In the Night (Star Trek: TOS story)

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	In the Night
Author(s):	Dovya Blacque
Date(s):	2002
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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In the Night is a K/S story by Dovya Blacque.

It was published in the print zine Legends #2.

This story is a sequel to Two Ships Passing.

Summary

"Ten months after leaving Earth, Kirk is not a happy man. Two friends, seeing how miserable he is, take steps to give him reprieve and, perhaps, more."

Reactions and Reviews

The wonderful sequel to Two Ships Passing" reunites our lovers as they find a way (with McCoy's help) to stay together. I loved all the Voyager references and jokes, especially the unfavorable comparison of the Voyager bridge to the Enterprise bridge!

... Thank heavens, ten years later we got 'In the Night‟.

In the storyline, ten months have passed, Voyager still has kinks in the warp drive, Jim and Scotty always seem to know exactly where the Enterprise is patrolling and Kirk has started describing himself as 'not a great captain, but a good one on the way to being not a very good man.‘ He‘s unhappy and for once, that renowned intuition and command insight are no help. But that‘s what good friends are for, to look out for our best interests when we can‘t. The Kirk-McCoy, Kirk-Spock, Kirk-Spock-McCoy banter is marvelous, priceless, right on the money and the plotline is right out of every person‘s experience. In fact, it happened to me last week (paraphrased, of course). I left the house to run five hours worth of errands, got home to lug my purchases into the kitchen then realized I didn‘t have my cell phone. I left with my cell phone. I made a list of the places I‘d been, called around to ask if anyone had turned in a cell phone (I did ask by model). No cell phone. I‘ll be on the road at 5am the next day. Don‘t want to leave without a phone so I backtrack. Check the parking lots. No cell phone. Nuts. Six days later I go to the backyard to roll my garbage can to the curb and there‘s my cell phone lying in the grass by the gate. Completely forgot that I‘d run the empty garbage can from the curb to back as soon as I‘d gotten home... before I‘d taken my purchases to the kitchen and realized my phone was missing. So my phone laid out in the open in the grass while the temperature rose to 70F and fell to 30F and we had heavy dew after heavy dew. But you know what? I brought it in, took it apart, dried it out, put it back together, charged it up and it works just fine, maybe better than it did before. And that‘s the way it happened for Kirk and Spock, too. If you want to know the nitty gritty, you‘ll have to read the story yourself. These are two stories that deserve wider distribution. I hope you look them up. In the first, Kirk and Spock discover they are madly in love. In the second, they discover being together is worth any sacrifice.

There is one caveat. Ms. Blacque leaves us with the impression that the final resolution, serving together in fulfilling positions in a legally recognized, paired relationship, will be simple, a done deal in fact. I don‘t buy that. There‘s too much at stake, too many people with plans for the guys future... the Feds, StarFleet, Vulcan. Maybe in another ten years, Ms. Blacque will tell us the behind the scenes story of how Kirk and Spock were able to live happily ever after doing what they do best.