Anchorage

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Anchorage
Author(s):	Addison Reed
Date(s):	1987
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Anchorage is a K/S story by Addison Reed.

It was published in the print zine As I Do Thee #9.

Summary

"The Klingon Bird of Prey floats in San Francisco Bay. The crew watches with held breath for the whales to emerge from the hold where they were trapped. Time slips by and the whales do not appear... and neither does Admiral Kirk..."

"Kirk almost drowns while releasing the whales from the bird-of-prey but is drawn back from near death by his bond with Spock which also releases the rest of Spock's memories of their life together as bondmates."

Reactions and Reviews

A post Trek-IV story. Good plot, competently written. Long enough to get into and yet not over-written. I like Ms. Reed's ending to the movie much better than the one released to the general public.

"ANCHORAGE" by Addison Reed was an honorable mention, which I liked maybe the best, as a story, though admittedly the interpretation of the drawing was a bit thin. This is a unique repetition and mirroring of the scenario of McCoy trying to prevent Kirk from going in after Spock in the radiation chamber. This time, Kirk is drowning in the cargo hold of the Klingon ship crashed in the bay, trying to free the whales, and McCoy is holding Spock back: he's been down there too long; he's dead already, etc. I love the echoes of all the things McCoy said to Kirk then, and is saying to Spock now. Really powerful stuff. All of it is lovely, the recapturing of moments in ST3 and 4. Clinging to the ship, Spock sends his essence down into the water after Kirk. This is the drawing interpretation, Kirk picking this up in his dying moments. Of course he does not die. Then when the skies have cleared.... Spock is finally back in his right mind, and Kirk knows it, knows Spock remembers their love. That night, at the apartment, the night before the hearing of the Federation Council, nice, nice, they fall into each other's arms. The sex is intense and wonderful, a touch of desperate. I love how Kirk feverishly wants more, more, though Spock is as fully inside him as he can be. A very powerful, beautiful release for Kirk, after his months of anguish.

The first part of this story is haunting as Kirk goes through his underwater rescue of the whales while Spock waits above. Tense and sad while Kirk thinks of his untold love for Spock and Spock wanting so much to plunge into the icy water for Kirk. After their ordeal, the rest of the story is a totally gorgeous love-making scene that I nominated for one of the “Best Of.... I especially loved the beautiful sadness of Kirk’s expression of pain that he had been unable to touch Spock for his katra.