was very enjoyable reading.

2009

hi,

this story was so cute! always wonderful to read your stories...

hope to read more from you...

what a wonderful story...these two are so perfect for each other...i love first times...i only regret Star Trek aired in a time where they couldn't show a little more between them...that would have been pure bliss. It is so cool for a reader to visualize a story in her head and see it play out like a movie. That is what you do Greywolf...you capture them both..their desires, their needs. My dream is to see something happen for real in the next movie. It doesn't have to be much...a look, a touch of a hand...heaven forbid the word t'hy'la be spoken by their lips...we can only dreammmm.....ahhhhh...

Research. Is that what they call it these days? :-D Very nicely done, Spock turning the tables on Jim like that. And yes, it took him a lot of guts to voluntarily get drunk like that and speak his feelings out loud. I think he was more than satisfied at the end result - and so was Jim :). The sex was very hot both times, although I have a soft spot for the first time because it happened so suddenly, and because I have a kink for characters being seduced in their sleep :).

Narrated by Spock, this was a delightful first time story in which Kirk and Spock find themselves in an idyllic setting in which one drunken thing leads to another. The scenes of the Vulcan inebriated on refined sugar had me smiling all the way through. I enjoyed the characterisations, the dialogue and the interplay between the two as the story unravelled, with a lovely piece of Bones thrown in for good measure. There was a lovely warm feel-good aspect to this story which left me with a sigh at the end.

2012

A complete change of pace and direction to the rather dark tone of the previous story here [in Beyond Dreams #3]. All three main characters, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are on shore leave on a very nice, tropical planet with very friendly and hospitable natives, having just concluded a trade agreement. Although a somewhat predictable start with Kirk coming back to the cottage he shares with Spock when drunk and ending up making love - to Spock’s delight. However this story is a bit different in that it had a nice twist to it, in that Kirk cannot remember what happened next day. Spock comes up with an unusual solution to the problem of getting Kirk to recall what he wants him to remember. The fact that Spock’s plan doesn’t work out quite as he expected but has the right outcome in the end anyway was very enjoyable reading.