Assumptions (Star Trek: TOS story by Mary Suskind Lansing)

Fanfiction
Title:	Assumptions
Author(s):	Mary Suskind Lansing
Date(s):	1986
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Assumptions is a Kirk/Spock story by Mary Suskind Lansing.

It was published in the print zine Consort #2.

Summary

"Both Kirk and Spock wrongly assume the other is interested in him, and both wanting to give what the other wants, end up bonded."

Reactions and Reviews

1997

Not to be confused with another story titled "Assumptions" by Jessica Daigneault which happens to be in Consort 1.

Spock overhears Kirk tell McCoy that Spock has a "great ass". Spock is so disconcerted that he doesn't eat lunch with them for two months. Then he overhears another conversation between Kirk and McCoy where Kirk says he's in love with Spock.

Really great scene with all the other people around as Spock eavesdrops.

I loved Spock's thoughts on human "suffering" from unrequited love— "...assumption that denied love could cause pain over a long period, could it do so to Kirk?" This is an excellent premise for a story. Spock thinks of himself as having "no need for a more intimate relationship" than his family even though "he was fully functional"! I love it! Wait till he finds out! And really cute when he realizes he was eating Jell-O while being lost in thought about Kirk.

Some neat lines like: "They had spent many evenings like this—Kirk engrossed in his project and Spock engrossed in Kirk".

Also terrific is the vow that Spock makes to himself: "As long as he could draw breath, Kirk would never have to do without him." Spock decides he couldn't tell Kirk this because he'd been eavesdropping and he couldn't admit it.

1998

It takes an approach I don't recall ever having seen, nor did I like it much. It involved Kirk and Spock entering into a very cold and calculated marriage. They weren't forced into it except by loneliness and yet I think it would be even more lonely than being alone if they were together and shared nothing but commitment, a contradiction in terms.